#ns15

Like as much as it sucks that it sort of spits in the face of her having this moment of clarity and realization that what she was doing was only perpetuating the cycle which ruined her life, and then her deciding to try and mend that cycle even to the point of death- that death instead being treated as a sign to her that the world is perpetually awful, and if she doesn't get to have a good life, then nobody does, like... that's fair. Like that's even pretty interesting. I'm down to see this character who we're invited to sympathize with at first, only to slowly realize that they would have convinced themselves of their victimhood and the need for retaliation against the world no matter what.

Even the dialogue backs this up. She makes a point of morally grandstanding to Lloyd about being left behind in the rubble to die (she's always left behind, she's always the victim, this is proof the rest of the world is in the wrong), and when Lloyd tells her he did dig through rubble on hands and knees all through the night with the hope of even just finding her body, her response is

"you didn't search long enough"

That's all you need to know. This could be a soul crushing, character defining line. This is the language of a narcissistic, gaslighting, practiced and proud abuser. No justice will ever be good enough for her. Even though Lloyd took the time to look for her in the immediate aftermath of one of the most crushing battles of his life, even though the only reason he didn't find her is probably that she had already up and left- that's not good enough. Nothing will ever be good enough. Her expectations are impossible because they are false expectations. They are thin justifications for her lust for power, revenge, and cruelty. Nothing more. And they always have been.

This is a broken person who looked their own hypocrisies and moral failings in their face, who was given the reason they asked of the world to stop what they were doing, who was shown compassion by the universe, who was given a second chance at life, who was given everything anyone could ever need to turn over a new leaf, and yet she still chooses to say no. She chooses to turn away, because she doesn't want peace or justice or a better world, she only craves to see it burn. Because she was never motivated by her past or her need to prevent her fate for others, but to inflict it on others. To satisfy her hunger for watching others suffer. It explains why her plan in the first place was so jumbled, it explains why her hurt seemed to be specifically pinpointed on Lloyd for no reason, it's just the way she is. She has been stuck in her own spite for so long that there is no saving her. She has declared an enemy for herself, and there is nothing that could convince her to rethink it because she was not fueled by any form of logic, only ever by hatred. She has no capacity for love. She never did this for her parents, she hasn't felt anything for them for a long while now. They serve only as a symbol of how the world has wronged her, how others aren't trying hard enough, how she's the only one who deserves control. She would never be redeemed because redemption takes at least an iota of moral courage, and Harumi is fueled purely by her immense, petty cowardice. This is a true presence of evil which shall never be dissuaded, and which will burn on for as long as she lives.

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yep! i never really liked how ninjago tackled her ressurection so i made up my own headcanon for the whole thing

i can't really explain it fully without making the post too wordy

so long story short: she can still turn into the sea dragon form but she needs the vengestone to supress her powers from going haywire!

my idea of vengestone is quite different so she just needs a simple accessory with it to supress her element to be able to use her powers for combat but enough to stop her from going full feral

she can take it off if she needs her powers to be at full but she has to really be watchful (so do the others around her) to ensure she doesn't forget herself

just saying, i think that her sacrifice should have costed a whole lot more and bringing her back would take more than like.... 5 episodes right after

so, when the ninja froze nya in order to de-merge her in crystallised, how would they know that the being they were trying to resurrect was nya? how would they know if a few drops of saltwater belonging to nyad weren’t clinging to nya’s form, and weren’t brought back with nya? how would they know that the being they were seeing was nya, wholly and truly nya, with no influence of the woman who also inhabited the ocean?

no, there’s no way they could’ve known.

and so there’s a chance they could’ve brought back both spirits. nyad and nya controlled the same body (of water) at the same time; why would that change when they got brought back?