#skulkin brothers

[scribblesofsolace]

BACK WITH MORE MEMES

[strawbs-arts]

my sibs and i are replaying tgaa and these are some of the jokes we made during tgaa1

we have a long long doc of all the jokes we made during our playthrough 😭 i can only fit 10 however

[sb2749]

ringo and nash skulkin from great ace attorney if they were tutorial NPCs in mario & luigi: superstar saga to teach them a bros. move

based on this tweet I made years ago during my first playthrough of TGAAC

[blackquillchillin]

So, i decided that It would be fun to pull out the random ace attorney character generator, and do rounds of hunger games, through this site here, and....

Imagine. just...imagine. I beg you. that this man demands you kill one of two people. he's the one threatening you. I can't-

[inquisitivevet]

I couldn't find this as a gif anywhere on the internet so I made it myself

[slimeysodaa]

they all have one braincell and Ash has full custody of it at all times

[jojolimons]

well i'll be damned lord mael stronghart was not the big bad of tgaa

[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

for the giggles, what if evil!wu au was like an inverted world and it has something like Magenta Ninja Harumi and Sensei Garmadon taught the elements of destruction instead

Bruuuuh you can't just drop banger au ideas on me like thissss, I don't have the time or mental capacity!

...So, anyway, INVERSE!AU?!?!? LegacyInverse?!

BUCKLE UUUUUUP-

Wu, having been bitten by the Devourer as a child (with miscellaneous yet currently undetermined side effects), doesn't outright long for destructive conquest like his brother, but instead simply wants revenge, quietly biding his time with his brother being none the wiser as he plots and plans for his moment (because here he would've begged Garm to get the sword and Garm would've just told him no, and as a child he'd already been resentful and bitter over that...but then that unresolved malice that festers all the way into Garm winning over Misako and having Lloyd <- and that's Wu's breaking point)

But instead of realizing Lloyd's the Green Ninja (as the Green Element wouldn't have been "discovered" here, similar to how [REDACTED] is now, thus the genetically-ideal Lloyd only inherited his grandfather's full essence), his family realizes Lloyd runs the risk of fulfilling the prophecy of the Golden Master, and if left unchecked he'll experience the same fate as his grandfather (and also possibly destroy the world, if he doesn't destroy himself first, heyo).

And Garmadon knows the only thing can could even possibly suppress the pure Golden Essence/Power is the combined might of the Golden Weapons (which *we* know is because Core Four = Green Element, Green Element -> diametrically opposed to GP), so Garm asks for Wu's help in keeping them protected until the time comes.

...But Wu DOESN'T, gasp! And he successfully manages to steal all four Golden Weapons! The one thing they think is capable of saving Lloyd from a horrible fate! Which for Wu is the ultimate revenge against Garmadon (being made to be unable to save his son) and Garm FIGHTS! And via some miscellaneous yet undetermined might of the forces that be, he's the one banished to the Underworld...and from there, both brothers get to work.

Wu, unable to leave the Underworld, manage to coerce the Skulkin to seek out the Inheritors of the Four Core Element—the only other possible solution to contain Lloyd. They first "kidnap" a runaway boy with marigold eyes from a mountain ("kidnap" is in quotes; Cole thinks he's got nowhere better to go and surrenders pretty easily snksnksn), then actually kidnap an amnesiac robot from his father (maybe Julien dies in the process here, idk), then a boy with cobalt blue eyes head to city to test his invention and never comes home one day...and finally, Destiny set its sights on the future Master of Fire.

Long story short Skulkin kidnaps Kai instead of Nya -> Kai basically becomes Wu's "General #1" (hehehe), and Garm, who realized too late what Wu had been scheming and had been working on "countermeasures" in the meantime, just barely manages to save Nya from a similar fate. OFC Nya wants to fight to get her brother back, and Garmadon's totally down to let her—but, specifically because he'd arrived in the first place for her...as he seeks the Inheritors of the Elements of Destruction to counteract Wu's plan

Since there's no "Green Ninja" prophecy here to counteract the Golden Master one, and Garmadon's desperately needs a solution on how to save Lloyd without the Golden Weapons/Core Four...he devises his own theoretical prophecy—that the Combined might of the Outlier Elements, the "Elements of Destruction", would also be enough to yield a force capable of standing up to the Golden Power. Theoretically.

So he begins devising together a team—his first member is Morro, the Jade Ninja and Master of Wind. 40-something years old (and never died due to Garm not running off to Chen/Wu not having the compassion to try and raise him himself) and is known as Garm's first and finest pupil. He takes role as the leader of the group (in Cole-flavor, that is), and is without a doubt the strongest member.

The second member is Toby (name pending), the Variegated Ninja and Master of Time. When the Spinjitzu Bros dealt with the Time Twins, instead of hiding away the Time Blades and cutting the element from the Compass, Garm made the call to give the element to the "next of kin" (so an Elemental Descendant of Time from a generation or two back) in order to reunite the element...which wound up in now currently 20-something Toby. He stays with the Destructo-team for a few years but eventually retires to raise a family (growing up to be Roby's dad! ..but he also might wind up being murdered by his own brother out of jealousy, but that's neither here or there)

(...look I gotta work in my "Roby is a Time Descendant hc SOMEWHERE. He just winds up as an Inheritor in DR in this universe instead but he'd still rather host a tournament than partake in one ghfgfd)

Anyway, if Toby's theoretically anything like his son, then he's the Jay of the group jhgfhgffds (especially with an OP power like time at the his fingertips—but just imagine the pranks hgfdgfd)

The third member is one Skylor Chen, Amber Ninja and Master of Amber (she's mad at the lack of originality but she cannot say it isn't effective). Garmadon ofc never trained under Master Chen here, but also never learned of the hand he had in the stirring of the Serpentine War, thus Chen was never banished to his island. He still managed to make a fortune with a slave-run noodle company, and with the Elemental Compass NOT taboo info in this universe since the Green Element "doesn't exist" to take advantage of, he instead FLAUNTS the fact that his wife and daughter were/are Masters of Amber (in a similar vein to Skylor's "situation" from the Royal!Au), and....shady dealings arise from that. Garmadon basically winds up helping Skylor run away from her crazy father, and she becomes like a surrogate child to him (and big sister to Lloyd!) (though this makes the cause of Tournament of Elements a plan for Chen to get his daughter back in his clutches, and continued revenge on Garmadon...and also become a snake, but I digress)

The fourth member is Nya herself, the up-and-coming rookie Silver Ninja and Master of Water! She's the only one of the team without a True Potential from the start, so the "pilot season" is her bonding with everyone and coming to terms with herself while also dealing with constant attacks from the Core Four (the Corrupted Four, if you will), who are trying to learn about the whereabouts of Lloyd for their Master...

...who learns from Misako accidentally about his fate and winds up running away to "become evil since that's what I'm destined to do anyway". So, that much is still the same anyway. (I just dunno at what point this happens, but it's prior to Nya's TP)

Anyway, Nya gets her TP, the Destructo Four perform some ritual, and their elements combine........and they manifest The Overlord (who, while far more chill here, is still gungho about trying to kill Lloyd) (*also, note, this is just a thing for this hypothetical au only jsaghfds. that's not how it works in "actual" legacyverse)

BREATHE.

Pause. Settle. Rest. Sip tea.

CONTINUE-

So the first time around for The Final Battle, the FSM and the Overlord had been evenly matched, and the FSM was too consumed by the might of the Golden Essence to rely on his friends and combine their might to manifest the Green Element to be able to overtake + seal the Overlord. As a result, their fight lasted centuries, and the FSM was driven further and further into madness by his unchecked power, turning him into an unrelenting menace. Similar to "legacy!canon", he winds up "taking himself out" to stop himself from harming anyone, and an unsealed Overlord simply goes dormant (instead of having centuries to build up a relentless rage in a metaphorical metaphysical case).

...until he is forcibly brought back by the Destructo Four, and learns that a new Golden Master may be on the rise. Garmadon begs and pleads with the Overlord to not kill Lloyd, and asks if there's any other way for them to subdue Lloyd. The Overlord considers this, and theorizes that if there was another mortal being to take the Overlord's place/powers as a counterbalance to Lloyd, then Lloyd would be less likely to go berserk and he wouldn't have to kill him—but not just anyone can wield the Void Essence. Only the most empty, desolate, and quiet of souls could ever hope to do that.

Anyway as The Overlord searches for a "Champion", the Desctructo Four search for Lloyd, who still releases the Serpentine, yadda ya, Great Devourer still eventually gets unleashed, Harumi's parents still die, and the Overlord happens upon her at the peak of her despair and is like "YOU'RE PERFECT", and grants her the Void Essence and serves as her floating cloud Guardian companion.

Also having Void from the get-go allows a grieving Harumi to oneshot the Devourer with an oblivion blast or something lol since Garmadon can't do it here. This causes her to pass out and the Destructo Team kidnap bring her to the monastery to explain the situation I mean what else is she gonna do? go home to her parents?

"....So I'm cursed with oblivion powers and I'm fated one day to kill the Golden Master?" "...we're trying NOT to kill my son here.........!" "Well he released the Devourer, so I think I should still kill him—" "No, that was Pythor." "...Oh, ok."

And then the legendary Magenta Ninja is born! With the power to obliterate and leave voids in her wake! Cue training arc to achieve her true potential!

(also also Olivia is Samurai X, and everything about Jesse is the same, unless we wanna splice in the Quiet!Jesse AU here so he can be the surrogate!Harumi in this au (like, he goes in to save Harumi's parents, they still die but he gets pushed in the elevator anyway/get scarred/can't save Miranda, and Harumi, while safe and not needing to be saved from a building, is still close enough to make the agonizing realization -> Fairy godmother Overlord appears with free powers!) ... Otherwise Harumi would be surrogate!Lloyd to him and Skylor is surrogate!Cole lmaoooo. Antonia is still Antonia.)

So then they train Harumi, Lloyd's being worked up about his destiny and trying to avoid it puts him right on the path to becoming the monster he doesn't want to be and he starts his career of mayhem! And while training, Harumi realizes she's internally imbalanced herself, and suffers from some of the same agonies that Lloyd does—and realizes she, too, is a threat to the world (not helped by the Overlord still trying to sway her into just killing Lloyd—even though they figure out that would just end her too)

So now Harumi and Lloyd are the only two people in the world that can even remotely understand what in the world the other is going through (potential tragic romance doomed diametrically opposed lovers fated to kill one another unreachable like the opposite ends of a magnet something something), but by training with her team and learning to accept the hardships of her life or something, Harumi gets her True Potential...which leads her to gain access to the [REDACTED] Element. (though for kicks everyone just calls it the "Magenta Element" lmao) (again, also not quite how it happens in canon, but roll with me)

BREATHE.

Okay, Act 3....!

With full powers in hand, Harumi finally feels fully like herself again, while the 2:1 imbalance throws Lloyd further in agony. Harumi wonders if there's a hidden element Lloyd hasn't tapped into either, leading Nya to bust out the OG Compass and finally theorizes that the combination of the Core Four might be what's missing here. So the next mission (while trying to keep Lloyd form going crazy) is to win over the Core Four and stop a now-enraged Wu from killing Lloyd himself (....there's a lot of attempted murder in this au; I'd never survive tiktok)

As Nya, Skylor, Toby, and Morro slowly win over Kai, Jay, Zane, and Cole (with Kai being particularly stubborn about Lloyd needing to die to "save everyone", being the surrogate!Olivia wheee), Wu grows more relentless, with Misako going in to try and talk to him and calm him down, but to no avail. Something goes down (a fight? an altercation? he captures her in a cage?) and that sets Lloyd off and he gets stuck in a Golden Outburst, which sets off the "second" final battle between him and Harumi.

But the whole time while both sides are trying to get through to Lloyd, the Overlord keeps whispering to Harumi about just being done with all of it—get rid of him and end everything. But Harumi doesn't want to die herself, and yet the Overlord insists "There is peace in the dark'.

But Harumi's like "noooo I want to LIVE" in cliche anime fashion and that snaps Lloyd out of it a bit, making the realization that he wants to live too and that he loves life -> bam opening for the Core Four to swoop in with the weapons and help him unlock his own True Potential, and thus access to the Green Element (cuz his element if life woop woop), which not only balances him internally, but externally with Harumi, meaning neither have to worry about going crazy, and neither "have to die".

The Overlord is outraged at this, claiming he "made" Harumi like this, she should understand his philosophy, something something (maybe there was a subplot where he was planning on making Harumi a permanent physical vessel for himself but he needed Lloyd out of the way, idk), EITHER way Harumi doesn't need him anymore, and neither does reality, and she poofs him away with his own powers (YEAH IRONY), as he no longer has his purpose to exist.

And now with his TP and full power, Lloyd's able to use his [REDACTED] NRG Ability to save his uncle from evil-compulsion, and they hug (very important) and Wu apologizes (but then goes on a long soul-searching journey to atone for his sins or something), the Core Four don't want to be ninja or soldiers or anything anymore, and wish to go back to their families to make up for the lost time (though Kai eventually winds up coming back for Nya, and the others are always on call at the sign of a crisis), and the Destructo Team stay on as the main ninja for the time being

...and even if it isn't wholly accurate, Nya, Skylor, Morro, Toby, and Harumi all come together to make a "compass" out of their own unified elements, symbolizing the time they spent together.

And it is fittingly called the Inverse Compass.

The End!

[zebaji]

Okay, I feel like i didn’t talk much about Zane in the first post for this au, but that’s because I have so many ideas for this guy

So after Julien gets kidnapped by the Skulkin, Zane is left in the Birchwood forest with the juggernaut to protect the tree base from the treehorns.

Since Pixal is the Master of Ice, there’s no reason or person guiding the Ninja toward the forest, so they never discover Zane.

When Morro and his team go to the Dark Island to fight the Overlord, however, they find Echo Zane along with Dr. Julien.

Dr. Julien believes that the Skulkin destroyed Zane and the rest of his former inventions after they kidnapped him, which makes him super sad, and therefore doesn’t return to the forest.

So Zane– still built with the intention to protect those who cannot be protected– has nothing and no one to protect all with having no memories to boot.

Until a runaway child finds himself in a forest where giant tree-like monsters roam, and suddenly Zane has a reason to live. To protect this child who in his eyes is pretty unprotected, especially when the child says he’s a prince.

So Zane takes Lloyd back to the palace and stubbornly becomes Lloyd’s bodyguard and primary caretaker since the royal family isn’t exactly a great place for nurturing children.

Everyone besides Lloyd doesn’t know that Zane is not human and thinks it’s odd that some random teenager decided to willingly attach himself to a royal brat child. 

Lloyd thinks that his self-appointed older brother is so cool, and they bond over not being human.

The nindroid is Lloyd’s number one supporter and is willing to go to any lengths to protect his gremlin charge.

Does that mean when Lloyd explains how he wants to bring back his dad Zane starts a cult-like biker gang to help? Yes. Yes, it does.

Zane does know that other Nindroids like him exist, and he does want to meet them because he’s lonely and wants to befriend people like him.

But then again, if they found out about Lloyd, they’d probably try to stop him, and Zane knows that if it came down to the other Nindroids or Lloyd, he’d pick Lloyd every time.

A side note here, I’ve always headcannoned that Mr. E is Echo Zane. But since Echo Zane is with the Ninja in this AU, there is no Mr. E. 

Instead, there IS Snake Jaguar, and the only reason that it’s Zane’s biker name is because Lloyd thought it would be funny.

Speaking of Echo Zane, he’s not exactly with the Ninja, but after Dr. Julien passes, he helps Cyrus Borg out since Pixal is busy with Ninja stuff. Echo Zane and Pixal have a sibling bond, and during Rebooted, Cryptor and the other evil nindroids are based on Echo Zane. It makes the Ninja’s life a tad bit easier.

Later, when Zane reveals who he is, Echo Zane and Pixal try to convince him that what he’s doing is wrong, but Zane is a little bitter over the fact that he got forgotten about.

Not too bitter, but enough that it takes a looong while for the other Nindroids to convince him that they’re family.

If you want to see the first post: X

If you want to see a little excerpt that I wrote: X

[banshatheblademaster]

figured out what to do about nya for the ghost swap

Ronin: - appears to be a roughed up, but humble shopkeeper somewhere in ninjago. wont take kindly to thieves and has quite a bit of combat experience. - not quite as terrible as in canon, but he does have the occasional dubious tactic for upping sales numbers, knows little scruple in that field sometimes - changes the story abotu his injured eye every time someone asks him. - takes Bansha in after she asks for work (a bit of a retcon from post 1 but bear with me) and more or less becomes her sole guardian for the time. teaches her all he knows about self defense - becomes samurai x some time after bansha saves him from the skulkin and leaves to train her newlyfound powers in the monastery. claims he does so because he doesnt trust the fate of the world to be handled by some kids, but he also worries about bansha, knowing she bites off more than she can chew quite often. - his identity is revealed to bansha first, but officially ot the rest of the group roughly by season 2. he stays for the final battle but then goes off to do his thing until season 5 - much like nya, ronin is revealed to be the master of water, and receives training from Master Preeminent while the rest of the group try to figure out how to save Morro. hes good at fighting, but kind of sucks because hes only ever learned to rely on what he thought he was capable of, not these new powers. also claims hes too old to learn new ways to fight, even if the water elemental is crucial to their victory

Nya: - rough-and-tumble girl of mysterious origins, often seen wandering around in towns. lately seems to have settled in Stiix. - uses the fact that she is underestimated a lot to her favor. will befriend people only if it benefits her, and conceals that fact pretty well. is closer in personality to canon ronin than this ronin lmao - used to travel around with her brother Kai after the disappearance of their parents. whilst trying to find them - and keeping him and his little sister alive - kai made a deal for his soul, in exchange for a foolproof way to locate their parents. - the two of them made the trip, which dragged on from weeks to months. frustrated, stressed and malnourished, kai slowly lost his mind. behind nyas back, he sold off her soul aswell to make the journey end as soon as possible. - just after a fight in which kai admitted he had no idea if they are ever going to find their parents, the two of them are ambushed - kai is killed and nya severly injured. she manages to survive, miraculously, and is nursed back to health in a hospital. - the mech arm is a construction of her own; she is just as mechanically gifted as her canon counterpart, likely as a result of travelling so much and needing to steal and fix up cars or bikes. - post-mortem, the cursed soul of kai and the other ghosts commune with her, some of them taunting her, some blaming her for her situation. it worsens her mental state further, but kai at the very least can instruct her on how to make it alone. shes long given up finding her parents at this point and lives as a vagabond, stealing, gambling and making enemies at every turn. all she wants now is to free herself of the curse, which the ghosts promise they can do, if she in turn helps with disrupting the ninjas plans to save their realm - her backstory left her with severe issues regarding trust, but she comes around to bonding with ronin while hes in training

[basilibino]

Season 8 was like 6 years ago(I feel old) and I know ppl have differing opinions on the Mr Echo thing (but it was intended, made it to storyboard and blocked animation and then dropped, soooo) but. I can see his recruitment p easily tbh. Bc the whole reason Dr J was in that lighthouse was because he was resurrected, forced there, and ordered to build Skulkin vehicles by Samukai. But Samukai in the flashback we see has already been deposed as leader of the Skulkin/Underworld. Which means the orders to do so most likely came from Garmadon.

And since Mr. E is one of the head honchos, he's likely an early arrival to the team, so I don't think Harumi has a whole lot figured out at this point, she's just got her Trauma and some Bad Influence Friends and an obsession with Lord Garmadon. So. Like. Plausible deniability road trip that she's just visiting important markers of Ninjago's recent past, all of which involve Lord Garmadon in some meaningful way; its sightseeing, its cathartic, and it gives her time to develop her dream Motorcycle Gang/Resurrection Cult. She's not looking for anyone at the Lighthouse, but she is looking for vehicle blueprints so she can be the Koolest leader on the block. But oops she looks in the basement and there's an Echo.

And she's flipping out bc??? A Ninja???? In the Lighthouse basement??? I mean it makes sense that it would be this one but???

Except this rusty old robot has no idea what she's talking about with this Ninja stuff, he's just waiting for his dad to come back.

And Harumi pauses.

Because how long has he been waiting? He's not sure, he had no proper way to measure time in the basement, and he doesn't have the best view of his clockwork heartpiece. But it was after his father saw a strange ship docking; Echo was worried it was the People who had locked up his father in the first place, but instead his dad sounded happy when he saw whoever was out there. It could have been a front, though, as clearly it was never safe to let Echo back out. Then Dr J popped down briefly, while everyone above was resting, to tell Echo he was desperately needed elsewhere, that it wasn't safe to bring Echo, but that he'd be back in no time.

And the pieces are fitting together for Harumi. And she's like. Your dad's dead, bro.

And he's like. What? Did he die doing what was needed of him?

And she's like. Oh, no. He died a few years later.

And he's like. Why didn't he come back for me????

And she's like. Probably because they kept him away.

And he's like. Who's they?

And she's like. The Ninja I was talking about earlier.

And it surely can't be hard in universe to find pictures of Zane and Dr J post s2-pre s3, so she pulls one up and shows Echo who is freaking out bc why is that one kind of like him and Harumi explains that that was the droid his father created first, that he became a Ninja, and that hes probably the one who took their father away and kept echo waiting for years.

But Echo has doubts, shocked as he is abt a new older brother, he wants to believe the good in the situation so he's unsure. But Harumi mentions that the Ninja's failures to uphold more than their self preservation/interests has led to uncountable losses and devastation in Ninjago time and time again, before delving into her own story. And she seems so kind, and so hurt, and I do think there's a genuine connection btwn these two that forms from this shared emotional torment that they decide came from the Ninja, and now Echo is more receptive.

And then Harumi gets to start her Garmadon pitch because wait! If Echo was made here, then that could only have happened because of Lord Garmadon. And she reiterates that he's the reason she and her city could have even survived The Great Devourer. And maybe Echo's family-by-creation left, maybe they were untrustworthy and lacking, but that's OK bc if you look at it all a certain way, Garmadon is more of a father to Echo than Dr J was. And Echo is a vulnerable, overwhelmed mess who just found out his dad fucked off for years without him and also died, and also he has a brother??? Who their dad clearly seems to have favored??? Did they even know about Echo??? Did they delight in their life free of him???

Basically. Kinda Spinel-core but getting abandoned and left completely alone does that to you. Especially when the first person to find you after being abandoned is a deeply hurt and misguided teen who is probably kinda desperate for someone, anyone else to see the Ninja the way she sees them.

[emerald-cloud23]

Since I'm lazy when it comes to practicing human anatomy for art I'll have to turn to my only other soothing hobby: writing. But I don't wanna deal with my original stories I'll let you decide which ninja fanfic I should start working on (AU informations below the poll (none include elements from dragons rising!))

SHORT AU EXPLANATIONS:

DEATHBRINGERS: completely different world building, morro is alive, morro & lloyd share the title of green ninja, no tomorrow's tea (lloyd, morro & the core 4 are the same age), morro is wu's biological son, morro and lloyd are literally green cousins, oni & dragon prophecy, zane doesnt know he's a robot, misako trains the ninja instead of wu, no overlord, evil (emperor?) garmadon, no 16 other realms, new serpentine hybrid species, the skulkin, the ghosts, the reawakened, samurai x exists, the ninja didnt actually want to be ninja, no hrumi (sorry but she makes me uncomfy in s9), no pixal?, borg and dr julien work for garmadon (echo zane, mr e, mr f & cryptor are separate characters that work under garm's command), a mystery about nya, spooky-ish(?) themed (as the au name might imply it's inspired by graves, graveyards, death, s5, the caves of despair, dotd, gothic imagery, scythes, dark and desaturated colors, hopelessness, halloween vibes, the cursed realm/preeminent, the departed realm, ghosts, skeletons, dark magic), minor shipping (bits of lava fluff in the beginning, later some sandstorm moments but no major plot points dedicated to shipping), yin-yang/balance of good and evil theme [i have a long note written about all the world building changes, you wouldnt believe me that i came up with this idea in 2mins and it took me 2hrs afterwards to write everything down afterwards]

SHOOTING STARS: based on this and this post of mine, sandstorm shipping, some green cousins, spans from pilots → dotd, unhappy/bittersweet ending, sensei yang, ghosts, the night sky/shooting stars are somewhat important, ghost cole and ghost morro [this is the newest and so far vaguest au i have]

R3W1R3D (rewired): prime empire/video game/cyber inspired, evil lloyd, possessed lloyd, lloyd and kai brother moments, mechanical/electrical stuff, the mechanic [while existing for a while i struggle with developing it as im unfamiliar with working with these themes and its my 1st time to do something serious since it could have nice visuals if i ever made art for it]

[robodove]

SHOW US THE PIRATE STUFF DO THE MERMAID STUFF ALKNASDAS

OKAY I FINALLY HAVE A LITTLE TIME ARRGAGRG I hope this aimless infodump is readable

so! Their designs and junk are a mess rn but I do have some stuff of them!!

Ignore the little dragon in the last I'm still working on Lloyd's whole... business. And! Don't mind the text in the pink one, I was just tryna think up silly nicknames!

Anyways! They aren't really... Traditional pirates? Y'know.. cause their crew size is like 5 + a child and ancient beast.

Under division is a small ramble

Cole's the "captain" and is a selkie (although I know they're usually seals I accidentally chose a sea lion)! He's the sea lion in the pictures and I'm desperately trying to work his skin into the design. I thought it'd be silly since he was raised in dance and entertainment.. and hey! Sea lions are known for that too!

(he wasn't meant to look so forsaken here, sorry Cole)

Jay is a mermaid (thing?) When in the water, he has the lower half reminiscent of an electric eel (I saw reminiscent as there are some major differences)! No one really has powers in this but he can still shock like that,, Ed and Edna are still human in this and I'm trying to remember if they still lived at a scrapyard or a shipyard.

Both Kai and Nya are only half mermaid! Nya ended up inheriting way more mermaid traits than her brother, who doesn't even have a tail in water, but still has a lot of human drawbacks. She can only breathe underwater for so long and ironically Kai can last down there longer. He just chooses not to since I thought it'd be funny to still let him be scared of water in this 😭 sorry Kai. He still has the recognizable sharper teeth and has bits and flashes of shimmery scales but is overall the most human of the bunch once you count out Cole's unskinned form.

I couldn't resist myself on Zane and ended up making him a siren. Mainly because.. bird! And also if he was going to be organic, I wanted to isolate him from the other sea related creatures. He has the wings and feathers of a gyrfalcon and can't swim as well in the ocean! He ends up bonding with Kai over this Kai originally hadn't liked him too much! Reasonably so since.. y'know.. sirens eat people. And mermaids in this.. although Zane eats human things as he was raised on it by a still very human Dr. Julien (who I guess is more of a bird-oriented wildlife scientist in this? ornithologist?). insert joke about him being a hand raised bird.

I don't have my sketchbook with me right now so I'm scrambling for pictures but ! Like all their designs, he's still a work in progress. Will most likely make his legs longer or something but this is just my ideas LOL

And anyways! Onto Lloyd! (And the others?)

I was struggling to decide what Lloyd should be,, like? A dragon could still very much work and his normal version is already so cool?? However, I ended up on leviathan.. a baby one. The serpentine aren't decided but Lloyd's still pretty much not taken seriously by the town. Still winds up being taken in by the "ninja!"

Garmadon is still locked up, although now at the bottom of the ocean! The Skulkin are drowned/dead pirates?

Wu is who I've been struggling to decide on as well! For whatever reason I've been contemplating making him like just some statue in the Destiny's Bounty that speaks to them.

There's plenty of other things going on,, Kai and Nya come to them on accident and Jay is over the moon to see other moons and wants to show them their "ways" despite having never even met others before. Cole is desperately trying to keep everyone in one place as they've accidentally made the perfect collection of the world's most valuable pelts.

Kai still raises Nya at the forge (which in this, is beachside), but years later there's a rise in pricing for the scales of mers and the boy decides that they need to leave in effort to protect her. Nya is devastated because this is their home! Where else would they even go?? They barely have any cash! Kai's decision is further inland AND with the money they get from selling the forge. Yadda, yadda, the buyer turns on them and they wind up in the ocean near their home! Kai's knocked cold, which is for the better as Nya swims them further and further into open ocean.

For the first time, Nya meets another mer as she tries to save her brother, and he helps them aboard a ship! The Destiny's Bounty! (Or perhaps a ship before it? It's all still up in air)

I'd expand more but I'm out of time </3 please give any suggestions if you'd like to! I'd always appreciate criticism

[ashenberry]

12 and 17 for the choose violence ask game, and anything else you want to answer ^_^ pretty sure I only know ace attorney and mgs from your current fandoms but pick whatever

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

God im trying to think if im ride or die for any particular character that is both unpopular and doesnt deserve it. i feel like all the mgs character i really like ARE popular. characters like valant gramarye ace attorney are lame as hell and deserve to be forgotten thats what makes him so fun. vamps kind of nothing. the Skulkin brothers are really funny bit characters from dgs i like them. WAIT. THALASSA GRAMARYEEE I LOVE U THAL IM SORRY ABOUT YOUR HATERS

17. there should be more of this type of fic/art

MORE PEOPLE SHOULD DRAW MASTER MILLER ERA KAZ WITH ONE ARMMM FUCK YOUUU stop putting a prosthetic on that man. Like. aside from the 3 rants he goes on in v about how he wont get one you dont think after the whole venom deal he wouldnt be like turned off like he wouldnt look at them and get pissed? this man can hold a fucking grudge mg2ss most divorced man dialouge. i wouldnt even mind if it was like only some but its NONE !! anyways heres some images @counterfeitubiquity made for me.

[sevarix-blogs]

Sometimes I see you and Eifie dropping DGS names and I feel like there's no way these are real characters. Is there really a Mr. Eggs Benedict? Because that's a fantastic name tbh

LOL ace attorney names are really something. yes his name is Eggert Benedict!

spoiler below the cut (for 1-5)

it's actually a fake name he made up. his real name is Ashley Graydon. but ace attorney names really are usually quite silly. dgs is no exception! we have olive green who wears a green coat and is a painter. Shamspeare who is a failed actor who quotes shakespeare constantly. The Skulkin brothers (who look very obviously like stereotypical cartoon thieves) etc etc

[temporarypenintraining]

This is a continuation of this post! Now to get into the third terrible topic: the tragedy of the Julien family. I've spoken before about how isolation creates monstrosity, and how this is sort of the "family theme" of the Juliens. However now I want to talk about how it coincides with the other common thread: an inability to face grief head-on and properly work through it. Julien avoids grief. He isolates himself from the world, surrounds himself with his own creation (which, as mentioned earlier, can give someone a bit of a god complex). When he dies, he tries to keep his son from experiencing any sort of grief by erasing his memory, which only creates a boy who's further isolated from the world, because he doesn't know his place in it. When he is captured and held prisoner by the Skulkin, he tries to avoid grieving the separation from his son by creating a replica. By his own admission, he feels like a monster for having done so, because on some deep level he knows that trying to replace Zane was wrong. Having Echo around most likely only created more grief, because he was so much like Zane and yet never quite enough. But once again, instead of facing that grief, he pushed away the source and locked it in a basement. Zane does not initially have this problem of wanting to avoid his problems. He even asks his father to remove his memory switch, because he doesn't want to forget his loved ones again (he gains power from knowing his past, acknowledging everything that happened, everything he is), and what does Julien do? He refuses. Because Julien likes to take the easy way out. It isn't until after his own death that Zane adopts his father's toxic mindset. He locks that memory away, pushes away his problems, refuses to talk about them. He willingly utilizes his ability to delete memories that he doesn't want, and over time he utilizes it often. "Oh, I massacred multiple species and became a dictator of an entire realm? Haha no I didn't." It's terrible, it's toxic and unhealthy, and it takes completely shutting off his emotions and then having a heartfelt conversation with an overly emotional teenage girl to realize that maybe his father had some bad ideas. Then of course there's Echo himself, which is where this analysis turns more to headcanon and speculation to fill in the gaps in canon, but stick with me here. When we meet Echo, he's perfectly cheerful and having a great time, just kinda vibing with Tai-D. It is my personal belief that this is because he, after breaking out of the basement only to discover that his father had left him, decided to flip his own memory switch and forget the pain of abandonment. Then, he later turned it back on (having forgotten why it was off in the first place) and suddenly remembered the devastation he'd experienced. This conveniently coincided with his discovery by the Sons of Garmadon, and he was primed and ready to seek out revenge against the brother who stole his father from him, instead of allowing himself to grieve that loss. We see time and time again that isolation and refusal to acknowledge grief is a dangerous combination. It breeds darkness in a person. The Ice Emperor and Mr E were the products of toxic mindsets passed down from Dr Julien to his sons. Aaaaanyway that's been [part 3], folks. Buh-bye or something ig.