finally posting my part serpentine jay design to celebrate new OBNL chapter.
rants and bonus art under the cut!
anyway OBNL (once bitten new life) is a ninjago fanfic diverging from Jay's true potential episode where he stays part serpentine: Exactly what 9 year old me would have wanted!! when I first found the fic was during the 'hiatus' after the child's play emotional breakdown. making it especially comedic that the fic was currently on the episode I was currently on. rereading it only gets better with me now having over 18 season's worth of emotional attachment to the franchise.
anyway this fanfic lowkey feels like: tailor fuckign made for me. I think I've mentioned this before but I have a thing for a very specific 'trope' that RARELY gets explored as much as I want it to. that being characters coping with transformations. hell I even have this wip
you'd think this trope should be common enough right? NO! because it's not very often actually EXPLORED. like I need character's learning about their new physiology. having extended identity crisiss. I need the new changes they have to cope with not just being 'objectively cool fangs' a la 'character gets bullied for heterochormia when that's a fucking awesome feature' but like, be a little weird. I crave this content so fukcing badly like I can't even.
so finding this fanfic is just: such a godsend. like! 'hello sir here's that favorite trope you ordered! also it appeals to your childhood special interest immensely so you're going to get very emotionally attached to this work of fiction very fast.'
to give you an idea of how much I love this fic: while it will be mentioned in my ninjago video (YES IM STILL WOKRING ON THAT THERES BEEN TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES NFKJNSKDA) I honestly think I'd rather give obnl a seperate video. it deserves it <3
anyway! my special boy! my snake jay design!!!! it's not actually canon compliant to obnl because I am allergic to not exercising my creative license! I just had to talk about obnl anyway.
have you ever looked at teeth chart's at 1:00am? have you ever found it important to have made up headcanons about serpentine dentals? I have!
do you care deeply about the most mundane worldbuilding shit ever? and wanted to know 4 different ways that tail accommodating clothing could work?
anyway! the finger count is actually not just stylization 'only 3 fingers' is a personally favorite fantasy species trait of mine. I think cause It makes for a world where human's also have unique features instead of feeling like a 'default'?
the back pattern is VERY LOOSLY based off of the japanese kanji for lightening. I just wanted something more interesting to work off of as a base shape other then just a diamond.
anyway! I have amassed a small collection of general serpentine headcanons over the course of my obsession with this au. (which is now also being assisted by Frak <3 he's lowkey so incredibly stupid and I love him. I have a handful of techtonic art including a comic in the works btw. idk if I mentioned this in one of my dr overviews but like, I just really love that we get serpentine character in the main cast. def wasn't on my bingo card and I am satisfied <3)
alright thats all for now! also DELTARUNE SO SOONNNNN!!!!!! (funny enough this is actually relevant to the current conversation as my personal version of deltarune tomorrow is 'nothing bad is going to happen in the next obnl chapter!)
hyped for monstrosity too ofc!! I'm so excited that they're letting my boy be a shonen protag again <3 they havnt let him do that sense season 7 <3 but finally he can thrive in his home environment <3 I love him so much guys <3 he's a special princess to me <3 my favorite anime shonene protag? um Kai Smith Ninjago OBVIOUSLY <3333
okay NOW i'm done!














