#firstbourne

[antonishere]

“Sometimes… I miss my mother”

[spiderboy-17]

Tʜᴇ Mᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴏғ Aʟʟ Dʀᴀɢᴏɴs - Nɪɴᴊᴀɢᴏ 15ᴛʜ Aɴɴɪᴠᴇʀsᴀʀʏ Aʀᴛ

art I made for the 15th Anniversary of Ninjago :D anyjay I decided to draw Firstbourne - Dragons, along with the Ninja and snakes, are pretty much a staple of Ninjago (name three seasons without dragons, go on) - and what's better than the mother of all dragons?

went a little out of my comfort zone - I don't normally draw dragons.

anyjay x2, a happy 15th birthday to ninjago again!

[a-big-chicken-nerd]

ok so using the same idea of a lego character being 5ft tall i measured firstbourne at being a whopping 225ft long with a wingspan of 450!!!! definitely the biggest dragon in the series........... NOT!!!!!!

the source dragon of energy in dragons rising is the biggest dragon we have seen yet. we havent seen any clear full shots of him with something for size reference yet though, but we HAVE seen that he has pretty much the same proportions and body type as firstbourne, AND we have seen exactly how big one of his claws is. THUS, after measuring firstbournes claw and scaling up all the measurements to the source dragons proportionately, i have concluded that:

the source dragon of energy IS 1260 FEET LONG AND HAS A WINGSPAN OF 2520 FEET. WHAT A HELL . thats like half a mile long it would take like 10 minutes to walk from 1 wing tip to the other

[withdenim]

I think it’s time I introduce my doomed ancient yuri to the ninjago fandom. I’ll leave the story under the cut if anyone wants to read it 💜 it includes my Wojira backstory and why I draw Nyad as oni

Wojira is the younger, less powerful sister of firstbourne, I think. Wojira and Firstbourne we’re both chill with Oni, but Firstbourne was more Reserved about it . Like, she didn’t enforce weird rules or anything but she also . Didn’t stop her kids from being really awful.

Wojira spent more time with Oni than other Dragons. Even her kids (wind and water Dragons) were sort of weird about it. She didn’t really like the sort of power hoarding attitude of the other Dragons and decided to teach them a lesson about it.

When the first master was born she realized that Oni blood COULD bear elemental magic, and she took in two Oni kids (Nyad and her brother who I made up and haven’t named yet lmao) and gave them wind and water (separately) magic. And the other Dragons were VERY mad about this. They thought it was disgraceful.

They tried to get Firstbourne to banish her . Firstbourne refused and so her kids just all worked together to banish her instead. And sort of gave her a fucked up cursed eternal headache (in the amulets) Whoops . Nyad and her brother followed Wojira into the realm of Ninjago and tried to ease her pain for years but eventually it just sort of broke her mind and she started laying absolute waste to everything.

The FSM goes through his whole story (still figuring out details of it in my headcanons) and comes to Ninjago, desperate for a new home. And Nyad and her brother (I really need to name them DIFNDKFM) are scared of him at first. But he shows them his elemental magic and they realize he’s like them (Oni with elemental magic). And they bond over that and tell him about Wojira. The first master decides to help Nyad convince the Merlopians and Islanders to resist Wojira and hopefully bring peace to the realm.

Over several months they become good friends, and they often calm Nyad’s brother by making beautiful little worlds out of their elemental magic for him. And the FSM promises that one day Ninjago will be safe like these worlds, and they’ll all be able to live there.

And these very very lonely people have made a little family.

Of course, the Oni hunters are sent to track down the FSM, and Mystaké is the first to find them. She announces herself and demands the first master return with her. He begs to stay just long enough to make this world safe for the people there, and she reluctantly agrees when they show her the safe world they’re planning to build. It looks beautiful.

Mystaké joins their efforts, hoping to speed along the process of the first master’s return to the first realm, but she finds herself amazed by their magic and (worse) deeply fond of the little trio. She falls in love with Nyad, and starts letting herself indulge in their hopeful fantasies of a safe world where no one will find them. In this time, Nyad gives the FSM a name of his own to use when they have their safer world. Hajime.

When the preparations are as ready as they’ll ever be, the Battle of Nine Days begins. On the eighth day, Nyad’s little brother (who wasn’t even fighting) is struck near-fatally, and Nyad launches a risky attack to try and end the battle once and for all. It’s unsuccessful, but she realizes Wojira’s weak spot. Like in canon, she merges with the sea, desperate to give the others a chance at the world they’d all hoped for, and hoping that her brother could be saved if the battle ended and he could get proper help.

She knows she should kill Wojira, but she can’t bring herself to. And instead of killing her she decides to take the amulets, and send Wojira into a deep, painless sleep, hopefully eternal.

Hajime is devastated by Nyad’s death, and though Mystaké grieves her as well, she’s a lot more accustomed to death, and watches her go, surprised by the ache in her heart.

The brother lives, but passes on his element very soon after the events of the battle, sick of it’s consequence. Hajime builds the new world and appoints new masters, though he doesn’t know where the water and wind elements went (not his domain). Mystaké never even brings up the idea of taking Hajime back to the first realm again, and protects him from other hunters when she can. Hajime lives a long long time before choosing to pass on and find peace for himself. Mystake lives another thousand years, farming strange enchanted teas, occasionally a companion to Wu and Garmadon.

In Hunted, she confides in Lloyd that if or when she dies, she would like to be sunk into the sea where the battle took place (not that she tells him the story. Just the location), and Lloyd thinks it’s just some weird senile old lady talk. But when she does die at the hands of his father and the Sons of Garmadon in Hunted, Lloyd doesn’t get a chance to row her out until after March of the Oni.

She liked Lloyd. He was a lot like Hajime.

[yh-hjabs]

Oh firstbourne.

[the-ninjago-historian]

WOAH. So dragons actually aren't native to the other realms originally. That's crazy. Lol. Can you imagine walking outside one morning and just seeing a giant flying, FIRE BREATHING LIZARD flying around, happy as can be?🤣🤣🤣

Dragon: RAWR!!!! :D

You: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?!?!? D:

[xynczachrome]

Stained Glass Series: Wu's Rediscovery

[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

If Lloyd didn't inherit the GE for some reason, and had inherited his fathers Essence of Destruction, would Garmadon have lost his Essence? Usually i would assume no but quite frankly the way the FSM fucked everything up has me confused. Because the FSM lost his essence when the had Wu and Garm, so wouldn't the same apply to them? And Lloyd for that matter, will his children (excluding Lucina shenanigans) inherit Creation/Destruction and take his essence away from him? Come to think of it, the FSM and Lloyd dont even techically have the same GP, the fragments of FSMs GP were split into Garm and Wu, and Lloyd developed his own GP completely seperately. no question there just an interesting realisation.

Back to the first question, assuming Garmadon loses his Essence, what would that mean for his venom? The Venom turns him evil because it reacts so badly to his Oni Genes, but in losing his Essence what would that do to his Genes?

Im just gonna assume for now that FSM is just a very special case because way too many questions pop up if he isn't

TL;DR, The FSM really is a special case and the reason the inheritance is all over the place in this family is due to everyone's junked up genes cancelling each other out all the time cuz there's a lot of power(s) in this family lmao. BUT if the Destruction Essence alone was being inherited, then everyone in the line would have access to it (as is the way of all Oni) and no one would lose it via passing it on (as it works differently than elements)

...but I still made a terrible diagram to demonstrate why this didn't happen

All right, let's take it from the top! Here's the Overall Power Primer in case anyone needs a refresh

Mama Dragon and Papa Oni make an attempt at peace of their kinds, and have a child. Their perfectly genetically balanced child inherited both Creation and Destruction, which manifests as a third thing, Neutralization. All three exist within the child.

FSM runs off, learns the disciplines of the Four Core Elements from the Guardians in other realms, hijacks a seemingly empty realm to build anew, gets hunted by Oni Warlords, and successfully manages to bag an epic Oni wife. Then crazy embodiment of Void Essence manifests to counteract FSM's Neutralization/Golden Power. FSM fights Overlord w/ friends, manifests and inherits GE in the process.

Via his experimentation with GE powers, FSM develops the Derivative Elements, and poses to his epic Oni wife by gifting her the Element of Surprise. Alas, the Element of Surprise doesn't get to be passed on from Mystake, entirely suppressed by the FSM's more dominant Essences/Element....but her Oni genes certainly had a part to play

When they had their first child, the Oni genes were strong with him, which left him 'unfit' to inherit the Green Element and the GP as a whole, but with such a high attunement for Destruction, Garmadon just wound up inheriting that aspect alone from his father (nor the Element of Surprise, which normally can't be passed through bloodlines anyway + Essences would take priority over an Element regardless).

Inversely, the Oni genes were weak in the second child, still with 'unfit' genes to inherit the Green Element anyway, and with a high attunement for Creation, so Wu inherited that aspect from his father. But, the FSM didn't lose his Golden Power, nor his affinity for Creation or Destruction by having child, which I think the wires are getting a little crossed here, as those descended from Dragon/Oni will always have a connection with Creation/Destruction. But again, the FSM is also a bit of a special case.

(Addendum: I realize I mention the FSM lost his Essence in the OG Essence Eye Color post. This is outdated information. Anything lore-related in that post can be discarded, even if some of it still does hold up/is still true, but more recent posts apply over that. The Eye Color post was really one of the first times I was trying to get my footing with how all this worked, and its not wholly correct anymore, but important to see how/where certain ideas stemmed from)

Anyway. This specific 'Creation' bloodline ends with Wu, but any child he biologically had would've also wielded Creation, if you were curious. But although Wu and Garm have 'parts' of their father's Essences, the Essences themselves are not in fragments nor fragmented. All of them just are.

Back to Garm-> he has a child with a full human, and their child manages to have 'perfectly balanced genes' like his grandfather before him. He's attuned equally to Creation and Destruction, in a sense, which allows (the recessive gene for?) the Golden Power to manifest within him, along with him being an ideal host for the Green Element from the jump. Boom, two powers in one baby and two prophecies in play (but we the people don't know this immediately). The main reason Lloyd didn't inherit Destruction both genetically and spiritually because he was better suited for GE/GP. The Chosen One in both body and soul, if you will.

Then, in an alternative universe (an alter!verse if you will) a slightly less impressive but far happier Lloyd has a child with the ideal host for his counter Element/Essence, and the child — by perfect timing, a series of unfortunate events prior, probably some genetics, urgency, and maybe sheer power of will— inherits both sets of Elements/Essences, resulting in her being her own opposite (but also highly unstable should the balance shift even slightly). in the event that Lucina's parents had lived afterwards, then yes, they would both lose their Elements ofc, but they would still have their Essences.

So, uh, after ALL that...honestly, in the extreme scenario where Garmadon somehow loses his Essence, the venom would still react badly to the Oni blood, but rather than the destructive tendencies being amplified, his Oni characteristics might's gotten amplified instead (i.e. tapping into his recessive four arms without having to go to an alternate realm to hoard Dark Magic or whatever)

Come to think of it, the FSM and Lloyd dont even techically have the same GP, the fragments of FSMs GP were split into Garm and Wu, and Lloyd developed his own GP completely seperately. no question there just an interesting realisation. <- no, it's the same GP. Lloyd's developed because he inherited it paired up with the GE. It didn't immediately show in his eyes though (because later in life he realizes/learns he can switch between them at will pre-potential) but his family always suspected it *could* exist within him...leading them to fear the coming of the Golden Master prophecy over the Green Ninja one (...........but we are literally soooo close to getting to all this in-story I just need y'all to be patient for two more mini-arcs I SWEAR WE WILL ADDRESS IT ALL H E L P)