#and then envetually how that would affect him as the Monkey Kid constantly being seen as savior against the demons

[echo-lore]

A while back I read “The smell of plum blossom tea” by WeirdNCrazy (10/10 do recommend) and a minor part of the story was how Macaque was a medic and was teaching Mk how to be a medic

And ever since then I’ve fallen in love with the idea of Mk being a medic or wanting to study medicine

Like I imagine the scenario as to why he gets an interest in medicine is when Pigsy gets sick when he was around 8 or 9.

Like really really sick.

Could barely stand type of sick. He was vomiting everywhere and trembling and coughing. Tang had to force him to close down the restaurant because of how badly sick pigsy was

It was really weird for Mk to see his usually strong and stubborn dadsy left a puddle of misery in his bed and little Mk had been really worried that he wouldn’t get better. Of course tang reassured him that pigsy would get better, and that he would be back to his full strength in no time!

He was in fact not at his full strength in no time. If anything pigsy had gotten worst.

He was really out of it for the most part. Not fully there type beat. And that scared the shit out of both Mk and tang, who was trying really hard to keep things together for Mk but man it was rough.

But late one night, when the sickness was probably at its worst, Mk had gotten a nightmare. Nothing too significant but he still wanted the comfort of his dads. So he found himself outside his dads rooms but the door was alredy slightly open and he could hear tang ranting/crying about how it wasn’t fair that there was no medicine that would work. All the medicine he did give pigsy just made it worst and he was worried that he wouldn’t make it and how he wishes sometimes that the system wasn’t so unfair against demons

But that didn’t make sense for little old Mk. If there was medicine that was for humans why wasn’t there medicine for demons? And what it made so that pharmacies only have human medicine? Both demons and humans lived in the city, shouldn’t they sell both?

And with that, his nightmare was forgotten and he went down the rabbit hole of healthcare for demons.

Which was just a different type of nightmare.

Ignoring that medical treatments tended to cost more for demons, the whole healthcare system was garbage when it came to demons. Unlike humans, it was a lot harder to generalize the effect of certain medicine for demons. Things like type of demon and magic type affected the type of medicine demons could take which made it a lot harder for demons to get over the counter medicine. Everything needed to be approved by a doctor, even just simple headaches relief. And that was if the demon was allowed inside in the first place, many pharmacies and even major hospitals not allowing demons inside their facilities unless properly documented or not being “too dangerous”.

There was also the issue of many demons having horrible reactions to the type of drugs used in human medicine. Demons tend to be more connected with nature which means some can have really bad reactions to the shit that we kinda just made up. And while there are ways for demons to get more natural medicine in the cities, it is usually expensive and predatory towards those who need it.

At the end of all his research he basically realized that the exclusion of demons from healthcare was a silent way to exclude them from society- even if meatropilos was one of the better cities when it came to it.

And Mk thought that was utter bullshit and decided he wanted to have his own clinic- for both demons and humans using ways that work for both species.

All because he was so very terrified he would lose one of his dads when he heard what tang said that night. Sandy ended up finding a clinic that sold medicine that actually work for demons (thought farther from the city center) and pigsy got better in around a week.