Do you think that Lloyd randomly lore drops on his kids? Like, his dad lore is crazy for Arin, Sora, and Frak. He just has SO MUCH. We see a hint of this in the show, but not the full extent it could be with so many opportunities.
Arin: so, like, when I was in the Cursed Realm I met the old elemental master of wind.
Lloyd: Not really. Sort of? I was possessed by him for about two weeks? It was a whole thing.
Sora: I wonder if Riyu will ever make some other dragon friends.
Lloyd: well, he has me I guess.
Lloyd, laughing: I know I'm not full-blooded, but I'll have to do, right?
Lloyd, watching Frak train in the background: you know, I always felt really bad about all the things I did with the serpentine, especially after Harumi, but now I think I see that it was good decision after all.
Arin: what did you do with the serpentine?
Lloyd: oh, I freed them all from their tombs when I was a kid.
Arin: . . . they were in tombs? How were they alive?
Lloyd: some of them weren't. The entire anaconrai tribe cannibalized each other because they got so hungry.
Sora: how many times are you gonna die, Lloyd?
Frak: we’re never beating this game, are we?
Lloyd: prime empire is a very difficult game! And I’m still better at it than Kai.
Lloyd: yeah . . . I mean, he died before me when we got sucked into this game, so I think that counts.
Sora: you got sucked into a game?
Frak: oh yeah, I think I’ve heard of this . . .
Lloyd: all of us died except for Jay.
Arin, whispering to Lloyd: we can't be required to eat this—it's torture.
Lloyd, also whispering: true. not even prison is worse than Cole's cooking.
Sora: so I found this super old commercial online—
Frak: and you found this to be relevant information?
Sora: well, it has Lloyd and the others in it.
Frak: what?
Lloyd, blushing: ugh. That was back when Dareth was our manager. I never wanted to do those.
Frak: you had a manager? What, were you like celebrities?
Sora, looking it up: whoa. Wait. You were on magazines? Wow, these are sexist.
Lloyd, taking the phone from her: okay, that’s enough of that.
Arin: I can't be a ninja, Lloyd. I don't have any elemental abilities!
Lloyd: yeah, but I was still a ninja when I lost my elemental abilities.
Arin: when you did what now?
Lloyd: oh, um, they had to remove my elemental powers in order to bring me back to life. And in a tournament thing, once.
Arin: what do you mean bring you back to life?
Sora: it's just so hard having parents who think they're doing what's right for you, when they don't even know you at all.
Lloyd: yeah. I get what you mean. Like, I know my mom really was trying to save me from the prophecy that said I had to kill my dad, but then she just left me at a boarding school and didn't come back. I know sometimes they think they're doing things for the greater good, but they still can hurt you.
Sora: wait your mom just . . . left you? At a boarding school? For how long?
Lloyd: until I was around eight?
Sora: well, when did she bring you there?
Lloyd: oh, uh, I don't actually remember.
Sora: ooookay, well was it a boarding school well-equipped for raising children?
Lloyd: It was school that made kids into criminals.
Sora: doesn't ninjago have an adoption system?
Lloyd: um, I think so, yes? My ex was adopted.
Arin: I found these old movies in a drawer, want to watch them?
Lloyd: oh yeah, I used to love those.
They start watching starfarer.
Lloyd: the lighting is kind of inaccurate. It was a lot darker when I was on the moon.
Arin: you went to the moon? Why did you go to the moon?
Lloyd: my dad—well—it doesn’t really matter now.
Sora: did you guys always have this random monastery? Cuz that’s not really a normal thing for people to just have.
Lloyd: no, it burned down a few times.
Lloyd: yeah. We mostly lived on The Bounty. Except when it got destroyed.
Sora: where did you live then?
Lloyd: I lived in an apartment when I was around nine.
Sora: that’s weirdly normal for you.
Lloyd: and Nya and I lived in a trash depot once.
Frak: um, do you happen to have any dating advice? For no particular reason, and definitely not because I want to ask out a certain pink haired genius without seeming insincere but also without coming off as desperate? Hypothetically?
Lloyd: I'm not very good with romance.
Frak: but you've dated, right? You know how to ask someone out?
Lloyd: well, I haven't actually dated before, and the only girl I ever tried to date turned out to want to kill me for inadvertently killing her parents. And so she pretended to be in love with me, only to use me in a seance to bring back an evil version of my dead father. She took control of Ninjago city with him, and I thought that she killed all my friends for about three weeks. Then she died.
Lloyd: then she came back to life and captured me for a while. I think I might still have feelings for her actually. I don't know.
Frak: so, I'm just gonna go ask Cole.
Sora: Arin, that pie is way too hot to eat right now. The filling is basically lava.
Arin: volcanos wish they tasted this good.
Lloyd: I almost died in a volcano once.
Sora: where haven’t you almost died at this point?!
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