Here’s a drawing I did for one of my finals where we had to create a key art for a show of our choice so I choose Rescue Bots because well…. My teacher would’ve wanted me to draw the Ninjago guys as actual legos if I did them so lmao here we are (Love that teacher btw)
I still love this show I just haven’t had many- if any ideas for them in like forever but T-T at least enjoy my schoolwork lmao. ALSO the semester has finally ended a little bit ago so hopefully I can post more lol.
Jay is not okay and Echo does not know what to do about it
Ehehe uhh ahhh okay so on todays episode of Skybound is unfortunately my favorite and makes me insane: MY GUY um yea I really wish we got more Echo scenes because he deserved it and in my heart they were friends. Echo was literally ready to throw hands for him
Imagine just showing up at a lighthouse while on the run from a madman and finding out one of your friends has a secret brother like Julian whyyyy. This is one of my most self indulgent drawings in a while bec Echo and Jay are two of my favorite characters and purple is my favorite color and I like clouds and stars. :D
Unagami is... such a wild character omg T-T. I genuinely don't know where to start so um design first! He changed like a lot. Personally I wish that his boss form resembled like ANY hint that he was a kid so I took out the beard because not even gonna lie I thought it looked really goofy. He also got stickers everywhere and star motifs since they give off more of a childlike vibe. I also do have a full design that I'm keeping in my back pocket but the main things I kept in mind was going for more of what a kid would think is scary and intimidating. Also made his hair curlier (@scottie-draws-sometimes 's idea) but he does have the ponytail on the boss form just curly now :D.
But AHA yes this is Viceroy AU because I am in fact still insane abt that and ehehe. ANYway yeah so when it comes to Unagami we wanted him to be more involved with the plot and to actually play a role in the main story rather than show up like occasionally then bam plot twist he's a child. So instead he's the tutorial of the game, and was actually rather friendly with Jay, then getting hostile when Jay starts to work towards getting out of the game with the others.
Unagami is also a bit of a freak of nature, wdym he IS the video game but he also LEFT the videogame I ahhh. Anyway um at least for that part Milton Dyer has spaghetti code and that's how he accidently made a sentient video game child. My idea with that was since he was the tutorial guide he had a lot of knowledge of the game programmed into him and that's why he had an insane amount of control over the game compared to the other npcs.
Also he gets packman motifs bec if you look closely at his design he does actually have them in his robe/dress thingy :D
OKAY uh ah lil western season stuff cuz funsies (I'm Actually so so proud of how the main drawing came out ahhhhh scary women I love them so). But ehehe more AU stuff but this time Pixal! Girl gets her own season where we use the unused concept of a western season (god it would've been so cool). We (@scottie-draws-sometimes & myself) dubbed the au/fanseason Ballad of Torn Ties (or BOTT - Part of Viceroy AU :3)
Viceroy au western season edition babyyyy - Main idea for the season is it to play with stuff from your past haunting you, for example, Ice Emperor, Skybound, in Lloyds case oni/dragon puberty bec its funny (I promise I'll draw what I mean at some point, basically like horns and tail and that jazz). AND in this case keeping something from your partner (👀). So as I mentioned in a previous post, someone found out Mr E was built by julien in SOG, that someone was Pixal, and she kinda sorta kept it from Zane and it's been... three years (APPROXIMATELY we have not actually mapped out the timeline for that part lmao). This would take place after SOFS and before Prime Empire so basically a season 11.5. Pixal gets to be the main character bec she was so robbed in the actual show of having one and Kai is the secondary bec its a western and he has a very fun dynamic with Pixal; that we got like one scene of in the show T-T. This is also the season where Ultraviolet gets to take the stage as the main villain (with Fugidove as a bonus- once again blame @scottie-draws-sometimes /lh).
Pixal gets very little in the show but one thing that was emphasized in SOG is that she struggles to feel useful, as she was literally created to be an assistant. That would be explored in it as basically her job equates to law enforcement (as the actual police in Ninjago do jack all) so when Ultraviolet (& Fugidove) escape jail on a mission to do god knows what with old time artifacts she feels like it's her responsibility to fix it. But when blah blah Ninjago chaos bar fight chase happens and everyone gets separated due to a mistake Pixal made so she isn't really doing well because of that and everything comes bubbling up. The reason for the lie is more so to give something for Pix to overcome alongside the whole usefulness thing. One thing I really like about ninjago is when they give a character a meaningfull fuckup and has them overcome that (Take Jay in Skybound for example or Lloyd in SOG). This lie ("I wont keep secrets from you") is that fuckup. Gods I love pix so much I just wish the show did more with her wdym shes not gonna be in many episode of season 4 dragons rising ahhhhhhhh
I've been working on this for awhile now but ahh I'm really happy with ittt. I wanted a laptop wallpaper of my own art and I'm absolutely not normal about E and Unagami cuz like ahhhh. Um but anyways these two would be like a perfect like duo (abandonment issues who?) and like you cannot sit there and tell me it wouldn't be better than the Mechanics weird ass in prime empire (/lh).
ALSo okay Viceroy AU wise Ima be a nerd um okay so like Es redemption/season is a wee bit different because his main season is Prime Empire HOWEVER his full redemption is in Crystalized. Like okay in the original plan to make Mr. E be Echo they planed to have the reveal in SOG when he fought Zane, but AU wise this would actually happen in Prime Empire to keep the mystery alive (A character that shall go unnamed for now does actually find out in SOG who he is but keeps it a secret, so viewer wise we would know but Zane does not and Prime empire would be when he finds out). BUT ANYWAY Zane and E would get a scene together (Replacing the Mechanics kidnapping thing) where he tells Zane, however, due to a certain course of events, E does dip at the end of Prime Empire (I'm gonna draw why at some point hopefully). Then he would come back in Crystalized fight Zane again have a whole ass Spinel Moment and get redeemed (Unagami gets involved, much to Es dismay) and that's when they reunite. BUt um yea I love them so expect much more art (Hopefully)
Ahhh okay so this is my prime empire Mr. E design for the au and I'm still really happy with it! The stars are a play on how one of Prime Empires main design elements are triangles just with a more childlike twist, which is also where the stickers came from (Unagami stuck them on). I also leaned more into orange being a central color as Unagami stole red and I like to have unique colors for main characters. :3 I also stole the arms from the Mechanic because um he sucks and doesn't need them anymore (they're unfortunately rlly cool)
Drawn: Nov 4th (ish) 2025 (THIS IS THE LAST ONE KINDA)
This is my Prime Empire Mr. E design form mine and @scottie-draws-sometimes Viceroy Au! Basically his involvement to the plot is replacing The Mechanics role within Prime Empire (Were also just reformatting a good chunk of prime empire as well tbh). As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts basically the idea is that, he was brough back in the extra season we added (In between SOFS and Prime Empire) and then manages to find the arcade box before anyone else, gets sucked in, befriends Unagami, then leaves in an attempt to free Unagami from the game. One of the things that slightly bothered me about Prime Empire is how there was no foreshadowing to Unagami just straight up being a kid which is where the stars and stickers came from! I also redesigned Unagami's both in his boss form as well as kid (You'll get to see those soonish). I have a drawing coming up that Ill talk more on it but unlike how the mechanic was weird asf with the whole Unagami god thing? E just genuinely cares about this kid and wants him to be happy :3
Post crystallized funzies, idk I had a little photo op in my head while drawing this (Funnily enough, it was actually for an assignment). They're getting alonggggg (More Viceroy AU Suffs :D)
Drawn: Sept 1st(Ish) 2025 Im getting there I think
Do not be afraid, Unagamis fuckass poytail did stay, but only in his like boss form? Idk what to call that tbh, and I thought the curly hair Scottie gave him was cute (I like to think Unagami stole it from Jay). BUT AU NERD STUFFF- One of the things Mine and @scottie-draws-sometimes AU changes is Prime Empire. It gets a complete overhaul, with the main things staying just being Jay still being the main character, the video game, and then Unagami. For right now, at least, the thing I want to blab about is E and Unagami's dynamic as it's gonna/has shown up in my art a lot. So, without going too much into it, we wrote the Mechanic out of Prime Empire and replaced him with Mr E. This is because the mechanic sucks. Okay, but fr its because to me at least it makes absolutely no sense how the guy who has called Zane an it to his face would give two shits about a sentient video game child. But you know who might? The guy who was also abandoned by his creator. Its abandonment issues, babyyyyyyy. For the villain side of Prime Empire, the main idea is, what if E found the video game before everyone else, went in and befriended Unagami, then made a plan to release him? Basically, he found himself a little brother.
E's stupid red eyebrow is courtesy of Unagami lmao
To clarify, he does still "die" in hunted, he was just brought back by someone in the added season of the AU.
What if, instead of bringing back Garmadon, the ritual gave her a corrupted version of his power? What if it was all Harumi?
Dubbed the Viceroy AU by me and @scottie-draws-sometimes :3
Drawn: Aug 14th 2025 (I'm so behind)
Like, okay, SO, the AU. My (and @scottie-draws-sometimes) silly beloved AU. This is the big change. Instead of the oni ritual bringing back Garmadon (and changing his character completely), it gave Harumi a messed-up version of his powers. It would allow Harumi the opportunity to be the big bad and give her the focus she deserved. Personally, I didn't like how they handled Harumi, as her character seemed to do a complete 180° with little to no foreshadowing, then immediately tossed her to the side to focus on Garmadon, and rushed her "redemption" at the end, and this would give time to plant those seeds with payoff in crystallized (pending rewrite).
This drawing, in particular, is based on the scene from Hunted where Garmadon killed E. But since it's all Harumi, she gets to be the one to do it. This AU makes it so the SOG were actually really close friends personally, so basically she snapped and just killed her best friend in front of her other best friend :). The scene would also be pushed to way later in the season, right after the whole Skylar disguise incident (Replace the Harumi disguise with a UV one). In summary, she was going to kill Skylar, but E tried to stop her (Protection instincts, am I right?), as he thought things were going too far and way off course. Like, none of what Harumi was doing at this point was part of the original plan. This allowed Skylar to get away, and Harumi, already high on adrenaline, decided to fight him. And by fight, I mean throw him into a wall and then break his systems with her powers as UV watched :D (I'm so sorry)
Insert me being a huge nerd: When it comes to the AU, the main thing that we wanted to change was the Sons of Garmadon, basically giving them (Harumi, Ultra Violet, & Mr. E) more character as well as a bigger role to play. It gives them all more fleshed-out redemption arcs (And giving E one) and specific seasons for them to shine (Letting them be a major villain). The seasons that are the most affected are the Oni Trilogy, Prime Empire, and Crystlized. We also added a season in between SOTFS and Prime Empire for UV. Harumi gets Hunted, and Mr. E gets Prime Empire (Alogside Unagami - we killed the Mechanic /hj). But yeah! There's actually so much more, like SO MUCH, we've been insane about this since the beginning of summer, and it has barely faltered lol.
I do actually have more art lined up FINALLY (IT'S ACTUALLY QUED THIS TIME I PROMISE also I'm on winter break), but I shall be honest.. It's all Mr E. He's my favorite, and I'm extremely biased. Shocker, shocker, the person whose favorite character is Zane ended up adoring his brother, lols.
SO, I may or may not have gone slightly insane but all in good fun :D. Ive known about the original plan for E to be Echo since before I even watched SOG and was already slightly insane about it then but oh boy its gotten so much worse. I love him SO much and its all based on my stupid silly lil headcannons and arghhhhh. My friend @scottie-draws-sometimes has only fueled this fire by giving MORE ides and we may or may not have made an entire AU for the second half of Ninjago :D (Post Hands of Time) but ANYWAY definitely expect more art for that soon (very soon)
I made the mistake of thinking abt ronin for more than 2 seconds the other day and was reminded how much I love this guy. He’s such a ass but like in a great way so I needed to do a drawing of him lol
So I tried to make a banner for my favorites but google is a LAIR and it’s not properly sized but whatever ahhhhhh. Anywayyyy I love them all and I’m very bias on who I draw the most but um Pixal was the problem child here because what the actual hell is that outfit??? I didn’t even know what I was looking at T—T. Also I despise drawing their elemental animals cuz ahhh but i drew them in either my favorite outfit or their most iconic so yee
Diffrent nonhuman stuff they’ve turned into or in Zanes case just found out (Didn’t have room for Lloyd and kai uh Kai is just Kai). Also omg I need to draw ocean Nya again
Jays is from Skybound (Cuz I like that headcannon). And I like to headcanon Kais from his true potential since his lego has had a scar the whole time (Like he got hit w/splashing lava or smth). This also came out more shipy than I intended but eh I don’t mind much lol. I particularly like how Jay came out :3
Drew these three with their hair down cuz why not idk, I draw Cole with braids so thats the context for him but ye enjoy the silly doodles (Kai came out the best imo).
