I’ve been sitting on these for so long. Guess it’s time to finally show them. And man, Zane seems to have the most sketches, they didn’t all fit in one post so this is a two part shitty sketches episode. I also have a lot of Zane lore to drop:
1. Dr. Julien built Zane out of alien metal, that had been collected from meteors that fell onto Ninjago long ago. This metal was unalike any metal on Ninjago because of an astounding property: it could absorb energy and grow in mass, expand, and even move, very slowly on its own. I’ll talk more about how he powered Zane up in the next post, but being made of very lively metal, Zane was able to grow and even evolve like an organic Eevee child, although he grew slower than normal people. He was also able to consume normal food and had his own metabolism in his robotic body.
Zane evolved… when he was around six to eight years old. I don’t have exact ages for him tbh. It was a bright winter day, the snow beds were glazed by supercooled water, and the birches were tinkling and dropping ice, and Zane thought it was all so wonderful that he wanted to go venturing and his little articuno robot friend accompanied him. They ended up by a huge boulder that was covered by ice like everything else in the forest. Tobi, the articuno, roosted on the boulder while Zane played with ice crumbs, when suddenly someone lunged at it and captured it. Zane scared and nearly ran away, but realized his friend was in danger, and confronted the stranger. It was an adult Sneasel, shifty-looking fella who stuffed Tobi into a bag and claimed it was his now. He was some sort of poacher, but for rare animals, and an articuno sure was one. Zane demanded him to release Tobi, and when the Sneasel just laughed and started leaving, Zane decided he had no choise but to attack. Dr. Julien had built Zane to protect those who couldn’t protect themselves, and Tobi needed him. Even as an untrained Eevee, he was strong and skilled enough to beat the cowardly poacher in battle. The evolution came as a surprise to everyone though. Zane started glowing bright light and felt unbearable pain. His fake fur ripped and partially fell away as he grew in size, which freaked the Sneasel out and made him flee. All people on Ninjago, regardless of if they are Elemental Masters or witches, mages, magicians or normal people without special magical abilities, everyone has clothing-related magic, which usually manifests itself when people evolve. It makes the clothes they’re wearing during evolution to fit their new form without ripping or falling off. This applied to Zane’s clothes, but his fake fur got ripped because it was eevee fur, and he turned into a glaceon.
Zane was very confused and scared after the evolution had happened and concluded there was something wrong with his health or something, so he collected his fur and made his way back to his home to seek help from his father. Dr. Julien was very surprised but excited that Zane had evolved, but he was also alarmed that he had been in danger, and decided to guard their home area more carefully. Needless to say, he ordered Zane new fake fur that fit his new form.
7. I believe the left one is either Zane without his fur, or the Titanium Ninja version of him… hm, probably my earlier rendition of the Titanium Zane. The right one is right after Great Devourer struck the ninja’s vehicle and Zane with her tail.
I’ll cover more Zane lore in the next post, more specifically about his soul(s), and I’ll probably have to write a lot for it, bc there’s two stories concerning that. The other one is shorter though, and I could try to write it in sort of a comic script form.
