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An excerpt from a little rewrite I've been working on...
“Hey, you think you've tightened that bolt enough there, Sparky?.”
“Huh?”
Jay looked down at the last bolt in the mini catapult he had been working on.
The bolt was, indeed, very well tightened.
“The bolt. It’s tight. You should probably move on.”
“Oh, uh, yeah.”, Jay said, embarrassed, as he set his wrench down on the floor.
He sat down next to the wrench, staring at the wooden floor boards, attempting to gather his thoughts.
When his mind felt somewhat clear, he looked up again at Nya.
Nya had this look on her face, but only for a second, gone in a flash.
Compassion? Concern? Worry?
No, it was “pity” Jay realized.
He resented that a bit.
I'm not the best writer, but I do enjoy it!
I hope you guys enjoy this snippet too!
I want to post the whole fic (a rewrite of the lighthouse scenes from "Skybound") once I finish it. But I still have a while to go before it's done, so it won't be soon.
Anyway, thanks for reading! God bless you! 😊
Yes, yes, and YES! This is one of the reasons I love Skybound! They really developed Jay's character! I really wish they would have kept some of that development throughout the following seasons, but he kinda just turned into the "funny one" again.
I've been rewatching Skybound recently, and I've found myself thinking that it would've been absolutely incredible for Jay's story if everyone somehow remembered what happened. (with Nya still being alive, of course). Not only could Jay get help for the insane amount of trauma he experienced, but the ninja team, who likely don't think of him as the "leader" type, would then see differently.
Jay really stood up as a leader in this season. Although he made mistakes in the first half, after he escaped Misfortune's Keep he really took charge and showed how great a leader he could be. He proved that he wasn't just someone who could use lightning and say a funny joke. He could be someone people listen to, look up to, and obey orders from. Someone that people trust to lead them.
Not only did Jay make a plan to keep Nya away from Nadakhan as long as possible, but when she was taken he continued on. Jay also, after Ed talked to him, pick himself up after being the only ninja left standing, created a new team, and made a plan, basically all by himself. He led them despite how he has never led a team before, and led them well. He even made the call to risk his own freedom and go into the Djinn blade, saving the members of the team who were trapped.
Jay is so often, especially now with the newer seasons, seen as just the comedy guy, the funny side character, when in reality, when push comes to shove, he can also be an incredible leader, and it would've been amazing if the rest of the team saw him as such!
Prime Empire showed a little bit of his leadership skills too, but not in the same way. I want to see Jay make plans again, make tough calls, and lead others all by himself.
He can do it, he's proven it, but the others don't know it. If only they did. Maybe then Jay could have another chance at being a leader.
This song is so Jaya coded to me!
I see it as Jay trying his best to respect Nya's wishes and treat her as a friend, but still grappling with his deeper feelings for her.
And Nya desperately wanting to prove herself, having been tainted by the mindset that falling in love is weak, trying her hardest to not fall for Jay all over again.
It can totally work from both of their perspectives! I just...aaaahhhhhggghh!!!! 🥹
Two confused idiots; mutual pining.
That's how they are in my "Lighthouse" rewrite at least.
Canon? What's that?
Oh my goodness, I love that scene, too! It's like for a second you think Zane has Nadakhan backed into a corner, and then, wait a second...PIXAL!!!!! 😲
Like, she already got dismantled in season 4, and now she's being completely torn apart, her code being ripped from his head and dissappearing.
And, of course, Zane can't lose her forever. She was the first one who could truly and completely understand what being a nindroid was really like. She GOT him. She helped him remember who he was made to be in Chen's dungeon. She encouraged him while she herself was lying in pieces. She is his other half.
And he forgot to account her into his plan. Maybe because he was overconfident.
Maybe because she had become such a constant in his systems that her consciousness being in his head had become as natural to him as blinking his eyes.
To Zane, him and Pixal were one. Separate entities, of course, but together, joined, inseparable.
But of course, this was not technically true, according to Nadakhan's rules, at least.
So he panics.
Everything was going so smoothly, and now it's all falling apart around him.
And then that silky smooth voice. Promising to make it stop. To silence his love's screams as she's picked apart 1 by 0. To put her back together, to make everything alright again.
Maybe the voice can fix it? Maybe the voice can help?
Her screams are ringing in his ears. His head feels lighter almost, as if something in it is missing.
He just wants it to stop.
He wishes he could just wish it all away.
The voice says that he can.
And so he does.
the chess scene with Zane and Nadakhan has lived in the back of my head for years btw like wow Zane went into that scene super calm and ended it FLIPPING OUT
nadakhan really had my younger self scared for my life because like???
Skybound is kind of a hit-or-miss season overall, but I do have to give it props for absolutely ripping into Jay's characterization like this. Like. They actually went there.
A lot of times it's a popular headcanon/fanon for the comic relief to be using their humor to hide their pain, but apparently in Ninjago it's just straight up canon. So do with that information what you will
SHUT UP I’M COPING
Sad about Jaya in DR s2 p2? Rewatch Skybound, that’ll definitely help
Is there anything you'd like me to discuss/talk about/get my opinion on about Ninjago, Eddsworld, or Monkie Kid? (Can be anything, ships, lore, headcanons, canon)
Pixane moves on once again! From now on is non-canon ships!
Ship names for non-canon ships because I'm bored!!🥰
(Just add shipping to the end of everything and it makes sense lol)
Lava = Kai × Cole
Plasma = Jay × Kai
Opposite = Zane × Kai
Techno = Jay × Zane
Bruise = Cole × Jay
Glacier = Zane × Cole
Greenflame = Kai × Lloyd (I only really like in the movie universe because they are the same age)
RoyalAmber/Sunrise = Vania × Skylor
Scruff = Ronin × Darreth
Survival = Garmadon × Vinny
JetFaith = Jat Jack × Faith (from Hunted)
Samurai = Nya × Pixal
Dumbass = Jay × Cole × Kai
Mudshock = Cole × Jay × Nya
PolyNinja = Kai × Cole × Zane × Jay
Royalty = Vania × Harumi
(Don't we just love ships with people who have never met? :)😂)
Okay, I want to discuss something, in my recent post I said something about Greenflame.
So, In my opinion, Greenflame is really only okay if it's in the movie universe, since they are both the same age and are in high school.
In the series, it's not...as okay because they have an age gap. But are both over 18 so it's not exactly bad.
Most Ninjago fans don't like it because they see them more as really good brothers, me being part of the people who think like that.
But if you ship it, it's okay, I'm chill with it.
Replying to the second comment about Skyboundd
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Okay, I haven't watch Skybound in a while so.. bear with me, I have memory problems😁👍.
A whole season about Jay. Awesome. Finally a season not all about Kai or Lloyd! But I think the whole Nya getting hit by the arrow with the tiger widow poison was a bit.. unnecessary..
Jay finding out he's adopted and his real mum and dad are no where to be found? Also did I mention his dad is the famous Cliff Gordon? "Fear isn't a word where I come from!" Well it's the opposite for the Ninja because they've been traumatized, abused, and tortured their whole life??
Anyways enough with my rant...
"Beguiling voice" "Silky voiced seducer" Okay Jay you raging Bisexual.😊
I feel like Jay and Cole's relationship improved which was nice!! Jay got bullied though... a lot-
(IM SORRY THATS ALL I CAN THINK OF I HAVEN'T WATCHED IN A LONG TIME😭)
Pixane is dominating rn-
Little silly headcanon🥰
Wyldfyre often calls Kai "old man" when he's really only like 26😂 (sometimes everyone else calls him it too just to piss him off :3)
(in Dragons Rising that's how old I'm guessing they are, don't come for me for it😢)
(Just wanted to make a ninjago version of this meme lol😂 here's a reference incase you've never seen this meme :))
$80 NINJAGO LEGO SET LETS GO!!
(My budget was only $40 [so I had to pay me mum back $40] but it got PUT IN THE WRONG SPOT AT WALMART SO I THOUGHT IT WAS 40 NOT 80❗️❗️😡)
Oh. My. God.
Ya know the car fox mascot?
This guy? Yea well...
GUESS WHO TF HE'S VOICED BY!?
THE VOICE ACTOR FOR LLOYD. IM GONNA COMBUST. ISTG THESE PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE😭😭
No way💀
s6e10: the way back
The line 1:32 into "Lotta True Crime" By Penelope Scott reminds me a lot of if Jay was talking about Nadakhan after Skybound.
"Jay could've killed him.
He had every right.
He just caught him off guard that night."
The fact that Lloyd canonically is a fantastic pickpocket means so much to me.
Examples: taking Soto's fork leg in Skybound & stealing the handcuff keys from Harumi in Crystalized.
Like, obviously it's from Darkley's, but it's still just so cool and would love to see that being implemented more in the show.