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Also Ive never understood how harumi got her hands on ninja merch when the ninja werent really well known (especially the green one) and from her clothes it looks like her family wouldn't be able to afford a lot of fancy stuff, so i say that lloyd made her some dolls as thanks and to brag about his older brothers.

Looking back on it must have made her despair even worse.

Llorumi allowed the audience to see a side of Lloyd that we never really got to see before. Seasons 1-2 was Lloyd's character arc. Seasons 3-7 had stuff happen to him but he and his character were never the focus. In seasons 1-2, we see Lloyd struggle with feelings of self-doubt. In seasons 3-7, stuff happens to Lloyd and he just moves on. The show doesn't have the time to get into all the trauma so Lloyd moves on (which plays a part to his character but can also make a character kind impersonal/hard to relate to). Seasons 3-7 Lloyd is usually always depicted as confident. He usually always has a plan. He lets go of the trauma and he just carries on. He's the perfect hero, and as a downside, comes off as kind of unrelatable. Like, he's the hero, he's the leader, he's nice but we don't really get to see overly/ugly human emotions other than self doubt. Then season 8 happens, Harumi comes along, llorumi happens, and Lloyd's character becomes more fleshed out because the audience gets to see these ugly human emotions. He's embarrassed, unsure of himself, head over heals for this girl, and he acts like an idiot. And when harumi does betray him he still acts like an idiot, his emotions are still out of control, he's angry and upset in a way the audience never got to see before. Harumi absolutely fucked him up in a way no one else has managed because she understood him on a level nobody did. But that also leaves Harumi open to being understood.

Harumi is splitting. That's literally what she's been doing throughout Ninjago. Either everything is all good or all bad. She sections herself off into different identities as a byproduct of this. When she's forced to confront that Lloyd, someone she has demonized and reduced to just a mask, is more than just the mask, is not black and white but grey, Harumi can't accept it. She's obsessed with him whether she likes it or not. She wants to kill him but she can't. She had so many opportunities to kill Lloyd in SoG and Hunted but every single time she hesitates or tries to get him to join her. He understands her. He understands she's not just the Quiet One, not just Rumi, not just the Jade Princess, and not just an orphaned girl. He sees her as a whole, her fragmented identities as one person (it's part of why he doesn't give up on her because he knows she's not just evil), and that's dangerous to her.

Idk. I think I ended up explaining Lloyd better from this interpretation but I think Harumi deserves her own post especially because I was getting into bpd and all that.