Ok ok ok I'mma just infodump some ninjago element headcanons because I can't stop thinking about it and my mind decided to run with figuring out how all the elements work. All of this is just me taking plot points, running away with them, and shoving 50 different headcanons in there lol. Pretty long post warning, rambles below the cut
So -- We start of with the 'Origin Elements' also kinda known as 'Elemental Essenses' because they're the elements that make up all of the rest of the elements: Creation (Dragon-shifted), Destruction (Oni-shifted) and Balance/Green/Energy/whatever tf you call Lloyd's element. Now these 3 are the basis of all of the rest of the elements in the show, and it all started w/ the source dragons and the sorce oni or whatever the oni equivalent are. So there are 7 source dragon, and 5 of them were like hey, I don't wanna be like other girls imma make my own element and made the first 5 primary elements: Fire, Ice, Earth, Water, and Storm. One of the source dragons was fine with being like the other girls and stuck w/ creation n one was like yo... oni are kinda hot n made the element of balance and the FSM w one of the source oni. So that's how the FSM got balance, and then there is Firstborne who got the elements of Ice, Fire, and Earth, and Firstborne's younger sister, Wojira, who got the elements of Storm and Water.
Now during the war btw Oni and Dragons Firstborne was all in on it, FSM was like why am i so special just leave me alone and Wojira was like fuck this im out and Wojira runs off to ninjago. While in ninjago, Wojira gets corrupted somehow and turns evil? idk how tho maybe some oni maybe bc i said so. So that's how the FSM finds Wojira when they end up running off to Ninjago too. Then FSM n Nyad beat Wojira up n FSM sees the corruption that's been put on the elements of Water n Storm and is like woah that's not good n immediately tells the source dragons what happened. The water source dragon looks at the element of water n goes well, it found a master so ig it's not that corrupted we good. On the other hand, the storm source dragon takes one look at the element of storm n is like WOAHHH NOT GOOD n decided, hey, I could maybe split this element into two elements n then insead of one element with 98% corruption it'll be two elements with 49% each n i can handle that so that's what they did. Then the FSM is like hey, ik im already taking Ice, Earth, n Fire to make a landmass here but can I take lightning too? Pretty please? Then the source dragons give the lightning to the FSM and also give lightning, wind, and water Firstborne.
So that gives us the first 6 primary elements, Ice, Fire, Earth, Lightning, Water, and Wind; with Ice, Fire, and Earth being elements of creation/FSM, Water and Wind being elements of Wojira, and Lightning being an element of both. There are also 2 'outlier' elements, Time and Amber, that kinda just showed up one day n no-one could trace them back as secondary elements to any of the other primaries so they are just primaries as well.
That then leads us to the Secondary elements, aka any other element that ever appeared on the show. These elements came to be as the primaries have a habit of breaking off during transfer between masters. This usually happens when either an elemental master dies n the element has to find a completely new host or when a parent has multiple children, hasn't specified which one inherits the element, and the element is trying to move on. For example, sometime during the succession of the water element, the elemental master died and the majority of the water element was like hey person A is the perfect canidate let's go for them, while a small portion of the water element was like no person A is horrible imma go for person B n then made the element of Poison. Or, in an alternate universe where Kai and Nya had a 3rd sibling, part of the element of fire could think that the 3rd sibling is a more suitible canidate and go for them, same for the element of water, combining to give the 3rd sibling the element of steam.
This also means that because all of the secondary elements are based off of the primary elements, with enough training a primary elemental master could tap into and control a secondary element, granted not to the extent a secondary elemental master could. Like, if Cole tried hard enough, he could use the element of metal like Karlof, or if Kai tried hard enough, he could use the element of light. Now this is also where the Storm split into Lightning+Wind gets a little tricky. Because Lighting and Wind split form the same element, they have a natural affinity for each other. And I know that the Jay using wind s1 was an error n Morro using lighting was probably just because he was in lloyd's body, but i'd be rlly cool if Jay and Morro/Euphrasia could tap into the others elements if they tried hard enough. That also means that they'd be able to tap into each other's secondary elements. The combination of Earth+Storm results in both Technology and Dust, but Tech is lightning-shifted while Dust is wind-shifted. That means theoretically Jay could use Dust and Euphrasia could use Tech, but it'd be a lot harder than Jay using Tech n Euphrasia using Dust.
The secondary element combos I have so far are:
Pure Earth: Metal, Sand
Pure Fire: Heat, Light, Shadow, Color
Pure Storm: Teleportation, Gravity, Sound, Speed
Pure Ice: Mind, Snow
Pure Water: Poison
Water+Storm(Wind-Shifted): Ink
Water+Ice+Storm: Weather
Earth+Ice: Crystal
Earth+Fire: Fusion, Lava
Fire+Storm(Lightning-Shifted): Smoke
Water+Earth: Form, Nature/Flora, Fauna
Ice+Storm: Imagination
Earth+Storm(Lightning-Shifted): Technology
Earth+Storm(Wind+Shifted): Dust
Fire+Ice: Temperature
Fire+Water: Steam
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“I know you’re there,” Aki spoke softly. “You know you can’t hide from me.”
Amil stepped out of the void, materializing beside her on the tree branch she had climbed up to. He wordlessly sat beside her.
“What are you doing here?” Aki asked, eyeing him with a brow raised.
“…Was worried.” Amil looked away from her, his brows pinched together. “You didn’t come down for dinner.”
“I didn’t think it would bother anyone,” Aki shrugged.
“Bothered me. You’re upset.”
“…You’re the last person I would have expected to notice.”
“I can pretend I didn’t,” Amil met her eyes. “If you’d prefer.”
“No, it doesn’t matter,” Aki chuckled softly. “Thank you for caring, ‘Mil.”
“We all care about you, kid.” Amil looked away once more. “Its the boy, right?”
Aki gasped. “How’d you know? Unless…” Her eyes narrowed. “You heard Florian and I?”
“My window was open,” Amil shrugged. “I didn’t try to hear.”
Aki frowned. “Sorry if we kept you up.”
“Don’t worry about it. I needed to check on the plants, anyway.”
Aki nodded, her gaze stuck on the ground below her. The two of them sat in silence for some time, soaking in the sounds of the nature around them.
“Amil… Can I ask you something?”
The older man blinked in confusion. “Yeah- but I’m not good at advice like the others.”
“I know, I know, but…” She took a deep breath. “Do you think it ever stops hurting?”
Amil shrugged. “Not really. But it gets easier to carry.”
Aki sighed. “Not what I wanted to hear.”
“Aki, I’m not going to lie to you. If you wanted sugarcoating, should have asked Cecelia. But you wanna know what I think?”
Aki shrugged. “You’ll tell me anyway.”
“True.” Amil chuckled. “I think even though things hurt, there’s no point in spending your whole life sulking. Indulge a little.”
She raised her brow. “Indulge, huh? Like how?”
“Well, first, we’re getting you out of this tree.”
Without warning, Amil grabbed her hand and pulled her through a void pocket to the ground below.
“Dude-“
“Shhhh…” Amil put a finger over his mouth. “I wasn’t done. Next, you’re lighting our fire, and I’m getting the others.”
Aki rolled her eyes. “Yes, mother.”
“Good.”
“You’re getting the others because you don’t have a plan farther than this, right?”
“You know it, kiddo. I told you, I’m bad at comforting.”
“Thanks, ‘Mil,” Aki giggled. “Wouldn’t change you for the world.”
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