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I figured it's Tenebris' turn to be in my profile pictures

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have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight

(a vintage style slasher and his sweet lil honey of a final girl. happy halloween. on a tuesday, no less)

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Some high heeled staff poses 🪄

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Have Sophie and Six Eared Macaque! I got the inspiration from the fanfic that @hcdragonwrites wrote so kindly about how EVIL Macaque is! It's pretty spicy with a warning so you have been warned!

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After months of magic pregnancy and tonnes of worry weighing on the minds of the forever besties, they can finally take a moment to rest once their three newest family members finally make their debut to life.

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11 of 72 transformations

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I LOVE HIM SM RAAAGH

Tsukouis commissions form

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Netflix’s The Monkey King spoilers!!!

This is what I meant in my previous post

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Have a sketch of Wukong and Sophie visiting the kiddos ✨ They finally had time to visit and hang around with their people and especially give attention to the kids, as every grandparents should ✨

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Legit question. Forgive me if im dumb or this has already been answered but.

Why did the Six-Eared Macaque pretend to be Wukong? Why was he trying to do his own Journey? He was known as all hearing right? Knowledge of the Past, Present, and Future. Basically as close to omnipotent as you could get. So why would someone like that ever wanna mess with The Monkey King??? Of all People????

Like that's not the Worst way to die but it's Damn near close!!

I know that most characters are an allegory and it's the journey that matters and all, which is why the Horse-Dragon was so frustratingly absent from most things, and that most likely the whole imposter battle was there as a representation of Character growth or a turning point for Wukong.

But I don't see why a character with Nigh-Omnipotence would pick a fight that he knew he couldn't win. He heard the entire Journey! Which is why he was able to copy Wukong so perfectly!! He had to have known he wouldn't be able to beat him??

And I know why your SEM did it, he was Obsessed and a tiny bit mentally ill which led him to make bad decisions because Fuck rational thought at this point ifg!

And another creator made their own SEM who was just so enraptured by the Story, like the actual Story, of JTTW that he seemed to not even realise that what he was doing was incredibly Dangerous and Stupid and Horrible until Wukong had a Staff to his throat.

Which are both really interesting reasons to read about but still they're just interpretations. Does the book give an explanation about why he did that????

Thank you sincerely for tolerating my Word Vomit.

HOO THAT'S A BIG ONE.

Alright i'm going to be as honest and clandestine as someone who hasn't reread that chapter in years can be.

You want to know if there's a reason why the Six Eared Macaque did what he did in the book? I have bad news, we are not given one.

We are given none of his backstory, motivations, feelings on the matter - apart from what's given to us upfront;

He wants Wukong's Buddhahood.

The glory that comes with it.

The indulgence of living as a king.

He does not care for the monkeys other than them being servants.

And he DEFINITELY doesn't care about the pilgrims.

Other than that we get diddly squat other than he's much more violent and cruel than Wukong - because that's his purpose in the book's allegory.

He is the second mind. The lower brain. The wild destructive animal. He is the hurdle that Wukong at that point in the story is very much having trouble getting over as he still kills people and acts impulsively even if what he's doing is what he thinks is right.

He is the 'evil twin' trope, the Wukong that Heaven imagined the actual Wukong to be like and what most fear him to actually be like.

The Six Eared Macaque in the book is not a character that is given personality, depth and lore beyond the fact he's cruel and is one of the celestial primates - he is there to act as an obstacle, act as a darker half of Wukong and then die.

It makes him an interesting character to write because there's literally nothing else about him other than trait characteristics that differentiate him from Wukong. You can do a lot with him. You could make him the harbinger of his tragedy, a creation of Wukong's manifested rage, even perhaps his actual brother he grew up with.

But other than that?

He's a blank slate villain and an intriguing look into what Wukong might've become if he didn't have the compassion and love that he did.

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I am once again thinking about JTTW retelling potentials people have brought up in terms of Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing knowing Sun Wukong when they were all up in heaven, but specifically through the lens of a Monkey King characterization where he was a canny and ruthless warlord.

Like. Imagine you're a high ranking general in heaven, and one day this 4-foot-something monkey yaoguai starts scampering all over the place being friendly with everyone he runs across. And okay, you're at first kind of concerned by the fact that there's a literal yaoguai in heaven, especially when you hear about some of his exploits on Earth and against some of your fellow immortals. But the Jade Emperor gave the monkey his position, and he's not technically doing anything bad, just completely ignoring protocol and referring to everyone as his friends and brothers. Maybe you find it kind of annoying. Maybe it's kind of charming. But whatever he did before he's a silly monkey now that you don't even see that much.

And then one day all of heaven is in an uproar because it turns out this monkey not only stole tons of immortality granting peaches, but also golden elixir specifically intended for the Jade Emperor. So that's a bridge too far, and obviously means that he needs to surrender to heaven for punishment immediately or else his entire clan will be executed. But he and all his yao allies fight back. More and more and more deities have to be called in to try and subdue this one monkey. And when he is finally captured, it turns out nothing heaven strikes him with can kill him. So then he's there tied up and helpless, but still jeering at all the assembled deities because they have nothing stronger than him.

And then Laozi proposes that he be melted down. The monkey is struggling and crying for this to not happen, but maybe you see what you think is some discomfiting gleam in his eyes, something that indicates he wanted this to happen. But you're not sure, so you say nothing...

And it turns out the monkey's time in the furnace did nothing but refine him into an even stronger immortal than before. And as soon as he's freed he starts smashing a bloody swath through heaven with no one able to halt him until he's practically tearing at the Jade Emperor's throne. Even with twenty-five thunder deities and a host of other immortals trying their best, no one's able to knock him down, and he's laughing and screaming about how no one can stop him, that he won't stop until he's toppled the Jade Emperor and taken heaven's throne for himself, and oh, it seems like there's a chance he might be able to force his way into that position...

So some 500 years later you're living in disgrace and traveling with this same monkey. He's subdued and snarky, and clearly much weaker than he had been before. But still, he's able to get you and your companions out of one jam after another. There's a lot of tension in the group, but it's softening over time. And you start seeing the monkey in a new light. You know how much he loves his "little ones" and wants to go back to his Earthly home. You've seen how capable he is of being gentle with children. And yet...

You've also been witness to the casualness with which the monkey takes human and yaoguai life. The plans he's formed to inflict massive amount of pain on his opponents to make them obey. They way he spies on those who present obstacles to your shared journey so that he knows exactly how they might best be dealt with swiftly and often brutally.

And at some point, you realize that he didn't havoc through heaven, he never does anything in a blind rage.

That even back then he had had plenty of time to consider what exactly he was going to do when he got out of that furnace. He chose not to flee Heaven as soon as he was out, but to kill as many as he could on the way to challenge the Jade Emperor himself.

And now you're on a journey together, which very well could end with this monkey becoming a buddha.

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chinese hanfu

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beauties in journey to the west by 东君之桃

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Have one very nasty boy and one a bit less nasty boy, but still a bastard tho!

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the top drawing is inspired by @goshilovemesomemonsters’s healing! headcanons, and both drawings are referenced from disney films Tarzan and Mulan (I replaced the baby gorilla with a monkey)