A screen shot of a clip studio paint canvas. On the canvas is a work in progress full body drawing of Kai and Nya from Ninjago. They’re both wearing their gi from the Secrets of Forbidden Spinjitzu and holding their weapons in one hand. Their other hands are controlling their respective elements.
Image 1: (from top to bottom, left to right) illustrations of Nya, Jay, Cole, Zane, Kai, and Lloyd from Lego Ninjago, wearing hoodies corresponding with the colors of their ninja gi. Their designs are based on a mix of their original and post-movie designs.
Image 2: the same busts, but not over lapping of (from left to right) Kai, Lloyd, Jay, Cole, Zane, and Nya.
It’s so funny that 90% of the time the ninjago writers have no idea what to do with Kai and just make him situationally egotistical and the butt of the joke and the only time they got a good consistent characterization was in season 5 where he was fighting tooth and nail to get Lloyd back. Like it’s SO EASY HIS MAIN TRAIT IS THAT HES A PROTECTIVE BIG BROTHER YOU ALREADY GOT IT RIGHT
I’m so disappointed kai is headcanon as cis the most by the fandom when he
- has a gender neutral name
- changes his name from ash to Kai
- in the comics said the reason he kept wearing his gi when he went back to the blacksmith shop after the pilots was “because it’s comfortable” ((literally the ninja equivalent to a middle school kid wearing the same hoodie everyday))
- knows how to use make up to change his appearance ((when he burned his eyebrows off))
- do you think someone who uses as much hair gel for a ridiculous yet charming hairstyle would be cis?
Ok I want to hear more about the time he burnt his freakin’ eyebrows off!
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This may seem dark, but since we all know about Kai and Nya’s childhood, wouldn’t it be possible that one of them would have developed an eating disorder?
Struggling with food as a child with no parental figures could very well mean that one of them, more specifically Kai, had an eating disorder.
If we go with the fact that Kai took care of his sister when his parents disappeared, and there was little to no food in the upcoming years, he could’ve developed one when he was only making sure his sister is well fed and healthy.
Maybe even when joining the ninja, they tried to encourage him to eat more since there was actually food for once. I may be getting the details of EDs wrong, but i hope i got some right?
Dark as fuck, man.
P.s. i will immediately delete this if necessary
I could almost see Kai having the opposite reaction once food is plentiful, where he’s constantly stuffing his face because he doesn’t want to go hungry again. Hell, Nya and even Jay might have the same one.
Nya for obvious reasons and Jay because he was raised in a scrap yard and lived in a trailer, so one could assume that he was raised in a lower class family as well. (Although he would definitely have significantly less trauma in general because he had parents). I don’t see Zane having trauma related to food, but I can see Cole turning to food as a comfort.