Lloyd Garmadon Headcanons
Part 2!
So hereâs some more Lloyd Headcanons at long last, literally like 2 years later.
Iâm still not all caught up so bear with me!! Iâve only really got a vague understanding of how everything plays out after the Morro arc. Also please bear in mind that itâs been like 2 years so my characterization of everyoneâs favorite Green Bean⢠will probably have changed a bit since the first post.
Though heâs not terribly good at it, when he has access to his powers he can use all of the other elements - secondary elements included.
With practice, he could become an even more formidable opponent, having the ability to use any element at any given moment.
His skills/strengths lie primarily with Energy and the last glittering speckles of his Golden Power.
After those, in order, he is most skilled with/connected to Lightning, Creation, Wind, Destruction, and Fire.
The ease with which Creation, Wind, and Destruction yield to him deeply concerns him - particularly Wind and Destruction - as he has never gone out of his way to use any of them, to his knowledge.
The control over Wind came after Morroâs possession. Understandably, he doesnât like to use it.
After being possessed, he has terrible, graphic nightmares about drowning. When Harumi leaves him to drown, it takes a lot of mental fortitude to fight through the fear that grips him as his nightmares nearly come true.
It takes everything he has, in fact, and yet he manages to summon still more strength afterwards.
Heâs good at that - giving everything he has and digging deeper still. He sees it as a positive trait despite how much pain it causes him - mental and physical.
He is absolutely, debilitatingly, terrified of being abandoned. He doesnât mind being alone - he minds not being alone of his own volition. He minds the idea that heâs disposable.
He gets extremely self-destructive when he thinks thereâs a chance heâll be left behind for any reason. He will do anything to make sure that he remains important to those around him. If heâs not important, if heâs not useful, then thereâs no point in them humoring his presence... Right?
Like many other people who struggle with this, he doesnât believe that other people are worthy of being abandoned just because theyâre not useful.
And by âheâll do anythingâ, I do mean pretty much anything. He may be a hero by birth and destiny, but he wonât hesitate to do something drastic to keep from being seen as obsolete and thus being abandoned. Darkleyâs kicking him out messed him up.
Lloyd is terribly introverted, but also terribly extroverted. He adores interacting with other people, but he has a limited social battery and at some point he needs to go be by himself for a while to recharge that battery.
Heâs got a bad habit of pushing forward on an empty social battery, though. Just pushing and pushing until he canât stand to hear anyone around him so much as breathing and he has to totally isolate himself for a day or two to come back from it.
Somehow, he still keeps pushing himself, most of the time. Heâll take the absolute minimum amount of time he can get alone and then throw himself back into interacting with people.
The moment heâs able to justify total isolation to himself, though (thereâs no current threat to the world, everyone else is going to be busy, etc), he throws himself at the opportunity and hunkers down in his room until he absolutely has to leave.
Though he is a wonderful person with a heart of gold, it is very easy in AUs for him to become very bitter and resentful of those around him.
This bitterness doesnât make him a bad person, however much he may try to pass it off as being a bad person, and he retains his heart of gold - he just builds walls around it and acts out on his resentment to whatever extent is relatively reasonable.
He will act tough and work very hard to be seen as evil or unlikable, but heâll never do anything truly terrible. Heâll even still go out of his way to save people and help them - he just canât help the instinct and it drives him absolutely batty that no matter how much he wants to be evil and to toss conventional morality aside, he just. Canât.
Acting out on his resentment, even, is not anything terrible when he does it. He never takes it out on anyone who canât fight back, and even if he goes out of his way to mock and humiliate whoever heâs fighting he stops the second they do.
Only once, in a very specific AU, did he continue after his opponent stopped fighting back - it was Kai, and Lloyd threw him across the area they were fighting in and kicked him in the ribs after Kai had already sort of collapsed from how long theyâd been fighting.
Itâs important to note that in this AU, Lloyd has naturally aged to about 17, he and Kai are not teammates, and Kai doesnât even know who Lloyd is, while Lloyd is aware that Kai (and the other ninja) had something to do with Garmadonâs defeat with the Golden Weapons and is bitter over it. He places the full weight of his resentment on Kai instead of any of the others primarily because Kai is extremely cocky and is unnecessarily rude to him the first time they meet (less than a week before the fight).
Before Morroâs possession of him, he is horrible about taking proper care of himself. Without someone around to tell him to eat or take a bath, he can and will forget to do both. The consequences for not eating far outweigh the consequences of not bathing, however, because heâll pass out from low blood sugar long before heâll start smelling nasty, and after you force him to eat when he wakes up, he usually goes and showers on his own.
After the possession, he suddenly becomes a pro at taking care of himself. You wonât ever catch him skipping a meal or going more than three days without a shower unless he absolutely has to.
Lloyd has panic attacks. Heâs not sure what triggers them - not because they seem to come out of nowhere, but because thereâs always so many things going through his head already when they hit that he canât pinpoint an exact cause.
The two triggers he knows for certain and understands the reasons behind are thinking/talking about Morro too much and thinking/talking about what the Overlord did to him for too long.
He can think/talk about either but he has to get off the topic quickly if he wants to avoid a panic attack. At most heâs capable of mentioning Morroâs name and sort of vaguely alluding to the possession and how terrifying it was, and giving a quick summary of what the Overlord did to him and why.
Lloyd also has frequent nightmares - not just the ones about his dad or about drowning. He honestly has more bad dreams than good. Heâd rather dream about Morro or drowning than the Overlord or his dad any day, though.
Okay so like last time I have so many more, but this is enough for one post.
More headcanons for the other boys and some for Nya coming soon!
Part 1
