#Meta nezha

[kickingshoes]

"Following the rules would just hold me back." I love this color palette 💕

[esper-union-lounge]

He doesn't like cake...

HE DOESN'T LIKE CAKKKKEEEE!!!!!

[stalkyarsen-ebook]

What's LMK Nezha (in human form, not LEGO) reaction to his esper daiting (what is their realtionship?) his former enemy's esper?

and since im so nice >:)

(as for the relationship, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh let's say it's a secret. in fact, it is a secret relationship)

[syn0vial]

neil newbon also mentioned that, besides the feral cat that visits his house, another inspiration for astarion's physicality was the harlequin mask from commedia dell'arte, which i find very funny given astarion's canonical feelings about clowns

[pearypie]

out of nowhere but on the tpw Disco Horse i think while YES tpw is absolutely not a romance it's wrong to say there's NO romance. like if we're defining anything that's romantic love as romance, yes, there is romantic love but the point as nezha literally says himself in tdf is that there was love and it didn't matter one single bit. rinezha basically serves to help hammer in the central tragedy of the story (and reel in the booktok girlies lmao), how war ravages and desensitizes and destroys-- it's only part of the horror

also it's not like a romeo and juliet type tragedy, it's fucked all on its own -- it can't really exist without the war and devastation and insanity, even though that's what damns it. rin and nezha's romance develops as they're fighting a war. their first kiss is under the murui mid-battle to resuscitate rin. nezha finds rin so compelling precisely because she's a crazy insane fucko who would kill him, the only person who can, and part of why rin likes him because he's a) sexy b) a reminder of her days at sinegard where things were so good in comparison to the war.

the first real snippet of anything but hostility between them is when they're, again, fighting a war back to back. and when it becomes hostility again, it's because both chose their duty and principles over each other. and hate coexists with that love, anyway-- rin hates nezha because he's one of the most privileged people in the country, because he took advantage of her trust to betray her for the fucking HESPERIANS, and nezha hates rin because she's, you know, a genocidal drug-addled peasant warlord who can only thrive off of conflict and doesn't value human life, because she's leading a war against everything he stands for, etc.

there was love and it didn't matter. on with the bloodshed, folks!

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ok. well. it probably doesn't count as a "romance" what with it being so intertwined with the war, but saying there's no romance is just not true

[theycallmeazalea]

I’m revisiting on old hyperfixation I had

It was a bad decision.

[shih-coulda-had-it]

hold on, new gods: nezha reborn (2021) note to self --

The soundtrack's available! And the song associated with Sun Wukong is called 面具人的空城计 (mianju ren de kongchengji, pardon the lack of pinyin accents), which loosely translates to "Masked Man's 'Strategem of the Empty City'".

面具人 is the masked man bit, which is Sun Wukong's character. 空城计 is a reference to Zhuge Liang's infamous "fuck you Sima Yi" move, in which he presented himself very casually at the walls, acting like he wasn't bothered by Sima Yi's presence or the soldiers massing outside, which had the effect of convincing Sima Yi that Zhuge Liang was prepping something BIG--even though what Zhuge Liang essentially guarded was an empty city.

The definition of 空城计 is "to present a bold front to conceal a weak defense." In relation to SWK's character, this is just so very true--Sun Wukong has a LOUD personality in front of an audience, and he dresses in hot pink, accessorizes in gold, wears a huge fuck-off mask... A 'weak defense', though? It's probably in reference to his missing staff, but damn...

What a concise way to summarize a characterization!

[monkie-brainriot]

Don’t mind me just thinking a lot about how in DBK’s flashback Wukong looks shady as heck with that expression on his face, while in the unbiased flashback he looks like that, yet again this invades my brain. 

It’s rare he actually makes that expression that we see in DBK’s flashback, but I can think of one other instance that expression shows up

Edit: I’M NOT SAYING THE MONKEY IS SKETCHY, I’M SAYING IT’S WHACK THAT HE NEVER ACTUALLY MAKES THOSE EXPRESSIONS OUTSIDE OF PEOPLES BIASED FLASHBACKS (and when possessed) 

WHEN FIGHTING MAC HE LOOKS LIKE THIS 

SO EITHER THE MEMORIES ARE WARPED BY PERSONAL BIAS OR MEMORIES HAVE BEEN ALTERED BECAUSE NEITHER DBK’S OR MACAQUE FLASHBACK MONKEY KINGS LOOK OR ACT LIKE SUN WUKONG 

[digitaldoeslmk]

i think what i love most about btb wukong is that the only real reason he can't intervene to beat the shit outta demons if mk is in over his head is because he can't. no shots at lmk, but i really really hate that he didn't do a lot simply because he was retired.

thank you sm, i rly appreciate that!!

the thing about having an All-Powerful Character in any narrative is, explaining why they can't resolve any conflict. it's the age old "why don't use magic to fix XYZ?" but attatched to a character, and usually you need a somewhat passable reason that doesn't make them off to be stupid, wimpy, infuriatingly selfish, or a combination of the previous. and i'll be honest, LMK is really missing out on using the Heavenly Bureocracy to its fullest when it comes to that and so many other issues in their meta!

why can't Wukong or Erlang or Nezha or whoever fix everything? can't, against the rules, sorry. hell, maybe make it more heavy handed if we're gonna reference Fengshen Yanyi (Investiture of the Gods)! "Trust me kid, when gods start intervening in mortal affairs, you know shit has REALLY hit the fan. Like, it's time to redo the entire heavenly investiture levels of shit and fans. So uh, let's not hope that this is that kind of situation."

[stalkyarsen-ebook]

Meta Nezha x Meta Ao Bing? 😊😊

i got fuckin' called out-

okay but just a sneak peak

[angstandhappiness]

HOLY SHITE THIS WRECKS

need more big brother nezha contents

@ritzhasmonkeybrain naaah cause like you gave me another big brother nezha serotonin.

hell yeah I nailed the expressions again. (Thought I got rusty).

Please nezha is radiating so much Older sibling vibe fight me if I'm wrong 😭😭😩👌👌

[saficswrites]

Hey so uh, this is gonna be really weird and really specific but here we go.

My gf wants to play Warframe with me, I’ve played in the past but not for at least a few years. My favorite frames were Gauss Zeypher Nezha and Volt.

I’m sure you can see the pattern there for what I prioritized. I also played a lot of Nidus for more confined spaces but my true love was moving as fast as possible.

So with me playing again if anybody could tell me what the new fastest way to move is that would be great. I don’t care too much about the meta just zipping around really quick lol.

[gaaralover55]

The Budget is back guys. THE BUDGET IS BACK!!!!

Okay I am so EXCITED for this update and it's event! It looks so amazing and I want Li Ling Meta Nezha skin!!

[fluffypotatey]

What introduced you to lmk? like some fanart or a tiktok edit

For me it was a nezha edit (it was a leak at the time, but obviously I didn't know it) and I loved its design so much that I decided to see lmk, previously I knew that the series existed since I really like everything that has to do with Sun Wukong (and the journey to the west and Nezha too of course)

my love of lmk was a slow burn that then sparked into an inferno

FOR YOU SEE

it began while i was watching OSP’s jttw summarizes videos and listening to their podcast and there were some people asking Res if she watches the show (she hadn’t and prob still has not because her reason was by simply not watching it, she wouldn’t accidentally have their style influence her own. also ensuring that her summarized videos stayed original)

then i noticed some fanart of lmk on instagram (idk how that happened tbh maybe the algorithm took my interest in fanrtists of animated movies and shows to equal “hey you might like this too!”) but since i had no clue what lmk really was and was more loyal to jttw itself, i ignored it (tho one of the fanart it’s drew really good kung fu panda fanart so i saw lmk for about a month or too before i deleted my instagram

and then i saw a lot of lmk in the comments of OSP’s video about the Six Eared Macaque chapter but ignored it still

and then tumblr polls happened

many polls were made. many ship dynamic polls were made

there was also the character of all time poll, of which i was a Sun Wukong activist and found some lmk fans who reblogged my propaganda thread

(during this time— April— I discovered Epic: the musical)

i found lmk once more in the sun/moon ship poll. it was merthur vs shadowpeach and i stayed true to my shadowpeach but i noticed one of my (then) mutual-in laws was very passionate about shadowpeach and i grew curious

i searched it up (beginning of May), somehow found a playlist with seasons 1-3 two days after i began my search, watched all of it in a day (it should be noted that i had been recovering from finals) and found myself hooked

I also felt cheated out of the shadowpeach ship because, through the eyes of my (then) mutual-in law, the ship seemed to popular on tumblr. then all the shit i see on YouTube is spicy noodles and people arguing in the comments that shadowpeach are brothers

anyway

i found out very quickly that the show did scratch a special itch in my brain (it almost didn’t if i’m being honest. i was almost put off by MK and Mei’s personalities at first but figured i would wait if our since AHiB is only the show’s pilot) and now i wanted more

i went onto twitter bc i struggles to find fanart on tumblr

i realized there was a 4th season already out (also weird discord drama???? idk i only was there for the art) AND some nice metas to dip my toes in

i leave twitter and go to yt to find the 4th season (and also bc there was a whole thing about new accounts getting called out for being “pro-shippers” so i decided to tap out) and then found out about Monkey King 2009 (which i watched to stave off the desire of s4 but this backfired bc i got obsessed with that one too and only 12 episodes are subtitled for it)

AND THEN I FIND SEASON 4

i watch it all and realize i have to wait for the s4 special, but i am more prepared for it (and now i feel more comfortable interacting with lmk tumblr) which leads to me making my own metas (this was spurred by my desire for more swk metas)

and thus i found and curated my lmk fandom experience on tumblr and satiated my brain with metas and fics and art until s4 special and then rinse and repeat until s5 :D

[angstandhappiness]

INTERESTING

New Gods: Nezha Reborn’s cyberpunk aesthetic was great because the creators really understood that historical and mythological Nezha was, at his core, punk. So when they translated that to a futuristic context they immediately gave him a motorbike and boy racing and leather jackets and water smuggling and saying no to hush money, because even if the original stories decry it, punish Nezha for acting out and fighting, that’s still what Nezha is remembered for – Nezha was counter-culture, Nezha was anti-authority, Nezha was do-it-yourself, Nezha was the definition of Direct Action.

Nezha was and is, eternally young.

[gamegirlx]

so apparently nezha is canonical in the transformers meta✨

IM CRYING WHAT IS THIS