UserWiki:SuperZillaRealms
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Name
"KaijuKiin" is a combination of words that reflect my two primary interests of Kaiju and fantasy roleplaying games. The word "Kiin" is the draconic word for "born" or "child" in the Elder Scroll series.
In role playing games, my avatar goes by the name Kaj-Hutiztli. "Kaj" is the Jel word for "ample" or "large" in the Elder Scroll series. Jel is the spoken language of the Argonians or the Saxhleel, an oviparous race of reptilian people. "Hutiztli" is the Nahuatl word for "spine" spoken by the Aztecs. In combination, the name translates to "ample spine" or "large spine" in reference to Godzilla himself.
Who Am I?
My Life as a Hobbyist (WORK IN PROGRESS)
At a young age, most kids are introduced to their hobbies and interests, whether it be dinosaurs, superheroes, fantasy, and/or sci-fi. In my case, I grew up with something larger...much, much larger. So gather around the campfire ladies and gents, and let me tell you my story. The story of how I got into the world of monsters...behemoths...giants...titans...Kaiju.
Early 2000's-2010
Like with most people, I had to start somewhere, and what kickstarted my interest in giants was the 1993 film, Jurassic Park. Other than the human cast and story, I loved the movie's depiction of dinosaurs
I don’t really remember that much from that specific day. But what I do remember is that my mom came home with four movies which introduced me into the world of Godzilla, along with his destructive friends and foes . These movies were: Mothra vs. Godzilla, Godzilla 2000: Millennium, GODZILLA (1998), and my all-time favourite: Terror of Mechagodzilla. She assumed that I would show some interest in them because the covers of the movie featured a “giant dinosaur” of some sort. So, I watched all four of those films, and I absolutely loved them. However, my opinion of these films have changed in later years.
Since then, movie stores from the likes of Blockbuster became one of my favourite stores to visit, as they did provide various Godzilla films from the Showa (Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, Godzilla vs. Hedorah, Godzilla vs. Gigan, and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla) and Millennium series ({Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., and Godzilla: Final Wars). But even time I watch a film, I would always use those tiny plastic dinosaurs to act as the monsters and bash them together as they fight. I specifically remember using a green Compsognathus figure to act as Godzilla, a tiny butterfly figure as Mothra, and a grey pachycephalosaurus as Mechagodzilla. But one day on Christmas, I received a Bandai Creations Godzilla (1954), which honestly surprised me, because I didn’t know Godzilla figures existed until now
It was one of my happiest moments of my childhood, as I had an actual figurine of my childhood hero...but that didn’t last long as I lost it after a few months.
In less of a year, I lost the figure. And the thing is, I don’t know where I left it. I was incredibly sad about this but luckily that didn’t last long as my mom got me another Godzilla figure (Bandai Creations Godzilla 2001). I would take that thing in the bathtub with me but the downside of it was that water would get in the figure, so I would have to remove the tail to drain it. It was a pain in the ass to get it back on. But unfortunately I lost it but it didn’t bother me this time. On Christmas Eve my brother got me another Godzilla figure (Bandai Creations Godzilla 2004) and promised myself not to lose it (Funfact: Its still on my shelf to this day but in bad condition).
Of course being a Godzilla fan, it did leave me a few options in terms of friends with the same interests, at least where I was. My mom applied me for a camp called “Camp Cheerful” and that is where I met my best friend AlphaRper who also had an interest in Godzilla. We spent the whole summer together and we even kept in touch by giving me his moms phone number. We would schedule get togethers from time to time, and my mom became good friends with his mom so my mom got her email address. I even went back next summer however there was sudden rift between us and I don’t even know what caused that. That rift caused us to lose contact with one another for 5 years.
2013-2017
Between 2005 and 2012 was known as the dark age for Godzilla fans. With no new movies or games about Godzilla coming out, I suddenly shifted away from the world of Godzilla. I placed all figures I had at the time in storage and the gap that was left in my chest was slowly filled up with LEGO. I would often spend most weekends on the Syfy channel, watching cheap monster movies like DinoShark, DinoCroc, and even Sharktopus.
One day, when I was building a LEGO set, my mom called me down and showed me a trailer. But it wasn't just any trailer, it was the trailer Godzilla. The scale, sound design, the cinematography, seeing it for the first time reignited my love for Godzilla. For the next hour, I was looking through boxes for my old Godzilla collection. Anyways May 16, came around and I came out of the theatre smiling like an idiot.
It wasn’t long before I would see AlphaRper in person again as we both planned to go to Chicago for G-Fext XXIV and it was an amazing time. We both met one of the Directors (Shinji Higuchi) of Shin Godzilla and got my Shin Godzilla figures tag signed by him. And Alpha did the same. I even went back next year for G-Fests 25th anniversary and got my Hedorah figure signed by Kenpachiro Satsuma but this time Alpha couldn’t make it.
2018-2024
Since then, I have a great collection of figures, own almost all the movies and even got into the Ultraman and Gamera series. Personal favourite Gamera film would include Gamera 2: Attack of Legion, as for Ultraman its Ultraman Geed. I’ve been watching so many monster films so much (including the ones you see on SyFy) that I’ve understood and accepted each film despite its flaws, no movie is perfect. Love or hate these films but one thing that we agree on is that giant monsters are f*cking awesome, nothing is going to change that. The G-community is a bit derisive when it comes to “which Godzilla movie is the best” or “which is the strongest incarnation”, honestly I don’t care about that stuff. I have my opinions and they have theirs, so we should respect that.