Antonelson

Antonelson is the friendship between Nelson and Antonia from the Ninjago fandom.

Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu
In “The News Never Sleeps!” Nelson gets a new job as a Paperboy. Arriving at the warehouse, his boss, Sammy introduces him to Antonia and pairs them up together to deliver newspapers. Sammy tells Antonia to keep him alive making Nelson confused. Antonia assures him to just do what she says. As they ride their bicycles along the streets of Ninjago City, giant Elemental Cobras spit out fire balls attacking the city. Antonia casually dodges the fire balls, while Nelson has a harder time dodging while trying to catch up her. When he finally caught up to her, Nelson asks a bunch questions to Antonia about the giant cobras, but she tells him to keep pedaling. They see P.I.X.A.L in her Samurai X Mech, fighting off the cobras. Nelson wants to help her, but Antonia stops him, saying she has faith Samurai X will defeat them.

They stop at an alley for their lunch break. Antonia tells him that Ninjago City can pretty crazy with it being attacked multiple times. Nelson pulls out his sandwich, only to find it was burned by a fireball. Antonia offers him one of her sandwich, which he accepts. Antonia tells him that everyone has to do their part and their job is important too, as they need to let know people on what’s going on. They then both say the paperboy’s motto, “The News Never Sleeps”.

They continue delivering newspapers while avoiding getting hit by more Elemental Cobras. They then see Clutch Powers falling from the sky. He tells them that the Ninja are trapped in a pyramid and need help. He faints and was taken to a hospital. Antonia tells Nelson that it wasn’t their problem to help the Ninja. Nelson says they have a responsibility, which is to let people know what’s going on. Antonia in frustration points him the way to the monastery, but he has to go through Route 23, which she says he shouldn’t go through. She was about to pedal off, but Nelson uses her words from earlier that everyone has to do their part. She agrees to lead him to the monastery.

When the reach Route 23, they see a giant gap on the road that has been destroyed. Antonia asks him if he was sure to continue. An Elemental Cobra approaches, Nelson panics. Antonia tells him to do what she is gonna do. She uses the broken road as ramp and successfully lands on the other side. She tells Nelson to do the same. As the cobra approaches closer, Nelson goes for it and makes the jump.

Arriving at the monastery, Antonia knocks on the door and lets Nelson tell the news of the Ninja to Master Wu. Wu thanks him. Nelson and Antonia then ride off down the monastery on their bicycles.

Prime Empire
In the short, “Let’s Dance”, Nelson and Antonia can be seen dancing together in the dance lesson. They’re also briefly seen delivering newspapers in “Would You Like to Enter Prime Empire?”

Seabound
In “Papergirl”, Sammy announces today would be Antonia’s last day as a Paperboy, as she be quits her job to wor at the Dairy Dragon. It makes everyone upset, including Nelson. He tries to convince her to stay, but she still doesn’t change her mind.

They later have a lunch break in their usual spot in the alley. Nelson asks what flavors the Diary Dragon has, Antonia replies with all sorts of flavors it has, including Bananakhan, which Nelson says he loves. He then quickly shakes off the statement. He pedals off while tries to Antonia to catch up to him. Antonia tries to convince him the upside of her working there, which is she could give him all the Bananakhan he can have. She asks if they could still be friends, which Nelson replies with “Yeah, I guess”. They then see Kai and Kalmaar fighting over the Storm Amulet. Kalmaar yells at Antonia to give the amulet to him, but she puts it in her basket and pedals off with Nelson.

Kalmaar chases after them and they land on a road bridge. Nelson tells Antonia to jump off the side of the road bridge, she tells that she’s really regretting she taught him stuff like this. They got to land back safely back to the main road. They see Kai and Kalmaar in a truck falling into the gap of the bridge, falling into the canal. Kalmaar takes the amulet and leaves.

Nelson tells Antonia that Kai is still in the water, so she dives in to retrieve him. She emerges from the water with Kai. Nelson does CPR on him and he wakes up. Wu, Ray, and Cole arrive. Nelson points the, the direction that Kalmaar left off to. Antonia apologizes that she couldn’t save the amulet, but Wu still thanks her.

Nelson and Antonia reach a crossroad. They say their goodbyes. Nelson wishes Antonia luck working at the Dairy Dragon. But Antonia tells him that she has changed her mind and decided to stay.

Crystalized
In “Ninjago City vs Ninja”, Antonia and Nelson attend the Ninjas trial.

During the Crystalized apocalypse in Ninjago City in “Quittin’ Time!”, Antonia and Nelson see Master Wu fall of from the sky and into the canal. Antonia tells Nelson for it’s his turn to dive in to save Master Wu as she already fished the last one by saving Kai. Nelson retrieves Wu while Antonia gives him CPR. She states that the fact that what are the chances of needing to resuscitate 2 people in the save canal. Together, they carry Wu to the Newspaper Warehouse to hide from the attack.

They would later continue to help Master Wu and the Ninja and join them in the final against the Crystalized army.

Fanon
The two aren’t that popular due to them being side characters who appear a few times through out the series to help the Ninja. However, a decent amount of people do enjoy Antonia and Nelson’s friendship. People in the fandom always see the two as platonic relationship. Some even view the two as having a sibling/family bond. They have a few fanarts and fan fictions, sometimes alongside other Ninjago side characters like Unagami, depicting he three as a friend group.

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