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Macaque Episode Analysis ramble

So I was talking with a friend about the possible psychological and therapeutic take aways from each episode of Lego Monkie Kid, since I love Psychology as a whole, and came to a conclusion. Macaque's episode has a fuck ton of things to analyze. Such as - Not every role model you meet will be a good person Trust your teachers Don't push yourself too hard otherwise you'll get hurt, manipulated and possibly die (let's be real, Macaque would've killed MK if Wukong didn't step in) And, grooming They will all be covered as I explain the episode in depth. When MK first meets Macaque he thought he was Wukong but even after Macaque declines, MK still had stars in his eyes of pure admiration. He clearly looks up to Macaque since he was just as cool if not cooler than Monkey King. Within the very next second Macaque started the process of grooming, after a tiny test to see how strong MK's admiration was. "[...] I thought uh Monkey King was training you. [...] but you can never have too many teachers, I'm sure Monkey King would agree. [...]"

Then Macaque starts to train MK. This shows the duality of Wukong's more MK's current strength and capabilities training versus Macaque's more destructive and dehumanizing training. With Wukong's "Patience and focus, step into the strike", clashing with Macaque's far more brash "You don't use a weapon, you ARE the weapon." This is effective at isolating MK from Wukong and his teachings because MK feels like he is actually powerful now.

As Wukong says, MK's body isn't strong enough to handle the power. This applies to real life too. If someone tries to weight lift something too heavy for their skills, they could get seriously hurt. This is the just magical equivalent of weight lifting. But because of Macaque's influence, MK fights back and isolates himself from Wukong, his trust worthy mentor. This leads Macaque to his final part of his plan, lure MK into a trap with his full hearted trust in him.

Then Macaque finishes his plan by stealing MK's powers. Let's be honest, with how things were going and by our impression of Macaque in this episode, Macaque would have likely killed MK if it weren't for Wukong. OR left MK to die with the staff pressing him against the moutain. What can we gather from this? Well, first and foremost, MK's admiration made him an easy target for manipulation, and what resulted was MK nearly dying from the ordeal. Check for "not ever role model will be a good person", since Wukong is ALSO a role model, but a good one because he doesn't literally groom MK. (More on that in a minute.) Wukong was right and MK does what he taught him then admits his wrongs by the end and opens up on why, which Wukong responds with "Hey, your heart is in the right place, kid. We can work on the rest." MK learned to trust Wukong when he was teaching him something because ultimately that's what saved his life. I'm not saying trust EVERY authority figure, but one that is teaching you something that you trust and know will not hurt you. Get yourself a Wukong for your MK. Macaque's training has lasting impact on MK, making him feel like he needs to give himself up for others. Before this episode, MK never had the need to sacrifice himself or really seemingly blamed himself for anything. Macaque's dehumanizing training left MK with lasting damage to his mental health and also led to MK not being able to pick up the staff, granted that was after Macaque gut-punched the power out of him.

Ouch...

So, I hear you ask, "Ok, you made your point about various things, here but what about grooming? That's a bold word." Yes, it IS a bold word, especially considering the fandom space being primarily for children. However, I will clarify that grooming does not only apply to sexual circumstances.

This is from the official Canada public safety about child grooming. Notice the none sexual tactics.

"Make promises of a better life" - Promises to make MK stronger/a better fighter/hero

"Cause divsion saying "your parents are too strict" or "your parents don't understand you"." - Macaque says "Other people are going to tell you to be patient. They are slowing you down." to directly conflict with Wukong's training, further dividing MK and Wukong.

"May threaten or pressure your child to do what they ask, which could lead to sextortion." - Might not be explicit but it is implied MK had some minor doubts by the end of the training and was literally pushed into battle. Also he threw MK into the weapons rack on their first session, showing that MK was "weak" and prompted him to take up his implicit challenge, his trick. It's unclear if Macaque ever threatened MK while training, but I doubt it and he just pressured him and manipulated his drive and determination.

One that people might argue is "Approach your child online by pretending to be someone they're not - may falsely identify themselves as a person from school, or someone their age, to build a connection." but I believe it applies. - Macaque comes in creating a show with his own kaiju form, either to make himself popular or to attract MK or Wukong. Regardless, he seemed uncomfortable at first but once he prompts up "But you can never have too many teachers", that's when he starts creating a false identity, a trustworthy teacher who knows better than Wukong. That's also neglecting the fact Macaque pretended to not be that smoke demon.

If that's not "pretending to be someone they're not", then I'm not sure what is. Also for specifically adult grooming,

More signs I feel apply are;

"The person becomes withdrawn, or they may seem troubled by something but unwilling to talk about it. Alternatively their emotions might become volatile." - When Wukong points out MK has been running around other mentors, MK sounds calm and cold, like he was withdrawn. Then when Wukong presses on, MK yells at him and doesn't talk about exactly what was bothering him other than "You just don't like that there's someone who actually teaching me what I need to know."

"You notice them using or wearing something new, that you didn't buy [or teach] for them." - I added teach because Wukong points out he never taught MK how to break a wall like that, and was concerned and upset that MK learned that too quickly. Within that same scene, after MK yells at him, that's when Wukong notices the new symbol on MK's jacket and frowns. That's when he knows MK is being groomed, and by who.

"Groomers often aim to isolate their targets from their family or friends." - Well, we never see Mei, Pigsy, Tang, or Sandy in this episode, after the first meeting and they act like MK was gone for a month or more (could easily be a week lol). On top of that, Macaque was causing a divide between MK and Wukong. MK was very clearly pretty isolated already, and so Macaque just had to remove MK for MK's full reliance.

"The person might be spending more time on the phone, or online, than usual. But they won’t say what sites they’re visiting, or who they’re talking to." - This speaks for itself, but it's likely MK was training more and more with Macaque than being around his own friends, especially considering by previous point.

This video goes into great detail on how it happens, why the victim is manipulated easily, and what it does to someone. Granted this video is about a long-time grooming, but I believe the point and the awareness stands. If Macaque had been grooming MK for about a year or more, I feel MK would be closer to these signs than he is in the cannon LMK. Anyways! I hope you had fun with my analysis, and let me know if you'd like more! I love to just ramble about the psychology of certain characters or the takeaways of LMK episodes! I'd love to do Wukong, Macaque as a whole (not just the episode), MK, Xiangliu/Nine mayhaps?? Or even the Focus episode or something else- I have a minor analysis on the focus episode already in my head lol

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And when the day kisses the night you know that, even after the dark, the light will shine on a new sunrise.

AT LONG LAST.

AT LONG.

LAST.

THE BITCHES. FINALLY. KISSED!!!!!!!

SHADOWPEACH IS OFFICIALLY CANON!!1!1!1 (in the au)

Shadowpeach Bio Parent AU (PREV/ FIRST / )

Next part is coming on February 8th, 1PM ET

You can bet your ass they kept making out on the way to heaven.

More rambling and Horizontal and vertical versions of the kiss under the cut!

Well, what can I say. It's been a long journey, but the Shadowpeach Bio Parents AU can finally be officially a "Shadowpeach-canon" AU ahah. Hopefully the slow-burn wasn't too painful. I put my heart on my sleeve when I say that I swore to myself that as soon as the two bitches completely, fully forgive each other, then, and only then, they could have their moment.

Then, something something-having your true form while doing an act/saying something means showing the honesty of what you are saying/doing-something something

I laughed my ass off so many times while drawing panel 7 bc like- Mac is just "omg this idiot is so stupid, he's my idiot, I love him so much"

lastly, finally, FINALLY, I don't have to hold back anymore! Prepare yourself, Im gonna go full blast with these bitches. If you thought whatever they were doing before was gay, BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU. this story might as well turn intp a FWP (plot? what plot? fluff without plot)

hehe mac in panel 17 is like "oh NO U DON'T! PUT YOUR MOUTH WHERE IT BELONGS

Maybe this is not as epic or as a boom as the spicynoodle kiss. But that's kind of the point. They are the doomned toxic yaoi who healed in the past 6 months. They have always been together kind of. A kiss is just one of the hundreds other actions and words they shared during all the other parts of the story. They loved each other well before this chapter. So a kiss is just a natural course of them re-discovering each other and their intimacy. They sleep together (literally sleeping together, not sex yet) they comfort each other at their lowest, they saw each other inner selfs, they call each other nicknames, they call each other beautiful. I mean this was less of a "Slow Burn" and more a "put it in the microwave cause it got cold so that it slowly get warm again, but the food was already cooked"

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in 2025 let’s bring back being enthusiastic on ao3. leave a comment on every chapter. leave kudos and, if necessary, leave “double kudos” in the comments. tags and notes on bookmarks. the whole nine yards. let’s show fanfic authors how much we love them.

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LMK season 6 predictions!

- more red son. Pretty please, writers, come on

- more Nezha. Writers, don't leave me hanging.

- trauma for everyone

- some lasting effects from the fact that MK almost fucking died, especially from Wukong who had to watch it happen

- we finally find out what happens between Wukong and Macaroni

- Mac'n'Cheese is focused on bc y'know...Chaos magic thingie

- Macaque fucking dies

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Now that Miraculous season 6 is out, have a very short rant:

THE MONKEY MIRACULOUS IS STILL SO FUCKING STUPID AND A DISGRACE TO EVERY DEPICTION OF THE MONKEY KING

They made Kim's suit look even more like Sun Wukong...WHILE WEARING THE TORTURE DEVICE I AM GOING INSANE

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Not to mention Wukong literally admits in the show that he sometimes plays dumb to lighten the mood (s3 finale)

You can also see this during the episode "Dumpling Destruction" when he astral projects to mk, smiling and being all jolly, but as soon as he's off the call he turns all serious and we see he actually beat up a bunch of giants

My guy is many things, but dumb ain't one of them

This will sound kinda rude but I think alot of people in the fandom don't understand macaque character so they just give him some of wukong character aspects without realising it like for example:

-pif being macaque sworn sister when she's literally wukong sister in law and she was from heaven so it doesn't make sense that macaque would be her friend especially In the brotherhood time line

-being a good mentor like I know macaque isn't "evil" anymore but can we not ignore s1 ep 9 he literally just hurted mk and traumatized him on purpose while wukong isn't perfect he's ten times better

-being more independent/nonchalant like seriously? the guy who couldn't stop obsessing over his ex best friend for centuries when wukong was literally the one who didn't give macaque that much thought at all unless he hurt mk

-being the smartest one like no you can't tell me that wukong the one who was alive for centuries that knew codding perfectly and have knowledge about medicine isn't the smartest he's just impulsive and macaque isn't

And there so many more but these are the ones I see more often I feel like macaque mischaracterize is just rotted in projection but people have to understand that this thing isn't macaque it's literally wukong you're just taking wukong positive characters traits and give it to macaque just mischaracterizing both of them now I'm not saying that macaque is awful because he isn't he have alot of personality but people ignore it for some reason just to make him a saint and to water down wukong

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I don't know 😭 I haven't even consumed any LMK related media this month

Didn't even pick up my copy of JTTW

It was also just weirdly uncanny for some reason?? Like seeing Macaques rotting corpse from the back, never once seeing his face (that dream!Wukong thought must've been eaten by maggots btw) was so icky

Like I knew this was a dead guy. A long since dead guy even. But I never saw it

It was like H.P Lovecraft with his "horror of the unknown"

Didn't like it one bit, hope it won't happen again

I dreamt about fictional characters for the first time in my life. Said fictional characters were Sun Wukong and Macaque...because who else would it be.

I don't know what was going on, they were chilling in like some hut Wukong had in front of this field. I think it was after the journey but Mac was still alive for some reason?

Not for long tho, bc he suddenly died. Just...died. they were starting to argue and then he just landed face first on the floor.

And Wukong just. Didn't do anything.

Well technically he got so panicked he left...for 9 years.

Then he came back, macaques dead corpse still lying face first in the ground. He picked him up by his scarf and dragged him with him, never properly looking at him (which...good choice brain i dont think I could've handled looking at macaques rotting corpse)

And then he just...threw him into a field and left again for another year. Then when he came back there was this tiny hill where Macaques body was and he just kinda sat in front of it and started crying so bad.

And that's when I woke up, mildly disturbed

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I dreamt about fictional characters for the first time in my life. Said fictional characters were Sun Wukong and Macaque...because who else would it be.

I don't know what was going on, they were chilling in like some hut Wukong had in front of this field. I think it was after the journey but Mac was still alive for some reason?

Not for long tho, bc he suddenly died. Just...died. they were starting to argue and then he just landed face first on the floor.

And Wukong just. Didn't do anything.

Well technically he got so panicked he left...for 9 years.

Then he came back, macaques dead corpse still lying face first in the ground. He picked him up by his scarf and dragged him with him, never properly looking at him (which...good choice brain i dont think I could've handled looking at macaques rotting corpse)

And then he just...threw him into a field and left again for another year. Then when he came back there was this tiny hill where Macaques body was and he just kinda sat in front of it and started crying so bad.

And that's when I woke up, mildly disturbed

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THE BOMB HAS BEEN DROPPED.

TODAY'S THE DAYS MINIONS!!!! GO TAKE OVER TUMBLR WITH THE "#Shadowpeach Bio Parents Au" TAG AND LET'S MAKE IT TREND!!!!

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Next part is coming on December 8th 1PM

IF YOU MANAGE TO GET THE TAG TREND, theupdate of december 8th

you can't possibly miss it

for

the

WORLD.

Well, I guess I answered your questions, didn't I? I think in a way, we all knew it was gonna happen in a "explosive" way considering it's Red Son

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I'm currently not making coherent sentences or even identifiable sounds what the heck just happened

an… interesting proposal… (Ha like father like son am i right?)

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U know what whatever, take this 20-fucking-8 panels update. heaven took notes last time when they saw how much MK is willing to sacrifice for the sake of other.

also Nezha is not paid enough for this.

Next part is coming on November 28th, 1PM ET

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agreed. Agreed. AGREED

confession #32

Genuinely Macaque's characterization is one of the most confusing things I've ever seen. I always felt like LMK leaned into fanon too much, and Macaque is example #1. He was nothing but an antagonist who suddenly turned into a main hero out of nowhere. He didn't make up for any of his actions, he just randomly became a good guy. Even saying "Oh he helped the gang" doesn't work when either he only did it when there was literally no other option or when other villains who have put in the same effort as him and more get shoved to the side. I feel like the team just desperately wanted the audience to like him and it unfortunately worked to the level of very poorly squeezing in a nonexistent redemption arc so he can suddenly do cool stuff with the heroes and people can squeal about how far he's come. When in reality he didn't even put in the bare minimum to be a better person. Just because he's a likable villain doesn't make him a good hero

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To me with macaque

I haven't forgive him for his actions,because he had change of heart you might say but his actions in past seasons like s1/2/3 is never held accountable and such with his behavior that harm other too,macaque never gets a call out like wukong does,the narrative doesn't remind macaque of what he did wrong and characters holding him accountable.

Nor does he get punishment like wukong does in the show and story,macaque deny that pain he cause mk in s4,saying he isn't like the other villains,only saying ldb and azure are the one that use mk.And sometimes it feels like the show is giving him the past and wukong doesn't get that treatment.

I wish the gang showed more distrust towards macaque,like the avatar gang did to zuko,because he doesn't get magical forgiven because he help once,he get call out for the harm,he did and he has to Earned each of the characters trust (I also wish I saw that wukong to btw)

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Question: Is Mk trans in this AU?

(By the way, I promise this isn't like some interrogation, like, there's nothing wrong with him NOT being trans in your comic. Just asking is all)

Yes, and OH BOY there’s more (Dadwukong bonding moment)

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Also I hope I haven't offended anyone in anyway, what I mean here's is that he's AFAB, and he looked at the two of them and went "mmh... I mean, they look AMAB but I could be wrong so-" since technically he's biologically a mix of the two. So his question was more of a "why did Nuwa made me AFAB if this is the case." If there's a better way to write the dialouge lemme know.

And with that the “Training Arc 2:Electric Boogaloo” is done! Next part will be coming this Friday, but I’ll post another Q&A post on Wednesday, as well I’ll be drawing the AU live on my Twitch page at 1PM ET!

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We should talk more about Wukongs shame temple.

I feel like we don't talk enough about the shame temple.

What even is a shame temple?

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How it started

How it's going

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chronic pain is genuinely so stupid

what did i do to deserve this?! (forgot to take my meds for like a week)