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1-800-internal-damnation · 8 months ago

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voltron succeeds in being one of the most popular mecha anime where the robots are not interesting and almost completely irrelevant

#I wanted to like the lions I really did #its just so obvious that the show was written by someone who doesn't understand the narrative respect you have to give to The Robot in #order to make a good mech show #voltron #you could replace them with colorcoded spaceships and like nothing would change #txt

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bonefall · 8 months ago

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Did Brambleclaw actually disown the Three when the secret is revealed? I don't remember this happening (then again, it's been a while) but it does bug me how all three go "Poor brambleclaw :(( He was such a good dad to us and he has to learn we're not even his biokits :(((( poor guy" while simultaneously shitting on Leafpool and Squirrelflight despite them showing them more care and affection before AND after the reveal. If he does disown them, then.... WOW is the double standard real here.

In-canon? It's something you have to approximate. They don't seem to have a concept of ""disowning"" because blood relation is taken as such an insurmountable, FUNDAMENTAL fact of life. He doesn't write them out of his little kitty will and testament, but his actions ARE disowning.

It's as if the fact he is not their biological father is an automatic disowning. From the reveal onwards, he is immediately cold, distant, and the "betrayal" is mentioned often. The Three also explicitly don't blame him for his behavior, like it's just to be expected that he's Not Their Dad anymore.

Lionblaze in particular stares longingly at him several times, really missing him. And like... that's kinda what gets my goat so much

I do believe Brambleclaw is entitled to his feelings of betrayal. I believe Squilf was ultimately in the right to lie, actually, but he's still allowed to be upset and angry that she didn't trust him enough to tell him something so important. THAT SAID, YOU ARE NEVER ENTITLED TO TREAT OTHERS POORLY.

And that's what GETS me. He isn't upset that it was all revealed in such a painful and embarassing way when this could have been avoided, or that his lover struggled with this lie for so long without him, or that he feels he's lost his children. Squilf points it out in The Last Hope-- He's so ANGRY at Squilf that he will THROW HIS FAMILY AWAY

Lionblaze seems desperate to be his son again. Hollyleaf is gone for months, and Brambleclaw is still huffing about the secret when she comes back from the dead. Squilf is fawning in the hopes it makes him talk to her again. Doesn't matter. Brambleclaw Is Upsetti Spaghetti so the narrative will never examine his role in hurting this family he apparently loved so much.

(Narrative seems to understand full well that when Squilf lies for a good reason, that doesn't invalidate the hurt Brambleclaw felt... but when Brambleclaw is upset for a good reason, it actually DOES validate what he put her and his kids through)

In BB it is explicitly a disowning. He cuts them off as his children, and they reciprocate. BB!Lionblaze does so in a ball of fury, vowing that he has ONLY a mother.

#It does start getting.... ''better'' after oots. On the disowning front #Lion seems to be fixing his relationship with him #Which... actually is something I dislike tbh #Can we pls get canon acknowledgement of the Little Pogchamp scene where he lets Ash beat his son #And downplays this to holly #Pls #Idk i just feel lion makes a better mama's boy #Really close to squilf and then like... tries to get close to Leafp too but it just. Cant click.#In this very sad but also kind of validating way #Leafp isnt his mom... she didn't raise him. But shes still his aunt. She still loves him as ferociously as she always did #The reveal changed nothing about his family. In the end.#It truly was just a reveal.#(And then he stares angrily and also forlornly at bramble)#Bramblestar is honestly a very interesting character if you choose to take him at face value #And wade through the writer favoritism #I keep coming back to him man.#Such an incredibly mundane and honest type of terrible #Always consumed by his pride and terrible lack of self esteem. Everyone wants you to be better. But you keep messing up #Your honor. I hate him. I have a picture of him in my heart shaped locket.#I am putting him in an exhibit. I am blasting him with a hose.

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imminent-danger-came · 1 year ago

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I think everyone needs to come together and congratulate DBK (and the rest of the Demon Bull family) for being the only ones to just give up. They DID quit while they were ahead. It's the only reason they're still alive.

#honestly they'd be dead like Spider Queen LBD (if she IS dead) and Azure Lion if they hadn't lol #LIKE. GIRL THEY SAVED THEMSELVES FROM THE NARRATIVE #HOW DID THEY DO THAT #The answer is they stopped trying to live past the end of their myth. They accepted the world as is.#And they run man. They run and after they failed a second time they just like #Went back to their house and stopped #which is really based of them.#Now they eat popsicles on the beach with Wukong and Co! Objectively better outcome #more antagonists should learn from them if they want to stay alive (yellowtusk) (maybe peng but I have a feeling no)#(peng out here with his ''The world could use a little chaos!'' bullshit. Okay. You said the c-word dude that's not good)#lmk #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk rant #imp tag

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tinyfantasminha · 2 days ago

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#i went to sleep at 3am and its 6am now bc i criedmyself to sleep 👍👍#sorry to ventdump my annoying insecurities again #i cant bring myself to do something i really want anymore #been having these thoughts since last year but this year its a lot more apparent #ideas are not scarce but the motivation/time to execute them are #i wish i could take an indefinite break on taking commissions bc by the time im finished with all of them im too burnt out/1 #to draw for my blog and by the time it passes my motivation for these ideas also vanishes/2 #I cant actually stop now bc im still an unpaid internee working for experience+portfolio so I need the money #I feel like shit whenever i can't get art done at the appropriate timing (ex: thematic holiday/character bday/event etc)#everything passes too fast and its already too late and the hype dies #its so hard to stay relevant and charismatic enough #Looking back I can't say im 100% satisfied with ANY art i posted this year #“was it worthy? is it still relevant? did I waste my time doing this?”#im too overly emotional over this (unfortunately) popular fictional lion beastman #“I want to yume/draw him more often/talk more about him!”#why? hes already popular enough. He has louder and more popular users who do that for him. nobody would care if it's you.#you'd get a swarm of hate. nobody would send you nice asks about it.#you don't get nearly half of the asks you used to receive back then. people just aren't interested in you anymore.#maybe you should delete your blog and start drawing trendy doodles of whatever is being hyped up at the moment.#.#if I can't execute original ideas what's the point of it?#I hate HATE having to do trendy art of whatever unfunny meme is being hyped up at the moment #but sometimes its necessary for the algorithm to boost you and to get some actual crumbs of engagement and new followers #what else can I do? being interesting on your own or having an interesting oc is no easy feat. I envy those who manage.

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scattered-winter · 4 months ago

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every day i kick a rock and bash my head into the wall because i'll never get to go on a big space adventure and become tightly close-knit with my new found family up there <//3

#re lrb..........#i mean realistically if i was in the voltron/quintenary stars universe chances are i would probably NOT be one of the people #going on the space adventure.#i'd be roped into the plot when the aliens invade and earth almost gets destroyed. spoilers for arc 2 btw sorry #but man. child soldierism aside i wish that were me so so so bad #sadly kicks a rock when will EYE have a deep and mystical connection with a giant ancient cat :(#its not even that i want to interact with the main cast bc i dont really i just. wanna be in their position man #i think one of the reasons why voltron grabbed me so hard (among MANY) is how badly i wanted to do what the main characters did #i remember when i was first watching it while it was coming out i would CONSISTENTLY daydream about being launched into space #with a handful of other people and having to fight a war and grow up far away from home and all the suffocating stuff that came with it #and then coming back years later already solidly knowing who i am and being confident in that #so i'd actually be brave enough to be unapologetic about it. and i'd be found family with the people i went to space with also #that parts important #idk man just. i dont like saying i was abused when i was younger because i really dont think it was like that and it isnt even close to #what how people who have really been abused have had to go through #but sometimes i really do wonder. like now that im (mostly) out and able to review everything with an outside perspective #not even getting into the cult survivorism stuff this is JUST family dynamics im talking about here #bc that shit is a whole other can of worms #i think my parents were genuinely doing the best they could with the cards they were dealt but. jesus christ.#i would have given ANYTHING to be able to run away from all that. and throw magic cats into the equation? brother im GONE #anyway this tags ramble has derailed in a MAJOR way. tldr i wanted to be a paladin sooooo fuckign bad bro #like it actually makes me SICK how much i want a lion. red you are my forever girl even if only in my heart <///3 #i still do want to do all that out of principle but its not as desperate now i just really love space and really want a big kitty friend #winter speaks

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the-busy-ghost · 5 months ago

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There are many reasons my interests are more geared towards mediaeval Scotland than mediaeval England, but at least one of them has to be the fact that I am completely incapable of Being Normal about the Lion in Winter and Shakespeare's second tetralogy.

#Like I simply could not remain unbiased #Not in a 'taking sides' kind of way but more in a 'the real Henry II did not entirely resemble this fictional adaptation'#I refuse to accept it and I don't really want to #I could try very hard to research and write about Henry II sensibly- and I often do when he (or Hotspur later on) impinge on Scottish histo #But fundamentally my image of Henry II is the image of the character from the Lion in Winter #It's horrible to have to admit I'm like one of those unhinged Braveheart or Philippa Gregory people but for twelfth century England #Although with all due respect the Lion in Winter and Henry IV Part 1 are obviously twenty times better than Braveheart #There are other reasons #I kind of feel England has enough people interested in it already #I like to dip in occasionally and it's interesting to read about (and often necessary from a Scottish perspective)#But yeah for many reasons mediaeval England- though fascinating- is not my number one priority #One of the pretty big reasons is though my unfortunate fan behaviour the minute Richard II sits himself down on the ground #To tell sad stories of the death of kings #And you know what that's valid and probably acts as a useful research tool for many people #Just not for me #It's weird though because other than Shakespeare and the Lion in Winter there aren't many period dramas I particularly care for #Not only am I incredibly picky about my historical media when it comes to the Middle Ages (less so for the 20th century)#But I never really understood why people assume when you say 'I like history' you mean 'I like period dramas'#To me these are two separate unrelated activities/hobbies #Not necessarily better than each other just different

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lovinggreeniehours · 6 months ago

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um. concept art <3

king of the golden country and king of the dungeons surrounding it let's fucking go <3

#this was just supposed to be a sketch 😭 😭 😭 i don't know what possessed me to color it and detail red's outfit so much. god #also red's tail <3 i like his tail a lot sorry hwshkjdsgbsh ideally he has it twined around his leg (or holding onto lai.os hwdjkfsgj) but i #wanted to show it. because because #i will be so honest i don't know what color lai.os's cape was supposed to be. but he seems to like white wolves. and the animal resembles a #wolf more than a lion so i went with that. also let's just say the lion bitch pin is under the snout because im still too bitter to include #that on the drawing :P too annoying to draw #re the caption i considered king and queen(gender neutral) but then i also considered. red's kingdom is separate. his subjects are the #monsters that circle the country through the dungeons and caverns 🤔 they did mention that the presence of the monsters keep the place safe #so it felt fitting #anyway yeah im rather proud of this one. hi jdsjkgsfhj #ari.art #mine #keep my head above water.♡#EXTRA extra note red's broken green stone is the illusion stone that used to allow him a human form for most of the story. im wondering if i #should really break it or not. but he's keeping it because he matches with navi. not that he'll openly admit it

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kittlyns · 2 months ago

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I'm knitting again haha

#no real reason. I was discussing it w a client today and for the first time since I finished alllllll the baby stuff last year. I missed it #so I was like fuck it! let me go get some yarn and I'll make something #rn I'm making a dolphin. eventually I'll make a shark and a goldfish. maybe a whale if I have leftover gray yarn (I'm sure I will)#if the mood keeps up I'd like to make an elephant and a lion too #idk. just stuffed animals I guess #I probably won't use the pink yarn again for any of the upcoming animals so maybe I'll make my mom a frig #frog*#she really wanted the last one I made for the baby. I told her I'd get around to making her one but never did #so we'll see!#the frog was such a pain in the ass but I loved that little thing

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scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde · 1 year ago

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why do teachers insist on going around and making everyone say their name and something about themself??? like what the fuck, what do they want from me hi I'm ellis and my fun fact is this is making me want to fucking combust, nice to meet you like I'm not gonna remember any of this I'm just suffering for no fucking reason

#i hate this teacher immediately #she did put her pronouns in her introduction slide but still #if you somehow dont know im autistic which the school knows #and that means i dont have to answer any questions if i dont want to #with no represcussions 🤙🏻🤙🏻#however it felt way more awkward to just stare at her this time 🧍🏻‍♂️so im going to throw myself off something /j #we're now watching some of hamlet and i fucking love hamlet i am a complete shakespeare nerd so she is gaining back some points #cause this isnt my shakespeare lecture but shes bringing him up anyway 🤭#i still hate her 🤺🤺 how dare you make me speak #NOW WE'RE WATCHING SOME OF LION KING COMPARING THEM HEHEHE i love the fun fact that lion king is an adaptation of hamlet #its a quite well known fact nowadays but in case you didnt know #lion king is an adaptation of hamlet 😚😚#hamlet and the tempest >>>> everything else #theyre my faaavveess #i really like literature #one of my broader special interests lmfao #i do have focuses #like shakespeare and marlowe #and then gothic fiction like dracula and frankenstein and jekyll & hyde and DORIAN GRAY #i fucking love dorian gray i have 5 copies 🤭🤭 possibly 6 i have a complete oscar wilde thing but i dont know if its just his plays or not #im very off topic but im trying to stop the autism panic by talking to myself about autism interests in tumblr tags lmfao #modern problems need modern solutions <3 #the new and improved grounding technique #one of my favourite topic is the origins of vampires in literature 🤭#and how they went from mythical grave yard monsters to hot seductive nobility lmfao #OH FANTASTIC NOW SHES MAKING US SIT IN GROUPS AND TALK WOW I FUCKING LOVE THAT /SARCASM SARCASM SO MUCH SARCASM I WANT TO SCREAM AND RUN

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lionblaze03-2 · 6 months ago

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sometimes I think about writing and singing music not because I’m an incredible singer but because no one has my fucking voice, especially in popular music, and its disheartening to be born a girl, told you’ll only get girl roles or try to voice match other girls, or ‘sing with the girls’ and then only be able to match male voices because you’re a fuckin tenor and not anything higher. I can’t think of any girl Broadway roles I can hit all the notes on. Most songs I love I have to pitch down for myself or use falsetto for singing along to. It bothers me a lot less now because I’m an adult who’s more secure in myself but as a teen in kids musical theatre it FUCKED with me, BAD style. And I know for a fact that even now when I hear people with a voice like mine singing I get excited and immediately invested in their work because they’re like ME, finally, for once. A brother in this world of being afab and having the voice of a recently pubescent boy forever. Maybe I should be that brother too.

#Using randomly gendered words because that’s me now but hey #Regardless of if you were born afab and are a girl 100% or if you were born afab and are someone else #It STILL sucks to always be grouped along with ‘girls’ just because of your voice and realize #You CANT hit that. You can’t hit the mark for ‘girl’. You’ll never achieve that without like. Hrt #Just say THE VOCAL CLASS. Like. Sopranos sing with this. Tenors with this. Bass with this. Etc #Then it doesn’t hurt! But nooo instead they’re looking or ‘sing with the other girls’ and you fucking can’t #And it gives you a crisis at age 14 #Anyway all I know is when other people who were assigned female at birth and aren’t on something they changes ones voice #and just happen to have born with the same deep ass voice as me. It makes me proud to hear them use it #Because not enough people do. It’s like we’re all collectively embarrassed or something #I see so many sad posts from teenagers posting their dream roles and the reason they won’t get it is ‘girl’#and it’s like. I remember being that kid. Never able to get a female lead because of my voice. Never able to get a male lead because of gir #Even though my voice and appearance could easily swing male. Nope! You’re GIRL. So you’re doomed to background forever :)#I got 1 lead role and it was when I was at my most feminine and was also for a villain that was a fat hag #I LOOOOVED playing her im aunt sponge forever. BUT. Never getting one again after that… showed me. Something #More gender blind casting and more songs just written for tenors please #doing just ONE of those things would probably solve the issue #But both please because I’m greedy and I want what I couldn’t have for every kid today #(And also me in the future in adult community theatre. Haven’t had time/too intimidated so far but I WILL go back)#And before anyone questions the language on this post. I STRUGGLED with how to word it #TERFs begone. I love trans people. I am nonbinary and some form of intersex (pcos).#I just word it this way because of like. Where we all start #Whether we stay GIRL girls or realize we’re somewhere in between. It crushes us either way to have the ‘wrong’ voice to do anything #Because it did me at first. And I’m otherwise GLAD to be confusing #I’ve come to love my deep voice it baffles others and they never know what to call me it really helps the whole ‘what am I’ presentation #But. In terms of certain things. Like being in theatre in the deep south #It certainly does not help and can be disheartening #Especially back when I was younger and more self conscious #lion’s lair

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handfulofmuses · 5 months ago

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The rest of the clan: ah, there goes Johnny. Never liked that guy.

#ooc #BYE I GUESS THAT ONE GOT KILLED BY LAVA AND NO ONE CARES #it concerns me how he treats the hyenas during be prepared #and they are just #???#desperate times leads to desperate matters #imagine you just want food so you decide yeah okay let’s just #team up with the lion who insults us makes no secrets how he feels about hyenas #gets physical with us #it be like that sometimes #it really doesn’t help #that Shenzi is afraid of him as a king #girl what happened to we thought it was somebody important #where did your sass go

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boogieboba · 10 months ago

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me when girl im dating does anything:

#shes so…#hhhhhhnggggggg #made her dinner tonight and i very much did NOT want to drive her home but also #i do not sleep with other people in my bed so if she stayed I would’ve slept like Absolute Shit and I can’t afford that tn #soon. i hope. bc i really like her and i do wanna do that but i am also. Nervous.#lion. if you see this. no you fucking didnt

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hirokiyuu · 2 years ago

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DO YOU LIKE EDELGARD??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

op this is so funny bc i am a lesbian who loves problematic characters but. but. while i like edie a lot and she's definitely up there idk if i actually have a fe3h favorite and if i did i dont think itd be here. i do like her a lot tho dont get me wrong wwwww

#unfortunately im a blue lions girl at heart. i did them first and never got over it #guy who just Really Wanted To Marry Mercie #despite my usual taste (guy who maried henry then takumi) i saw mercie and i was like. Wife? Wife? Wife? W #oh here's my real Fan of Problematic Women Lesbian sin: im not big on byleth/edie and in fact prefer. claude/edie LMFAO #claudelgard my beloved. emimi where are you im thinkign abt claudelgar again #asks #anon #fe3h spoilers ?

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vaugarde · 2 years ago

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ivypool is a character who has a really really good concept that the fandom does admittedly catch on to, but in the actual books the execution is just so. weird.

#she gets jealous of dove as a child and thats fine thats normal sibling behavior and its not expected that she gets the prophecy #or why her sister has more eyes on her. that makes sense i take no issue. same w herbecoming a dark forest trainee #perfectly fine trajectory very good conflict and makes her a good parallel to hollyleaf #but like... ppl love to act like dove was all smug and vain abt how popular she was and that she abandoned ivy #when thats really not what happens? if anything dove is the one advocating the mostfor ivy #she fights lion and jay on sending her as a spy. she tries to have her more involved in patrols and stuff #she tries to open up as much as she can. yknow without lion and jay breathing down her neck #and ivy not seeing that at first is fine bc again. shes a kid. but when they grow up?#after the dark forest and during avos? when theyre grown ass women? and ivy has seen for herself how dove suffered?#especially in the aftermath w her losing the respect of everyone #i have a much harder time sympathizing with her #like she never realizes how much dove really did for her and that doves treatment was not her fault she just keeps hating her #she keeps taking piss shots and keeps going out of her way to shit on her relationship w tiger #while pressuring her to be with a creep who clearly doesnt respect her #and its not that she had negative development its that thte erins are incapable of conflict resolution #like its not acknowledged. she just keeps treating her sister badly and is suddenly shocked when she wants to leave #bc. duh. her family and clan treat her like shit.#i think that dove doesnt talk to her anymore and is no contact even at gatherings andis much happier for it #echoed voice

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bedofthistles · 2 years ago

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*me writing what is essentially 12 pages of fluff*

Plot? Who needs plot?

#I want to personally apologize to actor Augustus Prew #I had to look at your lips to accurately describe them #and I’m so sorry #in what context did I need to describe a man’s lips???#exactly my point #I’m loosing my mind #anyway #tsom #merrynoir #like #I hate when it’s live action #because I’m really bad at separating the actors from the characters #so I’m just like #…that’s a real person!#do they know what I’m doing? I’m living in sin #it’s awful #the secret of moonacre #lion de noir

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foxgonyoom · 2 years ago

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Yo remember this guy?

What if they’re how the main cast fix Wukong’s scroll piece?

Like so far I’ve been thinking that they’re the villain behind the scenes, the one pulling the strings to follow through with some master plan, and I still think they’re gonna turn out to be evil and who’s manipulating events.

But they’re also our only possible lead on how the gang are going to fix Wukong’s scroll piece, mainly because they seem to have some sort of knowledge of the scroll, having been able to access it. Thus, they might be someone that the main cast goes to in order to fix Wukong’s scroll piece. That, or they pop up out of the shadows offering their aid.

But yeah it definitely seems like they’re gonna be the way that the gang mend Wukong’s scroll piece so they can free him again.

#That or they’re actually just Wukong when he went to supposedly steal the scroll from the underworld for some good ol’ nostalgia #If they are Wukong I’d imagine that once he’s freed from the scroll piece and the gang ask him for an explanation #His explanation would include a flashback to this scene #But with his face visible from under the shadow of the hood #I actually really like this theory #It makes me feel smart #But yeah #Either this mysterious character is our secret villain and/or how the gang fix Wukong’s scroll piece #Or they’re just Wukong when he went to steal the scroll from the underworld #If they are the villain of the season maybe the reason they released Azure Lion from the scroll (assuming they did)#Was to get the segment of the scroll that Wukong stole back from him (for whatever reason)#And along the way they were just like #“You know what.”#“Screw the Jade Emperor. If he didn’t want to have to deal with a revolution than he shouldn’t have become a government official.”#If they’re just Wukong stealing the scroll though #Then maybe Azure Lion escaping happened as a result of the scroll being opened by MK #Especially considering how he just pops up out of nowhere when the scroll is opened a second time #Like bro #This is a locked cave. There’s a literal protective sigil keeping things from getting in and from getting out #If they aren’t registered as trustworthy by Monkey King #How the hell did you get in here?!#It’s been a long time since Journey to the West so I doubt you’d have access #Is there some hidden passage we don’t know about or something?#But anyway #We shall see who mysterious figure is eventually #lego monkie kid season 4 #lego monkie kid season 4 spoilers #lego monkie kid s4 #lego monkie kid s4 spoilers #lmk season 4

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