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My king…
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— The island girl's last words (Skull Island episode 7, "You're Not a King, You're Just a Stupid Animal") |
The island girl is a human resident of Skull Island that befriended Kong around the time of the 1973 expedition, remaining close to him until her tragic death years prior to 1993. Best friends with the Titan, the island girl spent her time amongst her people, hanging out with Kong, stargazing with the ape on the island's highest mountain every night, and aiding whenever there was a threat on the island to be dealt with. One fateful day, Kong got the girl, the Hawk Monster, and himself nearly killed in a fight against a Horncrest Chameleon trio. After a subsequent falling out, the girl and her entire village were slaughtered by the Kraken.
Appearance
The island girl is a young woman with light skin, claret red hair, and green eyes. She wears a raspberry red tunic with a v-collar and a pale taupe waistband, pale sky blue shorts that are wrapped with black soles on her knees, a cool gray him-style fur-composed skirt, gray primitive wet shoes, a dark gray armband on her right bicep, and a thick light gray wristband on her left wrist. Her hair is styled into a messy bun while her sideburns dangle down past her jawline freely. The girl wears a multi-strain necklace adorned with two Prussian blue round beads, two cracked almond-like beads that match her shorts' color and are outlined black, and a sage pocket watch with a pistachio green locket. At times, all the adornments appear golden.
The island girl possesses a handmade stick-composed spear with a red handle, a grass blade fletch near the sharpened edge, and a second handle that wraps around the fletch.
Personality
The island girl was a loving, playful, brave, and protective individual who enjoyed spending time amongst either her people or Kong, whom she befriended at some point before or following the events of 1973. Acting almost as an older sister figure of sorts towards the Titan in spite of his divinity on Skull Island, the island girl actively spoke to him whenever they hung out and would scold him whenever necessary, never showing fear whilst doing the latter. Most prominently, she goes out of her way to aid Kong in facing Skull Island's more hostile, malevolent inhabitants despite risking her life in doing so. Towards the beginning of "You're Not a King, You're Just a Stupid Animal", the island girl smirked at a mature Skullcrawler when she lured it into a trap. Later on when they confronted a trio of Horncrest Chameleons that had killed a Sker Buffalo, the girl advised to bring back up and formulate a plan, indicating her use of wits. When the following battle almost killed the two of them and the Hawk Monster, the island girl scolded him for his reckless actions, and in a fit of rage, unhesitatingly called him names such as "foolish boy" and "giant idiot." Without fear, she reciprocated Kong's roar at her and remarked, "You're not a king. You're just a stupid animal." In her final moments, she smiled as at Kong and referred to him as "her king" before affectionately touching his face with the last of her breath, seemingly just happy to see him one last time.
History
- Skull Island (TV 2023) [episodes 7-8; flashbacks]
Monsterverse
Skull Island
"You're Not a King, You're Just a Stupid Animal"
Prior to the events of the episode, the island girl had witnessed the 1973 Monarch expedition arrive on Skull Island via the Sky Devils helicopter squadron.
One night, a mature Skullcrawler pursued the island girl through the jungle before cornering her at the bottom of a mountain. The island girl suddenly smirked, prompting the confused creature to look up for Kong to come down on it and impale a large branch straight through its snout, killing it. She approached the triumphant Kong as he got down to his hands, reaching out for him to pick her up. The two friends went to the highest peak on the island where they would regularly stargaze. The island girl brought up the expedition that had arrived on Skull Island in helicopters years earlier, asking Kong if it ever made him think about what else they could build out there. If they could create "machine people." She said that she'd like a machine person, and that they could make a machine Kong. That way, when the two of them were tired, which was always, they could take naps and their machine counterparts would take over for a while. The island girl reckoned that while one might think that they would be bored of such, she didn't think they would be. She and Kong would have enough time to dream, a surmise that put intimate glee on Kong's face. The island girl declared that she would dream of a machine version of herself and a machine version of Kong.
The next day, the island girl was out off-shore from her village, humming to herself when something suddenly shook her boat, prompting her to reach for her spear. She held on as her boat was raised from the water. At the sound of a familiar grunt, the island girl looked down below to see Kong holding her boat in his hand and laughing, much to her annoyance. The subsequent scolding was cut short when the Hawk Monster flew by above them, prompting Kong to carry the island girl in his hand as he leapt to the source of the hawk's concern; the carcass of massive Sker Buffalo, a massive chunk of the side of its ribs having been torn off. Determined to hunt down the creature responsible, the island girl began running off in pursuit, but not without playfully teasing Kong. She leapt up as he came in from behind on all fours and caught her in his hand. Arriving at the desert on the other side of the island, the girl and Kong discovered the killers of the poor Sker buffalo: A trio of Horncrest Chameleons that had dragged their prey's ribs to their feeding area in the canyon. Assessing the situation from above, the island girl insisted to Kong that they get her fellow villagers and make a plan, which the ape didn't like, immediately scolding him when he got up to acquire a nearby boulder to drop on the chameleons below. Her pleas were briefly heeded as Kong hesitated and stopped before he spitefully dropped the boulder anyway, to her annoyance. The island girl watched as Kong leapt down and challenged the Horncrest Chameleons, one of which noticed her far above before immediately rushing up the canyon wall. Eventually, the island girl plunged her spear down into the beast's tongue, drawing blood and drawing a pained screech. Just when she thought had the creature briefly incapacitated, she took a tail-whip that sent her off the cliff and in immediate danger of falling to her death. Screaming Kong's name, the island girl braced herself as Kong leapt up to catch her in mid-air. Right as they passed by each other, Kong harrowingly missed her hand, though the Hawk monster fortunately dove down and caught her in the nick of time. The chameleon atop the cliff suddenly managed to leap at the hawk monster as it flew close enough, catching its ankle. The avian spun around to shake off the attacker and succeeded, but the chameleon snatched the island girl's ankle with its tongue, pulling her out of the Hawk monster's grasp and bringing her down with it. After the chameleon landed down and got impaled through the chest, the island girl landed on its body without sustaining any harm herself. The still-living chameleon tried to catch her with its tongue, forcing her to hide behind the bone impaling the creature. Nearby, Kong bashed his own chameleon against the canyon wall enough to send it crumbling and threatening everyone, the island girl leaping into his grasp in time. The triumphant Kong emerged from the debris and looked down to find her sitting in his palm with her arms crossed, evidently displeased with him. After Kong scaled the cliff and put her down per her demand, the island girl angrily berated him for his reckless actions nearly costing them their lives. Her calling him a "foolish boy" and a "giant idiot" offended Kong enough for him to retort with a roar, which she defiantly screamed against. Afterwards, she remarked that Kong was not a king, that he was "just a stupid animal." After that, the two friends parted ways. Later that night, the island girl overheard Kong's whining when he sat down on the high mountain peak without her.
The next morning, Kong suddenly dropped a fruit tree on villager's cart. Annoyed by Kong's good-intended gesture, the island girl told him to go. When Kong signed something, she declined and stressed for him to go, leaving afterwards. The island girl was walking along the beach at sunset when the village fishermen were suddenly pulled underwater nearby. Overhearing such, she worriedly looked around the vicinity before the water began swiftly going at her. As the tentacles of a sea monster reached for her, she screamed, waking up Kong and alerting him in an instant. By the time the ape arrived, the island girl's village was slaughtered and desecrated. To Kong's horror, the bodies of the villagers were everywhere and the creature responsible, the Kraken, waved its tentacles out of the ocean in a sadistic taunt. Soon enough, he spotted the island girl pinned down beneath two wooden planks, heavily scarred but still alive. Kong promptly retrieved her and gently held her in his hands as the kraken taunted him once more, sending Kong into despair as he ran off with the girl's ill body. As the sky turned to blue, Kong had returned to his temple with the island girl still in his hand. She painfully groaned and coughed as she slowly awakened, looking up at Kong with a smile on her face. "My king" she affectionately said, raising up a hand and reaching for his face. She was brought up close to his face, touching Kong's nose and stroking it with the last of her strength. Her final breath left her in a hoarse groan as her hand slid off and fell beside her, marking the end of her life.
After her passing, Kong had strung up her necklace via two tiny rods on the temple pillar next to his bed. The next morning, Kong buried the girl at the mountain peak they used to stargaze from together. That night as he crawled through his temple, Kong gently stroked his fingers across the island girl's necklace before climbing into his bed, dozing off to the glint and sight of the necklace.
Years later in 1993, Kong lied in his bed, looking at the same sight from back then.
"You'll Never Catch a Monkey That Way"
In 1993, whilst in a long battle with the Kraken, Kong witnessed as Annie tearfully reached out for Dog. The sight evoked Kong with the memory of the island girl's dying moments and how she mustered the last of her strength to affectionately feel his face.
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Trivia
- Although another character from the show, Annie, is named after Ann Darrow, the island girl serves Darrow's role closer, being a source of intimacy for Kong.
Notes
- ↑ The girl lived on Skull Island, but she descends from Spanish explorers that were shipwrecked there. She speaks to Kong in Spanish.
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