#kaingst

i wrote the Kai Gets Back To The City and his Shitty Apartment thing and i- slowly realising this is just becoming Kai collecting parent figures like- damn Kai who allowed you to have THREE sets of parents (me, I did) (it's Ray and Maya, Garmadon and Misako, and this middle-aged couple who owns a small grocery store Kai kind of got a job at. also another little sister in the form of a small girl who gave him a stuffie while he was spiralling in said grocery store. and a grandma! who he met at a laundromat and gave him better Wise Mentor Words™ that stuck more than anything Garm or Wu will ever tell him lmao)

OR i write Kai running away back to his apartment,,, could finally describe that place more than it being shitty,,,, could write the emotions and memories,,,, the realistion of how much has changed,,,,, moving around like a ghost in a past home,,,,, the feeling of belonging yet a stranger in your own home,,,, (nostalgia? i haven't figured out what that emotion is yet lmao),,,, Kai maybe slipping up,,,,, going through the motions on autopilot,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

and then, a week later, returning to Garm's monastery :) staying much shorter time now bc we're nearing the start of S4,,,,,,,

hhhhhhhh much tempting,, might go with it

also this is legit the first thing I made with this app so????? everything might not be perfect and I definitely don't know how to rotate the camera, but it's one step closer to what's in my head so it's okay :) (also please imagine there's a lonely lightbulb hanging from the middle of the room)

the song in both videos are Real Boy by Lola Blanc (and possible volume warning?)

SO

the only actual description of the apartment I've given is 'shitty little apartment with rotten walls and disgusting sewer scent' but it's also just,, cables sticking out from the walls, there's definitely mold in the bathroom and there's... rather suspicious marks on the floor. It's on the brink of ruined and the entire building from the outside looks sketchy as hell and honestly quite abandoned. It might actually be smaller than I made it in this, but half of the furniture was there when Kai moved in and the other half is either bought to the cheapest price possible or, um, stolen. Like the club sign, that's stolen. The books below the TV are either stolen too, or rescued from the street. It's not visible here, but most of his clothes during this era is the same as the books, and no matter if it's found on the street or stolen, he still tries to clean it. (I even gave him a washing machine! look how nice i am :)) The Nazar eye is actually a gift from one of the Serpentine on the Slither Pit (or... someone else he woke up next to whoops) (sometimes it makes him feel Watched in a Bad Way and he turns it around or throws it into the closet)

This is how I imagine Kai's bathroom to look like during the Red Shogun era, except more dirty and in ruins.

(song is Real Boy by Lola Blanc, possible volume warning)

As you might have been able to tell from last post, there's really not much that screams 'Kai' at all. This is fully intentional, I want the apartment to reflect how far gone he's really gone (especially mentally) and how he drops off the face of Earth Ninjago and cutting all contact. In my HCs the time during s3 finale and the start of s4 is around two years, I imagine he fully cut all contact around a year in, maybe more. Anyways, he has a tiny washing machine, shower (imagine there's shower curtains too), a small shelf and the sink. The two towels and the toothbrush holder are one of the few red things in this apartment at all.

ONE MORE SONG LIKE THIS ONE- I'm not eVEN JOKING I WILL DO IT