big monster

tysm!!✨:D

I haven’t calculated it exactly, but it’s multiple millions for sure. that may be skewed by times they rested in hollow earth (time moving differently there, so they technically wouldn’t be as old as they’ve been around, due to that distortion) but it’s been a looong time.

i was playing with the idea that divine lepidoptera evolved in hollow earth while gojirans evolved on the surface, with the passages between those places only becoming readily available once most of goji’s species was wiped out, and just before ghido entered hollow earth and killed like 98% of the divine moths.

so they do meet when they think they’re the last of their respective species. both species were quite social (the moths moreso) so being alone wasn’t natural for either of them, and that caused them to gravitate towards one another. at that time goji was a mess of anger and resentment so they did get into multiple fights, but he never really tried to kill her. he was just unbearably angry, and got more angry at the idea of befriending something that wasn’t the family he lost. they figure it out eventually because mothra is That Girl and can in fact Fix Him

slow burn, strangers to enemies to friends to lovers, soulmates, mutual pining, etc. you know the drill

they’re so cringe dude its just straight up tsundere x tsundere it’s such a clusterfuck

but to be fr ummmmmm i haven’t 100% decided how it happens buuuut my thoughts so far are this:

battra emerges and chills out first, kesshō (spacegoji) shows up second. kesshō beefs insanely hard with goji when he first shows up so mothra helps in that fight, and battra happens to tag along. so yeah the first time they meet they’re trying to kill each other (the best way to start any good ship)

mothra whiteknights and says they should subdue him instead, she ends up knocking him out with psychic bullshit and they take him to monster island so he’s less likely to get into shit with humans. kesshō goes through his own tumultuous I Never Asked To Be Made arc that heavily involves goji and bio, and mothra being a mediator.

battra mostly……. watches. for a while at least. he’s fairly antisocial to begin with and finds kessho to be very irritating, until realizing he finds him irritating because they’re similar lmaooo so he’s extremely avoidant for a long time. but once kesshō is on his good boy arc things kinda settle out, they end up being in the same vicinity more often.

likeeeeee. kesshō spends time with goji > goji doesn’t like being away from mothra > mothra spends time with battra > long distance pining: commence

kesshō falls first, battra falls harder. kesshō inherited the Big Dumb Dumb Idiot Himbo genes from goji’s bloodline so once he stops being a hyper angsty idiot he becomes like… a tsundere himbo type. he’s awkward as hell and just keeps dropping treats off for battra and leaving because he doesn’t know what to say lool

once goji n mosu realize what’s up they start shipping it and encourage them to talk properly instead of kesshō just dropping food for battra while battra hisses like a cat and tells him to fuck off but still eats the food once kesshō is outta sight

i could go on but i’ve yapped too much already T-T but tldr: months and months of tsundere x tsundere nonsense until the two emos fall in love