Jason Cornelius Walker, at 16, is a Renaissance man. He’s a chef, a storyteller, and above all an inventor. His brainchildren are numerous and all vastly different from one another in shape and in size. There is the machine that cores every apple on a tree, before they are even picked. There is the pair of stilts that can adjust their height as you walk, or the blanket that will keep you cool on hot nights, or the megaphone that fits neatly inside the human mouth, without interfering with the ability to bite and chew. When Wu approached Jay, he was testing a somewhat functional flying harness that was uniquely safe for human use. This boundless creativity and ingenuity translates into everything he does, and Sensei Wu counts on that to aid in the fight against the Skeleton Army.
Endlessly knowledgeable and intuitive, Zane is, at most junctures, the brains of Sensei Wu’s ninja team. His brilliance is matched only by his cold, humorless exterior, so prevalent that it at times seems like he might be from another planet. And he may very well be. He knows everything… except who he is or where he came from. His earliest memories are of a road that he followed to a village, two years ago, where he stayed until Sensei Wu found him, meditating at the bottom of a half-frozen lake. Wu made Zane a proposition: help him save the world, and travel Ninjago, seeing exotic places, meeting unusual people… and perhaps, maybe, finding answers about his hidden past.
In a world without war, 18-year-old Kai Lee is restless. He was raised on stories of great warriors who came from humble beginnings and fought their way to glory. He’s got the humble beginnings part down pat; his mother died when he was six, his father died when he was thirteen, and the only thing he has to his name is the Four Weapons blacksmith shop, home of legendary weapons to be made. If only he wasn’t terrible at making them. But when monsters straight out of a fairy tale raid his village and abduct his sister, Kai has a chance to rise up from his humble beginnings and fight his way to glory. If only the old man who offered him that chance wasn’t so annoying...
Kai’s younger sister, Nya, shares his dream of fighting her way to glory, but she faces two additional obstacles. The first is her brother’s disbelief; in the stories they were told, none of the warriors Kai idolizes were sixteen-year-old girls. Never mind that between them, Nya’s the superior blacksmith, and the superior shop owner. All of that matters little thanks to the second obstacle: Samukai and his ruthless army raided her home village and kidnapped her. Now Kai is on a mission to rescue his sister, but with a little bit of resourcefulness and no small amount of courage, Nya might not need a rescuer after all…
Okay, reviewing the character roster makes me realize that there are, truly, so many characters in this rewrite. I don't want this topic overtaken by that, because I want this one to be more story-driven. So instead, after I post Garmadon, the last character I have listed for Season One, I'll start a new topic where these profiles will be more... polished.
Samukai, through somewhat underhanded means, is the Lord of the Underworld, Land of the Dead. Or, at least, he was. Centuries ago, the elder child of the Grand Master fell into his realm and took his crown. Now, Garmadon rules the Underworld, and has spent the past five centuries preparing its army for war, whether they want it or not. Truth is, Samukai wants nothing to do with the living, including war. When he was still alive, he was mercilessly disgraced in ways he’s not eager to revisit, and since he doesn’t eat, sleep, or breathe, that’s all the Overworld has to offer him: bad memories. But he’s loath to imagine what Garmadon could - and certainly would - do to him if he objects. For now, he’ll have to play the sniveling human’s game...
(No picture for this one; Mii Maker only works for humans. Besides, you all probably know what he looks like.)
Sensei Wu’s evil brother was banished to the Underworld nearly five hundred years ago. Since then, he’s taken control of the Underworld’s Skeleton Army and made preparations to unleash them on the world of the living. His plan, as Sensei Wu understands it, is to pilfer the Golden Weapons and use their power to open a portal back to Ninjago. Once he’s returned, the Golden Weapons will allow him to rule. But his plan has a fatal flaw: the Golden Weapons are so powerful, no single person can use all of them at once. How Garmadon hopes to avoid this obstacle and complete his plan is a mystery.
Ooh nice, this alternate timeline thing sounds cool!
Thanks!
I wish I could take credit for the OverLloyd pun, but that was the brainchild of a different user on the old LEGO Message Boards. I forget who.
Deciding which Elemental Masters would make up this universe's ninja team was the fun part. I knew Not-Ronin would be Samurai X. I knew Not-Morro would be the Green Ninja (to add a little extra sting of irony to his doppelgänger's actions). I was originally going to use both Griffin and Karloff, sadly the only Elemental Masters with their own minifigures, but I figured Karloff would be in his home country designing weapons, either against the Garmadon Empire or for it, depending on whether Metalonia had already been conquered or not (a decision I never really made). The other two were determined by Avatar: the Last Airbender's magic system. It's elemental, like Ninjago's, but a bit less numbered (and yet somehow more varied). They famously have water, earth, fire, and air as their elements, and Ninjago's OG four had an earth guy and a fire guy, but no water or air. So, knowing the Masters of Earth and Fire would be evil in this universe, I picked out the Masters of Water and Wind and used them.
My newest project is character profiles for Ninjago's essential heroes, villains, and other folk. Mystake and the mysterious Mailman get their rare mention.
Nice, that's all pretty clever! Ash and Shade also got their own minifigures in 2017. Yeah I haven't seen Avatar: The Last Airbender yet, but I intend to eventually if I can because a lot of people I know make reference to it.
Okay, reviewing the character roster makes me realize that there are, truly, so many characters in this rewrite. I don't want this topic overtaken by that, because I want this one to be more story-driven. So instead, after I post Garmadon, the last character I have listed for Season One, I'll start a new topic where these profiles will be more... polished.
Sounds like a good idea.
These are great miis! Plus I really like the profile descriptions! Kinda takes me back to when I'd read the chapter books and comics from when Ninjago was still fairly new.
