Genuinely if Misako had left Lloyd with the Smiths/Jiangs aka Ray and Maya it would’ve been ten times more wholesome and funny.
Lloyd as a semi-feral farming and country child
Cuz I headcanon them as his godparents because in Garmadon’s words “I love my brother. I truly do. But due to our family’s history he’s bound to get into shenanigans no child should be involved with.”
Also Ray’s Garmadon’s best buddy and you can pry this from my cold dead hands.
Lloyd’s just imprinted onto Kai and Nya.
He’s always with them and watching everything.
Due to just suddenly arriving to the Smith/Jiang's he’s intially viewed by the community as an odd duck. But they’ve come around to him.
A convo that has happened when people wander through and visit because "Sir you are aware that boy has horns and a tail right?"
"That Lloyd lad looks a wee bit odd but he's truly an Ignacian through and through. He's won the mutton busting competition since he's gotten here."
"Oh yes. He's got horns and all that but my cousin has some themselves. And Old Kana has scales. Nothing odd about that."
Lloyd can and has headbutted the neighbor's sheep, walloper, and goat herds.
He's also really good at just finding seasonal foragables. He's literally Remi from Ratatoille sniffing out if a mushroom is dangerous or not.
[Misako and Garmadon stand at the alter ready to finish their wedding vows.
Priest: Does anyone present know why this man and this woman should not be joined in marriage? Speak now or forever hold your peace.
[Libber raises her hand to object to Garmadon and Misako's marriage.]
Libber: Uhhhh Yeah. Because she’s a bitch with no conscience, no mercy, no soul.
[Misako just continues to smile despite Libber's objection to the marriage and continues to hold Garmadon's hands.]
Misako: Oh Please, ignore her. She drinks.
Need an increasingly unhinged Misako during Skybound au tbh. Cuz tell me she wouldn't be a prime target for Nadakhan to get at the ninja even further. I mean the women's gotta be mildly depressed about the fact her husband sent himself to seal a form of hell. That can crudely be described as an eldritch hentai vore hell realm. Also you just know Nadakhan is both pitying her and is still totally down to twist her wish. Oh sidenote Nadakhan choosing Misako as a back up body for Delara cuz she sounds just like her. (Basing this off the fact Misako and Delara share the same VA).
So Misako's wish being to bring Garmadon back but again the wish being twisted brings back Season 2 Garmadon near the end of said season where he wasn't possessed by the overlord yet but he's on the precipice of his sanity being utterly broken. Especially if this is the exact moment where Garmadon realized Misako stole his helmet to try and stop the prophecy. That's the twisting of her wish with the return of Garmadon. It's not her Garmadon. Ok well it is her Garmadon. Granted a pissed off one.
Smacks season 2 ending of Ninjago with a whumping stick
Unironically Ninjago having a No One Mourns The Wicked moment after the Final Battle specifically about Garmadon.
(I mean obviously Garmadon survived still but the vast majority of Ninjago doesn’t know that. Plus since he’s been purified of the venom he actually looks normal again and not the menacing Oni who looks like a sentient Shadow.)
“Lady Irondragon exactly how dead is he?”
“Because there has been so much rumor and speculation. Let me tell you the whole story. According to the Celestial Clock the disintegration occurred at the thirteenth hour. The direct result of a blast of pure elemental energy aimed by a male child. Yes the Dark Lord Garmadon is Dead!”
Misako just has to go around announcing her husband’s supposed death while he’s off recovering secretly as the gang forges his new fake identity. So it’s just Misako visiting Ignacia and every other village being praised when she really doesn’t deserve it.
A veritable bouquet of Flowers pinned and woven through her hair because this is a time of peace and celebration now. Which many Fashion and Political columns will debate what she means by them? (It's the Kadōka of Ninjago who figure it out rather early on and those who knew Garmadon and Misako personally can be comfortable in their knowledge of such matters.)
Irises to symbolize Good News, Glad Tidings, and Loyalty (That Loyalty being to her Family not Ninjago itself as so many news publications and fashion magazines will argue)
Red Camellia to symbolize Perishing with Grace as a Warrior of such strength deserves and Being in Love (He didn't perish with Grace though did he? And no one knows how in love they were? Except a scant long lost few.)
White Poppy to Rejoice for the Dark Lord is dead and gone ( Rejoice for the Prophecy is finally over and no one died except for Him and what a fortunate event after all)
Gardenia to represent a Secret Love that she'll carry to the grave (No one can know of such matters now and who's to say the secret love is romantic? But one of Familial love.)
She has to bear the news and she will because Lloyd is too busy recovering himself while at the same time refusing to leave his father's bedside.
It’s also when she finally gets to hear the full hatred and dislike of her husband as the villagers of Ignacia cheer that the menace who kidnapped their favored daughter Nya is dead and caused such grief to their beloved blacksmith Kai.
The citizens of Ignacia are just a parallel to Munchkin Land just flat out belting their shared hatred and grief about this man and what he did to their village and them. The Skulkin raids as well and those Gods Awful Serpentine.
Orange Lilies are being shaken and thrown at the announcement of his death by seemingly the entirety of Ignacia. (They symbolize their hatred for what he did to Kai and Nya alongside their revenge finally being fulfilled.)
Of course there are some Red Spider Lilies in those shaking hands Veterans of the serpentine war long lost their prime mourning an old friend and ally long turned monstrous. (Never to meet again amidst their lost memories.)
That's not getting into those Black Rice Lilies or Fritillaria camschatcensis being tended to by the Skulkin and the other villainous factions (With a certain Banished Dark Sorcerer Cursing the loss of his ex. He was Clouse's first Love.)
Their Giant Garmadon effigy is very scarily detailed and even accounted for his newly gained pair of arms. No doubt a result of one of Kai’s furious letters at the time about his sister’s abductions and his angered sketches.
I like to imagine Ninjago City's reaction is more on par with this animatic
Some Character reactions that could be their own one shots
Chen doesn't lose much sleep once his former student's death has been confirmed. It just means the tournament can proceed even earlier.
Krux or rather Dr.Sanders-Saunders feels some amount of pity it didn't take him long to figure out the Youth or rather the Male Child was Garmadon's own flesh and blood.
Maya and Ray even bound to that hidden workshop listening to the radio and TV that serves as their one link to the outside world. Can only hold each other in comfort for the passing of one of their beloved friend's passing and can only imagine Misako's anguish.
The live broadcast of Ignacia's celebration and singing of his passing is even more painful for Ray because that was his best friend.
Harumi is fuming internally despite her outward Cheerfulness because HOW DARE THEY CELEBRATE HER SAVIOR'S PASSING?!?!!?!? IT'S NOT FAIR AT ALL! (She had to be dragged away from the Emperor and Empress's side during the televised speech of celebration.)
