also how many AUs do you have in your brain?? because I'm betting there's a LOT and I would love to hear some lore (I'm gonna conspiracy theory the shit out of these)
Thatās a loaded question man but uh Iāll try to list them. Ig this is like a master post for my AUās lol. Ninjago AUās alone:
1. To Kill A Legend. Ninjago x Breath of the Wild fusion fic where Lloyd is the Prince of Hyrule and has to save all his dead siblings from giant mechanical dragon monsters and also kick Overlord ass. My current fic ofc š«¶
a. Calamity Hero: au of TKAL where the Shrine of Resurrection doesnāt work and Lloyd is reincarnated. New Lloyd has to deal with everyone treating him like his predecessor. Takes place only 16 years after the Calamity and not canon
b. Hero of Legend (is it an au if itās canon to the main au?) basically just the first ever hero of destiny
c. Hero of Time (canon to TKAL): traveled the time stream to fight the Time Twins and man am I tired of the word time. Doomed by the narrative
d. True Prince (name pending/semi-canon to TKAL I havenāt decided) wherein everyone thinks Morro is the hero of destiny but itās actually Lloyd, who was adopted into the royal family
e. Oni Hero (canon to TKAL): a hero of destiny who beat back an invading Oni army. TKAL Lloydās direct predecessor
2. The Graveyard Shift aka the love of my life. Modern au with ghost magic. Lloyd, Harumi, and Akita are all best friends - Conduit, Quiet One, and Red are mortal enemies. The unbreakable bonds of love ig. I WILL be writing this trust. (It uh. It has a playlist. Some songs are just for vibes, some directly reflect the characters and no I wonāt be saying which is which)
a. Attack Dog au. Harumi blackmails Akita into helping her kidnap the Conduit. My favorite spin-off of the graveyard shift
b. Bad Ending - harumi makes the wrong decision in either one of two situations and dooms the narrative
c. Obligatory swap AU where they swap places lol
d. Mentor AU where Mystake isnāt killed and lives to mentor Lloyd
e. Sidekick AU. Basically what was the original version of TGS where instead of trying to murder him, Red is basically Lloydās animal sidekick. Sheās only ever in her wolf form while theyāre dealing with the Quiet One and he has no idea sheās a person. He thinks sheās a weirdly liminal dog or smth idk
f. Painted Skin AU. Harumi is a Painted Skin Demon, so she doesnāt have to murder people to turn into them. Being a demon somehow makes her more redeemable
g. Jfc this is getting ridiculous okay uhm. Enemy of My Enemy AU (name pending) where Harumi snatches Lloyd before any of the Conduit-Quiet One-Red shenanigans happen, Akita still figures out her best friends are a cultist and the Conduit respectively and goes on a reluctant mission to save Lloyd, Lloyd tries his hand at redeeming Harumi while trapped in a cult, and Harumi realizes how bad she is at her job. I hate myself.
3. Sword and Shield. In an effort to use his sonās power for himself, evil demigod of destruction Garmadon turns Lloyd into a living weapon. Brad finds Lloyd in an abandoned monastery 50 years later and they fall in love on a quest to break his curse. Fluffy ā¤ļø comes with a playlist
a. Armor AU. Garmadon manages to hold onto Lloyd and use Magic Sword Demigod to conquer most of Ninjago. Brad, part of a rebel force, is sent in as a spy for an upcoming assassination on the Emperor. In a twist of fate, he ends up accidentally kidnapping Garmadonās most prized and valuable weapon.
b. Fuckin uh Helm AU idk Iām trying to theme these aus on weaponry. I blame Missa for this. Basically Lloyd doesnāt get to shapeshift into human form, heās legit just. Stuck as a sword but he can appear as like. A reflection almost? Like the image of a person in the blade of the sword and Brad can talk to him. Brad is the only one who can hear/see him, and Lloyd is straight up just Stuck like that. Fuck me and my adhd goddammit
4. Magical Girl AU consisting of 3 installments (potentially 4 when I get my shit together)
-> Pretty Pretty Please I Wanna Be A Magical Girl! Origin story of the core five (OG 4 + Nya) and how they all became Magical Girls (this isnāt a genderswap au Magical Girl is just the job title)
-> Pretty Pretty Please I Donāt Wanna Be A Celestial Guardian! Lloyd centric but sometimes also everyone else centric. Lloyd really doesnāt want to be a Magical Girl - unfortunately, everyone else does
-> Pretty Pretty Please I Donāt Wanna Be A Wishing Star! Lloyd is finally a Magical Girl and constantly duking it out with evils beyond human comprehension or smth
5. Crossroads AU. Instead of staying at the monastery post-merge, Lloyd goes out to find the rest of his family himself. Along the way, he adopts a new friend group of one-off minor characters from older seasons
6. Who You Gonā Call? Morro isnāt a bad guy in Posession and he and Lloyd team up to trick/sabotage the other ghosts and stop the Preeminent before she can bust out
7. The Final Phonecall. Not my au, it belongs to @thegreengoose22 but Iāve been writing the fic for it
8. Motherfucker. Okay uhhhhhh Key to your Dragonās Heart AU (yes I know the name is corny idgaf) wherein Lloyd Garmadon is a very powerful, very beautiful witch everyone wants to marry, and Brad Tudabone is not exempt from that list. This is slightly crack and also based off that old tumblr post about the shapeshifting cat witch
9. Coat Rack. Jfc okay Brad meets Lloyd, the restricted and super unwilling spouse of some rich fuck who stole his animal pelt, effectively trapping him in marriage, and helps get the pelt back and falls in love along the way. Itās a selkie au idk what else you want from me
10. Iām accepting my fate: Princess Bride AU. Itās the Princess Bride but with Greenflower idk what else I can say here
11. Bedrock. A random Steven Universe au that hasnāt left me alone for over 3 years but I will literally never write. I go insane making up Gem culture and religion and a whole war doing a societal reformation- I was crazy. Iām still crazy. Donāt ever think Iām not crazy
12. The Thing About Mom. Another Steven Universe au where Lars died during the Gem war on earth and Rose brought him back as a pink zombie. He and Steven meet and become brothers
13. (Jfc-) okay Full Diamond AU where Steven is raised on Homeworld as Pink Diamond, and utterly spoiled but ultimately trapped just like his mom was. For his birthday - or whatever the equivalent is on Homeworld - heās given a very special present: a human named āCon-nieā. Who is. Less than pleased.
Iām. Iām insane. I have a lot of AUs. I have too many aus. These are just the ones I actively think about. Iāll answer asks about any one of these I love them so much you donāt UNDERSTAND
