If Ninjago: Monstrosity doesn't include reference to Staff of Elements Kai, I will scream and cry. That was literally a villainous/corrupt moment of Kai- PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. SO CLOSE. CHEN'S TORMENMENT & CHEN'S NOODLE SHOP WERE ALREADY REFERENCES.. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
The Dragonians confusing Arin as an oni because he had been described with horns?!?!!? Those horns are shaped like oni horns also.
Oni Symbolism Arin is very real, what the freak.
Also..
HELP- FRAK FELL RIGHT INTO THE FLOOR AND SORA BARELY UNDERSTANDS IT AT ALL. Lovely that Frak apologized. Frak trying to act/be smart cause of the cool tech cat girl. Rumblecat being so one-sided I love it.
It better stay like that. I want Wolfcat...GRRRRRRJAJAAK
I think an epic twist villain for Dragons Rising can be Fritz aka the Formling Finder. Kinda (Definitely) Parallel to Harumi, hating a Ninja for ruining their life + also being close with a Ninja.
Fritz is obviously close to Cole (that is like, one of his two dads). But, Fritz is also a Formling. Formlings age differently from other species so that means Fritz was probably a kid for long enough to be alive & have an awake mind during the reign of the Ice Emperor.
We cnaonly don't know how Fritz & Spitz had gotten lost/forgotten to be in the Land of the Lost. Spitz is total mystery. But, it is easier to assume with Fritz as he is a formling.
Maybe Fritz tried to escape yet failed and fell somewhere frozen for decades until the reign ended. A recently unfrozen Fritz wakes up in a whole other place. One for the forgotten and lost..
The Ice Emperor did this.
If the Ice Emperor never had his rule, he would of never been forgotten.
If he finds out Zane = Ice Emperor, it would be so SHSJSKKSKSSKKS. The tyrant that froze you and your people (that had even forgotten you) is a supposed hero on the same team with your father-figure?! The Never-Realm inhabitants may not know this but, Fritz might due to his connections with Cole.
Deceptive via acting nice/normal to Zane while plotting personal revenge can be interesting for Fritz.
Villain/Antagonistic Small Kids, we need more of those after Kid Lloyd went bye
Temporary or not, it seems cool + more consequences on Ice Emperor stuff so yeah.
Me rambling about Ninjago Garmadon-Wu Swap (with the effect of other people's alignments and effects changing/being altered)/Main Four aren't the Main Ninja. I ramble cause I want to even though I should be working below cut.
NINJAGO SPOILERS WILL BE UNDER CUT ALONGSIDE RAMBLLING
Okay Okay, so Wu is the one bitten by the Great Devourer instead of Garmadon cause Garmadon said something like "your sword, you grab it, I'll make sure you won't get in trouble." Yeah yeah, the Overlord didn't really expect that route but one of the FSM's son now have evil in their veins so whatever.
Most events take place like normal; Garmadon is a bit more wary and cautious and protective and felt like for a long time it is his duty to make sure his little brother doesn't become evil. When Wu becomes evil, Wu is more evil as a villain rather than Garmadon. Oni Dragon symbolizing; Garmadon still Oni while Wu is dragon. An evil-lized dragon posing as creating and respectable and "good" while the oni might be destructive in some methods but has good heart.
Morro! Oh I love Morro. He gets to be alive. So since Garmadon is rasing a baby Lloyd (+ baby Mikoto. Mikoto is my Ninjago OC & Lloyd's Older Twin Sister. Yeah I love my girl Miko) around the same time a kid Morro is around getting trained by Wu (not as evil since Wu wasn't evil at the moment). He gets upset that he isn't the Green ninja (apprently one of the reasons Morro wanted to be the Green Ninja so badly cause he thought of it as The Green Ninja will be Wu's number one best student or something like that).
Some angst but when Wu was fully evil by Great Devourer's venom, Morro was living in the Monastery of Spinjitzu, so that meant he witnessed his father figure be evil and his "uncle" fight him. A few days prior, Morro couldn't help but sometimes think that his sensei was acting more off so when those two had to fight, Garmadon had directed him to be safe along Lloyd and Mikoto until everything was descalated. Morro doesn't know if his Sensei still cares for him or sees him as a permanent enemy. Morro continues training under Sensei Garmadon cause he wants to fight and be strong. Ninja of Wind, and since Wind was never in the Elemental Alilance (since Wu said like "he had a power over the Wind I had never seen before"), Morro chose his color as more saturated and/or darker greens (Sage Green and Olive Green) along with some black (more cause I think the dude is some form of alternative like emo).
Now here is more crazier changes. I definitely based this off cool fanfic series of a roleswap au on a03 of Dark Sides By RebelFanja which is a AU that The Main Four are working for an evil Wu while Pixal, Nya, Skylor, and Seliel are the Ninja. A quite bit is directly inspired from them so yee!! I am definitely having that. THO, big differences I make right off the bat is aligning stuff to Season 8+ stuff cause I watched everything currently AND only one Wu hadn't the chance to manipulate and recruit is Jay.
Why not Jay? Jay is the son of Cliff Gordon and the former Master of Lightning. Libbey goes missing so that meant on paternity leave- Cliff has to figure out what to do with baby Jay. Before Libbey suddenly vanished, she was talking to Jay on a day something along the lines of "..I am scared for you Jay, Garmadon warned us that Wu is completely bad now...he's smart. What if he plans to do something?! He wants power over those Golden Weapons.."
Cliff knows his wife can act nuts but he concluded it as "someone is going to hunt down my son and use him so that means knowing on where he will be is bad" so Cliff drops him off at a junkyard where he knows it will be safe. He made sure that there will be tabs on his son. This is for the security of his son.
[I honestly think Libbey & Cliff was a good relationship, Cliff became a womanizer/flirting with other women AFTER Libbey was gone.]
The other three, yeah no. You three get manipulated hammer. Ray and Maya still get kidnapped and forced to work with Krux and thus leaving Kai and Nya alone. Cole is grieving because of Lily's death. Zane believes by working with Wu, he is protecting those who cannot be protected (Zane is getting decived big time to be villain.)
Okay, now, lovely Girl bosses.
P.I.X.A.L still is made by Cyrus though Borg Industries is bulit before hand, like a few years before Pliots/the beginning. I like Magnetism that RebelFanja had as Pixal's Elemental Power so I'm keeping it. She likes being useful, and she takes a little while before she breaks her code and be more human and lively. She is loyal and responsible, keeping track of many things.
Nya was left alone after both her parents vanished and now her brother. Garmadon was around and saw the alone girl, and told her about how both of her parents were Elemental Masters, and he figures out she inherited element of Water. Nya was in denial, thinking as she was just normal. Though, if this dude's brother might of been the reason for her brother not seeing her anymore, might as well join him.
Seliel. I actually never read the story she came from, so, yeah. Idk how she joins Garmadon (actually, idk how I will write well why any of the girlies would join Garmadon and become a Ninja). I'll make up her element and she's Master of Stamina. She called it Energy since it was basically just Energy Manipulation in the sense of it basically Controls Energy of Living Beings. Can make someone have so much energy or steal their energy so they are fatigued. If Seliel isn't Master of Stamina, I'll do Master of Spirit/Phantom which is mimicking/doing the properties of a ghost and do what a ghost or even a spirit can do while being obviously alive + no death cause water, though, water is the number one weakness. Nya and Seliel have to be careful and make sure planned attacks are coordinating good.
Skylor. I know you would join somehow. Idk how to explain.
Now. Who is the Green Ninja in this AU?
I have three candidates.
• Lloyd Garmadon
○ The Canon One.
• Mikoto Garmadon
○ It is a swap au, so I wanna swap the Garmadon Twins! Mikoto would be a great Green Ninja as her brother is an awesome Green Ninja. Lloyd and Mikoto are similar in personality at core, but, they act different; Mikoto is definitely adaptive type and would use ANYTHING she has in her toolbox. Canon!Version of Mikoto literally uses regularly after she learns how to use the powers of Destruction and Creation since she lacks Elemental Powers. Mikoto is crazy supportive as she is the older sister and protective. Plus, she is definitely more brutally honest and sassy than Lloyd.
• Harumi
○ Girl Power!!!! Harumi as Green Ninja would be epic. Plus, Her and Morro would be Alt-Kids Together and Besties. Little Sis and Big Bro.
Broken Time Blades: We Are Finally Freed From Those Wretched Blades! Let's transfer us to a furry child!!
So, uh, an Formling OC I made based off the fact that Formlings can have elemental powers. I gave the element of Time (The Time Blades Broke During The Merge and Transferred to a New person)
Concept of Yuzuki
So, uh- she is the New Elemental Master of Time (she has all four power branches cause there isn’t two masters of time) and her form is a white tiger for
Uh, she was introduced in the Tormenment of Sources as someone who decided not to compete because of the two reasons that she is like young and 11-12 (mental wise, formlings age differently psychically and mentally) and pretty much everyone is teens/adult. This gives the problem when wolf mask warriors attack- she's the only Elemental Master with their element still. She is fine though- maybe some trauma and fear in her though.
I kinda don't know how she gets trust issues and paranoia that everyone wants to use her for her element and which older person gives her that. My current candidates are Zeatrix (interested in her Element and thought that she can help her with the revenge on Beatrix and that Beatrix never had gotten the throne- though, Zeatrix got soft but something accidentally reveals the plan so Yuzuki feels really betrayed), Ras (cause he likes manipulating people younger than him + reverse the merge shit), Arin (Reverse the Merge to get back his parents, then he might realizes that not telling the truth to someone isn't lying but make the offender feel guilty cause Yuzuki feels like she is just a tool and Arin doesn't actually care. Misunderstandings and Betrayal), but, idk cause yeah. I want help for that pretty please :3