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Ninjago UA

I remember watching Ninjago when it aired, I was part of the fandom until the end of Rebooted, the I kinda fell off the band wagon. Then around the time Secrets of Forbidden Spinjitzu was airing I’m on Netflix and I go to rewatch the series, but hey there’s now nine seasons instead of the three you remember. I can not tell you how confused I was, since the pilot season wasn’t on Netflix I found  the two episodes on Twitch and watched the series. 

Now a year ago sometime in December, I thought of rewriting Ninjago, I mean everyone has thought about things that could have been done differently or how to fix plot holes. So my rewrite will be relatively the same, I’ll do my best to cover up plot holes with some added/changed dialog and scenarios, with some more mature themes, more dark aspects and mild to explicate language.

Each book will be equivalent to a season, the same name of the season and episodes will be used for both the book and chapters, most chapters will be around 6000 words, however the filler episodes will contain less words and mostly center around the plot relevant scenes. 

I’ll also be posting a book on the side that will be updated as the series continues. Ninjago Extras, it will include a timeline of important events titled with dates, the amount of time between each season. It will have character sheets which will have age, nationality, appetence, etc. I have taken some ideas from the community, considering the Ninja’s appearances from fanart of the characters as human. I am also basing my geography off of joshuad17′s Ninjago Map. 

I may also be posting scenarios I’ve already thought up, not quite sure yet.

Do you know what? Screw it I’m gonna post the scenarios I’ve already thought up. Here’s an excerpt from The Stone Army, Lloyd and Misako’s first meeting after 10 years.

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“My... my mother?” The teen whispered.

“Lloyd? Oh my little boy. You’re so much bigger then I remember.” She spoke, she past the stunned Ninja making her way to him. Bringing her arm up, the intention was clear, she meant to rest it on his cheek. However it didn’t land as the teen took a step back.

“Don’t touch me.” He growled lowly, this his supposed mother attempted to place her hand on his shoulder for reassurance or whatever she thought it would do. “Don’t fucking touch me.” He repeated with a slightly lower tone swatting the arm down.

“Lloyd, please I didn’t want—“ He quickly cut her off.

“I don’t want to fucking hear it.” He hissed, he pivoted on his right leg, making his way to leave the hall.

“Lloyd, wait. Please!”

“You don’t get to tell me to do shit!” Lloyd whirled around facing the archaeologist, he shoved an accusatory finger at her. “You lost that right... no.” His hands fell to his sides as he reavaluated his words. He looked to her crimson eyes staring down her pale green. “You gave up that right, when you left me at that fucking boarding school!” His hands were clutched so tight, that if it wasn’t for the gloves his nails would have pierced flesh. He turned to leave once again, and this time nothing stopped his leave, he gave a pull and the heavy door slammed shut behind him.

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So in my UA Lloyd’s relationship with Misako will be a lot more rockier then what was portrayed in the episode let alone the show. It definitely seemed forgiveness came to quickly, it just didn’t seem natural, a kid who was abandoned wouldn’t forgive the one who hurt them so easily.

Here’s the excerpt from Two Lies, One Truth, it’s quite short about a paragraph, but hey whatever.

I actually thought about this while watching this scene unfold. Harumi explaining why Garmadon couldn’t kill Lloyd.

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“A child isn’t born from a side. A child encompasses all.” The explanation was weak, even parents who love and care for their children can still kill them. Something else was at work and it didn’t sit well. He was able to beat his son down with no problem a week ago. Would he have been able to have delt the finale blow then? It would have been better for her plans, but she wouldn’t have her revenge. She just hoped he wouldn’t realize how weak her reasoning was.

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As I said earlier, I thought about this while watching the episode. Her explanation was weak, and not based much in facts. Because like I pointed out, even parents who love their child can still kill them, according to FBI statistics, there are over 450 filicide’s each year in the United States alone and most filicide’s are Altruistic (out of love) or Psychotic.

The types of filicide are; Alturistic, Psychotic, Unwanted child, Child maltreatment and Spousal revenge.

So I had mentioned that in my post NinjagoUA about adding “more dark aspects” but Ninjago has a lot of dark aspects, I’d just really have to expand on them. I have even compiled a list of some of these dark aspects. Like TannerFishies had said in his video the other day that the Sons Of Garmadon and Hunted had definitely upped the maturity for the show.

Here’s the list of some of the dark aspects I get to work with.

- Kidnapping

- Child Endangerment

- Child Abandonment

- Neglect

- Cannabilism

- Suicide pact

- Attempted suicide

- Imprisonments

- War

- War crimes

- Torture

- Genocide

- Regicide

- PTSD

- Possession

- Slavery

- Cultists

- Manipulation

- Child abuse

- Attempted filicide

- Gang violence

- Execution

- Racism

- Race war

Just because it’s a kids show doesn’t mean it’s just for kids. There is plenty of kid shows that have dark aspects similar to the ones I’ve listed. Search some of these aspects that show up in kids shows and you’ll come across a lot.

Or go to either PhantomStrider or blameitonjorge’s channels on YouTube and take a look at one of their many videos on children’s shows.