Jaya

Jaya is the het ship between Jay and Nya from the Ninjago fandom.

Pilot
Kai, Nya’s older brother, first mentions Nya to Jay, and the other ninja, when informing them that she has been kidnapped by the Skulkin. Jay is quickly intrigued by the notion of saving a girl, asking immediately if she is "hot", and whether she is a fan of the color blue or not. Jay is promptly told by Kai to back off. However, Jay has quickly become smitten by a girl he is yet to meet.

When Jay and Nya meet, Jay is unable to speak to her, as he has lost his voice. Despite this, he still tries his best to flirt, asking about her favorite color with little success. However, Zane steps in, and asks Nya the question on his behalf, explaining to Nya that he cannot speak. Nya answers Jay’s question, claiming blue to be her favorite color, which delights Jay.

At the end of the pilot episodes, Jay excitedly runs towards Nya once the day is saved, wanting a hug after seeing Nya give one to her older brother, Kai. Nya grants him this, and gives Jay a hug. This delights Jay, as he begins to think he is beginning to win over Nya.

Mini-Movies
In “Secrets of the Blacksmith”, Jay gives Nya a ride on his dragon back to the blacksmith shop, so that she can pack up her belongings, in order to move into the Ninja’s monastery. While Nya is inside, fighting off Skulkin, Jay debates with himself on how to impress and ask out Nya. When Nya sounds a gong, it catches Jay’s attention, making him jump into action, thinking she is in trouble. By the time Jay is inside, Nya has dealt with the threat, and claims that nothing is wrong. Jay accepts Nya’s answer, and they fly back to the monastery on Jay’s dragon, Wisp.

March of the Oni
Through out Season 10, Jay plans to propose to Nya to be his Yang with the Yin-Yang Promise, which is the equivalent to a marriage proposal.

In "The Darkness Comes" Jay practices his proposal with Kai. Kai tells Jay to be confident when proposing, but Jay think it doesn't feel right. Dareth comes and Kai tells him about the proposal, telling him to keep it a secret. Nya walks in wearing a kimono, Jay looks at her smiling. She asks what they were doing. Jay sneaks the Yin-Yang medallion behind Dareth to Kai and then asks Nya about her kimono.

On the Destiny's Bounty, Kai asks if Jay is ever gonna propose to Nya yet, Jay responds he's waiting for the right time. Cole heard the conversation and is excited for Jay proposing to Nya. Later, Jay nervously holds the medallion behind him and approaches Nya. He was about to propose when suddenly Garmadon walks behind Nya, making him get startled. When Garmadon left, Nya asks what he was gonna say but Jay tells her it can wait.

During the final battle against the Oni army, the ninja closed the gates to the monastery. When everything seems to be at it's final moments, Jay immediately proposes to Nya on the spot. Kai and Cole complain about Jay's sense of timing, but Jay worries there may not anymore time. Nya accepts and hugs Jay. They place each half of the medallion on their suits. After the fight was over, they immediately hugged each other.

Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu
In “The Belly of The Beast”, the ninja are trying to retrieve a component of the Land Bounty that has been swallowed by a giant beetle. Jay shoots the beast with lightning. He gets thrown up into the air. Luckily, Nya catches him. He thanks her and assays “I love you”. When they arrive at the Pyramid, Jay and Nya solve a puzzle together to open a gate. Zane warns them not to solve it, but it was too late. They all got get chained up on the Pyramid walls after freeing Aspheera from the gate. The Ninja manages to pull the chains off the wall, but Jay being at the far end of the chains nearly falls into the rising lava below. Nya saves him by pulling the chains, he thanks her and says “I love you”.

In “An Unlikely Ally” Cole asks if Nya could use her water powers to move the snow, she answers with no. He complains about her powers being useless, Jay is trying to stop him by making hand gestures. Nya throws a snowball at Cole in frustration, making Jay laughs.

In “Krag’s Lament”, the ninja are now in the Never-Realm. Jay and Nya pair up to search for Cole in the mountains. They find Krag’s cave and got into a fight with the yeti. Cole was able to stop the fight, saying that Krag is a friend of his.

When they return home to Ninjago, Jay and Nya were the first few to cross the portal.

Prime Empire
In the short “Let’s Dance”, Nya and Jay accidentally stumble in front of each other. Nya apologies, Jay says they could never get in sync and kisses her hand. Nya says wants to do something fun together. Jay wants to go to the arcade while Nya wants to try dance lessons. She convinces Jay to go on to the dance lesson with her, but he tells her to keep it just between them. At the dance lesson, Nya is wearing a pink robe. Jay didn’t expect to go fancy and was about to head back to change, Nya grabs his hand saying she just wanted to take it seriously, thinking she might’ve overdressed. When they dance, Nya accidentally steps on Jay’s foot. She apologizes, he says they can try again. The instructor say that Jay’s performance great, while Nya was not, saying that she ruined Jay’s form. Jay gives a glare at the instructor. Nya asks how Jay was so good at dancing, he says he thinks he's just a natural. Later, Jay gets carried away dancing and leaves Nya alone. After he finished his solo dance, he notices Nya saddened being left alone. So he invites her to dance again, this time together. They dance successfully and the crowd cheers. Nya appreciates Jay for joining her in an activity she wanted to do, now it’s her turn to return the favor by joining him to the arcade. Jay shows his favorite game, Dancy Pants. Nya now realizes why Jay was so good at dancing. Jay extends his arm to invite her to dance, but get interrupted by a call from Lloyd. Jay was about to leave, but Nya takes his hand and they start dancing to Dancy Pants, while a crowd forms around them cheering them on. When they arrived to Lloyd's location, Lloyd asks where they have been. Jay and Nya nervously looked at each other, Nya says they had something else to do.

In “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back”, Jay and Nya enter a dance competition in Prime Empire. They hit it off with their dances from their dance lesson and playing Dancy Pants, making Cole, Lloyd, and Kai surprised. They see a pair of blue haired dancers dancing well together. Jay gets worried that it wasn’t such a great idea to enter the competition. Nya tells Jay that something the pair of dancers doesn’t have, chemistry. As the competition continues, the blue haired pair starts to cheat their way to victory. The blue haired girl of the pair who previously threatened Jay, kicks Nya in the heel. Jay and Nya realizes that the pair are cheating. The Red visors soon arrive. Jay and Nya fight them off while dancing. With 30 seconds left on the timer, Jay and Nya do their last dance move. Nya suggests for Jay to catch her, he panics because they never practice that before, she says that she trusts him. Jay catches Nya swinging her in the air, announcing his love for her and winning the competition.

In "The Temple of Madness", Jay and Nya are the only Ninja left after the rest were turned to energy cubes. They reach a stage involving a conveyor belt with rotating shurikens, but the shurikens can glitch without warning. Jay and Nya begin to act like they were dancing to move around the shurikens. Jay nearly falls off the platform, Nya catches him in time. In the next stage, they enter a sushi restaurant. Jay sits down, thinking it was a stage for them to rest, but Nya is suspicious and tells him it could be a trick. The waitress of the restaurant attacks them, summoning monster sushis, which they destroy. Then three sushi chefs attack them, they destroy 2 while 1 was thrown out a door. They enter the final stage, Jay inserts the three key-tanas to clear the firewall. They embrace a hug before entering. Nya notices one of the red sushi chefs and throws a malice at Jay and Nya. Nya pushes Jay aside and gets turned into an energy cube. Jay throws back the malice at the sushi chef, destroying it for good. Jay is in despair, Unagami says that Jay should save his sentiments for later. Before Jay faces against Unagami, he tells the energy cubed Nya that he's gonna set things right.

After Unagami frees everyone in Prime Empire, Jay and Nya reunite, he spins her in the air and gives her a kiss on the cheek.

Master of the Mountain
Jay, Nya, and Lloyd enter the Munce Home Cave where they meet Queen Murtessa. Jay greets her and she immediately grows a liking to him. Murtessa then turns to Nya, who she thought was Jay’s servant. Jay corrects her saying she’s his Yang, Nya adding on that it means they belong together. Murtessa gets jealous, but doesn’t say anything. She requests her subjects to give the ninja whatever they wanted, even to “Yang Servant” Nya.

Nya gets frustrated being called “Yang Servant” and she was upset at Jay for not saying anything. Lloyd stops the two from arguing. Munce guards say that Murtessa requests Jay to come dine with her and him only. Nya argues they’re a team, saying that wherever Jay goes, she and Lloyd come too. At the dine room, Murtessa was excited to see Jay enter the room, only to get upset when Nya and Lloyd come in too. Murtessa starts asking a few questions to Jay. When she asks if he had elemental powers, he answers that he does. Nya tries to say that they (the ninja) all have elemental powers, but Murtessa cuts her off, ignoring her, making Nya annoyed. Murtessa then asks Jay if he was betrothed to anyone, Nya replies that he is, to her. Murtessa challenges Nya to a ritual fight for Jay. At first Nya denies, Murtessa then starts teasing her. Nya gets annoyed and accepts to fight her.

While preparing for the fight, Jay begs for her to not to do it, saying there might be another way. Nya asks if Jay knew what would happen if she didn’t fight for him. Jay is quiet, she adds on that he’d be needing to stay at the Munce’s cave with Murtessa forever, becoming her king. He realizes, saying that he doesn’t want to stay at the cave eating the disgusting food, so he encourages Nya to win the battle, she replies that she intends too. During the battle, Jay gets scared that she might lose, Lloyd says she’s got this. Nya claims victory and Murtessa loses, making the Munce were surprised. They start calling her “Queen Nya”, Jay says he did not see that coming.

The Island
While being chased by giant stone golems, Nya stops at a cliff. Jay accidentally bumps behind her pushing her towards the cliff. Luckily, Jay catches her in time.

Later, Jay was brought to be a gift to “Wojira” by the Keepers of The Amulet. Kai asks who would want Jay as a gift, Nya responds that she would.

Seabound
In “Unsinkable”, Nya gets worried that her elemental powers would go out of control again and might hurt someone, thinking she should stay behind. Jay assures her that’s the reason why she should join, convincing her to join. At the docks, Jay winks at Nya, but he accidentally shoots his blaster, later apologizing.

In the Hydro Bounty’s kitchen, Jay is eating sushi while Nya looks out the window. Jay takes Nya’s hand and smiles at her. He tells her not to worry and whatever is causing Nya’s powers to freak out, they’ll find it here. Jay makes a joke about “Captain Zane”, making Nya giggle. He was about to do the dishes, only to find the plates completely clean. They later find out that Nya’s mom, Maya, snuck inside doing their chores. The Hydro Bounty then gets damaged, making it crash and sink. Unable to fix the engine, they resort to using APS suits to find an energy source. Nya gets on one, Jay says he should take the other suit, but she tells him to stay. Instead, Maya gets on the second suit. Jay tells Nya to be careful before she leaves.

The Hydro Bounty still couldn’t be powered up. P.I.X.A.L is unable to communicate with Nya and Maya. Jay gets worried and wants to help them. He rushes to power up the bounty’s battery by zapping it with his lightning powers, but Zane stops him saying it’s too dangerous with the Hydro Bounty being flooded. Jay then lies about preparing the oxygen tanks. Zane, P.I.X.A.L, and Lloyd rushes to stop him. He successfully powers up the Hydro Bounty’s battery. Jay becomes the captain and he quietly tells Nya that they’re coming.

Nya and Maya are getting attacked by sharks. Nya was able to knock out 2, but her suit was damaged before she could finish off the last shark. Jay and Lloyd show up blasting the shark, saving her and Maya just in time. They quickly swim up to the Hydro Bounty.

At the Kingdom of Merlopia, The Ninja are running away from captured from Kalmaar’s guards. They meet Benthomaar, who leads them to find their vessel. Jay and Nya are suspicious if Benthomaar could be trusted, but they still kept following him.

When they got back on the Hydro Bounty, they head off to the Island of the Keepers. They go underwater in the Storm belt, Jay gets thrown around in the submarine. Nya reminds him that his seat has a seatbelt. When they arrive, they find out that the Storm Amulet was replaced with a fake. Nya says that the Storm Amulet could be in Ninjago City, which Kalmaar finds out. He destroys the Hydro Bounty's controls and leaves. Nya tells Jay to go after Kalmaar, but they couldn’t go after him because the Hydro Bounty’s controls couldn't be fixed. Nya blames herself that Kalmaar's gonna find the amulet. Jay tries to comfort her but gets push aside.

Nya then tries to summon whales with her powers to help them get off the island. Jay tells her it wasn't her fault they’re stuck in the island, but Nya continues to blame herself. Just then, Jay points out to Nya there are whales approaching the island.

When they arrive at Ninjago City, Kalmaar is leaving with the Storm Amulet at hand. Nya chases after him and an explosion occurs under the ocean. Jay calls out for Nya’s name, worried. Nya emerges out of the ocean with the Storm Amulet. After they hid the Storm Amulet, Jay goes to the arcade and finds Nya dancing to Dancy Pants. He joins in, Nya tells him she’s been practicing a new dance move. She calls it the Electric Jaya, naming the dance move by combining their names. Nya tells Jay to focus as they are close to beating their high score. A crowd forms around them, cheering their ship name. Suddenly the machine explodes. Jay and Nya embrace a hug, Master Wu then disrupts them asking them to go to the police station.

Kalmaar floods Ninjago City with the help of Wojira. Jay and Nya help evacuate the city alongside the other Ninjas. As Jay attacks Wojira, she bites his sub car with him inside it. Nya splashes Wojira with water, making her facing to Nya, and letting go of Jay’s sub car. Jay sinks to the bottom of the flooded city. His sub car begins to flood with him stuck inside. So he holds his breath as he tries to escape. When Benthomaar carries Jay up to the surface, he’s inhaled too much sea water.

Arriving at the surface, Nya runs to Benthomaar with a weakened Jay. They hide in the NGTV News Station building. Jay struggles to breathe, Wu says that Nya couldn’t get the water out of his lungs cause it wouldn’t respond. The next morning, while everyone is still asleep, Nya decides to transform and merge with the sea in an effort to defeat Wojira. She kisses Jay on the cheek as a goodbye, leaving without getting noticed. Jay looks at her, but his vision was blurry. At the roof, she looks back, tears up and mouths out the words “I love you”. She jumps in, as she transforms, the water in Jay’s lungs are taken out. Everyone is surprised and confused. Benthomaar realizes what Nya is doing, saying her transformation would be irreversible. Everyone heads out, but Nya has already transformed. Jay looks out the window seeing her new form. Jay heads out to the roof and tells the Ninjas that Nya is going after Kalmaar and he wants to help her. They see Nya battling Wojira. Jay calls out for her, making her look at him not paying attention. With Nya’s guard down, Kalmaar zaps and disintegrates her. Jay grabs Wu’s staff and tackles Kalmaar in anger.

Nya then re-emerges as a water dragon and defeats Wojira. She returns to her humanoid water form and the Ninjas run to her. Jay attempts to hug her, only for him to pass through her body. Nya starts approaching the the sea. Jay tries to stop her, telling her to not leave him. She turns around and takes his hand, she then gently wipes her hand on Jay’s face. She turns back again, Jay says “I love you” before she leaves. She smiles at him, she tells him to keep a message to her mother, saying she understands how the cookie crumbles. She leaps in as Jay shouts out in despair. Back at the monastery, a funeral is held for her. Jay cries as he looks a photo of them.

Crystalized
After intro plays in “Farewell the Sea”, a portrait of Jay and Nya is shown.

A year after Nya's merge, most the Ninjas went their separate ways. Jay lives in Lighthouse Island, the lighthouse where he and Nya used to stay at during Skybound. When the Ninjas visit the lighthouse for a team reunion, Jay has grown a beard and has left half empty glasses of water cause he thinks he could talk to Nya with them. The Ninja are concerned for Jay’s state, as he talks to one of the glass of water. They try convincing Jay to join back to the team, which he denies. He thinks everyone has forgotten about Nya. The Ninja then show Jay lanterns floating through the ocean in memory of Nya. Jay changes his mind, and agrees to join back, for Nya.

Elsewhere, in the ocean, Nya starts to remember memories prior to her merging with the sea. At the sea surface, the same lanterns Jay saw pass by. She reads the messages on them, and has a flashback of Jay. Nya rushes to Lighthouse Island and looks around looking for Jay. But her water form couldn’t hold on much longer and she returns back to the ocean. She tells Nyad she wants to return back to a normal human again and thinks giving up her elemental powers could work. She swims out to search for the other ninja for their help.

In the Hangar Bay, Jay is still focused thinking of Nya, making him not that motivated for the Ninjas current mission. Kai thinks Jay is losing his mind and he accidentally knock over a glass of water. Jay gets furious and starts fighting Kai. The fight activates the water sprinklers, and they notice the spilled water starts glowing. Nya emerges from the puddle. She tries to explain to Jay that there is a way to return to her normal human form, however her water form starts losing shape while doing so. She was then frozen by Zane to keep her form.

The Ninja set on a mission to free Nya by Aspheera taking her elemental powers away. However, they had to break her out of prison illegally. After Aspheera takes Nya’s powers away, Nya returns to her human form. Jay holds on to a weakened Nya lying on the ground, and shouts in joy that taking her powers away worked. However, their reunion was cut short as Jay and the other ninja are about to be taken to court. Jay tells Skylor, PIXAL, and Wu to take care of Nya and tell her that he loves her. After Nya regains consciousness, she asks Wu where Jay and the others were, Wu looks at her saddened. As the Lloyd, Kai, Zane, Cole, and Jay hop on the police helicopter, Jay says he is glad that Nya is home. In the courtroom, after the Ninja’s trial was over, they were gonna be taken to prison. As Jay’s taken away, he and Nya call for each others names.

At Kryptarium Prison, Skylor and Dareth visit the Ninja. Jay asks Skylor how Nya is doing, she replies that Nya is doing fine, however she feels useless and blames herself that the Ninja are in prison.

Films
In the movie, Jay and Nya both attend the same high school alongside the other ninjas. Jay is also more shy comparing to his very loud show counter part. Jay has feelings for Nya but she’s completely oblivious to them. So they don’t have that many moments together in the movie.

When Nya rides into school on her motorcycle, Jay compliments it by making a comment if she got it from the great stuff store. During the search for the Ultimate Ultimate Weapon, they find Garmadon’s former generals who want revenge on him. The Ninja except Lloyd run off and get lost in the jungle. Jay is screams in fear but quickly acts cool when Nya shows up from the bushes.

Hydroelectric Dragon
The Hydroelectric Dragon is an Elemental Dragon formed by combining Jay’s Lightning Dragon and and Nya’s Water Dragon. This dragon’s first appearance is in Wishmasters, Season 6: Skybound. This is also the first Elemental Dragon that combines two elemental powers together.

Pilot

 * Jay's first line is in regards to Nya, asking if she is hot, and if she likes the color blue.
 * When Jay is rendered mute, Nya seems smitten.
 * Nya claims Blue to be her favorite color, making Jay ecstatic.
 * Nya gives Jay a hug, after he sees her giving her older brother one.

Mini-Movies

 * Jay gives Nya a ride to and from the Monastery on his dragon, Wisp.

Sons of Garmadon

 * When the Police Commissioner questions the ninja what danger they are facing, he mentions a pirate genie. While everyone else is confused, Jay and Nya smile at each other since they’re the only ones who remember the events of Skybound.
 * The ninja celebrate their victory by singing and dancing to The Weekend Whip. Jay spins Nya in the air.

March of the Oni

 * Jay proposes to Nya and asks to be his Yang, Nya accepts.

Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu

 * Nya is seen flexing her muscles to Jay.
 * While Cole was complaining about Nya’s powers being useless, Jay makes hand gestures to try stop him.

Prime Empire

 * One of the League of Jay members mentions that he understands why Nya is beloved to Jay.
 * When Kai says that anyone who likes Jay too much can’t be normal, Nya raises an eyebrow in disapproval.
 * After being freed from Prime Empire, Jay spins Nya in the air and gives her a kiss on the cheek.

Quotes
"We're saving a girl? Is she hot?"

- Jay, to Kai upon hearing about Nya.

"But if I'm ever gonna have a say in our future, it's me who has to protect you because it's you who has the wish."

- Nya to Jay, The Last Resort

"Save me, Jay Walker. There’s going to be a wedding, and I want you to do something about it!"

- Nya to Jay, The Last Resort

"I wish you had taken my hand, and no one ever found that teapot in the first place."

- Jay’s final wish, The Way Back

"Yes! Of course! Yes, yes, yes!"

- Nya accepting Jay’s proposal

"Oh, thank you Nya! I love you!"

- Jay to Nya

"Jay better be safe in there, you dumb game."

- Nya, Level Thirteen

"Nya ! No! I–I–I can't do this alone. Don't leave me! I love you."

- Jay after Nya turns into an energy cube, The Temple of Madness

"I'll fix this, Nya."

- Jay, The Temple of Madness

"I wish we had more time, but we never seem to get a break."

- Nya’s last words to Jay before merging with the sea, Nyad

"She's going after Kalmaar. She's going to finish it. And I'm gonna help her."

- Jay referring to Nya, The Turn of the Tide

"Nya! Stop. Wait. Listen! Something is wrong with you. You have to concentrate. You have to focus, you have to turn back— No, don’t leave me."

- Jay to Nya, The Turn of The Tide

"Nya! I... I love you."

- Jay to Nya, The Turn of the Tide

"Nya became one with the ocean, remember? Which means she's connected to all water everywhere. Which means part of Nya is inside that water glass. And that one, and that one, and that one, and th⁠—"

- Jay to the rest of the Ninja, Farewell the Sea

"I'm not going anywhere. Everybody else might have forgotten Nya, but not me."

- Jay, Farewell the Sea

"Take care of Nya. Tell her I love her."

- Jay to Skylor, PIXAL, and Wu, A Painful Promise

Fanon
Jaya has garnered a lot of attention from fans, with thousands of fan-works being created of the couple. Jaya is typically interpreted in a similar manner as to how it is presented in the canon of the TV series. Jaya is seen as a wholesome ship, where the pairs involved are able to help grow and comfort each other in their darkest moments.

Typically, those who ship Jay and Nya tend to ignore the events of the third season, Rebooted, as it breaks up the characters well-established relationship, but also mischaracterizes both parties, as well as the character of Cole, drastically. In later seasons, the damage is undone, as Jay and Nya both make up, and get back together, but fans still tend to ignore, or dislike, Rebooted.

Seasons such as Skybound, March of the Oni, Prime Empire, and Seabound are popular among those who ship Jaya, as these seasons place extra focus onto the romantic relationship between the pair. Skybound especially places a focus on this pair, as its climax involves Jay saving Nya from a forced marriage with season villain Nadakhan.

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Trivia

 * Jaya is known to be the oldest and first canon Ninjago ship to exist, being teased as early on as the pilot episodes.
 * Jay and Nya are technically engaged, as the yin-yang promise is the Ninjago equivalent to a proposal. Nya also claims Jay to be betrothed to her in “Master of the Mountain”.
 * Jay and Nya broke up in Rebooted, later getting back together by the end of Season 6.
 * They have a dance move named after the ship, the Electric Jaya.
 * Nya has been practicing the dance move in secret and couldn’t wait to show it to Jay, which she did in Ninjago: Seabound.
 * Both of their first focus seasons, Skybound and Seabound, both end with -bound
 * According to Tommy Andreasen, one of the show’s co-creators, he says in a tweet that Jay refers to Nya’s mole from her post-movie design as “mark of eternal beauty”
 * Nya’s favorite adventure was when she and Jay were at the lighthouse, growing closer together. This is a callback to Season 6: Skybound episode, The Last Resort.

Variations

 * Mudshock refers to the ship between Cole, Jay and Nya