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A proper sequel to this post because I wanted them to interact and a fight was my original idea
Diologe:
Geo: look we're sorry ok we don't want any trouble
Cole: don't want trouble? The only reason my friends hurt is because you brought trouble to us
Wyldfyre: I say we just fight them
Geo: no we don't need to fight
Cole (and a little bit of Kai) art
Finally broken my art block! Hooray 🥳
Close ups:
@ninjago-valentine-exchange my contribution as the writer for Cole/Kai B! my artist was the wondrous @ninjapolis and their art is here.
fic is under the cut (i lost some of my work to the horrors of offline storage, but im still proud of what i salvaged and hope to revisit the concept later :salute:)
some content warnings for depression, smoking, references to smoking and drinking, some graphic description of nausea and pain, and a scene that can easily be read as following suicidal ideation or attempt
and also for, you know, killing kai before the fic even started whoops? :sweatdrop:
Boba Rewind
Shock & Denial
Cole rushes in, breathless.
Kai looks up with a lopsided grin on his face.
Cole's heart twists at his brown eyes, sedate and somehow predatory.
"There you are! Was wondering if I needed to go find you myself," Kai ribs him.
"Ah, haha," Cole gulps down air as he collapses in the chair beside him. "No, not this time. Just—huff—just give me a minute…"
Kai chuckles, humming a song he can't quite place. He's fiddling with something on a long ribbon. The shop door tinkles again, arrival or departure.
"Okay, right, let me grab my—our?—my drink, then," Cole wheezes, feeling his legs strain as he stumbles back to his feet, the wet grassy patches of his pants sticking to his legs. Did he really need to run the whole way here? … Looking at Kai's half finished boba, yes. He did.
Kai fluidly swings to his feet in a motion that makes Cole very conscious of how his own knees popped when he stood up. "Eh, I could go for a snack." He shakes his cup and, closing his eyes, drains the rest of it in one long slurp. "And maybe a refill."
"Oh, beautiful! I mean, wonderful!" Cole squeaks out as Kai grabs his (sweaty, so sweaty, why did he run here again?) hand and starts walking to the counter. His face feels just as hot as it did a minute ago.
"Hey, Kai, going on seconds?" the droopy eyed bobarista asks as she brushes off a chipped violet nail with her thumb. She's not wearing a nametag.
"Yeah, and another one for Cole here, and an almond tapioca pudding." He tilts his head as he looks at Cole sideways, "… and two tiramisus."
The white-haired girl takes a fresh cup and scrawls on it. "Same order, I'm sure. And for Cole?" she asks, lips curling up slightly at his name, and for some reason his head goes bright and cold as she speaks.
She's not looking at Cole, though. Her half-lidded eyes are focused on Kai, who seems to be very interested in one of many suncatchers turning lazily in the windowed corner. Their colored light splashes across his face as they twist.
"Uhhh," Cole stammers, "… number nine?" It's hard to think over the noise of the doorbells. (He didn't realize this place was so busy when he came in.) He flicks his eyes up at the menu, "with the chocolate syrup."
He vaguely remembers wanting to try that, at some point. He's stuck on the smear of red on Kai's cheek, stubbornly remaining after the light has moved on.
Kai catches his eye, grinning as he rubs it away with the heel of his palm. "Messy," he says, like it's a bit of a joke.
Really, it kind of is.
Pain & Guilt
Cole feels sick.
He feels like he'll vomit any minute: expel the acid traitorously trying to keep him alive. Purge himself of his digestive tract as it consumes itself, maybe follow it up with his heart and lungs. Take out all the living, beating, pulsing things and toss them out in a cardboard box.
His eyes are aching and burning and that's only because he hasn't slept properly in so long. (How long? It feels like forever.) Not because he's been crying. Definitely not because of the slowly disappearing cigarette hanging from his cracked lips.
"You know he wasn't supposed to have those either, right?" Lloyd drops down beside him onto the cracked pavement, concrete pebbles grinding under his shoes.
Those rocks were part of a big rock once. Cole wonders if they ever miss being what they were.
"It's why I took 'em," he mumbles when Lloyd doesn't say anything for a minute. And it's true, and Cole never did figure out the appeal they held to Kai: not when all they've done for him so far is make him want to puke up everything he ate in the last week (not much) or give him a headache strong enough that the single dim, flickering streetlight on this block makes him want to bash his head against the curb (tempting).
He holds the little baby stub of a thing in his hand, watching the cherry end burn closer to his fingers: playing with his half-empty bottle with the other.
There's a distinctive klick klick beside him and he looks up to see Lloyd playing with the flint on a familiar lighter, reddish brown eyes locked on his. No cigarette in hand, just the look of a dog with a bone on his face.
"We haven't gone out much lately, the two of us," he says, almost casually, "let's change that."
Cole flinches as the cigarette burns his drooping hand and slips it in his bottle. Kai was always particular about where he dropped his stubs.
Anger & Bargaining
Kai is already half done with his drink by the time Cole sits heavily at the table, a trail of puddles between him and the door.
He shivers, teeth chattering as he rakes his eyes over the shorter brunette. Smaller but hardly dainty, his skirt and hoodie covering one of the strongest bodies Cole ever knew.
"Number nine for Cole!" the bobarista hoarsely calls out, lip rings catching in the warm sunlight filtering through the corner windows.
Cole stays seated, looking at Kai.
Kai takes a long sip, looking back at him. "Gonna get that?" he asks, the sound distant and muffled.
"Does it matter?" Cole breathes, his body rattling. Cold, or rage, or something else he doesn't want to touch. He can't stop drinking in Kai's face, the way it's too still and too calm and too quiet and too
"Drink for Cole?" the man calls out again.
"Guess not," Kai says, one hand fiddling with a long hoodie lace. "but your ice might melt."
"Fuck the ice."
"I'll pass."
Cole snorts, slumping forward to rest his head on the sun-warmed tabletop.
He can feel his heart thumping in his chest. A good thing, probably.
Kai rattles his cup and takes a longer slurp than before.
"Please don't go." He doesn't know why he says it (liar), forehead still pressed to the rapidly cooling wood.
Kai breathes deeply for a moment.
"COLE. NUM-BER. NI-NE."
"You should get that," he murmurs back. He sound sad, and that sounds wrong.
"Okay." He stands, turning to the scowling green-streaked man behind the counter.
Depression
Cole drags another breath through his burning lungs (poor lungs, they don't deserve this), coughing again. He doesn't have to look to know Lloyd is pissed beside him. Pissed and radiating fury like he's fueled by it.
"What," Lloyd hisses, "the hell were you thinking."
Cole doesn't answer. Honestly, he's trying to move as little as possible right now aside from the painful breaths he still needs to take.
"Were you thinking? Did you have a single thought for whoever was coming after you? For anyone on the team? For what Kai wanted!"
Cole flinches, curled up on the sand, eyes focused on the grains and seeing nothing at all. The moon is high and bright in the sky, and it watches over as a chill curls up along his spine and gut.
"Fuck," Lloyd sobs. It's a horrible whining noise, and as Lloyd drops to the sand next to him, Cole can only echo the noise, shaking.
There is sand and salt in places the First Master did not intend for there to be. He can feel it in his hair, and taste it on his tongue, and knows that despite the numbness seeping into his legs pressed against the rocky sand they'll still burn when he finally moves again.
Maybe he doesn't need to move again. He could be a statue, right here.
“Cole,” Lloyd starts firmly, but Cole can hear the tremors, “if you ever do that again,” and his voice cracks. “Don't do that again. Just, don't.”
Cole swallows, “Copy that.”
“And I'm still telling Nya.”
Cole laughs roughly, “Understandable.”
“I can't look at you right now.”
“I'm sorry.”
Reconstruction & Working Through
There should be more to someone's life than a shoebox. There is more to it than a shoebox, but for what Nya and Lloyd have decided needed to personally filter through Cole? Shoebox.
Cole doesn't know why he's surprised, like he wasn't there when Kai was carefully hoarding away the surprisingly sturdy cardboard box all those months ago. Of course Kai was going to have his party favors of doom in his shoeboxes, they had to be used eventually.
Kai wasn't there to use them anymore.
There's not much in Cole's shoebox: a few trading cards, a familiar lighter. A Prime Empire NG+ cartridge. And a little metal bear, hanging on a long ribbon.
It's familiar, in a way that something he's never really seen before shouldn't be. But the ribbon seems like something he's seen in a dream, and the little bear feels warm and comforting in his hand.
There's a picture, too. Not a team picture or a school picture. One of just the two of them, blurrily taken from Kai's phone at a bad angle with worse lighting.
It's one of Cole's favorite pictures, probably.
That wasn't a great day for him either. He remembers being grumpy the whole day, suffering injustice after injustice such as: sleeping through his alarm clock, running out of milk halfway through his cereal; his shoes coming untied for the first time in a long time; the ice cream from the truck melting before he could even take a bite.
He's pretty sure it was a good day for Kai, though. He aced his test, right?
The truck had almost exclusively his favorites, his allergies didn't crop up despite the spring flowers. And he got that awful picture of the two of them.
Yeah, that was a great day.
Acceptance & Hope
Cole slides into the chair across from Kai.
"I have no idea what this tastes like," he admits, shaking his cup slightly. "I never drank it that day after everything, and I never went back after. So, I don't even know if it was something I liked or not."
Kai snorts, absently scratching at the gouge on his cheek. "That is literally the easiest problem to solve right now, man. Just go when you're awake this time."
"It won't be the same, without you."
"I hope not. Besides, you barely know what this place is supposed to be like outside of a dream, anyway."
Cole breathes, rattles his cup to hear it shake.
"Did you like it?" Kai asks, the picture of shyness in a flavor unique to him. "My little bear?"
"Yeah," he sighs, "yeah, I wish I'd gotten to tell you before. It's totally sick, man."
Kai grins, "Radical. And, uh," he leans back in his chair, fiddling with his skirt, "you should try the tiramisu, I wasn't kidding. You'll like it."
"I'll take your word for it then." Cole gets up.
one of my year of lava works takes place in a flower shop with cole (tattoo artist) running the store after his boyfriend kai (the florist) dies
ive been wondering how to tie a couple other characters in that aren't in the main bunch and it finally hit me: brad as the assistant florist, which makes another strand to lloyd 🖤
hear me out:
Kai and Cole try to make cinnamon rolls and it fails terribly and there's just a funny little shot of both of them covered in flour
Here you go!!! Some fluff after the little angst I gave you :') Thank you for the request, it was so funny to draw lmaooo,,,, I did something more than just a little shot ahaha
You know when in lavashipping sometimes a artist draw Kai with his hair on fire when he have afecttion from Cole
Well now give me the idea with Vera and Harper
And i love it
Everyone dancing with their partner
Meanwhile Lloyd
okay, okay, hear me out,
cole and kai as beauty and the beast…..
beasts need love too~
Uh princess au anyone?
Some lava please 👉🏻👈🏻❤️🖤
Lava, Spiderman au :3
Happy Pride Month :D🏳️🌈
reblog or like this post if you ship lava (cole x kai, ninjago) because i want to know how many people would actually like it in a fic.
shout out to fictional insanely powerful lego guys with fire boyfriends
What do you thinking Lloyd •-•?
la la lavaaaa !! 🌋🌋
When you know the lecture is coming...
I personally hc that Kai was the unofficial medic on the team, raising Nya and working in a forge at such a young age meant he needed to learn how to patch them up on his own. And they definitely did not have all the recourses they needed so he learned to work with what he had around him. I also think they found this out when one of them got hurt on mission without a med kit on hand and were absolutely flabbergasted when the team hot head proceeded to calmly patch one of them up.
For ships I personally am a fan of lavashipping. They have a really good dynamic and I can defiantly see them together. Also for Dragons Rising, Kai saw Geo with Cole and immediately thought, ah yes, another hot man. Like he would high five Geo and be like, "Good going man, this guy really is a keeper." and then kiss Cole.
Also I know Kai's arm looks wearied but I wanted to be done with this piece.
LGBT+ NINJAGO HEADCANONS
Doing this cause @bravetheperson requested it and I feel like I should do this. I'll also do my ocs at the end and I'll add three more characters coming in the story not sure when tho
Vinny Folson (my beloved): Gay...pretty obvious
Garmadon: Bisexual...fight me if you dare...
Wu: don't know at this point, but I'm gonna go with straight
Misako: Lesbian...don't know why I'm just going with it
Nya: Straight her one and only love is Jay
Jay: Bisexual I just see him as this
Kai: Pansexual....you can't change my mind
Cole: Gay...this isn't just because of the Geo thing I've just always thought him of gay and plus I'm a hardcore lavashipper
Lloyd: Straight...don't know why it just feels right...BUT not with Harumi
Zane: Straight, just like Nya he only loves Pixal
Pixal: Straight only loves Zane
OCS:
Enji: Just gay...lot like Vinny yet more flirty and cocky
Rida: Aromantic (Enji knows this but flirts with him as a joke)
Shancai: Bisexual (I ain't telling you shit about who he's gonna be shipped with)
Deity: Straight (mother of Willow and Shancai)
Willow: Lesbian and an absolute sweetheart (Siblings with Shancai...don't ship them...)
That's all I'm saying about those three new characters since they haven't been added in the story yet
and just to clarify something Rida is pronounced as Reed-a, one of my friends were confused about this
Overwhelmed(Vinny x Garmadon) part 32
(I suggest you check out parts 1-31 if you haven't already)
"Nah we can wait and plus I wanna see this" Kai said before taking another sip of his drink, Vinny gave him a thumbs up before gently grabbing Garmadons' hands and the controller. The oni was listening really well mainly because he trusted Vinny, "What is the purpose of this...video game?" The oni asked curiously, making Vinny chuckle softly, "It's fun" "And it's relaxing!" Kai and Cole both spoke out.
"That is like the worst explanation you two could have done" Vinny sighed out to the two ninjas. "What do you mean? It works with others" Kai replied smugly, "And who are these others?" Vinny asked knowing what answer he was going to get. Kai paused for a moment, "People?" The fire ninja said earning a exactly look from Vinny. "Okay okay sorry geez I get your point go ahead and explain it to him, clearly he understands you better" Kai said out in a defeated tone making Vinny giggle and Cole chuckle out.
Vinny looked at Garmadon, "Well everyone enjoys different things and have different preferences for enjoyment and relaxation or well to get away from responsibilities some do art, write stories, some like cleaning, playing sport and or like playing games like this, but they all bring some sense of enjoyment eventually, like finishing a drawing, a game, winning a sports tournament, a story, or finishing cleaning a mess that has been a pain to look at just like how I tell you about finally finishing a shift at work" Vinny explained as he gently held Garmadons' hands.
"Damn he's good" Cole whispered to Kai who nodded, the oni thought for a moment, "That...makes sense..." Garmadon responded earning a smile from Vinny. The cameraman looked back at Kai before sticking out his tongue, "I said I was sorry!" Kai responded in a childish tone. The two ninjas began playing their game again while Vinny continued to teach Garmadon how to play. Eventually he got the hang of it and they slowly began playing.
The group began having to do specific tasks like kill someone or kidnap them, "How come when I did this to people it was bad but it's fine in video games?" Garmadon said making Kai laugh out and Vinny let out a sigh, "The game isn't real living people and plus some people play these games to let out anger that doesn't harm living people" Vinny responded while Kai and Cole laughed quietly.
Eventually they had to kidnap someone surrounded by guards, "We need a plan to get to them?" Cole said as they looked at the character surrounded by guards, "Ambushing?" Garmadon suggested he really enjoyed the game Vinny was right it was sort of relaxing. "No, don't have that of weapons" Kai sighed out before looking at Vinny who was thinking really hard."Ambushing wouldn't work even if we had good weapons they have guns and we don't" Vinny said, earning a nod from everyone, they were all throwing out ideas while Vinny thought hard.
"We could kidnap the guards and then kill the person due to being defenceless but that could be a situation that is really risky it can escalate quickly..." Vinny said out, while everyone listened carefully. "I suggest we kidnap one of the guards and torturing them for information......If verbal torture doesn't work, electric shocks and bamboo torture is very effective....castration is painful too" Vinny said before looking back at the others. (This part was inspired by a meme I saw ages ago)
Overwhelmed( Vinny x Garmadon) part 31
(I suggest you check out parts 1-30 if you haven't already)
Vinny went out to Garmadon and hugged him, "Is your hand better?" The oni asked as he hugged back, the cameraman nodded thankful that his lie was believed. "I'm not really tired, can we do something that isn't sleeping?" Vinny asked as he really was jumpy and erratic. Garmadon nodded and kisses Vinnys' forehead affectionately making him blush.
"We should go find someone and see if they have anything we can do....as long as you're fine with that" The cameraman said wanting to make sure he wasn't forcing Garmadon into anything, the oni nodded in response. He wasn't in much of a talking mood which sort of bothered Vinny, due to that nightmare he had and all he wanted was to hear Garmadons' voice as it made him feel safe.
Vinny being Vinny obviously didn't say anything about it, and held the onis' hand affectionately and the two began walking to find someone. Eventually their walk took them to the gaming room where Kai and Cole were, the two were playing a game unaware of the two that walked in. "Whatcha playing?" Vinny asked as he rested his head on the back of the couch.
Kai and Cole panicked and practically jumped away, Kai clinging onto Cole, "Holy shit, Vinny don't scare us like that" Cole said as he relaxed himself and blushed as he saw Kai. The cameraman smirked realising the embarrassment, "Hope I'm not interrupting anything, but me and Garm are bored" Vinny said as he pulled Garmadon closer which caught Kai and Cole off guard.
"Well...we're playing {insert random ninja game} , wanna join?" Kai offered as he looked at Garmadon who seemed really relaxed with how much Vinny was touching him. "Isn't that the game that is filled with gore?" The cameraman said out curiously. Kai nodded, "It's a really good game" Cole replied.
Vinny pulled Garmadon in closer. "Well I think I could go for a good game" Vinny said as he looked back to Kai who was now moved away from Cole. "Cool! So is he gonna play orrr?" Kai replied before looking towards the oni. "Umm...wanna play? I can teach you....after these two teach me first?" Vinny asked, Garmadon was hesitant at first but nodded.
Cole gave the two a thumbs up and signalled for them to come and sit on the couch which they did. "So Vinny, we didn't see you at all today, something happen? Nya said you weren't feeling well and your voice sounds a little different" Kai said as Cole grabbed two extra controllers. Hearing this Vinny lit up with blush while Garmadon looked down at the ground, "Yea I was a little sick but I feel better" The cameraman responded and thanked Cole for the controllers before giving one to Garmadon.
"I'm curious about yesterday, we were just standing there and then we see Garmadon holding you over his shoulder" Cole said as he held back laughter, "Yea! That was so random, don't tell me you pissed off the dark lord~ No offence" Kai teased before saying the last part to Garmadon, "None taken" The oni replied calmly as he looked at Vinny who was really red as he began stuttering his words trying to think of an explanation,
"I-I guess I s-sort of did.." Vinny said out awkwardly, Kai laughed out and leaned forward to grab a soft drink. Cole began teaching Vinny how to play which he quickly learnt causing Kai and Cole to be really surprised. "Damn...you're a fast learner" Kai said when the cameraman clearly learnt how to play. Vinny smiled at them, "You two feel free to do what ever you want I'm gonna teach Garm" Vinny said out softly as he leaned towards Garmadon.
If the producers of Ninjago Dragon Rising don't give us a big, tight hug between Cole and Kai, I'll be upset.
They are one of the best dulas! This would be good both for shippers and for those who like them in a platonic way.
Although I suppose they will focus on Col's and Bonzle relationship.
Which won't be bad, but seriously, out of the entire team (not counting the amnetic Jay), these two were the only ones who didn't see each other eye to eye!
Cole: go and f*ck yourself, Kai!
Kai: Oh, if only I could~
Cole: What the f*ck, Kai-..!
~just a simple lava date~
hmmm yes, these are the 4 idiots living rent-free in my head
Lava eyes(forgor coles post S5 scar)
Full drawning:
New Ninjago au idea :)
A „10 things I hate about you“ Au with the Smith siblings, but less angsty cuz wdym u paid a guy to get with ur sister 🤨
Nya would not do that and also there is not a universe where the ninja aren’t friends imo
Plot Basics: nya wants to date jay >jay also wants taht > ray and maya are a bit hesitant about that > the sibling clause is coined so Kai has to date someone in order for nya to date > nya and jay think about it and start playing matchmaker with Kai and cole > cole could already have a crush it noz and jay maybe just convinced him taht it’s a good idea idk or he’s calling in a favour > the movie plot more or less happens > everyone is happy and we have two couples
Ofc it can be jsut like the movie but I like when AUs take the inspiration and also the source material anf make a new brain child out of it cuz the characters are not the same which influences the choices they make etc.
But yeah I’m leaving this here and letting it sun :)
Shoutout to @emiko-talks83 <3
live me reaction if I see one more lava edit slandering lostshipping (unacceptable behavior go to the principals office)
ew boys kissing gross
while we’re at it I need movie pixane and with background lava
I desperately need angsty Jaya fics with background Lava and Pixane