Natalie R. Walker

**Natalie "Nat" Rose Walker** (also known as **Flashfire** or **Lady Ignite**) was the former Elemental Master and Ninja of Fire, succeeding her uncle, Kai Smith. She is the daughter and youngest child of Jay Walker and Nya Smith, sister of Jason C. Walker, and cousin to Kate Smith. Natalie is also the wife of Keith Garmadon, mother of Ethan Garmadon and Josephine Walker, aunt to Jaxon Jett Walker, former vessel of the Inferno Demon King Kaen, and the Fourth Headmaster of the International Ninja Academy. As an infant, she was captured by Ryder Takahashi and was taught martial arts by him once she reached an appropriate age. During her conditioning phase, Natalie became favored by Lena Alberta and had an Inferno Demon bond with her via contract to make her stronger. Once she was ready, Natalie was sent out to do many misdeeds and intolerable acts for the Romanji Slavers. Shortly after she reached the age of 17, Jason and his friends would come and rescue her. After a series of crazy events, Natalie was freed from the darkness and fought back against it, alongside her new friends. After the Skullcrusher's death, she was welcomed with open arms into the Ninja Force's ranks.

Having become an official member of the Ninja Force, Natalie would come to realize her struggles and troubles were far from over. Despite all this, she had good friends, like Alessia, Levi, Vincent, and Sabrina, who helped her go from an introverted loner to a beloved and extraverted hero that cared deeply about her bonds. Facing powerful enemies such as Shiro Garmadon, Johnathan Destrevan, the Elemental Lords, Fallen Angel, and even Rian Haruno, Natalie would overcome her and Kaen's inability to work together and slowly formed trust with him in order to use his cursed powers for the good of the world. Even reuniting with Keith and helping him save his home from the deadly virus and the Sand King's rule helped Natalie find her footing in the chaotic life of a defender. She would be part of the four-man-team that would ultimately lead to the restoration of their timeline's events on another.

Within the new world of Earth-21, Natalie's list of troubles was still stacking up with bigger and badder foes popping up more rapidly than ever. Her losses would truly balance out her wins no matter what she did, such as: gaining Pyro Vision which helped balance out Kaen's corruptive influence all for Kai, her mentor, to die; the defeat of the Oni and the elimination of Shiro Garmadon, at the cost of Levi, Michael, Joey, and Tyler's lives; and the defeat of the Hason Demigods only for her mother and supposedly Jason to die in battle. With Jason ultimately being revealed to be alive later on, Natalie had to overcome her grief time and time again and often relied on Alessia and Keith for moral support. Having found her balance and resolution by the time Landon returned, Natalie helped in the effort to free her boyfriend and Lucas's unborn sister from dark influences and had a hand in preventing Shadow Convergence. Despite her finally getting to be with Keith, her family, and teammates without a new villain popping up for a while, nothing could help her see what would come next..,

With the Dark Order instigating a conflict between the Prowlers and Oni Empire into one with the entire multiverse, the Ninja Force of Earth-21 and their allies within the government would form a multiversal alliance with their friends from other worlds: the Multiverse Protection Corps. One of the big generals on the fields of battle was Natalie; being a primary individual in the takedown of the Phantom and the capture of Saiko. Over this time, Natalie's connection to Kaen got as close as it would ever get, only for him to sour once more and plot ways to sabotage her. After helping end the second campaign of the First Power Wars, Natalie would begin seeking out ways to possibly get rid of Kaen and end their cycle of hate and unclear alliances. Once Kaen took a liking to a Hason Demigod by the name of Akosua, Natalie found a way to save her from her own internal conflict all while ending her bond with her greatest enemy. Giving Akosua a new life which she could decide for herself for once, Natalie settled down with Keith to have their children, Josie and Ethan.

Becoming the fourth headmaster of the International Ninja Academy after Nelson Burton, Natalie would have a key hand in the training and upbringing of the next generation of Elemental Masters, whom would go on to become Defenders. Becoming an icon to the people helped Natalie see the arc of her journey and inspire her to prepare her children for theirs. Helping stop the Shometsu Warlords, Methuselah, and the Geddon Mutants, Natalie would be prepared to team-up with her fellow Old Guard to free Landon and the Hayate bloodline from Samara's hold, at the cost of her own life, as well as, Keith and Landon's. With her legacy being carried on by her kids and the people remembering her as one of the most resilient heroes, Natalie died knowing that the world could carry on without her protection.

## History

### Early Years

#### Birth & A Short Time with the Walkers

There’s not much to know, but here’s what we have. Natalie was born to Jay and Nya Walker after the untimely death of her grandmother and the opening of Walker Industries main facility in Ninjago City. Jay and Nya were curious as she showed no signs of the elemental gene in her bloodstream. Kai was hoping that she would be a fire elemental since his daughter was in possession of the late Master Wu's powers. Jason would also give a lot of love to his sister as he wanted to protect her from threats from their parents' past, but Nya would often say that he was too little to take on djinn or an AI with attitude.

#### From Prey to Predator

At least a year after her birth, she was kidnapped by Ryder Destrevan, a few months after Jason had begun being introduced to his lightning powers. She was taken to the First Realm to help grow the new Dragon Hunter Army occupation across multiple realities. She was taken to the leader of the Earth-21 Dragon Hunter Legions, other wise named Skullcrusher, to be scanned for Elemental Power. The process would take a year or so but eventually the power emerged to protect her from their tools. Her power was that of fire. It was found but instead of taking the chakra, Skullcrusher gave the fire more power. How? She sealed a captured Inferno Demon inside of Natalie’s very being. Once the demon made contact with Natalie’s chakras, he began to bond with her chakra but not her. Natalie at age 6 started immensely painful, but effective training that would turn her into the Skullcrusher's Crimson Warrior.

#### Meeting Her Soulmate & Sealing Her Fate

During a diplomatic mission she was brought to Earth-52 to be examined by members of the Dragon Hunter union, where Keith lived. Keith was on a rescue mission to free hiding citizens from the Infected Mutants, when he noticed the Dragon Hunter Ship she was on. He checked it out and discovered and freed her. At first, things were tense between the two as Natalie was still questioning who she was as she wasn't fully influenced yet. After persuading her to trust him, Keith took her to hide out with rebels in the colonies. Skurge was initially opposed to keeping her with them but he would take Keith's word and put him in charge of her. The two would spend nearly a year together as they saved each other from mutants and even bounty hunters hired to track her down. Soon their luck and time together would run out as Ryder Destrevan eventually discovered her location and raided the Resistance encampments to retrieve her for the Skullcrusher. The Resistance members would put up a tough fight but eventually Skurge and Ryder would settle upon a deal. Natalie would be handed back over to avoid further casualties and the Resistance would be given some of the Dragon Hunters weapons in their efforts against the Infected. With that, Natalie's only friends and family she had known were stripped away from her by the same ones who had taken her from her real family. Natalie would try to escape but would be branded by Ryder for her disobedience. Once they returned to the First Realm, the Skullcrusher and her guards would brainwash Natalie and make her think she was a warrior bred to kill.

## Appearance

Natalie's appearance is largely inspired by her mother’s, long black hair kept in a ponytail, pale red lipstick, and a red/dark red ponytail scrunchie. But she has her uncle Kai’s clothing style. For casual wear, she rocks a red and white sports jacket over a deep red tank top with tight sweatpants and Ninjagan brand equivalent to adidas sneakers. Her ethnicity is that of an asian and Latina woman merged into one.

She usually prefers wears a red color schemed uniform or outfit for ninja suits. She usually always wears her cloth forehead protector with the Ninjagan “F” for Fire on it to honor her heritage. She usually always has something related to fire emblazoned on her uniforms in Ninjagan, as well. She also has one tattoo on her shoulder saying, “Inferno” in Ninjagan with a slightly crude representation of Kaen above it.

As Natalie matures into an adult and mother, she wears less sporty clothing; now clad in white and red ninja gi symbolizing her position as headmaster at The International Ninja Academy. She also has sown her forehead protector into her right sleeve. Natalie also adopts a beauty mark on her right cheek like her mother before her. She has a strand of red in her hair as well.

## Age

### Before Beyond: The Original Series

Natalie was born in 2029 to Jay Walker and Nya Smith as their second-born child and only daughter. She was only 2 when she was kidnapped by Ryder Destrevan. She was most likely around 7 when she was forcefully trained under the influence of the Skullcrusher, and 12 when she met Keith for the first time.

### During Beyond: Rising Force

When Jason would meet her during the events of Season 2: Heart of Dragons, he would piece together how long it had been and figure out that she was seventeen. During the events of Season 4 through Season 6, Natalie was 18 considering that those three all take place a year after Season 2. She was 19 during the events of Seasons 7 through Season 9 as they all take place in under three months. She was 20 from Season 10 to Season 13.

### Throughout Beyond: UNLIMITED

Throughout the events of Seasons 14 through 16. She was still 20 due to herself along with Matthew and Jason being aged back a year due to temporal shenanigans. She was 21 through the events of the Oni Invasion Arc and 22 during Season 21. Natalie would be 23 during the events of Season 22 and Season 23 due to her being in a realm outside of time for what she didn't know was five years. She would be 24 during Seasons 24 through 26 and 25 during the final half of the Shadow Cell Arc.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Walkers

* Jay Walker (father)
* Jason Walker (brother)

#### Smiths

* Nya Smith (mother)
* Kai Smith (uncle)
* Skylor Chen (aunt)
* Kate Smith (Cousin)

### Love Interests

* Keith Garmadon (Current)
* Matthew Miller (Formerly)

### Friends

* Alessia Carrow
* Vincent Roberts
* Michael Garmadon
* Amber Garmadon
* Brad Williams
* Chad Williams
* Sabrina Carrow

### Foes

* The Skullcrusher
* Ryder Destrevan
* Landon Garmadon
* Emperor Thrawn
* Shirō Garmadon

## Personality

Natalie is an independent, strong-willed woman and won’t let her captors tell her what to do, even though she rarely is one to let herself be captured. She also is caring and compassionate about her teammates and will even lay down her life to protect them. She did get annoyed by Brad‘s antics and strategies to get Alessia to like him. Many events throughout the franchise reveal that she has a high intelligence, being able to see through enemies traps easily. And she designs most of her uniforms. Unlike her uncle, her fiery spirit doesn’t make her arrogant or cocky, but rather reserved and focused. But her calm can be broken by villains who piss her off. When she gets angry, you don't want to deal with her...

Her weakness was getting full control of Kaen spirit in her, at first. It was revealed that Kaen, himself, was trying to strengthen their bond by trying to take off restrictions on the seal. Once he bypassed the restrictions, the two became one powerful god-like warrior.

## Weapons and Abilities

Natalie favors any type of sword in combat, picking katanas as her gear when she joined the Ninja Force. She used the Golden Sword of Fire during the Power Wars until she lost it to Garmadon in Beyond: The Power Wars. She also used glow stone powered katanas in Dimensions which she lost in Hail of the Oni during the finale to the Decimator. She also had an aero blade and deep stone katanas in Ghostly Empire, and kunai as an alternate preferred weapon.

Being the Elemental Master of Fire, Natalie can create fire with her own hands and throw, use it as boxing gloves, or make a huge spread of fire at her opponents. She can also withstand high temperatures and walk through fire unharmed. She also has added abilities with Inferno‘s chakra. She can create straight, never ending streams of fire, clones made out of Firestone, and other abilities. One of the most popular is the Inferno Bomb (which is similar to the rasengan from *Naruto*). As Natalie got older, her power got stronger as her bond with Kaen and her knowledge was expanded upon. She would gain the ability to cloak herself in a garb of golden fire which would defend her and allies from enemy attacks. She is the only Master of Fire so far that perfected the ability to fly using bursts and streams of flames.

## Notes

* Natalie's character arc about her eternal struggle with Kaen trying to take over her body so he can return to his former glory as the Inferno King is loosely insipred from the story of Naruto from his series with the same name.
* The justification for why Natalie and her mother look so similar is because Natalie simply had more of her mother's genes and took a lot of influence from her, considering she was the closest female friend or family member she had. It also may have been the comment from Brad during Season 2 about her hair that prompted her to keep it up in a ponytail.
* The creator of the Beyond Franchise (otherwise known as Father Jah or J.R. Meek) does many fan-casts for his own characters. For Natalie's years as a teen to her role as a mother and guardian, he selected Tiya Sircar; best known for her roles in *The Good Place* and *Star Wars: Rebels*; to be the one to voice her.

## Gallery

**NOTE: These are images created by Jrmeek15. They are merely concept art and aren’t completed images.**To the right you will find all of the concept drawings for Natalie’s gi’s, armors, and uniforms worn in the Beyond Franchise: