Headcanon's Time

Headcanon's time

On missions that required knowledge of etiquette, they mainly sent Zane, Pixal and Kai.

Zane wondered why Dr. Julien never rubbed his chopsticks while eating, and after a week he knew exactly how to bow, controlled his voice volume and did not enter the house without slippers.

Cyrus Borg built etiquette into Pixal's memory, so she knew from birth how to behave in public.

Kai... In childhood, he and Nya often did not want to sleep, so their parents read them books that should not be interesting to children.

For example, the code of laws of Ninjago, the history of the sculpture of the Ancient Serpentine.

Or a book on etiquette.

Kai still remembers hugging the sleeping Nya and listening to his mother's calm voice explaining certain types of bows.

And after the disappearance of his parents, waiting for Nya in the forge, Kai read this book, in an attempt to spend time usefully. So he learned table etiquette, the rules of tea ceremonies, bows, a smile.

He even learned the rules for calculating at the box office.

And while working in the ninja team, together with Zane, they read books about etiquette in the city library.

The rest of the ninja didn't really like the rules of etiquette.

Jay was quite loud and gesticulated a lot, which was ignorance for high society people.

Cole hated suits. As a child, he often played hateful symphonies and cantatas in them, while his tie squeezed his throat and his jacket pressed against his muscles.

These moments are still in his nightmares.

Nya didn't want to wear dresses, heels, and follow absolutely all the rules of etiquette.

Yes, she had enough knowledge to complete the mission, but the inability to put her elbows on the table or relax her back - just no.

For this reason, Kai and Zane learned not only male but also female etiquette.

Lloyd and Jay still remember how Zane, in his perfect black tuxedo, held the hand of Kai, who was dressed in a red dress with gloves on his hands and a long wig.

My girlfriend and I found and bought the Stanley Parable Indiebox, and we read through the entire manual and this last page killed us

The Narrator hopes we set Stanley free....😭

ive said this so many times but one of my favorite parts about kai is despite his  trauma, when he gives, it doesnt come with strings. hes not expecting anything from anyone- when he gives, he does so without ulterior motives. i think its so important to realize that kai understands the value of love and decides to share his love, share what he holds in his heart (that fact that he chooses to hold love in his heart despite everything is beautiful itself), with the world, despite the world not returning it to him.

he loved his parents yet again so effortlessly, and he has always loved his family, nya, lloyd, jay, cole, zane, pixal, wu profusely.

So this is my theory paragraph that was made after the Dylan is my brother episode and after rewatching some stuff from both channels, this was all made before the season finale I must warn you just in case my crazy brain says some stupid shit:

I think Bryan might just turn out to be the replacement for Mary in FNAC 3, because he started to get therapy right after his bio dad’s death and since Dylan confirmed he and Bryan used to go to Rat and Cat theater together it wouldn’t be hard to say this could be true, and I think the therapist Bryan was seeing was his now father, and his mother married him for how well he carried for Bryan and that’s why he always thought that Amiri was his father because that’s as far back as he can remember, and Dylan says that the reason Bryan can’t remember is because he probably repressed it like Dylan did, and we know the reason Dylan probably repressed it is because of the trauma from losing a father and his mother not caring for him and him being given to relatives other than being with his mother or Bryan’s mother, so I think the reason Bryan repressed his memory of that time and all of it before the incidents is because he was Mary, hiding in the cleaning closet as he watched past Vinnie commit his crimes on the two men, ending in their lives being lost and Bryan losing his father before his eyes

I would like to see him go apeshit 💔

this boy really be out here loving everyone but himself. give this man therapy please

Kai Version: Isn’t it so incredibly interesting how both smith siblings handled their trauma in drastically different ways?

Kai  has low self esteem/self worth (depends on people, powers, and statements to determine his value), constantly needs to prove himself, and is immensely dependent on external validation (his obsession social media is a prime example of this). He invalidates himself, dismissing his emotions/feelings, and needs regular reassurance (tendency to blame out-of-control situations on himself, likely derived from the mindset that his parents purposely left him because he wasn’t good enough, and i’ll bet my soul he stayed awake  nights wondering that if nya was firstborn, would his parents still leave?) .

His fear of being useless is also likely derived from that same mindset and as such he portrays himself through a cocky/prideful ‘persona’. This is false portrayal of himself, simply to appear stronger in the eyes of others, because if others think he’s of value they won’t leave him, because with or without this ‘mask’ not even he knows who is truly is.

He tends to dissociate during emotionally intense/overwhelming situations, or go into a state shock/confusion. He developed unhealthy coping mechanisms (violently self destructive) with situations regarding loss and grief. All of these things are results of and/or mechanisms he developed from his childhood trauma.

but. despite everything i’ve written above.  he loves nya. raised her. protects/supports her. took lloyd under his wing. he loves lloyd. throws heaps of physical affection towards cole. he loves cole. accepted jay as a brother in law, was so supportive of jaya and helped jay in proposing. he loves jay. makes things fun for zane, reassures him. he loves zane. showed master wu to believe in himself. he loves wu. he loves his entire team and expresses it in ways that value each of them individually. he makes friends with dragons. he loves dragons. he taught/worked with kids. he loves kids. despite what the disappearance of his parents did to him and nya, despite nya’s refusal to show her parents love (valid, btw) kai loved maya. he loved ray.  he loved his parents all over again, he loved his parents again so easily. he loved and loves and keeps loving.

trauma gave him self-destructive mechanisms. trauma instilled insecurity in him. trauma took away his sense of self worth. trauma emptied him of self-love. trauma stole his sense of identity. but kai held on to the ability to protect others, to care for others, to help others. he held them close to his chest. because like hell he’d let his trauma take that.

kai refused to let trauma strip his ability to love. his ability to love is unmatched.

Inspired by this post:

https://sugarglider-s.tumblr.com/post/692022087001473024/every-single-day-of-my-life-i-think-about-how-kai