#tongbi yuanhou

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[thedangoratio]

Tongbi/bei Yuanhou!!! Should I make a Chikao Mahou (Red-butted Horse Monkey/Baboon) design too?

[mythologyfolklore]

I made more memes. :)

[inkyminx]

[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

[thedangoratio]

GUYS MY EEBY GOT FANART

@thedangoratio's Long-Arms Gibbon design :D

His character lore behind them is cool too - being born from a piece of a star and everything!! The guy <3

[lotusloong]

I keep thinking of ideas for Celestial Primate!Reader who is specifically the Long Armed Gibbon (I only wish gibbons had tails, why don't they have TAILS-!)

But the description given to us in Journey to the West is this:

The third is the Long-Armed Gibbon [Tongbi yuanhou, 通臂猿猴], who can

Seize the sun and the moon,

Shorten a thousand mountains,

Distinguish the auspicious from the inauspicious,

And manipulate planets and stars.

And I can so easily see Tang Monk and his disciples traveling and stumbling upon you, living comfortably in your own tree, perhaps a banyan grove? You're able to distinguish auspicious from inauspicious, which I would interpret as being able to perceive lucky decisions from unlucky ones. Perhaps this means you even have ties to fortune telling since you can also manipulate planets and stars.

Somehow, you end up traveling with the group, growing close to them, and even acting as a sort of advisor. Wukong jokes at first that you're a good luck charm for them, but over time realizes he actually means it. He has the power to change destiny, but it really helps having someone who can help find fortune.

I don't know when it would happen exactly but if you ever end up needing to change into your true form, similar to other celestials and Wukong himself, I can so clearly see what it would look like.

Your right eye is the sun, blinding and too bright to look at for long, sparking solar flares with every blink. Your left eye is the moon, waxing and waning with every blink, with every turn of your head. Stars and stardust cover your fur, your arms strong enough to pull mountains closer, long enough to reach the planets. The first time Wukong sees you like this, everything in him freezes, only able to stare with wonder at your true self.

It's a jaw dropping contrast to your usual self, so grounded and calm, small and kind to those around you. This doesn't mean you aren't cheeky yourself however, you just keep it under better wraps than Wukong. The first he sees you act this way is when Bajie is trying to not so subtly steal Wukong's snacks from their luggage. Wujing left it unattended to find water, and Bajie was trying to take advantage. Despite the annoyance simmering beneath his skin Wukong had decided to let the pig try and steal his things. It was as good a reason as any to give the other a good drubbing that Master wouldn't scold him for.

Instead, under his watchful gaze, Wukong sees you raise one of your long arms and quick as a whip smacks Bajie upside the head from across the campsite. The pig shrieks at the action, falling over himself and panicking that Wukong is standing above him, insisting that he ‘wasn't taking anything! Honest!’ only to see Wukong sitting still at the base of a tree, looking unbothered. The pig makes a hasty retreat, looking terrified.

Wukong shares a look with you, your calm facade breaking as you snicker into your hands.

‘Fuck.’ He thinks. He could actually very easily fall in love with you.

[digitaldoeslmk]

Tongbi Yuanhou (Through-Arms Gibbon), local butch Auntie, has everybody's birth charts memorized

[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!

[journeytothewestresearch]

One question is if the six-eared macaque is a negative aspect of Sun Wukong's personality, that means that the other two mystical monkeys are also aspects of the personality except that unlike the Macaque, they are both positive aspects or simply part of Sun's personality. and the reason why they do not appear directly or are agonistic in jttw is because they do not go against the path of Buddhist enlightenment

Sorry if you don't understand, I don't speak English and I'm using a translator.

I've also speculated that the other two cestial primates are aspects of Sun Wukong's mind. An update to my Six Ears article reads:

I'm not really sure why the other two don't explicitly appear in the narrative. But I do know that, including Sun Wukong, the four celestial primates mirror the four kinds of monkeys and apes living on Flower-Fruit Mountain. As I write here, chapter one reads:

The Handsome Monkey King thus led a flock of gibbons [yuanhou, 猿猴], macaques [mihou, 獼猴], and horse-monkeys [mahou, 馬猴], some of whom were appointed by him as his officers and ministers (based on Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 1, p. 106). 美猴王領一群猿猴、獼猴、馬猴等，分派了君臣佐使。

The gibbons are also called "long-armed gibbons" (tongbei yuanhou, 通背猿猴; lit: "(arms)-through-the-back gibbons"). [1] (This refers to the belief that the long, agile arms of the gibbon were somehow connected (i.e. tongbi, 通臂), passing through the back (i.e. tongbei, 通背) (Gulik, 1967, p. 92-93).) The horse-monkeys are also called "red-buttocked horse-monkeys" (chikao mahou, 赤尻馬猴). [2] These terms are important to remember.

Here is the list of the four celestial primates:

Stone-Monkey of Numinous Wisdom (Lingming shihou, 靈明石猴) - i.e. Sun Wukong

Red-Buttocked Horse-Monkey (Chikao mahou, 赤尻馬猴) - The exact same kind as that mentioned above.

Long-Armed Gibbon (Tongbi yuanhou, 通臂猿猴; lit: "Connected Arms Gibbon") - As mentioned above, tongbi (通臂) and tongbei (通背) refer to the ape's long arms.

Six-Eared Macaque (Liu'er mihou, 六耳獼猴)

The apes and monkeys of Flower-Fruit Mountain and the Four Celestial Primates both include Sun Wukong (i.e. the Stone Monkey), Red-Buttocked Horse-Monkeys (Chikao mahou), Long-Armed Gibbons (Tongbei and Tongbi), and Macaques (mihou), one of which has Six Ears (Liu'er). Therefore, the two groups are practically the same.

Based on this, a person might suggest that if one celestial primate (Sun Wukong) is born on Flower-Fruit mountain, then others can be, too. This opens the door to all four of the celestial primates having been born (or at least manifesting) there. And since Six-Ears is an aspect of Monkey's mind, the missing two celestial apes could be as well.

I should note that Wukong's Four Might Commanders are two long-armed (tongbei) gibbons and two red-buttocked horse-monkeys. Someone could suggest that two of them make up the missing celestial primates. But they are never shown to have great powers, just knowledge about the world outside of Flower-Fruit Mountain.

In the end, though, the missing celestial primates may not appear simply because they are not important to the overall narrative.

Notes:

1) Yu (Wu & Yu, 2012) incorrectly translates tongbei yuanhou (通背猿猴) as "bare back monkey" (vol. 1, p. 131).

2) Yu (Wu & Yu, 2012) incorrectly translates this as "baboon" (vol. 1, p. 106). The horse-monkey was a nickname for the macaques placed in horse stables to keep away sickness (refer to here).

Sources:

Gulik, R. H. (1967). The Gibbon in China: An Essay in Chinese Animal Lore. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Wu, C., & Yu, A. C. (2012). The Journey to the West (Vols. 1-4) (Rev. ed.). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

[draxeanlxia]

If they ever add the other two celestial primates AKA Chikao Mahou the Red-Buttocked Horse-Monkey and Tongbi Yuanhou the Long-Armed Gibbon into LMK, I really hope they remember the Gibbon is an ape meaning they does not have a tail. They’re known as the Celestial Primates for a reason because Gibbon is the only ape. I know some fan artists who have drawn the characters on what they might look like in LMK and a lot of them have Gibbon having a tail when as an ape they shouldn’t have one. Not that their art is bad, it’s just not correct for an ape to have a tail.

Also I kind of want Gibbon in the show to say “Come on! When will there be another ape? I’m tired of being the only ape.”

[kiaonala]

Vacation 8.7

[thedangoratio]

Arted to show that I’m still alive (this was an old wip)

[garnet-cow]

My version of the two other celestial primates + headcanon and notes I have about them + their relation with my OC :

I kind of headcanon that every celestial primates have golden pupils because they grew apart from the 10 categories of life. Before becomming a celestial primates each of them had different eyes color. But the gold of their eyes is still shade with that original color ( Chikao had orange/red eyes and Tongbi had green eyes, Sun Wukong had orange/yellow eyes and Macaque had purple/pink eyes ).

About Chikao Mahou ( nicknamed Chika ) :  

-She's the oldest of all the spiritual primates and the only female. 

-Bisexual / Aromantic

-She loves administratives ! Like a lot. She adores it. 

-She's also a rider, she has plenty of horses in her domain.

-Really big lady, tallest of the group, with giant mane, and imposant aura + She has the biggest fangs of all the spiritual primates. 

( She gave me Erza Scarlet's (Fairy Tail ) Vibes )

-Don't ask me why but I feel like, she speaks Spanish

There's that fun fact about baboons that kidnap puppies and kitties to make them their pets and cubs in some region in Africa and Now I can only imagine her adopting every kid she can (plus it gave her more administrative stuff to do so there's only great point in it.). Additionally, I have a vision of her instructing each of her kids in horse riding and providing them with their very own horse.

Not the type of lady that lets males being the boss of her day. If you want to fight to prove that you're the strongest to her go on, but she's gonna beat your ass. Don't have husband/wife/mate/girlfriend/boyfriend because she doesn't want to.

She actually met Li Wei some years after she left the palace and start her journey around the world with her herd. They didn't pass many times together, but they enjoy it. She's the one that taught Li Wei how to use and control her titan form.

Tongbi yuanhou: 

-Passionate by astronomy, he passes his nights observing the sky and discovering new planets and stars and information that he kept in his journal. 

-He don't mind people but he likes his little lonely moments. 

-Always wears pullover or hot clothes because he passes a lot of times in the coldness of the night. 

-Has already met Chang'e. 

-Is the smallest of the group but can change his size if he wants, he just don't really mind. 

I want to give him a lover since I like the fact that male gibbons are loyals partners but I’m not sure. I love the idea of him being a loving husband. Like, you know, he’s not a fan of crowds and people unless it’s with his soul mate.

-Live in a giant cabin in a giant tree. 

Know about Li Wei's existence, he has met her father when he was alive but their encounter didn't end well. After learning her father's death, he searches for her in china but she was already far from the land. (Little reminder Li Wei's father was an illegal experimentation meant to defeat the 4 celestial primates, He was mainly inspired by the Long Armed gibbon, but that experiment fail and her father appears without any magical abilities).

-He doesn't want children but he likes spending time with Chika's one.

Chika and Tongbi are close friends.

[thejadetrios]

My take on the Long Armed Gibbon.

Searched abt the Four Primates,and I saw the name(Tongbi yuanhou)

I also think that if Macaque and Sun Wukong aren't on the side of heaven,then the Long Armed Gibbon and the Red Buttoxed Baboon/Monkey are. Also,there is the theory from RV Sketch on YT(I love their theories,its very interesting),and I like their take and theories abt these two primates that we barely even know.

Like,if the theory is correct,then,um,Tongbi is a blood clone that was created by Sun Wukong for unknown reasons,and since we don't see Tongbi being with Sun Wukong or any mentions of them,I figured maybe she's like Macaque,with abandonment issues or conflict with Sun Wukong in a personal way.

Not sure if I did the fur color right,cus its either like a light blond or a light paige...

But that's just my take

Also shoutout to RV Sketch on YouTube. Love your ideas

[artisticmoonfall]

This ship name is MonkeyBarrel cause a group of a monkey is a barrel.