#ressurected garmadon

[scribblue]

Animation WIP/sneak peek

Bc I spent so long on this one clip already and I keep watching it on repeat teehee

[calypsolemon]

man really thinking about it it IS kind of crazy insane that Lloyd had to find out about his true heritage as an oni/dragon hybrid from someone completely unrelated to him. Like, there are two conclusions one can draw from that - either FSM was so secretive about his heritage that he never actually explained to his sons what they were, or FSM told his sons but taught them to be secretive enough of it that they never bothered to explain it to even Lloyd. And it is VERY noteable that it is not just secrecy and shame around the Oni side, but of the Dragon side as well, Lloyd knew about neither and none of them besides Garmadon have ever claimed close association with their nonhuman heritage even in situations where it would have been convenient. It's not really a mystery that Lloyd doesn't divulge this status to others freely, not only because of his own negative experiences with his Oni-ness, but also because he's living by the unspoken example set, that this is a quality of oneself that you do not speak of or engage with unless in the most dire of circumstances.

[ogzieoggleton]

[anabetel35]

Guys hear me out -- Ninjago DR AU where Morro manages to leave the Departed realm (or the space that used to be the Departed realm but is now in the merged lands) and kind of. appears on the ninja's doorstep. He's held on to a bit of his power as a way of defying destiny. The ninja absolutely hate the idea of keeping him around but he's the only one who can properly teach Euphrasia and also knows what's going on in the Departed realm.

And because he's still technically only like fifteen, not having aged since he died, he's now actually more similar in age to Sora, Arin, Wyldfire and Euphrasia than the OG ninja. Even Lloyd is/acts older than him.

He's the designated gay emo cousin of the monastery. People would definetly use that plant mister that Lloyd has on him when he's being annoying if it wouldn't kill him.

[calypsolemon]

unfortunately I do think this particular misconception comes from the way some of the writers themselves discuss it on socmed but imo thats not actually how they chose to portray it at pretty much any point in the show

Can't stand people acting like Garmadon only got brought back as his Oni side and his Dragon side is still out there/in the Departed Realm somewhere when Harumi LITERALLY SAYS THAT HE HAS THE POWER OF ONI AND DRAGON FLOWING THROUGH HIM. GUYS.

[timothy-shepard1]

Ok diff to the LAST poll..

[phosphorus-12]

ok i've been inspired so heres an au where the fsm is present

he decides to come back to ninjago and sees all the shit is messed up

his kid is under stress, his other kid is in the underworld

garmadon's wife dipped for some reason and now their grandson is homeless

the new elemental masters don't even have their elements yet

his other grandson is dead(???!!!!)

ninjago is doing fine so he decides to fix his family

he yoinks Garm back and gets him and Wu to make up a bit

he tries something new he heard about and is letting Garm be an anti-hero now

which keeps garm from being too evil but helps satisfy his need for revenge

now that's taken care of, he ressurects Morro and sends him and Wu to something Mystake suggested (their-aepy? he doesn't know what it is)

now onto smaller grandchild

he goes and finds him, and brings him back to the monestary where he tells Wu, "hey this is ur nephew and he's going to be the green ninja, key word GOING because you sure as me ain't gonna start him now lol"

he finds that nobody but Jay has present parents so he adopts the rest of them as his grandchildren, jay gets a spot too bc fsm loves the guy

now they all live 2000's family sitcom style

his dragon/oni manerisms start rubbing off on them, especially garm and wu who have worked har to get rid of a bunch, and they just give up now

so now cuddle piles all the time and climbing on fsm, garm, and wu's natural forms has become commonplace

lloyd is small enough to do it all the time

they all fight bad guys together

HAPPINESS AND JOY FOREVER

[chaotically--calm]

Despite how cool it is that Morro may be returning, why? In Possesion, there was a reason, being that he got through the portal Garmadon opened to get rid of the fake Anacondrai. In DotD, it also made sense, since he was amongst a group of the ninja’s enemies brought back. So how/why would he come back this time? I’m hoping it’s not like how Harumi was brought back, since they removed her character arc when she was ressurected

It could be cool if all the random fan art was right, and he was connected to Euphrasia through her element, but that’s unlikely, since none of the other ninja have ghosts haunting them. It could be a special case, because he kept his element after death, rather than passing it on, but I still doubt it

He could also come back if the Ninja go to the Cursed Realm, which is more plausible, (credit to @cable-salamdr for mentioning this in a post, which made me think of this) and it would make enough sense.

But that begs the question of how he got Cursed in the first place. It never explains, and it was confirmed that he was 15-20 when he died, so what did he actually do? Chen and Garmadon were both in the Cursed Realm, so either he did something on par with those two, or was Cursed by some other entity, rather than his own actions

This got kinda long, but I’ve been thinking about this for a while

[lloydgaymerdyke]

i NEED to rsnt sbt this

people who complain about llorumi bcs of them "being siblings" r so SUTPID oh my god garmadon did not care harumi did not care

neither of them genuinely cared for eachother and were just using eachother to get what they wanted. garmadon had no sense of ANYTHING other than evil, why would he adopt some rando who ressurected him? why would rumi care? she just wants to get back lmao

ALSO why would rhe writers introduce INSECT. they wouldn't! they wouldn't have lloyd love harumi if they were genuinely supposed to be siblings!

point is lloyd and harumi are NOT siblings, they're gay people in love fr !!

also harumi totally deserved that redemption arc the merge fucked it UP 💔 petition for her to be back in dr sign here fr

YES YES YES!!!!

it actually annoys me so much bc at the end of hunted harumi licherally gave up on garmadon thinking abt her yk REAL PARENTS and ppl still act like she’s his daughter?

and the other proof being the scene where garmadon says “she was like a daughter to me” as if the point of that scene wasn’t to show how off the mark garmadon in crystalized is to his fatherhood. like the plant, not real. harumi, never cared abt her and also is his sons love interest. and it’s also funny bc he describes harumi as the exact opposite of how lloyd knows her, so all around it’s just IRONY 😭

llorumi are not siblings FREE US FROM THIS TORMENT!!!!

[estellardreams]

I've been thinking about so many seasons on the Sonic Ninjago AU and I'm dying to talk about the ones that are particularly interesting.

So... I'm pretty sure that based off of my art, Season 11 (which I think is underrated on both ends), Season 6 (Skybound, renamed Phantom), and Season 8 (Sons of Garmadon/Doom) specifically kept getting my attention. So... Let's talk about them.

A lot about them.

Season 6:

I cast Infinite in the role of Nadakhan for a few reasons. But the main reason is because of the "Wishing" plot line.

You see; Infinite comes from Null Space, which was disrupted due to the Dark Gaia incident (unbalanced energy). But he has the Phantom Ruby, a thing known to create illusions, from the get go.

So I twisted the wishing system so instead of a djinn it's a direct illusion to manipulate the wish into "coming true". Basically a false reality. Then Infinite would've crushed those illusions and break the ones he was tormenting.

And during this all, Infinite goes after multiple targets, but realized just how dangerous one of the Ninja was specifically, that being Tails. He was too smart for his own good, leading to Infinite capturing the kit during a fight and taking him to someplace, once again controlling the scenery using the Phantom Ruby and tormenting the fox with illusions. And this?

Infinite gave him that scar when Tails tried to fight back. Tails became half blind after that so when things were brought back to normal and the scar healed over, he just used a special blue contact to hide the fact he was blind.

His friends did try to rescue him, and Infinite began to torture them as well with his illusions. Once they gave in and "wished for it to go away", he'd trap them in the Phantom Ruby and grow stronger because of it.

And it was all up to Tails to rescue everyone and stop this before it got worse.

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Season 8:

Oh dear... Eclipse and Shadow's relationship is definitely the most enticing part of this saga. So... I'm gonna be brief on the characters relationship and what roles the two take on.

Harumi and Lloyd. Harumi is the adopted princess after losing her parents when the Great Devourer attacked, and is also the secret leader of the "Sons of Garmadon", an organization made to ressurect Garmadon himself, Lloyd's father.

The thing is, the Garmadon they wanted to bring back was only the evil oni side, and they had to gather the three oni masks and gather DNA samples of everyone he's related to or had a strong connection with to bring him back from the departed realm.

And what happened before Garmadon was resurrected? Harumi manipulating Lloyd, soon backstabbing him and later capturing him, forcing him to watch as his father was brought back from the dead with him and his mother as hostages.

Yikes. Now with that in mind... Eclipse is Harumi, Shadow is Lloyd. They have a brotherly bond, except... Its all fake.

Eclipse is the secret leader of the "Sons of Doom", and has discuised himself as a hedgehog to blend in, along with special contacts to turn his sclera white and his pupils a more... "friendly" color. He acted up the role of an abandoned child that got brought in by the royal family and "adopted". After the false alarm for an attack, the Ninja are let in the castle and allowed to stay along with help protect the pendant of Deception.

Shadow took an interest into Eclipse, who weirdly felt like him... He could never explain it, but felt like he had a connection.

So when the two began to bond and become friends, they developed this sweet dynamic of being brothers who looked out for each other. And Shadow became a lot more open as Eclipse did the same. But it was all a ploy... A trap to lure Shadow in close for Eclipse to control.

And it worked.

Eclipse got the Pendant of Hatred, and Shadow realized what was going on when it was too late. The two fought but... This was the first and very few times Shadow hesitated to hurt someone. And it got him and his sister, Maria, captured.

Black Doom got resurrected after that. And Shadow lost the fight to him. He lost his powers, and Season 9: Hunted begins.

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Season 11, Part 1:

Okay, specifically Metal Sonic and Sonic so I'll keep this short. Metal is not the Master of Metal.

It would've been a similar joke to "Shadow, Master of Shadow" but... By this canon's logic, a robot has never held elemental powers before. Until recently.

Metal stole Sonic's speed, making Sonic powerless and him strong enough to almost wipe out the rest of the Ninja Team. He keeps them locked away as he heads out to attack Station Square (Ninjago City).

And when he got his hands on the Forbidden Spinjitzu scroll, he was nearly unstoppable. That was, until Amy got her hands on her own scroll and managed to decimate him.

... And then she got sent to Boscage Maze.

Season 11, Part 2:

This iis what I call the Vine Chapter, since the first half is the Speed Chapter. Amy was discovered by Starline and hipnotized into becoming Queen Thorn, the ruler of the jungle.

And she committed so many crimes. She wiped out the Seedrian population. She overflowed the jungle so much many places became uninhabitable. Survival became a harder struggle with little sunlight and rain reaching to below the canopy.

And when the Ninja arrive, they quickly notice these odd corrupted plants and vines that seem to drain the life out of whatever they catch. They end up in a small village blocked off from the rest of the jungle, with Shadow soon heading off to find Amy after learning where she was: At the Queen's castle. He's unaware that Amy is the Queen, so it's definitely a shock when he does discover that.

Enter: Cosmo. The last of the Seedrians and taking the place of Akita, who was the last of the Formlings. The parallels between the two, even in canon, is unreal.

But Cosmo is seeking a sort of passive aggressive revenge against the Queen, training herself on how to use her plant magic along with tapping into more... Dark influences to do it. And Shadow felt like he's seen this before.

Because he was in a similar position: Training to use his powers and holding onto his darker influences to favor the Black Arm's success. So he knows where she's coming from and the two relate to each other somewhat over this.

And eventually the Megaflora, a creation Thorn made, attacks. Shadow gets captured and seperated from Cosmo, who almost dies, and is basically locked up in a vine wrapped tree tower. Hence... This sketch to image.

Vines to the limbs, keeping you trapped in place. And if it weren't for figuring out the plants weakness was Shadow able to escape. He confronted Thorn and tried to bring her back, but Starline's influence remained strong.

In fact, Thorn almost kills Shadow through strangling him using her vines! But before he died, she realized what she was doing and immediately released him, struggling to comprehend what she just did.

She notices the scroll. And rips it to shreds. And that's the end of it as she traps Starline, solidifying her regaining control over herself.

The damage is soon reversed by sheer energy and force, fixing the jungle for the most part. Now the main problem is returning home.

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Now for a few small extra things:

Season 5: Dark Gaia. I'm not sure if I'll include the idea of getting cursed or not but... Werehog Sonic feels tempting. He'd be like Cole in turning into a ghost via a curse and remains like that for a while until Day of the Dark Gaia to reverse it.

Season 15: Seabound. I have no idea what I wanna do for it, but I wanna include shape-shifting Merlings. I just think they're neat.

Season 16: Starfall. If Lloyd gets an Oni form, I want Shadow to have his own charged up alien form at some point. Also... Gonna rewrite that season entirely if I ever get to that.

Season 4: Tournament of Elements. Didn't know where to put this but Robotnik's plan for the tournament is to steal the powers of the elemental masters, use them to rebuild the Death Egg, and roboticize the entire world. As to why the Ninja are there? Rouge got kidnapped when trying to spy on him. She's basically Zane in this situation.

[honestmouse20]

you know what would have been really cool?

If when Harumi ressurected Garmadon in SOG, the stone memoral to him in the Coridor of Elders should have cracked. Or better yet, split down the middle. Just like how he was only half a person bc she only brought back the worst parts of him.

[scribblue]

showing off a more proper sketch of bitten!Lloyd's armor ft a lego version of me and a garmadon variant LMAO

[calypsolemon]

I think something that kinda ties the whole situation with garmadon and lloyd together is that, garmadon never really got the chance to be a father to lloyd, truly. The fandom often lauds garmadon for being a good dad but like, he kinda wasn't? Not because he didn't care or didn't try, but because he was absent for most of Lloyd's childhood (likely moreso than Misako was, despite that being a sticking point in the fandom), and about half the time that he was there was spent resigned to his own bitter fate and by proxy, resigned to Lloyd's. In response to his isolation, Lloyd idolized a false image of his father nearly as much as Harumi did. He romanticizes those precious few years where his father, uncorrupted, stood by him and gave him advice and support like he should have been all along. The rose tint of nostalgia and grief and regret push him to ignore the complex reality of the man. The reality that includes the self-destructive tendencies, the weight of his many past mistakes, the harmful morals never quite unpacked. His anger towards the ressurected version of his father is anger towards being forced to see an unavoidable truth - that this unempathetic, selfish, spiteful thing is and always was a part of his father too, and it does not slot neatly into the image of "sensei garmadon" he painted from his father's ashes.

[ogzieoggleton]

Mom, I'm tired

Can I sleep in your house tonight?

Mom, is it alright

If I stay for a year or two?

Mom, I'll be quiet

It would be just to sleep at night

And I'll leave once I figure out

How to pay for my own life too

Mom, would you wash my back?

This once, and then we can forget

And I'll leave what I'm chasing

For the other girls to pursue

Mom, am I still young?

Can I dream for a few months more?

[amigac0debasic13]

Just a ninjago rant don’t mind my expression of unholy emotion

ON GOD. IF I HEAR ANOTHER OF YOU NINJAGO LOVING QUEERS TELLING ME “ohh you just don’t like Harumi cause she’s a GIRL and you think she’s ANNOYING” GET OFF MY ASS BEFORE I EXPLODE. HAMMER HAMMER MALLET HAMMER.

SHES A BLATANT MANIPULATOR BITCH, she BLEW UP HER ADOPTIVE PARENTS HOUSE JUST SO SHE CAN TRAUMATIZE A KID AND MANIPULATE HIM INTO RESSURECTING HIS COOL ASS DAD, EXcept instead of making him COOLL HES NOT SO FUCKIN COOL NOW. ACTUALLY NOT SO COOL IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT, SHE CONVINCES GARMADON HE NEEDS TO FUCKING KILL HIS SON AND NOW LLOYD IS AT THE END OF HIS ROPE.

REALLY GLAD THEY LEFT HER IN THE FUCKING RUBBLE OF THE BUILDING SHE DIED UNDER, CAUSE SHE LEARNED HER FUCKING LEsson. WHYYY DID YOU BRING HER BAaaack. WHY DID YOU TRY TO REDEEM HER. WHHHY DO YOU FUCKING LOSERS SHIP HER WITH LLOYD THAT ISNT HEALTHYYYYYY. “Ouuhh she’s with us now” NO SHES NOT I WANT HER FIFTY FEET UNDER BITCH.

ship whatever you want consent is key but IN CANON I DONT REALLY THINK SO?? I DONT. THINK SOOO.

ALSO YOU. You. YOUUUU. POINTING AT PEOPLE WHO MADE ASPHEERA JUST A TOTAL BITCH. PLEAASEEE. CRYING. It would have been ok, like, if her backstory had Wu actually be in the wrong instead of it making her blatantly idiotic and ignorant. Fuckin “treacherous deceiver who stopped me from being a fucking tyrant with spinjitzu” IM DEAD. IM DYING. SHE COULD HAVE BEEN SUCH A GOOD CHARACTER. NOW I DONT LIKE HER AS A VILLAIN AND IT ISNT EVEN IN THE GOOD WAY LIKE HOW I FELT WITH HARUMI BEFORE CRYSTALLIZED. AUGHH. IM SO SICK OF YOUUUU ALLL WHO ARE LIKE THIS. NO HARD FEELINGS BUT IM DONE

[lennon-cuddlywump]

I wonder how dragon garmadon feels about mystake because she is a Oni but a Oni that is good and is helping them

He's unhinged, so his immediate reaction is kill on sight. Lloyd remarks about how if his dad was ressurected earlier all oni would have become extinct

Good thing he doesn't show up until the end of Crystalized in a fic I plan to do once I've finished up some long overdue fics