#mk aknownledges that swk suffered a lot and is still suffering a lot and tries to help him

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SEASON 5 SEASON 5 SEASON 5!!!!!!!!

I think it'd be cool if this season showed MK internalizing the negative stuff people have said about him but instead of it being “I'm not good enough to be Monkey King's successor :(”, him showing more and more concern over the possibility that he'll turn out to be an exact copy of SWK (wouldn't it be really fucking funny if he was just Nuwa's attempt to create smth as powerful as the Monkey King lol)

The thing with MK is, everyone compares him to the Monkey King. From one point of view, that's great! He's his mentor, and being compared to a literal legend you looked up to throughout your entire childhood must feel great. From the other, though...

Ignoring that "MK didn't read JTTW" joke (nope, out of character, don't like it). MK knows about the bad stuff Sun Wukong has done and he's more aware than anyone else that Sun Wukong has changed. He knows that the point of the Monkey King's story, of his journey, was that he was a bad person and became better. It's a positive view on it (that kid loves SWK so much there's no way he'd think of him as a terrible person)

However, while MK is definitely aware of the fact that SWK is way more good now and would be living his best life if it weren't for people who don't understand that, he is also very much aware that SWK's actions ruined his life

The entire plot of JTTW is that a group of not-so-good people get together to help a much-better-but-still-not-perfect person deliver some scrolls while also earning redemption in the process. MK knows (or at least the rational part of his brain that isn't clouded by pure negative feelings and trauma and probably PTSD and also his self-doubt that having ADHD doesn't help with does) that if he truly was just like Monkey King, he'd grow and eventually end up better than where he started

But! As I said before, SWK's actions made everything go to shit in the past. He may be good now, but he still fucked up so badly that he's still facing the consequences of what he did and didn't do

SWK was alone for thousands of years. If MK turns out to be just like him, then what does that mean for him? He doesn't want to lose his friends, couldn't stand to live without his family

Sun Wukong lost everything back then and he might've gotten something different later (better in the sense that his past friendships were pretty fucking toxic. But MK's aren't — they're the best of the best! Does that mean that, unlike SWK, he'll end up alone forever?), but he still suffered and made other people suffer. MK doesn't want that to be him

So! I think it'd be cool for season 5 to be mostly centered around MK going down a similar path as SWK's past self, but realizing it before it can get too bad

Basically what I'm saying is that I want season 5 to explicitly say that no, SWK and MK are two different people with different minds and support networks, and the decisions MK will make won't lead him to where SWK is but instead to something entirely different, because unlike SWK, he already knows many of the lessons SWK had to learn throughout his journey (namely not killing people)

SEASON 5 THEORY (S1-4 SPOILERS)

You guys have probably already heard this but I cannot stress enough how much this is definitely a foreshadow to season five, possibly.

In the season 4 special after they defeat Azure, Yellow tusk says that they look like real heroes. BUT MKS NOT THERE WHEN HE SAYS THAT???

So either, 1: I'm mega delulu, or 2: MK turns into the mirror image of JTTW SWK. Because in majority of the instances where MK does a big hero scene on his own, there always HAS to be a like SWK reference. ARE WE GONNA IGNORE THAT HE'S WEARING THE FRICKIN CIRCLET IN THIS SCENE??

Also, to all the people saying that Meis gonna be the Macaque in MKs story; no hate but I just don't see that. Meis a descendant of Ao Lie. From what we've been shown in LMK so far, Ao Lie and SWK are chill guys. So unless MK hits her with the staff 3000, I just don't see it happening without any beef prior.

Maybe MK just won't take anyone's eye out guys, maybe he'll just cook them all and hit Pigsy with the "you're not my dad!" Then run away or smth silly.

Also, MACAQUE LITERALLY SAID MK AND SWK HAVE A LOT IN COMMON GUYS.