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I try my best here, okay?

But sometimes.. Sometimes you just have to make sacrafices and use dramatic camera angles to keep the comic dynamic.

Please don.t stare at the butt. I embarris.

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Cole does not like the sassy kid.

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Eyy, it’s lil’ Lloyd!

Sometimes, when I’ve been thinking about the newer seasons and especially my own seasons where Lloyd is all grown up ‘n all... And I come and see this comic, my heart says: “Gaaaaah he’s so smol and cute..! Oh little one.. Oh little one..!! If only I could protect you from all what’s coming..!!!” And then I cry internally and dwell in bittersweet guilt and malicious pleasure. ... I am a monster and I know it.

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Believe it or not, but souls are a crucial part of this world. They play an important role in one of the main characters’ life, and the same goes with two of my original characters’ lives too. Although this might sound irrelevant at first, since souls are rarely mentioned in the canon, you might find this info page rather useful in case you plan to follow my PNGo!-story in the future.

Souls are the part of a being that makes them living, thinking creatures. Without a soul a being cannot feel emotions, they cannot think or make themselves move. Without a soul the body runs out of energy and a person soon stops breathing and their heart stops too. In this case, a person could be kept alive artificially, but the person would remain as nothing more than a vegetable.

In a way there is a standard amount of souls. They move in a cycle, like water. Many people believe in souls, and they are a part of Ninjago’s “religion”, but their nature is unknown. The common mindset is that when a new creature is born, the soul is born within it. This is not true though. When the FSM created living beings, he created their souls at the same time. When a person dies, their soul travels to the World of Departed where it rests as long as it wishes, until it’s ready to come back again. Then the soul settles into a new body. As long as the FSM was alive, every new baby got a soul even if there were no spare souls available. His existence maintained that spell. When he died, his sons didn’t know how to create life, AKA souls, so some problems occurred when people’s lifespan got longer due to better hygiene, safer environment, and a more stable society. There simply weren’t enough souls for everyone.

The basic nature of souls

Souls must not be confused with minds. Although an unhatched baby cannot have thoughts or hopes, its soul can. The soul and body will be stitched together within time, but before hatching the soul is a loose being of its own, a life source, a battery inside another being who will develop a consciousness and a mind of its own, and as they grow, those two will be amalgamated together. Yet, a mind is still a physical creation of the brain and nerves. When the body dies, so dies the mind. But because the soul and mind have become identical during the life, and the soul cannot die, it carries all the memories, feelings, traits, and the person of that mind within it. As it is – the very culmination of one’s being.

Souls don’t have a gender. When they are young and pure, they don’t have any shape and one could not tell a soul of a Growlithe apart from a soul of a Meowth. At this early stage, these two souls could even switch places without any damage being caused. Souls have some inbuilt features that will be shown already in newly-hatched individuals, but most of the traits are brought out through the life. The life shapes the soul and if it’s torn apart from the body, it will be incompatible with other bodies if it has lived longer than for four years. It’s something similar to the stem cells of embryos. Those stem cells are totipotent, I.E. they can differentiate into any cell type. New born cubs have souls of this kind, they can inhabit any kind of empty organism. As they grow inside a body, they start to differentiate and the further this process goes, the more poorly they will be able to shift into a new vessel if their body fails.

Young kids still have a chance to find a new body, but it must be the same species and about the same age as their former body was. Pluripotent stem cells parallel young children’s souls, I.E. they can differentiate into many different cells, but not all. After three years has passed, children’s souls get to be too differentiated to find a new vessel. They have already shaped a personality, they are an individual. A being with memories, a name, opinions, a history, and a life lived. They carry too much within them to be able to find a corpse that would match theirs. When a person reaches four years, it is already too late. However, there is known to be ways to separate a soul from its body by force, and even transfer it into another person regardless of their age or other features. This kind of magic is of course forbidden and only rumors of such rituals can be heard.

Souls are mysterious beings in general. They usually stay the same and follow the circle they have been put to follow, but sometimes they might divide, merge together or shatter, in which case the bits of them can be absorbed by other souls. This way the basic features of the “stem souls” get variation.

When an older person - be it a more than four years old kid, a teen, an adult or an elderly person - dies, their soul normally content itself with the life it has lived and moves forward, to the World of Departed. Sometimes small cubs’ souls travel to the World of Departed, too, but usually they come back soon (with the same traits it possibly gained through living) to find a new body to live in. Older people may return too, and eventually they will, but they will lose themselves in the process of travelling back to the world of living. Their soul will be purified, cleaned from the features they gained during their lives, and all that’s left is the core they first had when they came into life for the first time.

The souls are invisible for all physical eyes, including the eyes of living and the eyes of machines. Only “lost souls”, who intentionally want to be seen, have a visible appearance. (They are transparent and have an eerie, green glow and they usually have sort of a smoke-like or steaming body. These kinds of souls also have so much will power that they can turn themselves solid if needed.) If one has strong mental or spiritual abilities, they can sense the souls inside and outside of people. People with spiritual abilities have even a chance to get a real sight of the souls. When a soul has lived for years inside a body, it becomes a reflection of one’s physical appearance.

Souls are bright, etheric shapes that outline against their background but their 3D shape is hard to tell. (I mean, if a soul had crossed arms, the arms would barely be visible since the brightness in the middle of their being is so intense that only the outlines could be figured out from the background. Their eyes shine even brighter though.) They might appear clear and almost concrete looking, but they can move fast, turning into a beam of light flying towards the sky. Or they might fade into a cloud of glowing smoke, flapping around a room. Or they might be turned into a bright, small spark.

The spark is a soul in its most condensed form, and this can be seen even with bare eyes. They cannot form themselves into this, and if one can see a soul with their own eyes, it means that it has been forced into this shape and is most likely suffering. Everyone’s soul has their own color. They appear white most of time, since their glow is so intense, but if they were compressed into this small, star-like spark, one could easily see what color they are. It is not always easy to tell one color apart from another, but there is always even a slight difference to the next soul.

A living soul

Have you ever wondered where the soul dwells inside of you? Well, in PNGo the souls are usually free to move around the body they live in. As they are not concrete beings, they can be in many places at the same time or everywhere. Most of the time the souls tend so curl themselves up in the head and inside of the heart, and many of them also form a full-body form that is present in every cell at the same time as most of the soul dwells in the heart and/or the brain.

If a person has more than one soul, the other souls are sleeping in one part, most likely in the heart or stomach, whilst the active soul can move freely in any part of the body. It doesn’t have a huge effect on the body if the soul hangs around the big toe rather than the heart, it still does the job. What does influence the body though, is when the free movement of the soul is inhibited. This might cause stuff like ache, numbness in some parts or even diseases. In the worst-case scenario, it might cause partial paralysis. What could disturb the soul could be for example stress, an unhealthy lifestyle (smoking and such) or a curse.

                            Okay, this gets a bit grim, just to warn you. Skip to the next sub-head if you have issues with gore. This is nothing explicit but might upset more sensitive/younger readers.

As said before, a soul cannot die. A physical attack won’t harm a soul. If a person is attacked and, say, stabbed into the place where the soul has curled, the soul remains unharmed. It obviously gets terrified and anguished as it feels through the body and the more severe the pain and damage is, the more likely it will be for the soul to escape. (This also depends on the age of the person. Elderly people’s souls have a weaker will to live than younger ones’, so they are prone to leave if they feel like the torment in the body is too much.) It would depend on the nature of the soul what it would do. It might dodge the tool and run into another part of the body, or it might stay put and burn brighter, giving all its energy to the wound so it would heal faster. If a soul extended itself all over the body and a person lost a limb, the soul would not be torn apart. The instant the limb comes off, the soul has just sucked itself back to the main body.

However, there are ways to make a soul have “physical” damage. Some Pokémon-moves have a straight affect on the soul, most of these are ghost-type -moves. They may wound, mutate, or manipulate the soul, yet, it won’t die no matter what. It might even be torn in half and it would still be alive and possibly come together again, but a damage this harsh would make the soul escape for good and it might never settle into a new body again. (Also, if a soul was cut into pieces, it might not be able to, or want to fuse into one again, but shatter and other incorporeal souls might consume the escaped bits.)

 Soulful people

In PNGo one usually has one soul. Having more than one soul is not completely uncommon though. It doesn’t happen often, but it is very possible. Souls are something that are normally very willing to live, and if they don’t have the chance to ever live, for example, if their body died in the egg, they usually wander to a new body. They cannot inhabit a body with old and/or strong soul. They need either a body who has born without a soul or has a very weak original soul. Yes, practically if a baby is born without a soul, it means that the body will die in the egg too, but in different way. If a body dies on its own, for example it has a gene that causes practically a self-destruction of the body, it dies even if it had a strong soul. In this case the soul will probably escape the body and fly without direction until it finally finds an empty body. But if a body is born without a soul, it will never hatch even if the body is perfectly functional. Without the soul, the baby won’t wake up to try and break free. It will stay still and consume the energy and nutrition of its egg and once it’s burn off, the body will die. Unless a new soul inhabits it.

Souls obey the diffusion principle. Where there are many souls, there is pressure that forces the souls to move out and to a new body, if the bearer of those souls happens to pass an empty but functioning corpse. Normally this demands at least physical contact, but the more there are souls inside the living person, the easier it is for one of the souls to leap into the empty body. One soul will always stay in the already living body and normally only one soul per time leaves if there’s only one empty vessel available.

When a body is empty, it can happen that two, or even more souls can stuff into it exactly at the same time. This works the same way as how Siamese twins are born. Two sperms manage to get into the egg cell even if only one should. With souls this doesn’t cause any visible side effects, though. A body with more than one souls might even be stronger and healthier than an ordinary one as the souls are a source of energy and life. Thus, they might give a person a much longer life than “normal” people would have. A person lives through only one soul at a time. The person still has features and even abilities of the other souls too, if those had gathered ones in their past lives, but only one soul per time will age with the body. Only this soul will be conscious. The others receive the experiences, feelings, and such as if they were in sleep, dreaming. In case the person ran into an empty body, only the hibernating souls would be able to leave, never the one the person is using the most at the moment. Most commonly it’s the youngest soul to leave first.

Also, if this person had a near-death experience, the more souls they had, the more likely it would be for them to survive. The most likely action sequence would be that the “oldest” soul, the one through which this person had lived their life, would “die”. The anguish of the body and great horror are the first reasons for a soul to leave its vessel even if it’s still able to live. This soul would leave in terror to escape the pain, and the next would take its place. This soul, being younger and having a stronger will to live, would hold on to life longer, giving the body the power to stand the pain and to heal. If it wasn’t scared of the sudden terror and agony that is. Alternatively, if a person had a life without any extreme times of horror or pain, their first soul would run through the lifespan it had been given and then it would leave, letting the next soul replace it.

The strength of a soul

I spoke earlier about strong souls. They are healthy, dynamic, and full of zest for life. Yet there are sometimes weak souls, who find the life rather meaningless and tiring, even a painful experience without any reason in particular. They constantly crave for afterlife, away from the tough, heavy bounds of mortal life and their hurting body. It is unclear why these souls exist.

People with frail souls are partially vegetables, they have little interest in life, they can’t find joy or it is particularly hard to find for them and their souls are only trying to escape their vessel. This corrupts the body, making it ill, breaking it slowly. Cubs with these kinds of souls used to die after a few nights at the most. With present technology and medical knowledge, the weak babies can be treated the way they that they can live longer. Still, even medicines and other treatment cannot keep a reluctant soul inside the body forever and as the soul is the source of life, the body will die when it leaves, unless the corpse is attached to ventilator. The heart will stop on its own too, if not treated.

However, some kids with a weak soul may still live longer, but nobody has ever lived longer than ten years with a weak soul. Nevertheless, it has been noted that not only medical treatment plays a role in keeping a weak-souled kid tied to life. If a child is loved and if they feel love towards people and life, even towards a few little things and at least one person, they will be willing to struggle little more and try to hang in there regardless of their agony.

Souls are known to leave a dying body before hatching, so why would a soul stick in a body if life causes it suffering? One explanation is that they might have a little bit of hope. Maybe they wish that life will turn out worth living after all. Maybe they want to see the world outside the eggshell before leaving, since the thirst for life is inbuilt in souls. And the longer a soul stays in a body, the tighter it’s bound with it. Eventually, if it wants to leave, it must destroy the body to be able to leave. To do this, it will have to stop giving strength for the body. It doesn’t work absolutely, though. Some streams of life will flow through the body no matter how much the soul will try to curl up and stay inactive. But the less lifeforce the body receives, the more it will get damaged. It will get diseases, it might have trouble sleeping or sleep too much, it will most likely depress, have arrhythmia and so on.

Another reason might be that the soul doesn’t have enough power to leave. It would have to break the faint bounds it has, but even that’s too hard for it. And as it grows inside the body, the weaker it gets. It doesn’t have to try to make the body grow weaker too because it weakens with the soul. And when the soul doesn’t have any strength left, the body finally cracks, breaking the bounds and setting the soul free. Who knows? Maybe there are two cases of weak souls and both hypotheses are correct. Or maybe neither of them is accurate. Again, who knows?

The only possibility to save a kid with a frail soul, is to give them a new one. This, of course cannot be done by anyone alive. The spirits of the departed may guide a dispossessed soul to a weak kid, if their relatives are praying for them. Other than that, it’s only a matter of coincidence if a homeless soul passes by and finds a nest in the body. If this happens, the old soul will be completely replaced. The soul will go to the World of Departed with pleasure. It leaves behind only some traits that are copied in the kid’s brains and therefore cannot leave with the soul. However, these traits are now more prone to be reshaped and even deleted as the new soul is in charge of the direction where the child’s mind will develop.

  It's a kind of magic

As souls copy the genetic information of the body they live in, they can transport this information to the next body, if they must leave their original vessel. This causes interesting occurrences. As magical abilities are inheritable, the cub can wield magic only if it runs in the family. Unless the cub is born without a soul and gets inhabited by a vagabond soul with magical abilities written in its being from the former body it had. Already during the first few months the soul gathers basic information from the body it’s living in and if it breaks away, it can transport that information to any empty organism it settles into. This way a person could wield some sort of magic even if their parents could not. This has limitations though. If the abilities aren’t in any way compatible with the new body’s type for example, it can’t use the magic (for example, a soul of a Totodile could carry water-magic abilities, but if it inhabited a body of a fire Vulpix, there wouldn’t be any effect, no matter how young the soul would have been).

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Ghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I just realized I’ve forgotten to color in Zanes paws fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff.....!! That’s most likely the case in every page, even though his paws should be the same color as the diamond patches on his tail and on those, uh, flappers(?) on his head.

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Ha, never mind, I sometimes added my own lines here and there. But hey, otherwise I’d be grateful if you pointed out my typos/grammar errors in the comics so I can correct them (if you point out my errors in my own texts outside of comics i’ll just be very sad and ashamed so plz don’t do that). I guess if the comic has been lying around for a month I might be too lazy to fix it but the faster I get the feedback the more likely it is for me to correct the stuff.

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Soileon – Black Soil Pokémon

Type: Ground 

Base stats:   HP: 110  |  Attack: 95  |  Defense: 130   |   Sp. Atk. 65   |   Sp. Def. 65    |    Speed: 60   |   Total: 525

Height: 3′3″ (0.99m)  |   Weight: 66.1 lbs (30.0 kg)  |  Ability: Fur Coat  |  Hidden ability: Sand Rush

Soileon evolves from eevee if it uses Dig in a victorious battle on a flower field or in a garden and has high happiness rate.

 It lives in areas where the soil is fertile. Plant seeds get stuck on its long, dark fur, and when it wanders around its territory and digs itself into ground, the seeds get to take root in a new ground.

It buries itself into soft soil to stalk prey. Sand and small stones catch up on it’s long, dark fur, and form a protective layer of hair and earth on its shoulders, chest, and crown.

(some soileons have more fur on their back, some have long fur only on their head, shoulders and chest, some don’t have it on shoulders at all etc. the amount of long fur and its location depends a lot on the individual.)

I have one made-up move to Soileon: when it evolves, it will first learn “Bullet Seed”, because it gathers seeds into its fur and when it shakes itself, the seeds hurtle around dealing some damage. This is the only grass-type move soileon learns by level up (I guess you could still teach it something with machines and move tutors?). Next time it learns a move by level-up, it would learn “Sand Shake”, which would work pretty much in similar way. It shakes its fur, dealing damage to all the pokémon around it with a ground-type move 2-4 times in a row during its turn (Power: 60, Acc. 95).  After learning that it could just learn whatever ground-type moves etc. etc. Also some rock-type moves probs. Yeah.

In PNGo, eevee can evolve into any type. I don’t have designs for all of the eeveelutions and most of them won’t appear in the series. (if there appears new eeveelutions in the Pokémon series, i’ll include them here, but if there will be a ground-type, i certainly won’t change cole’s species.) Not all the eeveelutions even appear as sophisticated beings. Cole is the only sophisticated soileon there is during the Pokéninjago series. Soileons are fairly rare eeveelution to appear in the wild too. There are some small populations in remote, agrarian areas where people pasture cattle and the soil is fertile and soft. The species name “Black Soil Pokémon” refers to chernozemic soils, which are very fertile and dark colored.