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âYou need to do better.â
(This gets vitriolic, and is a full-blown criticism of Macaqueâs portrayal in Season Four and Five. If criticism of a character/franchise you like upsets you, I do not recommend reading.)
Wow. I had no faith in his character writing, and Iâm STILL disappointed.
And it only took one episode! How impressive!
Macaque, who has put in ZERO on-screen effort to become a better person or make amends to his victims, is criticizing Wukong for being a bad mentor! And does Wukong criticize him back? NOPE!
After getting screamed at and berated, does Wukong defend himself? NOPE!
Ooh, but there was a second long reference in a dual yelling match that mentioned that Macaque was a genuinely bad person who took glee in hurting innocent people! Oh, fucking delightful! Ooh, Wukong even points out in one episode that Macaque goes without consequences!
Pointing out a flaw in your writing does not make it less of a flaw.
Macaque will always be allowed to do whatever he wants to anyone he wants- power theft, attempted murder, insults, deceit, assault-
And the narrative and characters will never hold him accountable or force Macaque to look inwards or become a better person.
Macaque will always fall upwards into redemption without any obstacles or pushback.
There will never be a struggle to goodness with a satisfying conclusion. There will never be a moment where falters in his newfound goodness and questions going back to his old ways. There will never be explicit remorse or regret. He will never have deep introspections on his crimes and atrocities that provide a reason for him to want to change.
The sum of his âarcâ will always be âyou were a good guy all alongâ, and that lack of depth is where it will stay.
RIP Seasons 1-3 Macaque. You were fun and interesting and cool and lovable.
But the man they replaced you with was destined to be a boring and brooding âanti-heroâ who has no real connection to the actions you selfishly and violently performed with your own two hands-
And you will always be a less interesting character for it.
The execution of the actual arc boils down to a single heroic (but ultimately self-serving) moment and then Macaque is immediately forgiven for all the crimes heâs committed and is a magically better person without any effort and nothing heâs done is ever brought up again.
It severely weakens any characterâs arc to cut them off from their past actions. If MK forgot his traumas every season instead of carrying them forward- weâd all agree that doing so was a case of poor writing.
It was the reason that people disliked Meiâs portrayal in Season Four- she immediately moved on from the Samadhi Fire arc and âno longer wielded itâ after spending a whole season gathering and learning to use it.
Why canât we agree that itâs bad for Macaque, too?
You canât âdevelopâ a character by dropping an entire plotline and writing it off with one line.
You canât âredeemâ a character by pretending that they were a good person right from the start.
Sorry, bud.
I really did like you. I just wish I could like your writing.
ââââââ
And, what is more clear to me now than ever?
People only defended Macaqueâs shitty writing because they think heâs hot.
I know this now, because Iâve seen white-hot Li Jing arc hatred from fervent Macaque arc defenders.
So we all agree that an âI didnât really mean it!â isnât an excuse to abuse the people around you? That you donât get to mistreat innocent people just because youâre stressed and upset?
Hmmm.
Hmmmmmmm.
I wonder why people despise Jing for his dogshit âone nice thing redeems all your bad actionsâ arc but love Macaque for his??
(Because they think the monkey is hot.)
The funny thing, though?
Li Jing apologizes to at least one of the victims of his actions. He expresses regret and remorse.
Macaque doesnât even have that.
ââââââ
Anyways hereâs a line that I hate because Macaque has in no way developed enough to have the right to deliver it-
AND NO, SUDDENLY HAVING AN AFFINITY FOR PERFORMING KIND OR SACRIFICIAL ACTS IS NOT GOOD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
HIM MAGICALLY OFFSCREEN BECOMING A GOOD PERSON WHO CARES ABOUT INNOCENT LIFE IS NOT GOOD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
IF ALL IT TAKES TO âBE BETTERâ IS ACTING LIKE A HERO, WUKONG IS LITERALLY A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OF A PERSON THAN HE IS
THIS LINE IS DOGSHIT
âYou need to do better.â
Really, Macaque? Maybe you should take your own damn advice- try apologizing to one of the people you tried to hurt and tried to murder in cold blood!
Like when you trapped MK under his staff after stealing his powers and tried to murder him when he was helpless?
Or when you kidnapped MKâs friends and tortured the kid by forcing him to fight them?
Or you led a violent assault against a palace full of innocent people?
Or violently beat his dear friends until they were screaming in pain?
Or assaulted Tang, who posed no threat to you?
Or threatened to murder an innocent girl if you didnât get your way, then ran away (and encouraged MK to abandon her) first thing when it put her into a life-threatening meltdown of raw power?
(Isnât it cool how NONE of these people have interesting or varied reactions to him doing this and ALL immediately are cool with him like a gelatinous hivemind.)
(Oooh ONE mildly questioning line from Pigsy but no anger over his adoptive son nearly being killed multiple times over)
(Isnât it cool that no one has complex or interesting thoughts on this.)
(Isnât it cool that by robbing them of unique feelings on the matter they robbed Macaque and the Monkie Kids of compelling and interesting interactions that couldâve helped flesh out their personalities and strengthen their characterization.)
(Isnât it cool that Macaque and the Monkie Kids are actively denied intriguing character dynamics so Macaqueâs shitty âredemption arcâ can happen faster.)
(Isnât that cool.)
Why donât YOU do better, Macaque?
(In a way that is more satisfying than âone kind-hearted speech from a kid that I tried to murder changed my mind and now I am a better person but all my character development happened offscreen and without personal introspectionâ, at least.)
Also what the fuck do you mean by âdo betterâ?
Be heroic and put your life in danger? He already does that! Heâs done it more than you have!
Just tell MK that heâs not alone? YOU COULD DO THAT YOURSELF, MACAQUE!
Help MK with his traumas and fears? MK doesnât tell anyone about those! He keeps them bottled up, lock and key, and actively refuses attempts to help!
Wukong TRIED to reach out to him, and MK PUSHED HIM AWAY! Was he supposed to tie the fucking kid down and torture the information out of him?
He respected MKâs boundaries by not pushing any further and letting him leave!!
WHY IS THAT A BAD THING??
What the fuck, man
#Lego Monkie Kid#LMK#Lego Monkie Kid Season Five#LMK Spoilers#Lego Monkie Kid Spoilers#LMK Analysis#LMK Critical#Sun Wukong#Macaque#Please prove me wrong Season Six#I want people to look back on this post and laugh at me#I fucking hate not liking things#I want to be wrong when I say things are bad#But Iâm starting to⌠not like Monkie Kid?#Because I like LMK and JTTW!!!#And I like Sun Wukong!#But LMK is starting to feel like Beowulf (2007) where the creator actually hated the original work#And now it feels like the writers just want to shit in Wukong by making him a walking disaster who does everything wrong#And Iâm worried that Macaque will be what the fandom wants him to be- a perfect precious baby victim who does no wrong#And Sun Wukong will forever be a âmistakeâ who is punished again and again and again#While the Bullfam and Macaque get away scot-free with all their crimes and no punishment#Anyways if the writers AND the fandom could stop treating Sun Wukong like a fucking punching bag#That would be nice
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remember when swk tried to take li jing and nezha to court for gross negligence in jttw? good times
#the lawsuit never progressed to the courtroom in jttw but i wanted to draw it anyway (idk how to draw a courtroom so this looks ugly)#iâm using the lmk designs for swk li jing and nezha because im too lazy to design outfits of my own#ik realistically they would not be in a courtroom theyâd be in the jade emperorâs throne room but shhhhh#also the âreverse-adoptedâ part is true the demon (lady earth flow) took li jing and nezha in as family instead of the other way around#anyway full context is: tripitaka got kidnapped by lady earth flow#and swk found plaques in earth flowâs cave honoring li jing as her dad and nezha as her older brother#and swkâs like âOMG THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER i dont have to catch the demon I CAN JUST GO THREATEN LI JING TO DO IT FOR MEâ#so he filed a complaint to the jade emperor and the JE sent the gold star of venus to grab li jing and nezha#li jingâs like â???? i only have four children and theyâre all accounted for wtf are you talking aboutâ#and nezhaâs like âwait i just remembered that one demon whose life we spared and she was so grateful she took us in as familyâ#and li jingâs like âi totally forgot oh FUCK swk can you please drop the lawsuit this is so embarrassing iâll get the demon for you okayâ#the actual chapter (ch 83) is much funnier GO READ IT#jttw#journey to the west#sun wukong#jttw fanart#xiyouji#lego monkie kid#lmk#digital art#lmk fanart#art#artists on tumblr#li jing#nezha#taibai jinxing#monkey king#lego monkie kid fanart#my art
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Communication
#i donât use whisper but I do remember seeing the wildest shit to ever grace my eyes from there#marriage counsellor MK real!! this boy is so nosy hes all of us rn. what the FUCK happened between u two#I also love the idea of MK going to see more of macaques shadow plays. like I hope they bring that back PLEASEE#macaque starts doing shadow plays about jttw because MK doesnât read the book. me too MK (hasnt gotten past the first chapter)#maybe. maybe he slightly changes the hero and the warrior story when he starts talking to wukong again-#my art#myart#doodles#Lego Monkie kid#lmk#lmk fanart#Monkie kid#lmk mk#lmk xiaotian#lmk six eared macaque#lmk macaque#lmk liu er mihou#six eared macaque#comic#soysauce duo#i think thatâs their tag
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Tangled Love
(A @semisolidmind Drabble)
Ok! I ran this by Semi before I posted just because I know absolutely nothing about LMK (except the animation can be so pretty!) just so I could get their characters down. I hope you all like it !
She just wanted to escape- both from this place and from her own mind tonight.
The ghosts of memories were walking and she had no distractions to chase them away.
Peaches walked the cool cavern halls of Water- Curtain Cave, her feet echoing in the depths. The sandals she wore and the ornamental clothing she had been thrown into made her scalp prickle and her skin itch. It was too much- but the attendants wouldnât hear a thing about it.
She had to look the part of Queen.
Peaches, in the absence of the Lord of the mountain and his right hand and sword, was the remaining voice of authority.
To a point.
Finishing with courtly duties and listening in on behalf of her husbands wasn't a huge chore. The two of them rarely left at the same time however. If one was called away the other would remain. Or Peaches herself would be brought along.
This time however she hadnât been.
It was the first time in ten years.
She had just this night- just this moment of reprieve and she would make the most of it. Or so she thought. Instead, she was fighting something that reared its head and struck her nerves like a asp.
However she wasnât alone quite yet. As she rounded the corner and came to golden lacquered doors of her bedchamber - their bedchamber- she paused.
âWill that be all my queen?â One of the attending retinue of her guard asked. It was a guard her husbands insisted upon whenever both were away from home- a set of seven of the most battle scarred simians Peaches had ever seen.
They were tasked and sworn with following her everywhere - to the dining hall, to the throne room. If she wished to go and sit among the apple trees and listen to the wind play over the mountain grasses her guard would double in size. Peaches tried to not cause the denizens of Flower fruit mountain any more problems or stressors by going outside when both the King and his Brother in arms were away on a war path.
Her husbands.
Itâs what they titled themselves now, after a decade of the terrible start they had on their relationship with her. When she had met the two, they had been just tiny monkeys. A sly looking ginger and gold monkey who had loved to cling to her arms and a dark black furred monkey that brought her fruits and almonds from the wild.
My sweet boys.
They had been her monkeys back then- the little prankster angels she had thought were just simple beasts, trying to survive out in the world.
She had been wrong.
The decision to upend her life, she guessed, had been floated around for months between the two disguised demons as they ate her fruit and enjoyed her touches. It was a mutual one that both had decided was the best option for her.
She took a steadying breath, coming back to the present. Peaches wanted a chance to be alone. Something so rare she craved it like a man in a desert craved water.
âYes, general. I think Iâll retire early for the day.â She smiled at the monkey who dipped his body into a bow. The gleam of his armor set the flickers of a memory brewing. Fire in the trees, the smell of iron on the wind and a figure among the debris. She shook her head to dislodge it. The rest of them werenât awful to her. Her husbands werenât awful to her. They had just âŚ.
Taken away her decisions.
âVery well Queen.â Peaches flinched, unable to quite stomach the title and what that truly meant. If I am queen then why am I without choices? âIf you need us call us.â
She turned the handle in the door and slipped in side with as much grace as she could muster.
Peaches closed the ornamental doors to the bedroom, resting her head against the door. Steady. Deep breaths. In through her nose out through her mouth.
The illusion of a paradise that Wukong had built and Macaque helped facilitate always lost its color and believability when they were away. They couldnât feed her the sugared lies and candied perceptions to tamp back the memories of that night.
It had been just another night on the small farm - a June night of heat and singing cicadas- of windows wide open and Peaches trying to escape that heat. There wasnât much she could do to escape it. The moisture clung to her and made her bedding stick and clog her nose. So on these nights she stayed up, usually with a candle or the moon to illuminate her night, and read.
The knock on the door was not something typical.
The memory was rising and she couldnât hold it back. I have to ride it out. Survive it.
Like she had survived that night. Getting visitors in the dead of the night had been unconventional- and she remembered the feeling of being perturbed. Donât answer it, she told the memory. But this was the past and ghosts of the past didnât change their course.
She had closed her book, had stepped down the hall to the door and had opened it.
I should have called through- told him to stay away! I should have never left my bed or my book.
It was a drunk man. A fellow farm hand called in for one of the families to help bring in a harvest that had proved too bountiful for the immediate family to handle. Peaches could see the man before her eyes, smell the reek of him.
A drunk.
âWell ainât it the village spinster! Whaaa da pretty thing you are!â He was a cloud of bitter rice wine, of too much sake on his breath. The intensity of it had a physical effect on her memory and in the present, Peaches wrinkled her nose.
âYou should go home Sir.â She had told him- tried to close the door.
His foot moved faster and his hands had caught the door.
A wild set of emotions swept through her. She had to sit her body down, thankful she had been able to get away from the other monkeys before the memory seized her like a vice. They would have been in a panic over her and she couldnât let their little hearts worry so. There was nothing they could do to stop the remembering.
It was his fault this all happened. It was His. He didnât have to be drunk and show up at my home- he didnât have to shove his way into my house and try and grab me.
But he was just a single man. Did his actions warrant the destruction that happened next ?
âGet out!â Her memory self cried. The wooden table she danced behind as the drunk stumbled and moved towards her, was her only shield.
âThe Boys Said you prefer the company of wild animals âŚâ his speech was hard to hear. The wine had made him bold, stupid, and aroused it seemed. âI thought I would give you mtaste of what a real man was, since the villagers are alâ âfraid of your Witchery with monkeys.â
She had run- she had thrown her things at him. It was probably the commotion of her breaking a pitcher over his head that had alerted her monkeys. The loud clatter of the pottery across the floor had sounded so sharp and final. It had only made the man more determined.
The drunk when he did get his hands on her was furious. He swung a fist and sent stars into her eyes. Peaches had clung like a wildcat to her conscious, kicking out with legs and swinging with fists. Her nose was full of the sour smell of him- had felt his hands and fought them. A kick to his groin had sent him wheezing. Another fist to her head had Peaches crying. She had stared that drunk in his mean little eyes as he whispered the terrible things he wanted to do to her.
She had been staring in those eyes when he died.
He never got to touch more than her arms that night.
Peaches heard something step through the door that had been left open to the night. She had heard the creak of her house as something walked within it. And the sound of something- like a water skin being popped and a splash of warm liquid against her belly had shocked her.
The Drunks eyes went wide with confusion, rolling horselike in his head. His bruising grip on her wrist had let go. In the present, She rubbed those wrists, the phantom pains hard.
â..mah⌠belly.â The drunk had mumbled then belched a bucket of blood onto the floor. Peaches could see something protruding from his middle- something long and thin like a stick. Or a staff.
Clawed hands pulled the head back and twisted with a fury. The sound of bones breaking was loud, as if a fire was consuming dry wood. The drunk crumbled in those hands like a puppet cut free of its strings.
A new stranger stood in her home, his frame large and broad and most assuredly not human. He tossed the body like someone would toss a rag across the floor. The glowing eyes in the sudden dark were all she could see. Her mind, even in its heightened adrenaline drenched state, recognized the face pattern, saw a familiarity in the fur. There was, in fact, still a little flower tucked against this demonic creatures ear. The same flower she had interwoven in her forest friend's fur that afternoon.
âYour⌠your myâŚâ
Nerves and the come down from the adrenaline high weâre making speech hard. The monkey demon before her, whoâs eyes seemed to spit fire, softened. Just a bit.
âYou are my Peaches.â Wukong said, touching her hair, her face, her hands. Taking stock. Then he had taken those limp hands and threaded them through his fur, trying to get them to grip. It would help his own rage and calm her fear. It was thick in the air, ruining the natural sweet smell she had. That and the slab of flesh on the floors own fetid death scent.
Wukong was not the best at this - this comfort thing. But he would rise to the occasion. He would try for her.
Fury and rage made his tail lash and the fur along his neck to stand on end.
At first she had just been a simple human that would leave little offerings to him and his brother in arms. An oddity here in the shadow of his mountain. Most humans around here feared the monkeys and kept away from all of them, having a legend that if one was harmed a great calamity would befall them.
Wukong didnât mind being that calamity. These were his people, his subjects. So hearing the chatter from some of his kind that a women had begun to leave out gifts had of course spiked the Kings curiosity. The humans beneath Flower Fruit Mountain were his lesser subjects. So he had come down from the mountain, disguising himself as a smaller and more approachable sized monkey, to see the fuss his subjects had started gossiping about at groomings. Only to see his brother, Macaque, already being petted and tended and kissed on each of his six ears.
Of course first impressions had been terrible and Wukong, used to getting the first pick of everything, had come screeching into the clearing and demanding his own pets. It had set off a very small and very mock little battle between the two brothers in arms. One that had Peaches separating them and scolding them as she patched up the little scratches they had taken from eachother. They could have each resisted her pull but both decided that play acting a fight, even if it had started as a bit of one, was the best way to get attention divided between the both of them.
Wukong hadnât expected to become infatuated. Her name didnât matter to him- he had rebranded her almost the instant she came to him and offered a smile and held out a handful of sugar and dates. Peaches. After the Kings own favorite fruit, the sweetest thing the mountain produced.
His Peaches.
Of course also Macaques. He shared everything with his brother, the dark furred and six eared demon who had faced battles and won wars besides Wukong. While Wukong had been more leery, Peaches won him over faster than Flower Wine loosened his rigid posture. They had both fallen for this mortal women. And, in the traditional way she belonged to them. She just didnât know it yet. They had touched and groomed and cuddled and tangled limbs and tails. They were practically married without the marriage bit.
Wukong rubbed small circles into Peaches back, trying to keep himself from bearing his teeth in rage.
I should have taken her home the moment she kissed me.
They had been kisses of the kind one gives to a friend or pet. It had left the warlord craving more burning with more.
Of wanting to feel her give him more than just a chaste kiss on the side of his face.
She wouldnât have been hurt if he had just taken her home.
Wukong and Macaque had taken to one or both spending the night in Peaches trees, to keep an eye on her. Wukongs obsession had grown into a fascination and warm buttery love. A love that was becoming a wild inferno as he fought to stay still and not leap upon the corpse he had made and turn it into nothing but bits of flesh and gore the crows could carry away.
His Peaches fingers finally grasped his fur and shook. It brought Wukong back from his montage of rage to the present. If only Mac was here â but he wasnât. He was back at home on Flower Fruit mountain , giving his brother the night to enjoy and keep lookout at Peaches den.
âThatâs my girl.â The demon tried to soothe. He really wished he could set Peaches down and finish off what he had started. This place had been bad. This village terrible. He hated every thing and one here that had dared to let a drunken fool up to his Peaches doorstep and allowed this to happen. In reality Wukong was mad it had been Macâs own sense of importance on taking it slow and letting a little thing like a life outside of Flower Fruit Mountain stop him from from revealing who he was and taking her home.
I am done trying to woo her over slowly. They could have lost her this night if Wukong hadnât been in earshot, hadnât heard the crash of something breaking. His clawed hands wrapped around her back and beneath her legs. Before he could realize it, Wukong had her up and in his arms, already stepping on and across the corpse and out into the June air. Mine.
âLetâs get you home, lovely.â Wukongs voice was thick with emotion. Relief to finally, finally, finally have an excuse to take his wife home, to see her sleep in a real bed and eat real food made his heart swell. No more pretending. No more longing. It was happening now. Simmering beneath that emotion was the sweet bubble, the red misting rage, of violence. Once he got her home, got her safe, got her tangled within some of his and Macaques blankets to where the sour smell of fear would be lost within the scent of them- he could come back. He would come back.
He would destroy the village for being the obstacle it was in his conquest for this mortal girls heart. It was in itself, a relief to know he was justified in its destruction.
Look what this place did to bruise my sweet fruit.
Peaches was shaking. Clinging to him. I would have her cling to me always. He pressed his nose into her neck, breathing in as he walked off. She smelled so good. He rubbed his face to hers, affectionately smothering her fear scent. Wukong felt a smile curl his face. Finally. We can go home and put the charade to bed. Finally you are mine.
Peaches' memory of that night was mostly of clinging to Wukong as they flew through the air, of his voice a rumble of soft words and comforts. He was holding her close, pressing her in. Smothering her in a sense. But she needed it. She clung to it in a way to stop herself from being sick from fright. It was strange but familiar to hold this fur, to cling. Then she briefly remembered another voice, another set of hands. When she looked up and saw that her sweet dark monkey was also here, had also been a demon in disguise, something broke in her. Maybe hysteria. Maybe disbelief. Or maybe she knew, somewhere in her mind, that no matter what she said now wouldnât save the people- the innocents- in her village.
Peaches had been transferred into the dark arms and THATS where she finally began to cry. The shock was fading and leaving behind ragged holes of emotion.
âSafe, you're safe now.â She was reassured. Hands had lifted her chin, her sweet little monkey- now a demonic one- was gently beginning to sponge away the blood from the cuts on her face. Her cheek swelled, her eye with it.
âPlease donât kill them.â She begged. âHe already took care of the one who hurt me donât kill my village.â
âHush loveâŚâ
âPlease!â
Silence. Something cold pressed to her face- a bit of snow from far up the mountain wrapped in cloth. Macaques ears twitched like flower petals in the night air.
âItâs already done. The village is already gone.â
The memory rode itself out in the present and faded slowly.
Guilt washed over her and she cried all for a new reason. She had been the catalyst for Sun Wukongs fury. She had been the decider to his want of destruction. Peaches may not have killed them, may have had a decade to realize that what had happened wasnât her fault, but Wukong had done it in her name. He had erased that village and all its people like a cartographer reshapes a map. To all the rest of the world, their had never been a village in the shadow of Flower fruit mountain. Not a foundation, not a brick, not even a spare hair, was left of humanity there. Instead it had been cleared as if a fire had swept through. Peaches had seen it on one occasion when Wukong had been persuaded to show her. She had needed closure. Needed the peace.
Once she had healed she had been told her village was gone. She had been given a sweet lie- that Wukong had gone back and the villagers related to the drunk had been ransacking her house to see where she kept the money or any spare wine.
When Wukong had shown up demanding they answer to the crime committed in her home, they had attacked. Wukong had enacted a king's justice as was his right. He had told the remaining villagers to leave- to never set foot upon his domain again for the lawlessness that had been enacted upon their neighbor.
It had taken two years for her to be able to relax whenever he came in smelling of fire and iron. It had taken a few years more for her to remember what Macaque had said when he had pressed snow to her face.
They were the same little monkeys they had been before. But now they had less innocence when they pressed into her face for kisses, when they asked to tangle and cuddle limbs. They insisted she stay in the bedchamber and not move to her own separate room.
It had taken getting used to movement beside her as a hand tugged her hair, or a tale twined her waist. Or a leg curled with hers or hands holding her face. Sometimes in the dark Mac would press his head to her back, using her as a pillow. Wukong would yank her in when he thought her too sleepy to remember and whisper all the things he loved about her.
It would have been sweet. It was touching in a way. If not for the way they revealed themselves. If not for that memory and what she knew now had come after.
It had not taken too long after that for her to start realizing that, though Wukong had saved her, neither of them had any regret of what happened. Neither of them was going to let her go.
When she asked about it or started talking of missing her home- the simple living, the ability to really on herself and choose for herself- Wukong would laugh and launch into one of his tales. He would brush her hair with his claws, run his face against hers and try and deflect her attention to new things.
Macaque, if Wukong was absent, would let her talk. Usually it happened when he asked her to brush his fur or he in turn asked to brush her hair. Peaches thought, just a bit, that the reason Mac was better at listening was for all the ears he had. Each time however, when she got to the part about how this had been her fault, he would stop mid way through a braid or pin and pull her in. Macaque would kiss the tears from her eyes, would press himself close to her chest.
âIt was Never your fault Peaches.â
âI remember. I remember he went back- you said heââ
âHush love youâll grow hysterical. What Wukong did was justified- he defended you.â
âHe killed.â
âI have killed.â He kissed her temple, gentle in his reprimands. He wouldnât try and brush her words beneath a rug like Wukong. Instead he gave her a smile as wide as the crescent moon. âLetâs finish your hair and get you dressed. We can go see the babyâs, I know how you love the babyâs.â Baby monkeys were her weakness. They had been what led to her loving Mac before she had known he was a demonic warlord.
Peaches rubbed at her eyes and stood, the sorrow in her heart heavy still but the tears at least had stopped. Now she was just tired. Tired and cold and wanting to escape the feeling of it all. So she shed her courtly attire. All the clips and jewels and baubles and bits felt heavy. She placed them within the box at her armoire, then loosened her hair from its bindings. Jade pins, pearl necklaces, golden bracelets with bells of silver (Wukong loved this the best of all) all glimmered back in the firelight.
A pretty price.
She snapped the box closed.
On nights like this, she wanted to wear nothing but her smock, her simple clothing, and bury herself as far as she could go into the bed she shared with her husbands.
It was more of a pit set into the ground, circular in nature. Silken pillows, red sheets and a hoard of anything plush and furred had been thrown into the pit. It was also a snug place to bury herself within and one of the few things she didnât feel resentment too right away. When the outside felt too bright and she couldnât go about the mountain to her usual quiet places, she would retire here. To burrow, to bury, to hide.
Peach fell back into the pit of blankets and pillows and pulled herself beneath a fur of some striped monster Macaque had skinned and gifted to her. Tonight the bitter truth was hard to swallow and did circles in her head.
You did this. You caused this. You killed them. This is your fault.
She closed her eyes and hoped ⌠hoped for what might be the worst thing yet. Her husband's return.
A time later she stirred. Something was in her room- was walking to the bed. Peaches felt a flutter of fear before hands reached into her hiding place and simply slid her out.
âHello darling.â The silken voice belonged to none other than Macaque. His clawed hands entwined around her waist, his teeth nipping at her ear. âYou are up late.â
âDoes that mean it will be a late morning?â Wukongs voice came from the other side of the room. Peaches could see the ginger monkey removing armor from his shoulders and stretching. As the darker brother kept making a snack of her shoulder, Peaches noticed that the shine of Wukongs paldrom was dimmed. Something black coated the golden imprint of sunbursts across its armored surface. âI love late mornings! Means more time together.â
Blood?
âPeaches?â She turned her head, trying to see Mac. He had left off nipping her skin. A hand came away from her wrist and tipped her chin, forcing her to stare directly into his violet eyes. âWhat has upset you?â
Everything. Myself. Wukong. You. It was that simple question that set her sorrow to flowing again. She was confused, upset, and she wanted comfort. The only ones who could give her comfort were the very ones who caused her distress.
A vicious cycle.
The pillows behind her sagged. Wukongs hands were more aggressive in their touches, turning her about to stare into her face. He noted the tears, the bruising beneath her eyes. His lip curled in anger.
âHas someone upset you?â Wukong asked. He seemed ready to stand again, to grab his armor and step out into the night. âI will drag them here to give an apology. You name them and I will fetch them.â
Peaches shook her head.
âJust âŚ.â You killing the villagers, Macaque telling me plainly that it was for the best, and my own head making me relive that night of events. Over and over and over.
ââŚ. Myself.â
His face softened as he chirped a reassurance, pressing his nose to hers. Macaque peppered her in gentle and butterfly soft kisses to the back of her neck. The three fell back into the nest, limbs entwined and hands holding. Macaque had Peaches face buried in his chest as she sobbed silently. He cooed. He whispered how everything would be right as rain in the morning. His hands ran through her hair and messaged her scalp. Wukong held his Peaches, pressing her back to his chest in a solid wall against the world outside. He lavished her in praises and compliments, sometimes getting carried away and talking about himself until his brother would remind him with a flick to his forehead that it was their Peaches he should be reassuring.
And through it all, through this twisted and tangled weave of limbs and fur and warmth and sorrow, Peaches felt love. It grew in this dark place still, wanting to thrive. But how could it?
Still she fell asleep, lashes sparkled with tears and her heart lighter. One could only be sad so long in the wake of such waves of attention. Wukongs and Macaques love was the only solution to this ailment they had inflicted upon her, and she, the addict, swallowing the medicine that would give her release.
#hcwrites#writing stuff#twice as bad AU#semisolid#bad end wukong#ALRIGHT I DID IT.#yes I wrote this in a dayish between work and my other writing#I havenât done this much work in a long time and I was so nervous I would get this pairing wrong#bad monkey boys#they made a whole tangled mess of this situation.#they sweet but stinky#sun wukong#sun wukong x reader#six eared macaque#I based this off a idea and answer Semi gave in one of their blog posts#was I lurking? yes. Because there stuff also has a vice grip on my mind#I Dont know much about LMK so getting this Macaque down right took a bit of work so I didnât mess up the vibe.#i am so jelly of the nest pit pls I would dive into that like a child into a ball pit#jttw tag#lmk#it think Iâm tagging that right ?#I have a weakness for big possessive grumps loving their sunshine wives#six eared macaque x reader#hcfanfics
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Attention Western LMK fans: This is a public service announcement
when someone says âimmortalâ in the context of Chinese mythology they do NOT mean âcanât dieâ. They mean âcan live foreverâ
Think of a mortals lifespan as a candle and an immortals lifespan as an infinitely long candle. The immortal candle can burn forever but it someone blows it out it still goes out. Now some immortal candles are inside a building so they donât get hit by wind or rain and others are on a patio protected only from rain. Itâs different depending on how powerful they are and how many immortalities are stacked
Sun Wukong is an infinitely long trick birthday candle that can blow out in theory but no oneâs been strong enough to test that theory
hope this helps clear things up
#lmk#lego monkie kid#lmk sun wukong#jttw#sun wukong#chinese mythology#immortality#ive read to many fics where they say something like âmacaque couldnât have died because he was immortalâ#And I just have to take a deep breath and keep reading#I am also from America I just got a Chinese mythology hyperfixation
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has macaque ever met erlang shen? I think you would could able to match him in combat .
#lego monkie kid#lego monkie kid fanart#monkie kid#monkie kid fanart#lmk#lmk fanart#monkie kid macaque#lmk macaque#blue and violet#It's funny to think and assume that after Wukong had that whole fight with Erlang in JTTW he gushed all about the guy to Macaque#Macaque might have been a little bit jealous of the power Erlang seemed to have-#-but now Macaque just finds it funny how Wukong couldn't beat the guy#I also like to think that Macaque is only second to Wukong soley because he is not immortal-#and- well- Erlang is a literal god so- I think Macaque would put up as much of a good fight as Wukong did but would end up dying lmao#also I chose to use Erlang's canon show design for this instead of his canon Lego set piece because... why not I guess?
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Macaque would be happy if his final death was due to wukong turning around.
Macaque main motive is that he wants to be important to wukong, friend or foe, he wants to matter to him. I truly feel that in canon, macaque is less mad about his death, and more mad that in the end he was nothing to wukong. Season 5 he hears indirectly wukong trusts him, he matters to him, and he jumps to the rescue. So yeah, having evidence in the end that he matters, would comfort him.
yes, it would comfort him, but Macky is also way too aware of the other relationships Wukong has compared to their own. he would be comforted by the fact that he is still someone Wukong would fight for and turn back to, but by s5, Macky recognizes and respects Wukong's relationship with MK
#possibly contrasting how he didn't respect swk's relationship with the pilgrims in jttw#in my mind: i see mack's anger from the sacrifice not being a 'oh you trade your life NOW' but rather a 'there are OTHERS out there for you#he appreciates it truly#and he is way too self aware to understand how much this means to him and swk#but also he's of the attitude that this should not be about him#does this make sense?#i know this concept is laser focused on shadowpeach#but i feel like there should still be an acknowledgment of mk because of how close he is to swk#like in s5 mac gave swk an opening to trade HIS life in mk's stead#while everyone else was grieving mk. mac was grieving swk#idk i'm sorry if this is derailing from the concept#shadowpeach#asks#lmk#lmk sun wukong#lmk six eared macaque
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"Yeah Grandpa, that's the one who stole my peach!" take a swk warm up sketch while i remember how to draw again
#swk#sun wu kong#sun wukong#lmk#lego monkie kid#monkie kid#lmk swk#lego monkie kid sun wukong#jttw sun wukong#jttw swk#monkey king#monkie kid sun wukong#monkie kid swk#journey to the west sun wukong#sun wukong art#sun wu kong art#grandpa wukong#for my heart and soul#because i like it when he interacts w the other monkeys#cause he's their grandpa#artist on tumblr#digital artist#oh man ive forgotten how to tag???#dad wukong#<- ig??#my art#illistrations#smudgie art#a littol warm up - off i go to draw smth hopefully better?? iDK HM#IM NOT FEELING SHADING RN - COULDNT TELL U WHY?? I jusst dont wanna shade atm
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The thing that gets me most about shadowpeach, is that even if they were romantic in love (and i do think they were in love), the thing they miss desperately is their friendship
You're speaking to my acespec shadowpeach loving heart.
#not to bring up tdp but. This is also so rayllum#I think I lean more towards shadowpeach not knowing what they were pre-jttw. And it not mattering because they had each other#and all they ever needed to be were friends#Like they were in love but it almost didn't matter in the context of their relationship?#I don't know if I'm explaining it well#lmk#lego monkie kid#asks#shadowpeach#Aaahhh. ''the thing they miss desperately is their friendship'' I'm fine I'm fine!
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if i got a nickel for every time Journey To The West used the word "said" then I'd be richer than Tony Stark
https://www.tumblr.com/kittenninja14/731916269075480576/hey-yall-i-just-found-this-incredible-video-and
#no hate to jttw tho#i absolutely love that book so much#like bro...#lmk#lego monkie kid#because it made me laugh#KN14 rambles#journey to the west#jttw
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I'm sorry but lmk not being clear on what MK knows about monkey king is sooo frustrating. He's some how his biggest fan who knows so much until the story requires him to have never known anything and it's like... why did you set him up as a monkey king fan it then just decide "actually he doesn't know shit" bro grew up to adulthood hearing stories and somehow knows Jack shit about the guy he supposedly fanboys over.
#text#monkie kid#tbh sounds like most lmk fans who never touched jjtw#but auuughh its so annoying to have that part of his character thrown out for plot#its not even a 'what he was told was wrong'#HE NEVER SAYS 'wait i thought it went like X'#He just straight up doesnt know shit about anything suddenly when the plot requires it#which is basically the moment macaque fucking shows up#this is one reason i hate that they dont actually tell us how much of the past is known and what the source is#monkey king is popular. is jttw real? u cant say 'tge past isnt what it seems' when we r never told the past#the show does jackshit to give us a timeline n jack shit to tell us what the world believes#so any changes they make to the past are usually annoying snd stupid and treated as such big reveal#when we had NO REASON to think things ever happened any other way#because they never fucking set it up with the world building#not to mention a majority of changes lately have been 'look at how awful wukong is actually'#completely ignoring his arc in jttw like thanks i fucking hate you#anyways
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Every time I fall in love with something that was inspired by a religion, mythology, etc and I get invested in the religion/mythology/idk only to realize that the OG version is nothing like the version I saw first, I die a little on the inside
#i always end up being like âwhat the fuck is up w this. the og would never do thatâ#or like âhey no they changed this part i really like!! :(â#w lmk i'm like âGOD why the FUCK did he loose to the JADE EMPEROR he DID NOT DO THAT IN JTTW UGGHâ#like i get it. it's an adaptation. it's not going to be like the og BUT IT STILL HURTS ME#there's also the fear that they'll mess up tripitaka's character during s5#because in s4 we see him put on the circlet himself. n unless it was like in jttw#where guanyin gave it to him. then it'd fucking suck to put smth on a living being KNOWING WHAT IT DOES#tripitaka i won't be able to defend you if you do this </3#also w pjo. rick i love you but that is NOT ares#the pjo fandom infuriates me too. the way they demonize the gods and refuse to see them as actual CHARACTERS#they're not the little devil of the story who don't care at all they're more complicated than that#BUT PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THIS BC THEY EITHER DIDN'T READ TOA OR DON'T GET TOA#avis talks
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as a native chinese, i feel like some of yall are taking the gods in lego monkie kid a bit too seriously. i understand why it feels iffy to ship / make silly content of deities that people worship irl (eg. nezha, sun wukong) but itâs a phenomenon on chinese social media too. c-netizens ship the fictionalized versions of these gods, which the gods of lego monkie kid are. they arenât the actual gods people worship; theyâre slightly tweaked versions of the book characters, just like any other chinese adaptation or retelling of jttw (and such stories like fsyy) also, no, nezha isnât a child, in lmk or jttw or sometimes irl. just because heâs often depicted in child form doesnât make him an immortal child. eros / cupid is often depicted as a winged baby, and he has a wife and kids. itâs basically the same thing here. nothing in lmk suggests that nezha is a child (his voice, his appearance, his personality etc. all imply he is an adult), and while heâs described as youthful in jttw, heâs already 1700+ years old by then and gods can shapeshift. people only think heâs an immortal baby because thatâs a popular depiction of him, since one of his prominent myths is set during his childhood. but as long as youâre talking about the god nezha (fictionalized or the religious figure) and not the human child nezha, then thatâs an adult [edit: the last sentence couldve been worded better. i would summarize it as âimmortal youth nezha is a valid depiction and is popularized by mythology, but adult god nezha exists too and they are NOT mutually exclusiveâ]
#iâm not even here for shipping discourse ie. âyou canât ship nezha w anyone cuz heâs a child!â#i dont ship him with anyone thatâs never been my focus#i just dislike misinformation#if you understand that cupid and eros are adult gods despite often being depicted as babies then why donât you understand this#and in case i need to clarify i hate pr*sh*pping i dont support it#the fact is that any lmk nezha ship simply isnât a pr*sh*p because heâs a full grown man#never once in the show does he act or sound like a child so why is this such a widespread belief??#iâd get it if the show was about him as a child going on his killing spree#but lmk is clearly set millennia after that#also abt the âdont ship deitiesâ thing i understand seeing non-cn fans treat chinese gods like fairytale characters is frustrating#but to me since lmk characters arenât very accurate to their real life religious counterparts they are not the same ppl#like i see swk fanart and think âswk the lmk characterâ and not âswk the daoist godâ yknow#but thatâs only my opinion i wont say iâm totally right i wonât argue if youâre daoist or buddhist and find it offensive#lego monkie kid#lmk#jttw#journey to the west#lmk nezha#lmk swk#lmk sun wukong#age discourse#immortal child depictions of nezha do exist that doesnât mean the god is always a child#and in FICTION. yknow SHOWS and STORIES. not worship. if the story says heâs an adult then thatâs what he is#so like. statue of baby nezha = baby#statue of adult nezha = adult. it does not mean every single depiction of nezha is a child#donât generalize things and do not infantalize him
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Some takes on swk and macaque but im basing them more on jttw than the lego version
#i didnt get to the macaque chapter yet so yeah my design if him might change when i do get there#but i heard he looks just like swk in jttw so i gave them mostly the same outfits and just changed the color schemes#swk gets an colorful outfit#full of bright colors and full of life#while his evil twin gets a colder pallet#swk has a tiger pelt skirt macaque had a leopard one etc etc#jttw#sun wukong#gonna tag it as monkie kid mostly because i drew the lego swk there too so yeah#monkie kid#lmk#macaque#liu er mihou#art#my art#do not tag as ship#please
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"Uh MK? You got a little⌠Thing behind you." "Yeah that's my sister, she's with me on the noodle run today since school's out." "She always so⌠formless?" "Nah this is just easier then trying to fit both of us in the TukTuk." "Oh. Carry on then." "Will do Mr. Peterson."
After MONTHS of NO Digital art because My pen was STOLEN by that BITCH ARRIETTY, I have finally found it and can ART on my computer once more.
Have an oc I wanted to show, but wanted to draw MK first since my Nephews, Spud & Tater Tot, were really excited to see me color him on my 'puter.
Credit to Overly Sarcastic Productions on youtube for the Wukong on MK's shirt.
I wanted to give him a shirt that had something to do with JTTW since he's a fanboy, but I realized that while he's a fanboy he's also a young adult and would adore a meme shirt, so I made him that out of a panel from OSP JTTW. Full meme and the panel from OSP that I used under cut.
I feel like that quote could be used to explain most of Sun Wukong's personality to people who don't yet know him.
#monkie kid mk#lego monkie kid#MK#LMK#OSP#overly sarcastic productions#osp sun wukong#Memes#lmk oc#SEM#M.K#S.E.M#I have a DEEP love for LMK & JTTW cause of OSP#I changed the circlet on OSP's Wukong only because in LMK it looks different and I figured the shirt memes of JTTW would make it like that#but other then that just left the image as is#cause it's perfect
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oc references I made for my artfight!! rubbing my hands together evilly
#grim draws#grimâs ocs#galen#ao chuang#artfight#artfight 2023#oc art#lmk oc#lmk oc art#original character#I never know what tags to put#GALEN HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE THE LAST OC ADDED TO THE MAIN GROUP AND SOMEHOW THE FIRST IVE DRAWN FULLY COLORED#eh he deserves it for making sure the other 7 donât cause trouble#I feel like I should do posts about oc lore#because no one except my close friends knows anything about them#I need to learn to throw things that I send my friends up on tumble too#well hey at least I posted this !!!!#if even one person asks me to dump oc lore I WILL go off on a very long winded speech abt that so if you want to know just shoot an ask#okay thanks for coming to my tag talk I have to go read jttw for an hour
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