#kairro

[miakwat]

LETS GOOO @ninjadont and I wanted to take part in @zayrenvie ‘a dtiys, so we decided to work on a (late) entry together!

Sketch+Lineart: Me

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[blursed-ninjago-ideas]

Whumptober 2

Decided to let myself have some Kairro. It's been ages since I touched that AU and every time I do it feels self indulgent. Don't know why, a lot of people seem to really like it.

Prompt: "They don't care about you."

Randomly Selected Whumpee: Kai

Selection method: Asked a student I passed in the halls to choose a number.

TW: Blood mention, manipulation

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“How many times do I have to beat you over the head with it!? They. Don’t. Care. About. You.” Morro snarled.

Kai raised his bloodied face and debated what comeback to use.

“I don’t know. How many times do I have to tell you that I’m not going to let you use your paranoia against me?” Kai said, his lip dripping wine red drops onto the concrete.

“They’re your abandonment issues.” Morro countered.

He was calming down and changing tactics. Probably realized that Kai’s temper had gotten the best of him again.

Morro made an excellent mirror to show Kai how ugly his anger could get if he didn’t control it.

“As if you didn’t have any of those yourself.” Kai laughed, wincing from the pain it caused him.

He just had to buy enough time for the others to find him. Nya was going to turn the whole room into a water park as soon as she saw Morro.

The trick was holding the line against the emotional manipulation. Hard to do when the manipulator lived in you head so long he left some of his things in the guest room.

“I left Wu, remember?” Morro said.

His smirk had Kai convinced he was looking at a mirror for a moment. It was to be expected. It went both ways after all.

Kai knew why Nya looked at him like a stranger sometimes. She never said anything about it, but Kai saw her every time she did it.

It had an effect.

Kai had slowly stopped bragging after Lloyd was forced to admit that he sounded more like Morro when he did it. When all of your friends get noticeably uncomfortable every time you get excited that you won a video game, you stop commenting on it.

Kai wondered how he used to sound when he would brag. How was it different? Did Morro get that trait, or did it disappear? Which one of them had “stronger” bragging mannerisms? If Morro got his way and they fuse, who would they sound like?

Would they sound like Kai when they told jokes? Would they keep that smirk, or would it disappear?

“And I never trusted anyone else long enough to get left behind.” Morro finished, yanking Kai from his thoughts.

He couldn’t think of a good retort. It had only been half a second, but Kai’s mind had wandered miles away from the conversation. It must’ve shown on his face, because Morro snarled again.

“I see you don’t have my focus.” Morro said sarcastically.

It wasn’t Kai’s sarcasm. It was a difference they still had.

Morro grabbed Kai’s face and dragged him up.

“Listen to me. They are waiting for the chance to get rid of you. You serve them now, but what happens when you get annoying? Too angry?”

Morro leaned in so close, Kai could smell the strange ghostly scent his spirit had.

“They will leave you.” he whispered.

“Like my parents?” Kai said with an eye roll.

He saw where Morro was going with it and he was sick of the line of thought.

“If the people biologically programmed to love you couldn’t manage it, why do you think they can?” Morro said as he dropped Kai.

Kai scrapped himself off the ground.

“Because they’re good people.”

“And your parents weren’t?” Morro said with a predatory grin.

Kai shivered and looked away, but he had thoroughly been caught off guard and didn’t have a response.

Just when he thought he had control of the conversation; that he had everything guarded, Morro came at him from an angle he didn’t think of and crawled under his armor. It was how it work from the very beginning.

“So, we agree he doesn’t ‘deserve’ to be the Green Ninja?”

Kai shook his head clear.

“So you don’t think your parents were good people?” Morro asked in a mocking voice.

“I-” Kai could only make the one sound.

“Because you’ve always defended them to Nya. You wanted to be a blacksmith and continue their legacy. You honor them every year on the Day of The Departed.” Morro continued.

“I do.” Kai whispered.

“That doesn’t sound like you hate them.” Morro said.

He was leading Kai to something. Kai didn’t like it, but he didn’t know how to break out of it.

“I don’t.” he confessed.

“But you should.” Morro pointed out.

He sounded so much like Kai’s therapist when he said it. It make Kai’s breath shake. He didn’t like the conversation. He wanted Morro to go back to trying to convince him the other ninja didn’t care about him.

“You should, but you don’t. Is that right?”

Morro didn’t give Kai a chance to answer.

“Then wouldn’t it be a good thing if I could hate them for you? If I could be angry for you? Then you can hate them like you should!”

Kai covered his ears. He knew what he was feeling. It was the same thing as the first time.

“He didn’t ask to be the Green Ninja. We did! Destiny passed up not one, but two perfectly good options to force the responsibility onto a child. That doesn't seem fair. You’re right, he doesn’t ‘deserve’ that! We could not only take what we worked so hard for, but relieve Lloyd of all that pain. That’s a good thing, right? We could work together and fix it!”

That sinking feeling that Morro was making sense. Scrambling for an argument, but nothing making as much sense as Morro’s words. Desperate to not agree, but finding no other thought in his mind.

Kai could only bite his lip and hope his friends were just around the corner. He wasn’t holding out for much longer.

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That was just pure fun to write. I'm glad I did this.

-Ivy

[blursed-ninjago-ideas]

Kairro au: what if their memories started mixing together as well and caused even worse identity crises? Like kai and morro start having "childhood memories" of wu working at the forge or training with nya at the monastery as kids and they start losing grip on what actually happened in their lives? They'd have memories of completely different things happening at the same age and I could totally imagine that messing with someone--whether it's kai, morro, both, or kairro if they completely fuse

-Ivy

[blursed-ninjago-ideas]

Man I wonder how Kairro Skybound will be. I know Kai isn't in that season much and it wouldn't be that interesting without Morro but also I'm thinking about how awful it must be for Kai. At that point, Kai is trying to recover from Morro but the media is harassing the ninja and the fans are not leaving them alone. So Kai's recovery is probably already really difficult but adding the media and the fans on top if it probably makes it worse. I'm assuming. Sorry this post is so long.

I love long posts!

That is something I hadn't thought of yet.

The ninja probably try to get away with just not saying much about it, but fans are going to notice Kai's behavior change and demand answers.

Morro is a more private person, and Kai's temper isn't going to respond well to feeling like people are prying.

He ends up doing some things that are ill-advised by PR. Word gets out that he’s seeing a therapist. Trashy tabloids are running wild, things are getting worse.

Dareth however earns his keep and works himself to the bone to keep it all managed. He gets the love triangle stories rerun with Jay, Nya, and Cole’s permission to distract from Kai. It works pretty well before Nadakhan upsets things.

After Nadakhan is defeated, Jay starts to see the same therapist as Kai, though less frequently. Said therapist encourages them both to be more open about their issues, and Kai finally starts speaking about some of it publicly. The narrative changes from Kai being unstable, to how dangerous their line of work is for their mental states. Dareth pushes this hard. Once Kai gets comfortable talking more about it, he becomes a spokesperson for destigmatizing mental health.

-Ivy

[miakwat]

Kairro and Morro sketches because I love them 😌

Commissions are open!

[blursed-ninjago-ideas]

Your kairro AU reminds me of the song guts from unlike pluto it surprisingly fits the AU perfectly at least to me

One of these days I will feel confident enough in the playlist to share it, but for now, this will be added.

-Ivy

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