ok but can we talk about how martin is such a manipulative lying little bastard. like the fandom likes to make him soft and scared (never mind the fact that this man likes spiders, my greatest fear) but he lied on his CV and got away with it for a while, fed jon lies on the tapes, manipulated peter lukas?? peter lukas???? stood up to elias while burning statements, and knew elias would come at him about his mother and was prepared to feel that and then move on because he had work to do
like this isn’t even getting to any of his behavior in S5. we gotta stop downplaying martin i need more content about him just straight up lying!
First Master of Spinjitzu first student was Nineko. Wu's first student was Morro. Lloyd's first student is Arin.
And the first two have something in common, they abandoned their teachers and became evil.
Nineko was an orphan who stole to survive until the First Master took her in and trained her. But when something was missing she blamed Nineko immediately, she assured that she didn't do it but they didn't believe her so she fled (or was expelled) from the monastery, years later being the main villain in one of the Spinjutzu Brothers books.
Morro, we all know his story. Orphaned boy from the streets that Wu took in at the monastery and trained him, things did not go well when destiny denied him being the green ninja so he fled to prove the opposite, years later returning from the dead to take revenge (and redeem himself). to the last second).
And then there is Arin, the orphan boy whose parents were taken from him by a "natural disaster" (can it be considered that way?) lost somewhere, living alone with his friend in a strange world until adolescence where he met his idol and who fell would become his teacher. He doesn't run away and turn evil like the other two, right?
Because something tells me that there is a pattern for the first students.
Nineko: I speak the truth. I didn't steal anything!...please trust me, I didn't do it.
Morro: Fate is wrong, I am the green ninja! You made me believe it!
Arin: But... you promised that we would find my parents.
I think Arin could fill the villain role or at least the resentful student vibe of the other two if you put him in the right situation.
Part of Arin's internal conflict is finding his parents, now, imagine that after the entire ninja team joins Lloyd leaves that issue a little aside, not because he doesn't care, he just doesn't realize it, plus he himself doesn't. He is necessarily close to his own parents. So Arin would have this thought of "you take me to look for your family, but you won't help me look for mine?" maybe not like that, but you get the idea, plus Arin seems stressed or angry in the new trailers, that could set off a little chain reaction.
I'm not saying that Arin would become a villain by any means, but it would be interesting to see him questioning or confronting Lloyd about something similar.