Okay, so you guys have heard the rumors about Season 6, right? (If you haven't and don't want to, run! Run while you still can!)
Anyway, so the Zaptrap is allegedly adopted. And I'm told that the Hageman Brothers recently tweeted, "We've seen Jay's [real] father before. Jay loves him." So of course the theories about the mystery dad are a-flying, and FireLord54 and I happened to come up with our own!
And I present it for you here.
Letting go of my son was hard. He was such a beautiful baby, with bright, fascinated eyes and a soft layer of chestnut hair. He would grasp my finger with his tiny fist as he slept, even as I carried him down the road to abandon him. It broke my heart.
But I knew I had no choice. I had no idea how to raise a child. I had no ability to raise a child—I had to work long, long hours. Besides, the meager living I made back then barely even kept me alive.
I left him in a junkyard. The couple who lived there, the Walkers, were wonderful sweet people, sadly childless. I knew they would take the best imaginable care of my little Jay.
It didn't make leaving my sleeping son any easier.
I always wondered if he would become someone great when he grew up. I never expected just how great. When I first heard that one of Ninjago's new ninja heroes was called Jay Walker, I hardly dared to believe—but when I saw him, I knew it was my son. The same chestnut hair, those same bright, eager eyes, constantly drinking in the world around him. His laugh was just like his mother's.
I was so proud. I missed him so much. There was nothing I wanted more than to come knocking on his door and tell him everything.
But I realized I couldn't do that to him. He loved the Walkers, and he was happy with his life as he knew it. I couldn't just walk in and shatter that happiness by telling him his entire past had been a lie, that he didn't actually belong with the ones he called his family.
Besides. I wasn't sure he would want someone like me as a father.
Maybe it was foolish, but I got to know him a bit. It was sort of inevitable that we would meet eventually, and, well, maybe I pushed the relationship a little. It was so good to see him now and then, to talk to him and listen to his mile-a-minute chatter.
But on the other hand, it broke my heart. My son, and I could never let him know.
I still see him these days, quite often. He still thinks I'm just a casual acquaintance, a nice friendly guy, and maybe he'll go on thinking that forever. I'm good at hiding my feelings.
But to me, it's still both the most wonderful and the most painful thing in the world, every time I see him. Every time he spots me and dashes over, an exuberant smile lighting up his face. Every time he calls over his shoulder, full of excitement—
"Hey, guys! The postman's here!"
A/N: Shame on me. That's my second trollfic in a row. Wish I could say I'm sorry . . .
Jay totally loves getting mail, ya know? And why do you think that poor postman goes through so much trouble to bring the ninja their letters and parcels? The poor sap just wants to see his son.
If that wasn't crazy enough for you, FireLord and I went through every adult male character in Ninjago and assessed the likelihood and/or awesomeness of each being Jay's dad. Including Lou.
. . . If anyone out there wants to write a fic about Jay and Cole discovering that they are, in fact, biological brothers, go for it. I would totally read it. XD