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Topic; Villain Val 👀

Val as a villainess would be extremely dangerous. Yeah, she's just a small girl in pink. But also, she can read people's emotions incredible well through the whole "everything is animated" thing in her eyes. She notice things through the outlines no one else does, like she's reading mind. Then of course her show knowledge. The fact that people would underestimate her because of her appearance. That she has a secret language no one else could understand. Not to mention her medic knowledge which could help in some...things.

What would need to happen for Val becoming a villain?

Could something happen through that she would even against the ninja?

How would her villain outfit looks like?

Villain Val >:D

Ok so, for starters, I need to lay out Val's core characteristic. Val is, at her core, a protector; whether it's tending to a friend's wounds, or running out into a forest with a weapon she doesn't know how to use to protect her sister from an unknown threat, Val's main characteristic is that she cares about her loved ones deeply, and goes out of her way to keep them from harm, and if that fails, to heal them from it. It would be very easy to twist that to be her driving factor as a villain; she wants to protect the ones close to her by any means neccessary.

What it'd take for her to become a villain would probably be her faith in her worldview breaking. Val believes everyone is kind and compassionate, deep inside, and that they only stray from that either because of one's upbringing or the Writers of Destiny messing with people's free will (In Ninjago, at least. Can't say she thinks the same of people on Earth). It'd take a constant and unrelenting wave of people being cruel for the sake of it with proof that the Writer of Destiny weren't forcing their actions for her worldview to shatter. Seeing that not everyone wants the best for their own loved ones, or that people lash out with no reason for the sole pourpose of hurting others, would shake her. It'd be a nasty reminder that the world she's in is not a cartoon anymore, where people are archtypes and are always good of heart. The world and it's people act as real as people from Earth, and we are very cruel people, capable of terrible things.

If the conditions were right for Val to see there's a good amount of people being evil for the sake of it that were not forced by a higher power, however it could happen, Val would then decide to be just as cruel when facing a new enemy. "If violence is your language then I too will speak it" sort of way.

She'd be subtle about it, I think. Val is compassionate and protective, but she's also very patient and logical. Like you said, she can gain knowledge from people easily just by staring at them; their emotions and their following movements, by example. She'd use that to gain information about everyone she meets she thinks will be a threat to the rest, and write it down in spanish to not forget. If she ever tried to get more information by investigating things herself, she could always play innocent when she was caught; oh, she didn't know what she was doing was wrong, or oh, she wanted to get to know this person more, was this not fine? As it's been (Sort of) established by now, the team thinks Val to be naive due to her trouble with the language. They'd all just write whatever Val does as her acting on Gaia logic, and not think about it much. Anyways, back to the point: Val would not have trouble waiting to get a good thorough look at her perceieved threat, amd decide if it's morally correct to ruthlessly kill them. If whoever she's targeting has no clear reason (To her) for being cruel, she'd go for them.

She would never confront anyone one-on-one. Val is not physically strong, and is not trained to fight, plus generally dislikes fighting in itself. She would try the "pacifist" approach first. That is to say, try to intimidate/blackmail someone away from hurting the rest. When that fails, she'd feel as though she's exempt from the blame of murder. She did warn them off, y el que avisa no traiciona (He who warns does not betray). From there, she'd try to poison the person, whether with common herbs or actual chemicals. The question would be how she'd get the poison to them. She wouldn't exactly be able to serve them poisoned tea. Well, she might get to do that to some, but not all. With all the free time she has, however, I'm sure she'd find a way to slip away. Maybe play up her part as the weak link of the team; she is so very harmless and so very defenseless, but so necessary for the team as the medic. So easy to take away and leave the ninja scrambling. If she managed to bait people into kidnapping her, or at the very least keep her away from the ninja's current lair, she'd have the perfect opportunity to slip poison to her target.

This is all counting on the fact that people don't realize she's plotting anything, however. Once she decided to single people out, Val would amp her cute and oblivous act to a thousand when interacting with anyone not on the team. Her clothes, which are light colored and soft to mark her as a non-fighter, would become an active choice. She'd pick clothes that are deceptively soft, double the flowers she carries on her person, and all around try to make herself look as non threatening as possible. If someone were to realize it's all a farse and tried confronting her in a physical fight, it'd be over for her. The whole of Val's murder spree would count on acting from the shadows, with no one ever suspecting a single thing about her. The moment anyone gets even slighty suspicious, she's pretty much done. But with how mysoginy runs rampant on the island, and again, her whole carefully upheld compassionate act (True until the break of her worldview), she'd manage to keep it all up for a good while. People would take note people who oppsoed the ninja, whether on fights or politics, were suddenly mysteriously dying, but no one would think to accuse Val.

This is all on the assumption she's facing off people who weren't on the show, though, but still were personally out to face the ninja. She wouldn't go all out against some random thief that got a lucky hit on Cole. If she decided to get rid of a season's villain, she'd probably have to get her hands directly dirty for it; it'd be nearly impossible for her to lethally poison someone in a subtle way, especially since the villains of the show are so cuthroat. I don't think most of them would even give Val a minute near them before going on the offensive; they'd certainly wouldn't let her get close enough to shove poison down their throats, and Val wouldn't dare to get that close to someone she knows could easily overpower her. Her best shot would be to coat the ninja's blades with posion, and hope they managed to break skin when fighting their enemies. Thus, they would (Unknowingly) carry out their deaths, and it'd be crisis averted for Val.

The thing is, Val being a villain depends on her being a protector; caring so deeply for her loved ones that she goes too far with it (I think it's fun when a villain's reasoning isn't that they weren't loved/don't love anything but rather that they love too much). Her problem would be that she loves too much and too deeply. Not that that excuses her actions, mind you, in this ramble she's down with murder and has no problem killing people who to her look distnictly not real, or are characters on a kids' cartoon. But the thing is, her becoming a villain relies on her being a villain to protect the ninja. She's not going around killing people for herself. She doesn't have any goals like world domination or vengeance. All she wants is to keep the ninja from harm. She's ruthless with it, yes, but she's doing it for them. They might eventually figure out she's the one behind all the murders and turn against her, but Val wouldn't turn against them.

The only way Val would feasibly be a villain against the ninja is if she perceieved them as a threat to her loved ones, but since they are her loved ones, in this case, it just wouldn't work. Maybe in an au of an au; take the universe and double the alternate. In a universe where Wu never finds her and Val is taken care of by someone else, and then she becomes a villain, she could go against the ninja if she thought they could bring danger to her loved ones. And even then, that'd be hard, as she knows they heros and so don't actually mean harm. Still, that'd be the only way she could turn against them.

Val villain outfit.....well, is as I said. She'd double all the flowers she has on her hair and clothes, wear loose and light-colored clothing that would make her look deceptively soft. The main difference would be in how she acts. Sugary sweet and dumb when with anyone not on the team, and then just her average level of compassionate when with the rest. The ninja would probably pick up on Val's tendency to play up her persona when out and about, but again, wouldn't think too hard about it. Whatever reason she has for it, it's not exactly a worrying issue; they all play up certain aspects of themselves for the public. It's not that concerning if Val starts acting a bit less genuine when there's someone outside their family around. If Val ever was in the room when one of her targets was dying, she'd allow herself to act smug and righteous, letting the other person know she was the one behind their death. Babygirl gets to have a little ego trip whenever she kills someone <3

Anyways, this is all basing Val's villian persona on her Protector characteristic. There are many sides to a person, and depending on what was the thing that pushed her over the edge, Val would go about being a villain different ways. This is simply the most probable one.

A few ones, yeah. At the very least, I've been considering that Val's blood type does Not exist in Ninjago, so if she were to lose blood there'd be absolutely no one she could turn to for donations. Another problem would be that common sicknesses from Ninjago absoluetly wreck her, since her body's used to sickness from Earth. They're different on a molecular level, so while she would not fall sick if someone sneezed at her direction in our universe, if someone in Ninjago were to cough near her chances are Val would immediately get the worst fever of her life. I hadn't thought of this detail when I started writing, and I'm not feeling like rewriting all nine chapters of the fic (At least not now), but if I could I'd make Val get sick immediately after getting to the Monastery. It'd be a mix of her trauma, her body being pushed for far too long, the mess of emotions about the world being animated/a show, and in general that the food she's eating and the water she's drinking have micro-viruses that don't affect anyone but her. Everyone else has generations of ancestors in Ninjago, plus just being exposed themselves to common viruses and sickness when kids, so they don't get sick when eating or drinking anything because they've evolved to be immune to those viruses. Meanwhile Val, who evolved to be immune to viruses from Earth, would be constantly sick from Literally Anything. It'd be really funny, I think, if you ignore how miserable Val is. The medic of the ninja who just can't stop catching sicknessess from absolutely nowhere.

If I leaned a little more into that, I could make it so that Val's medicines don't work on herself. Her knowledge is correct, of course, but the plants she's using are from Ninjago. They are not, on a molecular level, the same as back home. Their properties are the same, she can heal the ninja just fine with them, but they don't have an effect on her, or straight up make her sick. Won't use that angle in the story now because I'd have to rewrite most of the fic to account for this, but I'll probably make it so that from now on Val is at least slightly out of it every chapter. She's fighting demons (And a thousand viruses).

I would also like to add some small differences. But like, some who don't affect Anything. I read a fic once in the bnha fandom where the protagonist, due to being underdeveloped in a certain aspect, has some miscellanous, biological differences from his classmates. For example, everyone else had evolved pass having goosebumps and hiccups, so when he got them, everyone thought he was dying. His classmates had also all evolved past having milk teeth, or wisdom teeth, or just having teeth be able to fall off your mouth at all, so they were all severely concerned when he had to make constant visits to the dentist. I'd like to do something like that, if I found a way. Small biological differences that don't really affect anything and aren't noticeable unless you look for them.

Ok but honestly I think Ninjago is so biologically diverse. Like. The First Spinjitsu Master travelled all over the Realms, right? I think it's very plausible that instead of just creating humans to inhabit Ninjago, whenever he went travelling and saw people who were suffering, in war, or just generally unhappy, and invited them to Ninjago. I mean, he was born in a war he absolutely had to take a side on, suffered on his own as the only (Semi) human in the First Realm, and had pretty much an unhappy childhood. I don't think he was ever really that happy until he stumbled onto Ninjago. So when he went travelling and crashed into people who weren't in the best conditions, he saw himself in them and invited them to his Realm. It was his salvation, and it could be theirs. And a lot of people took him up on the offer. Because why wouldn't they.

So. Ninjago's humanity is made up from a mix of humans from every mortal Realm. They are probably the most biologically diverse from all the Realms, and as such adapt pretty well when going from one Realm to another; chances are one of their ancestors was from that Realm, and the genepool carried over the appropiate antiviruses. I cannot properly put into words how freaky the rest of the Realms find people from Ninjago. They are beasts.

Also, due to humanity in Ninjago being transported there fully evolved from other Realms (Which actually means that most of them got mayorly sick their first few moths there while they got used to the new Realm), they pretty much skipped human evolution. Just spawned in Ninjago fully formed and evolved. Fifty-fifty chance whether people from that era were aware of the theory of evolution and cared to record it. Scientist from modern Ninjago are aware of the theory, and fully believe in it, but there's absolutely no proof of humans evolving from another species, because the earliest records of humans are from the first era, and again, they were spawned there by the FSM. This drives a lot of scientists mad. They know that they're right, the theory checks out with animals,the FSM just accidentally fucked them over and they can't prove anything with humans. At least not until the Merge, where they get access to records from other Realms and the theory of evolution is proven real. Amother reason the rest of the Realms think of Ninjago citizens as absolute beasts. Normal people who aren't interested in science fully believe humans have always been around in Ninjago, the FSM made them as they are in his image, just spawned them right as they are smackdown in the middle of the island - and people from other Realms, all on the known that their respective species went through generations upon generations of evolution to get where they are today, listen in horror.

Actually I need to thank you because the calendar system wasn't really that polished, but since receiving this ask I've sat down and finished fleshing it off. Long text ahead <3 Really, really long text <3

That's the plan yes, but I don't know how far I'm taking it.

With the ninja, I just like the trope where people with powers are affected by them, or meld with them. I think it's a very popular headcanon that Zane runs very cold and Kai runs very hot due to their elements, for example, and it's canon in Wanderlust as well. Jay and Cole's variant of that would be that Jay always smells vaguely like ozone and Cole always smells vaguely of earth and grass (Like, specifically how parks smell after it rains). Nya, once she gains control of her power, smells like seawater, salty and fresh. Undecided on how everyone else's smells/feels is affected by their elements, though. I could make Lloyd start to naturally smell like flowers or ripe fruit once he unlocks his element, and something vaguely related to heat or metal when he's harnessing golden power specifically. Still thinking on it.

Also thinking about stealing a Percy Jackson headcanon for Nya. When Percy, son of Poseidon, travels, his eyes shift colors to match the shade of the nearest body of water. Perhaps I could write it in that Nya starts going through the same thing after she becomes the Master of Water.

Hmmm another few headcanons I've seen around tumblr is that Kai catches fire if he's mad enough. I think that's hilarious and I'm adopting it; unclear when I'll get to actually write a scene where this happens. I also just like to think things around him spontaneuosly burst into flames when he's upset enough. When Cole gets upset, instead, the ground rumbles like a small earthquake.

I've seen this with other lightning-based characters, so I think it'd be fun if Jay's freckles light up when he's happy or anxious, like bioluminiscence. His scars as well. Also, when he uses his powers too much, lightning can actually arce between his freckles. Think of that image. So cool.....

Hmmm some random thoughts. Kai and Jay burn through calories faster and so eat a lot more snacks than the rest. Cole and Zane are the opposite, and can last longer on little food. Passive effect of plants wilting much more slowly when around Cole and Zane, but faster when handles by Kai and Jay. Nya, and generally all Water Masters, are slightly bipolar; something about water coming in so many different shapes, about the ocean being calm and bountiful to some and wrathful and merciless to others, the constant changing of tides, how a river can stream along mildly or drown you in a flash flood.

Kai, Jay and Zane are more resistant to their elements, but they aren't immune to them. Kai won't get burnt immediately if he puts his hand to a flame he didn't create, and he probably won't even feel any pain from the heat, but if he leaves his hand in the fire long enough, the skin will be damaged, even if the pain is lessened. Zane takes a lot more time to succumb to frostbite, and Jay honestly gets a kick of being struck by lightning or by electricity by some stray wires. They have a higher pain tolerance/tolerance in general, but will eventually be hurt if they push themselves too hard. Mayhaps they wouldn't be hurt at all by their elements either when they're at their prime (Aka completely mastered the element) or when in True Potential state. Nya doesn't get to breathe underwater, but her eyes don't get upset if she opens them in the sea, at least not for a while. She also can see perfectly underwater, no matter the dimness or the rubble. Cole can breathe in a lot more dust than the average person before he starts getting hurt from it, as well. His skin also doesn't get as hurt when he tries to dig something with his hands, or when in contact with earth in general. One reason he took to mountain climbing with barely any equipment or clothes; the rocks and stones from the mountains did not hurt his palms and feet as gravelly as they would anyone else.

Those are all side-effects, though. As for straight up new abilities, I don't know what I would do. I do want to do something, I just haven't figured out anything concrete yet. Perhaps figuring out Elemental Bursts for everyone, and I do have a plan to make the True Potential State more relevant, if only because I think the suits each ninja has when they reach that state to be insanely pretty. Also something to do with True Potentials in general, but that one particular idea isn't introduced until Arc 6. So. You won't be seeing it for a while.

Mayhaps Jay gets to throw his lightning like daggers, like his Lego Fortnite version. Main four get a passive effect around people if they focus enough; Kai and Zane get to affect a room's temperature, and Cole can make everyone around him calm down, while Jay can get everyone jittery. Kai can meld wounds closed, because I think it's neat when fire-based characters do that, and Jay can make people move involuntarily (Or stop moving) by shooting tiny, focused bolts of electricity to people's muscles. Nya can purify water, and any water she makes is pure already; she also can manifest water from the humidity in the air around her. Lloyd can heal wounds, though it costs him a lot of energy, and can also heal sicknesses (Which costs him even more). He also occassionally leaves a trail of flowers behind him when he walks on grass. People naturally turn to him when he enters a room. Animals are generally nice to him, and he can subconsciously pick up languages easily. He will also get to use the other core four elements again, because I still don't understand entirely why he doesn't anymore. If it was due to a canon reason I have honestly forgotten. Also I will eventually try to incorporate [Redacted] in the story somehow, because I think that would be neat.

If. If you meant new abilities as. As Airjitsu and the Elemental Dragons and Elemental Bursts type of abilities. I once more have nothing concrete planned but I desperately want to figure something out. Like. I've been brainstorming a new form of Spinjitsu and have come up with ideas so dumb I'm startled by them

(gimme more worldbuilding i crave it)

Hi :D

At any given time I am so happy people like Val being a medic :] I thought it'd be a cool spin, since usually ninjago ocs are either ninjas, enemies or outsiders. It is, as you said, a way more difficult task due to Val not understanding Ninjargon. Symptons are difficult to describe, and procedures are just as difficult to explain. However, Val also has the double-edged sword of the different reality as well; all the wounds the ninja get, she sees as painted. Bruises, cuts, paleness - to her it all just looks like chalk or pastel colors. Depth perception is off, as well, and it all just makes it more complicated to ascertain injuries based on sight. However, on the good side of nothing looking real to Val, she is undisturbed by all the wounds. Blood doesn't look like blood; it feels that way, and it smells the same, but when she looks at it, it's just a painting, a moving picture. Vomit, gore and bones don't stun Val because it simply doesn't look real, which allows her to act quick on situations whereas other people fall into shock. For all her sight and her lack of understanding play against her, Val makes up with her assuredness, her instincts and her quick mind.

How are you supposed to identify certain medications if you can't even read?

Wu's helping Val in that regard :D Val has stuck to herbal medicine not only because that's what she's the most well-versed in, but because she can't read what normal medicine says. While she's learning to read, Wu is usually the one who gives the rest modern medicine; eventually Val asks him to corroborate what all the pills and syrups are for, and she writes notes for what each is in spanish so that she can begin using them as well. One idea I was contemplating is that certain types of medicine don't have the same name in Ninjago because the circustances to create it were different; for example, Ibuprofen could now be names Neotomaso. Another thought was that medicine was slightly different on a scientific? Molecular? Level, and that the way each pill/syrup is made is slightly/majorly difficult than how we make them here. With the components being different, the effects and consequences of each one would be different than what Val's used to, and she could fuck up giving someone a prescription because she was unaware of those changes. Still not sure if I'm incorporating those ideas into the fic, though.

Yep!! People are aware Val's part of the ninja team precisely because of the game. As of this point in the story, all people know about the ninja is the information released in the game. They know the names of each person, their age and birth date, and their hometown. There is, however, more information in the game about the ninja themselves than of Val, Nya and Wu. The general knowledge about Val is, then, those basics facts about her, that she's the medic of the team, that her main color is pink, and that she apparently speaks a language other than ninjargon. Theories and rumors are already spreading through the island, though, about her and the rest of the team - nothing based on anything true, more like people projecting with what they do know thanks to the game. Nya, for example, is generally thought of as helpless due to how the game represented her, and anyone who isn't exchanging letters with her fully believes this view. The ninja are already garnering fame, and Wu, due to him being way older than he looks and the actual son of Ninjago's god, is believed to be Some Random Person acting as the ninja's mentor that the game producers decided to poetically refer to as Wu, the legendary mythical son of the FSM who was famously known for being a ninja master, but he's not actually The Wu. The general view of Val is that she's sweet and cute, which isn't wrong, per se, but it's certainly a Specific View that Val will deal with later in the story.

Val is forevermore the medic of the team <3 She does eventually learn to fight somewhat, due to general concerns from the rest that if she's attacked while none of them is near, she'd be totally defenseless. But Val is still ultimately not fond of hurting people, and though she ends up picking more hobbies that would help the team (history, mythology, cultural exchange, trade, bargaining, and so on), she is still at heart a protector. She heals.

Yeah, I imagine that when the ninja eventually retire (side-glancing at the new team of Dragons Rising), Val will try to search for a teen to be the new medic. I imagine though that since her job is not life-threatening as being a ninja is, the new team would still come to her pretty often for treatment when anything mayor happens.

Val will not be going back to her old name. In the story, it serves to keep her two lives clearly separate; in her home, with her family and culture, she was Vale - but in Ninjago, as the ninja's medic, she's Val. Later in the story, I do think it'd be fun if the rest try to refer to Val with her actual nickname, not the ninjargon-passing version of it, and Val would probably have mixed feelings about it. She appreciates the effort, but it's just a little too late for her to accept her old name as hers anymore, not when she's so entirely changed. She, however, will develop a tendency to call the others spanish nicknames. She will be calling her (eventual, very eventual, I cannot stress enough that the romance in this story won't happen until the last five chapters) partner "amor" at least once. Lloyd gets awarded the beloved nickname of "insecto".

Jade....... :[

Jade is dead. Val is in very heavy denial over it due to *Vaguely gestures around* everything going on in her life, but she knows that what she was holding back at the forest was a corpse. I think in one chapter I described that Jade's body was bloodless - I need to rewrite that, because what I meant to write was that she was boneless. I need to rewrite the prologue in general, now that I'm a better writer and have a better idea of how Val's story goes, but the one thing that stays the same is that Val finds her sister's corpse. It's actually a very central theme in the story. Jade's death, I mean. Driving force, I think it's called.

She's haunting the narrative she was dead from the start she's doomed in every single version of the story she was never getting past the prologue alive. Val's life is marked with a before and after not so much because of the change of reality but because one part of her life Jade was alive and the other part Jade was dead. The readers never got to know her. People don't know the person that's missing from Val's life, they just see the hole she left behind, the blood on the floor, the echoes of memories that will eventually fade from Val's mind. She is quite literally the reason anything happens in Wanderlust. And she was dead from the beggining.

Sorry, I just. I am feral about Jade. Actually feral. I cannot wait until I get to properly write what happened to her, and for everyone to see excatly what I mean about her being a driving force of the story.

(Giggling, because. Technically. Yes :] Val will see her sister again. Just not in the way you think. Jade is dead. But Val will see her again.)

THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTIONS!!! I love them :D They're good for worldbuilding and they just make me so happy. I'm glad people just. Think about Wanderlust. When they're not actively reading. It's such a compliment, feels like I'm doing something right with the story.

Thank you for the turtle <3 It was indeed very cute and I loved it <3

I saw some theories to that thing that it only showed Cole because it either confused the different types of Love, or that it was manipulated by the Overlord to comfuse the NinjaTeam.

Imagine it would be that and the machine would chose Jay for Val - either because of their platonic best friend feelings or cause Overlord lives for the drama - and while Val gives a shit about it Nya is about to lose it! XD

You're not annoying me!! >:[ I am Slow with the internet these days. My internet battery is Dead. Zero energy for social interactions On The Phone. You are Never annoying me >:[ <3

Ohhh yep!! The outline I have for s3 might change by the point I actually get there, but since Borg only wants the ninja to see him, Val would follow Nya and come face to face with the love machine!! Val would doubt to step on it for obvious reasons, but eventually her curiosity would get the best of her (along with all the pleading from the kids) and she'd step in. Like Nya, she would get a goofy answer as well; I like the theory that the Overlord infiltrated the love machine same way he got into the cameras of the building and all the nindroids, and that being aware of Nya's relationship with Jay, he skewed the results to cause trouble in the team. It's what happens in the fic, and thu Val's shown a random person to hopefully generate dome drama there as well. I love the theory of the machine just messing up the different types of love though!! Nya genuinely loving Cole but just not romantically, and then getting confused by her own feelings because she's new to the whole romance thing and the machine was supposedly flawless she believes what it tells her immediately. It's a good reading of s3's failed love triangle :]

(......in my opinion, that could have easily have become a polyship. I really like Geo and his relationship with Cole, but Bruiseshipping appeals to me, and by extension the Nya-Jay-Cole ship as well. Let the ninja kiss Lego >:[)

(......I'm just generally a multishipper. Any ship in the Ninjago universe SLAPS, OK?!)

THE MACHINE CHOOSING JAY AS VAL'S LOVE INTEREST LMAOOOOO JSKAKASASJS THAT IS SO FUNNY TO ME.

If we're going the "Machine doesn't discern the intention of the feelings" route, then showing Jay is soso very beloved to me as an idea. There are many fun moments that cement Val and Jay's relationship, and it's a silly idea in my head that people sometimes consider them siblings. They look decently similar and are always clinging to each other, so the machine just taking that platonical love Val's been carefully growing with him and spitting that he's her perfect match would either frustrate her or make her bruise a rib laughing in delight. Yeah, she hopes he's her perfect match by now! They've been tuning to each other for years by that point, so if they weren't perfect matches for each other she'd be hurt.

As. As for the "The Overlord tried to cause trouble in the team via the machine" route. That's silly as well, because. Val would be dragged to the love triangle. It would be a love square. You have Nya disputing her feelings about Jay and Cole while thinking Val could be a better match for her boyfriend, the boys fighting over this once they find out, and then when it comes out Val's perfect match is Jay - explosion. Full on brawl. Cole tries dragging Jay down with that ("Val's already your match, why keep Nya for yourself?!") and Jay is deeply offended by this ("I don't want to date her, you stupid mule!") He could possibly go through the same thing as Nya, wondering if the machine was right. For extra sillines :] Won't happen this way in the story, but if I managed to seep in love inquiries between Jay and Cole, Cole and Val, and Val and Nya, that'd be a proper love square barrel, with relationship problems in every direction. Extra extra sillines. Can you imagine the rest of the team while these four struggle it out?