Zane Julien

## Zane

Present-day Zane

**Zane Arthur Julien** is the First White Ninja, the First Nindroid, eldest of the Original Ninja, the youngest living Everglades Julien child, son of Dr Richard Julien and Amelia Julien, brother of Lane, Jackson, Jane, Dorian, Zachary, and paternal half-brother of Goldie Goldstone, widower of Pixal, father of Jonas, Lacy, Grace, and Yukio, brother-in-law of Jonathan Mayples, Lexica Julien, and Joseph Goldstone, father-in-law of Axis Garmadon and Jack Brookstone, and grandfather of eight by three of his children.

Born in the December of 1974, Zane spent the first few years of his life in a small town by the name of Everglades. He once had to stay in Chitow City with his aunt and uncle after the Blizzard of 83. He went back to Everglades two years later in 1985, and back with his parents.

In the April of 1991, Zane died during a school shooting in an attempt to talk the shooter down. His father later left the family and built a robot Zane. This story follows the canon storyline onward from here to 2017, when the Time Twins were defeated.

## Trivia

* Zane is multilingual, being able to speak and read English, Italian, and Ancient Ninjagian script, as well as some basic knowledge of Lunarian.
	+ As a result of Zane knowing both English and Italian, Goldie was programmed with this knowledge as a result; he just can't understand Lunarian or Ancient Ninjagian.
		- Zane's nickname for Goldie is "fratellino," which is Italian for "little brother". However, Zane only calls Goldie this when he's worried about him.
* It's been hinted at by the author that although Zane still loves Pixal, he has a crush on someone else. He'll never admit it because he loves Pixal too much.
	+ It's unknown whether his secret crush is a guy or a girl.
		- However, the author has hinted his secret crush might be a male, but she confirmed it is not one of the Original Ninja.
			* Not Kai because they're distant cousins
			* Not Cole, Jay, or Lloyd because they're too young for him
				+ Zane is over 20 years older than Cole and Jay, and has ALWAYS been uncomfortable even taking off his shirt around them, same with the others.
				+ Zane is 27 years older than Lloyd.
				+ Other than Pixal, his accepted age range is from 5 years younger or older than him.
					- Pixal doesn't count because she was a robot since they met up until CM2.
* As of Chasing Memories 3: Actions Have Consequences, Zane is missing his right thumb.
	+ The reason for this is because he got into a fight with Chyenne between CM2 and CM3 because she accidentally said "fuck" in front of Goldie and he repeated it without knowing what it meant.
* As of Chasing Memories 4: Best Left Forgotten, Zane is missing the lower half of one of his legs.
	+ It had to be amputated as a result the Glass Stairs Incident.
		- This makes him one of the seven known amputees in the cast, the others being Wu, Lloyd, Chyenne, Cyrus, Jay, Chaina, and his own daughter Grace.
* Zane, after his memory was wiped by Dr Julien before the start of the canon series' story line, has been uncomfortable around people younger than him for reasons he could never explain (unless they were related to him)
	+ Pixal doesn't count because age doesn't matter to two robots
	+ For this reason, he could never feel comfortable taking his shirt off around the other Ninja. He would always get dressed in a separate room from the others, although this might be because of the scars on his back.
* Before he was revealed to be a robot, he and the others had assumed he was 19 when the Ninja were first brought together (in 2010). However, after Chyenne came to Ninjago (in 2019), it was revealed he was actually 35 if you take his 16 years previously as a human into account.
	+ Either way, he's the oldest Original Ninja and oldest Ninja overall.
	+ However, this caused Garmadon to get pissed off at his brother for deciding to have a 35-year-old man sleep in the same room as 2 15-year-old boys.
		- Misako was also mad because she realized that her 12-year-old son was sleeping in the same room as a 37-year-old, a 19-year-old, and 2 17-year-olds -- all 4 of them legal adults at the time.
* When he was a toddler, he went through a LITERAL "ankle-biter" phase, meaning he would hide and attack people's ankles like a cat.
	+ His father actually still has the bite marks on the back of his leg.
* Despite appearances, Zane is neither albino nor fully white. His maternal great-grandmother was Palestinian, making Zane Middle Eastern descent.
	+ This means Jay is the only member of the Original Ninja who is fully white.
* Zane originally didn't see Goldie as his brother as he didn't have a memory switch nor Dr Julien's symbol on the inside of his panel. Chyenne later explained that Goldie was in fact built by his father, but she had to rebuild him and she removed the aforementioned features as she said they were "useless".
* Zane was the only Ninja with a full foster license prior to becoming a Ninja. This is why Wu recruited him first; he couldn't legally have the other Ninja live with him (with the exception of Kai) unless someone with a foster license was also present.
* His original android version was designed to bruise and scar like a living human as a way to blend in.