I tried to figure the design of Ao Lie’s impulsive older sister (it’s said in lmk wiki that she’s the pearl holding Longnu, the longnu that follow Guanyin), along with Muzha and Jinzha (it would funny if Muzha got confused with Nezha for once)
Manifesting Red Son being autistic baby, Mei and Nezha dynamics, and also the fact that Nezha can secretly lift the staff :)
While Sun Wukong is not historically or canonically transgender, I wholeheartedly support anyone with a headcanon portraying him as such. A great example of spiritual gender transition from Buddhist scripture that could serve as a basis for your headcanon is the “Dragon Girl” (Longnu, 龍女) from chapter 12 of the Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing, 妙法蓮華經; a.k.a. Fahua jing, 法華經, c. 3rd-century).
She is first introduced to an assembly of Buddhist deities as the eight-year old daughter of the Dragon King Sāgara (Suojieluo longwang, 娑竭羅龍王) and one of an unfathomable number of dragonfolk enlightened by the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī’s (Wenshu shili, 文殊師利) lessons on the Lotus Sutra. Her teacher describes her as a great student prodigy with a deep knowledge of Buddhist Law, as well as having many advanced spiritual achievements. But this upsets some among the assembly because the notion of a young girl approaching Buddhahood so quickly flies in the face of convention, which normally calls for untold aeons of severe austerities before one can achieve awakening. Her accomplishments are called into question at first, but everyone is appeased when she offers a priceless jewel to the Buddha, and he quickly accepts it as a symbolic gesture. Then:
The girl said [to the assembly], “Employ your supernatural powers and watch me attain Buddhahood. It will be even quicker than that!”
At that time the members of the assembly all saw the dragon girl in the space of an instant change into a man (emphasis added) and carry out all the practices of a bodhisattva, immediately proceeding to the spotless World of the south, taking a seat on a jeweled lotus, and attaining impartial and correct enlightenment. With the thirty-two features and the eighty characteristics [of a Buddha], he expounded the wonderful Law for all living beings everywhere in the ten directions (Watson, 1993, p. 188). [1]
女言:「以汝神力,觀我成佛,復速於此。」
當時眾會,皆見龍女忽然之間變成男子,具菩薩行,即往南方無垢世界,坐寶蓮華,成等正覺,三十二相、八十種好,普為十方一切眾生演說妙法。
A drawing of the Dragon Girl and the priceless jewel (larger version). Image found here.
Note:
1) For the Dragon Girl’s story, see Watson, 1993, pp. 187-189.
Source:
Watson, B. (Trans.) (1993). The Lotus Sutra. New York: Columbia University Press.
Director: Zhong Ming
Screenwriter: Yi Wang Air
Starring: Yang Ning / Shan Xin / Jiang Guangtao / Su Shangqing / Tong Xinzhu / Baomu Zhongyang / You Wu Yue Shan / Ding Dong / Tut Harmon / Yan Meme / Li Lanling / Yan Yeqiao / Chang Rongshan / Liu Mingyue / Ye Zhiqiu
Genre: Comedy / Animation / Fantasy
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Date: 2018-03-29 (Mainland China)
Number of seasons: 1
Episodes: 96
Single episode length: 5 minutes
Also known as: Inhuman
Type: Reimaging
Summary:
How do the "famous" spirits in Chinese classical myths and legends survive in modern society? They have become housewives, warm men, office workers, and dog dads with fairy characteristics around us. They staged funny and weird episodes in life about happiness and friendship, creating an incredible two-dimensional fairyland in our ordinary and busy daily life.
@deadshadowcreature this took like 18 tries bc the vine audio was so fast smh. Anyway hope this made u laugh! (U can't tell me Nezha didn't scream like that when this happened)
◒ ~ not at all did i intend to color this or do more then a poorly done sketch and then forget about it but here we are ig ~ i was looking at maybe too many posts of Long nu yesterday and just had to draw her
Bueno ahora sabemos como Nezha se quedo sin trabajo en el reino celestial pero ¿que pasa con Longnu? ¿Tendra algun castigo? ¿o sera impuesto por los dragones? ¿tendra algun rol a futuro?
translated via google:
"Well now we know how Nezha lost his job in the celestial kingdom but what about Longnu? Will there be any punishment? or will it be imposed by the dragons? Will you have any role in the future?"
Nezha is the type to take the full blame of the "botched mission" when confronted by the forces of Heaven and/or Erlang. From Heaven's perspective, Nezha compromised a very dangerous mission due to misunderstanding a debriefing that he wasn't even apart of. Ultimately it's an arguement between Nezha and his father Li Jing that causes the Third Lotus Prince to be banished from Heaven for the foreseeable future.
Longnu might just get away from punishment, if Erlang can't remember her presence that night (or doesn't snitch). Ao Guang, the Eastern Dragon King, would be the one tasked with deciding a fitting punishment for Longnu if the Celestial Realm demands it. And he's far more interested in how the Six Eared Macaque made it back to the land of the living after so long. Perhaps Longnu may get away from any harsh punishment, if she provides her father with the knowledge of how and/or who revived Macaque.
Longnu will reappear, as the older cousin to Mei/Long Xiaojiao. She wants her younger cousin to just stay safe, but hesistates to share what greater threats lie for the remaining members of the Western Dragon Clan.
Screenwriter: Zhu Xuan / Bai Xiaolong / Guo Jiaming / Niu Mao Mao
Starring: Geng Yeting / Wa Er / Duan Xingyu / Lou Ming / Fang Jiayi / Heizi / Juanzi
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Date: 2021-09-01 (Network in Mainland China)
Type: Reimagining
Summary:
It tells the story of Red Boy, who has been accepted by Guanyin as the Boy of Good Fortune, and follows his teacher's order to go to the Tianji Trial Association to practice. He wanted to be a hero, but he was rejected by everyone because of his identity as an immortal and a demon. Facing the misunderstanding of the people and the coming catastrophe of the Three Realms, Red Boy resolutely abandons his prejudices at the critical moment, puts down his competitive spirit, and bravely faces the evil together with Nezha, Xiao Longnu and others, and finally defeats the devil and wins the recognition of the world’s story.
From the youngest to the oldest: Ao Lie, Ao Cinxin, and Ao Moang! I could explain their personality later when i’m finished with Moang and Cinxin’s designs, as well as their dynamic as siblings!
Also, Nezha concept designs! This one’s unrelated to LMK :)
EDIT: THE LITTLE ICON WAS MADE BY MY FRIEND @sophlockstudios ON INSTAGRAM! they made me a little uncolored doodle of Nezha and i colored it :)