MONSTROSITY AMIRIGHT????????!!?!?!?!????

Art I made for @quintastiic 2K DTIYS on Twitter!!! I decided to share it here cuz I’m proud of how it came out!

Original piece below!

I can't believe im just learnin you're jubieew on ao3 lmao. In insight, that makes sense.

Atte. The one that leaves you stupidly long reviews.

- Wyld

Helloooo Wyld! I saw you on here once and went "Oh that's my commenter. Sick."

Yeah, I changed my name from jubieew to bie-tch on a whim because I thought it was funny but ended up actually liking it. So it's kinda my fault you didn't notice until now 🙃 btw, always grateful for your reviews!! As they get longer I always get so nervous to reply but I have the one from ch 10 printed on my wall. I really liked writing that one ha. ha. ha. Wonder why.

Just fully rebranded my blog the brainrot has taken over

500 likes!

YAY

Still holds up to this day. I'm shaking

Something that hasn't really sunk in yet is the fact that monstrosity is canon. Like wdym it's not something my Kai-deprived brain made up in order to fill the neverending void in my heart???? Really??? Are you sure?? The thing I've been begging for actual years and then some really happened?? No joke??? Actual Kai material?? Character development?? Lore importance?? ANGST, SICK MONSTER DESIGN, AND BODY HORROR??? 2D FUCKING ANIMATION!?!?!?!? AND ITS ALLL KAI??????????? JUST HIM?????????????????

My fic based on my Star au! Give it a try! The first chaps are pretty rough but it's good like chp 4 onwards

monstrosity kai vs prime empire kai avatar concept art

Oooooo thank you for the confirmation

EXTREMELY, INCREDIBLY, IMMACULATELY IMPORTANT: DO YOU ALLOW PEOPLE TO USE YOUR ART AS PROFILE PICS

YYYYYES I DOOOO BRO and if its possible just some creds somewhere ofc BUT YEAH IF SOMEONE USED MY ART AS THEIR PFP ID PROBABLY BLOW UP????

Monstrosity trailer analysis part 1:

The Monsters are terrifying, and everything is huge

One of the very first shots of the trailer shows the fire knight mech (which I’ll call Ignis not because it’s canon, but because it sounds cool and is much shorter) standing right beside Kai. I remember seeing this for the first time and just marveling at the sheer size of the mech. It’s one of the biggest mechs in the Ninjago franchise, and having Kai right next to it, contrasted with the giant flag, makes everything feel so massive that it’s almost uncomfortable.

The next shots are definitely one of the most memorable. It's what the guardian dragon (who I'll call Ator (pronounced ey-tore) for the same reasons as ignis) calls: 'the beast who ravaged her homelands and destroyed her future.'

Im pretty sure we all had the same reaction when seeing this thing for the first time. Because Jesus christ, that thing is huge. Compare that to the trees, which we know are fairly big since we see Kai stand next to one later in the trailer, and they look like literal twigs compared to the giant... thing. Its toe can literally topple a mountain. Which psycho designed this. I wanna give my thanks.

And since I'm following a trend to naming these characters... I'll just call it 'The Beast.' Pretty on the nose but accurate nonetheless.

The next monster shown is painfully unrecognized by the fandom which is sad because, to me, it's definitely one of my favorites. In the first photo, Kai takes a few steps forward, but when the light hits him, he just ceases movement altogether. It's definitely a red light green light situation. This is made even more horrifying due to the fact that there are SO MUCH (I'll call them eyeblights) EYEBLIGHTS BEHIND HIM. It seems like they have a specific area of the realm of monsters that they inhabitate, and that just makes the trailer 10000000000x better because now there a tangible ecosystem the watcher can actually see and hold on to.

Ooooh, this is hard to spot if you don't know what you're looking for. In this shot, Kai runs on a bridge while some monster that definitely looks made of roots and other organic material (I'll call it a rot-root) shoots out behind him in an action that's adjacent to a hand reaching out into the sky. You can see what looks like fingernails on the edges of the rot-root, and the overall shape looks kinda like an arm.

Another kaiju. Poor Kai. His name is Repnok.

Just for clarity, but the size of one of its whiskers is enough to reach half of the castle. Its head is the size of the castle, which can house more than a hundred people. This thing is atleast 100feet and above. Not as big as the beast, but still fucking giant.

Another thing that the fandom didn't notice for some reason is that the place Kai is in is a kingdom. If you look closely, the Repnoks leg is resting on a wall, and Kai is running on the same wall. Look just below, and you can see actual houses just barely out of sight. This means many things, though. This means there are actual confirmed on-screen deaths in ninjago because no one is surviving that shit, and that the realm if monsters is definitely the biggest realm so far and that many other smaller realms are inside of it. Sadly, all their occupants are probably dead, which will probably affect Kai for the rest of his life. (More in-depth analysis on this later in part 2)

I have no words. I don't think I need to explain this, really.

It's huge.

Like, ungodly huge. It's definitely a squid of some sort, it having barbed tentacles, but it's fucking huge. What the hell, Lego. Look how– Kai looks like a speck of dirt compared to it! Her name is Celybyss.

Another thing is that it's underwater. What kind of giant 'fuck you' is this to Kai.

That's all the monsters shown so far, and Lego did not disappoint. I wouldn't be surprised if they hired actual horror artists to work on this. Poor Kai, he's gonna have so much fun.

Crazy to think that Kai just told the ninja he was travelling the merged lands and wasn’t forced to fight for his life in order to get back to those he loves.

CRAZIER to think that in the first few episodes of season 1 in Dragons Rising this scene of Kai and Lloyd seeing each other again

Is so much worse because Kai seems as if he’s reacting the way he was forced into with all the monsters stronger than him. He and Lloyd are equal in terms of skill, so seeing Kai with zero reactions and just letting himself be flung around? To put it simply, it seems as if he was just so tired of fighting that his mind and body literally wouldn’t let him react appropriately after finally having the chance to stop.

LOOK AT HIM HES CURLED UP??? PROTECTING HIS FACE???