I think I started to rethink the Moorington's family and the weird timeline of Nexo Knights...
Okay, to start off, Merlok is like a hundred years old, I think that same goes for all the wizard in Nexo Knights, of course, they can be killed with a powerful spell. I heard that in Knights in the Realm, Clay was 13 when he started to go to Knight's Academy.
Okay, so, Fletcher is Clay's brother, from the info I have, Fletcher would be 4 years younger than Clay. From what I've seen people said that Clay might be around 4–5 years old to be able to walk around, and that's maybe when his mom, Wanda Moorington a.k.a Ruina Stoneheart, started to turn to stone.
So, it would be make sense for Fletcher to be born before she's got turn to stone. But it would be more fucked up if she did give birth to Fletcher only to turn to stone, abandoned her sons, and one of her son doesn't even know he has younger brother.
So let's do math when Merlok says he's being searching for Clay after finding out he has a nephews. 4/5 years old plus over 5 years, Clay would be 9–10 years old when Merlok found him and try to encourage him to be a knight.
Okay, so maybe the timeline is not so messy when you think about it, but it would be more fucked up when you know everything and think about it now...
just some doodles and mini comics i made during school
Moorington siblings being silly
I wanna come up with a name for them but I’ve got nothing. So please give me suggestions!
He was never built for jokes
I wanna make them argue
It’s funny
I’ll probably make some inspired by interactions me and my brother have had. And it’s okay if either are out of character. Because compassion and kindness do not extend to siblings
I’m gonna call them Gray Ruin
They’re silly and i want more of them honestly
So I’ll be making more
I can’t take them seriously
And I also can’t upload more images so I’ll be making a part 2 right away :3
now, before you bring out the pitchforks and the torches, I have reasons.
one, not many shows do corruption arcs (his petrification isn't one, fight me), two, I can see aaron developing a guilt complex over the second destruction of merlock's library and clay's absence would have been almost tangible for him. he would have stepped up, trying to become what is essentially a second clay. it kinda works. it erases his whole personality and drowns him in stress but still. it works.
the whole season feels rushed but it has some highlights. ruina being the most ruthless and evil being on the whole show is one; clay being forced to confront his death and completely not doing so; hell axl and lance playing dnd!
should have macy been the step-in leader - yes. maybe aaron being the leader was a temporary thing so as not to force lance and macy into another argument - basically shocking them into compliance? maybe aaron is supposed to be the figurehead while in actuality he and macy would have been co-leaders?
anyway. I think season 4 is full of amazing fill-in and headcanons material. there are so many questions you could ask and world-build around!
What was going through Clay's head during his stint undercover?
How does Ruina's magic affect him?
Is Aaron running on fumes trying to emulate his dead friend? Is that why Macy stepped back from pestering him about his leadership position?
How did the rest of the knights deal with Clay's descent? How did they try to help him?
Is Ava an apprentice wizard if she can pinpoint the magical power needed for a spell?
and so many moree. it's a treasure cove and sure it's tacky and a bit on the nose but still! the only thing I will not let lie is the chronological shitshow that moorington family created. i mean seriously, three hundred year old my a–
Ruina is one I was honestly really looking forward to because her design resonates with me a lot, and also I just really want to rant about parts of her design because okay, y'know how lego women have like, those little drawn on curves? At first my mind registered hers as cutouts in her dress because they're the same color as her skin. But I brushed it off as just a means to keep her color palette cohesive. But then it really didn't help that in the flashback where she's normal lego person color, her curves are lego person yellow, still matching her skin and reading even more as cutouts. So I knew what I had to do design-wise. To put my mind at ease lol. Also I hope someone gets the visual pun about her last name. Also also this whole pic is like, a semi-homage to when she was unfrozen, with the bottom of her dress still normal stone color, the stone chunks bursting off of her, etc.
If Nexo Knights set in the modern AU. Do you think they're in college? What about their parents? What kind of parents are they in modern AU?
Because all my mind is giving me that Wanda/Ruina biker mom and definitely the leader of bike gang. Dropping young Clay to kindergarten with her bike and makes everyone questioning their sexualities if she really a mother of that innocent child.
This took WAY longer than expected (like I started this drawing 2 weeks ago), but I finally finished. I revamped the designs for Swap au Monstrox and Merlok! + Wanda is included as she is important to the lore of the Wizards council in this au. She basically becomes the head wizard after Merlock falls into villainy (Monstrox eventually taking her place as royal advisor after her eventual death)
After I finish property writing the lore, I’ll share it on here. But I will state the fall of the wizards council is still Monstrox’s fault (dudes an egotistical idiot).
Fun fact, Wanda made all those ponchos they all wear (I just wanted to draw them tbh but now its part of the official design for this au). Makes them stand out from their original counterparts.