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Kai: Well, I’ll tell you my secret sir! I lie to myself.

I’ve seen instances in the show that indicate he doesn’t let the others see his pain, which is totally a Kai thing to do. When he’s with family he acts like it’s the coolest thing, but when he’s alone he experiences “the horrors”.

Also I decided the long hair/legs thing is gonna be a thing.

But then he realizes that he too is an elemental master, so he could just eat... himself– WAIT WHAT

Or how the ninja comfort you

Written as headcanons

TW - Mentions of a shared bath?? No sexual innuendos tho

Includes Jay, Kai, and Nya

OHHH AND THEN AND THEN THE REAL KAI IS ACTUALLY STILL IN THE LAND OF MONSTERS BECAUSE THE PARASITIC DRONE STOLE HIS BODY

And now Kai has to relay to his team not to trust the impressively realistic Kai-shaped bug. But also can't get too close coz. Yknow. He looks. Like that. Wait here lemme

Ah

I give Bug Kai =:3

FfbA Version since I can =:3

but I BEG TO DIFFER!!!!!

imagine this scenario;

the ninja are just chilling, hanging out. and then suddenly, kai blinks... SIDEWAYS???? like a bug

bug blinking

i just really hope he becomes a bug guys i'm gonna be for real

They're modified front legs. So, on a human body it would probably be equivilant to ones arms and hands. Sooooo, Kai having chitin around his hands, his fingers ending in little points rather than the soft nubs human fingers end in. And from them, he can inject poison into whatever he pokes. If his condition were to get any worse his hands would stiffen up and fuse together into something closer to a Forcipule, but as he is he just needs to wear gloves to cover them to look and act like human fingers, maybe with a little padding in the tips. And hey! He usually wears gloves as a part of his ninja uniform! He doesn't need to talk about it. Ever. It's fiiiiiiine~! It's not like he's tempted to stab things with his fingers so he can eat it- he's not craving meat all the time, he swears!

It's fine! He can just be good old human Kai! It's not like he's a monster now, he's just a tiny bit different, see? It's not a big deal, don't worry about it- Nothing's really changed. (right?)

in case i never do a fully rendered thing of Centipede Kai I want to give a bunch of concept sketches. Take the bug man

close ups under the cut

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*Kai absolutely destroying a giant beast 100x the size of him*

*Nya and Lloyd actually watching in horror as they watch their brother who is tiny compared to the monster attack like he knows what hes doing*

Lemme get the hcs out, During his time in the Land of Monsters he didn't sleep like at all. So he started getting auditory and visual hallucinations, and if he were ever to go back to the land of Monsters (and in this scenario he did) he wouldn't be able to sleep or really properly keep himself together because he'd be too stressed about Lloyd or Nya experiencing the horrors like him. Or worse, either of them finding out how much being in the Land of Monsters has changed him. Both mentally and physically,

*bug kai bug kai bug kai bugkaibugkaibugkaibugkai*

I fully hc that his bug traits would manifest out of stress or bottling up for too long. So being thrust back into the place that caused you to go through mental anxiety physical agony, along with you barely surviving your last fight and both your siblings are here with you in the danger zone inexperienced with the horrors that are in the Land of Monsters.

Internally Kai would probably be like

Oh shit, oh fuck, keep it together, you've been going this long, kill this thing, keep family safe. Can't die here, or I'll never see them again. They're right here with me of course I'll see them again. Unless they die here then your to blame and you'll never see them again. Can't slip too far gotta keep it maintained fuck my back hurts, and my arms, the whole centipede hybrid shit is not gonna hide well if I keep this up. Can't let the others worry about me, that's what I'm supposed to do.

So Kai immediately is pushing himself three times as hard to keep triple the amount or people alive rather than just one.

Lloyd and Nya notice instantly how Kai is mentally deteriorating from being here, they watch him close himself off and be over protective. Both of them are super concerned but as soon as they try to confront him about it he changes the subject or they get interrupted.

They enter a cave system for the night, rest they need it if they want to survive, Kai he sits down lighting the fire and starts keeping watch. Lloyd watches as he droops in and out of sleep sitting there and offers to take the watch for the hundredth time. Kai about to shake his head get interrupted by Nya who backs up Lloyd saying Kai Needs to rest. A bit of back and forth goes ahead before Kai finally caves. Laying down on a cloak he had set up for Lloyd.

Kai is out pretty quickly the exhaustion of multiple days kicking in. It's during the middle of the night when he wakes up in excruciating pain, Bugkaibugkaibugkaibugkai unfortunately he wasn't able avoid Lloyd noticing. From Lloyds perspective he saw his brother sleeping badly rolling around talking to himself. Then watched him sit up super suddenly and strangle off a scream.

Understandably Lloyd would be concerned. Kai the stubborn dumbass he is would get up and head deeper into the cave where they have no light. He cant let his family see what hes become. He gains his bug traits, mandibles multiple sets of legs from his back rest around his torso.

Kinda just setting him up for failure when he forgets that Lloyd can see in the dark. Lloyd understandably will probably let out some noise of shock cause like *his brother is a fuckin bug for some reason???? And didn't think to mention it before now??????* then Kai all angsty would be like

"you weren't supposed to see me like this.... Im a monster."

And Lloyd would be like

"Kai your not a monster, you may look different but you're still you."

"I'm not the same kai, I've been keeping up the facades for almost a year now. I changed here and I hate it."

"Kai please look at me, You are my brother and I know that because you've always been there even now you've been trying so hard to Keep Nya and I safe. No matter if you were human or not, You're still Kai to me."

Then they hug it kai finally gets the comfort he deserves and Lloyd gets to help his brother for once. Then in the morning they're obviously gonna have to explain to Nya why the hell her brother looks like he is cosplaying a centipede cross garmadon cause of the extra arms/legs.

She also concerned hugs her brother, but later she'll smack him over the head for constantly hiding he's in pain/suffering.

Cut scene 1

Kai: I'm not human anymore, I'm a monster.

Lloyd with his glow stick hands and eyes: bitch what does that make me???

Cut scene 2

Kai: I'm a monster how could anyone love me.

*Lloyd recalling the entire team* "dude no one cares if ur human, Zane is a robot, turned into water, Jay turned into a snake, Cole was a ghost, I'm fucking oni dragon and human. It was bound to happen at some point."