Goldie Goldstone (Echo Zane)

Goldie Goldstone (real name Echo Zane) is the younger brother of First White Ninja Zane Julien and the husband of Joseph.
== History ==
During his imprisonment, Dr Julien decided to build another Zane android, but due to limitations in materials, he could neither make it look human nor could he attach part of a soul to it. The android was completed on June 12, 2008, and was named Zane 2.0 (not to be confused with the Ninjago-canon Zane 2.0, aka Titanium Zane). However, Zane 2.0 didn't act like how Dr Julien believed Zane was supposed to act; he was too childish, spoke differently, rather needy. Because of this, Dr Julien told this android he needed to fix him and had to deactivate him for the time being. 
The android, being naive as he was, let himself be deactivated. Unbeknownst to him, his creator had lied to him and dragged his deactivated body down to the basement and sealed it. Unlike Ninjago-canon, this droid wasn't reactivated until 13 years later by an unknown person or force. Horribly rusted and confused, he busted the basement door and went upstairs to find his father. Upon seeing the mechanical calendar and learning how much time had passed, he realized he'd been abandoned and started crying. 
He ran down the stairs again, ran into the door, and the force of his momentum broke it off the hinges and he went flying. The door landed in the water and he sailed away. A couple days later, he washed up on the shore of the Dark Island, where he was found by Lloyd and Joseph. The droid introduced himself to the pair, more informal than his brother: "Hi, I am Zane, built to protect those who can't protect themselves." 
This "new" Zane was brought to Chyenne, who used a little magic to repair him and give him a new exoskeleton made of gold. The group decided to re-dub him "Goldie".
== Trivia ==
* According to concept art of Goldie from before he was rusty, his eyes used to be white.
** The author said his eyes turned yellow for two reasons:
*** White/clear plastic starts turning yellow with age
*** Goldie is a crybaby, and when he woke up and found out his dad left him, he wouldn't stop crying for hours.
**** Goldie's tears are oil. The author's grandma used to work in a car parts repair shop and oil always got in her hair, turning it from white to yellow, so she used this logic to explain Goldie's eye color change.
** The reason they STAYED yellow is because when he broke the lenses in CM4, Jay used yellow lenses to replace them.
* Goldie was revealed to be gay in Chasing Memories 2: The Twists of Fate, around the end of Part 1.
** This makes him the first openly gay main character of the Chasing Memories series, the second being Joseph, who reciprocated his feelings.
* He is chronologically the second youngest of the pre-Lloyd's retirement Allies, Pixal being the youngest.
** However, due to his programming, he is mentally younger than Pixal. At best, Goldie is mentally about 19-25 years old. Pixal (as a robot) was mentally 35-45, so she was mentally one of the oldest characters.
* In a post on the author's Goldie x Joseph ask blog (which takes place during the unreleased Chasing Memories 5), she said the dumbest thing Goldie did was trying to make bread. He put baking soda in it and blew up the oven.
* Goldie and Joseph have the biggest age gap between them out of all the other CM couples, with them being 1,971 years apart. 
** Goldie was built in 2008 and Joseph in 37 AC.
* Goldie has abandonment issues, as well as trust issues stemming from Dr Julien tricking him into being deactivated.
* Goldie's program name was revealed in a deleted scene from CM3, which involved Goldie's error code. (This error code will be seen in a future installment or project) Goldie's program name is ZAJ002.exe.
** ZAJ stands for Zane Arthur Julien, who Zane, and by extension Goldie, was based on.
** 002 denotes that Goldie (AKA Echo Zane) was the second Zane android Dr. Julien had built.
*** This means that the original Zane android's program name was ZAJ001.exe
* He initially tried to copy his older brother by attempting all the things Zane was good at (cooking, calligraphy, shurikens, etc.) but wasn't very good at any of them. Chyenne suggested he try something that Zane wasn't good at, and he tried gardening. It ended up being one of Goldie's favorite things to do.
** The first thing he grew was a small sunflower, which he promptly showed off to Zane... the elder droid poked it and the stem snapped, making Goldie start crying.
* Sometime during CM3, Goldie was temporarily turned human. Chyenne used this as an opportunity to do a DNA test on him. Not only did he come back as fully human, but the results also stated he wasn't an Elemental Master nor Zane's full-blood brother. 
** It also stated his biological age as only 19 despite him being chronologically in his 40s at the time, proving that he aged differently than Zane who had been tested as being biologically in his 60s, the same as his chronological age at the time he had been turned human roughly 15 years prior.
* Goldie's name could be a reference to him being a "Golden Zane", similarly to Golden Freddy from FNAF.
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