#colenei au

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When you're getting back in Ninjago and what you thought you were gonna do a fan season to conclude a bruiseshipping au but then Dragons Rising comes out and you got more material to work with AND fanon changes that'll work in tandem.

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I want him so sad and so cute....

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Years after Seabound

Cole: I'm free! I can finally go home and see my husband yin again-

The Merge: [happens]

Cole: ...

Colenei: ...

Cole: .... Please not again.

Colenei: We got some globetrotting to do buddy.

Cole: NO NO WAIT WAIT-

Cole: WHAT IF I JUST- DO IT. YOU JUST TAKE OVER WHEN I GET TO THE RECOVERY POINTS.

Cole: THAT WAY I CAN HAVE MY BODY BACK ANF YOU CAN STILL DO YOUR JOB!

Cole: HUH!!???

Colenei: ... You promise.

Cole: YES.

Colenei: ... Alright.

Cole: THANK YOU.

After traveling all of season 1

Cole: Now, where is my husband yin-

Feral!Jay: Woof.

Cole:

Cole: Huh-

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Wondering if Cole would be really off-model in the Colenei AU after he stops being possesed.

Draw or...??

I mean I'm already gonna draw him with his feral yang so-

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2021 -> 2022 

..... 

wowza

line art only undercut

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Drops AU where Bruiseshipping is done instead of Jaya and Cole is possessed by the Mountain of Shintaro.

Spoilers about the AU and alternate season(s) below 🔽

Things are changed a lot from the OG series but the basic need to know for this AU is:

Since Season 1, Cole has confided in Jay that since the events of the show has started, he's had chest pains that sometimes render him immobile.

Only Jay knows this. But later Zane is told post-Day of the Departed. As Jay fears the chest pains are going to continue.

And they do.

In season 3, after Jay catches on to Nya emotionally cheating on him; He fights Cole, who at that point wasn't even aware Nya was trying to make a move on him.

Cole: ... Well that was weird. Welp-

Jay: What was that.

Cole: What was what?

Jay: She was holding your hand and kinda- ... you two were kinda... close.

Cole: Well yeah, she's a friend. Can't friends compliment friends?

Jay stiffs up looking where Nya and Kai left. Then looks at Cole with a frown.

Jay: ... I don't think that was a friendly compliment.

The two fight and Cole admits that he's more in love with Jay.

then this scene happens rite here bebey-

By the end of season 3, Jay breaks up with Nya cause he doesn't want the emotional drama with Cole. (especially after they confessed. both of them.)

Nya tries to date Cole. But Cole isn't interested.

He makes himself scarce and tells her that he's not into her, but Nya is too sure from the matchmaking machine to listen.

Season 4, Tournament of Elements happens and Cole throws the fight to let Jay win.

After the losers escape the noodle factory, Cole and Jay reunite and Cole officially breaks things off with Nya (not that they were really together). Cole and Jay start dating in secret.

Alternate Season 6, the fan-made alternate to Sky Bound.

I call it Circus Venue.

Jay and Cole decide that it's time that they come out to the rest of the team.

But as they try to, a circus comes to Ninjago and starts trouble.

The "ringleaders" of the circus are haunted masks that take control of a "perfect" host, and when one host dies they travel to find their fallen partner a new body.

The leader of the group, Bonberum, notices news coverage of the Ninjas and notices Jay. Saying that he's the right host for Amara to come back with. (Amara is Bonberum's dead wife)

The Circus steals Jay, tries to extract his soul from his body so Amara can inhabit it. The Ninja have to travel across Ninjago to chase down the Circus before they can perform the final step to expel Jay from the living realm, and in the end, Jay is saved; Cole and him come out to the group.

Happy endings into Season 10 when Jay asks Cole to be his Yang.

Until Season 13, Master of the Mountain.

The Ninja are invited to Shintaro, and things go down.

Cole is separated from Wu, Vania, and the Upply when he gets inside the hidden temple of Earth, his chest pains seem to pulse when he goes in, he's unable to escape when the place collapses, killing him.

The Heart of the Mountain... Its power crawls between the rubble.

It takes Cole's body and elemental powers to regain its own form, Colenei (pronounced Colony).

Afterward, Colenei comes to the Ninjas' rescue and defeats King Vangelis. But it doesn't let Cole go. Colenei takes Cole's body and disappears, much to Jay's distress.

All that is left is Cole's half of his Yin-Yang crest.

Season 15, Seabound.

Nya is able to stop Wojira without fusing herself to the sea, and the water is returned back to the oceans.

But to help, the Earth also opens up to let the water seep back faster.

Colenei is there one second for Jay to see. Jay chases down the Mountain God and gives him an earful for taking Cole's body. But, unable (and unwilling) to return Cole to his team, Colenei concedes with Jay's demands for Colenei to take Cole's half of the Yang crest back so Cole still has something of Jay.

The Earth still needs mending, Colenei promises to come back once the Earth is healed.

Then he is gone.

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A redraw for the big confession scene in the Colenei AU.

This time I remembered to include a certain someone catching the confession.. '(‾◡◝)