Yk what, since I won't be able to sleep anyways
Some more evil raised lloyd hc (season 4-5):
đ since lloyd decided to finally take his role as the green ninja to heart in season 3, he's very disappointed that the team immediately fell apart after zane's "death"
đright when he wanted to do a change for the better and try to get closer to the team
đwhich is why he is the one that tries to pull the team back together
đconvincing them goes a bit harder though because the ninjas are not as close to lloyd so when he comes to them, they don't believe that Lloyd sincerely wants to get the team back together and instead think that wu probably ordered him or something
đso it takes more for him than just one try to convince them. But ninjas never quit, do they? Atleast that's what his uncle always said
đso he finally does get them all together, the plot goes as it normally does. When garmadon suspects something is off though, he doesn't follow lloyd because he was just worried about his safety
đofc that is still the primary reason, but garmadon also worried that chen might use lloyds past to try to convince him to join his group
đ so yea towards the end of the tournament, it's not kai that chen tries to convince to join him, it's lloyd because lloyd already opposed the ninjas before
đ however it's during the tournament that lloyd finally grows closer with the team, especially because any of them could lose and get locked away in the noodle factory at any point of the tournament
đAnd after that roller skating fight, it's when he starts to grow closer with jay and especially kai since they could've just abandoned him and let chamille win because of how he used to treat them in the past
đthough kai and jay acknowledge that they can't be too mad at him for how he behaved since if someone banished the person that mattered the most to them, they wouldn't have been sure if they turned out good either
đthe rest goes through like it normally did and lloyd had even more of a break down when garmadon offered to be sacrificed to free the anacondrai generals
đhe just got his dad back from the underworld, he can't lose him again after such a short time reunited!
đbut like he did in canon, if there's anyone that should do it, it's him his son
đwhen morro later attacks and possesses lloyd, he has even more resentment towards him
đlike how can it be that a literal enemy was made into the green ninja by wu? And not just any enemy in fact, but the son of lord garmadon who spent a good portion of his life being evil and helping the enemy?
đso he's even more rough on lloyd because morro doesn't view him worthy of being a ninja, not to mention the green ninja title in the first place
đwhile season 3 is about lloyd accepting the title and season 4 about properly accepting and being accepted into the team as a ninja and brother, season 5 is about lloyd proving himself worthy as the green ninja
đalso you might think that since the ninjas only just now started to get along with lloyd, they wouldn't have that strong of an attachment to him yet and kai wouldn't react as strongly when morro possessed lloyd
đbut Kai actually still does and it's because lloyd never got aged up with the tomorrow's tea. So to him it looks like someone bullying a child which is why he still reacts strongly to protect and bring back lloyd because he reminds him of nya when she was younger
đso yea kai argues that it's because of his morals as a ninja and not because he's starting to see the little guy as a younger brother figure (which he eventually realises throughout the season though)
đafter morro stopped possessing him, he also bonded with nya again. Afterall he knows very well what it's like when your previous role suddenly gets stripped from you with no warning and you're forced to grow into a new one
đwhen lloyd and morro fought, it's when lloyd finally grows fully comfortable with using the green element and not destruction anymore
đanother sign that he is ready to leave his past behind and embrace goodness
đand him coming back with his fathers gi also shows that since his father was initially the one that made him join the ninjas and properly accept his new role
AAAAAAAAH I SERIOUSLY LOVE AUS!!!!
