#jia andrews

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

"Hello, Jia..."

I WILL LAUGH AND CRY AND LAUGH AND CRY JOYFULLY.

GXK IS OUT NOW ON THEATERS!!! GONNA WATCH!!!

And I hope you like my art, Mothra and Jia meant so well for me 🤩

[gorillageek27]

Jia: *sign* screw you! You're not even my real dad!

Kong: *gasp*

Godzilla: *gasp*

Mothra: *gasp*

[godzillajuniorreborn]

What is it with people wanting Godzilla girls becoming Biollante? First it was Noriko and now it's Jia, what is going on!? Why can't we just keep Erika as Biollante?

Okay, with Noriko, I can understand, but why the sudden jump to Biollante? Biollante isn't just human+Godzilla, she's human+Godzilla+rose. As for Jia... ummm, why?

I'm not against Biollante showing up in the MonsterVerse or Reiwa series, but at least have her origins for either of those make sense or... or...

Just stick with her Heisei origin or just go with the IDW origin in that she just... exists.

[thezanyarthropleura]

I thought they should all be on a team, so I wrote a fic

Call of the Seraph is COMPLETE on AO3!

Words: 69,226

Category: Gen, but like, F&F if that was a category

Pairing: None, just intense friendship vibes

Rating: T

Content Warnings:

Giant monster blood and violence

Sometimes there's human blood and violence too

Blasphemy I guess? Evil religious cult in the prologue

Rome gets broken more

Summary:

When a new Titan surfaces, with an alpha call that affects humans, Jia and Kong find themselves fugitives, lost at sea alongside five other Titan-whisperers from around the world. A new team must band together to stop this new threat... but first, they'll have to figure out how to talk to each other.

Summary (short version):

Learning sign language on a boat but then there's a Bagan fight

[i-mean-technically]

help my brain won't stop thinking about an Ice Age/Monsterverse type crossover

but like. different ofc. its more like taking the premise of the first Ice Age movie (the best one imo) and making it Godzilla.

so! our cast!

Godzilla as a mix between Manny's role and Diego's attitude

Anguirus kind of as Sid the Sloth

Rodan kinda sorta as Deigo

also Kong shows up and is like "wow y'all know nothing about humans" and helps them keep the tiny human they found alive, who is ofc Jia and possibly Maddie???? maybe later on.

Ghidorah as the leader of the sabertooths, with Gigan as the skinny one who's my fav just so you know.

idk even what i'm doing but if anyone is interested in this hmu i guess lol and i'll explain more

[marigoldwriter]

Summarizing the fanfic I'm writing in a single sentence:

"No but- IT'S A BRILLIANT IDEA TO INJECT TITANS DNA INTO NEWBORN BABIES, ISN'T IT?? WHAT THE FUCK!"

[sepublic]

Back from Godzilla x Kong! Gotta say, I love how you have this dynamic of... Mothra is Lawful Good, Kong is Neutral Good, and Godzilla is Chaotic Good. Because sure, Godzilla is officially the arbiter of nature's balance, he's the one keeping things in check; But boy does he not care about what he needs to do to get it done. I like how the Monsterverse has made Godzilla into quite the anti-hero as well; It's a nice mix of both heroic and villainous depictions. He has no real love for humanity, even if he begrudgingly acknowledges its right and need to exist.

If Godzilla needs to get from Point A to B, it doesn't really matter to him too much if there's a fully-populated city he needs to stomp through, especially if he's on short time (Conversely, Mothra and Kong seem much more sensitive to that sort of thing, Mothra especially). It really does make Godzilla feel like a wild card that humanity just has to accept and deal with, and coexists with uneasily; You know, in theory, he has your back. But you're still rightfully terrified of Godzilla, and hell so are other titans. He's the scariest kaiju on the block for a reason, and I love how he's still a mean city-destroying menace while technically being a 'good' guy. Portraying Goji from Kong's perspective, where he's often an antagonist, was a good way to maintain that terror that was alleviated with King of the Monsters' depiction.

Also, I can't help but imagine how relieving it was for Jia to find more Iwi! Trapper makes a good point about how she ends up having a lot of weight on her shoulders with saving the world, but you know what? She ends up having so much other weight taken off knowing there are other Iwi alive and thriving. For years, Jia must've been saddled with the burden of keeping her entire culture alive, finding a way to somehow preserve it and keep it going; But now she can relax, she knows it'll live on with or without her, and that makes Jia's decision to stay with Andrews all the more natural because she's free from obligation.

You know, seeing Monarch successfully augment Kong with cybernetics... I'd love to see the Monsterverse tackle Gigan soon, because with how technology has become so much more advanced since the first film in 2014, it feels plausible that some would see the success of Kong with the gauntlet and think; Hey, let's bring back that project full-force! Maybe they find Gigan, originally flesh and blood, deeply injured and torn apart after fighting Godzilla. Initially he's on life-support with artificial organs, but at some point investors decide, let's just reprogram him into a cybernetic attack dog to defend humanity with!

Alas, Gigan breaks free of his programming; And he ends up going on a killing spree. Because while other antagonists like Ghidorah or Skar King are ambitious warlords, Gigan is a pettier sadist, a bully who likes to hurt and torture. He kills for sport, and that's literally all he's going to do once he gets his upgrades, doing it all for no other reason than fun.

Of course, another part of me would really like to see Gigan still associated with aliens, too; Monsterverse has clearly become modern Showa, we've basically got magic now! And I like that, the weirder and more fantastical, the better. There's an underground civilization that uses ancient technology bordering on magic, the Iwi of the Hollow Earth are like the Monsterverse's Seatopians. So it seems a natural evolution to introduce a more one-to-one counterpart to Seatopia in another film, another group of Hollow Earth humans who want to destroy those on the surface, and worship Megalon's power to tunnel through the earth itself. And if you have Megalon, you should have Gigan, and if you have Gigan, you may as well throw in aliens, not just in the sense that they're from space like Ghidorah, but I mean like. Actual UFOs and the like.

[sweetness-pop]

What if for of one of the upcoming Monsterverse films (most likely not the confirmed 2027 next one), there will be a plot that will unexpectedly blow our minds away?!

Mothra had laid a mysterious, beautiful, radiant, and colorful egg. The egg is looks like a huge oval-sized precious gem with such lit, sparkling and rotating pastel rainbow colors (8 colors: red, pink, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue & purple) everywhere. The egg becomes very important that it is not only the Kaiju hero gang, but also Monarch must protect that egg from upcoming antagonists, both kaijus and humans, at all cost!

Monarch also suspects that there may be more to the symbolic relationship between Godzilla and Mothra, the King and Queen of the monsters than it seems...... Which could also lead to the result of why Mothra had laid this exotic egg....

Lots of good characters would return for this movie. Including surprising ones. Characters include Monarch members: Mark, Jackson, Rick, Sam, and the Chen Twins, Mark's now young adult Madison who'd be a new member of Monarch, a high school teenage Jia, and the Brodys from the first Monsterverse film Godzilla (2014): Ford, his wife Elle, his son Sam who'd be either in his late teens or early 20s, and even a young second child of Ford and Elle, like a daughter.

Then imagine at the end of the official trailer, there will be a scene of the egg HATCHING, and the next scenes are of the reactions of the kaijus and humans as they watch the egg HATCH! Then the title of this future Monsterverse film pops up on screen!

And this will be the name of the new-hatched hybrid kaiju:

Sayura

Name in the Japanese kanji:

桜由輝

桜: Cherry Blossoms

由: Reason, Cause, Origin

輝: Radiance

[dinowolfthezombie]

Spoilers for Godzilla vs Kong Novelization

I started reading the GvK novel, and there are some parts I wanted to share for anyone not interested in reading it, but might enjoy the extra content of everyone's favorite big angry animals. I'm not doing this in any particular order, and right now, I really want to share this one cute scene I just read.

Quote from novel under cut.

"Watching her fingers, listening to her voice, amplified over the loudspeaker.

You: Kong, she signed. Me: Ilene. She: Jia.

His eyes shifted with the words.

Yes, she signed. Good. Can you talk with hands? Say "Kong"?

That was easy. All he really had to do was point to himself. Bonus if he made the sign Jia had made up for "Kong."

At first, he didn't do anything, so she went back through the whole rigmarole.

Then to her shock and delight, Kong lifted his hand. His lips parted, not threatening, not showing teeth. A convivial gesture, a greeting even.

Come on! she thought.

Kong then scratched his nose, let out an extended, windy yawn, and turned away.

She closed her eyes and sighed. When she opened them, Jia was there between them.

Ha,ha, she signed.

It's not funny, she said. Jia, this could be important. If we could communicate with him, really talk to him-that could be huge.

Jia shrugged. He doesn't talk, she said.

'Tell me about it.'" - Pg 127

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

My. Heart.

*DIES OF ROMANCE OVERLOAD*

[gorillageek27]

Mothra: so kong, who was the scariest titans you ever met?

Godzilla: obviously me

Kong:...jia's mother.

Godzilla:...

Mothra:...

[thezanyarthropleura]

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is... my favorite Godzilla movie?

Or: how the MonsterVerse changed my mind after 10 years.

I hate to be that person in a fandom who's constantly saying things like "the old stuff was great, but the new stuff sucks!" however, when it comes to the kaiju genre... for a time, I unfortunately got pretty close to that. I once rolled my eyes at the notion of the "Kaiju Renaissance," and how between Legendary and Toho it had "something for everyone" and thought that for me, that was only really true if you counted some of the IDW comics, the 12-minute Godzilla vs. Megalon short film, and the renewed availability/merchandising for the originals - which means I've recently seen about 20 classic films I never had before, including some of my new favorites, so in that sense, it sort of did feel like a Renaissance. It just wasn't feeling, at the time, like the newer movies had much to offer for me personally.

It isn't that I had a great many negative things to say about the MonsterVerse films, I just... didn't have a lot of positive things to say either. Due to a number of things I can now look back on as mostly minor nitpicks, there was a sense that they didn't even belong to the fandom I loved at all, and Toho's offerings as of late... had felt pretty much the same. Now, I'll have you know I do in fact love the heck out of Godzilla: Minus One, and in a way, that film feels like a great "part one" of my change in attitude toward the new kaiju boom, but in the end, I like it more because it's an excellent film overall than specifically because it's a kaiju film.

The Godzilla solo films, or films where kaiju are presented exclusively or almost exclusively as an antagonistic force, are *in theory* some of my least favorites of the bunch. I end up holding quite a few of them very highly on their own merits as movies, but what I'm mainly looking for in these films actually started with the original Mothra film in 1961 - the expansion of the genre from disaster film into urban/contemporary fantasy, and the treatment of giant monsters as spiritual, cultural, supernatural forces that can represent a whole slew of things other than a threat or crisis.

Now, if that just sounds like a fancy way of saying "giant monsters beating the crap out of each other" then you're not entirely wrong. I do love a good hero story, and it informs a lot of which films end up being my favorites. But there are other factors I find exceptionally strong in many of the classic films - personal resonance with the human element, the interaction of the human and monster elements, the overall uniqueness and earnestness of the story being told - that I just wasn't finding with the MonsterVerse.

...Until now

GXK SPOILERS AHEAD!

I went in not expecting too much from this movie. From all the hype surrounding it, I was prepared for a monster brawl I could sit back and have a good time watching, and that was about it. I thought the opening Hollow Earth scenes were cool (if a little gory), I laughed out loud in the theater at Doug's appearance, and since I was already spoiled on Scylla's death, I didn't take it too badly (she was my favorite of the MV original Titans, but since I wasn't that invested, it was easy enough to switch back into "oh, we were never supposed to care about them" mode).

Things changed as we got introduced (mainly re-introduced) to the human cast. It was specifically the car scene, with Ilene picking Jia up from school and the short conversation they have in sign, that resonated especially well and gave me the sudden hope that this film was, in fact, going to have a very strong emotional core. It sets both of them up for deeper, more personal character arcs than they had in their previous appearance in Godzilla vs. Kong, and that only continued as we got more scenes with them, and then added Bernie into the cast.

There's something I really love about the Ilene and Bernie scene - Bernie is, in a sense, a meme character, in that his laser-focused self-interest is continually played for laughs, but then we put him in a scene with an increasingly emotional and desperate Ilene. The contrast between the two of them cuts deep at the appeal to underlying humanity that we see play out with this cast, in small moments, across the rest of the movie. Jia was already the best character in the MonsterVerse, but she has an even stronger pull when we've been introduced to a deep emotional angst looming in the background of all her scenes. Ilene's worries about her strained relationship with her daughter are carried through and don't ever feel like they've been left behind for the sake of expediency. Bernie has always had a few serious notes to his character, but even though the jokes continue, his insecurity around being hounded by skeptics is eventually played seriously and he becomes much more than the memes by the end of this film. Trapper doesn't feel quite like he gets a complete arc of his own, but as the new addition, he has a great vibe and acts as a supportive presence for everyone else's arcs.

GxK is very much a "quirky people in a situation have decided to support each other" movie, reminding me very strongly of Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966), which previously held the title of my personal favorite Godzilla movie. And yet, given this specific cast of characters, both in literal dynamic parallels and how enjoyable they are to watch, I can't help but also draw favorable comparisons to the Heisei era Gamera films - which I hold in their own, higher tier that eclipses anything that's come out of the Godzilla franchise. I'd specifically mention Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995) as probably the closest comparison, both in character and overall tone. Both of those movies are already in my top ten, along with a few other comparable films like Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster (1964), which also has similar vibes in the human cast but far more direct parallels on the monster side.

As for the tone - great. GxK has one kaiju sex joke and one Skull Island style death, in something that feels like a "last hurrah" for the MonserVerse's previous sense of humor, but after that, it takes on a certain Showa-style earnestness for even the fantastical story being told. When there is humor, it has more to do with the characters' personalities playing off one another, and IMO, it works very well (I still think it could do with less green/yellow blood splatter and monster gore in general, but most of that is also kept to the beginning of the movie). Overall, the film doesn't feel like it's making fun of itself or the genre it's in, or if it does, it's doing so more tastefully than some previous entries.

It's probably well known by now that Godzilla himself isn't in this movie all that much, mainly relegated to Kong's backup - which is fine by me, as that's actually more or less my exact favorite use of Godzilla. He doesn't need to be the main character, or a significant narrative focus, he doesn't even need to be an outright hero, he just needs to be convenient. Godzilla showing up in all his glory, to make a situation at least slightly better for someone I care about, so I can cheer him on. That's all I ask, and this film finally delivers that. The best I can figure, the previous MV films either made him too brutal/vengeful or made his enemies too sympathetic, or some combination of the two, such that he never felt like he had that big hero moment I was looking for until now. But Scar King is just enough of a love-to-hate villain that it easily tilts the moral compass in Godzilla's favor, and this film even does make a point of having a few moments where Godzilla chooses to set his rage aside and spare a former enemy (Scylla and Tiamat notwithstanding. RIP to them, I guess).

Now, as for Kong - I've never been a Kong fan. I don't have much interest in watching previous Kong movies outside of Toho's versions and sometimes the 2005 film. The classic take on the character, with the kidnapping elements and inevitable tragedy, just doesn't appeal to me, but even when I wasn't quite sold on the MonsterVerse, one of the things I did acknowledge was that it was actually starting to make me like Kong. This film cements that, and I have zero problems that it's more of Kong's movie over Godzilla's (and for as much of the movie as the trailers spoiled, I'm really glad they managed to hide almost everything to do with Suko. His story has so much more depth than "Kong adopts a cute baby ape," it's actually wonderful).

(I could also gush at length about Mothra, but most if it would probably be incomprehensible. Just know that despite her small role and short screentime, she's at some of her very best here).

So yes, a MonsterVerse film has, as far as I can tell, somehow topped my list of favorite Godzilla films, and is now up there competing with Heisei Gamera and the third Rebirth of Mothra movie for my top pick in the genre. But the next question is, did one good movie actually change my mind about the whole MonsterVerse?

...Kind of, yeah. With as much as GxK made me love Ilene, Jia, and Bernie, I now immensely enjoy Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) and I've found myself rewatching it many, many times just to see more of them, not to mention also appreciating it a lot more as Kong's film. Mothra and especially the focus on Monarch as an organization also brings me back to Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), whose characters I've since reevaluated and found that I also quite enjoy. Kong: Skull Island (2017) remains an enjoyable popcorn movie for me, also elevated slightly for being a Kong film and having Skull Island and Iwi lore, and Godzilla (2014)... is also part of the continuity, I guess. I do enjoy a lot of what it has to offer, but it's probably my least favorite.

To get serious for a moment, these days every new release, in any fandom I'm in, makes me feel like it might be the last one I get to enjoy, if not the last one period. And if that ends up being true about this movie, then at least I'd be able to say that as far as I'm concerned, the kaiju genre, if not human media in general, has gone out on a high note.

I'm not in a place where I can concern myself at all with sequels or spinoffs, anything we might get in the future. But for now, this is a good movie, and I'm going to be enjoying the heck out of it. I've seen it in theaters three times and counting. I bought the novelization audiobook and have listened to it twice so far. I'm writing a fanfic. I keep impulse-buying the playmates toys. I started learning sign language. I'm choosing to be not at all normal about this movie and if the world ended with it being my entire personality, maybe at least in some sense I'd die happy.

So from me, a classic kaiju film snob who could talk at length about how Japanese films from as early as the 1950s and 60s have more progressive values and better storytelling than modern Hollywood, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire gets an absolutely GLOWING recommendation. Somehow.

...and in case I don't see you, so long and that's a lot of fish.

[i-mean-technically]

@tosho89 i got somethin' for ya

All the other kaiju are heading towards refuge for xyz reason while Goji is going the opposite direction to deal with the problem/be ornery? Anguirus overslept and was left behind by the herds when he comes across Godzilla and decides to just. Not leave him alone. Rodan is under the thrall of Ghidorah and is attacking an Iwi settlement with the other daiju. Jia’s mother jumps off a waterfall and plunges into the depths before any of the flying daiju can catch her.

(Meanwhile, Kong is traveling to look for his people, having been raised by the Iwi after his parents’ passing. When he returns he finds his old home destroyed and no survivors. He goes on a quest for vengeance against the kaiju who slaughtered his second family. He thinks it's Godzilla because those are the tracks he finds.)

Goji wants to leave the human child, humans are nothing but trouble and he can create enough of that on his own while Anguirus wants to return it to the nearby human settlement. When they arrive they find it freshly burned down. That’s when they encounter Rodan, who was tasked by Ghidorah to find the child and bring it to him, alive.

(Rodan: *skreeeeeeeeeek*

Godzilla: -glowing blue- *skreeeeeeeeoooooooooonk*

Rodan: -rethinking his life choices- um. That pink thing belongs to me

Anguirus: actually that pink thing belongs to us!

Rodan: i see! Can’t have children of your own so you decided to adopt)

Cue Epic Roadtrip Montage as they travel across the world to reunite the human baby with other humans, not realizing that Ghidorah is systematically destroying them so that humans can’t come to the aid of whichever kaiju is king. (wow much worldbuilding) ((the King is ofc Goji who doesn’t want to be king and is avoiding his responsibilities)).

Rodan is ofc leading them to Ghidorah and his merry band of psychopaths while Anguirus is having fun playing with Jia. (i want to say that Goji names her and i want to make it angsty hmmm) Along the way they run into another human child, this one older and mostly able to fend for herself. (Maddie ran away from her mother bc she’s helping Ghidorah and Maddie needs to find the King of the Monsters in order to save the world. Goji is very vehement that there is no King) Want to say shortly after this Kong shows up?????

Massive fight between him and Goji (both are the last of their kind, Goji being old enough to remember the Titan war while Kong was told about it by the Iwi), but eventually the others manage to break it up and the truth comes out that Goji Didn’t Do It. Kong learns that one survived (maybe change it a bit so that Kong was the one that hid her? He was there during the fight and was lured away/knocked out for a while and woke up to everyone slaughtered and his favorite missing).

Kong backs Rodan up about there being another human settlement through the mountains, Maddie claims to have been there (this girl will get someone to fight Ghidorah, and she’s now seen Goji go at it. If she has to trick them into it she will.)

btw the kaiju are still like. what they look like in the monsterverse but are closer to human sized. average human is around 6ft/2 meters tall so Goji is more like 13 ft/4 meters tall (i know that's not a perfect convertion i'm rounding ok)

and i'm seeing this as kinda a mix between like. feudal japan/europe for the humans timeframe wise, but kinda steam/solarpunk-y. maybe some minor magic?????? anyways there are titans and humans but it's not set in our world

[marigoldwriter]

I mean, if Jia is mute, I can add a deaf character to my fic without any problems, right? It's a genuine question because maybe it's very inconvenient for some, even though the fanfic is mine (incredible, isn't it?

[suzieloveships]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: MonsterVerse (Legendary Pictures Movies), Godzilla - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jia & Suko (MonsterVerse) & Minilla Characters: Jia (MonsterVerse), Suko (MonsterVerse), Minilla (Godzilla) Additional Tags: Fluff, just kids playing in the forest, this is me manifesting their friendship in the next movie, Sign Language, I tried to describe the signs instead just saing "she signed", because I read deaf people appreciate when you do that, by the way if you deaf and find something wrong with this please feel free to yell at me, because I don't know sign language, but i tried my best, Cute Kids, I don't know what else to tag this, english is not my first language, No Beta we die like Ghidorah Summary:

In which Jia sneaks out during school trip, meets with an old friend and make a new one