Lloyd Garmadon Headcanons
Part 2!
So here’s some more Lloyd Headcanons at long last, literally like 2 years later.
I’m still not all caught up so bear with me!! I’ve only really got a vague understanding of how everything plays out after the Morro arc. Also please bear in mind that it’s been like 2 years so my characterization of everyone’s favorite Green Bean™ will probably have changed a bit since the first post.
Though he’s not terribly good at it, when he has access to his powers he can use all of the other elements - secondary elements included.
With practice, he could become an even more formidable opponent, having the ability to use any element at any given moment.
His skills/strengths lie primarily with Energy and the last glittering speckles of his Golden Power.
After those, in order, he is most skilled with/connected to Lightning, Creation, Wind, Destruction, and Fire.
The ease with which Creation, Wind, and Destruction yield to him deeply concerns him - particularly Wind and Destruction - as he has never gone out of his way to use any of them, to his knowledge.
The control over Wind came after Morro’s possession. Understandably, he doesn’t like to use it.
After being possessed, he has terrible, graphic nightmares about drowning. When Harumi leaves him to drown, it takes a lot of mental fortitude to fight through the fear that grips him as his nightmares nearly come true.
It takes everything he has, in fact, and yet he manages to summon still more strength afterwards.
He’s good at that - giving everything he has and digging deeper still. He sees it as a positive trait despite how much pain it causes him - mental and physical.
He is absolutely, debilitatingly, terrified of being abandoned. He doesn’t mind being alone - he minds not being alone of his own volition. He minds the idea that he’s disposable.
He gets extremely self-destructive when he thinks there’s a chance he’ll be left behind for any reason. He will do anything to make sure that he remains important to those around him. If he’s not important, if he’s not useful, then there’s no point in them humoring his presence... Right?
Like many other people who struggle with this, he doesn’t believe that other people are worthy of being abandoned just because they’re not useful.
And by “he’ll do anything”, I do mean pretty much anything. He may be a hero by birth and destiny, but he won’t hesitate to do something drastic to keep from being seen as obsolete and thus being abandoned. Darkley’s kicking him out messed him up.
Lloyd is terribly introverted, but also terribly extroverted. He adores interacting with other people, but he has a limited social battery and at some point he needs to go be by himself for a while to recharge that battery.
He’s got a bad habit of pushing forward on an empty social battery, though. Just pushing and pushing until he can’t stand to hear anyone around him so much as breathing and he has to totally isolate himself for a day or two to come back from it.
Somehow, he still keeps pushing himself, most of the time. He’ll take the absolute minimum amount of time he can get alone and then throw himself back into interacting with people.
The moment he’s able to justify total isolation to himself, though (there’s no current threat to the world, everyone else is going to be busy, etc), he throws himself at the opportunity and hunkers down in his room until he absolutely has to leave.
Though he is a wonderful person with a heart of gold, it is very easy in AUs for him to become very bitter and resentful of those around him.
This bitterness doesn’t make him a bad person, however much he may try to pass it off as being a bad person, and he retains his heart of gold - he just builds walls around it and acts out on his resentment to whatever extent is relatively reasonable.
He will act tough and work very hard to be seen as evil or unlikable, but he’ll never do anything truly terrible. He’ll even still go out of his way to save people and help them - he just can’t help the instinct and it drives him absolutely batty that no matter how much he wants to be evil and to toss conventional morality aside, he just. Can’t.
Acting out on his resentment, even, is not anything terrible when he does it. He never takes it out on anyone who can’t fight back, and even if he goes out of his way to mock and humiliate whoever he’s fighting he stops the second they do.
Only once, in a very specific AU, did he continue after his opponent stopped fighting back - it was Kai, and Lloyd threw him across the area they were fighting in and kicked him in the ribs after Kai had already sort of collapsed from how long they’d been fighting.
It’s important to note that in this AU, Lloyd has naturally aged to about 17, he and Kai are not teammates, and Kai doesn’t even know who Lloyd is, while Lloyd is aware that Kai (and the other ninja) had something to do with Garmadon’s defeat with the Golden Weapons and is bitter over it. He places the full weight of his resentment on Kai instead of any of the others primarily because Kai is extremely cocky and is unnecessarily rude to him the first time they meet (less than a week before the fight).
Before Morro’s possession of him, he is horrible about taking proper care of himself. Without someone around to tell him to eat or take a bath, he can and will forget to do both. The consequences for not eating far outweigh the consequences of not bathing, however, because he’ll pass out from low blood sugar long before he’ll start smelling nasty, and after you force him to eat when he wakes up, he usually goes and showers on his own.
After the possession, he suddenly becomes a pro at taking care of himself. You won’t ever catch him skipping a meal or going more than three days without a shower unless he absolutely has to.
Lloyd has panic attacks. He’s not sure what triggers them - not because they seem to come out of nowhere, but because there’s always so many things going through his head already when they hit that he can’t pinpoint an exact cause.
The two triggers he knows for certain and understands the reasons behind are thinking/talking about Morro too much and thinking/talking about what the Overlord did to him for too long.
He can think/talk about either but he has to get off the topic quickly if he wants to avoid a panic attack. At most he’s capable of mentioning Morro’s name and sort of vaguely alluding to the possession and how terrifying it was, and giving a quick summary of what the Overlord did to him and why.
Lloyd also has frequent nightmares - not just the ones about his dad or about drowning. He honestly has more bad dreams than good. He’d rather dream about Morro or drowning than the Overlord or his dad any day, though.
Okay so like last time I have so many more, but this is enough for one post.
More headcanons for the other boys and some for Nya coming soon!
Part 1