Kong

Kong is a canon Kaiju that has been claimed (irp) by zergthe. This Kong differs from Legendary's version in the fact that he has electrical powers, and can wield more weapons than just an axe.

## Personal

### Aliases

King of The Hollow Earth, King of The Apes

## Design

Kong is a rather "normal" yet still peculiar-looking Kaiju, mainly for the fact that he resembles humans so much. His general appearance is that of something in-between a human and perhaps a gorilla, with many similarities to both and yet being entirely different.

Kong is also mostly a biped, but is seemingly able to switch between quadrupedalism and bipedalism seamlessly. His bipedalism is notably efficient, which is surprising for many reasons: due to having more ape-like features, his feet still are more like other, non-human primate feet. Despite this, his walking and even running closely mirrored human locomotion, and moved quite fast as well, which is something humans can't do relative to other animals unlike Kong to other Kaiju. When he switches to all four limbs, it's easy to tell he uses his knuckles like a gorilla or a chimpanzee would.

His skull is also very much a hybridization of human and non-human ape features: He has a more flattened face compared to other non-human apes, but he also retains the massive canine teeth and sagittal crest of a gorilla. This undoubtedly would give him a seriously strong bite and would certainly ruin another Kaiju's day.

Overall, the body plan of any given Kong is highly reminiscent of an extremely robust and evolved version of Ardipithecus, a close to four million year old human ancestor known to be mostly bipedal, though as noted, his bipedal walking and running is very efficient and more like an early member of our own genus rather than an Ardipithecus or even Australopithecus. However, those are just examples and references, as it's currently still unknown how or even if Kong is related to humans, outside of being a primate like us.

## Personality

Kong isn't known to be a particularly *friendly* Kaiju, nor is he particularly outgoing either. He keeps to himself a lot, and he doesn't make very many allies. Kong is extremely aggressive and territorial, which is a necessity considering how often presumably hostile Kaiju come to Skull Island for whatever reasons they have. He doesn't care about who the Alpha of Alphas is, only if they'll negatively affect Skull Island. In fact, he would sooner outright ignore a threat outside of Skull Island than to assist against the threat, provided it doesn't affect Skull Island. The only times he would willingly leave Skull Island for anything would be to venture to the Temple of Kongs in the Hollow Earth, or to find members of his adopted family, which includes a small deaf Iwi girl named Jia. Kong, however, is very much a sweet, sentimental and funny Kaiju when he is with his new family and if he's with Jia; it's all hidden by his tough-as-nails, come-at-me demeanor. Kong is still an Alpha Kaiju and he has certainly earned that title, and he's no intellectual slouch: he can communicate with any human using Sign Language...though normally he chooses not to converse with non-Iwis. His intelligence and on-the-spot thinking also allows him to not only make use of, but also *create* complex tools such as the spear he favors over the axe he had found in the Temple of Kongs.

Kong is very aware that he needs a name to be known by, however. His user, zergthe, has a naming arc ready to be set into motion, and just needs some time.

## Abilities

**Ability 1**

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**Ability 2**

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And so on

## Trivia

Like how Gojidew changed Godzilla, zergthe has separated Kong from his canon character greatly. However, his changes put Kong more in line with the behaviors and mannerisms of previous incarnations of the character, while using the appearance of the MonsterVerse Kong.