#i got the random motivation to draw that comic of kai summoning morro and now the au is just on my brain

[saline-coelacanth]

I've got Scorched Au Kai on the brain and I'm going just a little bit insane about him /pos

I just love thinking about him and his downward spiral. His Green Ninja obsession started pretty much how it did in canon, by wanting to be the best ninja of the group and wanting the important destiny that came with the title. But then after the volcano, it kinda morphs into him wanting to prove himself better than the others out of anger and spite.

He feels abandoned and rejected by the others and no attempts at explaining the situation is gonna change Kai's mind. He starts going to drastic measures to prove he's powerful, to prove everyone else wrong. He beats up anyone who gets in his way, he burns down villages, he even learns dark magic to become stronger. All of this to prove that he is the Green Ninja.

But as it keeps going, his motivations change again. Kai becomes even more desperate to prove himself. He HAS to be the Green Ninja. So many people have been hurt, so much destruction has crossed his path, but he did it all to prove himself. If all the destruction happened because it was Kai proving he was the Green Ninja, then it was all for the greater good.

But if Kai isn't the Green Ninja, then he did all of that for nothing. So he has to be the Green Ninja, because how is he supposed to live with himself knowing that everything he did, all the people he hurt, all the peaceful nights he refused to sleep because he needed to do more, all the damage he's done to everyone around him and himself, was for nothing?