#Monkie kid season 3 spoilers

[iamearthy]

hey so like, why did MK call Demon Bull King daddy in that one season 3 scene

[angstandhappiness]

Such stupid monkey boys

OP’s tags @ninja-knox-ur-sox-off   #THEY'RE DISASTERS UR HONOUR#oh and by save them i don't mean save what they're doing#i mean save the relationship they ahve#or save the chance to build a better one#I AM JUST A BALL OF WORDS AND RAMBLING TODAY HUH#I MAKE NO SENSE I'M SICK BUT Y'ALL HAVE THIS ANYWAY#LOVE MONKEY KING'S CHARACTER I'M HOLDING HIM SO GENTLY#TRHOWING HIM INTO A WALL#COMUNICATE U ABSOLUTE BAFOON#shakes mk#STOP RATIONALIZING LAD PLEASE

@valec275 All of this!

@network-warrior-01  #I think a part of the middle got cut off but yeah#COMMUNICATE YA DUMB MONKIES#HERE COMES

@updocintia #dang#knox rambles#lmk#lego monkie kid#mk#stop rationalizing#for the love of#swk#communicate#I fear for these boys

@greatgaspiads  #Delicious

You’d think I’d have less thoughts from this episode since it was not very plot heavy but i am not done bGKAMWOEF 

[Monkie kid season 3 episode 3 spoilers] 

Really thinking about Mk and Wukong’s dynamic in season 3 so far, as of episode 3 (rambling all this now cause i can’t watch 4 and 5 until later so getting this all out rn BGAKWEFMOW) 

The rest of the crew tolerate Wukong, at best. He’s not important to them in any way shape or form, aside from Tang who’s the fanboy but not totally personal invested in Wukong outside of his fantasy’s of being his BFF. 

But! 

He is important to Mk. And they know that. They see that. And they respect that, so they tolerate Wukong, even if they don’t really like him. 

Mei especially has no patience for his cryptic nonsense or the way it effects her best friend. 

Which, honestly, fair, he’s not communicating and letting Mk come to some conclusions that aren’t true and leaning into the mysterious mentor trope he thinks he needs to be, which isn’t helpful to anyone. 

When it comes to the crew, Mk is almost… blocking Wukong from them during confrontation, often times quite literally placing himself between them 

Basically acting as a middle ground man and attempting to communicate or make excuses for Monkey King, which honestly, isn’t really healthy. It prevents Monkey King from having to face some consequences and doesn’t help him learn to communicate, and Mk falls into the roll of apologizing for other people a little two easily.  

And again, the crew tolerates this because they know how important Monkey King is to Mk. He really cares about him. Even though Monkey King basically dips again, without actually leaving, Mk cares and wants to make sure he’s part of the group and even comfortable 

Part of it comes from Mk’s need to please the people around him

and his desire for validation and to have his mentor/father figure tell him he did a good job 

Mk is very loyal and he’d do anything for the people he cares about. Even blame himself for their behaviour and try to change himself because he’ll rationalize until he’s convinced himself he’s the problem. 

But, that doesn’t mean he’s stupid. 

He sees 

However, he’s quick to forgive and quicker to excuse, and Monkey King tends to breeze over things because confrontation is BAD™ for him and he avoids it however he can, usually by dismissing it and bulldozing ahead with positive talk  and acting like things don’t get to him. Which just feeds into Mk’s rationalization more bgsalkemfwe 

MAN THEIR DIFFERENT TRAUMAS AND HABITS CLASH SO BADLY GOOD GRIEF 

ANYWAY, just thinking about Mk as the middle man in this situation and how long that’s gonna be able to last with how serious things are and how Wukong’s inability to communicate is gonna continue to effect the group and dig him into a deeper hole until Mk can’t give him any more excuses or defend him (or if he’d even want to) 

The day when Wukong looks to Mk to convince the others to get behind him and Mk looks away is gonna crush me if it ever comes (Wukong too probs haha*sobs*) 

*shakes the monkey* COMMUNICATE GOSH DANG YOU 

Thing is, he’s definitely trying to communicate but it obviously isn’t working very well. Just with what Mk said alone with the 

“He’s in no state to waste his time on mere mortals, especially since now I don’t have my powers” 

LIKE THAT? THAT SOUNDS BAD 

But the reality of the situation is that Mk doesn’t have his powers. He and Monkey King were the strongest players to keep them from getting wiped out during a boss fight, and now that they’re both out for the count they’re in a lot of danger. Wukong knows this. He knows they’re in danger and that their best bet right now is him. He can do boss fights, he did them back during the Journey all the time. It’s a very serious situation and he’s their best bet, the easily killed mortals are not. 

Say it out loud though and it sounds horrible. “I’m more important than you right now.” When in reality it’s closer to “if I don’t recharge you’re all going to die so I’ve gotta get to the point where i can protect you and that means focusing on myself for a while until i’m up to game” 

BUT OF COURSE HE DOESN'T’ SAY THAT, AND MK DOESN’T REALLY TAKE IT THAT WAY, NONE OF THEM DO 

*shakes the monkey* COMMUNICATE GOSH DANG YOU 

Anyway, I lost my train of thought, the monkey is stupid and communicates a lot like my mom does BG;ALJKWEMFO Mk’s not gonna be able to put himself between the monkey and his friends forever, and as much of a peacemaker as he’s trying to be, real communication is what’s gonna save them and if they can’t get to that point good luck my guy 

This all started from how i just noticed the way Mk stands between his friends and Monkey King when they start getting annoyed with him *WHEEZING* AIGHT HEADING OUT PEACE 

(I’m still not over how gently Mk put Monkey King down after carrying him out of the truck tho actually bG;JLKAEMFOW) 

[scarabeeart]

talk to the badge

[lulisart]

I started this thought on Twitter and now I'm going to continue here.

It's very likely that my theory is wrong, but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes.

All good! This probably won't make sense at first, but let's keep an open mind for my first theory that came from scratch since I didn't see anyone talking about it.

The first thing I will point out is Wukong's glowing eyes in the scene of his battle against Macaque, I know many will say that he is only using golden vision, but his expression is so apathetic! So, the guy is LITERALLY breaking the face of the most important living being in his life, he should at least be looking furious like Macaque himself is in the scene!

Returning to the main part of the exposition, which does not fit with the expressions he normally makes when he is fighting seriously (example in season 3 in the fight against lbd, and in season 4 in the fight against Azure)

Wukong is expressive in these moments of struggle, he has a tendency to show his teeth and leave his eyebrows furrowed.

This is an expression he doesn't get when he's under lbd's control.

And in the scene we have of his fight against Macaque.

This theory of mine became even stronger when I remembered David Breen's tweet (one of the guys who participated in the production of lmk's script) talking about we only saw Macaque's point of view, but not the entire story (I lost the tweet and couldn't find it, so if you don't consider that part I'll understand, If I find it, I will respond)

[ningadudexx]

fear grimace

[angstandhappiness]

ABSOLUTELY STUNNING love the moment SWK gets REALLY mad at Macaque and just drags his ass out of the shadows, literally.

//LMK SEASON 3 SPOILERS

“You! You ruined everything!” “I didn’t do it!” “Who else if it wasn’t you?!”

[abessive-art]

-- I'm gonna LOSE IT! [2/2]

[ghostenluvs]

we as a fandom need to appreciate this image more.

look at him.

also consider:

if i find more i shall add more.

this is a very niche but hilarious type of lmk screenshot.

[owlpower669]

screenshot redraw!!

original screenshot and timelapse below :3 took me around 4 hours

[angstandhappiness]

OOOF, Nice art

“Who do you think you are, trying to take that from him?”

In celebration of Macaque’s return and me being helpless to my impulsive headcanon urges bby

[puppppppppy]

(SEASON 4 SPOILERS)

Here is the current wip for Dear Wormwood!!

[cryptic-underground]

Dumb lil SWK video

[angstandhappiness]

INTERESTING

LMK headcanon / hypothesis

Inspired by an amazing analysis and theory here: https://ninja-knox-ur-sox-off.tumblr.com/post/689232251596259328 

By @ninja-knox-ur-sox-off, who has also written about their thoughts about Sun Wukong holding back his strength. Please give their posts a read and shower the author with love! They’ve written other great analysis before on Lego Monkie Kid, so you’ll find more great stuff on their blog.

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So, the season 3 special has shown that Sun Wukong, in all fights before, was holding back his strength. He could’ve had destroyed everybody in short time, could’ve finished the battles within seconds. Instead, he limited his strength and powers. Liu-er Mihou even calls him out on it.

What interests me is that a) it seems to go in line with Sun Wukong receiving injuries, and b) he never loses control.

For a). The most obvious example is when he fights Nezha, then breaks the shield surrounding the map. The whole process as well as the explosion of the shield breaking injures Sun Wukong to the point that he’s in visible pain.

And b). Even when he’s under a time crunch, Sun Wukong has to fight Nezha to a stand-still and pin him down with several of his clones. He has to excert force to break the shield until it shatters. There’s no last second burst of strength, no triumphant crash.

Of course, Sun Wukong knows his power. He spent years, later centuries to master them. He knows how to use them safely or else he’d have accidentally hurt one of his monkies or friends before.

Where my thoughts went, later solidied because of @ninja-knox-ur-sox-off, is that this level of restraint plus control seen in Lego Monkie Kid maybe exists because both of training and experience, and a specific mindet. I feel that Sun Wukong has created a system of mental blocks that allot him a percentage of his power for any situation. It depends on how he perceives a situation with how fast he can switch between levels.

This also affects how sturdy his body is. He can’t separate the strength of his body from the rest of his powers. So how physically vulnerable he’s to various kinds of attacks depends on his ‘power levels’ as well and how much energy funnels into his body.

Keep reading

[boonalina]

I finished my video analysis of the LMK outfit designs:

Check out the video: Here

[the-orion-inexpirience]

I'm sure tang can talk his way out of trouble, he's sexy like that

Uncontroversial take: Mk big brother to Bai he

I'm so attached to these characters it's not even funny anymore

[angstandhappiness]

INTERESTING

[Monkie kid season 3 episode 4 spoilers, tw abuse] 

SO many things make sense about Macaque’s character and the way he’s been acting now after episode 4. Man’s basically straight up been abused by LBD.

AND THE WAY HE’S ALWAYS SO THROWN BY THE WAY MK RESPONDS TO HIM NOW MAKES SENSE TOO NOW

BECAUSE MK IS HIM. Macaque is to Mk what LBD is Macaque. Macaque is threatened and abused and he turns around and does the same things to Mk, responding violently to him, gloating, threatening, telling him “you’re nothing,” because LBD tells him in the wake of “HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN WHO I AM? WHAT I AM?” he is nothing. 

And then instead of continuing the cycle of taking it and turning around and being that person to someone else, Mk breaks out, fights back, and asks him why he’s doing this. 

Macaque says “FIGHT BACK” but it’s almost like he wants to lord over him the fact that he can’t fight back rather than get him to actually fight back. Mk is powerless and Macaque is powerful and he can do nothing, he is nothing. That could be why he alway seems to look so surprised whenever Mk actually fights back. 

Mk doesn’t react like he does. Instead he breaks the cycle. He’s kind to his friends, what’s more is he’s kind to Macaque. And when he doesn’t back off, he kicks out kicks back, because Mk knows what’s happening is wrong and that Macaque is wrong and he has a group of friends who supports him and mean the world to him, and he will take it all, but the moment you put them in danger he fights, and that is what Macaque doesn’t have. 

He miscalculates because he assumes everyone is like him or thinks like him or reacts like him like he thinks they will, but his ability to see that is completely screwed by the fact that he’s been manipulated and abused and gaslit by the Lady Bone Demon. He can’t even see people anymore. Like… 

He’s in a rough spot. We don’t know how long LBD had to mess with him or how much in his head isn’t real that she showed him, or how much is through his warped lens, or how much was planted as false memories by her. How almost angelic like she looks in the flashback feels wrong. 

Macaque’s unstable right now. Straight up. He’s lashing out more than ever, unhinged in a way that really illustrates the fact he’s falling apart right now. He got taken advantage of when he was near-death and agreed to a deal that has trapped him in an abusive horrible situation. Can’t even get a good figure on how that happened because both LBD and Macaque are unreliable narrators. Even Macaque’s own memories could be something changed by LBD, a specific version of events that she forces him to remember when they might not be true. 

However he got there, Macaque is in a pretty horrible situation. Mk, who’s been directly traumatized and manipulated by LBD is in a pretty horrible one too, but he’s choosing to try and find something to beat her, when, to Macaque, she is unbeatable, so why try to do anything but follow her and stay on “the winning side”. He’s been pretty thoroughly snapped to pieces and sculpted into her “champion”. It’s not him. But that’s who he has to be right now to survive in his mind. 

Macauqe is LBD’s “champion” and Macaque is trying to make Mk his “student” which is basically just code word for “tool” and “punching bag”. And the cycle of abuse ends there, because Mk won’t let it continue. 

Being in a situation like that is no excuse to treat anyone the way he does, abuse is abuse no matter what you experience, Macaque is to Mk what LBD is to Macaque and yet Mk chooses be kind despite that, even if the situation is so similar. It doesn’t make what he does okay, but it does provide a much closer look at why he acts and reacts the way he does to things. 

Why doesn’t he fight back?

Well, he tells us himself. 

“Kid, you can’t even beat me.” 

When Sun Wukong was at full power, Macaque couldn’t beat him. And when Mk fought LBD all out, using all of Sun Wukong’s powers, he lost, Sun Wukong even hasn’t tried to fight her. So, if he can’t beat them he knows he can’t beat her when she’s stronger than them. The way he treats Mk actually kinda just tells him exactly what he thinks and his rationalization behind things. 

Anyway, Macaque’s an abuser who has been abused himself and hecking needs therapy. Looking forward to getting more of the backstory between him and Wukong cause that could provide SO much more insight to his character and I am STARING.