Sky: You See This Bed? It’s Nice, It’s Comfort-ta-bla. I’m Going To Lay Down, And Stay Down!

Kai: How many Jay’s does it take to change a lightbulb?

Cole: Just one, the real question is how many ladders does he need?

Jay: *offended noises*

A Chain of Monsters

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Hello! this Linked universe au is by @nebulapaws and its amazing and awesome so I wanted to write about it, but I have no plot ideas so just have a bunch of the links from this au chillin.

If you don't know what this au is, all the links are monsters from myths/legends. nebulapaws knows much more about each monster, but heres the context:

Green is a Harpy, Blue is a selkie, Red is a satyr/fire Fae, Violet is a changeling/were (werewolf?), Shadow is a demon (of the shapeshifting vein), all together Four is a chimera (bird, deer, seal, wolf and Fae.), Twilight is a werewolf, Wars is a kelpie, Wind is a sylph, Sky is a biblically accurate angel, Time is a fallen angel (in this context, I'm assuming when angels fall they lose all the eyes and.... biblical stuff and just a pair of wings is visible. In Time's case, his wings are clipped.), Hyrule is a cervitaur, Legend a pookah, and Wild is a dyriad (or coulde be a naga. In this one tho, I plan on making Wild a dryad, but maybe in the future there could be some with naga Wild.) I have no clue where this could be going, but who knows! So yeah, thats all the info in this fic you really need to know!

Green groaned as his tail scrapped across the dirt. His normally green feathers soaked in mud. Thats going to take so long to get out... he tucked his wings close and ducked under a particuallry low hanging arch as he stumbled through the forest.

"This is not the best portal jump we've had..." Red mumbled, shaking next to him in the crisp air.

"Yeah, worse enough its a full moon. Vio and Twilight are in their were forms. And Vio doesn't have us to help contain him. I also expect him to not want to form Four..." Green trailed off.

"So basically the only way we can catch and stop the rest of the chain from finding out about us is if we catch and somehow contain Vio? But for how long? We can't form Four without Vio and the rest of the group will want to come search for us!"

Green sighed. "I don't know Red. I don't know.."

Time's back ached. He reached his hand to his back, before stopping himself. Lowering his hand again, he sighed as he watched Wild wildly (aha, a pun) wave his hands around and Wind watch in awe.

"Hey, you okay there?" Sky asked, his wings twitching on his back as he blinked at Time. He stiffened, not hearing Sky at all as he came over.

Time nodded. "Yes. I am fine."

Sky frowned. "I can tell your hurting. Can I see the injury. If I bring Hyrule will it help?"

Time shook his head. "I'm afraid that this injury is years old. Nothing we can do now."

"Oh, but still. Maybe we can do something so you're not in pain?" He asked, his wings fluttered behind him as he gently patted his friend's shoulder.

"You can try." Time said, Sky nodded and hopped off, coming back with Hyrule. His hooves nerviously pawing the ground as his pointed deer ears flickered. He tilted his head.

"Where is the injury?" He asked, his fingers fidgeting with his horns on his head.

Time turned around, and gestured towads the back

"Can you remove your armor and shirt real quick?" Hyrule asked and Time nodded, slowly taking off his armor and discarding it in front of him.

Hyrule gasped as Time partly lifted his shirt off. Displaying scars that ran across his entire body. His cold hands gently touched the scars.

"Where did you get this from...?"

"A secret I would rather not tell."

Sky gasped, quietly under his breath. He stared at the scars in shock.

"Seriously Blue? You live in a fish tank??" Shadow laughed, cackled even, as Blue glared at him in return.

"Listen, I like the tank. Its a nice tank." Blue crossed his arms and huffed.

Vio watched them quietly, his horns shifting away as he closed his book to stop his siblings from arguing.

"Hey Legend!" Wild called out, picking up the pookah and grinning. "You wanna commit some crimes?"

"No thank you! I've committed enough in my time." He crossed his hands.

"I want to!" Wind exclaimed, his form flickering slightly in the breeze,

"Of course you do!" Wild laughed at the sylph's antics.

"You all have fun. Now listen, I'm not responsible for whatever you do." Four said without looking up from Time's shield. "Most of all, I swear if you break another sword Wild, we're going to have words." His wings shifted behind him as his antenna things flicked.

Wild nodded.

"Can you let me down now?!"

Warriors ears flicked as he stood in the swamp. He frowned and stared at his hooves as they sunk into the dirt.

"You're looking a little down there." footsteps squished through the swamp behind him.

Warriors turned to see Twilight. He nodded. "Yeah, it just.. instincts. You know?"

Twilight nodded. "Yeah, happens every full moon here."

They stood in silence as crickets started to chirp.

"Whats it like when you turn into a werewolf?"

Twilight sighed. "Like being trapped in a prison within yourself."

Warriors stayed silent, watching the setting cast beams across the sky. Like an endless dance.

"Sometimes, I wish I didn't have these instincts."

I love this idea sm.

I also like to combine the Movie verse and the Show verse.. So I have Jay as a nervous person with anxiety when meeting new people. If he knows the person, then he rambles non-stop even.

But otherwise.. I love these concepts for Jay and might completely rewrite Prime Empire.. or at least I’mma try to incorporate some of these into my fics. I love this sm.

@akita747 (sorry this took so long)

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Jay!

Hell yeah! The lightning ninja. Established early on as someone who literally cannot stop talking, the comic relief, the creative, scrappy guy all about reaching new heights! When we see his flashback sequence in s9, the concept that they stick with is the idea that Jay is a dreamer. He’s pretty ambitious always trying to craft something that will take him above and beyond (as in he was literally trying to make a flying machine), and his element helps symbolise it. He’s into being flashy like lightning, and tries to climb higher (relating to the sky). This ambition does lead to him having a lot of insecurities though, and he has some interesting ways of dealing with them but I’ll elaborate later.

Jay’s backstory when it’s told in s1, is the most straight forward. I mean, he’s the only ninja with both of his parents on regular speaking terms, although he grew up on a junkyard, it’s pretty mundane and he has an air of normalcy about him, which he seems to be trying to escape. He does really mundane stuff, like poetry and comic book reading (compared to Cole who abandoned art school to go mountain climbing shirtless). I kinda hc Jay having gone to public school and immediately getting bullied because he was raised in a junkyard and his parents are weird, bc those insecurities have gotta come from somewhere. He’s pretty impressionable too, getting fixated on video games and Cliff Gordon (and those also probably influenced his uhh outlook on women and romance).

Jay has a lot of insecurities. I’ve mentioned his upbringing but also his low self esteem is the crux of his true potential episode. Jay’s over the top bravado is him trying desperately to make others like him, almost to the point that he didn’t even tell anyone about the real problems he had (being a snake). The s3-4 love triangle plot follows the same themes; Jay feeling insecure and threatened by Cole, only to reveal that secretly he missed being Cole’s best friend and he hadn’t even confronted those feelings until s4. Again in s6, Nadakhan straight up says that Jay makes jokes to hide his deeper insecurities. And yeah I thinks it’s understandable why he would be a little insecure considering he’s living with shirtless mountain climber Cole, actually gets btiches Kai, literally computer for brain Zane, badass Samurai x Nya, and grandson of god chosen one Lloyd. On top of that, Jay is the most panicky ninja and the main comic relief of the team.

I think his greatest strength is his tenacity to succeed even when he’s at a low. As a junkyard boy, he learned to scrap together quick solutions out of barely anything as shown in Hunted, and when all his friends were captured in s6, he scrapped together a new team, and even after quitting the ninja he was able to make it big and score a job as a tv host. Nadakhan’s characterisation is supposed to parallel Jay in that, like Jay, Nadakhan also relies on what resources he had, and his own wits. Jay’s “fake it til you make it” personality has its use in how he doesn’t stop trying and can find ways to make the most out of his situation. He kinda embodies the message of Lego, being able to build his way to a solution. He’s a dreamer, with his head in the clouds, which makes sense because that’s usually where lightning is.

Although after all that’s happened to Jay, I have sort of a theory/headcanon to do with his perception of reality. Because Jay, since the start, already has some association with not being completely honest. I think Jay having some sort of detachment with reality is really interesting and it’s only briefly touched upon in the show. But yknow especially after s6 I think he should because a) Jay literally learned that season that he was adopted, and whilst he still loves his parents dearly, that’s still gonna shake him to find out that he doesn’t know a lot about his past and heritage, b) everyone he loves keep dying and undying again and again and at that point I think death would be even ever so slightly desensitised c) Jay literally bent reality to his will. He is one of the only two people who remember things that never happened, and all the tragedy that happened in his life was erased and promptly ignored. He never tells the other ninja. He’s never seen going back to Cliff Gordon’s house. We don’t see him go back for Echo. He isn’t shown to try to look for his mother.

(Crystalised part 1 spoilers)

Ninjago, intentionally or not, does play around with Jay and reality and his sanity in s9 and Crystalised. In s9, whilst Jay knows what’s going on, he just loses any semblance of self preservation and gives up with even the idea of being stressed about a situation so hopeless, and is weirdly at peace with it all. (Spoilers here) In Crystalised, Jay believes Nya is in cups of water and decides to become a hermit, cutting himself off from the world and kinda losing it. Jay tends to lose his grip on reality/lose faith in his situation and I think it might be because he’s been through a lot of things that have already made him question his life (s6). Also being separated fro Nya, who he not only loves but also is the only one who can possibly understand what he went through in s6, may have played a role in this.

It’s a shame Prime Empire didn’t really use this, since Prime Empire had all the pieces to have an escapism themed arc for Jay, which I think would’ve made sense since I think Jay could’ve used escapism to cope with his hardships, even before s6, even being a ninja is an escape from his boring junkyard life). Prime Empire provides a fun, totally harmless (not) adventure than you can physically use to run away from reality. Jay was popular there, and the most skilled there and it was supposed to be his season. I mean it would have been cool if the reason why half of Ninjago entered prime empire is because they’re also traumatised and want to leave too (just last season they were attacked by fire snakes and eldritch horrors). But they don’t really explore it that much so there’s some missed potential there (one day, I’ll rewrite this season).

Although we can see, ever since s6, some of Jay’s insecurities are alleviated. It might just be the writer change, but post 7 Jay seems to be a lot goofier that pre 7 Jay, (the uwuification), and I’m interpreting that as him no longer feeling like he needs to fake bravado in front of everyone else. And that’s nice. Jay has some really good developement, and is a really enjoyable character to watch because he’s just so endearing in my opinion. In conclusion, I like Jay’s arc and his consistent character traits and his character development, and he’s just a really interesting character.

Ooo tag!

Egg: scrambled with cheese and ham

Steak: Medium (sometimes medium rare)

Milk: I usually drink 2%, but I really enjoy whole milk.

Alcohol: No thank you! <3

Warm drink: Hot chocolate with marshmellows, whipped cream and sprinkles if I feel like it

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In the last shades of Red

Basically its a WHAT IF? Last Life au

But What if Grian never got the extra life from Scar and died to Bdub’s boogie kill?

Well, the first red will be released.

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Grian groaned, his unsuccessful attempt to get an extra life from Scar stared at him with disappointment. Even after a couple hours later.

Hearing voices ahead, Grian ducked into the bushes, his eyes narrowing in suspicion. It took a moment before he heard the talk of Etho and Bdubs.

“Did we lose him?“ Bdubs voice asked as Grian stumbled behind slightly.

“No I’m here.” Groan said, emerging from the bush he was trapped in, his wings pinned to his back unable to fly. He gripped his diamond sword tightly. “I’m actually on my way to the enchanter if you want to join me.”

“Wait your enchantjng without-“ etho started, but was cut off by Bdubs as he took notice of Grian’s sword.

“But you said you didn’t get diamonds.” He pointed accusingly at Grians diamond sword. It shone like a gleaming diamond of blue in a darkened world. A drop of ocean so for inland.

Etho and Bdubs backed up, making eye contact with each other when Grian didn’t respond.

“We can’t trust this guy.” Etho stated.

“I don’t know about all this now.” Bdubs stated, crossing his arms defensively.

“I found it in a chest!” Grian exclaimed as Bdubs continued talking, holding his new diamond sword close. “Lets lets go be friends and go to the enchanter shall we?” Grian laughed nervously.

Bdubs and Etho glanced at each other, their doubts gleaming in their eyes.

Etho shrugged. “I actually welcome that idea because I have no idea where it is.” He said as he started to walk away.

“Me neither!” Grian smiled as he stumbled after Etho’s quick paces.

It left Bdubs blinking after them, an unusual glint shimmering in his eyes unnaturally.

Grian, Etho and Bdubs all sat around the enchanter, quietly enchanting their items.

“So we’re allowed one enchantment like level one.” Etho asked as he stared at the options.

“Yeah, level ones only.” Grian smiled slightly as he enchanted his sword.

“Level ones only. Okay” Bdubs echoed, fidgeting with his coat on, his eyes staring at the enchanter. Suddenly he glanced up and looked over at Etho.

“Oh Etho. You got that record?” Etho nodded.

“Oh yeah, yeah yeah.” Etho pulled out a disk with a yellow center.

“Oh yeah pop the record in.” Bdubs said as Etho put the record in a jukebox. It clicked as the disk went in.

Suddenly, ominous music started to play and Grian glanced at the two confusedly as disk eleven flowed through the air on invisible wings.

“Whats going on?!” Grian exclaimed, fear staring to leak into his voice. He felt his wings start to puff up on instinct, ready for him to flap them and fly away from his friends who were acting strange.

“When you hear this, someone is going to die.” Etho said, his expression dark and blank of emotion. His mask moved with his mouth.

“No way! Please tell me your the boggie man so you can make this happen!” Grian put his hands on the enchanter and laughed at the possibility if one of them was.

(But wait, if Grian died, wouldn’t he be red? Well lets just say that Grian’s mind wasn’t in the right place as a yellow already..)

Scrapping was heard and Grian and Etho turned to look at Bdubs as he scrapped his sword on the floor. He was staring at Grian, his eyes gleaming with an unatural purple.

(Grian shivered instinctively, reminded of those long, dark, cold hallways of obsidian and an expanse of nothingness of the end. Those eyes always watching everything.)

Bdubs pulled his sword slowly. Etho stared at Bdubs nerviously.

“Oh. Yes.” He simply said, and swung his sword at Grian.

“You’re correct!” Grian yelped, dodging the swing barely.

“Aha!” Bdubs cried as Grian started to sprint off and Bdubs gave chase.

Etho walked around the enchanter, watching the battle but doing nothing to stop it.

“I am the boggie!” He cried, swinging his sword again. Grian wasn’t so lucky this time and it went straight into his chest. The tip protruding from the front. Grian made a small noise of pain before vanishing in a cloud of dust. His items spilling all over the land as he blood dripped from Bdubs sword.

Their cominucators buzzed with a message and Bdubs and Etho stared at it.

Grian was killed by Bdubs

Grian’s name was yellow.

Bdubs just killed a yellow. Which would mean he’s now a red.

A red now probably out for revenge.

Hidden underground, a fallen watcher growled.

His eyes glowed a blood red and an itch for blood that could never be satisfied.

Grian growled as he put on iron armor, unenchanted iron armor.

I’m going to kill Bdubs and Etho. He vowed. He smiled as he imagined the death. His sanity slipping through his fingers like sand.

On a mountain top, a scarred man stared at the message on his communicator. He frowned sadly. Remembering just seeing the newly red asking for a life.

If only I had given you a life..

In the south, those towers were never built. No leader, no team, no ‘aha’ jokes were shared.

Instead a mustached man lived with the scarred one on the mountain. Instead a redstoner with an i on this chest lived with the lone canary. Instead the past is repeated and once a king and once a knight, now equal, live together once more.

Instead of a leader in the south, now a lone red sits below the surface. Sharpening his sword and ready for blood. He was ready for the world to turn red.

Time: That sounds like a terrible plan.

Twilight: Oh, we've had worse.

This is my first time EVER participating in LU-tober or any kind of weekly/monthly event. It was such a blast!

((I’m going to go take a nap.))

 CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS TO TOTK IN CH 14!!

And here is it all by its lonesome self. Its beautiful and apart of this post: https://traveleroffarawayplaces.tumblr.com/post/691035230703960064/so-this-is-how-it-totally-went-right-lol-i

Wooo!

Bow: I think that's enough Monopoly for today...

Catra: I hate you!

Adora: Oh?! Well next time don’t steal my monopoly.

Glimmer: Catra, give Adora your two hundred dollars. You landed on her property.

Catra: No! She’s in jail! I’m not going to give money to a criminal.

Adora: That’s not how you play!!!!!

Frosta: What is happening?

Mermista: Shut up, Frosta! You don’t get to talk after stealing my last railroad!

Scorpia: I wish I was never born!

Perfuma: You think any of us wanted this!!!

[ Sea Hawk is just screaming. ]

Wild: I want a fire rod. Four: You're going to start a forest fire aren't you? Wild: nnnoo, what makes you say that?