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Garmadon/Wu/Elemental Masters Timeline Theory


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Since this section seems kinda inactive, I decided to post this new theory I made, which I first posted on the LEGO Messageboards. tumblr_inline_nn1s4kTM8C1tr1fnr_500.png  

 

Part 1

So, Garmadon and Wu are the sons of the First Spinjitzu Master. Considering the First Spinjitzu Master was essentially nigh omnipotent, considering he created an entire world, it's very likely that he was not just extremely long lived, but immortal. But, he clearly seems to have "aged" as he not only looks old during the time when Garmadon and Wu are children, but he eventually meets his end sometime before the First Serpentine War. So, how about instead of the Master and his family just simply aging slowly..... they age based on their mental maturity and/or necessity? Basically what this means is that the brothers and their father do not age because of natural biological reasons, but because of their own maturity. Thus, they become the age that they feel they are. When the First Spinjitzu Master made Ninjago he appeared to be a young man. After some millennia, the weight of being responsible for a whole world caused him to become older, given him a more wizened appearance. But, becoming older doesn’t mean weaker, he and those like him could remain as physically capable as in youth.

 

Garmadon and Wu inherited his immortality, and thus have probably been around for...either more than half of or most of Ninjago's history. The First Spinjitzu Master, wanting his own family, he chose to make two sons with his own power. Thus, with his Golden Power, he made two baby boys, both having the power of Creation within them. The aged from baby to toddler and toddler to child at very slow rates, because the only people they were around much were their father and each other at the monastery. They were probably already over a millennium (a thousand years) or two when Garmadon was bitten. After that, they slowly aged from children to preteens, then preteens to teenagers, so they could start protecting the land as their father did.

 

While Garmadon and Wu were growing up, the FSM decided that he and his sons would not be able to protect Ninjago alone, and decided to give elemental powers to the most worthy people. He chose four people to bear the elements of creation: Fire, Earth, Ice, and Lightning. Deciding that perhaps it would be best to have more, he gave the secondary elements, each derived from the original four in some way, to more people he deemed as worthy. He gave them immortality like his own, and they assembled to become: The First Elemental Masters!

 


Part 2

While the First Spinjitzu Master, his sons, and the Elemental Masters were immortal and immune to old age, they could still fall victim to things such as mortal wounds or disease. They were also able to, if they wish, revert to mortals and live the rest of their lives. After thousands of years, and about two centuries before the series, the first Elemental Masters to do this were the Wind and Lightning Masters. They decided to settle down with each other and have a family. Their children inherited their elements (only the First Master’s family could inherit immortality) but each could only have one dominant element, with the other parent’s becoming a recessive trait. [This is why Jay was able to use Wind once, and why Chen didn’t need Nya and Morro for the spell: Kai and Jay had Water and Wind, respectively, deep within them]

 

Many, many years later, and before the Serpentine War, some things happen. The First Spinjitzu Master, sensing that his time on Ninjago must soon come to the end, gives up his immortality. He spends his last 30 years training Garmadon and Wu into Sensei and entrusts them with guarding the four weapons, then leaves to create his final resting place and then pass away peacefully. Around this time, about 43 years before Season 5, they meet Misako, and being physically and mentally in their late teens, they both fall for her. Garmadon, wanting a darker guidance, goes to train with Master Chen, a friend who was involved with the Master of Amber. There, he trades in his Sensei title and becomes a Lord. Meanwhile, Wu decides to teach children the way of the ninja and discovers the descendant of the Master of Wind, Morro. After Morro leaves to find his father’s tomb (and never returns), Wu writes a letter to Misako declaring his love, which is intercepted by Chen, and Garmadon writes his signature on it. After receiving the letter, Misako, whom was so moved by the incredible words that surely came straight from the heart of the writer, chooses Garmadon over Wu.

 

3 years later, the Serpentine War happens. Because of Chen’s deception and Clouse’s magic, the Alliance is fractured beyond repair. In the aftermath of the war, the Masters go their separate ways, and choose to become mortals with families. Garmadon and Wu remain as the last of the alliance. A few years later, Garmadon and Misako marry, and at this point he and Wu have grown into young adults because of their experiences in the war. Around 30 years after the Serpentine War, and 10 before the series, Garmadon and Misako give birth to child: the boy is named Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon. "Lloyd" as in "grey", in honor of his grandfather, whose hair was grey in his later years. "Montgomery" as in "the wealthy man's mountain", for he was born in the First Spinjitzu Master's monastery on the Mountain of Impossible Height. And "Garmadon", for the ancient ways where a child's surname was their father's first.

 

 
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Part 3

Before the end of Lloyd’s first year, Garmadon finally snaps, and attempts to take the weapons. A battle between brothers ends with Garmadon being struck by divine lightning summoned by the protection spell on Wu's gi. Garmadon's true corrupted form is revealed, and he then falls down to the Underworld. Misako stays at the monastery for about a year, and one night while carrying Lloyd she walks past the Golden Weapons, and they glow green. She saw this, and then realized that her son is the destined Green Ninja. Days later, she decides to leave to find a way to stop the final battle, and leaves the monastery with Lloyd. All that she told Wu was that she was going to find a way to "fix things". She kept in contact with Wu briefly, and visited him a few times with Lloyd. When Lloyd is 4, after debating it with Wu, she makes a very difficult decision: to enroll him at Darkley's Boarding School. After this, she pretty much disappears, dedicating herself to preventing a battle between father and son. There Lloyd stayed, until he was kicked out at 10 years old. [Lloyd is an immortal like his father and uncle, but aged at normal pace at first because of Misako being mortal. From 4, he would’ve started aging slower, but because of being in school, around normal kids, he aged like them, and never really knew any other way. This is why Misako isn't too surprised when she meets him in teen form. She figured he just matured quick. This is the same assumption that Garmadon made when he first saw his older form in "Wrong Time, Wrong Place".]

Meanwhile, Wu, now having lost his family, falls into a depression, and his self-blame and emotional scars all come together and he ages into a middle aged man in only 4 years. After having his time to grieve, he resolves to hide the Golden Weapons. He leaves the map with an old friend, the Master of Fire, whom was now a blacksmith. He trained himself alone for some time to regain his inner harmony. A decade after Garmadon’s turn, Wu, now a wizened elder, decides it is time to gather together the four destined ninja, and train them to fight his brother, the dark lord.

 

And to end this, a quick timeline of how I think the history goes:

 

So, here's a timeline (BSW=years Before Serpentine War) (ASW=years After Serpentine War):

10,000 BSW- The First Spinjitzu Master creates Ninjago. The Overlord forms and fights with the FSM, and Ninjago is split.

6000 BSW- Garmadon and Wu are created/born.

*between*- FSM finds worthy people to hold the elemental powers.

4000 BSW- Garmadon is bitten by the Great Devourer, a snake that goes on to be worshipped by the Serpentine.

*between*- The grown Great Devourer is defeated by the humans of Ninjago. It is then sealed underneath the

Ourobouros. Tensions between man and snake rise.

More than 200 BSW- Masters of Lightning and Wind leave the Alliance, and have a family.

Less than 200 BSW- Captain Soto and his crew perish at sea when the Destiny's Bounty crashes.

*between*- A sea on Ninjago dries up and becomes known as the Sea of Sand.

33 BSW- The FSM, sensing his time must come to end soon, gives up his immortality.

18 BSW- Misako is born.

*between*- Zane is built.

12 BSW: Morro is born.

3 BSW- The FSM declares his sons Sensei and leaves to his final resting place. He passes in peace.

*between*- The bros meet Misako and fall in love with her. Garmadon decides to train with Chen. Wu meets Morro.

1 BSW: Morro leaves Wu to find the FSM's tomb.

0 BSW: The Serpentine War happens. Chen and Clouse are banished to an island, and Anacondrai Generals are cast into the Cursed Realm.

4 ASW: Garmadon and Misako marry.

*between*- Chen founds Master Chen's Noodles.

8 ASW: Morro dies in the Caves of Despair.

22 ASW: Cole is born. Dr. Julien dies, and Zane's memory is erased.

23 ASW: Kai and Jay are born.

24 ASW: Nya is born. Master of Water dies.. somehow.

28 ASW: Lloyd is born. Garmadon turns and is banished.

29 ASW: Misako finds out Lloyd is the Green Ninja. She and Lloyd leave the monastery.

32 ASW: Misako leaves Lloyd at Darkley's.

*between*- Wu hides the Golden Weapons.

34 ASW- The Master of Fire dies..somehow.

38 ASW- The series begins. Season 1-2.

40 ASW- Season 3-4.

41 ASW- Season 5.

 

And.. done. What do you guys think?

...Glorious, glorious theory.

 

This makes sense of just about everything...

 

Headcanoned.

Thanks! Edited by Awesome Guy
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