#also Wukong's natural mortal lifespan was 300-something years and he spent most of his time around other demons | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

cave-monkey · 10 months ago

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I think one of my favorite thinks about LMK is that Sun Wukong genuinely feels stupid old sometimes in the sense I am genuinely unsure if he knows the difference between a 2yo, a 12yo, and a 20yo. All the characters are fully grown adults, but Sun Wukong is over here treating it like a wacky preteen adventure show because he has no clue. MK probably told him his age once and Mr. Great Sage straight blue-screened for a second doing mental calculus trying to remember what that means for mortals and he still hasn't figured it out. Old enough to be away from his parents some of the time, sure, obviously, but like...only two decades? That's not very many. How many of those do humans usually get?

When he's not tossing it on the mental pile of 'probably not important' he's trying to figure it out from context like a name you don't want to admit you forgot. This has cleared up exactly nothing.

#lego monkie kid personal #MK calling himself 'Monkie KID' did not in ANY way help #also Wukong's natural mortal lifespan was 300-something years and he spent most of his time around other demons #and his incredibly fuzzily-handwaved-but-still-insanely-long-lived monkey troop (even before the land of the dead incident)#and Puti and all his very daoist disciples #before MK if you told 5000+yo Monkey King someone was 20 he probably pictured like. An actual infant.#think that person you know who's never around any children and has no idea what's age-appropriate behavior for a toddler #my POINT is that MK could have stumbled on Red Son's gauntlet antics at 12 and Sun Wukong would likely not have noticed a difference #'go get 'em kiddo!'#do not leave sun wukong unsupervised around children

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