HEY people happy spooky season! I Bring you the middle part of My Skybound project animation making it halfway completed! This part featuring about one of the creepiest scene in all of Ninjago so I figure tiz the season.
Tw: Predatory Behavior and Manipulation be ready. You will be uncomfortable if I did it right.
Art & Song
The words are
Now you say,
“I’m already the girl ninja”
Lover stay
“It’s because I’m from a junkyard isn’t it!”
“a poor boy from a junkyard wouldn’t understand”
Warm these bones my dear
Light my heart afire/“I can offer your hearts desire”
I picked changed some order of quotes and how scene went to work better and be clear. I showing jays resistance actually would take more time and less fun than making him attack >:).
This bit is all done frame by frame I use key frames and such other parts but this is the center point of my animation cause the lyrics match good. And it’s also where everything starts heading downhill. Trying to hit all day emotional beats necessary for part two of my Skybound project. Already feel like I could do what I already made better, but I’m not going to reanimate it because it would take forever and it’s good enough. It’s not as important to me as part two and I want to get there asap.
The scene
There is a lot to say about this scene It’s a majorly consequential point and gives really dark characterization to a villain that is… certainly a choice for a show aimed at kids. I’m spoiling my Animatic so might as well give I’ll also give some of My analysis video thoughts.
First, the conversation. Nya has a lot going on in Skybound, She’s struggling with her perception by the public and being defined by other people. She’s the new ninja, the girl ninja in a team that has already been established for a while trying to find her place. This is explicitly the reason why she doesn’t want to be dating Jay. She’s worried the people will think of her only has his girlfriend.
It’s not known if she’s in love with him still at this point she very well could be but she simply has bigger things overwhelming her to deal with. So she tries her best to be kind and stop him from pursuing her. It’s what she’s explaining now and later in the lighthouse scene. When Jay actually listens to her, when she feels heard and seen by him suddenly it matters less what others perceive her as. Her ark makes the most sense.
Second Jay… while, she’s pretty clear about her reasons to not date in this he simply does not hear her or believe her. He acts entitled to her and projects his insecurities onto her reasons to reject him. That he is poor and from a junkyard. This is what he thinks is wrong with him and the stalker djinn picks up on this weakness immediately.
And Last Nadakhan God where to start. His goal here is to convince a ninja to make their three wishes so he can steal them and use their power to make him stronger. Supposedly making them pay for the destruction of his realm.
But he sure as hell is not a normal Villain in the way he goes about it.
This is more than the fact he is targeting teenagers. And throws away most his revenge narrative to force one into marriage so he can gain infinite wishes.
(I know some like to argue on age but I’m sorry. They are said to always be teens by the hageman brothers as well as S9 mention and mentioned to be teen idols in skybound itself.)
He hears Jays vulnerability and waits till he’s alone to take advantage of him. Jay is resistant at first but eventually gives in to Nadakhan’s offer. He makes a wish tying to fix what he thinks is wrong with him.
Nadakhan is physically all over the person he wants to wish, It’s a fear strategy and a warning sign. It’s all deeply uncomfortable to watch
Though it’s not the worst we get from on screen torture, forced kiss and caresses unconscious girl character. But I’ll save it for later.
Thank you @mondothebombo for letting me show her each new bit I’m doing like Im excited kid. (And tormenting me with new Wytyaa developments)
And thanks my new moot @vyoleya for catching me drawing this on my bus to college and yapping with me about ninjago while I was a nervous mess. Here is is all done 😭
I should really get to answering my asks huh