Rewatching The Trailer Again

Oughhh this is so real

ninjago legends monstrosity moodboard

Oh shit. I just realized the post I made about Kai getting therapy after Crystallized and that's why he's so matured in DR is inaccurate. He's just desensitized after going through the horrors™ oops

Kai after he gets home, looking in the mirror and just. Practicing.

His smile. His laugh. His quips. Practicing how to seem like himself so Lloyd doesn’t worry.

Me when someone asks me anything in my dr but i can’t process my existence at the moment:

Kai after he gets home, looking in the mirror and just. Practicing.

His smile. His laugh. His quips. Practicing how to seem like himself so Lloyd doesn’t worry.

Imagine me, in the middle of the afternoon doomscrolling, seeing a notification that Lego uploaded a new video.

Then, thinking it's a Dr s3 video, click it all excited thinking I can get some Kai crumbs.

Holy shit.

Years. Years of watching seasons full of comedic relief Kai, with seasons with SPECKS of Kai screen time. Just waiting for the day that he gets the spotlight he so deserves.

Just waiting for the writers to take advantage of his angst potential instead of automatically going to Lloyd or killing Zane for shock effect. Watching DR s2 over and over and over again because that's the only way I can see my boy in his beautiful developed self.

Reading fics and comics and headcanons because that's the only way I can really see his trauma acknowledged. Only way I can see how much he cares for his family. Writing my own oneshots out of PURE DESPERATION to see him actually put something into the plot.

Then.

I see it.

Kai fans. We won.

Ohhh op you have no idea what you just did to me. Fuck the fic writes itself at this point.

The Ninjago Monstrosity trailer is making me sick with the AU idea of Kai needing to be found by the ninja rather than him being the first to be found because just imagine them coming across a warrior so traumatised and scary in a land filled with monsters that you would only hear in stories and it turns out your brother has been stuck surviving against them this entire time.

Finished prime empire rewatch