You Know

You know—

Cole was travelling around for a while too after he ran away from the dance school. He was out rock-climbing whatever mountain he could find. And we know that powers didn’t just come from their weapons, so he’s likely had superstrength & improved climbing skills that he didn’t notice—

So imagine this:

Local Villager: Making my way to the market, walking fast, faces pass—

[Sees a teen free-scale a 90 degree sheer cliff with no supplies, no rope, and no shirt in three seconds flat.]

Local Villager:

Local Villager, picking up speed: Walking faster so the spider demon cryptid doesn’t get me—

And heck, while we’re at it, if Jay ever tested any of his other intentions in the city/edge of the desert— POV you’re driving down the only road for miles in the Sea of Sand, it’s dawn, still dark but the barest hints of sunlight, mostly lit up by the sparking, flickering old street lamps here and there. You suddenly spot a strange shape at the side of the road and slow down, peering with squinting, curious eyes out of your window.

Bright beams of light like glowing eyes (special goggles) snap up to stare at you. You can’t really make out anything else— crooked shapes like mangled wings, perhaps, or jutting limbs out of the sand.

Startled and scared, you floor it, watching as all the street lamps around you suddenly fizzle out with a wild pop as if the lightbulbs just exploded. You hear an almost inhuman screech behind you, and vow never to drive this road again— at least not without the noon sun watching your back.

Anyway so yeah Zane, Cole, and Jay all having old cryptid rumours about them without knowing it, and Kai having heard about all three from passing travellers in his village while working the forge. He finds out later those three “Cryptids” are now his teammates

And then along comes Lloyd with even more cryptid rumours of the “red eyed feral raccoon child in the darkness that steals sugar” because Oni + dragon + candy-crazy runaway ex-Darkley’s kid

Dude I like to think that in his early life living in the woods with Dr Julien, Zane was a local cryptid for a while. There's just this really tall, almost expressionless guy dressed in all white that wanders around the woods. If he sees you struggling, sometimes firewood for the winter will show up outside your house. He disappears into the forest without a trace or a sound as soon as you see him. People make up stories about him. "Yeah I got this scar from the white demon of the forest" and "my family was blessed with extra fish because we left out warm soup for the winter spirit"

I just think that would be neat

My guys

What ninjago needs isn't more villains and enemies from Wu or the fsm's past

What ninjago REALLY need is past villains and enemies of Lily, Maya, Libber, and Ray

ARE YOU KIDDING THOSE ARE THE MOST INTERESTING HEADCANONS EVER

YES LORE

YES WORLDBUILDING & HISTORY

YES LINGUISTICS

Those are the coolest kinds of hcs (and there are many cool hc types out there — I personally love using the m!verse for it, because it’s free real estate) and some of the most fun to read because they inspire new ideas. If you’re passionate about this stuff, go for it!! It’s all about having fun and engaging with the content in the way that you enjoy.

Seriously though I love your linguistics post so much, it’s one of the coolest thing I’ve seen on this site.

Your hcs are interesting and fun. Don’t let anyone tell you they aren’t, not even yourself.

For a while ive been thinking of making video essays about my ninjago worldbuilding lore theories, and so far have been unable to talk myself out of it. I think the mental illness is winning this round lads

Literally what I was gonna say—

Sometimes, a fic doesn't have to get published, it can just be a series of messages on a Discord channel, between a dedicated group of friends going "oooh, you know what else would be cool?" continuously over a period of weeks and months :)

In a Movie Zane mood while in the wrong classroom because my timetable is scuffed 😎 so now I give you Movie Zane and a potential Movie Ice Emperor. It would truly be a terrifying sight hghghg.

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