#lmk long armed gibbon

[quitealotofsodapop]

Hi! I wanted to ask something.

Like, most of us knows there are 4 Spiritual Monkeys in the legend(book)... Do the Wukongs and theyr LEM's ever tought about looking for them? Cause mines did and It was chaos

Tongbi: Wait... why there are not other us, Chikao? *Sad precious sunshine noises*

Chikao: We are probably lucky in theyr universes to not having to ature theyr "bullduey"

*Wukong and Liu'er fighting in the most platonic way possible*

(If you are wandering who Tongbi and Chikao are, Chikao = Baboon and Tongi = Gibbon. And both are girls)

Love them and all the different versions people are coming up with! Bonus: the @journeytothewestresearch post about them!

I've been personally calling them "Babs" = Baboon (Chikao mahou, 赤尻馬猴) and "Gibs" = Gibbon (Tongbi yuanhou, 通臂猿猴) as a nickname! XD

My idea is that they are the older of the four *known* celestial primates, with the oldest celestial primate being the since-ascended Shen Monkey who raced for the Jade Emperor.

Tongbi/Gibs has a naturally stretchy body (think like Monkey D Luffy) and is very optimistic. Whilst, Chikao/Babs is more of a realist with the power of reading a person's thoughts/intentions (an interpretation I have for "Understands human affairs,").

My personal hc backstory for them is that;

Tongbi/Gibs was born/hatched along the Heavenly River, her species limbs stretching to allow them to climb, swim and dance between the clouds and astral waterways. She could be considered the "Fresh-Water Monkey" for this reason. Her egg had actually fallen to earth during the Great Flood when the fifth Heavenly Pillar broke, and was found by a tribe of proto-humans (of which Fuxi originated) that raised her as their own. She lived with them for many years before deciding to seek out others of her kind - where upon she met Chikao/Babs

Menawhile, Chikao/Babs was actually born into the Underworld amongst demonkind. Her fellow demons did not understand why she had hatched from a egg-shaped stone that sat undisturbed in the demon-capital city of Youdu for many millennia, but they accepted her as their colleague nonetheless. When Chikao/Babs came of age, she was trained to carry out the duties of a Psychopomp; to gather and bring deceased soul before Yama and the Ten Kings, the same duties as Ox-Head and Horse-Face. She could be considered the "Abyss Monkey" for her gloomy origin.

The two celestial monkeys meet by pure chance when Chikao/Babs herself nearly dies trying to collect the soul of a reluctant water demon. Tongbi/Gibs saved her, and it was love/fascination at first sight like Little Mermaid.

The two female monkeys are soulmates in a yin-yang like dynamic. One stern and aloof, the other silly and expressive. They began seeking out others of their kind almost immediately after meeting - failing until they found a certain little stone monkey being cared for by an old mentor.

I made a joke post a while back about these two finding little Sun Wukong early and raising him as their own, and now I can't stop thinking of it! The Netflix and Smash Legends SWKs are who I most imagine as having the two super-powered moms, but I could def see an AU of Lego SWK having moms. X3

Chikao and Tongbi def be cringing hard at how bad their son is fumbling expressing his feelings for Macaque, and for how bad Macaque is at confronting *his* feelings!

[razzerturtle]

my design for Gibby aka the long armed gibbon

Her hair is wild so she styles it, I know that gibbons don’t have tails but I decided to have her one, and let’s just say she thought it was unfair that she didn’t have a tail so she shape-shift one for her

Pronouns: She/her/they/them

gender: Demi girl

powers: she has a lot so just look them up

She use to have a relationship with the red bottom baboon but not anymore since “The incident”, sometimes helps MK with his training(their basic a parental figure to him), she also got a scar from “the incident”, her favorite fruit is durian, she doesn’t like the smell, she just likes the taste of it

you can tell if a gibbon is a male or female because the males have a black fur coat and the females have a tan fur coat

[arttrashking]

I neeeeeeeddddddd to know how these two heal after the divorce arc! do those "bigger cracks" in their relationship get patched up? does Macaque grow to better understand the political position Wukong was in (his reason for staying emperor)? do they learn how to communicate finally? what does their "happy ending" look like, a domestic life on FFM with many adopted kids? who gets pissed about the change of leadership, do they try and give the monkeys grief? is Wukong ever able to get more approval from his in-laws, considering leaving behind the throne (among many other gestures he gives Macaque to "repay" him) is a pretty big commitment?

(no pressure to reveal things, I just REALLY loooovveeee the Heavenly Emperor AU and am dying to know how the future goes for these silly little monkeys)

Giving Mac a chance to really become a person before he feels he can come back into something with Wukong and Wukong finally letting go of needing to protect and repay him is something I think they needed before they could settle and finally work on their life and family-

Yeah that’s the gist really- again it’s more a rp prompt for me 😅

[peachburger]

Okay- so I thought of this-

Been too hype about monkeys so I had the thought of making the four celestial primates looking like the actual monkeys ✨

Hope you all like it cause to be honest I was struggling with..THE BABOON 👹👹 (I love them)

[peony-flowerking7]

Portrait

"She was huge, I always felt like I could never see her face."

"I think this is the only time we got to paint her face...I miss her, Kid."

"...You're.."

IT'S HERE SEASON 5 IS HERE GUYS I AM GOING TO ISOLATE MYSELF NONE OF YOU TALK TO ME LEAF ME ALONE! I WILL CURSE YOU ALL AAHAHAJAHJAHAJA ITS HERE SEASON 5 IS HERE I'M GOING TO EXPLODE FUCK FUCK FUCKSBFIAHISVAIABAK

Bro think he cute...he is

[digitaldoeslmk]

the four three celestial monkeys are back in towwwwn

[inkyminx]

[deadlandsqueen]

Remember how I have a LMK Oc? Im not done with them! I just go off vibes

Mama Macaque is a house hold rule

My boi Gibbon

Patreon (I show behind the scenes here)

[ep2nd]

What are your lmk sexuality canon

Alright here we go-

Yall please don't kill me this is my own headcannons-

MK- Demiromantic

Mei- Bisexual

Macaque- Bisexual

Huntsman- Bisexual

DBK- Bisexual

Redson- Bisexual and Genderfluid (the genderfluid might be canon to LMK can't remember)

Wukong- Pan

Azure- Pan

Spider Queen- Omni

Tang- Gay and Aromantic

Syntax- Ace

Sandy- AroAce

Pigsy- Bi

Scorpion Queen- Lesbian

Peng- Non-binary (canon)

Yellowtusk- nothing (I just don't have any for him)

The Mayor- Queer

9HD- Queer

Big Spider- nothing

PIF- Straight Alley (is that what you call it???)

AND IF THE OTHER 2 CELESTIAL PRIMATES WERE HERE

Red-Horse Baboon- Demiromantic and Gay

Long-armed Gibbon- Pan

[brokenolivejar]

RAAAA I COLORED THEM for those who are actually interested in them looks around

[noodlecatt467]

CelestialPrimatesAU Masterpost

More details here

And here

Chapter 1:What was heard

Pt 1/ Pt2/Pt3

Chapter 2: The Intruder

Pt1/ Pt2/Pt3/Pt4/Pt5/Pt6/Pt7

Chapter 3:Taking care of it

Pt1/Pt2/Pt3

Chapter 4:Old souls and new faces

Pt1/Pt2

[quitealotofsodapop]

If the Gibbon and/or Baboon told Wukong about the Stone Eggs before leaving earth, why wouldn't they make a pit stop on the moon to give Macaque the same talk?

They honestly probably did!

On their way off-planet they took a rest stop with Chang'e before leaving the solar system. They probably met Macaque this way, all primates super-surprised to see eachother.

Young Macaque: *has never seen another monkey before* ◉ ̫ ◉ Babs and Gibs: *did not expect to see a monkey on the moon* Babs: "Uh..." Gibs: "Hi little one!"

The two older monkeys stay on the moon longer than they had planned (Chang'e was delighted for the company) so that they could impart basic monkey knowledge since Macaque and the other lunar deities didn't know any of it.

They get to the; "Make sure not to bury yourself, or you're body will start to make a Stone Egg that could kill you" - talk after a good few teaching sessions about the regular way monkey infants get made. It left the little moon-shadow monkey very disturbed.

Ironically the pair forgot to specify that it was an ability *special* to Stone Monkeys. Macaque spent years thinking that *any* one could accidentally create a Stone Egg if they got buried for long enough.

First time he saw someone taking a mud bath, he started screaming.

As for Macaque knowing that Wukong was under the mountain... he sorta assumed since his head was exposed, the Stone Egg process couldn't happen. Like, he thought maybe you needed to be completely airtight for your body to start doing it.

In the aus where Macaque returns to see a Stone Egg-pregnant Wukong, he still has a moment of "Who did this to you!? I'll kill them!" before he remembers "Oh yeah..."

[razzerturtle]

how I think the other spiritual primates will react to seeing MK being Monkey Kings apprentice

Long armed gibbon: “oh mi gosh!, hello, I’m The long armed gibbon, but you can call me Gibby or Gib, whatever makes you happy, it’s nice to meet you, if Wukong is okay with it or isn’t around, I can train you, if you like, I mean, there’s nothing wrong with having too many mentors”

The red bottom baboon: “why hello, you must be MK, it’s a pleasure to meet you, I heard that Gibby offered to help you with your apprenticeship, I also heard that Macaque also once taught you but he “betrayed” you, but they are right, there is nothing wrong with having to many mentors”

[arttrashking]

Planning to respond to my inbox but have some extra content

The in laws….that very much do no approve of Wukong but they couldn’t stop Mac from marrying him

[peachburger]

Long Armed Gibbon playing with some monkeys from FFM

Design is from this Post!

Wanted to draw these designs more since you guys seem to like em and I like em too lol

The brown one is named butternana, the beige is peanut butter and the white one is buttercream

They are all named after butter-

[peony-flowerking7]

Gibbon time

So, Yuan is actually the tallest ape out of them all! THERE'S NO DENYING IT!!

Even Macaque being the tallest come to wukong and Duzhe, he cannot overtake YUAN THEMSELVES!! She's lanky and pretty chill. Wukong and Macaque had fun time with them, they never touched the floor and always stood on trees, she is not walking on the ground she's walking on top of the trees. Long Armed Gibbon rarely spent time in the floor so here ya go.

Also fun fact in Journey to the West Wukong idea for becoming immortal and going to Master Subodhi to gain immortality was from a Gibbon. So when Wukong was on his days where he was like oh man I don't wanna die and he was afraid of death Yuan was the one to advice Wukong about Master Subodhi. So yeah....says a lot of things.

Fun fact about Yuan they actually don't like the feeling of stone on their feet, so I have this cute idea where Wukong and Macaque built a forest around their palace so Yuan wouldn't be touching the floor. Man...there such great friends I wonder what happened.