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More details on my "The Monkey King and the Infant" au;
Sun Wukong was given MK's egg by Nezha under the Jade Emperor's command. The Lotus Prince, equally disgusted by Heaven's order, promised to keep quiet on whatever the Monkey King chose to do with the egg.
The Jade Emperor, Lao Tzu, most of the Celestials and Demons that had past beef with Sun Wukong; All want this stone egg scrambled. Save strangely enough for Princess Iron Fan, who's already watching the baby stone monkey's career with great interest.
MK's egg being formed is "somehow" connected to Macaque being resurrected by LBD. Only LBD knows the true reason.
Sun Wukong and Macaque reunited during the process of deciding what to do with the egg. It wasnt pretty, but both agreed that it was an issue far greater than their estrangement.
The two wandered for sometime, just trying to find a way for the unhatched Stone Monkey to live in peace separated from the chaos of Heaven. Until they came across a noodle stand with an unusually familiar face.
Macaque initially protested leaving the egg with Pigsy. However, when the pig demon assumed the pair were down-on-their luck soon-to-be-parents needing a safe space to rear their unborn, he offered the apartment above the shop for free. Macaque was quick to reconsider his first impression.
The Monkeys, Pigsy, and Tang, are all co-parenting the little undercooked Monkey. It can be a little confusing when MK grows up and mentions having four separate parents but people are mostly polite about it. Uncle Sandy has been tagging in for babysitting duty ever since Pigsy caught a horde of Flower Fruit Monkeys filling in for their King on diaper duty.
Nezha pops in after a few months post-hatch, and pretty much cries in relief and shame that he suspected for even a moment that Sun Wukong would harm the little infant. Becomes MK's unofficial Fairy Godfather.
Macaque and the few Celestials who know of MK's existance call him "The Egg" long after he's hatched. It's easier to see him as something that can still be crushed. Macaque's title eventually turns into an adoring nickname. The Celestial's title becomes a threat.
Pigsy and Tang were legit unaware that the two Monkey Demons that showed up are the ones from the stories. After all, there's gotta be a bunch of them hanging around right? Right?
One day Pigsy walks in on MK's egg being warmed in a nest of heated blankets, and quickly puts two and two together. Him and Tang both agree that all these little details stay inside the noodle shop.
MK hatched surrounded by adoring eyes and a warm bowl of noodles. More suspicions are raised when he looks like a odd mix of the two adult stone monkeys. His offical name is "Qi Xiaotang", since he's the little piece of Heaven that the Jade Emperor cannot control.
Sun Wukong: "First one to get called Dad gets naming privileges!"
Baby MK imprinted a lot from Pigsy. Cue piglet squealing and grunts in addition to regular baby monkey noises. The sounds made during bath time got animal control called on the shop more than once.
Tang is still a big Journey to the West nerd. Him and Macaque sometimes grab cocktails and talk about relationship issues.
MK has built-in Gold Vision + Glamour filter. Its a little startling for demons who thought they had perfect glamours. MK himself looks just "human-enough" that he can pass as human easily.
Mei is still MK's bff. Although she's confused why he keeps saying she has scales. Red Son keeps running into them pre-Staff and is very annoyed.
At the time of the show's canon; Sun Wukong's Staff willingly gets removed by MK, tricked by PIF and Red Son. And the Demon Bull King aint happy to see a mini-Wukong when he wakes up.
MK: "My parents are gonna Kill me."
The waking of DBK, and MK inheriting Sun Wukong's powers, things get a little heated at home. Esp since LBD wants to "cash in" her favor to Macaque, old wounds get reopened, and the Jade Emperor is starting to realise that Sun Wukong didnt smash the stone egg and that Nezha has been covering for him.
This au is consuming me.
#lmk#lego monkie kid#the monkey king and the infant#the monkey king and the infant au#lmk s4 spoilers#lmk au#qi xiaotian#sun wukong#six eared macaque#liu er mihou#shadowpeach#lmk pigsy#lmk tang#freenoodleshipping#lmk nezha#the jade emperor#monkey mk
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OH DANG. Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie confronting the Jade Emperor for the sake of the common people...
#jttw retellings#jttw 1986#sun wukong#monkey king#zhu bajie#the jade emperor#haha think I just found one of my favorite moments from a jttw retelling#and I think this really gets at one of the reasons I love this monkey#just the nerves of steel to confront those in power for the sake of others...#this provides a really neat contrast to the havoc in heaven too#where here swk gets the jade emperor to lift the drought by successfully arguing his case#HOWEVER#the threat of him being able to have another havoc is still there#which is indicated to be one of the reasons why the jade emperor ultimately lifted his ban on rain haha#also while I do find zbj kind of hiding behind swk funny here#it's still really cool that they were both severely punished by heaven#but still have the guts to cause trouble & confront the jade emperor himself for the sake of people he keeps telling them not to care about
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Valley of the Kings [Prolouge Chapter] Sneak Peek [Colored panels]
oh laaaawd I'm going all out with this AU— (click for quality and full image)
Prolouge Chapter
Chapter 1: Outsider
VOTK Tag/Comic Guide/Updates
#lego monkie kid#monkie kid#lmk#mk#monkey king#glitchypotato3000#lmk nezha#sun wukong#Azure Lion#monkie kid au#Lego monkie kid au#Valley of the Kings AU#Nezha#third Lotus Prince#Monkey king#the Jade Emperor
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Repost because I accidentally deleted my old one while editing
Random things I’m working on and old Nezha art for compensation
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Again, have Lan in LMK and some character dynamics.
#lmk nezha#lego monkie kid#nezha#lego monkie kid nezha#lego monkie kid oc#lmk oc#lmk#inaccuart#the jade emperor
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So my mom knows a lot of (kinda random) stuff and sometimes she'll share it with me. And the other day she talked about the Ying and Yang thingy and it got me thinking
This thing
Is about order and chaos. It's about what you know and what you don't; the day and the night. It's not meant to represent evil vs good
Now why am I bringing this up? Because MK is supposed to be the Harbinger of Chaos. See where I'm going?
Chaos is not seen as an evil thing; or not always, at least. Chaos is just... the lack of order. What the Ying and Yang is supposed to represent is balance. There can't be too much chaos, yes, but there also can't be too much order
Qi Xiaotian may be the Harbinger of Chaos, but this only means that he plays a greater part on keeping the balance, well, balanced. He isn't order, and that's good
This can also be seen in his chaotic personality. He's loud and has a hard time listening to other people; he has broken stuff multiple times and pranked people with Mei. Her and MK have always been described as a 'chaotic duo'. Chaos is just part of who MK is! And that's not a bad thing!!
Now that just leaves the question: who is order? Who represents it? Who is the Yang to his Yin?
The main villain we've had so far (LBD, Azure) could be representing order. The Lady Bone Demon wanted a perfect world, a world where there was no chaos; the world she wanted, one she could rule. Azure Lion wanted to overthrow the Jade Emperor to become emperor himself (also, wow, parallels) and keep the peace while also being just and fair to everyone. But I don't really feel like that's enough, y'know?
None of the characters we've seen so far represent order the way MK represents chaos. My first thought was "Mei could be order!" to have some kind of "sun and moon" tragic duo, but it's not very good because Mei is also very chaotic (order is not what you think when you first look at her. Chaos, or chaotic, is what MK reminds people of)
Maybe Bai He? But we haven't seen much of her yet. I would like to have her and MK as a fun duo though. And with the order comparisons w LBD and Bai He having been possessed by her... yeah I think that'd be some good material for a very angsty episode/season
So! The conclusion! MK being the Harbinger of Chaos is not a bad thing and he is literally just helping keep the balance
#i think someone has talked abt this b4???#i can't remember ;(((#i saw a post similar to this one a while ago. idk who made it and i didn't reblog it bc i'm stupid#i'm pretty sure i unconsciously borrowed some stuff from there so. if you're the op then sorry for copying(? your idea!!#plssss if someone finds it tell me i need to see it again it was so good#also yin is femininity. do what you want with that info#lmk#lego monkie kid#qi xiaotian#mk#mei#long xiaojiao#lady bone demon#lbd#azure lion#ying and yang#the jade Emperor#only mentioned but eh#bai he#avis' post
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I COULDN'T HELP IT LMAOA
You can find the first chapter—> here
#jttw#journey to the west fanart#journey to the west#journey to the west au#jttw au#jttw fanart#xiyouji#sun wukong#sun wukong fanart#jttw sun wukong#jttw fanfic#the jade emperor#the monkey king#meme#journey to the west fanfic
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Summary: You wish that you listened more carefully when your best friend rambled about Chinese myths. You barely knew anyone here.
#queen of the mountain#fic update#lego monkie kid#the feast of peaches#the jade emperor#lmk nezha#and other celestials
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I do have to say that I'm not aware at all about chinese politics, and the few things that I do know were graciously given by the substack's notes (if chinese bureocracy became famous thanks to giving anything under the sun a minister I don't want to imagine the paperwork), BUT I can ask about the reasonings behind giving Sun Wukong a practically empty title.
The Jade Emperor got official complaints that Sun Wukong did whatever he wanted thanks to his awesome powers, and his disregards for any kind of political title that is "above" him. So with this evidence, and with Sun Wukong simply storming the heavens himself when he was called... Why did you give him a useless title?!?!
Sun Wukong did exactly what I thought he would do the second the other ministers told him that BanHorsePlague was the "lowest of the low ranks" of all ministers, he stormed from Heaven, went to his family, drank a ton while everyone patted him on the back, and gave himself a new title not Heaven approved.
"The Great Sage, Equal to Heaven."
Petty? Absolutely. A really cool name? Yes!
Also I love how the Devarāja Virūdhaka just straight up said to the Jade Emperor "yeah uuuuh we don't know why the BanHorsePlague threw a tantrum then went away sorry :c" just after Celestial Master Zhang explained that Sun Wukong left because his rank was too low.
#Maybe the Jade Emperor and his ministers should have thought a little bit more about this me thinks#Maybe give Sun Wukong an actual title#What did they thought it would happen when Monkey found out? That he was going to go “oh well guess I'm just stuck with this useless title”#journey to the west daily#Jttwdaily#journey to the west#sun wukong#the jade emperor
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Tiny Wukong ready to defeat heaven or die trying: I have the power of god and anime on my side!
The Jade Emperor who just wants him to leave: wait, now let’s just-
Wukong: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
#lego monkie kid#journey to the west#sun wukong#monkie kid sun wukong#jttw sun wukong#the jade emperor#meme
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and he has his nimbus
I'm happy now. I can stop watching here. /j
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"The Monkey King and the Infant" (au?) idea
Oh man I just had a Dark Thought about the Jade Emperor and how he thinks of MK after seeing that "The Horse and the Infant" animatic.
What if the Jade Emperor and the rest of the Celestial Realm, not wanting "Another Sun Wukong", want MK dead?
The Jade Emperor, seeing a newborn Stone Monkey and deciding that it needs to DIE. So he informs (now unoffically retired) Monkey King of MK's existance, hoping that fear and jealousy alone would spur him to follow his gruesome order. Showing him visions of MK as a troubled adult, struggling with powers no mortal should hold.
But... Sun Wukong had grown so much more since the Emperor had last saw him. He agrees to "monitor the situation" and acts as a guardian angel throughout MK's life. At first he convinces himself that at the first sign of trouble, he'll complete his dark task, but as the little boy giggles and grabs for the orange-coloured wildlife that haunts him, he simply Cannot. Cue deciding that MK is to be his successor instead.
Bonus: A certain Macaque is revived by Lady Bone Demon at the same time for the same task. Macaque becomes MK's shadowy godfather in response, telling the Bone Demon that he's "biding his time".
Meanwhile; Pigsy wonders why these two strangers are always in the shop, glaring at eachother in semi-recognition, and tending to his adopted noodle child?
#lmk#lmk au#lego monkie kid#the monkey king and the infant au#qi xiaotian#sun wukong#liu er mihou#six eared macaque#lmk s4 spoilers#the jade emperor#shadowpeach
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how the heck did he successfully overthrow the jade emperor thats madness
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Chapter 3 Recap: Four Seas and a Thousand Mountains all bow to submit; From Ninefold Darkness ten species’ names are removed
We are now not very far into the story, but Chapter Three has given us some of Sun Wukong’s most (in)famous acts in very rapid succession! We begin with an account of how the Monkey King turned the Mt. Huaguoshan troop into a proper army and “practiced daily with the little monkeys the art of war.” Yet after some time Sun Wukong becomes disturbed at the thought that the bamboo spears and wooden swords the monkeys were armed with wouldn’t stand a chance against actual “sharp swords and fine halberds,” something that leaves all the monkeys alarmed and wondering where they might get such things. At this, four older members of the troop, “two female monkeys with red buttocks and two bareback gibbons,” come forward to tell the “Great King” he should get such weapons from the king of the Aolai Country, “who has numberless men and soldiers in his city, and there are bound to be all kinds of metalworks there.” Delighted at this idea and making the trip of two hundred miles to Aolai Country in no time at all, Sun Wukong uses his magic to steal the entire armory. And so the Mt. Huaguoshan troop, who are forty-seven thousand strong, became very well armed indeed!
Impressed by the assembly of well-armed and well-trained monkeys, the yaoguai kings of seventy-two caves all come to pay homage to the Monkey King, and even start bringing him annual tributes and joining his army. In this manner Mt. Huaguoshan becomes “as strong as an iron bucket or a city of metal.” Yet while the Monkey King does enjoy the ever-growing impregnability of his beloved mountain home and the strength gathered by his beloved family, he becomes deeply unsatisfied with the scimitar he took from the Monstrous King of Havoc. Coming forward again, the four elder monkeys suggest that he use his vast magical powers to visit the Dragon King of the Easter Ocean, and there request a new weapon. Sun Wukong is quick to make the trip, and is greeted with honor by the Dragon King Aoguang. The Dragon King then offers the Monkey King one weapon after another, each of which Sun Wukong rejects for being “too light.” Aoguang is left “completely unnerved” at witnessing how the monkey easily wields even a halberd weighing seven thousand two hundred pounds, and even though he protests that he has nothing heavier to offer Sun Wukong, the monkey insists he look some more, stating that he’ll give the dragon a “good price” for an acceptable weapon.
It is here that the dragon mother and her daughter suggest Aoguang show the Monkey King “that piece of rare magic iron by which the depth of the Heavenly River is fixed,” hoping that one way or another offering it to Sun Wukong will get the monkey off their collective back. Yet to everyone’s surprise, the Monkey King is able to lift this pole using all his might, and to his pleasure discovers that this metal responds to his request to become shorter and thinner at his command. When he finally gets it to the size he wants, he examines it and “found a golden hoop at each end, with solid black iron in between. Immediately adjacent to one of the hoops was the inscription, ‘The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod. Weight: thirteen thousand five hundred pounds.” And so the Monkey King is now armed with his famous staff.
Aoguang and all his subjects are left shaking in fear seeing how Sun Wukong displayed his might as he mock fought with the staff throughout their court. They are left more fearful still when the monkey proclaims he must also have the “material apparel” to go with his new weapon, even threatening to “try the iron” on the Dragon King if he doesn’t give him something suitable. Aoguang is forced to summon his three brothers Aoqin, Aoshun, and Aorun, each of them also a dragon king of an ocean, in the hopes they might have what the simian wants. They are left outraged at the monkey’s audacity and theft, but ultimately decide that, as it would be suicidal to go against the Monkey King armed with his new “piece of iron,” that they will “assemble an outfit for him and get him out of this place. We can then present a formal complaint to Heaven, and Heaven will send its own punishment.” All agree to this plan, and thus give Sun Wukong an outfit composed of “cloud-treading shoes the color of lotus root,” a “cuirass of chain-mail made of yellow gold,” and “a cap with erect phoenix plumes, made of red gold.” Sun Wukong takes his new outfit and his new staff and leaves with a “Sorry to have bothered you!” to the dragons, something that leaves them even more enraged and eager to tell Heaven about the monkey’s misdeeds.
Sun Wukong, for his own part, is left “beaming broadly” at the praise the monkeys heap upon him at seeing his new finery, and gives them a playful demonstration on the extent to which his new weapon can grow and shrink. Soon after he performs “magic of cosmic imitation” and takes on his war form for the first time, a figure “ten thousand feet tall, with a head like the Tai Mountain and a chest like a rugged peak, eyes like lightning and a mouth like a blood bowl, and teeth like swords and halberds. The rod in his hand was of such a size that its top reached the thirty-third Heaven and its bottom the eighteenth layer of Hell.” All the yaoguai and their kings who see this are left terrified, their fear compelling them to continue paying their respects.
At this time, all the assembled yaoguai have a “great banquet of a hundred delicacies,” and “the cups were filled to overflowing.” At this feast the Monkey King “made the four old monkeys mighty commanders of his troops by appointing the two female monkeys with red buttocks as marshals Ma and Liu, and the two bareback gibbons as generals Beng and Ba. The four mighty commanders, moreover, were entrusted with all matters concerning fortification, pitching, camps, reward, and punishment.” This achieved and the absolute security of Mt. Huaguoshan and his family seeming assured, the Monkey King not only proceeds to travel all over the world making good friends wherever he goes, but also “entered into fraternal alliance with six other monarchs: the Bull Monster King, the Dragon Monster King, the Garuda Monster King, the Giant Lynx King, the Macaque King, and the Orangutan King.” For a long time this fraternal order of seven spend their days discussing civil and military arts while not overlooking a single pleasure, from exchanging wine cups to song and dance.
After another banquet at Mt. Huaguoshan some time after the fraternal order is formed and during which everyone becomes “thoroughly drunk,” the Monkey King sinks into a deep slumber only for his soul to be dragged to hell. Yet Sun Wukong fiercely “protests” this, first making the case to his jailers that he shouldn’t be there because he successfully trained to be an immortal, and when that doesn’t work he pulls out his treasure and “reduced [them] to hash.” Sending bull and horse-headed demons fleeing in every direction, the Monkey King fights his way to the Palace of Darkness and demands under pain of “a drubbing” that the Ten Kings of the Underworld bring out the register of birth and death and let him see if his death was a mistake. Sure enough, he finds himself as “Soul 1350…Sun Wukong…Heaven-born Stone Monkey. Age: three hundred and forty-two years. A good end.” Yet good or not, the Monkey King refuses to accept any form of death, instead forcing hell’s judges to get him a brush soaked in heavy ink so that he can cross out his own name and the name of every other monkey on the ledger. This accomplished, Sun Wukong declares that he’s truly no longer the subject of death and fights his way back out of the Region of Darkness. The Ten Kings, for their own part, could do nothing except “report the incident to Heaven.”
Waking and realizing that his escapades in hell were “all a dream,” Sun Wukong, the mighty commanders, the various other monkeys, and soon enough the six sworn brothers nevertheless are all “delighted about the cancellation of the names,” believing that “those fellows,” the ministers of death, “have no hold over us now.” And indeed, “from that time onward there were many mountain monkeys who did not grow old, for their names were not registered in the Underworld.”
Yet even as the yaoguai celebrate, the Great Benevolent Sage of Heaven, the Celestial Jade Emperor of the Most Venerable Deva, is presented with more and more complaints about Sun Wukong’s various crimes and exploits. Hearing about the terror the Monkey King inflicted on the Dragon Kings, the Jade Emperor declares that he will send his generals out to arrest the unruly culprit. Right after, the Jade Emperor also receives the complaint from underworld on how Sun Wukong is upsetting the very wheel of transmigration, “for birth and death are eliminated in each kind of monkey,” and as such there is now another request for the Jade Emperor to “send forth your divine army and subdue this monster.”
The Jade Emperor, now faced with more understanding of the power this monkey holds, asks which of his divine generals will take on the task of capturing Sun Wukong. Yet the Long-Life Spirit of the Planet Venus steps forward and offers an alternative: that the Jade Emperor, instead of going to war with the Monkey King, summon the simian to Heaven and give him “some kind of official duties. His name will be recorded in the Register and we can control him here.” If he obeys then Heaven will gain another immortal, and if he doesn’t than he can be arrested without any military might needed. The Jade Emperor is “highly pleased” at this idea, and delegates the Gold Star of Venus to inform Sun Wukong of this new (and somewhat dubious) honor. The Monkey King receives the Gold Star politely, is delighted at the offer of a place among the deities, and agrees to go to Heaven. This chapter ends with Sun Wukong instructing his four mighty commanders to “Be diligent in teaching and drilling the young ones. Let me go up to Heaven to take a look and see whether I can have you all brought up there too to live with me.”
Whether Heaven will become a monkey paradise or not is a question that will have to wait for the next chapter.
#jtjttw submission#jttw chapter recap#xiyouji#journey to the west#jttw#sun wukong#monkey king#ao guang#the jade emperor#the four mighty commanders
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Oc indulgence
The Jade Emperor and the Censor:
These two had a long-standing history dating back to the early days of the Celestial Court.
Whenever the Censor made a visit to the Celestial realm, they would always take time to speak privately with the Jade Emperor. To this day, no one knows what they spoke about, and nothing has ever been confirmed.
'They were always in the throne room' thought Nezha.
#lego monkie kid#lmk#lmk oc#lego monkie kid oc#inaccuart#the jade emperor#lmk nezha#lego monkie kid nezha#nezha
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I want to see Sun Wukong be angry. Angry at anyone — at Macaque, because he hurt his friends and tormented his student multiple times. At Azure Lion, because he pretty much groomed him and (as far as we know) didn't even look for him when he disappeared and just jumped to conclusions, believing he was a traitor. At the Jade Emperor, because, to him, he was not a good ruler. At Tripitaka, because while kind he was also very unfair some of the time. At himself, because he's the one who got them involved in this mess — he brought all that suffering on himself and he still doesn't fully know what to do about it
#i like anger :)#its existence is important to me#lmk#lego monkie kid#sun wukong#the monkey king#the six eared macaque#azure lion#the jade emperor#<- i've got mixed feelings about that one#tripitaka#fuck it let him be angry at god
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