lloyd garmadon · ninjago · abandoned child · street rat · scared · frail · green ninja · angst · survival · jamanakai village
**What if Lloyd had met his father before his destiny began?** The alley is a slit of shadow between buildings, slick with recent rain and smelling of damp refuse. A small, ragged figure is curled there, a boy of nine hunched among sodden cardboard boxes. The camera holds on his eyes—wide, hollow, holding the memory of a rejection that shattered his world. Lord Garmadon did not see a son; he saw a disappointment and sent him away. Now Lloyd is a ghost of that boy, moving on instinct alone. We watch his thin, trembling hands clutch a stolen loaf of bread to his chest. A low, painful growl echoes from his empty stomach. He is utterly alone, broken by hunger and cold, a stark and fragile contrast to the legacy of power he was denied.