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- The two museum curators are actual timeless beings (again, not that far off, at least on the ‘time’ thing)

- He keeps seeing the same kid at school multiple times- the same sunglasses, a different clothing style but always in purple/pink- and swears the whole ‘clone theory’ is true but surprise, nobody believes him

- The nice flower shop owner is/was a pirate in a past life

- He does not trust Lloyd’s cousin’s boss. She’s good, but there is something about her that just gives him the heeby-jeebies

- He saw a grey tabby at a pet store once and just stared for 20 minutes until Nya and Lloyd (wearing a hoodie to disguise himself so he wouldn’t get kicked out) dragged him away

- He’s convinced the noodle chain in the city is the cover up for a gang or something

- Hates mason jars with a passion. Doesn’t know why, but has managed to argue about it for an hour. Nobody won that debate

- Hates tar even more than glass jars. Nobody knows why. Neither does he. But he does not trust it.

- Thinks Dr. J has an apprentice that stole White’s blueprint designs once. Dr. J said he’s never had an apprentice before, but he’s lying, he knows it

- Someone introduced him to Gravity Falls and other code-related shows. It did not end well for anyone but Red

- He now sometimes writes in code, and it’s even harder to decipher his weird half-awake notes right after visions

I am wondering... After eating the forbidden pocky sticks... What kind of conspiracies about things in general had Red come up with that are actually be true but nobody believed him until he somehow managed to prove it?

not in order, but some notable ones:

- Multiverse theory

- some higher power controlling them(this one actually has an angsty AU)

- Mothman and other such cryptids

- Garmadon is actually a demon from another universe(partially true)

- Wu is almost a god

and bold of you to assume he was able to prove any of them

A Pair of Sunglasses (Aki AU)

So here’s a fun little idea-

Remember the original version of the Aki AU for SPBNR? Where Smith ends up in the m!verse alongside Aki (aka Bizarro Kai), who’s hellbent on making sure he a. stays put and b. has to deal with as much inconvenience as possible? Sometimes even impersonating him (as Shogun) to mess with him?

What would happen if a certain m!Kai happened to be in a rush one morning, didn’t have time to gel his hair, and happened to get mistaken by Smith for...

:3

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Red didn’t even know what he did wrong.

Seriously, all he did was stand next to Jay by the lockers and chat! And he couldn’t remember doing anything wrong during the morning, or yesterday, or-

And yet for some reason, Smith came storming over with a look of pure fury. Fury pointed at him.

“I thought I made it very clear,” Smith growled. “What would happen if I caught you hanging around here.”

Behind his sunglasses & the bangs covering his face- he wasn’t used to his hair being down- Red’s expression furrowed in confusion with an edge of hurt. He started to ask what Smith was talking about but shut his mouth when the other teen jabbed a finger toward him.

“Don’t play games with me, Kai.” There was an odd style to how he stressed Kai’s name, but he couldn’t place what it meant. “I’m not in the mood.”

Red was aware of Jay standing awkwardly to the side, fingers tugging at the frayed end of his scarf. His gaze darted back and forth between the two like he was watching a tennis match. A very volatile tennis match where the tennis ball could explode into flames at any moment. 

And Red? Red was just confused, and more than a little hurt now. At first, he’d thought maybe Smith hadn’t recognized him- his own friends hadn’t the first time he’d ran out of time to gel his hair up before school- but when he used his name it was clear he knew exactly who he was talking to.

Red just didn’t know why. He hadn’t even been drinking a lot of coffee lately, so he hadn’t (or shouldn’t have) done anything crazy in a caffeinated haze (he pulled an all-nighter once, figuring that it would be okay to skip the few hours of sleep his mind would have let him get anyway. Never again). The last time he and Smith had talked, they’d ended on friendly terms, right?

So why was Smith acting as if Red had slammed Jay into the lockers and demanded his lunch money?

“Smith-”

“Don’t you ‘Smith’ me,” Smith interrupted. Red recoiled at the open hostility, the strongest he’d ever heard from Smith. “You know, just when I think I know how low you’re willing to sink, you go ahead and surprise me.”

Okay, ouch. Red really wanted to know what he’d done now.

“I-I-”

The two turned to look at Jay, whose ramble grew muffled as he ducked his head into his scarf and blushed. Smith moved, stretching out his arm and-

Positioning himself between Red and Jay. Okay, what parallel dimension had Red been dropped into that moment where Smith felt he had the need to protect Jay from him, as if Red would whirl around and attack him like some evil minion of Garmadon?

“Hey, it’s okay,” Smith spoke in a soothing tone to Jay. The latter shot Red a confused and apologetic look over the former’s shoulder. “Did he hurt you?”

Did- did Smith really think- think that he- he would-

Red’s heart shattered, and if Smith had been looking, he would have seen how his expression crumbled into devastation. Instead, his focus was on checking Jay for injuries. Every second that passed drove another knife blade through Red’s heart.

Something sputtered in his chest.

“Did- did you really think-” His tone went from hurt to defensive angry, an instinctive reaction to lash back against the undeserving pain. “That I was going to- that I was here for that?”

Smith spun with his teeth bared and Red nearly lost his fire. “What else? You knew you weren’t supposed to, and yet here you are. Why can’t you just leave me alone? Can’t you see no one wants you around, faker?”

This- this had to be a joke, right? Or a misunderstanding? Smith didn’t really say that. He didn’t- he didn’t mean that-

Shoving his shaking hands in his pockets, Red fought to keep the choked sob down. Jay tried to step toward him, to say something, but his voice hitched into a stutter. Smith once again turned to comfort him before turning on Red with the fury of the sun in his eyes.

“What. Did. You. Do.”

Oh FSM, he wasn’t kidding. This wasn’t a cruel joke, Smith was serious. Red swayed on his feet, blinking back tears. He was so, so utterly confused, drowning in hurt and shock and a lack of understanding.

Smith’s hand clenched. “They were all right. You are the absolute worst. There is not a trace of good in your pitiful, shrivelled excuse of a heart. Resorting to this pettiness just to spite me. You’re pathetic.”

Red couldn’t breathe. Heat rushed to his face, and the only reasons he wasn’t crying were his wish not to appear weak at school (he needed to keep his reputation strong to scare off some bullies for Lloyd) and seeing how behind Smith Jay looked furious on Red’s behalf. Though he hasn’t managed to find his voice, the look of support- at least one person didn’t fully believe that- kept Red from breaking on the spot.

“Yeah? And they were right about you.” Red was proud to admit that his voice only slightly wavered. “You’re not-”

And the next moment he was on the ground. 

His face stung. Why was his face stinging? What-

He looked up through the cracked lens of his sunglasses at Smith, standing over him with his fist held as if-

As if he’d just decked Red.

Smith had a mixture of anger, surprise, and smugness on his face, like he hadn’t fully expected to connect but was damn proud of himself for it.

As for Red, the punch had brought more tears to his eyes in reflex, and they were starting to spill over his cheeks. He wanted to wipe them away before they ran far enough for someone to see, but his body was in shock and wouldn’t respond.

“What- What is wrong with you!!”

Oh, Red had not heard that tone in a while. It took a lot to get Jay to explode like that, and it warmed Red’s heart the one that lay in shattered pieces on the floor or the hallway to know it was for him. Smith looked over his shoulder, eyes wide and puzzled, and shuddered like he’s been statically shocked at the intensity of Jay’s glare. The look of sheer anger didn’t last long, though one could argue that the amount of guilt you were slammed with when his expression dissolved into tears was worse. He hiccuped and rubbed his cheek in a rushed stroke, still managing to look pissed despite the water stains splattered across his freckles.

“Hey, hey, it’s okay-” Smith tried to soothe him. “He tried to trick you, but-”

Jay was having none of it, slipping under Smith’s outstretched arm and hurrying over to check on Red.

Smith did a double-take. “Hey- Jay! No, he’s lying to you, you can’t be hanging around him, please, you’ll get hurt-”

“More hurt than what ‘Smith’ here did to your friend.”

The three startled as a fourth voice joined the conversation. At Red’s side, Jay curled in on himself with a soft, strangled whimper, his eyes wide and confused. Smith stared at the newcomer.

And Red-

Red looked up to see himself.

Or, well, what he thought was himself for a moment. Between the crisp leather jacket and aviators, hair chopped in an intentionally short and messy style, the guy was the epitome of a ‘bad boy’ without the cringe. A scar peeked out under his left eye- not that dissimilar from Smith’s, actually- and he had a wolfish grin that immediately put Red on edge and fired off every warning signal in his brain.

“You- how-”

Smith glanced between the newcomer and Red, horror slowly creeping into his expression. 

Between him, Red, and the newcomer, Red noted, they could be mistaken for triplets under the right circumstances.

“My my-” The newcomer whistled, hands in his jacket, posture leisure. “You really did a number on him. That’s going to be a black eye for sure, maybe two! I must congratulate you.”

Smith whirled on the newcomer with refreshed anger fuelled by- Red hoped for a moment it was guilt, then chided himself for hoping that because that would mean Smith was hurt, but based on the dots rapidly connecting in Red’s mind, his words hadn’t actually been meant for him.

They still stung though, and his face hurt worse.

“You-”

“Me,” said the newcomer, unbothered by Smith’s scathing bark.

“You vile, evil, manipulative-” 

The newcomer raised his hands- damn, Red was a little jealous of those gloves, some kind of fancy fingerless style that they once again pulled off effortlessly- and smirked at Smith. “Hey now, that-” He gestured to Red, still sitting stunned in the floor, and Jay, who pressed against his side and shrunk under the sudden attention. “-was all you, ‘Smith’.”

Smith looked less than a fraction of a second from spitting some very choice words in the newcomer’s face, but his pupils slid to Red and his expression dropped back into guilt. “Kai, I’m-“

“Ah, right. Kai.”

Red really didn’t like how the stranger said his name.

“Honestly, I’m not surprised Smith landed a punch on you. If I was allowed, I’d do the same. Though I must admit, I wouldn’t be able to stop after just one; your mug just screams ‘dork alert’. Grow a little spine.”

Red found his voice. “Hey-!”

“Come on now, Kai,” the newcomer spoke over him. “Be a little smart and realize this isn’t a fight you want to pick. Can’t you see the big boys are talking?”

He caught Smith’s punch with one fist before it could hit his cheek, never taking his eyes off Red. “You know what ‘Smith’ here was saying is true. You’re just too stupid and stubborn to realize it. Come on, ‘Smith’. Let’s take this discussion outside away from these losers.”

Smith lunged at the stranger again but he merely sidestepped. “Ah ah ah, don’t want to cause a scene, do we? Would be a shame to involve these two more than we already have.”

Smith sneered at him and for a moment Red thought he’d attack him again anyways, but he bit his tongue. The two walked out of the hallway, one storming, one with all the time in the world. 

At the last moment, the newcomer turned and a chill shot through Red; he could have sworn that behind his shades, his eyes looked crimson in the light. His grin was twisted, sinister even, and Red realized with clear certainty that he wasn’t a student at this school. “I have a feeling this isn’t the last time we’ll cross paths, Kai Smith.”

As he walked off to join Smith outside, Red couldn’t help but feel as though he was right about everything.

6 beans floating down a sewer pipe on a phone tied together with string, trying their best!

Agree with number two for the movie! The twins tend to raise each other a lot with the occasional visits from Maya and Ray. Some of my personal hcs—

- Koko subs in as a second mom sometimes, especially since the twins (with m!Zane/White’s help) have ‘legally’ added the middle name ‘Montgomery’ to their records

- Red (m!Kai) has a fear of knives (he’s fine with katanas and swords, it’s specifically knives he doesn’t like) based on a hc for how he got his scar in a confrontation with the m!verse version of the ghost trio/getting jumped in the early days of the ninjaforce so when the twins cook, Cyan (m!Nya) does all the ingredient prep requiring knives ahead of time and stores the chopped fruits and vegetables and meats in Tupperwares in the fridge so Red can cook

- Speaking of! Red likes to cook (one of the city sets has minifigure information that puts cooking as one of Red’s activities), so Cyan helping with prep isn’t just to split the chores up, but to let him keep a fun hobby without needing to use a knife

- Both twins will stick their hands in boiling water when cooking because they’re unaware of their powers

- Red will pull things out of the oven with his bare hands

- Cyan has accidentally exploded a watermelon in the fridge because she got really frustrated and her powers activated

- This really just turned into cooking hcs, huh

- m!Morro helped them get motorcycle licenses despite both being 15 (Cyan really should have at least/at most a learner’s permit on her bike in the movie) so they can ride to school, either they both use Cyan’s bike or they both have one

- Seriously none of the m!ninja have a driver’s license or a pilot’s license and should not be flying/driving mechs without an adult with a legal license in the vehicle with them

- The twins modify their clothes and sometimes sit together while they add patches or intentional rips (based on how Red’s jacket seems to have the either the Ninjargon letter ‘L’ or the Ninjargon number ‘2’ on it— if it’s an L, he made that patch to support Green/m!Lloyd)

Okay. I know Kai and Nya grew up basically without their parents, finding them and saving them later on as ninjas. We all know this

But. We don’t know what Kai and Nyas relationship is with their parents in the Movie! Which I think is very interesting! We already know that Lloyd has a good relationship with his mum, she’s great! I very much like Koko ^^ so, why should Lloyd be the only one who has a different relationship/grew up different?

Sooo, I’ve had two ideas.

Number one, Kai and Nya growing up with their parents present, helping and raising them! They’re very lovely parents and basically the “cool” parents of Kai and Nyas friend group :3

Number two, I think Maya and Ray have the potential to have a type of job that doesn’t let them be home most of the time, maybe even something where they get famous for it? Idk just a thought. But. That would mean that Nya and Kai still didn’t see their parents much, and basically grew up without a real connection to them, and if they have a job that pays very good, then Nya and Kai would 100% use that to have fun with their friends >:3 and then getting clothes for undercover missions wouldn’t be a big problem too!

Also, if Ray and Maya really got famous for smth, what if they go to galas and all that and want Kai and Nya to accompany them! And the twins complain to their friends about this all the time to the point where the others just see them in a bad mood and ask “another event?”, this mainly happens when both of them are annoyed and in a bad mood

Idk, just a lil thing I thought about and might make a comic about-

What do you guys think about it?

for the character ask thing: Movie Kai and/or Show Jay

Both it is!

Starting with Red/m!Kai- actually one of my favourite characters oh my gosh I love this coffee-addicted lad-

Okay, okay, I'm biased by fanon Red. Canon Red- still pretty great (the birthday hug, the "I GOT YOU BRO" as he carries Black/m!Cole to safety, and the "I THINK I MADE IT WORSE-" are all iconic), but I'm not a fan at all about the whole 'blame Green/m!Lloyd' thing (which the entire squad did, which makes... absolutely no sense given any of their characteristics). I'm convinced Red has a concussion for the entire movie following the Meowthra Attack (I had some buddies in engineering do the math- yeah, based on the clip of Meowthra hitting his mech, that is enough force for a concussion, and Red does show a lot of concussion symptoms in the movie past that point, including delayed responses and quick changes in mood) aaaand I'm getting sidetracked

Fanon Red? Peak character, absolute blorbo. The SPBNR fandom has taken some of the few character traits the movie offered and ran. He's a coffee-drinking conspiracy theorist with seer powers and a truck-load of insecurities that loves his family very much and just wants to help- even if they end up helping him more because he gets himself into very bad situations. I can and will gush more about character studys, hcs, and the like about Red if asked

Second one- s!Jay / Robin! Very interesting. Used to be my favourite character (though I'm biased- I adore characters with lightning powers), still is one of my favourites- but mostly because of fanon. Canon... eeeeh. Toss-up. I see glimmers of some great possible character arcs in the show that are unfortunately never followed through.

Skybound? They at least went for a character arc, I'll give them that, but just... yeesh, some of it was hard to watch. I do personally wish (ha) they had instead gone for something involving social or general anxiety because as someone who digs worse holes for themself when panicking, I absolutely could relate to not wanting to tell others about a mistake you made. Anyways, getting off-topic again (alas, ideas for re-written Skybound, you will be shelved until someone asks)-

I do like the gremlin approach canon seems to be taking and the fanon definitely is. Chaotic smart dumbass, that one. Love the idea that he's actually 'in on it' in the core shorts with Wu and the principles of Spinjitzu because Wu caught him doing something he wasn't supposed to and blackmailed him into helping set everything up.

S12 / Prime Empire is also quite interesting to me because you can very much feel the echos of the early concepts for the season (with Libber) and even some Skybound trauma hints in how Jay struggles more when the others start getting cubed one by one, but it's not gone into as much as it could. Fanon seems to have a better grasp on his character, but it's such a slippery one that it's difficult to figure out. S9 handled his character surprisingly well (even if the fact he canonically lost his sanity for a short while is glossed over a bit in canon and fanon), and I'm so glad they brought back the inventor thing- even if it was just for a short while. Let him be the out of the box crazy inventions guy of the team, dammit!

Peak part of the dumbass trio though. Fantastic dynamic there. Watching him, Cole, and Kai absolutely goof off still manage to get things done is hilarious.

The name pun is seriously great too- and very easy to bootleg. I'm begging the series to let him use the alias of "Crow Runner" sometime

Overall, both cool characters, both done a bit dirty by canon, both better in fanon

Oh, and their ship name is Expresso. Because coffee.

Behold: Mer AU icedcoffeeshipping!

What is icedcoffeeshipping you may ask? Well, it’s an offshoot of oppositeshipping Show!Zane x Movie!Red

They are in love <3

(Credit to @impulsivefanwriter for the Leviathan Movie!Kai design)

HE LOOKS AMAZING THANK YOU SO MUCH AHHHHHHHH

Some theories:

The noodle shop is a mafia front

There's a red-eyed cryptid haunting the boatyard

The museum curators can actually control time

"Nya I swear I saw that nice Elvis-like guy by the bird and flower shop- I think he runs a dojo- talking to a tiger. Like an actual tiger. In the city. Like the animal. In the city. And this guy talked to it like he was talking with an old friend."

Cliff Whoredon Gordon is a terrible dad that doesn't pay his child support (proven)

Ghosts. Just ghosts.

Mothman exists

Silly lego drawing request- Movie!Kai had way too much coffee and has gotten himself tangled in red string from his conspiracy corkboard (the one where he pins notes such as "the noodle shop is a mafia front" and "there's a half-bird person that flies over the school sometimes while croo-ing like a pigeon")

hehe nothing too crazy-

I added a few other theories I thought Kai might have. Teehee

Drew an AU version of movie!Kai (Red). In this AU, all the members of the Dorksquad (who have not met each other yet) are forced to be evil and work for various villain groups.

Red is unfortunately part of Char’s evil magic Fire Snakes gang, and is partly transformed into a snake with magic to match. He gets to see his sister, who’s the High Priestess of the Merlopian Wojira Cult, once in a while and just wants things to go back to the way they were before.

In the SPBNR AU version, Smith (show!Kai) finds out about the Dorksquad and proceeds to rescue all of them while introducing them to each other

Drew Cyan (movie!Nya) from the Dorksquad Forced to be Evil AU!

In this AU, all the members of the Dorksquad (who have not met each other yet) are forced to be evil and work for various villain groups.

Cyan was kidnapped by a Merlopian cult that worships Wojira and forced to be their high priestess lest they use Red (m!Kai) instead. She gets to visit her twin occasionally and plans for the day they can both escape unharmed

And yes, the Maya parallels in the outfit/hairstyle were intentional, Maya and Ray were involved in the Wojira Cult and the Fire Snakes before and tried to keep them away from their kids (this failed)

Kai

Bonus Smith Twins parallels under the cut