#bruiseshipping but its fucked up

[saline-coelacanth]

Are we allies or enemies?

This will be the death of me

#ninjago #lego ninjago #my art #ninjago bad endings au #ninjago bad endings #bruiseshipping #jay walker #cole brookstone #bad endings jay #bad endings cole #lyrics are from 'allies or enemies' by the crane wives btw #i was listening to it and went 'oh yeah this is giving me bad ending bruise vibes' #i am still obsessed with these two if you couldn't tell #i love bruiseshipping but you wanna know what i love even more than that? #bruiseshipping but its fucked up #i feel kinda bad cause ive been neglecting the other be!ninja a bit #sorry that my brain has decided that these two are the only ones that matter /hj

[morrowalker]

we need to talk about bruise.

i see a lot of people casually throw around the name bruiseshipping for cole/jay, and its something that ive never seen questioned. if any of you had a critical thought for more than two entire seconds in your life youd understand that the implications of calling a ship bruise is fucking insane. "but its their colors! black and blue!" the implications are still there. especially paired with the fact that, as far as i can tell, this post seems to be the origin of the name;

if you have an older one mentioning the name, by all means, feel free to share. but from what i can tell, this seems to be where it was coined. which .. isnt really a surprise, considering referring to a relationship as "bruise" already has clear implications of abuse. but the confirmation is no less disgusting.

there has always been alternative options to use, and truely people have no excuse to continue calling them bruise. call them geode. make something else up. you all seem to be creative when it comes to ship names. it should be no issue.

#ninjago #bruiseshipping #lego ninjago #cole ninjago #jay ninjago #.txt #tagging this as the guys so it gets in the tags. you Will look at this post. #theres a lot of things i could talk about that are inherently questionable and yet ninjago fans blindly follow them anyways #(gesture to the entire fucking show basically). #but. whatever.

[localratman]

skybound Thoughts

sooo uh, im thinking about doing a rewrite of ninjago skybound.

im currently rewatching it because of this, and in case i never get around to actually writing anything, im gonna word-vomit onto this hellsite (affectionate) cuz im having Thoughts.

quick tangent though, skybound seems very similar to danny phantom (at least in how the fandom treats it) in the sense that, when you actually watch it, it's pretty tame and honestly kinda shit. but then you dig deeper. and you see the Implications and Possibilities, and suddenly it has you by the throat with all the ways this could have gone if it wasn't a kids show.

like, in skybound you get genuine torture and creepy implications on nadakhan's part (seriously, get away from jay and nya you fucking creep), and while it's never really explored since, y'know, kids show, it makes nadakhan one of the best and most terrifying villains i personally have watched in ninjago.

anyway, here are a couple of things i've been toying with in terms of a possible rewrite:

one thing im thinking about taking from various other fics i've seen (i think its mainly shown in bending but never breaking, which is an absolutely amazing fic and you should go read it but MIND THE TAGS AND TRIGGER WARNINGS PLEASE) is jay learning to use the electricity in his body, though obviously not painlessly

bonus points for his elemental power getting royally fucked up once/if the vengestone is removed, but in the sense of suddenly he is completely overwhelmed and his power is so much stronger and its a danger to both himself and others

queerplatonic jaya: i think in this season especially, nya felt very aroace coded (i might just be projecting as i myself am aroace, but that's the vibe i got) and so for a skybound rewrite nya and jay would have a serious conversation about how nya doesn't feel that way for anyone, even if she *does* really like jay

just general angst and torture

id rewrite jays obsession with nya, specifically his first wish (if i dont just jump right into him being on misfortunes keep)

i think id like to do something more with delara than just her being some dead girlfriend. i.e.: i'd make her fucking unhinged and the kind of person that would fall in love with and support nadakhan.

i really liked @cotidianoseeder's idea for canary!jay, so possibly something in that direction

i also really like it when people keep serpentine aspects in jays character, so some of that as well

fuck it, make him inhuman, y'know?

i'd age everyone up i think (i dunno how old they are in skybound, but a 17 minimum would be in my rewrite)

OH! i'd put bruiseshipping as a romantic relationship cuz i love them

nya would make the final wish, since a big part of her character would be forging her own story and taking control of her own life

zanes falcon would survive cuz i love that fucking bird

echo would be taken off the island post-rewind

what do y'all think??? i keep having more ideas, i might post them

#ninjago #skybound #skybound ninjago #ninjago season 6 #ninjago s6 #jay walker #nya smith #ninjago nadakhan #ninjago rewrite #ninjago rewatch

[ataraxixx]

for the ship thoughts, how ab bruiseshipping and royaltyshipping :3

i feel very neutral on bruise... like to me i def enjoy their dynamic in the earlier seasons like their beef in s4 was soo funny like just kiss lmao. but its not my favorite ninja ship either i just like, will drop a like if i see art of it but im not actively seeking it out yk

royaltyshipping is so banger we have got to gas this up. childhood friends ish to vaguely enemies to lovers like this shit is fire‼️ in general i feel like ppl r so opposed to shipping harumi bc shes a villain or whatever but i think she deserves to kiss girls idc. and also i feel like vania is such a good parallel to her bc like . she also hasnt been given the best hand by fate but shes very positive and upbeat abt it (but a bit naive) as opposed to harumi going the opposite way and being more Grounded to reality but also not really being as good at seeing the Good in things. sorry im rambling i love when girls are in love and a little fucked up

#ajax speaks

[sadisthetic]

Bruise is my favorite pair, in multiple sides of the spectrum just like u described. moirals, kismesis or matesprites. So you basically giving one of those sides in fanart is one of the best things fr fr

( NOT TO MENTKON YOUR ARTSTYLE IS TO LIVE FORRR AND CONTENT IN GENERALL I'm glad i found you 🛐

thank you lol. bruiseshipping is like literally so funny to me? like. them being besties? when they fight and bicker so fucking much lmao?? of all the pairs they couldve explicitly made best friends... they decided on these two. and thats so extremely good to me. they yell at each other so much and theyll be at each others throats within 0.2 seconds and yet THEY CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER AND THEYRE BEST FRIENDS DESPITE IT.... muah chefs kiss im insane about them. i NEED them to fight more LIKE THATS THEIR ENTIRE APPEAL TO ME. IF THEY DONT FIGHT AND GET OVER IT AND FIGHT AND MAKE UP AND FIGHT IN AN ENDLESS INEXHAUSTIVE CYCLE THEN WHATS THE POINT......... sorry i have very specific vision of them im very very passionate about and i will not be content with anything else i think i went off a little. i love conflict okay? its all about the conflict and tension and also friendship. i love friendship. friendship is everything to me. but who says relationships have to be smooth sailin, strife is their spice. i love spice. im so normal about them. i want them to bite bite bite bITE

#this answer became like. 5 times longer than i intended #(thru gritted teeth) what can i fucking say i love them so fucking much. #asks #poh4k03e