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chicademartinica · 23 days

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Qian was giving “ Well, aren’t you going to ravish me ?!” all episode but this scene was my favorite !

And Boo was like “ Sure babe but USE YOUR WORDS NOW. You got to ask for what you want WEI QIAN.”

#unknown the series #ray jiang #Da ge #chris chiu #kurt huang #Kurt is one SMOOTH bitch #taiwanese bl

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crossroads-of-the-raven · 7 months

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Kai, Nya and their Parents - The Difference between knowing and not knowing what you're missing - and the sacrifices made by a caring brother

The day Nya was brought home - the day Kai met Nya face to face for the first time; Kai is two (Hands of Time, episode 3, A Time of Traitors)

Three years later

Ray and Maya are kidnapped, thus forcing Kai to take on the responsibility of becoming a five year old Dad aka the death of Kai's babyhood and childhood so as to preserve Nya's babyhood and childhood (Hands of Time, episode 8, Pause and Effect)

Thirteen years later

Kai and Nya are reunited with their parents (Hands of Time, Episode 8, Pause and Effect)

Three years later (vid from Seabound, episode 2, The Call of the Deep)

Though Kai had pointed out that Nya and Maya did not get along (due to Nya's independence from having grown up without her parents); at Master Wu's insistence, Kai calls in his mother to help Nya with her power problem.

Nya, however, dislikes Maya's mothering (what she considers babying).

When Wu suggests that Nya should discuss her issues with Kai, Nya insists with scorn that Kai likely enjoys being waited on and loves to be treated like a baby.

(Note how Nya goes from the probability statement of "probably, likes, being waited on" to the presumption in her absolute statement of "I bet he loves being treated like a baby" -- Nya, please tell me if this is your thoughts on your brother who raised you and gave up everything for you then when has he ever previously behaved in such a way that would suggest your statements to be true.)

The difference here is that Kai remembers what it was like to have someone taking care of him only to have it ripped away - to go from being the baby boy to suddenly having to be the adult for his sister.

Nya, though, doesn't really remember what it was like to be cared for by her parents; but, she remembers what it was like to be cared for (by her brother).

Kai is, in a way, reveling in the joy of being able to play games with his father, eat food cooked by his mother, and learn once more from his parents.

All things he hoped for but never once thought he'd ever have again.

While growing up, Nya was likely allowed to play games, eat homemade food that she didn't have to cook, and learn from Kai the lessons that he remembers their parents teaching them.

Kai on the other hand, had to get straight to work, schedule time in a busy day to cook so that Nya could eat, and be the one to teach trusted lessons from his parents (while likely having to weed out good advice from bad, given to him by whichever random adult decided to give it to him).

Kai's sacrifices for Nya can even be seen in the clothes they wear in the pilot.

When we first see Nya it looks like she's dressed in silk clothes which we know didn't come from Maya's closet since she generally dresses in blue.

Kai on the other hand is introduced in his blacksmithing clothes and goes to train with Wu, in his blacksmithing clothes, which may indicate a limited closet - he may even be wearing his Father's clothes as a way to save money.

But, you might say, he has different clothes in the episode, The Royal Blacksmiths.

Yes, he does have different clothes, but these clothes, like his and the Ninja's matching pajamas (color coded but with the same golden dragon on the chest pocket) are likely the result of Kai now being able to lean on Wu, financially.

Note that Kai's clothes are the only ones that indicate his elemental power - the others likely already had these clothes on hand before they met Wu (except maybe Zane - IDK).

Another way Kai's sacrifices and generosity torwards his sister can be shown is by comparing the first pilot episode to the Season 2 episode 6, Wrong Place, Wrong Time.

In this episode it is shown that, were it not for Nya getting kidnapped by Garmadon, Kai would never had cared about becoming a ninja.

It was only the knowledge that becoming a ninja was the only way to save Nya that motivated Kai to become a ninja.

Yet in a timeline where Nya was never kidnapped, all Kai cared about was getting the blacksmith shop back on its feet after the Skulkin attack.

So how did Wu convince Kai to come to the Monastery, the answer, he didn't - Nya did.

Wu unintentionally convinced Nya to become a ninja and since Kai wasn't just going to let her go off on her own (this is his fourteen year old little sister who he raised after all) Kai went with her so they could become Ninja.

Kai gave up what he wanted in favor of what Nya wanted.

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Kai's sacrifices, his giving nature, and everything he does for Nya is almost practically an automatic habit, because he and Nya lost their parents at a young age thus forcing Kai to give up being a child to be Nya's caretaker.

And yet throughout the series whenever the siblings bring up their parents, it becomes clear that Kai made sure that Nya never forgot them and that they were remembered well, that they were missed and not forgotten.

I really like Nya; and while Seabound is a great season it also points out that Nya may just be truly unaware of how much Kai sacrificed for her to the point where she doesn't understand exactly why Kai likes having their parents around; among other details that she and others misunderstand about Kai.

Believe me, I like the idea that Nya knows and helps her brother out where she can, and she definitely loves him, but it seems like Seabound has shown her to be unaware of Kai's trials and tribulations in raising her and keeping them both from landing in the grave of the fireflies.

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thisonelikesaliens · 1 month

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cinematic universe of director Ray Jiang, featuring sad/traumatized men in water:

different types of water for different types of pain

#we best love #永遠的第一名 #my tooth your love #unknown the series #關於未知的我們 #ray jiang #taiwanese bl #don't mind me i'm having fun here #this one rambles

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beesinaskirt · 2 months

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I like to think first time Ray discovered his powers was bc someone said smth mean to Wu and he set them on fire

#ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago headcanons #ray smith #ray jiang #ninjago ray #ray #wu #ninjago wu #sensei wu #ninjago sensei wu #u can see this as ship thing if u want #id tag their ahip name #but i have no idea what it is

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aureallegories · 11 months

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I keep forgetting to post this but my favorite headcanon is that Nya's name was actually Nyad but when Kai was little he couldn't say it right and despite Maya and Ray trying to correct him he didn't quite get there before they were taken so "Nyad" grew up as Nya which makes Maya and Ray confused af when they get reunited but they just go with it

#ninjago #lego ninjago #nya smith #nya jiang #nya ninjago #ninjago nya #kai ninjago #kai jiang #ninjago kai #kai smith #ninjago headcanons #Ninjago headcanon #maya smith #maya jiang #ray smith #ray jiang

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basicallyjaywalker · 4 months

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New goofy hc: Nya discovered the Ninjago version of Amazon and constantly buys Kai and Ray goofy gag blacksmithing gifts off it

I'm talking t-shirts that say things like "I'd hit that" (an anvil) and "I'd rather be forging"

Ray wears them unironically. Kai doesn't wear them but keeps them bc Nya bought it

#i think Nya would do this for everyone btw #the amount of gamer joke shirts jay has #not even wu and misako are safe #ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago hc #jiang family #nya jiang #kai jiang #ray jiang

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almostaccurateninjagoquotes · 1 year

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Wu: What's the most physically painful thing you guys have ever experienced? I got hit by Earth's shockwave.

Libber: Falling off a cliff.

Ray: I once got clipped by a dragon's ice breath.

Lily: Probably getting stepped on by a mino.

Misako: Childbirth.

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anidiothuman · 1 year

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I find it funny how Wu just has all this information about Ray and Maya from the Serpentine Wars, yet none about Libber, proving that Ray and Maya were his favorites. I mean, I get the season was about Kai and Nya and I don't want to switch that focus from them, but still.

Acronix too! He sees a fire ninja (kai) and goes "A fire ninja, I've encountered one of you before." Or smth like that. But he sees a lightning ninja (Jay) and does not react.

This post is meant to prove my point that Ray and Maya were Wu's favorite.

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chicademartinica · 9 days

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Qian spoke more in this episode than in the last three. HE USED HIS WORDS. ALL THE WORDS.

Voicing his doubts ?!!

But also full on declaration ?!!

Even Boo was a lil shocked and he knows that man BUT I WAS GAGGED YOU HEAR ME.

#unknown the series #qian x yuan #kurt huang #chris chiu #ray jiang #Chris Chiu was amazing amazing amazing

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crossroads-of-the-raven · 7 months

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Rewatching Past Ninjago Episodes - Tournament of Elements, episode 6, Spellbound: Something to think about concerning the Serpentine War

Pretty sure this is the Master of Earth (and Lily's father) who just turned traitor.

This means that Cole's grandfather fought alongside Kai and Nya's parents before siding with the Serpentine (due to Chen's trickery).

(The above gif and picture are taken from Season 7, Hands of Time, episode 2, The Hatching)

Still, at least he returned to the Elemental Alliance as this picture takes place at the end of the Serpentine War.

(Also, if Cole's grandfather fought alongside Kai and Nya's parents then I wonder if that gives credibility to the idea that Kai is older than Cole - IDK)

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Next thing to note from Spellbound:

These two gifs are of Maya and Ray (the parents of Kai and Nya), locking away the Venomari and Anacondri Tribes, respectively - including the fact that Pythor (last of the Anacondri to be locked away by Ray) presumably fought in the Serpentine War.

Kind of puts these two moments from Season 1 (the first from episode 5, Can of Worms - the second from episode 4, Never Trust a Snake) into a sort of perspective.

Imagine what could have been for these two moments had the writers known at the time that they would get more seasons.

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thisonelikesaliens · 9 days

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你以為你在演”角頭”

this may be a reference to the 2021 gangster movie 角頭：浪流連 (Gatao: The Last Stray) directed by Ray Jiang

(side note, San Pang is pronouncing 角頭 in Mandarin Jiao Tou. the movie translation Gatao is Taiwanese)

#unknown the series #關於未知的我們 #ray jiang #probably an obscure reference for this crowd #but love to see director ray jiang having fun #this one rambles

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nyagirboss · 9 months

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What are your most canon compliant hcs and least canon compliant hcs. Could be about anything. You just see like you have good opinions

Compliant:

Lloyd is trans. He just is. The vocal difference between S7 and S8 is because he started T, not just his age. Esp explains it since he was supposedly much closer to the other ninja's age after the aging tea.

I also think Jay wears makeup and always has, to some degree. Before he would wear it over his freckles and cover them (s1-s7) and s8+ he fills in his eyebrow scar with liner. We do know how he does wear it for his show that he had back in S4.

Noncompliant: This next one I think that the show will never admit it but the oni aren't inherently evil and the dragons aren't inherently good (this is coming from someone who only watched up to s8). Wu has always seen the oni half as evil and thus his brother as irredeemable, even if he shows to the world an attempt to bring him to light. He in doing so basically refuses to accept oni as part of the creation of life, and refuses to accept death as part of it. Just as well, he considers himself to be without fault due to his leaning towards his dragon side, the light side, and sees himself as incorruptible as a result. This is why the show presents these two (the oni and the dragon) as they are, as wu has been present for nearly every major event in ninjago history and has some say in how the ninjas are allowed to perceive it. As one, evil, the other, good.

I also think Ray and Maya were willing traitors, not captured and forced into slave labor. This is the least defendable, as there's basically all evidence against it, but I am aware the show literally didn't have enough runtime (in hands of time) to go through the nuance of what it means to deny one's past to save the future for the new generation.

#ninjago #jay walker #hands of time #sensei wu #lord garmadon #lloyd garmadon #Ray jiang #Maya Jiang #headcanons #asks

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kitofawriter · 11 months

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I headcanon that Kai and Nya’s last name is hyphenated as Smith-Jiang because Ray’s last name was Jiang and Maya was more than willing to take it but he refused because he was a blacksmith so the last name Smith was too perfect.

#lego ninjago #ninjago ray #ninjago maya #kai jiang #kai smith #nya jiang #nya smith #maya jiang #maya smith #ray jiang #ray smith #he still insisted her name come first

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thepeanutbutterwizard · 1 year

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Venomous Teachings au: Ray and Maya

Talking about these two next bc their backstories let me expand on some world building stuff.

So here we go! Starting off with Ray and his family bc they have some ties to Ninjago’s Royal Court.

Presently, the Royal Family of Ninjago is fairly separated from actually governing the country. Think modern day Britain, where the monarchy is still around, but the Prime Minister and Parliament are the ones who are actually in control. In Ninjago, that actual governing is done by the Mayor, and the Jade Council, who I’ll get to in a minute.

I’m making a chart-thing to sort of plot out the way Ninjago’s Royal Court works, but it’s not quite done and probably needs its own post, but imagine a pyramid. The Royal Family is at the very top, overseeing and benefiting from everyone underneath them, but each of the four sides is a different...area? I guess? that is important to Ninjago functioning as a country.

The four areas are Military, Agriculture, Magic, and Arts/Entertainment. The layer directly below the Royal Family holds the four ‘Heads’ of each area, Lords typically from long lines of Lords who inherited their positions. I was originally going to call them ‘Ministers’, and then I realised that would mean Misako’s father would be the ‘Minister of Magic’, which just made me think of Harry Potter and made me sad. So until I come up with a different title, Lord will be the fill in. Also the four areas are going to get cooler sounding names, like the Military guy being called ‘Ninjago’s Lord of Arms’ or something.

But anyway, the Court follows the whole pyramid thing with the four Lords, who along with the current Emperor make up the Jade Council. Usually. Under the Lords are more families and industries that are all deemed necessary for Ninjago to function.

And before the Serpentine War, the Elemental Alliance, made up of the Masters of the 16 Tame Elements, were just under the Lords in terms of power and prestige in Ninjagan society. More on the Wild Elements like Wind and Water when we get into Maya’s stuff. All of the Elemental Masters found ways to use their powers to make a name for themselves in the Court during peacetimes; the Familyline of Sound have long been talented musicians for example, and the Familyline of Lightning have tended towards stage performance for generations.

Ray’s father was born to the Familyline of Fire, a long line of smiths capable of creating the hardiest armor or the dantiest bangle or the sharpest blade. As the eldest child of the current Master of Fire, everyone expected him to be the next Master.

Instead, his younger sister inherited their family’s Power.

Not only that, but her power started to show itself at the age of four. Power’s developing at a young age had long been seen as a sign of Good Fortune, and a Master powerful enough to make history.

But until that point, the youngest a Master had been when their powers showed was nine.

Ray’s father, who was twelve when his sister was shown to be the next Master, quickly grew bitter and resentful as the attention he’d grown accustomed to shifted to his baby sister in an instant.

Year passed, and he grew more and more angry, until the night of his eighteenth birthday. He spent most of the day sulking, darting around the family manor to avoid everyone, believing that talking to anyone would be pointless, as he was sure his birthday had been forgotten by everyone and he didn’t want to deal with that.

After sneaking back into his room, he hears the sounds of bustling in the dining room.

Dinner was probably being started. Without him.

Something about that makes something in him snap. He grabs a bag he’d packed and unpacked a million times that year, climbs from his bedroom window using the tree that he’d been using for years, and leaves his childhood home behind without a backward glance.

He had secretly set up an apprenticeship with a well-known and extensive family of craftsmen from one of the lower Houses in the Court months ago, and he still had a week before his window to accept was closed. He used a false last name, not wanting to be known as the overshadowed older brother of the Master of Fire in his new start. Room and board was included in the arrangement, which led to a romance blossoming between him and his teachers niece, whose parents specialized in silversmithing.

After his seven year long apprenticeship was up, he proposed to her, and soon a baby boy, Ray, was born. Together, the two started a business of their own selling puzzle boxes and music boxes and the like. Complicated, deceptive devices with lots of intricate moving parts.

There was an incident when Ray was a toddler, when he somehow managed to climb out of his crib during what should have been naptime, and toddled his way into his parents workshop. It was empty when he came in; both of his parents had been trying to catch a nap themselves while he was supposed to be sleeping. Ray got his fingers caught inside the mechanism of a half finished commission, a bookcase with a hidden safe built into it. They were damaged too severely, and had to be amputated.

His parents, horrified at the accident, worked with the best doctors and specialists they could find and afford to make prosthetics for Ray as he grew up. They’re craftsmen; their hands are their livelihood, and they wanted to ensure that their mistake doesn’t ruin Ray’s future.

Speaking of Ray’s future, when he was about eleven, his father notices signs that Ray inherited his family’s Elemental Power. He’d eventually told his wife who he was when Ray was born, so she wasn’t caught completely off-guard by everything.

And when Ray is about fifteen, his grandfather finally finds him.

The former Master of Fire had spent nearly twenty years searching for his missing son. When his daughter, his heir, was only sixteen, the world of Ninjago learned just how dangerous it is for an Elemental Master to develop their power at too young an age.

Elemental Masters develop an immunity of sorts to their Power bc they’re Humans, Mortals, imbued with the power of a Dragon. They need to be able to handle their power, so the power Changes them, just a bit. Typically, the Master’s power and immunities grow at fairly similar rates; the power grows first, and the immunity catches up to it. But bc Ray’s aunt was so young when she got her powers, her body wasn’t strong enough to go through those changes for a few years.

Years during which her power, tho largely unused, grew. The gap between how much power she could use and how much power she could handle was too great.

She literally burned up.

Ray’s grandfather had come to find the new Master of Fire. Relations with the Serpentine had been slowly deteriorating over the last decade, and though war wasn’t eminent the Emperor wanted all of the Elemental Masters to start preparing. Just in case.

And no matter how much Ray’s parents don’t want him to be taken away, they have no choice. The squad of Imperial guards that came with his grandfather ensure that.

So Ray is taken from the only home he’s ever known and trained to use his powers, becoming quite the talented Elemental Master. Eventually he and the rest of the Elemental Alliance do have to fight on the frontlines of what would be known as the Serpentine War.

And while fighting in the War, he meets Maya.

Also drew Ray and Maya as teens, about 15-ish. So right when Ray gets taken to train, and when Maya also has her whole world rocked, but more on that in a minute. Ray’s in all purple bc colors are important in the Ninjagaon Court, as a quick and easy way to denote what someone does. I just picked purple at random, I don’t think I’m going to keep that as the official color for craftsmen like in Ray’s mothers family.

So we’ve talked a bit about the 16 Tamed Elements, and how they used to guarantee a comfortable, high-class lifestyle, but what about the Wild Elements?

Wild Elementals, like those with the powers of Wind and Water, were shunned by Ninjagan Society at large. Typically a Wild Elemental was seen as a Bad Omen; it’s known that the Tame Elements were Gifted on their Familylines by the FSM himself, so something like that ‘randomly’ popping up scared people.

Generations before Maya was born though, there was a coastal fishing village that was home to a family of Water Elementals who weren’t shunned, but instead were beloved by the village. Year ago, two brothers drifted into town looking for work on a fishing boat. Not long after being hired, the boat with the brothers gets caught in a fierce storm.

In order to save the lives of everyone on board, the brothers were forced to reveal themselves as Water Elementals, and working together they used their powers to not only rescue everyone, but to keep the boat in one piece and to save the rather large haul of fish.

The brothers expected to be ran out of town, but were surprised to find the village was almost unanimously grateful to them. As soon as the storm had rolled in, those in the village weren’t expecting the boat to come back at all; it wouldn’t be the first time they were decimated by a storm that size. Many people had already begun to mourn for lost loved ones, including the villages leader, who’s own daughter was captaining the ship.

Essentially, the brothers had brought their lost loved ones back from the dead, and also managed to save one of their best ships and enough food to feed the village for a good while.

The brothers wound up settling in the village, and for the first time in their lives they were able to use their powers without fear. Time passed, and they both started families in the village, passing their powers down to their children.

Unfortunately, good things can’t last forever. Word eventually spread of a village that had multiple Wild Elementals living in it, openly using their powers like it didn’t mean anything!

A mob arrived at the village, but they were stopped by the elder brother, now an old man and great-grandfather himself. But his old age hadn’t dimmed his powers, and he created a massive, impenetrable wall of seawater to keep the mob away from the village. He bargained with them, telling them that if they gave the village the time to make it through that years storm season, than all of the Wild Elementals would willingly go with the mob to be...dealt with however the mob saw fit.

The mob agrees, and for the next three months they wait, camped outside of the massive, churning wall of water.

Never once did the wall falter.

Then, on the last day of storm season, the wall drops at sundown.

The mob surges into the village, eager to finally get rid of the Wild Elementals that had been allowed to thrive there, but to their shock the whole village is gone.

And a fleet of ships is quickly disappearing towards the horizon.

In the three months they’d been able to secure, the whole village had banded together to tear down every building and every dock and turn them into enough ships to take the entire village out to sea, and away from Ninjago. The village had been a close-knit community long before the brothers first arrived, and once they had become part of the village, no-one was going to turn on them.

Originally, the village was only planning on being seabound temporarily, for a few years at most, just until they could find a new place to rebuild, mb somewhere else on Ninjago’s coast, or mb even one of the smaller islands that dotted the Endless Sea. Instead, the village found that they were thriving out at sea.

So they stayed out at sea permanently.

They aren’t the first group of people to live full-time on the Endless Sea; the Ninjagan Archipelago is the largest landmass in the world, but the Endless Sea is called ‘endless’ for very good reason. More than half of Ninjago’s military is dedicated to its navy to help protect it from pirates, other unscrupulous Seafarers, and creatures from the deep like the Kraken.

Generations pass in the village, and more and more Water Elementals pop up. Eventually, in the eye of a storm on a moonless night, Maya is born.

Being surrounded by the Endless Sea, having new Elementals be born out at sea, has lead to them becoming more and more powerful with every new generation. This lead to a phenomenon popping up in some of the Elementals who were born. They would be born with inhuman features; bits of their Draconic blood being amplified by life spent entirely on the Endless Sea.

It’s never been anything huge; no scales or horns or tails growing like Nya and Kai and Morro get later on. Small things, like shark-like (or, well, dragon-like but they dont know that) teeth, or claws instead of normal nails.

Maya, along with being massively powerful, was born with clawed and webbed feet. This made it difficult for her to find shoes that she could wear comfortably and also not tear open in less than a week. This wasn’t that much of a problem growing up; running around barefoot was actually the norm, given how often people were jumping in and out of the sea.

She had a happy childhood, content with her mother and younger sister, until she was around fifteen. Her village is attacked by a vicious group of pirates, and in the chaos of everything, Maya is struck in the face by something, knocked unconscious and overboard. All of the Elementals born in the last two generations were able to breath underwater at birth so drowning wasn’t a danger, but when she came to and surfaced, she was alone.

Eventually, Maya finds her way to Ninjago, stepping foot on land for the first time in her life. She knew why her people had left Ninjago, the story passed down through generations, so she knew to keep her powers hidden, but her feet were harder to deal with. Thankfully, it was assumed that those came from Maya having some Serpentine ancestry, so her being a Wild Elemental remained a secret.

Though pretending to be distantly Serpentine didn’t win her many favors as she tried to build a life in Ninjago. Maya desperately wanted to find her people, but she knew it would be impossible to find them. She knew how to navigate the Endless Sea, and knew where they last were, but she also knew how vast the Endless Sea was.

It would be like trying to find a specific drop of water in a bucket.

Maya bounced around Ninjago’s foster care system for a few years, before bouncing around Ninjago, taking odd jobs and trying to find her way in the world. She tried to stay on the coast, in the numerous port towns and fishing villages, with slowly dwindling hope that she’d hear something about her people that would lead her back to them.

Eventually, the Serpentine War starts. A battle takes place in a village where Maya had been staying, trying to find a ship that would hire her. Her first instinct was to run and hide, but from her hiding spot she sees two of the human combatants become surrounded. She recognized them from earlier that day; they had arrived the day before to look into rumors of Serpentine in the area, and stayed in the inn where Maya had been working for room and board.

They were both quite kind to her, and they even stepped in when another patron noticed Maya’s feet and started giving her a hard time about being part Serpentine. Against her better judgment, Maya steps in, using her powers to help rescue them and help turn the tide of the battle. Though she had no real combat experience or training, Maya’s skill and the sheer force of her power made her a force to be reckoned with.

Maya is absolutely terrified when she realizes the two people she saved were members of the Elemental Alliance, but Ray and Garm were massively impressed by her, and asked her to join the Alliance to help fight the Serpentine. She’s against it at first, worried for her life, but Garm is able to use the fact that he’s the Son of the First Spinjitzu Master to guarantee her safety.

Eventually Maya is convinced to join, and the rest is history.