So I'm seeing a lot of fanarts involving Kai having insect traits.
A little, barely formed antennae, pincers on his mouth or some other insect-related thing somewhere on his body.
Basically, during his stay in this freakish, bug infested realm, he starts developing those insect traits. He starts to literally become one. We all know that - that's what the fanarts are depicting after all, but...
Might I suggest something kinda... disturbing?
He wakes up one day and feels something on his mouth, or well, more specifically near the corner of his lip. He reaches his hand to feel and is horrified to feel something thin and quite frankly long protruding from his face
He retracts his hand in momentary fear. He's barely thinking as he reaches for the blade he has to see his reflection.
He positions the blade and is once again horrified to see a pincer that had most likely grown whilst he was asleep in the reflection.
So Kai is absolutely terrified, realising that the longer he stays here, then more of these mutations will grow.
The realm is not only forcing him to battle these bugs and fight for another day. It's changing him both mentally and now physically.
Kai panics. He has to endure so much. He's slowly losing his sanity, and now his body!? He couldn't let this happen. He can't allow himself to succumb to the realms workings. He has to somehow stop this or at least postpone the transformation.
An idea strucks him, though he immediately shudders. It's not going to be pretty. He's going to have to build up some confidence and psych himself up.
He places the blade down. He has to get everything out. He reaches for the pincer with one hand, takes a deep breath, and pulls the pincer as hard as he could, ripping it out.
