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I raise you this.

Zane also downloads a bunch of romance movies and other media like Pixal did, and somehow they end up making everything even worse together

Ninjago Confidential, but it's Pixal pretending to be a love expert and trying to pair up romantic interests, and the catch is that she's really bad at it and Zane is like "babe what are you doing" "I am taking the exact average of every romantic comedy and novel to create the most successful relationships" and in the background you just see a couple screaming at each other as the restaraunt burns to a crisp

YEEESSSSSS!!!!! I LOVE THEM! BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS!!!

No one is safe from me giving a child/ multiple children to them… not even the robots of the group

(Aka I remembered that MiniPix7 was a thing for only like 10 episodes, and also that the falcon was seemingly just forgotten by the writers, so I revived both and handed them to Pixane without their permission :])

Alright ya'll!

So I've seen some more people engaging with my "Ninjago 7 Au" posts, and I couldn't be happier!

I just wanted to let you guys know that I am currently working on some art of Seven, Zane, and Pixal that I am so excited to show you! (It might be a little bit because I want to make sure it looks the best it can be.)

Anyway, thank you guys for supporting this AU! Just wanted to let you know that I am doing stuff with it, I'm just really busy so content on it might be slow. Let me know if you want to be put on a tag list for posts related to the AU.

Hi there, people who seem to like my AU @100-percential-human and @moonzie-reblogs

(Please let me know if you don't want to be tagged. I just saw you guys were interested and wanted to make sure you were included. 😊)

Throws some old sketches at you and then runs back into the abyss.

I have some polished stuff coming, I promise! I've just been busy. 😊

Look at them all!!!!! I love seeing people's different interpretations of fan kids! It totally looks like Lily's hair is glowing like Cole's lava arms! AndJulia looks like such a mischievous little child with that smile. I bet she gets herself and her brother into shenanigans.

Thanks so much for the tag @the-ninjago-historian!

Colnia Crusaders, let's go!!! 😎

Ninja Kids Dynamics with incorrect quotes and vines. @the-ninjago-historian mentioned wanting to see their dynamics

Julia and Colt

Soliel, at the slightest provocation: I came into this earth screaming and covered in someone else's blood and and I'm not afraid to leave the same way.

Ben: If Harper and I were drowning, who would you save? Lily: You two can’t swim? Ben: It’s a hypothetical question, Lily! Who would you save? Lily: My time and effort.

*The squad has just arrived in a new city. Colt looks around at the wanted posters to see if they’re on any of them.* Ben: Colt, are you a criminal? Colt: Not here, I’m not!

*Julia and Colt are planning to break in somewhere* Julia: We need to distract the guards. Colt: Right. Julia: What are we gonna do? Colt: I'm gonna break their elbows while you poke their eyes. Julia: Colt: Julia: Deal.

*Everyone is playing a board game together* Soliel: I will put 'A' down to make 'A'. Lily: I will add onto your 'A' to make 'AT'. Colt: I will add onto your 'AT' to make 'RAT'. Ezra: I will add onto your 'RAT' to make 'BIOSTRATAGRAPHIC'. Colt: *flips the board*

Lily: My aesthetic is "would be suspected of witchcraft by small town citizens."

Soliel: Where did you get that tomato soup? Lily: It’s actually a bowl of ketchup I just microwaved.

Ben: It's called cauliflower, not ghost broccoli. Harper, eyes wide: I know what I saw.

Ben: There's nothing worse than people using big words they don't understand. Julia: I photosynthesize with this.

YAYAYA!! THIS ART IS AMAZING!!

And these lines aren't wrinkles, dear heart

They're just dollops of paint on a new work of art

Happy 13 years! 🌪🎉

No way.. I want this to happen😭

Since you guys liked my Pixal return to Dragon Rising design idea so much, I figured you guys would appreciate a little comic about how her return would go if I had it my way still

celebrity / social media hc for the ninja ;

inspired by ceoofmorro's series of a similar topic

lloyd

bro is addicted to both tiktok and twitter at the same time

likes/comments very frequently so it's super common to be scrolling tiktok and seeing that lloyd fucking garmadon himself commented on some kpop edit

he gets tagged in a lot of fritz donnegan content (and bonds w jay over their shared love for the character)

mostly appears in interviews/qna's/premiers, but the poor boy is still super awkward through all of it. he's very convinced he'll never get used to the spotlight

he donates to/advocates for a lot of children's mental health organizations and lgbtq+ fundraisers

he rarely posts on any social media, but he puts a lot of random pictures on his instagram story. it's mostly just blurry photos of the other ninja's faces because he's a shit photographer (and knows it)

kai

kai mostly sticks to twitter and instagram

he does a lot of modelling in his free time with nya, but everyone and their mother knows that if he wasn't a ninja, he would be a full-time model

effortlessly cool during interviews and such. he knows what he says are basically the words of god in some people's eyes and he abuses this power to its fucking limits

he has DEFINITELY done those '(insert celebrity) reads thirst tweets' things. he enjoyed it way too much

trends on twitter very often for pulling dumb bs (mostly pranks and random selfies in the middle of life-or-death situations)

reposts thirst traps and edits of himself for fun and loves to watch everyone panic over the fact he sees them

definitely the type of guy to use a samsung fridge to tweet

nya

nya does a lot of modelling with kai. media outlets absolutely adore them, they got to be on multiple magazine covers together and do lots of creative photoshoots (which nya also started to organize herself when she found out kai had a genuine passion for modelling)

the two are an unstoppable duo when they're not arguing over pineapple pizza on twitter fr

posts weekly photo dumps on instagram which usually include a LOT of mirror selfies

it's a lifestyle really

despite not using twitter much, she frequently gets on trending for her daily Queen Shit™

she started to embrace her feminine side more after skybound, and a very vocal feminist

I think I saw tommy andreasen say smth like nya would have a self-improvement channel on youtube, I really like that idea!

jay

fellow tiktok addict

seriously tho, get this guy off tiktok. he literally cannot stop it's kinda scary

I think it'd be funny if zane and pixal saw his screentime and decided to set some sort of parental control on his devices, and no matter he tries he can't seem to bypass it

drives him crazy

definitely a fandom boy you cannot change my mind, he loves fritz donnegan content and other comic heroes

generally considered to be on 'the weird side of tiktok' by his friends

gets super excited whenever fans ask for stories from the ninja's adventures. he calls together a group of kids to sit in a circle in the middle of the supermarket as he tells them about the hands of time or the tournament of elements

cole

he likes producing small tidbits of music and even draws sometimes, definitely the artsy one of the group. give this man a canvas and some paints and you'll get cole more excited than when he sees a slice of cake

has so many spotify playlists, some of them are public and they have SO many likes. people love his music taste!

he likes talking with fans and is super down-to-earth with reporters and interviewers. he's usually the one to steer the convo to himself when morro or lloyd get a bit antsy on camera

He would definitely help and feature on nya's self-improvement a lot, he finds it fun and rewarding

publicly shares his celebrity crushes online and panics when he sees the crush actually responds

he posts his favourite cake recipes!! his favourite is chocolate <3

zane

jay introduced him to meme culture after he got unlimited access to the internet through his titanium body

it was love at first sight

he started to binge random cat videos whenever he got the time and shows them to all the others like a facebook mom showing her kids an unfunny minions meme

he's always the voice of reason in interviews, correcting little mistakes or exaggerations in story retellings and such

jay calls him a buzzkill for it, but he claims that he's just a stickler for the details

maybe after he gets more acquainted with social media, he starts a blog or maybe a yt channel for his tech rambles which heavily features jay and nya :D

pixal

never really posts much on social media because she's always so busy with ninja mission-type shit

she does get kinda flattered when little kids come up to her and ask for an autograph, she thinks it's nice samurai x is inspiring young people

zane likes showing her dumb memes and stuff, but she pretends to brush them off. (she secretly finds them kinda funny)

if you looked on her youtube recommended page, it's always covered with stupid cat videos because she once binged them for an hour straight with zane and now her youtube recommended thinks she's a crazy cat lady because she hasn't watched anything else since

harumi

in my perfect world au, she gets redeemed and lives with the ninja

people were super hesitant when the princess who committed multiple war crimes and tried to resurrect lord garmadon was getting all buddy-buddy with the ninja, but she advocates for good changes a lot and has proven herself to be good :)

already kinda used to the social spotlight from her time as a princess, except now the pressure is amplified x100

takes it like a champ tho, and she even guides lloyd through all the social pressure like a master

doesn't post too much, but sometimes responds to the ninja's dumbass tweets for the funsies

morro

even though no one really recognizes him as the ghost that destroyed stixx and tried to take over ninjago, he still gets super nervous whenever out and about. again, it's my perfect world au where he gets revived and redeemed. <3

kai told him he needs a "strong online presence in today's day and age" (he doesn't but oh well)

started to explore his style more when he got tumblr ("NO NO THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT" -kai)

he would be so unapologetically judgy with reporters because he finds it weird that they wanna know so much about his personal life (and he forgets that he's being broadcasted on live tv)

has been cancelled many times for super dumb shit (he said he likes pineapple pizza,,)

refuses to do advertisements ever since seeing that one 'reading is the start to every adventure!1!!!' ad

Nya built it from the ground up, but that left her with no room for any kind of creativity and no time to develop her skills.

PIXAL was able to take the prototype and develop her skills and the mech a LOT because she wasn't being called on for anything and could solely work on that.

So they both did a lot, but PIXAL ended up with the better result because she used Nya's work too. And PIXAL had a better face reveal.

If Dragons Rising erases Pixal from existence I’ve decided its because they knew she would be too powerful. Imperium’s whole thing is using tech for evil reasons, you think Pixal wouldn’t blow the place up from the inside in, what, a month? You think she wouldn’t hear about how technologically superior Imperium boasts themselves to be and immediately crack her knuckles and decide she was going to upstage them as dramatically as physically possible? You think she wouldn’t try to show them what REAL advanced tech looked like? Beatrix would want her dead on sight by the second week.

And, also, y’know, Pixal has, like, the weakest morals out of everyone on the team. Zane’s a close second after the whole Never Realm thing, but Pixal gives no shits about being the bigger or better person. Imperium has insulted her, insulted her fathers ideals on being kind to tech, and is also just a massive bitch. Get in the Samurai suit loser, we’re toppling a monarchy.

In Seabound, Pixal and Zane go on that mission without Nya, and she asks ‘why didn’t they tell me?’ And Pixal and Zane lament over feeling guilty they didn’t tell her.

This implies the three of them often team up on missions and I think that’s everything forever.

Let's move on to the second poll!!

Because Lloyd won the first poll, he won't be included in this poll.

:)

I have no experience in linguistics but this post is amazing and I’d like to take my best shot at continuing it—

Morro

Comes from Classical Ninjargon slang typically found in books from the region around Styx, the term is a pun on “Soaring Wind” / “Sorrowful Breeze”, both of which could be spelt as “Moraura”. Some claim the word origin goes further back to the phrase “Sacer Mortronar” found in old coastline shrines thought to be dedicated to the history of Wojira. The phrase translates to “Sacred Tornado” and may be a regional name for either the First Spinjitzu Master or Wojira; scholars are unsure as they have yet to find more evidence that hasn’t been washed away by the corrosion of these shrines by time, sea, and wind

PIXAL

While her name is an acronym of “Primary Interactive eX-ternal Assistant Life-form”, the word pixal/pixel had a different meaning in Classical Ninjargon than its modern technological counterpart. In bare translation, it becomes “solution of happiness”, though used in context it has been translated as “my solution of happiness” or “my happiness”.

- Likewise, the word “Sentry” is derived both from the Modern Ninjargon word for sentinel and from the Classical Ninjargon word meaning “guardian of my settlement” or “my sentiment” depending on the translation. As a name, it often refers to the positive emotions of sentimentality

Skylor

In one dialect of Ancient Ninjargon, often found across some of the smaller islands surrounding Ninjago as part of an ancient trade empire, Skylor isn’t so much of a name as it is a possessive adjective and noun. It translates to “my power” or “my skyless power”, a phrase that revers to power without limit. Master Chen likely chose this name to reflect Skylor as an extension of his power.

Another dialect, however, has a different meaning to the word. Scriptures found in lower regions of the continent reveal the Classical Ninjargon phrase of “Sky latru pator”, meaning “skyless potential” or “potential that knows no limits”. The name Skylor is arguably derived from these meanings, and this is likely the version Skylor’s mother chose.

Vania

In Classic Shintarian, Vania comes from the noun of “Vari”, meaning “peaks”, and the adjective of “Niable”, meaning “full of life”. In translation, it can mean “peaks full of life”. In Sky Folk culture, peaks are also seen as glimmers of hope and connection, as they peek over the cloud-line to join with the sky. To call someone Vania is to call them bubbly, full of life, and the embodiment of hope and connection.

Fugidove

While the word is a pun in modern Ninjargan, the origins of the name is surprisingly old. Some carvings found in the Shintaran region, some possibly fron Cloud Kingdom travellers or a sky-faring group of migratory bird-people, contain the ancient phrase “furo gi dove“. The translation reads as follows: “The one who traverses the open skies”, “the bird who traverses the open skies”, or “the one who traverses the open skies like a bird”.

The phrase may also be connected to the Ancient Ninjargon meaning for “gi”, which while referring to the manner of clothing, also carries the meaning of “protector of the last days”. Another translation argues it actually means “protector [that arises] in the final hour”, which would make the full translation “the one who traverses the skies to protect the last of days”.

Nelson

A popular name in smaller villages across Ninjago, the name comes from an old Elemental Master (the exact element they wielded has since been lost, though some suspect Wind or Time) that travelled across the outskirts defending villages from danger.

Harumi

The name ‘Harumi’ comes from the Classic Ninjargan root words for “joy, spring” and “forgiveness”. The name was once shared with an ancient empress with a sprawling garden that may have been mapped after Hiroshi’s Labyrinth. However, because of this garden said to hold untold secrets and riches, the name has occasionally cropped up as a code word in criminal underbellies that means “hidden power”.

Dareth

Deprived from the Classic Ninjargon word for “brown”

I might make more of these by request if y’all are interested

Okay, we've got height headcanons, face headcanons...but you know what we need? Name headcanons.

Okay, yes, I know, the ninja already have names. But their names originate from Earth cultures and Earth languages, which, uh, don't exist in Ninjago. Like!! The name 'Lloyd' is Welsh, but Wales isnt a place on the Ninjago map! And 'Zane' is German - but again, Germany doesn't exist in this fictional fantasy world either. How can Zane's name be German if Germany is nowhere on the Ninjago map?

Realistically I know this is because this show has painfully messy worldbuilding and they gave all the main characters simple European names that their young American audience would be able to easily identify and pronounce. BUT I love to overthink things so that's what I'm gonna do.

Logic would dictate that although their names have specific cultural contexts within our world, they have different contexts and origins within the world of the story. Their names would logically have some kind of different meaning in relation to the cultures, languages, and dialects that exist within Ninjago itself.

This is already canon, to some extent. The name 'Nya' already has a canon in-universe origin, with her being named after a legendary Merlopian hero - from this we can assume the name Nyad and its derivative Nya are Merlopian in origin. Which suggests the idea that the same is true for all the other characters as well, we just haven't gotten the chance to get backstories for their names yet. And there is so much untapped potential in exploring what their names could mean in-universe.

Here, I'll start with my own personal headcanons about the subject:

Most names in this series come from 'Classical Ninjargon', the ancient dialect that was spoken in the time of the FSM but gradually evolved into Modern Ninjargon, which is the dialect commonly spoken by the characters to this day. However, a lot of words, terms, and names still rely in some part on their classical roots.

'Kai' isn't really a name, so much as it is a noun. It's commonly used in the names of towns and villages. For example, Jamanakai Village. 'Kai' means 'shelter' - or, more specifically, 'a form of barrier or protection that defends against cold weather.' It's not a very common name to give to children, though, but it appears in the names of villages and settlements all across Ninjago. It seems fitting, considering the kind of person Kai is. His parents gave him that name as a reference to its more specific meaning. Shelter from the cold. During the Serpentine War, Ray and Maya's dreams of starting a family were what gave them comfort and kept them going. Kai wasnt just named as a shelter from the cold, but a shelter from despair as well.

Nya's name has its obvious origins - she was named after Nyad, the storybook hero who befriended whales and defeated Wojira. Nyad was also Merlopian, where her name means 'courage'. Likewise, Nya's name has similar connotations. Of course, Maya hadn't known that meaning when she named her child, as Merlopia was just a myth and its language much the same. She did know of the fairytale, though, and Maya's own mother had told her that story as a child, so she wanted to give her daughter a name that was meaningful in that same way.

'Jay' comes from a regional dialect of Classical Ninjargon that became prevalent in the Sea of Sands. The name itself originates from the term 'jairu', meaning "blessed storm." Some historians speculate the name goes back further than that, with the term 'jairu' originally meaning "Wojira's favor"...but there is much debate about that. Both Jay and Jairu are pretty popular names in the Sea of Sands. Jay was an unexpected but highly valued gift to Ed and Edna, just as a rainstorm is in a desert.

'Cole' was originally the word for earth/dirt, but over the centuries its frequent use in Classical poetry led to it acquiring a myriad of more specific meanings - 'solid foundation', 'stable ground', 'dependable and reliable', 'steady and unshaken amidst conflict', etc. The word itself has a lot of very poetic, very vivid interpretations, and when most people name their children 'cole', thats what they're referencing. But not Lily. No, she knew the name historically meant 'earth', and she wanted his name to be a pun. It was 100% intentional

'Zane' isnt so much a name as it is a colloquial term, from the Birchwood region. Even though the word has Classical roots, it still remains widely used in that region. The word 'zane', a noun, is in reference to the constant, unmelting snowcover that blankets the region year-round. In Classical Ninjargon the term means, "endlessly persevering" - but over time it became repurposed as their term for their endless snow. Dr. Julien always thought the snow was beautiful, and named his son after its remarkable endurance

Lloyd's name has an interesting history to it. In the time of the Stone Wars, when the FSM initially split Ninjago and sealed away the Overlord, the people of that era celebrated the occasion by turning it into a holiday. They called it "belloid", which Classically means "victory over darkness." Eventually a new tradition emerged where children who were born on the holiday were named after it - and so the name "lloyd" came to be. And although the holiday evolved and is now more commonly known as Festival Day (yes, thats a canon holiday), with its history and origins fading out of public awareness, the tradition still persists. But heres the catch: Lloyd wasnt born on that holiday. His dad's reasons for naming him Lloyd were twofold. First, because he made a promise to himself to resist the venom's corruption for the sake of his son, and the name "victory over darkness" served as a testament to that promise. And second, because 'lloyd' sounds like 'lord', and giving his child a pun name sounds exactly like something Garm would do

And of course, since the ninjas' rise to fame, they have inspired some increasingly popular baby names. 'Lloyd' has been the baby name of the year for four years in a row now, which is something the others tease him relentlessly for.