#watch as that image quality fall off a cliff into the netherworld

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Ehehehehhehh Ninjago magical girl au (part 1)

This isn’t even their final forms! (There will be more posts about this when I get chance to draw again. Also forgive me for incredibly rough line art lol)

Part 1 (here) - Part 2 - Part 3

Explanation + bonus images under the cut

Okay here’s the bonus images out the way

That’s a Nya design which I’m probably going to revamp due to the fact that I forgot she only becomes a ninja in s5. And that Lloyd design is going to be his second form. Also have Wu mascotified. He’s a tiny dragon thing! Idk I drew that really quickly just now.

So the au is substitute everything ninja with magical girls. (Disclaimer I’m using “girl” as a gender neutral term now :P)

In the pilots, Wu has the actual excuse to train Kai for an extended period of time due to the reasoning that only a magical girl can fight against the skeletons and Garmadon. Also Wu takes the form of this floating tiny dragon. Why? Idk, magic. None of the ninja have actually unlocked their first transformation yet but Wu has taught all of them to be able to summon these gold medallions that are made from their hidden potential or true emotions or something like that.

They unlock their first magical girl transformation the same time they do spinjitzu the first time in canon, and the gold medallions appear on their clothes. Their powers? Basically the same.

The pilots end with Wu busting out the magical old man form (which I probably will not draw lol) to kick Samukai in his bone butt and everyone goes home and doesnt talk about how the cute dragon creature just did that. Also Garmadon is in his humanoid form but he can probably also because small as well.

S1 would follow the ninja unlock their true potential (and second magical girl forms which I’m still trying to work out how to colour haha) and Lloyd also becoming a magical girl.

I think I might have the ninja gain a new form every season like when they get the techno blades, when they regain their powers and get dragons in s4, when they learn airjitzu idk, but on the other hand that’s a lot of designs, + the mandatory “for the movie” post s7 redesigns so we’ll see if I get to it. Also Nya will be getting her magical designs it’s just I’m still sussing out the details.

But yeah. Magical ninja. Ninja now sparklier.