#I dunno but it kind of irks me how Ninjago in general talks about there being a balance

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I think it would be neat if we had a story in where like, the ninja all get separated into different places (my best excuse currently is the Merge), and Lloyd ends up somewhere now powerless and all alone, and the only thing that he could rely on to survive and fight is his Oni form, and so he has this journey where he has to rely on his Oni form, and throughout this journey he grows to accept it

I don’t think I worded it the best, but basically what I’m getting at is Lloyd being forced to acknowledge his Oni form, and thus his heritage, instead of rejecting it in favor of his dragon side (edit: okay they don’t really mention him being part dragon ever, but I mean that he only deals with the good side, always rejecting his Oni side), and through this learning to accept it, and likely control it

(Also I think it would be cool to see him use his Oni form after this journey, and while it’s not his main form of attack, he’d use it somewhat regularly and has far more control over it than just be a raging beast. I mean, maybe he doesn’t talk in that form and it is still generally destructive, but he can go in and out of it whenever he wants and won’t attack his friends)

#I dunno but it kind of irks me how Ninjago in general talks about there being a balance #but every time they reject the evil side in favor of total good #like the Oni and Dragons are meant to be a balance #but the Dragons are pretty much always cast as objectively good while the Oni are objectively evil #(with the exception of Mystake but the show doesn’t really acknowledge her) #and Crystalized kind of has Lloyd just ignoring the problem instead of dealing with it #when it comes to his heritage I mean #I want him to learn to accept it #I’d also accept a time skip where Lloyd uses his Oni form and has made peace with it offscreen #and then later on we could see how this happened #but Dragons Rising doesn’t seem to be going that route #this was more in my head before the new trailers came out #but I still thought it was neat #ninjago #ninjago lloyd #lloyd garmadon #random stuff