Please ask me about my ocs please please please they live almost exclusively in my head and any notes I get from posting about them is the closest they'll ever be to paying rent
Anyway judging by the fact someone liked the ninjago oc post from a while ago recently, I shall bestow upon ye knowledge about Reena (Ninjago edition)
Below the cut. There is much to say.
So!
[Slaps roof of oc]
Reena is my oldest oc, first spawning into existence when I was but a mere 11 years of age
She is very special to me
She is also a horrible little bastard
Reena is a thief for hire with a stage name that has changed at least 3 times. It's either Phantom or Fox or some ninjago-brand villain pun name that I can't quite remember. It's been a while.
She functions as a minor/recurring antagonist that steals weird macguffins for shadowy figures for fun and for profit
She doesn't take most things very seriously, she's just here for for a good time, yknow? Crime gets her out the house and gives her a chance to stretch her abilities
She is the self-proclaimed "master of illusion", whether these powers stem from elemental abilities or if its more of a sorcery deal (ala Clouse) is a mystery
And like any self-respecting individual with illusion powers, she abuses the hell out of them, heavily reliant on disorienting and distracting opponents so she can slip out of trouble and snag whatever her prize is. She's fast, sure, she's stealthy, but a fighter? She is not
But what she is, is very, very irritating to deal with. The ninja have had run-ins with her a few times and they collectively conclude that she is insufferable. Not to say all their encounters are adversarial, or at least from Reena's perspective anyway. Honestly she quite likes the ninja. They save Ninjago like, all the time, and if Ninjago is consumed by giant snakes or darkness or ghosts then what? Nothing good probably
Speaking of canon characters, Ronin is also familiar with her. Reena used to be a kind of apprentice of his towards the beginning of her criminal career. And by apprentice I mean she helped Ronin steal things and Ronin gave her a very small cut of the profits. Apparently, she thought she deserved a bigger cut for some reason and ditched him not long after. Sometimes their paths cross when they're both off on quests to steal things. There's no hard feelings though, they just both like to bully each other
Anyway backstory
Also a subject of ambiguity and frequent change, the tldr of the original edition is she lived in ninjago city with her parents and little brother but then her parents got lowkey killed by the great devourer and I guess bc I was 11 and didn't think about the fact they'd qualify for adoption, this led the vastly unqualified Reena to start stealing things so they could get by. And then gradually expanding her enterprises into bigger things
Yknow, classic backstory
(When I was 11 Rebooted had only just aired so actually Harumi stole Reena's backstory- (This is a joke))
More recent versions of her backstory find her parents just. Straight up absent for most of her life for unknown reasons. She's part of a kinda thieves guild thing, and an additional part of her motivation for stealing is bragging rights. Still gotta look out for her little brother though. Vaguely.
So uh. Yeah.
That got a little long but yknow, that is a crash course on Reena Things, please ignore the fact her outfit keeps changing, it has never been consistent
Jay, after inhaling seawater for 2 seconds: *on verge of death*
Those 3 kids that had been stuck underwater in the arcade and proceeded to get swung about underwater some more by a mech: *clearly in possession of superior lungs i guess*
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Please reblog or reply or DM your thoughts on Dareth Ninjago. I will not be using usernames in this portion for the sake of privacy.))
Dareth seems, at his core to be a comic relief character, and he's a pretty good one too, not being an entirely one-dimensional character and all. He's typically portrayed as slightly inept but he has his heart in the right place and for a man with quite possibly no martial arts skills at all, he is surprisingly brave (and somehow convinced people he was good enough to teach martial arts so props to him there).
He also took control of the stone army and I think he might have broken ronins's leg once which is... Very impressive ngl. Just yeeted the man, guy's a maniac, even if some of his more impressive feats are unintentional.
In recent seasons though it feels like he's been a little mistreated? I guess? He's still used as the comic relief but he seems to be the butt of the joke without being given many opportunities to show off his better traits. Which kind of blows bc he's not a bad character, the writers just don't always treat him right.
Yes, I am incredibly salty about his s12 appearance. Man deserves better, he's always been calling himself the brown ninja and Zane knows it, don't you dare try to retcon that.
Also why did the ninja wait until sundown to go investigate yangs temple?? They just sat around in broad daylight for hours in which they could've gone in and snagged the scroll with a much lower risk of turning into ghosts?? For dramatic effect??
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