#just because wu cheng'en made a bad take doesnt mean you have to!!!!!

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What's princess Iron fan the goddess of?? I wanna know her origins. From her childhood to how she met Ox king.

She’s known as both Iron Fan Goddess and Goddess of HuoYan Shan (translates basically to Fire Flame Mountain? there’s probably a better translation but I’m going off my own knowledge)! 

She’s not so much a goddess as in a “proper” celestial one, but rather she’s made the villagers living near HuoYan Shan yield to her and offer her food and stuff like a goddess. Unfortunately, not much is known about Iron Fan Princess ): All that’s really known is that she married Bull Demon King and is Red Boy’s mom. It’s mentioned that she achieved immortality but doesn’t really go into specifics. Most people assume she’s a demon or spirit who cultivated Daoism, like Wukong!

But… If you wanna know my personal interpretation, I’ll put headcanons *fingerguns* under the cut cuz I don’t wanna clog up anyone’s dash.

Inherited the Bajiao Fan from her mother

Wanna say her mom was a really powerful immortal who was gifted the Bajiao Fan by some god

But then her mom screwed up somehow (minor? major? i dunno Heaven wanted to stab Wujing everyday cuz he broke a lamp) and Heaven was like, “oof now when you have a child, they’ll be a demon”

Has had formal combat training focusing on swords, also has hella strong nei li (inner strength) and gongfu

Was classmates with Bull Demon, studied and cultivated Daoism under the same sifu together

Probably was also a strong, powerful, and respected force among demons, Wu Cheng’en was just blinded by Confucianism and that’s the tea :/

She’s probably already established herself as the Goddess of HuoYan Shan before even meeting Wukong

Going off that, she probably met Wukong with Bull Demon, when Wukong swore brotherhood and alliances with the other demon kings

SHE, WUKONG, AND BULL DEMON WERE AN UNSTOPPABLE TRIO

Because I love friend group dynamics and also angst for later on:

Those three were the closest out of the demon squad

They sparred together and wraught havoc upon villages 

Lots of adventuring together!! Bantering!! Teasing!!

Yeah given how insanely OP Wukong is, I’d like to credit Iron Fan and Bull Demon’s ability to hold their own in a fight against him to having a familiarity with his fighting style

The three of them share three braincells and Iron Fan has two of them for most of the time

This is when crushes develop :3c

Wukong erased Iron Fan and Bull Demon’s names from the death books

Wukong probably also slipped them a few immortality peaches during the Havoc

That all being said- She and Bull Demon were probably as distraught as the HuaGuo Shan monkeys when they heard what happened

Bull Demon coped by being like, “Eh, it’s our bro Sun Wukong. This is probably an elaborate prank or he’s planning something. He’s gonna be fine.”

Iron Fan however was like, “Well I’m just gonna forget now.” and pushes all her feelings under a rug

They both continue to grow their power in the meantime

She and Bull Demon got married 200 years after the incident cuz Red Boy’s said to be 300 years old by the time Wukong encounters him

Was probably a doting mom and loved Red Boy to bits

But was also a bad influence and gave him all the weapons he could ever want as playthings

Her and Bull Demon’s relationship probably got strained around the time Red Boy was 200 because Bull Demon started making bad decisions

I don’t think the book ever mentioned Iron Fan ever showing malicious jealousy towards Jade-Faced Vixen and Jade-Face sends her gifts to make amends so I don’t think they’re enemies

The majority of the strain is coming from Bull Demon wanting more, more, more and wanting to be an even more powerful king

Which included having another consort because :/ Tang Dynasty- and Iron Fan, as most reasonable people, was pretty pissed at this line of thinking

Iron Fan, although pretty ambitious and glory-chasing and power-hungry herself, was getting frustrated with how brute-force Bull Demon was starting to go about it

Afterall, Wukong was the strategist in their plans and Bull Demon was starting to lose sight of what made their old plans work

They also started seeing each other less and less and Iron Fan got disheartened because it seemed like Red Boy enjoyed hanging out with his dad more 

She started getting even more pissed because she worried Bull Demon would be a bad influence for the kid

Which led to her trying to steer Red Boy away from his dad which made Bull Demon mad which made their relationship more strained

Iron Fan and Bull Demon probably still had some feeling left for each other and were sad with how their relationship was progressing but with the place they were in and the roads they were taking, they weren’t a good match for each other at that time

So when Iron Fan hears about Wukong being back and what he did to Red Boy…. oh boy

All hell breaks loose