HAPPY BIRTHDAY To The Best Green Boy!!

i really love the ninjago movie the most. u know why? Because Lloyd is the happiest and he allows himself to be himself, if that makes any sense. i mean, i do love the series, but just, lloyd deserves a happiness without constant trauma 🫠

and just wanting to draw green bean, i ended up drawing the whole team. which took me almost two weeks. yeah.

I think that probably the most realistic scene in Crystalized is the fight between Jay and Kai.

They're both stressed out. They're both grieving. They're both trying to cope, just in a different way, and sometimes, grief can get the best of us.

But I'm actually surprised that Kai hadn't snapped sooner. Because Nya, the reason he joined the ninja in the first place, Nya, his sister who he basically raised, his family – is dead.

And Jay has the audacity to act as if no one else cared that she was gone. As if he was the only one affected.

Kai is trying to hold it together. He's trying to move on, because he knows he can't change what Nya has done. And he knows that Jay is grieving too and he does his best to not blame him.

Yes, he accidentally knocked the glass of water, but he instantly apologized for that, knowing what it means to Jay.

In other words, I'm on Kai's side on this one. I think that he had every right to point out Jay's bullshit. He should have done it sooner.

in season 16 in finale episodes the scene  where  skylor was making noodles for people in the newspaper warehouse.  kai was cheering everyone up and singing and passing out noodles and it made me so happy. like look at him. look at our fire ninja. he is so loving. i love kai so much

You know, the saddest thing about being head-over-heals for the RGB sibs is that you know the show probably won't fulfill that need for us... no will they have Lloyd call Wu "uncle" again... why are we losing so many cool familial things here??? I just want Kai and Nya and Lloyd to interact and be siblings... :(

Why Kai's not allowed to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters

Kai: These are for you [gives a few mini candy bars to a kid dressed as Cole]

Kai: Here ya go, kiddo [gives a bag of cookies to a kid dressed as Zane]

Kai: For you two [hands two full size candy bars to two little girls dressed as Samurai X]

Kai: Here you go, take these little guy [gives six mini bags of Skittles and a full size candy bar to a kid dressed as Lloyd]

Kai: Here kid. This is from my friend Zane [gives an apple to a kid dressed as Jay]

Kai: And for this awesome little dude... Bam! [Gives a whole unopened bag of candy to a kid dressed in a Fire Ninja costume]

Nya: KAI! STOP DOING THAT!

I know a lot of people are saying that Kai and Nya had a babysitter and whatever, but guess what.. who cares? Allow me to explain:

A Babysitter is someone who comes for a short amount of time to take care of kids. A babysitter needs money. This ‘babysitter’ definitely had her own family and I don’t think a random stranger or even if the babysitter was a good neighbor would raise someone else’s kids and provide for them and support them and love them for free. She most likely came in only to feed them, and left. Or left the minute Kai turned ten. Maybe she gave up when no more money was coming her way, and she only came to feed them for a year and that’s it. We don’t even have enough information to conclude any of this, especially not if she was a good, loving babysitter, which she was likely not. Because if she was, Kai and Nya would be mentally healthier.

When kids are growing, they look up to their parents, because they are emotionally connected with them. Kids mimic emotions from their parents, and look up at them for validation of their own. Nya was really young when Maya and Ray were captured. Kai was very young too, but old enough to know what love is because he most likely remembered his parents loving him. Now on the other hand Nya probably had little to no memory recall of her parents at all, much less the idea of what ‘love’ is.

When Maya and Ray were captured Kai was the only person left who Nya was emotionally connected with. Kai was the only person who could fill the role of being a loving person in her life, someone she could relay on and trust with vulnerability. I don’t think some children would just suddenly trust a random adult in their life, especially not Kai (remember how hesitant and suspicious he was when he first saw Wu). 

If this babysitter was that awesome, dependable, or trustworthy, Kai would not have trust issues, Nya would not need to feel independent, etc etc. Again, Both siblings would have a little more healthier mindsets.

Kai, as a child, loved Nya since the beginning. When Maya and Ray disappeared, he did raise her. You could interpret this sentence in many ways- raised her by love, raised her emotionally, raised her by providing for them both, raised her by protecting her. I strongly believe in every one of these and more, but this furthers on to my point: babysitter or no babysitter, at the end of the day, Kai did raise Nya. And I think for a small child who was just as lost and scared, he did his very best.

A child forms their idea of love normally by looking at their parents relationship, and by observing how parents treat them. Kai had a slight foundation in this already, since he loved Nya since the beginning. Nya however, as I mentioned before, likely had little to no memories of her parents. So, everything Nya learned about love, how to love, etc was from Kai. And with this, Nya had understood and developed her own love languages, and proceeded to use what she learned from Kai and reciprocate it. This was undoubtedly Kai’s biggest mental support during his childhood. And with what she learned from Kai, she started to also love Jay.

its.... flashback time!!!

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1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 dialogue written by me and @shadesofvermillionvoid , art by me ANYWAY HI THIS IS PART 4 WEEEEEE this one is by far my favorite HDJKWDW, hope the wait for this was worth it. this one is only longer because i wanted to keep the whole flashback sequence in one post PLUS the quick palette change HDJKWKJDW, excited to see what you think and hey! what corrupted kai says in the panel before the palette change is actually "Don't you wanna know what it's like, Lloyd? To be destroyed by your OWN power?!" just... so you know :) (please dont tag this as gr//nf//e, i see them as brothers)

rgb sibling doodles

my favorite thing about ninjago is that they are selfish heroes. not for themselves, but for each other. they prioritize each others' lives over saving the world so often... it just feels so human.

really hope ninjago united series is gonna be with our ninja

it cant be over...

gosh my anxiety is KILLING me