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"They snuck out! You've got to be kidding me! We would never have done that to master wu! Actually. We would have."
"There's no way they'd be running around town with my meditation carpet."
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"THEY'RE RUNNING AROUND TOWN WITH MY MEDITATION CARPET"
Dragons Rising Lloyd is like a younger sassier version of Wu and I am here for it honestly
Fake IDs for a 15th birthday present or smth?
the fact that Arin was told to pick a fake name and he went with Dr. Lampshade Floortile
but the fact that Lloyd chose Doyll Donmagar-
Side note: did Lloyd just come up with that right off the bat or was that a name he had floating around from like, his darkly's school days??
Can confirm, lego Ohio is Chima.
Does the Departed Realm being in Ninjago now mean people just respawn on another continent when they die
Ohhhh this is legit. Lloyd never talking about himself but when he does, he says concerning things very casually and then moves on.
Arin breaks something
"Oh don't worry about it. We don't. none of the decor is worth anything. After the fight when Morro possessed me, everything got broken, so we figured we'd replace it all with cheap decor."
Sora and arin freak out about a spider and Lloyd kills it with one hit
"At Darkly's school for bad boys you learn to kill insects pretty quickly if you don't wanna be eaten alive every night lol"
"Kai, stop being dramatic, my dad wasn't that bad. Most of the time he was evil, he was under the influence of the great devourer's venom, or he was possessed by the overlord. But I do resent christofern."
Ninjago Dragon’s Rising spoilers
Okay but I can’t help but think that Lloyd would actively avoid talking about himself. Like, he is Master Brickwall.
Occasionally, he’ll say something about himself that’ll make his students realize he’s deeply traumatized and then not elaborate on it.
Eg.) “I knew the last wind master. I like you better.”
Care to tell the class why you dislike the previous Wind Master? Care to get therapy for that?
Or maybe it goes something more this:
“I completely understand what it’s like to have a complicated relationship with your parents. My dad almost killed me once.”
A thunderbolt of shock ricocheted through Sora. If she were on the brink of crying about five seconds ago, she definitely wasn’t now.
“Excuse me?”
“Yeah, it was a wild time.”
“Care to elaborate on that?”
“Not really, no.”
This reminds me of another post that I'll link, but essentially about how the ninja have to work out boundaries when they first get together, because cole and jay grew up with only parents, zane had no one, and Kai grew up with only nya, so none of them is good at living with other people. But think about how this is manifested in terms of personal space.
Everyone carefully leaving space between them and the next person while they watch a movie in S1, but by S5 they are physically comfortable with each other and Kai holds onto cole when he's scared, and jay leans on nya when he gets tired, and they'll all pile pillows on the floor in front of the TV and just all lean on each other without thinking about it.
Like S1 Kai would never admit to being touchstarved, but S8 Kai says it (or Lloyd might, too) and they all hug him more, they put him in the middle when they watch movies, Lloyd moves into Kai's room in the middle of the night.
Something something Kai mentions he’s touch starved in a casual joke on movie night but the others take it very seriously…
(can be read as already established polyninja or not, both are good)
I think the departed realm and chima combined to make Lego Ohio
Since all 16 realms combined does that mean that the departed realm is back? Like I know it got destroyed in s6 but what happens when people die now? Are their ghosts just there or do they respawn in another area of the world
like they just appear in the middle of a wedding ceremony
just imagining Kai doing something stupid and getting himself killed but reappearing right next to the ninja
“Kai no!”
“yo wtf are you guys crying about I can’t die”
This is genuinely so good. I would read character essays on every ninjago character if anon wrote them
Something funny about a Morro who stops giving any fucks. Like before Harumi chills out and has her redemption or whatever, I think the contrast is funny because a Morro without all his drive and anger as furious as his winds is just :/ okay, nothing more to do here. He's at peace now, so he's like Grumpy Cat or Miette. He deserves to laze around and be bored and ^_^ "Sensei!!" as Wu hands him a bag of chips and all the Ninja are like 😐 also the imagery of someone going @/him with a spray bottle is funny, the hissing cat energy...so yeah, more villains trying to incite him to feel that anger again and join them and he's just, done. He wants a break and live with his dad again. Get to be the person he was before his obsession with becoming the green ninja changed him. It's like when someone goes to therapy or finally stops clenching their jaw so hard and they turn into pudding like "woah" everything you pent up inside just melts away and now you need some floor time. Bring a board with red strings connected "here's why you should join my evil army" *munching chips slowly, throws away the empty bag* "enlightening" *crosses arms behind head and leans back for a nap* *gets woken by loud banging noises* ok now u made him mad. Morro is on his retirement now. Fighting villains? Ninja training? Trying to destroy the world and get revenge? Sounds exhausting now. But if someone tries to disturb the peace that's when he'll do something and it's SPOOKY because he's like jelly or draped like a boneless cat over furniture but then someone's about to fuck shit up in his general vicinity and he opens one eye to glare at you and it's paralyzing so hey at least the Ninja know he cares somewhat on his own terms. Also he would like more snacks pls.
Hes retired but he does in fact still have rabies
*coughs out a new au like a cat coughing up a hairball*
What if when the golden weapons didn't glow around him Morro was... kinda ok? Maybe he still reacts the same way as in cannon but soon enough he calms down. Wu is a good dad and apologizes and things are ok. Except for one small issue: what now?
Morro has spent years of his life training to be something he isn't and now he has no idea what to do with himself, so he leaves. He talks with Wu, packs a good amount of supplies and lots of warm clothes and food, and sets off on a journey. He's not looking the Toomb of the fsm master (that would be crazy, a suicide mission really), he's kinda just wandering. Moving from place to place, having fun and learning (lil nerd). The wind never stays still. He likes to send letters and postcards and photos to wu when he can, just to keep him updated, and maybe he even visits every once in a while.
(Optional angst. Do not continue if u like morro being ok)
And then the postcards stop. They've always been inconsistent due to the nature of morros travels but it's been months and there hasn't been anything. Wu still gets other mail so that's not the problem... why hasn't he heard from his son? What happened to his baby boy?
(Nothing good)
Okay, hear me out.
My headcanons mainly are about the movie ninja crew, and bc I headcanon Nya and Kai as Twins, and I also headcanon that Cole designs a lot of the stuff the ninja use and wear (backpacks, phone cases, stickers, etc..), I had this idea that Kai and Nya just switch all the time
No reason what so ever, they just think it’s cool and lean 100% into the Twin thing.
After growing up with no money, there is no way he's spend on something as pointlessly expensive as furniture. He got his plastic lawn chair for free off a curb on trash day.
He also isn't the type to be super creative and decorate with DIY projects. Like could he do that? For sure! But will he? Heck no. He won't go around thrifting and trying to furnish. He'll just get a free lawn chair and a beanbag off ebay (one of the massive Lovesac ones) instead of a bed, and he'll cook with 1 pot, 1 bowl, 1 plate, and 1 set of silverware, but mostly he orders from master chens.
Please someone draw kai sleeping on a beanbag
Idk why but Kai feels like the Male Living Space type to me. The ninja move into separate places for whatever reason and they go visit Kai to check up on him and it's just like. A chair. And a fridge. Nothing else. And not a comfy chair either it's a plastic lawn chair.
A scene from the inside of a random apartment and Lloyd's just washing the window, and the garmadon walks in and doesn't even look out the window. And Lloyd just stops and stares with all of the emotions on his face. And garmadon just waters christofern and walks out again.
Can you IMAGINE if Lloyd realized he was washing Vinny's windows in Farewell the Sea upon visiting his apartment in Christofern, then realized how close to Garmadon he was
Look, all I'm saying is it would've been hilarious to see Lloyd go "WAIT I WASHED YOUR WINDOWS????"
Au where morro isn’t a good guy and he’s not a bad guy, but rather a secret third thing: manager at a local supermarket.
Okay so hear me out. Some random villain or whoever does like Day of the Departed… 2!! And brings them all back like alive n shit Yknow the drill. Then morro wakes up, finds out he’s been resurrected to try to kill the ninja for like the third time in his existence, so he just. Fucks off. Right in the middle of the bad guy explaining his big bad plot to everyone. Just walks out of the building never to be seen again. The villains don’t do anything because who fucking cares. They’ve already got an army of disgruntled dead people so they just go to the next phase. Morro isn’t even going to warn the ninja or anything. The ninja don’t even know Morro is back. Morro does not care enough to tell them. This plot thread does not gain a resolution or acknowledgment until a season and a half later.
Cut to the next big baddie doing some shit, and the ninja need to go shopping to create the mystical maguffin item that will defeat them or whatever. So they’re shopping and they’re antsy and one of them gets snippy with a part time worker and all of a sudden. A fucking gust of wind so strong one of them almost falls over manifests. They looks to what caused it and there he is. Morro fucking Wu dressed in store uniform with the title of ‘Manager’ printed clearly on his badge.
And meanwhile all of the ninja are having their own separate meltdowns over this revelation that one of their greatest enemies is alive and in ninjago city, meanwhile Morro is just like “If you keep being rude to the staff I’ll have to ask you to leave.”
This serves as inspiration for more Lloyd Almost Dies fics but additional fic ideas:
What do the ninja do bc Lloyd's in a coma
Lloyd's trauma from almost drowning
Lloyd's depression after almost dying and also being possessed
Lloyd is scared of the dark (which can be a one shot of his anxiety with details about leaving a light on or having nightmares, or it can be a lloyd moves into Kai's room in the middle of the night, or a fic abt him dealing with his fear, or the ninja trying to be supportive and not knowing what to do)
Lloyd is scared of storms (similar to above)
Lloyd is scared of all water so he drinks tea and avoids showers as much as possible (disaster)
And possible details:
Lloyd has a nightlight or leaves a lamp on all the time
Lloyd plays games or reads or smth literally until he falls asleep every night so that he doesn't think about any of it, and because he knows he'll have nightmares, and speaking of which,
Nightmares every night
He moved to other bedrooms in the middle of the night, usually kai's but sometimes Cole's
Scared of storms, doesn't want to be alone during storms
Has seemingly random silent periods where he won't speak to anyone. Interpret this as you will
As things get worse, he becomes more nocturnal. Spends days sleeping and nights reading, gaming, training, or baking breakfast for the next morning. This is a manifestation of his fear of the dark, he gets too anxious to sleep in the dark.
Devils advocate here. But what if during Possession, at the end when Moro throws lloyd into the water, what if he nearly drowns? Like Jay in Seabound. There's a lot of water in his lungs and it's looking bleak. Maybe Nya figures out how to draw it out or they take him to a hospital.
Either way, Angst.
thoughts on lloyd almost drowning in season 5. these are a mix of headcanons and fic ideas and details. if you make a fic involving them, plz let me know, I would love to read them! I might add more later, but if you have ideas, plz add!
obviously, the almost dying lends itself to Lloyd Almost Dies fics but additional fic ideas:
What do the ninja do bc Lloyd's in a coma
Lloyd's trauma from almost drowning and being possessed
Lloyd's depression after almost dying and also being possessed
Lloyd is scared of the dark (which can be a oneshot of his anxiety with details about leaving a light on or having nightmares, or it can be lloyd moves into Kai's room in the middle of the night, or a fic abt him dealing with his fear, or the ninja trying to be supportive and not knowing what to do)
Lloyd is scared of storms (similar to above)
Lloyd is scared of all water so he drinks tea and avoids showers as much as possible (disaster)
And possible details:
Lloyd has a nightlight or leaves a lamp on all the time
Lloyd plays games or reads or smth literally until he falls asleep every night so that he doesn't think about any of it, and because he knows he'll have nightmares, and speaking of which,
Nightmares every night
He moved to other bedrooms in the middle of the night, usually kai's but sometimes Cole's
Scared of storms, doesn't want to be alone during storms
Has seemingly random silent periods where he won't speak to anyone. Interpret this as you will
As things get worse, he becomes more nocturnal. Spends days sleeping and nights reading, gaming, training, or baking breakfast for the next morning. This is a manifestation of his fear of the dark, he gets too anxious to sleep in the dark.
Hoodies: Lloyd
Lloyd!
-Where do I even begin with this guy?
-Totally stole all of the others' hoodies when he was younger, even Nya's, and acted like he only did it to make them mad (he just wanted attention)
-When he was younger, his favorite hoodies to steal were Jay's. Not only were Jay's reactions funny as hell, but when he was still a kid Jay would unzip his hoodie and let Lloyd climb into his lap before zipping it back up and playing video games. Lloyd would often fall asleep right there snuggled up against his big brother, much to Zane's (fake) chagrin when he came to read Lloyd his bedtime story
-Even after the Tomorrow's Tea and all of the team stepping up into their older sibling roles, Jay was still the first person Lloyd went to when he needed to forget about being the Green Ninja and just be a kid
-Lloyd's most frequently worn hoodies are: Kai, Nya, Jay, Cole, Zane, Pixal
-Not to say that he doesn't like wearing Zane's or Pix's though, he still very much enjoys it
-He wears Cole's whenever he needs to be absolutely swallowed up by the fabric and because Cole's hoodies always feel like a big warm hug
-Loves wearing Nya's hoodies because they're fitted, and since they have similar body shapes they make Lloyd look Very Good. They're also extremely comfortable to boot and it's good to hear Jay complain for the umpteenth time about how Lloyd can pull off his Yang's hoodies better than Jay can
-Borderline addicted to the cologne Kai uses and that's why Lloyd wears his hoodies so much
-Almost burst into tears when the others stole his hoodies because he felt like he had finally passed a rite of passage into the main family unit (plus he didn't think any of them would have cared about him enough to want to wear something of his)
-His hoodies are all various shades of greens, to be expected, but he also has quite a lot of black and purple ones. The only thing that separates his black hoodies from Cole's is the sheer size difference
-Has one hoodie that just says 'FUCK THIS' in big letters across the front. The others' have matching ones in their respective colors
-CARDIGAN HOODIES!!!!!! Also has the hood up too because yes
-At first he thought it was weird that everyone stole his hoodies since he was the youngest, but then he got a little older and realized that even though they were all older than him, they were still very young and they needed his comfort just as much as he needed theirs
-Now when it comes to scent, there are two camps in the team for what Lloyd's hoodies smell like. There's the camp for peppermint (Kai, Nya, Pixal), and then there's the camp for chocolate mint (Jay, Cole, Zane)
-In Lloyd's opinion, he's on Team Chocolate Mint, but he doesn't dare go against Kai and Nya together if he wants to keep his limbs the way they are
Tomorrow is Nya!
sora probably has no idea on any of the ninjago lore so i need an episode where she talks to the ninja and asks for a recount of the events that have occurred in ninjago.
its not a good recount.
- lloyd only drops information like father does (randomly in the middle of conversations and will never bring it up again)
- nya talks about the cool battles she had and not the actual lore (the battles were very cool)
- zane's is accurate but too detailed and he uses too much terminology she doesn't understand
- kai's is correct but in entirely the wrong order and he fails to explain key parts like what the great devourer is
- arin is a fanboy but probably has biases from ninja interviews and only has the public info mostly from after s6 (when they become famous)
- cole's is just straight up incorrect
- jay attempts chronology. keyword "attempts". he forgets that he was explaining ninjago lore and starts talking about something else entirely, confusing sora more
also:
sora probably doesn't know what an oni is (never seen lord garmadon before and lloyd has never mentioned it) and lloyd uses his oni form and sora is just standing there like WHAT THE FUCK
"so your great grandparents are a dragon and an oni?!"
"yeah..."
"how does that even-"
"don't think about it too much"
wonderful day to remember ninjago has a canon highschool au
And can I add that they were the two left behind on all of the early missions. Like these two had so much time together while The Big Kids fought battles. Lloyd was such a comic book kid, I know Nya talked to him about his favorite comics and probably snuck him out to comic cons and waited in line for the newest books to be released. And once they got older and more included, they don't forget that. They don't forget the way it felt to be on the outside. That's why they're so good at including and accepting people.
I know everyone is obsessing over kai and Lloyd with their brother bond but what about Lloyd and Nya.. although they don't interact as much, I feel like they'd be best friends too 🥹💚
Especially when Nya was becoming a ninja and she was dealing with misogyny, when darreth was all like "but, Nya is a girl.." and Lloyd went "Nya is a NINJA" my green boy is a feminist
I want that "boy best friend and girl best friend" duo from Lloyd and Nya 🥹💚💙
In Seabound, Pixal and Zane go on that mission without Nya, and she asks ‘why didn’t they tell me?’ And Pixal and Zane lament over feeling guilty they didn’t tell her.
This implies the three of them often team up on missions and I think that’s everything forever.
Conversations I Think Happened in the Grasslands Pt. 2:
Part 1 here
Lloyd: So your the First Spinjitzu Master right. Does that mean you’re good at all types of spinning or just spinjitzu?
FSM: Elaborate.
Lloyd: Like pirouettes and fouettés? Because Cole taught me how to do them and they’re really fun.
FSM, sighing: Yes, I can do those and I’m rather good at them.
Lloyd, delighted: This is the best day of my life!
Lloyd: So what was my dad like as a child?
FSM: He was a lot nicer than you’d think. Quite a lovely child, even after the venom. The venom didn’t really properly quick in until his late teens you know.
FSM: Now Wu on the other hand.
Lloyd: So if you’re half Oni and half dragon why do you look human?
FSM: Because Oni are shapeshifters and I didn’t want to spend the entire time you were here bending over to look at you and end up myself back pain.
Lloyd: Why would be you be bending over?
FSM: Because I’m 10’6.
Lloyd: What?! Why am I short then?
FSM: I don’t know but you certainly didn’t get it from me.
Lloyd: So why'd you have to divid the continent in two anyway
FSM: It seemed like a good idea at the time. Besides it worked didn't it?
Lloyd: ...
FSM: Will you stop judging me I was a teenager!
Lloyd: So was I and I didn't have to divided the continent
Lloyd: *Thinking*
Lloyd: Wait how old were you when made Ninjago then?
FSM: Younger than that.