Lacking Sanity

I think all his casual clothes are so worn and tattered. From a life of pinching pennies when his parent’s disappeared, he’s grown into the habit of holding onto old used clothes and hand me downs. Nya keeps telling him he needs to throw out his old clothes but he insists that the old ‘The Fold’ t-shirt from when he was 12 still fits. The ridiculous pink and orange socks Jay gave him as a gag gift are FINE! So what if there’s a hole in the toe? And NO the hole in his jeans are NOT getting larger, you’re imagining things!

But when it comes to dressing up nice for a date he’ll pick out his nicer clothes. He sometimes asks Nya for help if he’s having trouble putting together a good outfit. When he needs to dress for a formal events, he’s got one good suit that he keeps in good condition. (Nya has to help him with his tie)

He also always mixes silver and gold jewelry he’s picked up from the antique stores that Jay sometimes drag him into. He doesn’t understand how to actually pull off mixing them together. He just wears whatever he thinks looks cool plus his dad’s wedding band that he always wears. Nya doesn’t care to try to help him. Same goes for mixing a brown belt with black shoes.

Also, he absolutely HATES the cold you cannot convince me otherwise. Doesn’t matter if he’s the master of fire, he still hates dry winter weather. If he has to go outside he brings every damn layer he can find. He’s always wearing wayyyy too many sweatshirts and triple layering his socks. And then he complains about it being too hot lol.

And yes. Sometimes he’ll steal his sister’s winter accessories. Gloves/hats/scarf. He doesn’t care to buy his own. Nya constantly complains about it. Zane gave him proper winter gear of his own in his colors once and Kai still lost them. Nya’s kidna given up.

Bonus:

He wears only loose tees or long sleeve shirts and boxers to bed. (Usually the ones that are so tattered and worn he can’t wear them in public). He hates wearing anything too tight cuz it feels like he’s being strangled in his sleep. When it’s winter time his bed is piled in blankets to stay warm and he actually likes the weight some times.

In winter he’ll briefly throw on some some loose PJ pants if he has to walk around the monastery to grab something or for movie nights. But the second he’s slipping under his covers he’s taking them off. He doesn’t like how they bunch up around his knees. Huuuuuuuuge sensory ick.

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So this will likely be a forever WIP cuz I’ve been sitting on this drawing for literal months.

I always like the idea of if Law became what Doflamingo wanted him to be. So I ended up making an impulsive comic about it.

Sorry for disappearing. It was my birthday last weekend and my internship was kicking my ass.

Here’s some doodles for your troubles. It’s mostly Lloyd ofc lol. I’m experimenting actually drawing everyone as LEGO figures or something similar to monkey kid.

I like to imagine that before Lord Garmadon left to pursue his evil dreams their family was quite pleasant.

I drew Jay in his various forms through the series

I’m slowly falling in love with Jay as a character. He’s such a silly goober. I miss him so much 😭

Bro is obsessed with strawberry flavored Pocky. you cannot convince me otherwise.

So I realized that Lloyd is pretty much just Telemachus so here’s a bunch of sketches and character designs if he was lol

My offering to the LEGO Ninjago community my take on what I think Lloyd would look like as a human.

I’ve been binge watching Ninjago while working on my final project and it’s taken over my brain lol

Noticed that Chopper is canonically a teenager and I always thought that was weird that they drew him as a kid so I wanted to experiment with what he’d look like as a teen.

I took inspiration from his horn point form. It’s honestly my favorite out of all of them personally.

In this I think just his brain point form would be different. Everything else would be the same.

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Whoops my hand slipped 🫠

Still sick as hell so I’ll just leave this here

Here is the last one so far, Sanji. He’s the acrobat and chef of the circus!

His training started when he was a kid by his father, Judge. He was kinda forced into training as a gymnast, which of course, he didn’t really make the cut amongst his far more talented siblings. So a long winded backstory later Sanji is in the custody of Zeff until he’s practically forced into joining the Strawhat Circus. First by handling the food courts.

Later he started training again and began to participate in the acts. He now mostly manages the food courts and help them prep, but when the grounds are open he leaves the cooking to the staff while he’s otherwise occupied.

Although he does love to make breakfast and dinner for the crew and staff when the grounds aren’t open

When he’s not doing shows he’ll wander the grounds like everyone else and do fun tricks to entertain the guests. (And flirt with the ladies of course) The kids especially love it when he does cool backflips and handstands.

Anyways that’s all that I can think for him. :D

I dont have any other drawings in terms of their character designs. Later I might make more once im more settled on their acts and stuff.

Sorry for the wait. I got sick out of nowhere. So here’s Usopp!

So here I have him as the ringleader. Not so much because he’s in charge or anything but because the role of a ringleader is to announce the various performances during the main show. They do crowd control and direct the audiences attention to the various acts going on in the show. He also serves to weave stories about the performers to introduce the new performers. He tends to over exaggerate those parts. Talking about acts coming straight from the the mountains of some made up country. Or how they had performed for a royal family that doesn’t exist.

He sometimes subs in on performances if something happens and does sharpshooter performances. Rarely impalation because it makes him nervous as hell, but he CAN do it.

When he’s not doing main shows or any side shows that happen throughout the day, he’s either helping Franky and doing more stagehand work, or he’s in his booth telling extravagant stories using puppets for the kids!

Merry is one of the animals. She doesn’t really performs as much, she prefers to follow Usopp around and he doesn’t really mind to stop her.

That’s all I’ve got for him. Imma go to bed now. This cold is killing me lmao 🫠

Part 3

Now we have Nami!!!

She started out in debt to a seedy water circus owned by Arlong. She was a dual performer that assisted with backstage. And when she wasn’t under the spotlight she’d sneak under the stands and pickpocket.

There was a falling out and Nami managed to pay off her debt with the help of Luffy and she joined their circus instead!

Nami is now a baton twirler. She’s got an assortment of different batons and they’re usually decked out with special effects. To make things more interesting for her acts.

When she’s not performing she handles finances for the circus, as well as marketing and organizing their events. I added Zeus in as her assistant cuz I just love him so much and she’d likely need the help.

The circus doesn’t have a tip system but she somehow always gets tips and she doesn’t stop people who gives them to her.

Part 2

Zoro’s next!!

He’s the juggler of the group! More specifically he likes to do more daring juggling acts by using sharp objects and swords! (Although he prefers to use the sharp objects in the big tent where it’s a much more controlled environment. As opposed to when he’s walking the grounds and risk an accident with excited children running around in crowds)

When doing the main show it’s kind of unofficially written in that he and Sanji comically fight and mess with each other. No one’s really sure if it’s intentional or not, but they kinda boarderline satirical about it, but it makes the kids laugh so no one bothers to try to stop them. As long as they’re safe about it.

They did used to have an independent side show thing that’s just them trying to do acts while being an assistant to the other but they just end up messing it up for the other. (They got carried away to many times, so now their spats have to be supervised during main shows)

He started out at the dojo ofc. Training to be a swordsman and professionally competing. After getting injured that ended up with him being barred from competing he moved to performing with the circus.

It took some time at first. Initially his acts were him cutting up stuff and fighting but that was too violent. So he learned juggling and took to it pretty quickly.

That’s all I have for him. Just a little exposition

Part 1

Finally posting these from my TikTok! Never shared it on Tumblr lol

This was a circus AU idea that popped up sometime over the summer (2024). It’s just a fun little thing that (eventually) developed some lore.

In this I couldn’t decide what to make Luffy. He was one of the hardest to pick. Oda likely would have chosen a clown to stay on brand. Realistically he would have been a contortionist (as a way to translate his devil fruit into an IRL context) and I personally think he gives off aerialist vibes. You cannot tell me he wouldn’t love to be in the air in the closest sense possible lmao

So why pick if I can draw him as all of that stuff! Throw it all into the blender just for the heck of it!

So in this Luffy has his main act (trapeze) and side acts as a clown. He uses contortionism in both to make his acts more intriguing or fun!

When he walks the grounds to interact with guests, especially kids, he usually goes around as a clown to best garner attention and to have fun with the kiddos.