CINDER NINJAGO YAP!!
the concept of cinder secretly liking cutesy stuff actually fascinates me... im so happy we got the beauty sleep scene cuz now i can totally see him loving the coquette aesthetic and listening to lana del rey like awww
lmao imagine next season (or s4p2) the ninja go to learn more about the other elemental masters, including the existing ones, and they learn about what happened to ash and include cinder hahahhah (im coping so hard)
i think cinder just absolutely loves feeling like he's better than other ppl, which was probably why he was so stoked to fight wyldfyre and got overconfident with sora. neither of them know rising dragon, let alone spinjitzu, so cinder thought he would have a chance ๐ฅ๐ฅ
cinder was SO ready to take down the ninja using shatterspin, fully convinced that they had no way of countering him. imagine how he must've felt seeing them do rising dragon and absolutely pummel him ๐ญ๐ญ i feel bad for the guy, he just wanted to feell stronger
i feel like maybe somewhere in cinder's past everyone around him was much stronger than him which is why he has this need to be better than others to feel better about himself, especially to someone who is supposedly strong like lord ras.
which is why hes constantly seeking validation from ras. he feels like if another thats more powerful than cinder considers him strong, he'll finally feel like he's doing something right and proving people in his past wrong, which was why was so adamant on competing against