AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH "I have to endure." "I have to continue." "So I can see them again." "I can't lose myself." pfp creds to Kindaasrikal :)
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Rewatching the trailer again
Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.
Taking a break from my break tannerfishies style
One sided drix x kai
Drix: Can i hit
Kai: Wtf??? No??? What are you doing inside my room??? Where tf did you come from????
Drix: Nooo don't hide ur bugness ur so sexy haha
Kai: (bug begone) Get out
So I had a bag of pancakes just sitting around and decided to have some as a snack. A little munch. It's was the afternoon and it was hot ok
One thing is that it was infested with ants. Not an ungodly amount, like maybe a few 10 or so. Still, in my hunger induced apathy, I still mixed in the milk, eggs, and even some overripe banana we had lying around. It was kinda clumpy, and the color was weird, but it said it wasn't expired so it's probably fine. It's fine right
Im writing this from the er, after almost dying via suffocation after my throat seized up
In a sick turn of events, the ants inside were an actual colony. Mama ant, babies, and the like. So
The venom immediately attacked my throat and esophagus, and after a few minutes, my throat became kinda stuffy. If the stuffy was on fire and itchy. Also, it had an ingredient I was allergic to. god really said fuck you today
But like the madman I am, I did not give a single shit. I kid you not, I laid on my couch for two hours while my breathing progressively got worse. At one point, I was holding my breath because inhaling air was becoming akin to drinking fiberglass from a cup. I got dizzy once, but I forgot when. Maybe it was the lack of oxygen
After the third hour, it started to settle down a little. I could breathe now, but only through my nose. My mom walked in the room, and I wanted to tell her, but speaking was an agonizing endeavor. So I just. Waved at her. I'm a fucking idiot
By the fourth hour I told her. She then rushed me to the er even though I TRIED to tell her I was fine. It's about half an hour since we got here and we're almost clear for discharge. Eeeee. I remember the drive there and all I could think about is 'I'm so posting this on Tumblr later.'
So this is my of saying I'll be taking a break for a while. Will be back soon!!! The grind never stops even when you're about to die
(Edit: back home after an hour and a half!! I'm all good now but mom is pissed oops)
Guys. Cmon. Resist the call of bug.
alright, fellow Monstrosity obsessors!!!
question for y'all
I'm not including a both option because I feel like we'd all just pick that lmao. Maybe I'm wrong on that but oh well. 2 options.
Oooooo thank you for the confirmation
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‘Second worst time I’ve had fighting insects.’
What do we say, guys? Do we really think the first was that picnic with Jay? Do we really?
If I have to suffer you all too
sooo… we gonna ignore this or not??
Haha lol this is so funny– IS ZANE THE FUCKING DOG. WHAT THE FUCK.
dear lego please let kai cry please and thank you amen from me
Painfully real
POV: you’re a Kai fan picking your pfp after May 1, 2025
Updated!
Very rough outline of my monstrosity au. I call it Odyssey!Kai. Yes it's an epic the musical pun. I'm very happy with it
Oooo been thinking about this for a hot minute. Was in my drafts for longer.
The imperium arc goes different too, Lloyd getting afraid at seeing Wyldfyre, her being fire adjacent and all, and thinking Kai is dead since she has his "fire" powers. After they get back to the Monastery, Zane actually becomes Wyldfyres mentor. The reason is that he finds her endearing and sees himself in her (not knowing who you are or where you came from). I have concept art rotting in my gallery, but it's not done yet sowy.
In this one, Kai doesn't find the bounty. Nya does. So she finds Lloyd first and traverses the merged lands for information. This, of course, creates irreparable damage to our boy. He does not go home early this time.
S2 has 4 major changes. Wyldfyre is slightly calmer, Lloyd has visions of both the bloodmoon and a mysterious figure cloaked in fur and blood (that he can't help but feel pain for, he doesn't know why), Nya learns dragon rising technique first, and Cole gets sacrificed instead of Kai. Besides that, mostly the same. Maybe they struggle a bit with the Ras showdown, but it ends the exact same way with Nokt free.
S2 p2 has the most differences. For one, Geo and the finders live with the ninja now. He feels guilty for letting Cole 'die' like that, so he's thrown himself into training. He's doing well, and the finders are having fun with arin, sora, and wyldfyre. The monastery is definitely more full, but the ninja still feel the absences of Kai, Cole, and Jay.
Next, Cole isn't doing that bad in the ns. He's got bonzle, he can use his powers to shape the space since it's technically rock, and enough stories to last a lifetime. He's fine.
Zane and Wyldfyre bond more. He tells her stories and videos about Kai and how they'd get along, and she is ecstatic. Another fire user, how exciting!
Arin and sora are still looking for his parents. Still find the matriarch dead.
Meanwhile, Kai has all but lost it. He isn't insane, but his morals have all but been destroyed. The only thing he cares about is getting back to his family and anything and anyone that has come in between that has now died or burned to death. The guardian dragon and fire knight mech are his permanent companions, and they respect his decision to change his values. One can not survive being in the land of the monsters without becoming one themselves, anyway.
The tournament of sources plays out the exact same. If you're wondering about frak, zane took up Cole's role in the og series. When Jay and Nya fight, he actually comes very close to winning. Nya can't bring herself to hurt him, since this time she doesn't have her brother to kinda fill his void. Jay is about to eliminate her until a fire ball the size of a car chucks Jay into the nearest wall.
Nya and the rest of the ninja are horrified because, duh, and she rushes to his side. Jay is unconscious, and she looks to where the fireball came from. Everyone is so in shock that they don't even recognize that it was a fire ball. Except Wyldfyre, then Zane. He tries to tell Lloyd, but there a crowd blocking his way.
All Nya sees are security bots wrangling a hooded figure, but they're being dismantled by the second in a flurry of slashes. Also, it doesn't help that there are two giants (mech and dragon) just looking down at him saying something she can't hear. She can only make out a subtle, "Do you want them to see you like this?" Before the stranger flinches and finally calms down. He allows himself to be arrested.
When the source dragons send out those little messages for each elemental master, Kai actually gets one since he hasn't encountered ras yet. The messenger dragon leads him out of the realm of monsters, but it's still pretty far. He gets there, but it takes a day or two. Or three. That's why he's late.
Roby comes forward, and he is just upset. Absolutely annoyed. He says something about wanting to see the face of the perpetrator, and that sends Kai into another frenzy. He doesn't want his family to him like that. He fails this time, though, and his hat and mask are pulled off.
You can guess what happens next.
Roby is actually happy with the change of events, calling it an epic plot-twist, but the ninja?
The reunion is short-lived, as he's wrung away for interfering with a match. The ninja tried to get to him, but doing so could get them disqualified, so they bite their lips and accept it unwillingly. Not knowing what to do with the mech and dragon, they just give it to the ninja. Both parties accept.
All I have so far wowowowowow
This is the topic I've been wanting to discuss for the longest time. The environment and the ecosystem in general. To start, it just feels so alive. Everything from the flora to the terrain feels eerie in such a good way that I paused the trailer and clapped. It's gorgeous, and it feels like the place looks back at you when you look at it. The use of empty space and hidden context is also ingenious. You see bridges and landmarks and carvings, and you just know someone or some people were here before Kai. Maybe the human inhabitants of the realm? Or the ones living in the homelands the guardian dragon was talking about? What really happened to them then? The forests are so empty and filled with greenery that it makes it feel untouched. A place where no human should be let alone live in. Poor Kai, I hope he has fun.
Another thing I like is that there are different landforms. From plains to forests to hills to mountains, it's like we were put in Kai's shoes with the sheer scale of it all. Each area has their own specific monster/s to that region, and it makes the idea of the realm being unfamiliar really tangible. It makes you think and theorize what the food chain is or if there even is one. Are some of the inhabitants herbivores? Or are they all carnivores? Maybe omnivores? Are they all organic? Maybe some have different skin? Are there supernatural elements? What if some are capable of speech or sentience? There are just so many things to pick apart and analyze that you can't really help but rewatch the trailer every five minutes while it's on the lowest speed just so that you can catch every detail. Or is that just me. Please dont say it's just me.
One thing that i find kinda funny is that there are also bodies of water. Like, legit large spaces of sea and river. From oceans to lakes to just flooded plateaus (I don't know the term, sorry), there was even a shot where Kai was just in front of a sea full of broken shipwrecks. It makes you think if a water-based realm was merged inside of it or! This is a theory! If the realm of monsters is a parasite realm. A realm that infects others and therefore grows bigger with each new land consumed. A theory I saw on here was that each monster was an elemental master consumed, and that's what the centipede mural is for. What if the rom (realm of monsters) was just a regular realm before its elemental masters got hit with a curse of some sort? Maybe that's why the guardian dragon is pissed. What if the monsters need elemental energy to survive? That's why there are SO many of them that are huge? What if they fed on the guardian dragons? What if that's why they're extinct?
Maybe that's why they're so hostile. They can sense Kai is an elemental master and one of the elements of creation as well. It's why the mech and dragon want to help him. They won't let another master become that.
The merge also caused a giant surge in elemental energy, so another reason why they are so many of them. Maybe they procreated using that energy.
Ooooooo I can't wait for this. I'm definitely checking if I'm right when monstrosity comes out.
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?????????????????
kai finally sleeping in his own bed back at the monastery but he can’t actually rest because he was so used to being alert constantly that his body refuses to let him
Everytime I see a really good analysis on here it's like someone injected the feel good juice directly into my veins. I like sigh and my head goes tingly because yes op yes that is so correct. That's the most anyone's been correct since forever that's so real
YOURE THE SUNBOUND WRITER????
JGSHBHJTNMOUGDTULSTH its an honor to meet you sir 🎩
lmao anyway i wanted to check which program you got the contrast that high on? im a couple computers removed since the last time i was doing this stuff
JAKEJJDJSIAJBRBFHEH oh hello. Nice to see a reader of mine on here. Oooooo this is so awkward but it blushing idk if that makes sense
Also greetings to you to 👒
I used ibis paint x! Just go to filters and find the adjust color tab, then click adjust saturation and hue. Move all the slides to 0° then up the saturation slide all the way. Sorry if it's a lite confusing, but you really need to be on the app for a while to know all it's features 😭
OHHHH THATS GENIUS WAIT
No u fr cooked with that
I'd love to add that with your permission!
Very rough outline of my monstrosity au. I call it Odyssey!Kai. Yes it's an epic the musical pun. I'm very happy with it
Oooo been thinking about this for a hot minute. Was in my drafts for longer.
In this one, Kai doesn't find the bounty. Nya does. So she finds Lloyd first and traverses the merged lands for information. This, of course, creates irreparable damage to our boy. He does not go home early this time.
The imperium arc goes different too, Lloyd getting sentimental seeing Wyldfyre, her being fire adjacent and all. After they get back to the Monastery, Zane actually becomes Wyldfyres mentor. The reason is that he finds her endearing and sees himself in her (not knowing who you are or where you came from). I have concept art rotting in my gallery, but it's not done yet sowy.
S2 has 4 major changes. Wyldfyre is slightly calmer, Lloyd has visions of both the bloodmoon and a mysterious figure cloaked in fur and blood (that he can't help but feel pain for, he doesn't know why), Nya learns dragon rising technique first, and Cole gets sacrificed instead of Kai. Besides that, mostly the same. Maybe they struggle a bit with the Ras showdown, but it ends the exact same way with Nokt free.
S2 p2 has the most differences. For one, Geo and the finders live with the ninja now. He feels guilty for letting Cole 'die' like that, so he's thrown himself into training.
Next, Cole isn't doing that bad in the ns. He's got bonzle, and enough stories to last a lifetime. He's fine.
Zane and Wyldfyre bond more. He tells her about Kai, and how they'd get along, and she is ecstatic. Another fire user, how exciting!
Arin and sora are still looking for his parents. Still find the matriarch.
Meanwhile, Kai has all but lost it. He isn't insane, but his morals have all but been destroyed. The only thing he cares about is getting back to his family, and anything and anyone that comes in between that has died or burned to death. The guardian dragon and fire knight mech are his permanent companions, and respect his decision to change his values. One cannot survive being in the land of the monsters without becoming one themselves, anyway.
The tournament of sources plays out the exact same. Although, when Jay and Nya fight, he actually comes very close to winning. That is, until a fire ball the size of a car chucks Jay into the nearest wall.
When the source dragons send out those little messages for each elemental master, Kai actually gets one since he hasn't encountered ras yet. The messenger dragon leads him out of the realm of monsters, but it's still pretty far. He gets there, but it takes a day or two. Or three. That's why he's late.
The reunion is short-lived, as he's arrested for interfering with a match. At least attempted to. You cant really try when He destroys all the bots faster than you can blink. Oh yeah, the guardian dragon and fire knight mech are there too. So.
He beelines to Nya, hat and mask coming off, and they hug in a mess of limbs on the floor. Theres sobbing, and its not from the girl I'll tell you.
That's all I have so far. Will update hehehehe
The mech and dragon are Kai’s immoral support.
Oh yeah definitely. Very off topic but I see the mech as Athena and the dragon as poseidon (in a less muderey way)
I can't blame them though. You need to harden yourself if you want to survive in hell. Kai just got lucky he found the bounty before he truly lost himself and became a monster
sorry all i do is talk about how much i want to kiss kai abd also marry him and form a healthy long-term ace4ace relationship with him hes ace btw he told me (he did not actually tell me. he is not real, and therefore can not tell me anything. however i think of him as asexual because i am too and it would make me so happy if he was but they ar e genuinely never gonna confirm that) anyway hey
Ace4ace. What the fuck. I'm ace too and I want to kiss him. Are you me. Am I you. Idk
Also he is real wydm. How is he not real if he's affected me, a REAL person, so badly????? Explain that then. Huh.
Very rough outline of my monstrosity au. I call it Odyssey!Kai. Yes it's an epic the musical pun. I'm very happy with it
Oooo been thinking about this for a hot minute. Was in my drafts for longer.
The imperium arc goes different too, Lloyd getting afraid at seeing Wyldfyre, her being fire adjacent and all, and thinking Kai is dead since she has his "fire" powers. After they get back to the Monastery, Zane actually becomes Wyldfyres mentor. The reason is that he finds her endearing and sees himself in her (not knowing who you are or where you came from). I have concept art rotting in my gallery, but it's not done yet sowy.
In this one, Kai doesn't find the bounty. Nya does. So she finds Lloyd first and traverses the merged lands for information. This, of course, creates irreparable damage to our boy. He does not go home early this time.
S2 has 4 major changes. Wyldfyre is slightly calmer, Lloyd has visions of both the bloodmoon and a mysterious figure cloaked in fur and blood (that he can't help but feel pain for, he doesn't know why), Nya learns dragon rising technique first, and Cole gets sacrificed instead of Kai. Besides that, mostly the same. Maybe they struggle a bit with the Ras showdown, but it ends the exact same way with Nokt free.
S2 p2 has the most differences. For one, Geo and the finders live with the ninja now. He feels guilty for letting Cole 'die' like that, so he's thrown himself into training. He's doing well, and the finders are having fun with arin, sora, and wyldfyre. The monastery is definitely more full, but the ninja still feel the absences of Kai, Cole, and Jay.
Next, Cole isn't doing that bad in the ns. He's got bonzle, he can use his powers to shape the space since it's technically rock, and enough stories to last a lifetime. He's fine.
Zane and Wyldfyre bond more. He tells her stories and videos about Kai and how they'd get along, and she is ecstatic. Another fire user, how exciting!
Arin and sora are still looking for his parents. Still find the matriarch dead.
Meanwhile, Kai has all but lost it. He isn't insane, but his morals have all but been destroyed. The only thing he cares about is getting back to his family and anything and anyone that has come in between that has now died or burned to death. The guardian dragon and fire knight mech are his permanent companions, and they respect his decision to change his values. One can not survive being in the land of the monsters without becoming one themselves, anyway.
The tournament of sources plays out the exact same. If you're wondering about frak, zane took up Cole's role in the og series. When Jay and Nya fight, he actually comes very close to winning. Nya can't bring herself to hurt him, since this time she doesn't have her brother to kinda fill his void. Jay is about to eliminate her until a fire ball the size of a car chucks Jay into the nearest wall.
Nya and the rest of the ninja are horrified because, duh, and she rushes to his side. Jay is unconscious, and she looks to where the fireball came from. Everyone is so in shock that they don't even recognize that it was a fire ball. Except Wyldfyre, then Zane. He tries to tell Lloyd, but there a crowd blocking his way.
All Nya sees are security bots wrangling a hooded figure, but they're being dismantled by the second in a flurry of slashes. Also, it doesn't help that there are two giants (mech and dragon) just looking down at him saying something she can't hear. She can only make out a subtle, "Do you want them to see you like this?" Before the stranger flinches and finally calms down. He allows himself to be arrested.
When the source dragons send out those little messages for each elemental master, Kai actually gets one since he hasn't encountered ras yet. The messenger dragon leads him out of the realm of monsters, but it's still pretty far. He gets there, but it takes a day or two. Or three. That's why he's late.
Roby comes forward, and he is just upset. Absolutely annoyed. He says something about wanting to see the face of the perpetrator, and that sends Kai into another frenzy. He doesn't want his family to him like that. He fails this time, though, and his hat and mask are pulled off.
You can guess what happens next.
Roby is actually happy with the change of events, calling it an epic plot-twist, but the ninja?
The reunion is short-lived, as he's wrung away for interfering with a match. The ninja tried to get to him, but doing so could get them disqualified, so they bite their lips and accept it unwillingly. Not knowing what to do with the mech and dragon, they just give it to the ninja. Both parties accept.
All I have so far wowowowowow
Peak
Um. The entire trailer is red if you raise the saturation high enough
Like what
Also don't ask me how I found this out. Sometimes ninjago transcends the naked eye
No one even asked but. So uh. If you fully saturate the monstrosity trailer it's all red. I'm actually so serious why is lego cooking so hard
I really didn't mean to notice it. Just after rewatching it the hundredth time I kinda. Yknow. Thought you might like it. Since. Over analyzing makes the brain worms dance
Oh my God.
OH MY GOD??
You know my dumbass before this was thinking to myself when i first watched the trailer “hey…the greys look awfully….red tinted…. Nah I’m looking too much into it.” I WASN’T LOOKING TOO MUCH INTO IT??
Okay so the animation in Monstrosity is similar to one of the golden legend episodes, and i messed with the saturation on there and
PURPLE
It’s all PURPLE. Whats important is that this episode is about the lost ninja and hoping they return, all in the perspective of a man no one knows the identity of (at least i think). No one actually knows the story behind this episode other than now the speculations thats its connected to dr and possibly mainly Kai as his mini series has the same animation style.
Purple has a significant role in the show similarly to green or gold. Its used more to represent evil or corruption in characters, as well as destruction. They might be using a more purple tinted grey to represent the destruction ninjago and the realms itself had went through.
But whats also important is that purple is created off of two other colours, red and blue. The second episode of golden legends includes Kai and Nya. Funny enough how the last episode of golden legends also has Jay and Zane, Jay whose outfit is blue and Zane whose outfit and element is often connected to a light blue. That may or may not have been done of purpose though.
I think it’s important we also consider the fact that in season 3 of dr they also put a lot of attention on Kai and Nya’s relationship as siblings, making it a lot more prominent.
This could also be a sign of the oni and their return for all we know.
Like it? Bro i love this i love this SO much your making my brain shake so much im gonna lose it
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PERFECT YES PERFECT CORRECT LOUD DEAFENING CORRECT BUZZER
"you can't survive in a land of monsters without becoming a monster yourself" paired with the horn imagery from the notches in his hat...
When you keep seeing amazing posts and art and analysis stuff and come to the realization that it's from one person. Like hello. I've had this experience more times than I'd like to admit.
NIOOOOMSIR8AHBTJWNSBHCHSK BRUDGbn I'm dying dying stop stop stop stop stoppp this madness enough that's ENOUGH I say plssss my heart can't take this Beacsue he loves them so much those are HIS babies he raised them and now he thinks their dead shut it shut shhhhhhh be quiet OP IM GONNA . GET YIU IM GETTING YOU ME WHEN I GET YOU AAAAAAAAA
I’m probably gonna procrastinate on this but here’s a WIP. (I started like 2 days ago Idk when I’ll finish it.)
hey guys have you ever heard of THE CHARACTER. i’m thinking about THE CHARACTER. honestly can’t even get shit done because i’m thinking about THE CHARACTER. i’m listening to a song and imagining THE CHARACTER. all i know and love is THE CHARACTER
Um. The entire trailer is red if you raise the saturation high enough
Like what
Also don't ask me how I found this out. Sometimes ninjago transcends the naked eye