There was this old game I remembered playing a year ago and the urge to make a Ninjago AU where the game's characters are actually Ninjago characters was strong.
So what's the game?
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Ikenfell!
I love this game so much! Mostly for the story, it's awesome! But, I would rather let you guys play it to know if it is actually good for you.
Okay, now for who is who in this Ninjago x Ikenfell AU!
Spoilers for both the show and the game of each others franchise
Now, I can't ignore the fact that the main character and her sibling should be the Smith Siblings. And Nya has to be Maritte (The one you play as in the beginning) and Kai is Safina!
Wanna know why?
Maritte may have fire powers but; she's younger, doesn't get powers until after her sibling does, and has a visible change in desgin when she embraces her "magic".
As seen here ->
Also Safina/Kai is reckless, getting in trouble with guardian figures. It fits.
I'm also gonna say that Jay is Gilda while Pixal is Pertisia.
Gilda has electric powers, has epic music and dance moves (Super Rockstar Jay, anyone), anytime she fails, she feels bad about herself.
And Gilda/Jay has a immediate love for Maritte /Nya when she first meets her. But they don't really become a thing and Maritte/Nya goes with Pertisia/Pixal.
Pixal x Nya doesn't actually happen in the show, but SamuraiShipping is a ship I like, so let me have this.
And Pixal and Pertisia connections?
Someone who was not so helpful when they and the main character meet, but becoming close after getting to know each other. Have a putfit that shows their left shoulder. A pattern on their faces that are different from others in the canon.
Not a lot of characters have rosy cheecks in the game, or purple prints in the show.
They were also annoyances to Kai/Safina. (Billboard scene anyone?). They were kids of pretty popular people.
And the best connection...
Both had their minds in a different form seprated from their actual bodies. Pertisia got stuck in a mirrror and used her cat to get help. Pixal was AI in Zane's head.
So, by that logic, Zane should be the cat. But I don't want that for him.
I also made some art of Nya and Pixal here.
Love them <3. But this won't be my final design, I think.
And I still need to play the game again, but the XBox I have decided to be dumb and not let me play it...
"Where are you going Nya." The familiar voice asked, no. Demanded from Nya. The ninja succeeded in sneaking away from the others, but she could never escape her brother's eye.
She refused to look back, she couldn't risk anyone from stopping her. "I'm going to finish this, go back to the others Kai."
The familiar thuds of her brother's steps approached gently. "You didn't ask Bentho about Nyad for the compelling story, didn't you?" The question hung, no disappointment or anger, just the overprotective fear she's grown up with.
"We can't defeat Kalmar like this," she turned to her brother, "I have to do this, and you're not convincing me otherwise." Sticking her ground she expected to meet her brother's usual stubbornness. But instead was greeted with a face she has never seen so tired nor vulnerable.
"I know. That doesn't mean I'm not going to try." He gave a worried smile as he put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. A usual reassurance feeling so finite in this context. "You don't have to do this. We can just leave, make a break for it. Escape to Shintaro, live in the clouds away from here."
Nya startled from the blunt offer, "Runaway? When Ninjago needs us most?" Ninja never quit, that's the mantra her brother practically drilled into her skull ever since she took up this lifestyle, and even before that he never stopped. Never ran, he was too proud, too stubborn for that. But looking into Kai's face, she could see the exhaustion he's carried, the grief, the fear. Nya had never seen him so vulnerable, he looked like he was going to shatter. Willing to throw out his morals, his pride, his legacy.
For her.
But she couldn't turn back, turning back now meant defeat. It meant that quiet wheezing in the other room would cease forever. It meant that evil would take everything she held dear to her. And she couldn't live with herself if she let that happen.
"No. I couldn't live myself if we left. I care for it all too much," she watched as her brother fractured a little more, nodding at her words.
"I know. . ." his voice shook, the understanding in his eyes told her all. He'd do the same if he was in her position, it didn't make it any easier. "What did Bentho mean? When he said Nyad became one with the ocean?"
Nya faltered, "Well, exactly that. She joined with it, followed its voice."
"Voice?"
Nya hummed lost in the memory, "Ever since I summoned those whales, I've been hearing it. The ocean. It calls to me. Asking me to join it again." Her voice faltered, the alluring voice, it promised everything. Peace, excitement, life, death, she knew once she joined it, it wouldn't let her go, she may not want to leave. "I won't be coming back." They both knew this, but voicing it gave it so much more power, made it real.
"I-I don't think I'll be me anymore." She whispered, looking down as she revealed her greatest fear. Not death, or immortality, but being an empty shell, losing who she is to the endless vast that called to her.
A gentle touch cupped her face and brought it level to Kai's, smiling so bittersweet. "Now listen here, I don't care if you become the ocean, a dragon. Hell even just a glass of water, you will always be Nya, my little sister, the elemental master of water, yang of Jay, and-and the bravest soul I have had the fortune of calling family." Nya watched as tears leaked from her brother's eyes, voice cracking as he lost what little composure he had. Bringing her into a tight hug, the two clung to one another.
Holding onto each other, realizing it may be the last time, that it would be the last time they could. They could already feel the ache of separation that spaded before them. "Will. . .Will you remember me? Remember us?" The small voice shook, and Nya could only smile as she separated from her brother.
"Always. If I will always be Nya, then I will always remember. You are a part of me as anything else I've experienced, that I am." Confidence flowed through her, she spoke the truth and they both knew it.
Just as they knew that they were out of time.
Taking the first steps away, Nya made her decision. Giving her brother one last smile she headed to the stairway, impatient to finally end this.
"Nya!" She turned, halfway up her fated path towards the ocean. Watching as her brother put on a brave face, pulling his composure together once again.
"I love you, never forget that."
Grinning in the final moment she shared with her brother. The one who raised her, who was always there to support her, who would move heaven and earth for her, who always trusted her. "I won't." And she disappeared up the stairwell in pursuit of her future.
