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pigsy fr:

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"How will you sleep at night?"

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hermes dancing while odysseus is fighting for his life like

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"No, this is not what I wanted."

"I can still fix this!

"It's the whole reason I'm here at all!"

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"Monkey King,"

"I'm not ready to not have a mentor."

". . . We need you."

"I need you . . ."

". . . to be the Monkey King."

"The world needs you more than it needs me, bud."

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I've been thinking, how long was MK sleeping in the rock until Xiangliu 'hatched' him?

If MK waltzed into Pigsy's noodle shop right after he 'woke up', does that mean he didn't wake up as an infant, but has been in the rock long enough to develop a body that can walk?

If he woke up eons later, does that mean he would have woken up as an adult?

"I am sorry, MK. But if I'd done nothing . . . It was all gonna happen anyway! You just wouldn't have had... I wanted more for you than just the path, the sacrifice, destiny."

Also, is it just me or is this giving the impression that if left undisturbed, a harbinger will have no second thoughts about their destiny and do what is required of them.

Like a child being raised that way without outside intervention.

MK gets to realize his choices because Pigsy raised him, and he was able to be part of different people's lives.

"He is who he is because of you!"

Did Xiangliu cause his awakening to be at that young age so that the world can 'raise' him as a person who makes his own choices?

If MK had been left alone until the end of the world as arranged, would he have awakened as an adult and be like 💥pop💥 okay apocalypse incoming, gotta collect the stones and jump in a beam of light, this is what the vOICES told me, no doubt about it

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hm so

"No. You saw what it did to Azure."

Anyone else wondering if Wukong, in this moment, feared that he'd have to watch MK fade away like Azure did

That he might have imagined this but with MK and did not like the image it created

How he should have felt relieved when the power didn't consume the kid as he thought it might

But then this kid goes on to say "I can fix this" and although he doesn't tell them how, Wukong has an inkling of an idea and he hopes it isn't what the kid is considering

But no, he doesn't lose MK to the Jade Emperor's power. He loses him to destiny.

and when he does, the last thing he sees of MK is this

And it looks nothing like losing Azure.

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Nezha returning the "control yourself" line to his father will forever be on my mind btw

"Father, these three, they're not—"

"Control yourself. This sideshow is over."

"The world has no hope left—!"

"Control yourself."

like

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he should have taken that trident. ykno, as a souvenir for his son or smthn

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i don't think i'm understanding this correctly but here are some shower thoughts on that Nine-Headed guy and Macaque's powers (lmk S5 spoilers)

"Wukong, come on! We are old enemies! We're old friends, too. You just don't remember."

This line is bugging me. Is he saying this because he knows Wukong forgot or does it have something to do with a past life?

Becauseee how did he get to see "chaos beyond"?

His explanation of being able to "get out" no matter which choice MK makes leads me to think that chaos is reachable through an "end of the world that needs the pillars" thing.

I don't know how many times the world did a "cycle", but I wonder if he was once a sacrifice like MK (and he knows Wukong in that world ????), and he was able to see chaos because of it?

IT IS A STRETCH but if not as a sacrifice, then something related to that? Maybe that's why he knows how to "end the world", feels so strongly about letting MK have a life and make his own choice, and why he seems mad at Nüwa.

Maybe this is where that deal with his powers comes in?

Something that gives him back his life (memories?) at some point in the sacrifice so he can return to the people and convince them to jOIn the DaRk side?

"That power. Who gave that to you? Who'd you make a deal with?"

Though, he seems to be referring to deals that give power instead of life here so maybe he was not a sacrifice perse. However, HIS QUESTION.

The only deal I could think of related to Macaque is with LBD, and that had something to do with "return[ing him] to the mortal plane."

Plus, I think we've seen Macaque with his powers before the deal? Like, breakup scene

did he not?? always have that???

Then again, we haven't really seen much of past Macaque using his powers (i think this scene was the only?? instance??), so did he get this after the Brotherhood? To be able to teleport to Wukong who's trapped under the mountain?

Or maybe for that overthrowing attempt? Maybe he felt the need to be stronger too, so Macaque made a deal to get shadow powers.

And because it wasn't originally his power, he couldn't control it during the time of his fight with Wukong so the shadows swallowed??? him up??

Anw I don't know about green guy's chaos thing (or his charac in the book srry), I'm just curious as to why Wukong doesn't remember. What does he not remember?

Either: (a) it's not that important, (b) guy's referring to a past cycle he remembers (????), or (c) guy is so irrelevant that Wukong forgot about him fr

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me watching my girl lie to the world abt her bf's horrible dad and calling him a hero, choosing to be supportive with her decision bc bf might not be able to handle the truth:

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aye

"So, you got bone demon powers now, huh? Well, it is on brand for you to have a worse version of everyone else's powers."

me in s3 only thinking abt Mac getting LBD powers and not anyone else's: maybe bc he stole Monkey King's powers before?????????

me in s5 hearing Xiangliu ask Macaque about some deal for his shadow powers, which is now somehow replaced with what looks like chaos power from Xiangliu: O H

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thinking about howww it's super cruel for the snake guy to wake MK up much too early and let him live a life that he'll eventually have to give up for the sake of the world

yet at the same time, it's considerate of him to let MK experience life and love and family before the end of the world like

which one is better, not knowing what you could've had or knowing what you're about to lose?

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something something first line of Dangerous, "Make it back alive to our homeland" is not there after the "one goal in mind" bc there's no one left to sing it ayeee ayeeeee

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lmk s5 ep9 eng spoilers

basically