#sorry u can block me if you're annoyed at seeing me in the latest posts under bkdk all the time i get it LMFAO

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bakudekus never lose part 752

[zaptrap]

i also want to ramble a tiny bit abt jay becuz yolo lmao it will also be under the cut (it's mostly replying to stuff u said) (sorry if there's typos)

Jay is such an interesting case of a character for me because I started out the show not liking him. Which is. Stares at my entire account I think my feelings have changed somewhat

DUDE SAME LIKE i barely even thought of jay and then ONE DAY something just? changed?? and ive been obsessed with jay ever since (i wanna say it was either ep8 or rebooted but honestly who knows at this point). like i still love cole, and my 2 favs being besties is so cute 🥺, but jays just like a lil rat and i lov him... Although I do wonder if my favs would be different if i'd gotten into the show at a different time, like if i'd had more time with newer seasons and less nostalgia chaining me to the older ones lmao.

Jay starts out as an asshole I don’t think anyone can disagree with me there (although honestly they’re all assholes in early ninjago they bullied a ten year old and left him dangling several feet off the ground)

I FORGOT THYE DID THAT TO LLOYD LMAOOOOO THAT POOR KID.... THAT WAS PROBABLY THE 3rd MOST TRAUMATIZING THING FOR HIM AT THE TIME, after his mom leaving him and his dad becoming lego satan

but over the course of the show you can see him start developing into a much more interesting character. He goes from being so insecure he's faking everything about himself to someone who knows who he is and is so genuine about it

dude i love characters who put on a mask/act to hide their problems its so fun digging into why they do that and whats the mask and what isnt and what masks are used for who and how people react to them and etc etc

now yea we could argue about whether his character was too uwu-ified post-season 10 but this is the FUN HAN POST SO WE'RE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT

jokes on you we ARE TALKING ABOUT THAT, MUHUAHAHAHAHAHA. my personal headcanon is that he just mellowed out after getting older and engaged lmao. or maybe its just his ✨latest persona✨ he's trying out or smth. the whole uwu-jay thing is really funny to me cuz both "whiny comedic relief bastard" and "uwu babu" are some of my fav archetypes in characters so the fact that jay gets to be both is like "yay! 2 cakes!" LMFAO. it was fun seeing him be a lil shit again in DR tho

(i was gonna grab a screenshot for that like i did with the hunted scene but netflix has bloCKED THE ABILITY TO TAKE SCREENSHOTS THE WAY I USED TO and i don't have them already and i'm too lazy to grab them from elsewhere so alas trust me he says it)

(netflix is so annoying dude like omfg)

i don't have any comments on the skybound-to-prime empire pipeline stuff, its all interesting stuff owo. emotional security+role model arc...

Also how was [jay] supposed to know literally all the rest of the groups parents were either dead, presumed dead, or had a toxic relationship with their kid lmao

Jay: ugh parents SUCK am i right? Everyone else: you have parents?

Jay's just fallen from the sky with a messed up eye and is incredibly distraught that all his friends are captured. And his dad just. The woRLD IS FALLING APART AND HE'S EATIN' SOUP-

LMFAO what ep was this from, im assuming skybound?

yea i think that's enough for a tumblr post anyways! If anyone wants any like. More logically thought out and direct thoughts about characters feel free to send me asks this was fun thank u zaptrap for this opportunity to scream about jay

you're very welcome! now make another 🔫/lh also i like how you wrote an entire additional essay in the tags LOL. idk what season lives rent free in my brain but its probably rebooted cuz...well yknow 😂. i like the scifi seasonssssss

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I do wonder how Jay's gonna be in DR though like, he went from "insecure bastard" to "actually im ok" to "stuck in an eternal office" so like, is he gonna relapse?? does he just need some fresh air?? is nya gonna show up and all his problems are solved??? is he just, still ok but tired from gaming office "work"???? who can say. dude though, with nya already being sora's mentor, and jay already being an inventor, i could totally see them eventually just being her new parents. that'd be so fukin cute 🥺🥺🥺taking in a stray cat

god like there just isnt enough to definitively determine what's up with jay in DR. theres SO many reasons he could be ornery, between the office and annoying coworkers and presumably not seeing nya for what, 5 years????????????????????????????? wait has it actually been 5 years, icr if they ran into each other sooner or not. i think nya said smth about- ok yeah she did [DR1 ep4]

dude what happened to her the past 5 years

ramble about ur favs i wanna hear abt ur thoughts -zaptrap

HAN’S INFODUMPING ABOUT JAY... START!!!!

so like sgdkdhdkdhd I say Jay and Lloyd are my “favorites” but honestly it’s so hard to pick favorites out of this skittles squad like I love EVERY character for a variety of different reasons. I was going to also infodump about Lloyd but then I started talking about Prime Empire and then this post got. Long. So. it's just Jay I may infodump about Lloyd another day especially since I'm very Conduit Brained Rn but yea yea!

this is long so i'm putting most of it under the cut so y'all don't kill me for making a huge long post

I considered putting Zane and Sora on here as well since I’d also consider them my “favs” but like this is already gonna be. A lot of. Infodumping (also i typed THIS part before I even started and decided not to yell about Lloyd because this already got long enough). Maybe I’ll make a separate post for those two hmm hmm much to consider but for now MY (technically) FAVORITE NINJAGO CHARACTER: JAY WALKER

THE SPARKPLUG WHO INVADED MY BRAIN LIKE A PARASITE

so hey his name is a pun this makes me laugh ridiculously hard every time I remember he is named. After a misdemeanor HSKSHDKFH

Jay is such an interesting case of a character for me because I started out the show not liking him. Which is. Stares at my entire account I think my feelings have changed somewhat

Jay starts out as an asshole I don’t think anyone can disagree with me there (although honestly they’re all assholes in early ninjago they bullied a ten year old and left him dangling several feet off the ground) but over the course of the show you can see him start developing into a much more interesting character. He goes from being so insecure he's faking everything about himself to someone who knows who he is and is so genuine about it

now yea we could argue about whether his character was too uwu-ified post-season 10 but this is the FUN HAN POST SO WE'RE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT the point is you can SEE the growth that Jay has gone through and I am going to show you that growth through what I call

✨ The Skybound to Prime Empire Effect ✨

I AM SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THE IDEA THAT PRIME EMPIRE WAS WRITTEN TO BE A DIRECT PARALLEL OF SKYBOUND AND WAS CENTERED ON SHOWING HOW THE NINJA ESPECIALLY JAY HAVE GROWN THROUGHOUT THE SEASON

when season 12 rolls around we are at the point in Jay's development where he is CONFIDENT in who he is. He's a fun-loving jokester with the power of lightning and the drive to help people whenever he can. He uses jokes and humor to help alleviate tension and get people through whatever's happening. And when on his own what does he do?

BECOME AN ENTERTAINER BABEY

i like to think jay's club in prime empire was a safe haven for anyone stuck in the game who figured out hey. we Can't Leave and felt freaked about it. Also Jay would generally try and spread the word that hey something ISN'T RIGHT HERE which would lead people to want to stay with him

(totally plugging my friend's fic but this kind of thing is explored in would you like to enter prime empire by @finn-m-corvex y'all should check it out cool cool)

also the prime empire shorts which i watched all of in the midst of typing this video cuz i love them go watch them please please please jay was publically fighting the red visors which I imagine may have raised some red flags for some players

THIS SOMEHOW TURNED INTO PRIME EMPIRE INFODUMPING LMAO ANYWAYS Jay's confident! He becomes an entertainer because it's who he knows he is! And it's something that will get people hyped and having fun, which is very in-character for Jay to do! He uses those kinds of things to mask the Bad Things going on and get people remembering what's good

I've talked about this sort of thing before but that's Jay's whole philosophy as early as season 9! Which is a DIRECT contrast to how he views it in season 6, as Nadakhan puts it scarily accurately

"You make jokes to mask the fact that you're afraid"

(i was gonna grab a screenshot for that like i did with the hunted scene but netflix has bloCKED THE ABILITY TO TAKE SCREENSHOTS THE WAY I USED TO and i don't have them already and i'm too lazy to grab them from elsewhere so alas trust me he says it)

making jokes to hide your fear and using humor to remind yourself of what's good and coping with the bad are two VERY different outlooks on it

so I think this outlook is what drives him to make this glamrock persona in the first place - this is a bad situation, one he's in with other civilians, and what better way to keep him and themself safe until the others get there than throwing a big performance at a safe place!

also it's just so gender okay I want to look like Superstar Rockin' Jay so badly

it's also interesting to see his outlook on his parents change over time! In season six he finds out Ed and Edna aren't his birth parents and feels upset about it, not understanding why his birth parents would've abandoned him. In season twelve, that outlook changing is EXACTLY why Jay's able to get through to Unagami

"I was abandoned by my parents, too!... I never understood why, and I never had the chance to even ask. But I always hoped there was a good reason. What if there's a reason?"

(again curse you netflix i wanted SCREENSHOTS whatever whatever)

It's this scene that gets Unagami to calm down long enough for Milton Dyer to get there, and presumably is what stops him from just. Flattening him and Jay like a pancake.

to piggyback off of this i absolutely adore how Unagami and Jay consider each other adopted brothers in that one book I still haven't read and I hope he's in Dragons Rising at some point Unagami is my favorite "villain" (no longer a villain) in the whole show he deserves more screentime

like this is where i found out about this and it's plagued my mind ever since. i need to read. this book just for them

SO YEA OKAY Prime Empire is "Who is Jay as a Person Post-Skybound" to me also it opens up so many fascinating things about Jay. I rest my case

so backpedaling a little bit. JAY CARES SO MUCH ABOUT HIS PARENTS GUYS IT'S SO SOFT AND I'M sobs

like yea the first episode with Ed and Edna in it has Jay avoiding them like the plague but this gets explained very easily when you remember he was bullied for his home life before he became a ninja. It makes a lot more sense why he wouldn't want them around his new friends, assuming they'd react the same way. Also how was he supposed to know literally all the rest of the groups parents were either dead, presumed dead, or had a toxic relationship with their kid lmao

(Cole calling his mom kills me. Cole's mom is dead. I know they probably just didn't think that far ahead when writing the dialogue but it's so funny mans pretended to call his dead mom to get on Jay for not appreciating his parents iconic behavior)

anyways literally every episode Ed and Edna are central to (except like the one in skybound) Jay stops at nothing to protect his parents and it means the absolute world to me he's so much like them!! They raised an inventive little nerd and he will stop at nothing to make sure they're safe and it's. It's SO IMPORTANT TO ME OKAY

ALSO this is an excuse to clip my favorite piece of dialogue possibly in the entire show. Except Netflix won't let me now. So you just get the text dialogue

Jay's just fallen from the sky with a messed up eye and is incredibly distraught that all his friends are captured. And his dad just. The woRLD IS FALLING APART AND HE'S EATIN' SOUP-

Ed i love you

anyways

anways anyways this just turned into me rambling about prime empire and then Ed and Edna and a lot of disjointed other stuff but thank you for this opportunity i was going to also ramble about lloyd but i put this post in a word count and

yea i think that's enough for a tumblr post anyways! If anyone wants any like. More logically thought out and direct thoughts about characters feel free to send me asks this was fun thank u @zaptrap for this opportunity to scream about jay

[pacificwanderer]

Hi! You're one of the biggest Reylo accounts I've seen. Do you have any tips on gaining followers? Thank u!

LOL Nonnie is my mom sending me messages ;) 

I’m not even remotely the biggest blog out there (not by a long shot, I’m mostly sass and like venom, tbqh), but I’m fortunate enough to have a lot of great mutual friends/compatriots that I’ve been mutuals with for a long time, so that definitely helps as far as discussions go.

I’ve also been around forrrrrrrrrrr way too fucking long, so that definitely helps.

But, honestly? A willingness to state your opinions and the ability to let go of the fear of looking like an idiot LOL. That helped. That and I really love to talk about Star Wars, that also helps.

It also helps if you write/create/draw, and if you’re not into that sort of thing, be the kind of blog that reblogs thing you find aesthetically beautiful or things that contribute to the discussion in a thoughtful way. Don’t be afraid to voice your own thoughts about it, either.

Also, tag. Tag everything. Especially if it’s content that you think might be triggering/annoying to people. This is very important and also helps any of your original content be seen.

I also recommend using the queue option so you don’t spam the shit out of your followers. If people are too spammy, I often unfollow because I am really interested in keeping up with the latest news/content and it just gets annoying to have to scroll through like 17 pages of content (I used to do this back in the day. I am so sorry lol I use a queue now, unless some shit goes down and then that all flies out the window in the name of freaking out).

Otherwise, don’t be afraid to reach out and tell people you enjoyed their content. I follow a lot of Reylo artists/creators/writers (fan art is normally how I get into lots of fandom), and I think it’s important to let people know you appreciate their work, either in the tags, dms, or in their comments on their posts. It can all feel a little like screaming into the void, so getting feedback really helps people to stay motivated/feel appreciated. Many of the people that follow me/are mututals are people I’ve reached out to in the past because I loved their work.

And, beyond that, don’t be afraid to show your personality. I used to worry about how much I swear (because it is a lot), but I’m a fucking adult and there’s a warning RIGHT in my blog header (like, take all of that seriously lol), so people can make their own decisions up about whether they want to follow me.

Oh, and this has nothing to do with followers, but if you want to have a better tumblr experience, don’t be afraid to block. Ants, people who are mean, people you don’t like, whatever. You don’t owe shit to anyone on here and, if they’re upsetting you in any way, blooooock. It’s helped me a lot.

Anyways, cheers, Nonnie!

This is kind of the long part of waiting, so it’ll be interesting to see who sticks it out until the end lol.

[1-800-i-ship-it]

Yeah, it is about time you went to sleep. It's about 2300-0100 there, right?

Anyway... I do like sending you asks. You're fun to talk to (I've smiled an inordinate amount since finding your blog) and it's not like there are man comic-based ORV blogs. I don't want to read the novel because it is notoriously poorly translated and I don't want to get spoilered too much😣 - bi panik YJH anon

hi anon!

:sweats: so add a couple hours to that timestamp...and u will be close LMAO, but, u are pretty close i suppose, if we round a few hours xDD (cue all my friends telling me i dont sleep xD ive also been told multiple times that i live in a different timezone, mostly by my family whos prob annoyed w/ my wacko sleep schedule bahaha (also sometimes i have to do forum posts for classes, and then theres typically this lull in timestamps btwn 3-6 am, and then theres me with like a 5:15 am timestamp LMFAO i just pretend my TAs think i actuallly do live in a diff tiemzone or they think i wake up early (i havent woken up that early in over a year))) <- damn thats a lot of chins xD gotta close my parentheses properly tho cause god knows PEMDAS is gonna come for me /j

okay anyways asljdfDJAFHLHEJJKDHSLF AHH OMG jkdsalfh hold on hold on aahhhhhhhhhhsadlfkjd real footage of me rn:

AAJKLAFDSSFL AASKJDFDL OIMGOD THATS SUCH A NICE THING TO HEAR?? thank u and im really glad i can make u smile!! <33 btw right back at u like i always smile when i see ur asks haha and ive alerady said tihis befoer but ur super funny too

ooh okay i see! thats totally valid, no worries ^^ (also tho i will warn i might spam a lot of spoilers (aka i get to rb stuff ahaha), after i am caught up with the novel so im sorry about that xD but i usually tag my spoiler stuff so it should be okay, and/or i typically put a big warning or smth haha) i do still have like 400 chaps to go tho lmao so dw; i also relate a lot to avoiding spoilers (guess which  dumbass went to ao3 tho and forgot that u could block the spoilers tag xD)

as for the translations yea i see what u mean haha it took a bit to get used to, but i think its alright, if u ever want to give it a try! (also the translations get worse after xxx chapter? idk but i have the ebook version thats supposed to be a bit better? havent gotten there yet (unofficial, dont worry i still go and do the support stuff on the official website haha)) but anyway yea tho go with whatever u would like to do :D

i will def still keep posting abt the webcomic tho!! :DD i love it so much <33 (and this totally isnt an excuse to post more kdj screenshots, no, not at all, and to simp for the amazinggg art; i actually like, just took a crapload of screenshots from the latest free ep ahaha i havent organized them yet tho)

thank u for the ask! ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡