i love that in the ninjago fandom we truly are treating the characters like barbie dolls and doing our own shit with them. you can just completely ignore plot points or seasons and nobody gaf. sure give that character traits they don’t have in the show. yes those two obscure characters who’ve never met would be in love. tell me about your au where your favorite side character goes on a life changing adventure that never happens in canon. make up new lore about a species in the series. create new storylines for the characters. make new characters. it’s the wild west out here
Okay, I’m not gonna take up too much time but let me explain: I had the thought that as Lloyd gets older there is a part of him that wants a normal life, and long story short I made an oc Corlette and I have fallen in love with her.
So here are the story beats: This is during Dragons Rising, Corlette used to be in a cult that used the concepts of nun and sisters, Lloyd and Corlette met when Lloyd ended up on the doorsteps of the cult when he was gravely injured, Corlette join the ninja gang after cult shenanigans, She takes care of the monastery with (or in place of) Mr. Frohicky, Corlette has confused her love to Lloyd yet hasn’t gotten a response, and idk how we got to the plot of this fic we just did, kidnapping/running-away shenanigans. Enjoy!
“ARE YOU TWO OKAY!”
Whoever is above… grandpappy maybe… don’t let these kids change.
Lloyd chuckled, looking at Arin and Sora’s worried expressions from his phone screen, “Yeah, Corlette and I are fine.”
“What the hell did those guys want with Corlette anyway?” Cole asked.
The blonde leader sighed, “Aftermath of the cult, I guess, they only referred to her as sister Corlette or sister Clover.”
“Oh, I thought Clover was your nickname for her,” Kai laughed.
“Shush,” Lloyd huffed.
“Where are you two right now?” Cole asked, after elbowing Kai in the ribs, “It looks gloomy.”
“We found a city in the middle of a forest,” Lloyd began, “It’s obviously not a part of Ninjago a merged realm. It started raining hard once ever since Corlette and I got out of that stupid cave we found the closest building for shelter, which happened to be a hotel.”
“Atta boy!” Kai exclaimed before being smacked upside the head by a hard nindroid hand.
“Do you even have money for a hotel room right now?” Sora asked.
Lloyd shook his head, “No, but our tales of heroism have reached here, we have gotten the room for free…” he looked at the room through the balcony door glass, he was given a very nice and most likely very expensive, deluxe suite, “It’s a little too big for my liking and I mean we are only here to get our clothes dry.”
“I would advise against that Lloyd,” Zane remarked off-screen.
Lloyd sighed, “Zane, I’ve had enough bad news for one day, don’t give me more.”
“Apologize, but—”
“I don’t like that but.”
“There is a storm system heading start for that area,” Zane informed, “It would be best for the two of you to stay put and leave with the storm passes.”
“Send me radar and I’ll make that decision for myself!”
He could hear Zane sigh, “You are going to agree with me, especially since you jumped on that motorcycle of yours,” the nindroid scoffed, “like some kind of manic.”
The weather radar is covered in oranges, reds, and even purples where Lloyd and Corlette are located, “Well, shit,” the green ninja sighed.
“So, you agree with me,” Zane replied smugly, pocking his head in frame.
“Look on the bright side Lloyd you’ll get to spend alone time with your clover~” Kai mocked.
“Stop it,” Lloyd huffed, his cheeks heating up in the view of everyone in the hanger bay.
“Alright, everyone out!” Zane ordered.
“Stay safe, Lloyd,” Arin commented as everyone headed for the elevator.
It’s now only Zane and Lloyd, the ice ninja in full view of the camera, “You sure you can’t come and rescue us?”
“Sadly no.” Zane answered, “that would put us in more danger.”
Lloyd sighed, looking out into the large city in the middle of the forest, from the covered balcony, watching the gray clouds get even grayer as the rain continued to pour down, “I don’t want to be alone with her right now,” Lloyd confessed, “I feel horrible.”
Zane hummed. Lloyd had confided in Zane more than once about Corlette ever since she confessed, she had feelings for him.
“I mean what are we going to talk about, we’ve already had the gut-punching conversation now it’s going to be awkward,” Lloyd groaned.
“Maybe it will be good if you two are truly alone. You two will be able to properly talk. Maybe work out your feelings with her.”
Lloyd huffed, “I hope you are right. Because if you aren’t this is only going to get worse.”
“I’ll keep an eye on the weather, and keep you updated,” Zane remarked.
“Thanks, Zane,” Lloyd replied, “See ya whenever we get out of this place.”
“See you soon.”
Their call is then disconnected, and Lloyd went back inside the shower tap is no longer running unlike before when he went out on the balcony. Corlette exited the bathroom, in a dark-colored robe and her hair wrapped in a towel.
“That bathroom is the nicest bathroom I’ve ever been in,” she commented.
“I can only imagine,” Lloyd retorted watching her take her hair down from the towel wrap, her willow and dem spring hair falling her hair back and hitting her shoulders.
“Thank you for saving me… once again.”
“You say that as if I wouldn’t.”
Corlette laughed, “That’s not what I might.”
“So, what did you mean?” Lloyd asked.
She stood there her head tilted to the side with a hand full of her drying with the towel, “You came to save me.”
“I heard no difference.”
“Of course, you didn’t,” Corlette giggled, “I put some towels in the towel warmer for you, for whatever you want to do, my clothes are in the dryer, so just toss your stuff in there and hit start."
“Uh, it wouldn’t hurt to wash our clothes maybe, we’ll be here the whole night most likely,” Lloyd explained, walking toward the bathroom.
“Well, that sucks.” Corlette sighed, “At least the room is nice.”
Lloyd hummed as he entered the bathroom, getting ready to jump in the shower, ready to overthink his feelings for Corlette and every interaction they’d ever had.
“Lloyd, I love you!”
It is not that he doesn’t love her. There is a part of me that has fallen in love with her in the time that they’ve known each other, the past 6 months. Yet he couldn’t answer her,
“I don’t need a response.”
That just made it even worse, he knew he looked stupid, and he didn’t even seem himself. That night, in the training yard, staring at Corlette his red and green heterochromatic eyes big and wide looking at her shocked, because she said something that he never thought he would ever hear, and then said she didn’t need a fucking response.
It’s rough for a man who doesn’t believe he can be loved by someone so caring and thoughtful.
Damn, shits rough when your heart has been destroyed by an evil princess.
Once he’s done brooding in the shower, he wrapped himself in the same dark-colored robe Corlette that the hotel provided and started the dyer. Exiting the bathroom find Corlette lying on the L-shaped couch left of the balcony door.
Look down at her as she lay on the couch with her eyes closed as she was meditating, “You okay, clover?” He asked, knowing she wasn’t asleep by her crossing and uncrossing her ankles.
“Yeah, only have a bunch of burses and broken nails,” she answered, after opening her beautiful latte-colored eyes and holding up her right hand showing off the broken nail on her ring finger, “your hair looks nice like that.”
“What? Wet,” he scoffed as she got up and off the couch.
Corlette giggled, looking over at the large bed in the suite, “So, I guess we are sharing a bed.”
“Huh?”
“One bed,” she remarked pointing to the bed whilst looking back at him, “but it’s large enough for us not to touch.”
Lloyd’s cheeks became flushed at her comment. But in truth, he would love nothing more than to lay with her and hold her.
“Unless you want to touch then, I can kick you in the middle of the night,” she joked making Lloyd chuckle slightly.
Corlette moved her way over to that large bed and laid down before sighing loudly, “Thankfully, we are here for free,” she mentioned, “I can’t imagine what this room would cost, especially with a bed like this.”
“A bed can’t be that comfortable,” Lloyd observed her seemingly sink into the bed mattress and pillowy cloud-like bedding.
“Come here then, savior,” Corlette replied, “You’ll be eating your words.”
Lloyd sighed. making his way over, he’s going to get himself in trouble with this whole bed-sharing situation.
“Holy shit, this bed is nice.”
Corlette giggled.
“I’m sorry,” Lloyd sighed after a few minutes of lying there in silence.
“For what?”
“Letting you get kidnapped.”
Corlette scoffed, “You did not let me get kidnapped.”
“If you weren’t with us—”
“AH-NO!” She exclaimed sitting put then looking at Lloyd, a finger in his face, “You and your little ninja family are not the reason a broken faction of a sacrificing cult kidnapped me! Remember, I was a part of the cult; you helped me out of it! AND YOU!” She poked him in the chest, “Jumped on a motorcycle to save me from being sacrificed, again. You are not a fault!”
Lloyd sighed with a slight smile on his face, at her praise, “If anything I am the one a fault, I was roaming around the crossroads without a care if I was noticed or recognized,” she added.
“Hey now! You were running our errands,” Lloyd retorted, “How about we both say we are to blame and make it even.”
Corlette giggled before grabbing a large strand of her lengthy hair, “Maybe I need to change my hair color or haircut, It’s very distinct.”
“No,” Lloyd sighed, twirling a strand of her hair before his sigh turned into a bit of a whine, “No, don’t do that, hair is perfect.”
“I shouldn’t have mentioned changing my hair color with the man who loves the color green.”
Lloyd continued to play with her hair as she sat next to him, “What would you even color your hair anyway?”
“I don’t know,” She muttered, “Brown?”
“Mhm.” Lloyd hummed, attempting to picture her with Brown hair, “I think you are more than gorgeous with your hair the way it is now. But if you had to you’d still be just as gorgeous if your hair was brown.”
Lay his life in front of the First Spinjitzu Master, his own grandfather, he’s in love with this woman!
“You are being quiet the flirt,” Corlette remarked as fingers left the tips of her hair.
“I can’t help it,” Lloyd admitted, “You’re gorgeous.”
“I bet you tell that to everyone you save,” she added, jokingly.
It made him think for a second, made him think of Harumi. Did he ever call her gorgeous? He did think at one point that the Jade Princess was beautiful, but he could never recall ever telling Harumi that she was beautiful.
“No, you are the only one,” Lloyd replied softly, “…Gorgeous.”
“You are getting into dangerous waters, Savior,” Corlette commented.
“I would say we are already in dangerous waters,” Lloyd retorted, his hand resting on the side of her forearm, “Ya’ know, since of the rain.”
After the mention of the rain, a loud clap of thunder made Corlette jump, as the few lights that were on in the room flickered, “That was loud,” she whimpered.
“Weather’s getting worse,” Lloyd muttered, his thumb stroking her forearm.
“How bad is it supposed to get?”
Lloyd reached for his phone allowing her to see the weather radar Zane sent him, “Oh no,” she muttered, “Lloyd this is terrible.”
“I know, that’s why we can’t go home,” he mentioned, as she handed him back his phone.
“I hope my phone can be fixed,” She commented,
“It may be something below Zane’s pay grade, but it can be fixed.”
Corlette sighed laying on her stomach elbows digging into the mattress as her first rest on her chest whilst continuing a soft conversation full of meaningless small talk with Lloyd, as the weather continued to roar on outside as the night grew later and the skies grew darker.
Once the power went out because of the bad weather, the two of them only got closer under the cloud-like sheets on the big hotel bed, and it wasn’t even on purpose.
In the darkness of the hotel room, the light coming from Lloyd’s glowing eyes, Corlette giggled brushing strands of his hair out of his face, as he basically laid under her. “What’s funny?” he asked.
“Your eyes,” Corlette answered, “I never realized how bright they glowed until now.”
As Lloyd continued to stare at her and think about her. Not only because she was there and they were talking to one another, he was barely paying attention to what they were talking about anymore, but thinking about how close they were, how soft she was being and speaking, how she touched him.
“Corlette…” Lloyd sighed, tucking her hair behind her ear, “You know, don’t you?”
“Know what?” She asked, enjoying his hand creasing her cheek.
“Corlette,” he groaned, “You can’t be serious.”
“I have no idea what you are talking about,” she replied with a wicked smirk on her face.
Lloyd huffed painfully aware of how close they both were, “Would you like me to say it again?” she asked.
“Please!”
Their foreheads rested comfortably against each other, “I love you, Lloyd.”
Those words made him feel like he was floating, and her closeness made him want her to be even closer. They stay their foreheads resting against for a good minute, eyes closed, basking in the comfort.
“You don’t nee-efm!”
He didn’t want to hear her say she didn’t need a response, not he couldn’t hear it again. Kissing her softly, and pulling her as close as she could be, Lloyd could run a marathon in this horrible ass weather at the rate he’s going.
“Fuck, I love you,” Lloyd exhaled, breathing against her lips.
Corlette smiled, “Thank you,” she cooed tracing the scar under his left eye.
“I’m sorry it took me so long to say it,” he breathed, kissing her knuckles on her left hand as she continued to trace the imperfection on his face.
“I only confessed to you maybe a couple of months ago, that doesn’t matter,” Corlette retorted.
“It’s hard,” the blond man lamented, “When you told me you loved me, I wanted to tell you that I adored you just the same, yet I couldn’t.”
“Lloyd, It’s alright,” the greenette breathed, “Your actions speak louder than your words.”
“I saved you!” Lloyd huffed smacking his forehead, making Corlette nod, “I saved you!”
“You got now, lover?”
“I’m an idiot,” he groaned.
“No, you’re not,” she laughed.
“I love you,” Lloyd yearned, rubbing up and down her arm.
“I love you too,” Corlette longed kissing him softly.
“You called me lover, is that something that going that’s going to stick like “savior”?”
“If you want it too.”
Lloyd held her close as they slept after kissing her a little more of course, groaning at the sound of his phone ringing only a few hours after they both fell asleep, “What,” he grumbled, answering the call.
“Good morning, Lloyd,” Zane replied.
“Zane, if you have called me this early just tell me that there is more shit weather—”
“I was calling to inform you that the weather has cleared up and it should be safe for you and Corlette to begin traveling by 10 which happens to be the check-out time for the hotel the two of you are staying in.”
Right, he and Corlette have to leave and go back to the monastery, no longer alone together, “Thanks Zane, I’ll call you when we are on the road.”
“You’re welcome,” Zane replied, before hanging up.
Corlette groaned into Lloyd's chest, “Who was that?’ she asked.
“Zane, we can leave soon,” Lloyd answered.
She went to get up and gathered what little things they had so they could leave yet she was pulled back into Lloyd’s chest, “I said soon, not now,” he complained.
“I understand that but—” Her attempt to protest is silenced by his lips.
“I should have gotten myself kidnapped a month ago if it would end like this,” Corlette joked against his lips before kissing him again.
“No, I should have told you I love you from the start,” Lloyd retorted, “More maybe we should have just been caught in the rain.”
Corlette giggled playing with his hair, “It’s going to be hard to get peace like this when we get back.”
“We could always come back here if we are able,” Lloyd remarked.
“I like that idea, just not when it’s a horrible downpour.”
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