lloyds.depression

Sora: my babyyyy!!!! I love her so much!!!! She’s definetly my favourite out of the new ninja, her design is so cool (I love the dedication to putting cat ears in everything) and I loved her story and development. She’s also very trans coded so she gets extra points for that <3

Arin: to be honest I found him very boring during the first season and the first half of s2, but then his arc with Ras kicked off. I think his overall development is very well executed and I love that he's kind of a middle point between Ras and the Ninja. It's not enough to make him one of my favs but I do like him a lot, I'm curious to what they're gomna do with him now that he has his parents back (Also his friendship with Sora is so wholesome I love them so much <3<3).

Wyldfyre: I don't like the "savage kid" trope so I found her really annoying at first, then she got her episode with Kai and I loved their dynamic even if I still didn't like her character. However, I could see her potential, and I was proven right when she finally developed and became one of my favs by the end of s1. Her development through s2 was also great and she’s just a very fun character. I love her silly moments but also how she can be resourceful and smart in her own way. Her dynamic with Kai is awesome too (and I hc that her diva poses come from her copying Kai). She’s my second fav new character in all DR and I hope we get more development for her in the future.

Frak: my first impression was that he was fun but nothing stood out to me... and it kinda stayed that way. I feel like he's been done dirty by the writers bc even though he's been present since s2, he's not been given much development. He has the potential if they give him the time and s4 seems like It's going to do that but we'll have to see. I also don't like how his dynamic with Sora is done, I see the idea but the execution is not great, and the crush just makes it worse.

Other thoughts:

I love how the writing for the female characters is. Ninjago has come so far from how it treated its girls in the original. They got rid of so much of the original misogyny. These feel like interesting fully fleshed-out characters and I love it.

Side note- I found out about the Forbidden Five's tribes after I had done the designs so they're not accurate to the lore. I'm still going to keep these designs bc I prefer them (and I'm not good at drawing furries ^^'). I also wish we had seen more of them, they feel like such wasted potential bc Thunderfang was terrible. The FF should've been the antagonists of s3 instead of him.