and here it is!! this is the art i made for @parachutingkitten ‘s new youtube video analysis— if you haven’t seen it please go check it out! i know she spent a ton of time working on it and so did i for the thumbnail :D
i had a great time working on this and am very happy with how this turned out! many thanks again to her !! hope everyone likes it :)
Heres my own redesign of s1 Nya I did for funsies!
I always wished she had a less formal outfit (because lets face it, a qipao isn’t exactly casual) but it was too iconic to just completely remove, so I gave her a jacket! I also added some subtle hints to her being a mechanic/Samurai X; her toolbelt, goggles and the oil smudge on her cheek!
Not much else I would really change about her character in s1 (except her … questionable writing but that’s a talk for another day..,,!)
I can’t leave this here without including a Maya and Nya comparison
Nya takes after from both Maya and Ray but Maya and Nya’s relationship is so precious to me so yeah
Nya’s hair comes from her mom! A part of why she let it grow that long after The merge, was that she started to see her Mother in herself. But this time with a sort of pride but also a feeling of familiarity. She felt a feeling of comfort, knowing that a part of her mondays always with her. I think that’s also why she embraced the blue colour in her outfits as much as she did in her DR suit. The blue represents Nya first and foremost, and then the water ninja, but it also represents the previous water master, her mother. She also started taking care of her curls more as that was what her mother did. Maya took care of her own hair well and focused on preserving her wavy pattern. So for Nya, her hair is a hige part of her identity. Maya didn’t have curly hair, Nya did. But she takes care of it with all the love that her mother did. Her hair also differentiates her from her mother. They are different, but similar. Different but with the same love. She is her mother’s daughter
When your Sibling doesn't like your Love Interest - Ninjago: Jiang Smiths Siblings
Kai about Jay liking Nya
You know how Kai looked ready to kill Jay when he first met him, just for showing an interest in Nya.
How Kai would mess with Jay in Season 1.
But he accepted the relationship in Season 6/7 (just so long as he doesn't have to see a Jaya kiss).
And even helped Jay practice his proposal in Season 10.
Yeah ...
Kai is not the only Jiang Smith Sibling who doesn't like the idea of someone dating their sibling.
First the slightly backhanded complement:
"Skylor's right, look at her, she could have inherited her father Chen's evil empire and ruled the world but instead dedicated her life to spending her day bent over a hot stove to provide low cost quality noodles to the people of Ninjago city."
There was definitely a nicer way to say that, Nya, especially when Skylor's response to that statement was the following:
Skylor had brought out two bowls of noodles, the type that always cheered her up, so as to cheer up the siblings but in hearing Nya, she then says,
"Gee, when you put it like that. *Sigh* Let me get some of those"
And then takes Nya's untouched bowl to cheer herself up
But also:
(And before you say, but maybe Nya just doesn't know because she and Kai didn't have their parents. First, a dedicated parent can get their kids properly using chopsticks by age five; but even if you say that they just don't know the rules on etiquette - your telling me that there wasn't at least one busybody old lady that would reprimand a small child for bad manners - not to mention Wu when the siblings start living with the Ninja)
Yeah, Nya's much more subtle but I don't think she's quite ready for the idea of her brother dating.
That or she just doesn't approve of Skylor being Kai significant other.
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P.S.
To me Nya, sometimes, kinda comes off as that girl who was raised by her single father. She's moving out of the house, ready to have her own life away from her dad only to find out that he's started dating - and she is not happy about it.
She also, sometimes, kinda comes off like she knows that Kai, for her, was more than a brother, that he was her father - but she doesn't want to acknowledge it / is not ready to acknowledge it, because that would mean talking about the bad parts of their life, while growing up.
a few messy, recent-ish drawings from the last month that i didn't want to actually post but ill dump here anyways lol! featuring teacher!zane, nya, lloyd, and glacier