Assume I Know What I'm Doing

Lloyd and Lord G are my coping mechanism. I'm also on FFNet and AO3 And yeah, I can't draw.

[namelysane]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 6/32 Fandom: LEGO Ninjago Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lloyd Garmadon & Lord Garmadon, Lord Garmadon & Sensei Wu (Ninjago), Cole & Lloyd Garmadon & Kai & Nya & Jay Walker & Zane, Nya/Jay Walker, P.I.X.A.L./Zane (Ninjago), Kai/Skylor (Ninjago) Characters: Lloyd Garmadon, Lord Garmadon (Ninjago), Sensei Wu (Ninjago), Kai (Ninjago), Nya (Ninjago), Jay Walker, Cole (Ninjago), Zane (Ninjago), P.I.X.A.L. (Ninjago), Misako (Ninjago), First Spinjitzu Master (Ninjago), (mentioned), Skylor (Ninjago), The Serpentine (Ninjago), Wu's demon bird of a chicken Additional Tags: Lloyd Garmadon Needs a Hug, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Humor, Age Regression/De-Aging, Father-Son Relationship, actually it's an awkward father-son relationship relationship but whatever, Brotherly Angst, i wrote this cause i missed Garmadon, lego please bring him back, Adopted Sibling Relationship, Team as Family, rated teen for cursing, Cross-Posted on FanFiction.Net Summary:

After the events of S11, the ninja are back to being whole once more. With Zane once again himself and Aspheera having been locked away, they're ready more than ever for whatever that'll come next.

...but to be fair, being ready for THIS was impossible.

Please, how were they even supposed to know that a teenage Lord Garmadon would end up at the monastery?

[ninjago-calendar]

Happy holidays, Ninjago fandom!

Here's a little present for you all: the 2024 Ninjago Calendar has now been officially released!

This year we tried a different format so please do let us know your thoughts on it 👀

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Cover art: @kumamooko

Jan: @namelysane (fic), @astatine-17 (art)

Feb: @vylad-makes-art & @the-duke-of-kansas (fic), @rottedsoulx (art)

Mar: @crystallizabethine & @roximiscellaneous---artstuffs (fic), @nin-jay-go (art)

Apr: @nalascat (fic), @themaroonlightning (art)

May: @xanketori (fic), @fruitnoot (art)

Jun: @netbug009 (fic), @greenbean-4ever (art)

Jul: @unknownsigils (fic), @starwhipnspin (art)

Aug: @legonerd (fic), @nutellabit (art)

Oct: @fandomsareforlife (fic), @colesstar (art)

Nov: @ravenrambles6229 (fic), @glitcheejelly (art)

Dec: @theodoratheshorty (fic), @ratsarecute4 (art)

[namelysane]

I was just thinking the other day about what would happen if you showed a 6 year old from 2011 the future seasons of Ninjago —yes, while there are many much more interesting developments such as Nya being a ninja and Cole learning more about his mother — you're all forgetting another, very crucial thing that seriously changed.

Lloyd and Garmadon's relationship.

Imagine some kid happily watching Garmadon rescue his son from the Fire Temple and thinking wow, for Ninjago's greatest villain, he isn't that bad of a dad. His own son's gonna be his downfall and he's actually proud of him for that. Wish he's my dad.

And then you show them crystalized and they're like:

...what the fuck happened.

[untitled38949]

Ninjago AU where everything is the same but Garmadon wasn't purified after the Final Battle.

[greenninja-irl]

...... I come home. without a snake. and with three bites

I don't think they were bites of appreciation :( bye noodle noodle. leaving you in the woods. Going to treat this stuff now

[greenninja-irl]

does anyone know how to treat bug bites but from a really really big bug which isnt a bug

[ghostly-one]

just call Zane

[greenninja-irl]

oh yeah that makes sense

...but then he'll ask me where i got these bites from and i'll have to tell him I picked up a big snake in the woods and i named it noodle noodle

[namelysane]

Hate to break it to you, but that snake is the descendant of the Great Devourer. It was nice knowing you as a hero Lloyd.

[greenninja-irl]

oh well. I'll pass down my ninja-ness to some little kid like what happened to me

[namelysane]

that's child endangerment

[greenninja-irl]

i was child endangered

[once-bitten-become-evil]

no no no you were bit?!

[namelysane]

He's a danger to us all now :(

[greenninja-irl]

...... I come home. without a snake. and with three bites

I don't think they were bites of appreciation :( bye noodle noodle. leaving you in the woods. Going to treat this stuff now

[greenninja-irl]

does anyone know how to treat bug bites but from a really really big bug which isnt a bug

[ghostly-one]

just call Zane

[greenninja-irl]

oh yeah that makes sense

...but then he'll ask me where i got these bites from and i'll have to tell him I picked up a big snake in the woods and i named it noodle noodle

[namelysane]

Hate to break it to you, but that snake is the descendant of the Great Devourer. It was nice knowing you as a hero Lloyd.

[greenninja-irl]

oh well. I'll pass down my ninja-ness to some little kid like what happened to me

[namelysane]

that's child endangerment

[greenninja-irl]

...... I come home. without a snake. and with three bites

I don't think they were bites of appreciation :( bye noodle noodle. leaving you in the woods. Going to treat this stuff now

[greenninja-irl]

does anyone know how to treat bug bites but from a really really big bug which isnt a bug

[ghostly-one]

just call Zane

[greenninja-irl]

oh yeah that makes sense

...but then he'll ask me where i got these bites from and i'll have to tell him I picked up a big snake in the woods and i named it noodle noodle

[namelysane]

Hate to break it to you, but that snake is the descendant of the Great Devourer. It was nice knowing you as a hero Lloyd.

[namelysane]

Istg, season 5 feels like the writers realized the fandom was getting sick of lloyd getting the majority of the screentime and decided to have morro take him out of the picture but also give him more trauma because that's definitely mandatory.

[namelysane]

Your Hellspawn au is pretty fun so I wanted to ask a couple of questions

1. How did Lloyd creating her actually go? Did he realize what he was doing in the middle of the process and couldn’t stop it? Was he just fooling around and suddenly heard a baby cry somewhere? I really want to know his initial reaction there

2. Was Hellspawn aboard the bounty when the merge began and was she separated from Lloyd for awhile? I really wanna know how they each handled that if so

1. I guess you could say he was fooling around.

It all started one day when he had a break during his tour and was spending it in Sensei G's new monastery. Basically, he had the thought that if his god grandfather managed to create anything using the same confusing essence that he recently won in the lottery, then he could too, right? And with Garmadon now occupied as a new teacher and Misako often aiding him or studying new scrolls, this idiot realized he needed something to do.

It started small. He managed to make a leaf after several hours and later on succeeded having a flower on his palm. But the problem was both of these were things he hadn't planned to create. All he did was think he wanted to make something and try to focus on that only to end up with a completely different object—unlike the fsm who'd had centuries to master his abilities before fathering two sons.

Lloyd's sessions went on for a few more days until one afternoon when he was concentrating on trying to create a kitten to bring with him when he resumed his tour. Considering his experience so far with all this, he didn't have very high expectations but hey, it was worth a try right? Besides, if he ended up with some other pet, it could still be a great companion. (accepting awards on the other side of the country does get lonely after all)

Slowly, he could feel a strange weight gradually getting heavier in his arms, so he figured he was doing something right and didn't stop. Well surprise, surprise it wasn't a kitten.

The next thing he knew, he was looking at a newborn. Perfectly healthy, ten fingers and ten toes—a living, breathing, baby.

Then, said baby began to cry and he immediately panicked.

Misako started calling him for lunch not long after. He took a long time to show up, and his face was completely bloodless.

2. During the merge, she was on the monastery porch just playing with her toys. And yes, she was separated from Lloyd for about five years, I guess. (That's how long I assume the time-skip between the merge and dragons rising is) Lloyd was a mess for most of that time — thank fsm that Kai was at least with him. For hellspawn though, I'm gonna need to save that elaboration for when part 2 of dragons rising comes out. I need to get a full picture of what kind of world the merge is making everyone deal with here.

[namelysane]

What are Lloyd and Hellspawn's ages throughout the seasons?

So Lloyd had her about six months before s3, so I headcannon he'd just turned physically 15 then (mentally 11 but in the end, he makes it work)

Rebooted

Lloyd: 15 Hellspawn: 6 months of chaos (& Lloyd almost in tears from stress)

Tournament of Elements

Lloyd: 16 Hellspawn: 13 months (can walk & say two other words than sugar now)

Possession

Lloyd: 16 Hellspawn: 15 months and wondering where the heck her dad went.

Skybound

Lloyd: 17 Hellspawn: A 2 year old menance

Hands of Time

Lloyd: 18 Hellspawn: 3 year old begging to be taught spinjitzu but being told she's too young

Sons of Garmadon, Hunted, MoTo

Lloyd: 19 Hellspawn: 4 year old who wants her dad to stop feeling sad

The Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu & Prime Empire

Lloyd: 20 Hellspawn: 5 (kindergarten is getting fun)

Master of the Mountain

Lloyd: 21 Hellspawn: 6 year old who never expected to end up in an underground whirlpool with a princess, uncle cole & her granduncle. Papa u lie. U said it was a vacation.

The Island & Seabound

Lloyd: 22 Hellspawn: 7 (what happened to aunt nya?)

Crystalized

Lloyd: 23 Hellspawn: 8 year old who wants harumi sent realms away from her dad & left to die

Dragons Rising

Lloyd: 28 (he's somehow very old in her eyes) Hellspawn: 13 year old who won't stop asking her dad how he burned tea after finding out from sora

[spinchip]

Inspired by thay one MP100 post but Trans Lloyd meeting Garmadon for the first time in *checks watch* since he was a baby and Garm is like "Hello my daughter..." and Lloyd just blurts out "Dad, I'm a boy." And Garmadon, who was 1) dead 2)then stuck in the realm of madness and 3) not, like, at his peak mental state is like oh no. Did I forget my kids gender? No it's fine I can save this and just goes "I knew that."

[jamisafan]

Isn't it great how the Smith siblings both have a fear of being useless :D /j

I'm just watching the secrets of forbidden spinjitzu and in part one you have Kai dealing with his powerlessness being all like.

"Im useless without my powers."

And then Lloyd is just like "your not worthless!"

And then in the ice chapter ITS THE SAME THING! But with Nya. And when Nya mentions she feels useless, Lloyd says it again.

"YOUR NOT USELESS!" But this time he sounds so pissed.

I swear, Lloyd is just so done with them at this point.

[theaceofarrows]

Hey long time Ninjago fans, when you talk about watching the early seasons do you ever feel like an old person sitting on their front porch about to tell the neighborhood kiddos about how "back in my day, Ninjago only had ONE version of Garmadon" ?

[nyaskitten]

I'm sorry Dragons Rising Lloyd is NOT 18-19, maybe Crystalized Lloyd, but in Dragons Rising that is a young adult man he is like 23/24 years old he is NOT still a late teenager !!!

[general-yasur]

I like to tell people I headcanon Lloyd to be 25-30 from crystalized onwards because their minds explode

[namelysane]

I headcannon he's physically 19 in SOG, and maybe 21-23 in Crystalized. In DR he just looks like a late twenties dork to me. His mental age is probably just 4-5 years younger though.

[classycookiexo]

[capricorn-born]

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

[weaselle]

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

[vmohlere]

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

[untitled38949]

Ninjago AU where everything is the same but the ninja die in the pilots.

[theaceofarrows]

You know your an old Ninjago fan when you remember...

When the original 4 ninja had to use the golden weapons to use their elements

When Nya was "just Kai's sister"

Thought Lloyd was just the silly villian of the week

When finding out Zane is a nindroid was a big twist

When everyone thought Kai was going to be the green ninja

⬆and Lloyd being the green ninja was a major twist

When you thought Zane's death was permanent

When the serpentine were villains

Jaya wasn't canon

When Wu went by "Sensei" instead of "Master"

When Cole did the Triple Tiger Sashay for the first time

When the Overload was their toughest enemy

Zane's funny switch

When Lloyd had a bowl cut

When Garmadon wasn't a deadbeat dad

Reblog with your favorite early season moment