#it’s bc my dumbass made it before finishing lmk itself

[monkie-k-id]

Hello Monkie kid fandom i present unto thee the AU

Cold Island AU is set about 3-5 years after season 3 ends! After LBD dies she gives some of her magic to MK, who upon learning this sort of freaks out, and with a lack of braincells and impulsitivy digs Monkey King’s staff into the earth and resolves to come back when he figures out why this happened and how to get the magic out of him. He leaves a note though, so points to trying.

Meanwhile, LBD’s host picks up the staff a couple of years later and resolves to find MK and try to bring him back. Just in time for some antagonistic force to peek its head over and cause some mayhem (cough cough the mayor trying to get LBD’s power back in order to finish her job cough)

Everything else but condensed into bulletpoints:

- MK is a bit more serious in this au, at least while fighting. He picked up more hand-to-hand combat and uses a Chain Whip now since he had to leave the staff behind. He also has like a bunch of knives hidden on his person. Not having the support of his friends made him more prepared in a way.

- he also still wanted to help people even if he couldn’t be The Monkey Kid, so he often just. Gets himself involved in situations. He still fights demons and stuff but he will also just help if you look like you’re having trouble crossing the street.

- Do not even worry he is still a big goofball though. A goofball with issues.

- And also maybe a tiny bit scared of LBD’s power and what it means about him and his relationships, and how everybody would react to it (cough cough “you should’ve stayed buried” cough) because he is a biased pov

- which is one of the reasons he wants to get rid of it so bad and avoids facing his friends. He’s technically a remnant of the most recent conflict that nobody got unscathed out of.

- He and LBD’s host have a sibling reletionship! They’re not quite mentor and mentee like Sun Wukong and MK were but they’re still pretty close and got along really quickly

- LBD’s host also has some of LBD’s powers, although they’re more accidental than MK’s and are a consequence of the possession

- in fact throughout the events of the story LBD’s host and MK kind of swap powers, since LBD’s host starts unlocking Monkey King powers from the staff (that she picked up) and MK starts using LBD’s more accidentally

Jeez that’s a lot of words! This AU still isn’t done and is still getting hashed out, so sorry if any of this is confusing or has some very obvious holes and leaps in logic. Doesn’t help that I got excited and made it before I even finished the series 😭 either way a very needed idea dump