#the ninja love lloyd so much

[sharksandjays]

I was watching the episode where Lloyd ages up and guys-

guys the ninja were devastated.

excuse the bad quality i cant screenshot netflix

Like. This is probably the only kids show that I have seen that teaches about how maturing too early can lead to severe mental health consequences. How missing out on your childhood is devastating.

But the fact that the ninja were more upset about it than Wu was…it must have hit especially hard to them since with their parental situations they probably had to grow up too early too. They didnt want their baby brother to have to go through what they did.

Brb while i cry.

[cakessalty]

THE GOLDEN ONE.

(fun fact! i used to hc that Lloyd's golden form from s2 had four arms even before they showed his oni form)

[calypsolemon]

sometimes people negatively criticizing DR will say things like "it must be bad writing otherwise it doesn't make sense why the ninja act differently in [DR situation] than they did in [MOS situation]" with no further justification for why that would be the case and it's like. my brother in spinjitzu the Situations are Different

[its-pit-not-icarus]

Would you like to enter Prime Empire?

I made these sprites in the style of the Prime Empire portraits that show up momentarily in S12 E12, but only Jay, Nya and Lloyd are shown in this style in the show. I absolutely loved this pixel style, and thought all the ninja deserved to be in this style, plus Kai and Jay’s custom avatars! Had a lot of fun with these <3 (click/tap for higher quality + it’s transparent!)

[lyn--art]

Ninja never quit!

(i adore drawing them in chibi)

[plazsma]

i know tlnm is non canon but i wanna talk about how they actually give the best explanation for lloyds element, that we actually never really got told straight up throughout .. all of the series? actually?

like in the show we know the green ninja is ultimately the most powerful, the teams leader, the one that brings all elements together, yadda yadda.. but we don’t actually know why it’s . green. like. why are we the green ninja? why are we green? what is this mountain dew power exploding out ur palms?

but the movie hits the nail on the head.

the ending scene really sums it up. and it’s such a beautiful scene. i’ve actually memorised his monologue,,ahem,, allow me

“green is the colour of life. it flows through all living things, connecting them all. just like I..connect the ninjas.”

it’s so ..to the point? it’s so simple. but that is his element. life. vitality. growth. he allows all of the other elements to flow, and live and thrive by connecting his team together. and this is apparent in the shows canon, especially as lloyd grows older. it’s such a random one off line from the movie but it means so so much to me.. such a defining moment for lloyd as a character i fear.

[alastair-1205]

You know, I've been thinking a lot about the Lloyd and Arin/Wu and Morro parallels lately, and I can't decide which outcome of that is more gut wrenching.

Arin running away like Morro did and Lloyd not chasing after him (therefore repeating the same sins as his mentor, one of the things he fears the most) or Arin running away, Lloyd following after him, and not being able to bring him back home (he failed his student and even once he realized and tried to help, it was too late).

[nyaskitten]

"Wu doesn't care about his students or Pixal" mfs when I make them watch anything past season 10: (they realize that Wu has grown and changed over the series and that the way the ninja raised him in s9 really reshaped him as a person and hes since been there for his students and he weeps and mourns for them)

[kindaasrikal]

Everyday i pray that they give more interests to Pixal and Nya that isn’t engineering, like caring for water life or enjoying video game and designing stuff.

And everyday i pray they bring back Jay’s old interests like how he LIKED POETRY.

Evil Jay but its him sounding like Shakespeare explaining every evil plan he has.

[spinjitsuburst]

drawing a jay a day until i see him again in the show: day 4

I desperately needed some fluff so I drew Jay with a Blitzle! Idk what it is about Blitzle specifically out of all the electric type Pokémon that screams Jay to me but it does and it’s very important to me that you know that

[remnant0fhope]

Hey moots I’m posting again!!! I got invested in oc art and haven’t wanted to post most of them tbh. Maybe I will in the future who knows?

[writer-room]

Rewatching the earlier, and even pilots episodes, of Ninjago are so WILD man. First of all, you notice all the things that are just plain forgotten about or pushed aside in later seasons. Kai originally being the main character, sure, we all know that one, but Cole was heavily implied to be, or become, the leader of the Ninja, that was Cole’s thing. Zane was automatically described with having a sixth seer sense, when nowadays it shows up very, very infrequently. Lloyd used to basically be the Avatar, does anyone remember that? This kid was just the Avatar.

And then you remember the silly things. Like how the skeleton army was once a threat. Like...the skeletons. We battled a giant snake, smaller snakes, robot armies, sentient video games, Garmadon a billion different times, the Overlord, Oni...and the skeletons used to be a worthy adversary. The skeletons.

Did you all remember that Cole’s earth dragon used to...breathe earth? I’ve been forced to remember. Rocky used to breathe earth as a form of attack. It was shown through brown swirly wisps in that beautiful, incredibly shitty 2011 effect. The Underworld used to be implied to be the place where all dead people went, or at least the bad ones. We never heard of a Departed Realm. Do we remember the time Cole had a scene that was a direct parody of Michael Jackson? I sure do. Genuinely the highlight simply because I don’t know how to describe the emotion I felt upon seeing it.

[woffles-4-waffles]

Shut up brat! I'm on a mission.

[mislamicpearl]

Just improving some lines, don't mind me.

[neptunic-saturn]

Today I asked my friend which ninja to draw and they said blue so I drew jay

Also extra art

[amour393]

no bc I'm thinking about when kai and Lloyd are in the volcano and Lloyd is looking at kai because they both know kai can't save them both and Lloyd's entire life he has been second pick- his mother didn't want him, his school didn't want him, the ninja barely tolerated him

And Lloyd is in a volcano staring death in the face and his only hope is kai. He knows how bad they need the fang blade, he knows how bad kai wants to be the green ninja, how bad he wants to prove he's worth it

And for the first time in Lloyd's life, someone chooses him

Just....the themes of Lloyd's character and how he went from abandoned to loved and accepted and chosen, not by destiny but by family, I-