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One of my favourite things about Lloyd Garmadon is that the name 'Lloyd' comes from the Welsh name/word 'Llwyd,' meaning grey- which perfectly coincides with Lloyd being a sort of grey area between oni and dragon*
Another thing that makes me laugh is that in TLNM both Lloyd and Lord Garmadon are technically wrong about the pronunciation of the 'LL' in Lloyd's name. 'LL' is a single letter in Welsh, and is pronounced as sort of an aerated 'L' sound (idk how to describe it)
Of course that sound doesn't exist in English, and Lloyd /is/ the anglicised version of Llwyd, but I'd absolutely love to tell Lloyd he's pronouncing his name wrong. It would be the first thing I'd say to him after I got over the shock of actually meeting him.
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The Lego Ninjago movie, but instead of everyone immediately dropping their hatred of Lloyd when they find out he's the green ninja, they instead come to hate the green ninja, and accuse him and the others of teaming up with Garmadon to prolong his attempted takeovers and therefore increase overall destruction over time to make it even easier for him to conquer Ninjago in the long run
The whole 'people see a monster' speech likely completely ignored
And so Lloyd is back to square one, but now he hasn't got his beloved secret identity to hide behind anymore
I mean these people despised him for absolutely no reason other than his last name, to the point that a song about him being bad became a number one hit even though most people didn't even know him, and they always blame him for damages etc instead of the person actually doing the damage - Lord Garmadon himself
They completely overlooked the fact that they'd all be dead/imprisoned if Lloyd was actually evil and allied with his dad
It's not a stretch to believe that majority of Ninjago wouldn't give a damn if he was the green ninja, because it's still Lloyd Garmadon, who they've hated for 16 years, far more and far longer than they've loved the green ninja. I think it's reasonable to assume most of them wouldn't readily drop their hatred and bullying because of a speech. They wouldn't want to admit they've spent their whole lives believing something that's completely wrong, so they'd likely find ways to twist it, as many people do these days when faced with evidence that disproves their ideas
Idk if that makes sense, but like- I think it would be a rather interesting idea to explore (might be writing a fic about it at some point lmao)
Dr Julien: that's a nice looking son you have there
Koko:
Dr Julien: would be a shame if someone were to,,, adopt him
Koko: Julian, we need to talk about your adoption problem.
Dr. Julien, with his six kids, two he built, one he semi-legally adopted/saved from a mafia, and three he saved from his bitter ex-coworker: What problem?
Whint: He doesn’t have a problem. These are our kids.
Koko: But you can’t adopt every sad kid you see-
Dr. Julien: Watch me.
Chen on his Hannah Montana arc
I’m on a Chen streak- time for mid musician alter ego: Citrine Snake!
He uses this identity as a form of escapism from his family life. He’s most known for his song “Poprocks”, as well as several collaborations with the Black Ninja.
Ninjago movie x spiderverse 8:Zane
Greenflower x spiderman kiss
Ninjago movie x spiderverse 7:Harper
Ninjago movie x spiderverse 6:Lloyd
Ninjago movie x Spiderverse 5:Jay
Under the mask confident
Outside the mask shy
Cut The Act
Wordcount: 1900 Ship: Gen A/N: This is a fic set in the movie!Verse :] I wrote this ages ago, after i first watched the movie, and only recently cleaned it up enough to feel comfortable posting lol. This takes place a few years after the movie, and Zane has grown a lot during that time so he's a bit uhh OOC, sorry lol Warnings: Mentions of an off-screen injury that's already healed.
Summary: After Zane get a bad scrape in a fight, he decides to acknowledge the elephant in the room and come clean about his nindroid nature. It'll be anxiety free- All of his friends have connected the dots and figured it out by now anyway... Right?
In his defense, he was pretty sure they already knew.
It’s not as if he thought he was dropping some huge life changing bombshell on them, because they had been dropping pretty un-subtle hints that hey! We know you’re a robot, and we love and support you anyway! Which is why, when he walks into the hangar on that Saturday afternoon, he didn’t think to like, brace them or anything. It just that he wanted to share this part of himself with them more intimately, and also in one of their last fights he’d been damaged- he’d walked it off, fine enough to make it home so Father could see to it, but now he couldn’t quite stop thinking about what would happen if something were to go really wrong, and he needed emergency maintenance on the field.
Of course he trusted Jay and Nya more than anything, and would gladly lay his life in their hands if it came down to it- they were nearly as capable as his father, and should honestly meet him, but that's a story for another day. The duo had worked together to build their mechs, and if anyone could put his intricate wiring back together in a worse-case-scenario type of event, it would be them. So really, this was all very practical, and the obviously logical choice, made totally easier by the fact that he honestly thought they already knew.
So the reason he was at least 95 percent sure they’d caught on was that, during the early years when he was still learning, he was very much not so great at blending in. Turns out, being a normal teen did not involve dropping the words ‘normal teen’ into every other sentence, or casually downloading yourself into most electronics, or perfectly vocalized dial tones. With upgrades and time, he’d picked up on some of the intricacies of human emotion and nowadays people would rarely look at him twice (This isn't exactly true- even as much as he'd grown and learned, he's pretty sure he'll always be on a different page than everyone else, but that stopped bothering him a long time ago. He was weird, and his friends liked him that way.) if not for his friendship with Lloyd Garmadon and his status as the white ninja, he would totally blend in. To people who knew him from the start, though, there was definitely a clear… learning curve, so to speak.
When Father had been repairing him after that particular fight and Zane had brought up the idea, Dr. Julien had been all for it.
“Being honest with your friends is good,” His father had said, pulling back his goggles to smile kindly at Zane, “If you trust them, you should tell them.”
Though his father had probably not intended for Zane to make a very forbidden copy of his own blueprints to give to his friends, but what dad doesn’t know won’t hurt him.
And, well, it’s not like they ever acted like they hadn’t caught on. Most other kids in their grade would look at him like he’d grown a second head, voice turning stilted and judgemental whenever he let slip his more mechanical aspects- but never his friends. They accepted it, and loved him anyways.
For example, last year during English class after a particularly comprehensive personal software update, Zane had sighed. As in, for real, actually sighed, instead of just saying the word out loud. Cole, who had English with Zane each year, had smiled at him with this playful sort of look and said, “Hey, your voice modulator got an update!” And he’d winked as if in on a joke, “Sounds good on you!”
As endearing as it was after the fact, that Cole not only noticed but complimented his fathers work, in the moment he’d felt his processor drop into his feet, sensors flooding with adrenaline. They’d never outright stated they knew like that, and it’d never been so obvious. Sure, sometimes they asked him to run statistics or look up something really specific, but never before had they directly referenced his voice modulator or anything of the type.
He’d ducked his head, anxiety and nerves ramping up, hesitating for a fraction of a second before what Cole had said sunk in. Sounds good on you. He brightens a little at the support, “Thank you,” He says honestly, smiling, “Father installed it over the weekend.” he offers timidly, still dancing around fully admitting he’s a robot, though coming closer than he ever figured he would.
Things like this happened more and more frequently over the years, where they would super obviously hint they had connected the dots. It would be something everybody knows but no one acknowledges sort of situation. He was comfortable with that.
Until he very much wasn’t.
So here he was, one saturday afternoon, very seriously walking into his friends hang-out session with a fancy document tube containing xeroxed copies of his own blueprints, all ready to lay out his innermost mechanisms to his friends in the ultimate show of trust, and to finally acknowledge the elephant in the room. Plus, over time, it started feeling weird and wrong to keep such a serious secret from them. He wanted to be completely open and honest… And now he was finally ready to make that leap.
“My friends.” he announces, stepping in front of the old TV Kai and Nya had brought in sometime sophomore year so they could play video games and watch movies together, “I have something serious to discuss.”
“Wait- I’m almost done with this lap!” Jay stretches his neck to try and see around Zane, mashing blindly at the buttons on his controller.
Nya reaches over and smacks him playfully on the back of the head, “He said this was serious, Jay. Just pause it.” He blinks a little and nods bashfully, tossing the controller aside.
“So whats up?” Lloyd prods, as the rest of his friends all sit up a little straighter to offer their attention, Cole going so far as to take his headphones off his neck completely.
Zane feels a surge of nerves rush through his head and he fiddles with the cap of the document tube for a moment to gather his courage, “My friends, as I believe you already know… I am an android.” he says the last part without pause, pushing through it so he doesn’t stumble or second guess himself.
All of them, who had been getting increasingly tense as Zane stood there, seemed to exhale collectively, “Is that all? You had me scared there for a second!” Kai jokes.
Cole smiles, “Yeah man, we know about the robot thing. It doesn’t change anything.” he picks up on Zane's anxiety, smiling reassuringly at him.
Feeling emboldened by their response, Zane finally twists the cap off of the document tube, “You have no idea how much this means to me. I feel it is important, now that our fights are getting more dangerous, that I give you all these.” He clears a spot of the coffee table before dumping out the papers across its surface, kneeling down to smooth out the stack and organize them, “My blueprints.”
He glances up and sees them all smile easily at him, Jay and Nya leaning forward curiously, “You have to keep these a secret. My Father built me, these are his notes, and he doesn’t know I took my own copies.” he notes his friends expression pinch, like they don’t quite compute what he’s saying, and he assumes they must not like that he took these without permission, “It’s the logical course of action to share these with you all, in the event that I am damaged and need emergency repair, you will be unable to help without studying my build.”
He spreads the pictures out, sliding a few closer to his friends so they can look themselves, and Nya carefully picks up a page. She laughs awkwardly, analyzing the information in front of her with wide eyes, “These are… awfully detailed, Zane.”
“Yeah, I mean, how long did these take to make?” Jay peeks over Nya's shoulder, the others looking at the different pages themselves with wide eyes, “These mechanics look actually legit!”
“My father has been working on my mechanics for his entire life.” Frowning, Zane looks back down at the papers, “Of course they are legitimate, they’re mine. Here, look-” He strips his sweater vest off, folding it and setting it aside and starting in on unbuttoning his shirt.
“Woah!” Lloyd holds up his hands to shield Zane, “Lets keep your clothes on, Zane!”
Zane’s confused, his button up pooling in his lap, leaving him kneeling on the floor in only his shoes, khakis, and undershirt, “My construction is completely unique to anything in Ninjago, I do not mind showing you.”
Cole tilts his head, the crease between his brows growing more pronounced, “You’re… not making this up, are you?”
“Making this up?” His frown deepens.
“You mean you’re actually…” Kai trails off, eyes widening.
“But… a fully recognized AI is years off…”
“I already told you I am like nothing in Ninjago.” Zane explains, “You thought I was… lying?” The word rankles, and he feels his emotions plummet.
“Not lying!” Lloyd is looking at Zane like he’s seeing him for the first time, “We just thought you were… playing. Y’know, like, pretend.” He finishes with a wince.
Zane lets that process before a laugh bubbles up out of his chest, and he covers his mouth to stifle it, looking back at all his memories with a new filter. All the playful smirks, the joking comments! They must have thought he was so strange- and still, they had embraced him and even joined in! “I do not mean to laugh, just- thank you. For playing along, I suppose.”
The smile fades as the reality sinks in, he has no idea how they’ll truly react to his robotic nature, “But… I am telling the truth. I am an android, my father built me to protect those who cannot protect themselves.” At this, he tugs his undershirt off over his head, revealing the seam where his synthetic skin stops, metal casing continuing and taking up most of the expanse of his chest. He slides his hand along the panel embedded where his ribs would be, popping open his front compartment and revealing neatly routed wires and the glow of his power source, “This is not pretend. I hope you can still see me as your friend.”
He looks up earnestly, hoping their playful enthusiasm from before will come back, and each of his friends have varying reactions. Nya and Jay look intensely curious, Cole looks calm as usual, and kai and Lloyd…
“I support you one hundred percent, bro,” Kai points out before Zane can assume the worst as he cringes away from the imagery, “But from a strictly human perspective, I am looking at your guts, and that’s a little…”
“Morbid.” Lloyd agrees, looking bashfully green around the gills.
“This is so totally cool!” Jay announces, grinning, “You’re like a- a nindroid!”
“A what?”
“Ninja Android. Nindroid.” Jay explains before he calms down, smiling sincerely at Zane, “This doesn’t change anything. You’re still one of my best friends.”
“Same for me.” Nya nods, “We support you through thick and thin!”
“We’re your family.” Cole confirms, “Nothing could change that. You’re still our Zane, just more… gears.”
Zane closes the panel, smiling brightly, and Kai perks up, “No matter what you’re made of, you’re still our brother.”
“Thank you all.” He says sincerely, feeling lighter.
“Yeah!” Jay grins, “Yeah, and how cool is it that I can honestly say "My brother is a Nindroid?"”
Movie/show crossover. Don’t traumatize the child 😵💫
Redraw
Ninjago movie x spiderverse 4: Kai
Ninjago movie x spiderverse 3:Vera
Ninjago movie x spiderverse 2:Cole
Ninjago movie x spiderverse 1: Nya
Vera in the Ninjago movie
More doddles
My movie au when they became friends
// kai was in an orphanage, Leave him with little savings //
They are clearly the same person if you ask me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
well Kai has anger issues But I believe that Kai real angry is very rare
P.s. I really love that people smile all the time don't smile when they're really really angry 🔥🔥🔥
When your supposed to be studying science but instead you waste your potential learning time drawing Ninjago
So Tlnm hasn't got a good rating
Lol idc imma still gonna come out of that cinema crying like the baby i am and looking like a panda on wash day XD
Someone mentioned Koko and I couldn’t believe I’d never thought to add her. My grave error has been fixed
Why not show chains as an obstacle to some goal or moral foundations. Simply put, a human fact that prevents the performance of this or that action. We can't tear them apart. We are too weak for that. Garmadon is quite capable. Although to make the character completely renounced from humanity will not work. It's created by people. Even I won't portray it as terrible as possible. Because of us, he will be partly human. It sounded strange.
Even in season 10, Garmadon was softened. Human fact! Our "feelings" for relatives and the like + for children. It's time for me to rine that!
As for my idea. Then I'll give an example from the animation.
Why am I doing so creepy? Ahah
Here I wanted to show that the chains are normal life and the Garmadon breaks them. If Wu and his mother tried not to tear up all the good things. Dad will tear it up. That is, he is trying to develop everything that others did not want to develop in him.For example, the dark force and in general can change the mind? I don't know.
@dinogaby Pay attention to the words on the art.
@ninjakitten1699 Hope you didn't forget me?
@lesei-d You portray the spooky style beautifully. I need to learn from you.
@astroi The argument with Lloyd's genes was hilarious.
And other users and fans of the fendom. I will be glad to read your opinion.
At last. Lloyd is shown on both sides. It happened. Perfectly shows the child belongs to two worlds. My eyes are happy. 🤤
Left Arm of Life
As for art. I know you're oh so diverse. And love different things. So keep different kinds of art.
@dinogaby @ninjakitten1699 I'd to hear from the two of you. No to everyone else, too, but you are the most frequent guests in this franchise. Hope only for the two of you .
hmmm yes, these are the 4 idiots living rent-free in my head
Gee Garmadon and Koko, how come your mom lets you have two La-loyds?
Modifying figures is fun. These are all ‘prototypes’, though, I’ve gotta fix things here and there but the idea’s working so have a preview.
Cole is now a single father of three and they’re all the same child.
Made a baby La-loyd figure (and then had a family photo shoot). This one’s a ‘prototype’ of sorts. His head and body structure are made from perler beads, his face is the same one I drew for my plush, and the cloth is just cloth.
Fun fact: perler beads are a perfect fit for lego headgear.
Made myself a baby La-loyd to celebrate the movie. He’s so squishy! Lego Lloyd is there for scale.