#garmangst

Ninjinktober 2018 Redone

Day 26: Shadow

No, this has literally nothing to do with the headcanon I got.

Lloyd glowing in his dad’s arms got nothing to do with how Garmadon saw him as his light.

It has nothing to do with the idea that Garmadon only wanted to turn the world as dark as he was because Lloyd was the light of his life and he wanted to find him no matter what or where or how or— *sobs over missing Garmadad and his boy* 😭

This piece was inspired by @nightlybirdie’s shadow prompt. (Yes I had to do my addition bc aaaaaaa—)

I have Garmadon live in my AU

BUT THEN

Later on

It just leads to this

Just imagine it.

Garmadon losing himself in his Oni form and Lloyd having no choice but to be the one to put him down.

Ultimately that is true. Most villains are actually just broken people who society didn’t bother to care for and just let them go through a broken system. World domination to them actually makes sense in the terms of fixing said system themselves and hoping no one else would ever feel what they felt.

Other times it’s a villain losing someone and the villain just decides to watch the world tear apart from the inside out. They see how awful people are and watched as no one cared about that someone they loved dearly and now the villain wants them to suffer just as much as they did.

For Garmadon though? I came up with a headcanon long ago with a friend of mine on DA and proceeded to add on to it.

We don’t know too much but we do know that Garmadon treasured Lloyd more than anything in the world, loved him more than life itself. So when he saw Lloyd gone and he couldn’t even see his wife in the distance, he broke down. So I told my friend that maybe Garmadon thought if the world was as dark as him, he’d find Lloyd because that’s his little light of his life.

After Garmadon had been cured, he always thought the happy ending he had before him was just a dream. He would’ve been used to that idea since back in his corrupted days, he dreams about the life of being with his wife and kid but then he’d wake up and be all alone. So the idea that he could one day wake up again and not see his wife next to him scared him.

My AU Garm would suggest that his Oni half was thinking something wasn’t right with Lloyd and it wanted to get rid of him (and knowing Oni mythology doesn’t help his case any) which lead to Koko running away from him with Lloyd while Garm was fighting on the inside. When he came to, he mourned at them leaving and basically shut down. The venom took advantage of that negative state of mind and he proceeded with the idea of taking the weapons as his.

We could go into how if Garmadon took over the first time around perhaps Ninjago wouldn’t have to worry about being attacked as often because one, he may have not been the favored son, but he is still the son of their creator. We saw how much power he had being manipulated into gaining it, imagine if he had free will and his human mind in tact. Two, who’s going to go up against an Oni-Dragon hybrid who’d rather seek his family’s safety over vengeance, domination, or just about anything else?

And he probably would’ve had allies, including but not limited to the Serpentine, Skulkin, Time Twins (if he manages to get on Krux’s good side first), Elemental Masters, the Royal Family, etc. Basically anyone else except for Chen and Clouse, because Chen screwed everyone over in the end and he wouldnt look for a repeat and Clouse wasn’t looking to change his mind any time soon.

Day 5: Cursed of @birdiiielle Angst Challenge

Hey guys...

I have some Garmangst for ya.

Part two of this

“If I recover / Will you take me back again? / I’m just another / Trying hard to fit right in / But the photographs remind me of who I used to be / If only I could go back when I / I was me”

@dinogaby I gave him a happier ending but at the cost of angst.

Garm hated his horns so much that he ended up pulling them right off. (Hence the blood)

The poor Oni reaches and Koko is the first to reach back because she knows this man is no monster.

“Seems you picked a new favorite.. Does she know?” Since I have Koko exist in the Show AU and Garmadon meets her just after he met up with the Alliance, that means the letter to Misako still happened and god I can imagine the guilt that’s eating at Garmadon from the inside out.

Permanent Oni Garm sometimes loses himself so he has photographs of his family.

Koko left Garmadon on his demand because he felt his Oni side becoming more dangerous and he never wanted to come close to hurting his loved ones again. It still hurt him when she walked out, leaving the necklace (which he gifted to her) behind. (Might change the circumstance)

A part of his ring finger is much lighter than the rest because even after Koko left, he kept that ring on. It killed him inside when the lightning that struck him made that ring disintegrate.

Teen Garm had Oni facial marks beginning to show while his brother was going to get that dragon beard.

Baby Lloyd and Garmadad!