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The bracelet isn’t the only aro-ace accessory that Lloyd ends up with that week, he soon learns. His uncle calls Lloyd into his room not long after they have finished training for that morning.
The tone that Wu had used made it sound like Lloyd was about to get reprimanded for something. What for, no one knew, not even himself. The aging master is seated on a cushion on the floor when Lloyd enters the room.
“Uncle Wu, did you call me in here because I’m in trouble?” he asks, taking a seat on the free cushion.
“No, you are not in trouble, Lloyd,” Wu tells him. That’s reassuring, at least. “I called you in here because I have something to give you,” he continues.
Lloyd can only stay quiet as he watches his uncle take out two pins that were shaped like the halves of the yin-yang symbol. Both pins have very familiar colour schemes.
Wu holds the pins out for him to take. Now that they are in his own hands, Lloyd can have a better look at them. One of the pins has the colour scheme of the asexual flag while the other has the colours of the aromantic flag. They fit together perfectly to make the yin-yang symbol.
But he hasn’t come out to his uncle yet. There was no way that Wu could have known as none of the other Ninja would have told him.
“ How did you know?” the blond asks.
“Nephew, I had suspected for a long time but it wasn’t until last week that those suspicions were confirmed,” the man tells him.
That…was not what he had been expecting to hear. He had been expecting Wu to tell him that he had overheard their conversation in the kitchen.
Two weeks later, while the Ninja were attending Ninjago’s annual pride parade, on the lapel of Lloyd’s gi was pinned the pins that Wu had given him. The bracelet that Pixal had given him is wrapped around the hilt of his sword.