Arin

Arin's History

Arin is a self-taught Spinjitzu prodigy, creator of Object Spinjitzu, and a former ninja student of Lloyd's. He is the first known person to teach himself Spinjitzu without a master. He used to live in a neighborhood outside Ninjago City, until the Merge caused his parents and region to disappear. Multiple years after the Merge, Arin and his best friend Sora became students of the Green Ninja, Lloyd Garmadon, after saving a dragon called Riyu. With the help of the other original ninja, Arin helped to free most of the dragons from Imperium. He and Lloyd searched for the Pink Dragon Core, defeat Beatrix, and helped to stabilize the Merged Realms during the MergeQuake Storm, where he briefly saw his parents through a rift.

A year later, Arin helped other ninja to handle Lobbo being mutated, stopping the Mechanic, and stopping the Lava-Tides from stealing dragon eggs.

His popularity as a ninja continued as he took down the Mechanic and rescued Lobbo from his mech along with Lloyd, as well as attending Sora's dance party, until Cinder stole the Mallet of Shattering and broke Wyldfyre's leg before accompanying Lloyd in order to learn the Rising Dragon technique from a dragon named Egalt. However, he began to express frustration at not improving his Spinjitzu which ultimately led to Egalt demoting him to be taught under another dragon named Rontu. When the Blood Moon arose, interrupting their training, Arin and Riyu end up separated from the ninja in a storm caused by Jordana before rescuing Bonzle from her, only to lose the latter to Ras. Regrouping with Lloyd and Nya, Arin made his way to the Shadow Dojo, where the Ritual of the Blood Moon occurred, and Kai was sent to the Nether-Space, until Arin (with discreet assistance from Sora) stopped Ras before the moon then passed.

In the Tournament of the Sources, Arin met his childhood friend Frak, who he discovered had fallen under the sway of Ras while searching through Ras' room. After the latter found out Arin invaded his room, Ras tempted him by revealing that Wu was responsible for the Merge, and that Sora lied to him. His relationship with the ninja and Sora began to break down and he became distant, his faith in the ninja crumbling slowly. Because of this, Arin went to Frak for help with mastering Spinjitzu, Frak helped Arin do so with Ras' teachings, and Arin helped Frak avoid the corruption of the Wolf Clan and Shatterspin. Near the end of the tournament, Arin used his parents' detective game history as an advantage to figure out that the tournament was rigged by Bleckt, who had allied with the Wolf Clan. At the end of the tournament, as the rest of the Forbidden Five were freed and Arin managed to do a full-fledged Spinjitzu, Nokt was stripped of the powers he stole and escaped with the other members while taking Ras along to continue their revenge. Arin abandoned the ninja and chased after the Five to protect Ras, who he believed to be the only one capable of finding his parents. Arin and Ras became marooned in another realm, and he helped nurse Ras back to health with intentions of finding his parents.