Antonelson

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

Canon
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 paired them up to deliver newspapers. Sammy tells Antonia to keep him alive. Nelson is 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. Antonia dodges the fire balls, while Nelson has a bit of a harder time dodging while trying to catch up to her, but he manages to dodge all of them without getting hurt. After finally catching 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 has faith Samurai X will defeat them. She successfully defeats the cobras, Nelson and Antonia then continue cycling.

They stop at an alley for their lunch break. Antonia tells him that Ninjago City can pretty crazy, being attacked many times. Nelson pulls out his sandwich, only to find it was burned by a fireball. Antonia offers him another sandwich, which he accepts. Continuing their talk, Antonia tells him that they may not be ninja, but everyone has to do their part.

They continue delivering newspapers. They avoided getting burned by an Elemental Cobra and jumped over a wall of fire with a ramp. They then see Clutch Powers falling from the sky. They approach him, he tells them that the Ninja are trapped and need help at a pyramid. He faints and was taken to a hospital. Antonia tells Nelson that it wasn’t their problem to help the Ninja. Nelson reminds her that “The news never sleeps”, which is the Paperboys motto. 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. She was about to pedal off, but Nelson uses Antonia’s words about everyone doing their part. She agrees to lead him to the monastery, telling him to stick close.

When the reach Route 23, they see a giant gap that has been destroyed. Antonia asks him if he was sure to continue. An Elemental Cobra approaches, Nelson panics and thinking it wasn’t a good idea after all, but Antonia tells him to do what she does. She uses a 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 tells Nelson the news of the Ninja Master Wu. Wu opens the door and Nelson tells him. Wu thanks him. Nelson and Antonia then ride off down the monastery on their bicycles.

In “Let’s Dance”, Nelson and Antonia can be seen dancing together in the dance lesson.

In “Papergirl”, Sammy announces that today would be Antonia’s last day as a Paperboy, as she be quits her job to work at the Dairy Dragon. It makes everyone upset, including Nelson. He tries to convince her to stay, but no matter what, she 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 is Nelson’s loves. He then quickly shakes off the question. He pedals off while tries to Antonia to catch up to him. Antonia tells him the upside of her working there, she could give him all the Bananakhan he can have. She asks if they could still be friends, he replies with “Yeah, I guess”. They then see Kai and Kalmaar fighting over the Storm Amulet. Kalmaar tells Antonia to give the amulet to him, but she puts it in her basket and pedals off with Nelson.

Kalmaar and his army surround them. Nelson tells Antonia to jump off the side of the bridge. They land safely back on the main road and jump off an opening bridge. They see Kai and Kalmaar in a truck falling into the gap of the bridge. Antonia was about to pick up the amulet, only for Kalmaar to take it. After he asks a bunch of questions to her, he leaves with the amulet.

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. Nelson points the ninja the direction that Kalmaar went. 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 changed her mind and decided to stay.

Fanon
The two aren’t that popular due to them being supporting 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 characters like Unagami, depicting he three as a friend group.

Fandom
FAN FICTION