#muzha mention

[journeytothe-legos]

My Dearest, Li Jing,

How are you and your wife doing? How are your sons?

I await your reply, my handsome king.

Your most loyal servant,

-🐺

Me and my wife are fine, not that it should be anyone's business.

Jinzha and Muzha are well last I saw them, they're very busy making something of themselves.

[weaverpop]

Does the li family have any phobias?

And on that topic how does nezha handle MKs arachnophobia? I'm sure it's gotten somewhat better cause of the spider gang, in that he doesn't freak out at the sight of every spider, maybe just the really big and venomous ones.

But I can also see it having also worsened in that rather 50/50 flight or freeze it's now 25/75 freeze or fight. Many a hole in the wall has had to be fixed.

Tw talk about phobias!

Hmmm phobias…

I personally think Jing would have aerophobia. (Technically fear of flying, but I couldn’t find the one that was just the plane itself) He loves Nezha and his little machines, but like he’ll is he gotta get on that death machine. He’d rather drive or go on a boat. Al least with them you gotta chance! (No i’m not projecting)

Azure has Iatrophobia (fear of doctors) to nobody’s suprised. But he ALSO has a phobia of thunder, (Astraphobia) which isn’t too surprising since, yk, cat.

Jinzha has musophobia (fear of mice)! They chewed his clothes one time when he was like, 5. He was never the same.

Muzha would have Dentophobia! (Fear of the dentist) He takes VERY good care of his teeth, and struggles with going to the dentist VERY badly. He only goes if absolutely necessary. (Removing his wisdom teeth was a nightmare)

Nezha, of course, has Iatrophobia (fear of doctors). It’s ironic after finding out Jing was a nurse. He also has trypanophobia (fear of needles). The two thing don’t make a great combo.

Mocha has no phobias. She feels fear like everyone else, but she just… kinda doesn’t have one that bad? She’s an outlier.

Nezha actually takes MK’s arachnophobia very well. He’s not suprised, since it’s so common among mortals and even some celestials. And while Mk has gotten better about Spider Demons, actual spiders are still a big ol’ NOPE for Mk. Nezha found it cute at first… until around the third time he’s had to help replaster and repaint walls from the many spider deaths. He eventually starts setting little traps and stuff, and that seems to keep them at bay. Mk basically worships Nezha for a few days afterward.

(All the Li’s have Atychiphobia (Fear of Failure))

[the-monkey-ruler]

Who would you cast as who if there was a Muppets JTTW film and which character would be the token human?

Oooo I've had this conversation before! I remember cause there were so many options! Like maybe the token Sanzang human so that he just kidnapped by muppets would be funnier. Or the token Wujing human just cause he is in the background but the most serious the group could fit!

But I have decided that a Wukong played with a human would be the funniest option for several reasons. And Yes I am basing this on humor a lot as I believe the muppets are best when they are hilarious. I would have Wukong as the token human cast because he is the 'main character' so to speak and thus would have the most lines/emotional delivery that would be best by a human actor (like Muppet Treasure Island or with Christmas Carol) Also have a real martial artist play Wukong and fighting fucking muppet-yao would be the best. If I had to choose an actor I can't say I know a lot of martial artists actors (who aren't retired) but I thought Simu Liu did a great job in both action and performance so maybe him or someone with similar talent fighting wise.

Sanzang has to be Kermit. Like there is no other options really. Sure Kermit could also be Wujing but really who else could play that well-meaning if not also slighty-always-frustrated-and-please-stop-starting-shit attitude. Tell me this isn't Sanzang trying to tell off his three yao-disciples in the Ginseng Fruit arc to stop stealing shit.

I really think Kermit would bring that overall good nature that Sanzang deserves in a role while still showing his own flaws of being stubborn and exasperated. The mom-friend of the group barely kept it together and just Kermit taking being kidnapped by demons with a grain of salt. I love Kermit and think he deserves his time on screen.

Bajie has to Miss Piggy. I was thinking maybe Miss Piggy as Guanyin just for extra laughs of the Goddess of Mercy coming down and throat-chopping demons to help Wukong and the gang out but honestly, I feel like Miss Piggy deserves to be a bigger star. A woman that just wants to find love and will often let her selfish nature get in the way. Also I can see her being a great comedic duo always egging the human-Wukong on trying to get him in trouble. She is a diva and honestly would think her playing the gluttonous and lazy Bajie as more of a vain and selfish angle would still bring in big laughs.... also letting her throat chop literally anyone that messes with her.

Wujing would be Gonzo. I'll be honest this was kinda the hardest cause I think thinking Kermit for Wujing for so long but I think that the cannibal turned monk would be best by the most daredevil and gravity-defying member the Great Gonzo. Wujing doesn't get enough spotlight and seeing Gonzo, someone who often looks danger in the eye and welcomes it play such a role would be amazing. Gonzo always plays a great supporting role and I think he would bring a grounded air of nonchalance while still happily joining the wacky of hijinks that I think would portray Wujing nicely.

Honestly I was going to have Bailong just be a muppet horse (you know the ones) but honestly, it could just be funnier if it was Rizzo or something. Cause Rizzo REFUSING to join in any shenanigans out of his own free will cause he rather be sleeping/eating could be a hilarious explanation as to why Bailong isn't in most fights. Also might be easier than having Kermit on a muppet horse all the time, just having them walking. So yeah I think that would be solid.

Honorable mentions:

Fozzie Bear - Black Wind Demon, he didn't mean to steal, he thought that Cassok was free!

Rowlf the Dog - Erlang Shen AND Howling Sky Dog, trust me he makes it work

Scooter - Guanyin or Muzha, he just trying his best

Pepe the King Prawn - Ao Guang

Animal - The Jade Emporer

Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (please extras) - the 8 immortals

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew - Laozi

Beaker - Furnace Assistant

Sam Eagle - Pagoda King Li

Statler and Waldorf - Every single Tudi

The Swedish Chef - Yellow Brow Demon (especially enjoys trying to cook Kermit-Sanzang)

And that is my thoughts at least! I hope that you like the ideas but I love heating what others think!

[margueritedaisies]

I just love drawing families of fictional characters, its interesting to think of how each sibling would look. I try to make them different from one another but at the same time maintain familial similarities.

Jinzha resembles their mom, Muzha their dad, and Nezha's a good mix of both.

Also get ready with some sibling dynamic rant, mostly relation HCs by me.

Enough with the parent child dynamic

I want sibling dynamic. Where these three come to terms on what happened between them. Specifically Muzha and Nezha's interaction is the one I want to see.

Tbh those two's fates in the myth reminded me of Hyakkimaru and Tahomaru in Dororo.

Like Nezha and Muzha had so much potential to gain solidarity with each other. Because Jinzha could never relate to them as the ignored or unwanted child. Muzha has that middle child stuggle fr.

Muzha is the one so eager to gain their fathers favor trying to meet Jinzha's level . Nezha wants nothing from his father so he makes himself worse.

Muzha's frustration with Nezha is that Nezha is rebellious, disrespectful of their dad

While Nezha's frustration to Muzha is that Muzha is so blinded and always struggling to achieve something so futile. Deep down he hates how Muzha is suffering this way but he wouldnt speak of it. This is why they always at odds.

They should make a movie focusin the Li brothers fr

Other than overusing the actual myths.

Fuck the ending from the original myth, they didnt even consider how the children felt from all the abuse. Not even mention of Muzha's death.

Enough Ao Bing, what about Muzha???

And the moral lesson is just about "respecting elders"?? The story still had so much to wrap up. How can you call this a family if there is some sort of hierarchal system. A family requires empathy to maintain that connection.

Tbh its kinda realistic

Families and siblings can still inflict trauma from each other .And a story based on reconcilation is a good way for this to be about family counselling.

I wanna see the "what ifs". It could be each brothers own story of self healing from the trauma caused on each other.

Maybe Im getting my hopes up too much, but it could be a development for them to forgive, start anew and an opportunity to connect and catch up on what they missed on each other.

Edit:

As for Jinzha he also has his own struggles as the eldest. Keeping up the station as the golden favored and perfect son. But its Asian family dynamics, which means hes in a lot of pressure. But he is mentally and emotionally strong. The brothers always busy on his studies ,future responsibilities and training to be able to spend time together. Their timetables seemed to be planned out to always not meet. Jinzha especially had less freetime. And if he ever came across any of his brothers, it was only one of them never both.

He doesnt mind being a buffer for the other two feuding but it does stress him out that it will never change. But he'll make sure to give time and attention to both of them as much as he can.

Other than keeping up his fathers expectations he also doesnt want to fail as a big brother to them🥺😭

Muzha and Nezha can see his efforts so they do not dare hold anything against him. Muzha still keeps his competitive attitude when Jinzha's around but accepts any offered kindness from Jinzha. While Nezha enjoys his company when he gets the chance.

Also because I tend to hold on to this little bit of bonding😭🥺🥺Jinzha trying to be the best big bro

Thinking of the contrast in the future where Jinzha was tasked to torture Nezha destroyed me😭😭😭What did Jinzha even feel while he had to do it??

Also here some Nezha with his hair down again

[purble-turble]

so in a previous reblog I realized I'd cut myself off (ADHD and excitement can be a problematic combo in writing) I meant to add that Mk would get involved if Red and Nezha get into a full-on battle. because of course, he would. his two loves or having a very heated battle where they are clearly trying to hurt, or even possibly kill each other. their also both powerful beings with destructive power and are already causing a lot of destruction in the area and threatening people's lives. Assuming this is near the city, or worse inside it even if not, it's a HUGE problem. because it's definitely gonna get both in trouble with Heaven. And given Mk's awareness of what Nezha's dad has done to him in the past, what he, and the celestial realm in general, punishments are like it, he is terrified for there well-being and is despite to try and stop them but neither he can't they won't listen or even acknowledge he's there, they're too focused on the other. so he tries to physically stop them, and that gets him caught in the crossfire of both their attacks. for as strong and tanky as mk is, that's too much damage. but hey it definitely gets the two to stop at least...

all of Mk's crew, Red's family, and even Nezha's brothers have shown up ahead of there father just in time to witness all this, and it's just pure panic and chaos at that point. the sandy tang and mei is rushing MK to the nearest hospital, pigsy stays to fill in wukong the Bull and Li brothers on everything as best he can. the princes just want to go to the hospital with everyone else to be with MK but there being restrained and drilled by their respective families for more answers which leads to some fighting among the parents and brothers. wukong is absolutely done with the madness and after a brief conversation with Pigsy, and his consent, declares that both princes are banned from seeing Mk for the foreseeable future. clearly, all three have a lot of issues and it's negatively affecting everyone involved. he doesn't want to tear them apart permanently but until there are some changes and more importantly therapy is involved Mk will not be allowed to have communication with them and vis versa. to help enforce that decision pigsy has agreed to let Wukong keep mk on FFM after he is discharged from the hospital. Jinzha and Muzha have agreed to make up a different story for there father on what happened. They agree that he will not handle this well at all and acknowledge that he's largely to blame for Nezha's mental state and mindset. there's talk of them taking Nezha to Quanyin since Muzha is her Guard (I've also seen mentioned he's a senior disciple, and I've seen it mentioned that nezha is one of her previous students as well which makes sense so I'm running with that) so he can keep an eye on him and the goddess can ensure he gets the help he needs.

Ooh yeah I love MK getting hurt because of the battle!! Obviously he would try to stop the fight, and yeah I for sure imagine it happening right there in the city. I’m sure Prince Red didn’t go find Nezha with the intent to start a fight of that size, but once they start shouting and shoving each other all bets are off and they basically set half the city on fire :U

…MK is definitely gonna beat himself up over this too. He’s already in a much more stressed mindset and thinking he needs to take everything on himself, partly due to this validation Nezha has been giving him, but I mean, it was his fault that Red got so mad he broke up with him.. and he tried so SO hard to fix that and get Red back, but he just felt like he couldn’t be the person Red needed him to be. And meanwhile Nezha seems to like him just the way he is. He doesn’t feel like he has to change or suppress these feelings of guilt and pressure to help others, which feels nice and validating. The two of them having a complicated history, though… MK should have known that. Maybe he should have gone slower with Nezha… or gone back to Red and talked to him and worked things out before he really made things official.. or this or that or SOMETHING. MK should have done something before it devolved into a battle that nearly destroyed the city ALL BECAUSE OF HIM. AGAIN.

And, listen, obviously none of this is really true. MK is just feeling extra guilty and like he needs to fix everything himself, like he always does (and he’s even extra primed to feel culpable rn tbh) So he’s gonna need a long break and some good ol’ therapy to work through these feelings… who knows if he ever gets back with either Red or Nezha after this?? I mean it was a pretty big and traumatic event for all of them. I could very reasonably see this being the end… but of course, we also know that those two princes are not the type to give up so easily :3c

[lotusarchon]

Do you have any headcanons about Nezha's mom/brothers ages? You mentioned Yun'er in Second Wife to be the same age as Jinzha 👁️👄👁️

Oop I forgot I hadn't left it in my notes

Yin Wuming, Nezha's mom, is 15 when she first marries Li Jing who's in his 40s, I think? She has Jinzha the same year, and is 16 when she has Muzha (one year later), so Muzha and Jinzha's age gap is one year apart. When she has Nezha, she's 21!

So when Yun'er marries Li Jing (who's supposed to be 50-60s), Wuming is 33, and Jinzha and Yun'er are the same age (18).

With Li Jing, since he's described as an immortal, I kinda didn't focus much on his age....but he's an old bitch lmfao 💀

In my Yin Wuming lives AU, the age gap between Jinzha, Muzha and Nezha are different though. Wuming is still the same age when she marries and has her first son (Jinzha), but I think Jinzha is 12/13 when Muzha comes in, and Muzha is 8/9 when she has Nezha.....

I honestly didn't keep track of the ages in that au...I probably should have

[journeytothewestresearch]

is muzha also called moksa? (i believe that’s how you spell it) their both disciples of guanyin and it’s always mentioned how they fought sha wuijing but those are the same people, yes?

I've answered this before. See this reply:

[amnesia-wukong-au]

Ai-Zha:…. I mean maybe we can have fun with this..?

Jinzha: NO WE CANNOT! THE TRIAL AI ZHA! Thank god the Jade Emperor went to visit his wife for a moment-! BUT WHAT IF HE COMES BACK?!

Muzha: Not to mention father has other duties to attend to!

Nezha: Other duties like all of us do, so I’ll be off…

Muzha grabs Nezha’s sash: Oh no you don’t!

Nezha: Okay.

[flesh-beneath-my-teeth]

genya genya genya genya tell me about Chinese mythology

Been a long long time since I last studied it so I rather keep myself from saying bullshit. BUT i will NOT keep myself from talking about the three deities that never leaved my brain and who STILL refuses to pay rent!!! The Li brothers!!! (Or as I like to call them the "Heaven'Li brothers" because they're warriors of heaven, get it? i'm soooo funny and clever.)

(tw; mention of sucide, child abuse, murder, fratricide, torture, tentative of patricide and gore.)

SO. Let's start with the oldest!! Li JinZha!! Eldest son of general Li Jing(i despise that man with all my being) and Lady Yin Shi. He is the very definition of golden child and eldest daughter syndrome. He has tons of nicknames, but the most famous are; "Golden Tactician", "Great Crowned Prince" & "First Prince". Like his second brother; MuZha, their "lore" isn't very explained as they're both shadowed by their younger brother; Nezha. What is know about Jinzha is that he's the disciple of Wenshu Guangfa Tianzun, one of the Three Great Immortal. He leaved the Military Fortress of Chentag Pass at an early age to study under his master as it probably happened before NeZha's birth. There's no mention of him in NeZha's life (well it depends, in some versions he is present at his birth) until the fight with their father. When Li Jing was about to kill himself, Wenshu Guangfa Tianzun stoped him and made him hide in a cave (can't remember which one but in Chinese mythology caves always have super fancy name sskjsgdhgsf). When Nezha came to kill his father, Wenshu Guangfa Tianzun imprisoned him with the dragon stake and ordered Jinzha to whip NeZha until Taiyi Zhenren (NeZha's Master) called for his disciple. As I already said, the information on his story are poor (i would die for a show that talks about JinZha's & MuZha's adventures while being away from Chentag Pass) but I can tell you a funny fact about him; he is both god of medicine and exorcism, it's like he had "I'm a doctor but... *process to get a fucking sword*" energy. My interpretation of him is of the oldest child that always has been seen by the "favorite" by his brothers, when in reality he was nothing but a trophy to brag about at parties and was as neglected as the others, but he kept being "perfect" for the sake of still having his father attention. He's also the one trying his best to keep the family together and to avoid another murder. He needs vacation, and a an apology from both his brothers, maybe even a hug from them, and their father burning in hell.

The second is MuZha, his only nickname that I know is "Wooden Scholar". Same as his older brother, he leaved home early to go study under the one and only GuanYin!!! The deity of peace and harmony(GuanYin is shown as having a very unstable gender but i'll refer to her as she/her as she is shown more frequently shown as female in modern representation and to make it easier for myself, but i do believe in nb/genderfluid GuanYin supremacy). As said in his tittle, he is more brains than brawn unlike his brothers (but he is still a fighter, as he's frequently shown with melon hammers and hooks of wu). Same as JinZha, his first know apparition in NeZha's legend is when NeZha wanted to kill Li Jing, MuZha tried to stop him and fought him. And NeZha killed him. You heard me right, the seven years old killed his older brother, and you wanna know with what? With a fucking GOLDEN BRICK. but don't worry, MuZha is later brought back to life. We don't know how though, my theory is that GuanYin made him a new body with wood (I mainly imagine that because it would very funny if his coming back from death mirrored NeZha's, to me at least). My interpretation of him is pretty much of the depressed and nerdy middle child. He's sick of everyone in his family (except his dead mother), especially his brothers' bullshit (JinZha being scarily perfect and NeZha... being NeZha). He was was very loyal to his father pre-death, to the point of being blind to the neglect and abuse he would put him and his brothers in. Post-death he became distant to his bio family, staying with his found family with GuanYin as his parental figure and Red Boy & Longnü as his adoptive little siblings. live yo life nerd boy, live yo life!!

And last but not least, the fucking menace himself!!! NeZha!! Also known as "Third Lotus Prince". I talked so much about him in the past that his part will mainly be a mix of what is already in my notebook app. He's the reincarnation of the Pearl Spirit/Lingzhu. I couldn't find a lot of information on Lingzhu, except that it was a powerful (Lingzhu was stronger than the Twelve Golden Immortals) spirit who probably was a demon (In the same way as Lady Rock Demon of being an "Highly powerful spiritual weapon that is able of turning into a living being aka a demon"). Lingzhu was forced through reincarnation by the Three Pure One (Deities who are more powerful than the Jade Emperor himself). The fact that Nezha is the reincarnation of the Pearl Spirit who's original form is well, a pearl, makes Nezha soulless. You heard, the Third Lotus Prince doesn't have a soul. The Heavenly Realm made Lingzhu reincarnate as the third son of General Li Jing as a gift for the Li family. Nezha is literally a gift from Heaven. His mother, Lady Yin, was pregnant of Nezha during 3 years and six months and giving birth to a meatball from where Nezha will later come out from. Li Jing tried to kill him immediately but stopped. And Tumblr deleted the rest when I tried to save it in my draft I'm genuinely crying so fuck doing storytelling efforts and fuck you Tumblr. NeZha went to the beach, he played with his red tissue that Taiyi gifted him but he didn't know that it was magic and that he was currently causing chaos in the deep of the ocean, where the kingdom of the Dragon King of the east was located. Dragon king send a guard that talked badly to NeZha so NeZha killed him. Dragon King sent his third son and-

You know what sorry anon but I'm too tired I promise I'll update the post soon with the end of the story but I've been writting for two hours and I need to post it or else I'll go crazy xhigixturzruzurx7r.

And here one of my favorite representation of the Li bros!! They're from Fei Ren Zai/Non-Human and they're one of my favs because they're one of the rare and probably the only representation of them having a healthy relationship (and also Li Jing being depicted as the loser incompetent fucker he is.)

[fangruninsimp]

Hate to break it to you besties...

anyone else curious about yin muzha? or is it just me? anDDD i wonder what happened after the epilogue?

[lotus-duckies]

some good muzha moments:

and an honorable mention:

[stellawolfearts]

Tbh, Lady Yin wasn’t the best to Nezha either. She exclaimed to him that she wished she’d never given birth to him after she found out he killed Ao Bing and only built Nezha a shrine after he threatened to haunt her. She seemed much more fixated on how useful Nezha was to bring herself pride then about his well-being or correcting his behaviour. Also in jttw she is mentioned by both Muzha and Li Jing to still be alive and living with them even after Wukong was freed from the mountain.

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WELP...............THERE GOES THAT WRITING SNIPPET.

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THANKS FOR THE INFO ANON. GOOD TO KNOW NEZHA REALLY DIDNT HAVE ANYONE.

CR IE S

thaks anon/gen/nm

[the-monkey-ruler]

Do you know of a website where a family tree of the gods can be found? Or what gods are related to others?

I can't say that there is one because most gods are just not related. Sure some gods have family relations like Nezha, Erlang, or the Dragons Kings but they are considered more of the expectation than the rule.

I've said this before but how gods work in Chinese mythos is that anyone who cultivates and is able to train under an immortal and maybe perhaps gaining enough merit to go to heaven and get godhood gets to be a god. There are rarely any family relations involved also due to the fact that gods are not allowed to get married or have kids, the Jade Emperor being an expectation to this rule. Sure mortals can live in the lower levels of heaven and have families but they are not gods either. Or that gods had families before they became gods like Nezha's family. Or that they broke the law like Erlang Shen's family.

Needless to say, I would say give up trying to find a family tree since that is too far-fetched between the thousands of different gods and so few being related at all.

But I can say it the biggest known families are the Li Family with Jing Li, Jinzha, Muzha, and Nezha and their mother who most likely passed.

The Yang family with the sister of the JE being Yuan, Erlang Sheng, Sansheng Mu, and there was Yang Jiao but he passed away and their father passed as well. This makes Erlang Shen the JE's nephew and Sansheng Mu his niece.

And maybe Jade Emperor and his Daughters like Weaver girl who had a husband and two children but the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother who are to said to have many children so there isn't even a concrete number there, just that there is a lot.

There is also the Main Dragon Kings. The West, South, North, and East King Dragons are all brothers with an off-handed sister mentioned in Xiyouji. East and West Kings seem to have about three sons each and a daughter each as well (not sure about the South or North Kings but most likely children as well) and the Mother Dragon had like nine sons I believe. Not really gods but still a family that are immortal.

There are definitely a lot more I am just unaware of really. Most legends I know are more stand-alone without any mentions of the family besides mortal parents when they ascend to godhood. There are a few cases I see maybe certain gods being considered brothers and sisters. These are just the ones I really know and I hope that helps a little even if you won't find more family relations.

[quitealotofsodapop]

Azure certainly doesn't complain about any of Li Jing's bodily changes. ;3 He still has the biggest chest in the house.

Baby Mocha be like a kitten who is constantly getting into trouble, but Li Jing thinks she can do no wrong! (Forgive him. Baby Nezha gave him low standards for behavior.)

Nezha posts Mocha's misadventures like a pet owner shaming their cat;

MK: "Why is your weapon-ribbon thing-y all ripped up?"

Nezha, tired-looking: "Mocha has discovered her claws."

Mocha, has ribbon in her paws: "Mew!"

The Queen Mother of the West/Xiwangmu isn't any better than Li Jing. Even if the cub isn't *technically* her blood relative, Mocha is too darn adorable to be mad at for long. The Queen Mother being a fellow celestial big cat (and Azure being terrified of her) probably has something to with it.

Lionsword baby aint giving Li Jing peace and quiet neither. He thinks a girl would be easier than raising the boys? Big mistake.

Imagine a baby Nezha who can climb trees and an instinctive urge to chase small animals

Oh gawd yes! 😂

Li Jing truely thought that he would have a semi normal baby. Nope!

She looked like Jing enough, but was covered in black fur and had Azures purple eyes! So looked so innocent!…. Until Jing realized that she may have gotten the looks from him, but she got the instincts from azure.

Baby Mocha has a big appetite, and is constantly feeding on Jing’s chest (gave the man a heart attack when he started producing MILK of all things-!) and her little fangs aren’t exactly soft.

She chirps as well. She cries like a normal baby of course, but for the most part she communicates through growls, chirps, and chuffs.

And lions love to instinctively stalk and pounce, so the minute she’s of moving age? Attack!!! No ankles or calf’s are safe from her little fangs!

She especially loves Nezha’s fire rings, constantly chewing them and his staff, and leaving slobber all over it. Nezha, newly minted big bro and second middle child, hates it.

Nezha: “Daaaaad! Mocha chewed my rings again!”

Jing, tiredly bouncing a giggling Cub: “Nezha, she’s a baby, she can’t help it.”

Muzha and Jinzha laugh in revenge.

[lotus-protector-official]

Sibling

Summary of Nezha’s relationship with every one of his siblings for this prompt!

(cw/tw for mild mentions of fraticide and beating)

Jinzha (He/him)

The eldest brother of the family, who had helped physically punish Nezha solely under his father’s orders. Immediately after, he had apologised and make sure Nezha was okay. Nezha often used to lash out at him, but Jinzha would always take it as a deserving reaction. Even after fighting together in the war, Nezha often feels tense around him because of his near-unnatural mild-manneredness, and how much of Jinzha is still a mystery to him. However, he respects his eldest brother for his skill and military tactical prowess. In turn, Jinzha is proud of how Nezha has grown into a responsible, diligent young prince.

Muzha (He/him)

Of all his siblings, Nezha used to have the most animosity towards Muzha. After all, he was the first to jump to defend the father that Nezha had loathed so much back then, and in turn, Nezha beaned Muzha over the head with a brick and killed him. After being forced to cooperate in the war, some encouragement from their mother, and bonding over her death- well, they still don’t like each other much. But Nezha feels like Muzha was essentially made to defend his father in ignorance, motivated by blind loyalty. Despite his ultimate failure against Sun Wukong, Muzha ends up respecting Nezha’s commitment toward the Samadhi Map and his many duties. These new understandings brought a sense of peace and comradery to their relationship. Despite all this, Nezha and Muzha will never truly be able to get along, especially given their completely opposite domains- Muzha is a by-the-book scholar studying under Guanyin, while Nezha is a rebellious warrior god.

Zhengying (She/her)

Nezha’s little sister, born long after the war recorded in the Investiture of the Gods. Because of the heavy expectations placed on her to be “not like Nezha”, the incident where she had been mistaken as a demon because of her adoptive sister’s betrayal, and finding out family’s dark past, Zhengying had decided to cut ties with the celestial realm once she was old enough- and as she reached young adulthood, she did. Currently she lives as a mortal and works at a flower shop/cafe hybrid while trying to figure out her future. Despite how Nezha cherishes his younger sister and is protective of her, he respects her space and remains distant, only visiting to check on her discreetly. And though they are not that close, Zhengying greatly appreciates Nezha and wishes the best for him.

Golden-nosed White Mouse Spirit (Earth Flow/Diyong) (She/they)

A demon who wanted to become a Bodhisattva. Nezha’s father was convinced by Nezha to show her mercy because of her intent, and she was so grateful to be left alive that she decided to be sworn into the Li family. She and Nezha used to be the best of friends, bonding over being black sheep outcasts and enjoying causing harmless mischief with the few time they had together. However, during the Journey to the West, she fell in love with Tripataka, and of course did the standard demon thing. When Nezha demanded the reason for her betrayal, she retorted that no one ever truly respected her as an equal. She was just a buttered up prisoner. Currently, she resides in the heavenly dungeon. Nezha sometimes longs for their past bond and visits her, but they often end up throwing stinging words at each other and he never stays for long.

[doshi-sukiru]

SLAMS TABLE

So, ever since that one anon mentioned Muzha, I looked into him a bit more (bc I rarely see much about the li brothers). 

WHO WAS GONNA TELL ME AO BING AND MUZHA WERE A SHIP???

THIS SHIP ISN’T LEAVING MY HANDS NOW-