Hi, i love your art! I’m new to the fandom and i wanted to ask: if it’s okay to ship waterjade, is it okay to ship greenflame? I’ve been seeing a lot of hate around both ships, so i wanted to ask someone who actually shipped one of them to see both sides of the argument
Okay, you might have seen people try to draw a comparison between greenflame and waterjade, but I assure you that they are nothing alike.
Greenflame is wrong to ship because Lloyd was a child when he joined the ninja, he was basically adopted as the younger brother to the group. It would be considered grooming to many fans because of their age gap and the initial relationship they built together in Lloyd’s youth before he was aged up later on. It’s been universally agreed to not ship Lloyd with any of the ninja for this reason. I agree with this sentiment.
People will tell you that waterjade is like…the girl version of this? But the waterjade dynamic is nothing close to this. Harumi and Nya meet when they are both adults in later seasons. I really can’t grasp how people are coming to the conclusion that I am shipping a child with an adult when I have only ever drawn the two as adults… they will try to use screenshots of Nya and Harumi from the Devourer arc as evidence for the supposed “age gap”, but it’s really…irrelevant? Nobody is shipping them at that time in the story, so how can you use that as evidence for pedophilia? They were both likely tweens/children as well during this season.
If you really want to get nitty gritty about ages, Nya IS younger than kai, and Harumi MUST be older than Lloyd in order to be close to his age later on into their meeting (As I mentioned, Lloyd was aged up due to a tea. Harumi was not.) Everyone has their own headcanons for ages, they feel the need to enforce their idea of Ninjago onto what they deem “wrong” in their version of it.
At the end of the day, waterjade is just like any other Ninjago ship. I wish it was treated as such by the fandom, I have never harmed anyone by shipping it, and never ever intended to. I did create this ship from the ground up, I pour a lot of love into it. But I wouldn’t ship greenflame, yuck!
Let me know if this clears it up for you! Happy to answer any other questions. ^u^
