Unsure if you recently reblogged your old Stardust post, but I do have some questions, apologies if you’ve heard these before. (And it’s fine if you don’t want to answer some)
Can Jay create things? Such as NPCs or other similar things or is he just stuck with nothing at all to do.
You said re-entry was impossible so does that include booting up the game in its passive form (such as the way it’s shown in following seasons) and if so does he have the ability to make contact with the outside that way?
Does he ever calm down? As in not being violent or driven to destroy? And if not then how does he manage it? Does he manage it at all??
And for my final question, how’s Cole doing? I am not sure how to elaborate because this question is so general, but I guess I mean how is he coping with the whole experience and loosing best friend (/crush, if I’m remembering correctly)?
My final note, Would You Like To Enter Stardust is among my favorite fan works and you’re super good at building tension and at least in my case, moving the reader. So thank you for creating it!
AHH!!! KAJSJSBANKABA I've actually been waiting to answer these questions for so long!!!!! So yes, I was reposting some of my stardust stuff, and I'm so glad you asked so-
1. Yes, Jay can and does create things he can actually bring back corrupt forms of anything he Infected and destroyed so sometimes when he gets this strange feeling he'll bring back the forms of people like Seven or Scott and just... Stare for a while. I think he'd eventually try to do something more, "make" friends because he's got nothing else to do now that he's trapped in the void which is maddeningly boring
2. Yes! Surprising Prime Empire still gets remade such as in canon as a normally functioning videogame (much to Cole's dismay) with a few mods and altered versions based on the "myth" of what happened to the old one of course ;) Jay technically can't interact with anyone within the rules I set for the fic but I like to imagine an au where some poor kid finds the remains of the motherboard and reawakens something so the kid is the new lightning master. But Jay can possess him and control him
3. He calms down more once Cole and everyone else is gone, no more memories clouding up his mind. He's still very violent and unstable in nature just because of how the corruption and insanity has altered him but with nothing more to do he doesn't have anything to direct that violence towards so he's much more reserved.
4. Cole is doing terrible :D! He lost his right leg below his knee and he's blind in his left eye and after the events of stardust he basically pulls a rebooted Kai and leaves the team. The team stays together unlike what canon does, only Cole leaves. He heads off the grid and away from Ninjago because looking at screens and games just makes him feel sick.
Overall thank you so much for asking because again I have been dying to answer these exact questions! And I'm SOOOOO glad you liked the story!