This has been said before, but I just love how wild ninjago shipping culture is
Four guys all living together and fighting crime? Yeah their poly ship is of one the most popular in the fandom
Which one won a “best ship” tournament? The (probably ace) robots of course
You want middle age men in love? We got two that are very popular, take your pick
The various of female side characters that were created almost exclusively to be love interests for the male leads, why not ship them together?
You want the main character shipped with a kid he used to go to school with and has only been in like two episodes? Almost universally considered better than what was almost his canon ship
You like the canon ships? Great for you, we got stuff for that too and we’ve added some much needed depth
Any flavor you want them, whether it be enemies to lovers or doomed by the narrative or canon compliant, it probably exists somewhere
And is shipping not your thing? There are more gen fics than anything else
Survivalshipping is funny and amazing and i love it but yknow what would make it even funnier? If, on top of Garmadon dating Vinny, Misako ends up dating, like, Gayle Gossip. Completely independently of him, like neither Misako nor Garmadon are aware of the other's new relationship. So then when they both get invited as the plus-one to like an NGTV News company dinner or something, theyre both just kinda staring at each other like -
Meanwhile Lloyd is just kinda dying in the background. He thought his family drama would end with his dads evil corpse disowning him and adopting a plant instead, but nope! Now hes gotta deal with whatever the hell this is
I love survival shipping for like zero reason (that's a lie I have multiple) and I just think they're so silly. In my heart they get to be normal and they go on walks and be sweet, I'm delusional okay? Also I swear he has his 2nd set of arms but I couldn't fit it right in the frame I chose T-T
Some silly HC because I'm bored and who knows what happened to them after crystalized:
-Garmadon likes dressing up/dressing modern to sort of pull away from his old identity
-Wu and Garmadon have started getting together for tea again after he realized his brother was genuinely trying to change, it took Lloyd a little longer but eventually he started talking to his father again as well
-Garmadon works some really random normal ass job, like working the floor at a book shop or something cause I find it funny when super powerful characters get normal jobs just cause they can
-Vinny has like a million shirts with stupid graphics or quotes on them that he probably makes himself
-Vinny likes hiking, I don't know why but he seems like the type (I have no real backing for this)
Anyways I love them and I think they're cute and I'm well aware that this ship will probably neeever be confirmed but it's okay I can just do it myself lol. I hope yall have a great day/nigh, peace out!
Congratulations on your new job, Vinny! You’ve been democratically elected to serve as Lloyd Garmadon’s therapist! The city of Ninjago thanks you for your service. Between this and working with Gayle Gossip, you have your work cut out for you! I’m sure it’s nothing you can’t handle, though, right? How much could your roomie’s kid possibly be repressing?! It’ll be fine.