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Depends on which meaning of Atlas but prob water given I mostly think of my name as taken from "Atlantis".

Gym leaders and such often have names that match their type which raises the question: which type would you specialise in based only on your name?

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MK witnessing the beginning of Mei and Spindrax's rivalry

Dw they made up and kissed later

(half joking)(frienemies/Rivals that are also lovers are a favorite)(I was half awake when I made this)

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I love the cold but for the love of any and all deities- PUT THE SUN BACK WHERE IT WAS! I NEED THE SPACE LIGHTBULB TO KNOW HOW LATE ITS GETTING⚰️

-a person with time blindness/time problems

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I don't know which Travis we're talking about but FUCK THAT BITCH IF THEY'RE GUNNA ACT LIKE A PRICK‼️‼️🗣🗣

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AAAAAAAANSBDOWHWKE THESE ARE SO COOL AND WELL THOUGHT OUT

LMK assorted Spider Gang LMK headcanons/theories

sequel to this post. Focusing on the Spider Gang cus I just finished reading that section of Journey to the West.

Spider Queen:

Spider Queen was one of seven sisters... seven sisters who fell to Monkey King's staff after trying to capture Tripitaka/Tang Sanzang for their master; Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord/Centipede Demon. Spider Queen was the only survivor of the fight besides the sisters' adoptive sons. She has spent the last countless years trying to rebuild the family and home she once had, accidentally becoming a "queen" of spider demon-kind in the process.

The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord's current status is unknown. Spider Queen doesn't care. Her former "brother" refused to give up the Tang monk in exchange for the safety of his sisters. She views this as the ultimate betrayal from someone she had considered her mentor/older brother. She did steal his alchemy supplies though, hence her cauldron.

Spider Queen actually lost her legs in her and Wukong's original fight - hence why she uses a mechanical lower body. Modern mobility aids yall.

Spider Queen also has beef (accidental Pun) with Zhu Bajie for harassing her and her sisters when they were bathing. Homeboy really went so creepy that they predatory spider demons didn't even wanna eat him. Even Pigsy's brief lapse of braincells when he first met Spider Queen was more polite than what his predecesor did.

Spider Queen's motherly nature extends beyond her clan. It's why LBD deliberately possessed a child to approach her - she knew Spider Queen would think twice about hurting "just a little girl". Spider Queen even gets a little protective over MK once she starts talking to him on an equal level.

Syntax:

Syntax was once a scientist who worked at the Weather Station. When the station was damaged by Red Son and MK's fighting in "Bad Weather"; he got scapegoated by the company as it's lead programmer and was fired. This gives him mega resentment towards both the Monkie Kid gang and the DBK family specifically.

He ran into Spider Queen while trying to find work as a freelance programmer. She needed someone to design a delivery system for her venom that didn't require her biting every single victim's neck. Syntax scoffed and went "I could just program a swarm of mini-robots to do it for you. We use similar drones while cloud-seeding at the station." and the rest is history.

Syntax's name is not only a programming reference, but is a ref to a type of spider family called Synotaxidae - related to Huntsmans and Black Widows (family <3). His name in Mandarian is "Liù yǎn zhū"/六眼蛛 meaning "Six-eyed Spider", which could be a glasses joke from the rest of the spider gang (who normally have four eyes) or a reference to a species in the same family - a six-eyed sand spider, known for their reclusive natures, and having the most powerful venom of any spider species. Hilarious if Syntax ever accidentally bit someone and it was a 1-hit KO.

The antidote made by Red Son wouldn't have worked on Syntax. While it did cure those envenomated during New Years, Syntax getting the "first spin" of the refined venom meant that he recieved far higher a survivable dosage/damage from the spider-bot. He had to work out a few more kinks before the New Years parade or else Megaopolis would been filled with dead half-spider people.

Syntax is having a small crisis of humanity. Not as big as the gang expected, but more like "Oh dang. I could've just been a demon this whole time? This rocks!- Hey why do chickens freak me out all of a sudden?" There's lot of spider demon stuff he has no context for - Spider Queen probably has to give him the spider demon version of "The Talk" the first time Syntax drums his legs at someone he likes.

Has/had a very mild rivalry with Macaque, mostly cus the shadow monkey would poke fun at Syntax for being a magic-less former human, and the programmer could toss the criticism right back at him in words Macaque didn't understand. The hostility died down when Macaque got weirdly interested in an RPG Maker game Syntax was playing, and wanted to know how videogames worked. And so the development of the "Macaque VR game" began.

He def chose the name "Syntax" for himself.

Huntsman:

Huntsman is only slightly younger than Spider Queen. He was a fellow spider demon disgusted by what the pilgrims had done to her sisters. And was a little curious at how strong they truly were. Encountered Sha Wujing on the road when the river demon was foraging, and was immediately enamored with his strength. He knows Sandy is pretending to be a reincarnation, he could recognise his Blue from anywhere.

Hates being seen as weak. Will act out if he suspects someome is "going easy" on him. Even with spicy cooking.

Saw some Things in the potion-portal Tang accidentally sent him to in Laozi/Lao Tzu's lab. The "duck" label was a metaphor.

Beyond tracking devices, this spider is tech blind. Has no gotdamn idea Syntax is talking about half the time.

Goliath/Strong Spider:

Is a little older than Huntsman. But no one's really sure how old he is. Not even him.

Was a drifter from another clan before joining Spider Queen. He doesn't like to talk about what happened with his birth clan.

Deliberately trained his body so he could physically protect his friends/clan from harm. A lot of things can squish a spider, and Goliath wants to make sure that never happens again.

Goliath/Strong Spider has no idea how to make or spin a web. It's the folly of his sub-species. He can however, knit you a pretty good wool blanket instead. :3

Since he's based on a spider called a Goliath Bird-Eater; Goliath occasionally just plucks a bird out of the sky and noms on it like Hogsqueal in The Spiderwick Chronicles. If he ever saw Peng, not even the Buddha could stop Goliath from trying to take a bite.

Spindrax (sadly toyline only ;_;):

Has an obnoxiously black-and-pink colour scheme as a foil to Mei's white-and-green aesthetic.

Is Mei's equal rival in everything. Racing, pinball, arcade games, hand-to-hand combat, etc... Spindrax and Mei even go toe-to-toes when it comes to dancing.

Uses a stylized motorcycle helmet while driving, so much so that Mei honestly didn't know what Spindrax's face looked like until after a race/spider gang fight.

Youngest of the whole spider clan. She's barely considered a young-adult by their standards. Gets babied/underestimated sometimes by them and wishes to prove herself.

Would annoy Syntax while he's working by flicking rubber bands at him.

Bonus ideas+:

The original spider clan was once an actual kingdom, but it fell to silk-greedy humans during the mid Tang Dynasty when the empire began enforcing extreme measures to prevent rival nations from getting their hands on easy silk. When a few too many Roman and Greek tradesmen went to the Spider Kingdom instead of following the Silk Road - the kingdom was burnt to the ground. The Seven Sisters were the only surviving members of a very minor branch of the royal family - saved by a centipede schoolmate.

The Spider Sisters in Journey to the West had adoptive children in the form of other bug demons known as; Bee, Hornet, Cockroach, Cantharis/Spanish-Fly/Blister-Beetle, Grasshopper, Maggot/Wax-Fly, and Dragonfly, who came to defend their moms' after Zhu Bajie harassed them. However they were just little kids, so they could barely nip at the pilgrims even as a swarm of insects. Even the tallest of them was said to be "no more than two and a half feet". SWK simply scared them off by making his hair-clones turn into different birds. It's likely that Spider Queen had to care for her orphaned nephews/students in the aftermath of Jttw.

Would be cool if the seven niblings were still around, trying to avenge their moms and aunts. Hilarious if they were somehow more successful than Jin and Yin at villainy - if only a smidge. Then again that means at the end of canon S3 they're left without a family, if LBD doesn't see them as extra mech material that is...

MK: *driving home from a delivery* A voice off to the side: "Hey monkey-head!" MK, stops driving: "???" (MK turns, only to see seven scrappy-looking kids) MK: "Aww. You guys fans of mine?" Kid 1#: "No! We are sons of the Seven Spider Sisters! Sworn enemies of the Monkey King!" MK, tensing up cus arachnophobia: "S-spiders?" Kid 2#: "Yeah! Now you're gonnna get it!" The Kids: *transforms into their true demon forms* MK: *massive sigh of relief* "Oh thank the buddha! You're just regular bug demons. Sorry nothing personal, I just can *not* deal with a swarm of baby spiders right now. You guys get home to Spider Queen before it gets dark ok?" MK: *continues driving home* The Kids, briefly stunned: "HEY! Get back here!" "You're not suppose to run away!" "We're telling mama about this!"

Spider Demons are able to heal/hibernate inside cocoons similar to those seen in the cave system. Huntsman and Goliath were sleeping off the worst of the winter frost when New Year's woke them up. It could also give an explaination to where Spindrax and the seven adopted bug kiddos are - they sleepin'.

I leave you with this funny Gary Larson comic with a spider in it:

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Reblogging for later reference🫶[aka I have bad memory-]

Ships/duo names in LMK

Sooooo, there's alot of ship/duo names in lmk. So i thought, hey maybe i should compile all of them into one post! Shouldn't be too hard, right?

Haha anyways, just some things to note : most ships/duo names will have two or more names due to it being somewhat obscure ( and sometimes kinda problematic, but i'm adding it either way ). And i might've also missed some, so if you know another obscure ship or whatever, lmk in the tags or comments ^^

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Sunburst duo - Monkey king & MK

Soysauce duo - Macaque & MK

Goldendragon - Mei/MK or Mei & MK ( but this is mostly a ship name )

Dragonfruit - Mei/Red son

Traffic light trio - Mei & Red son & MK

Chimera - Mei/Red son/MK

Spicynoodles - MK/Red son

Shadowpeach - Monkey king/Macaque

Freenoodles - Tang/Pigsy

Wasabi Duo - Mei & Sun Wukong

Jackfruit/M&M - Mei & MK

Sundial/eclipse duo - Macaque & Monkey king

DarkHorse Duo - Mei & Macaque

Hot topic/charcoal duo - Redson & Macaque

Flame twins - Mei & Redson

Inferno duo - Nezha & Redson

Royalty duo - Nezha & Monkey King

Lotuspeach - Nezha/Monkey king ( ew )

Lotusmoon - Nezha/Chang'e

Monkie kids - MK & Mei & Pigsy & Tang & Sandy ( sometimes Monkey king, Macaque, and Nezha is included too )

FishBallNoodles/sandwich - Sandy/Pigsy/Tang

The demon bull family - Demon bull king & Princess iron fan & Red son ( maybe even the bull clones too? Idk )

Freepeaches/suntang/peachtea - Tang/Monkey king

Inkypages/hibiscus tea/tintedLenses - Macaque/Tang

Tripsun - Monkey king/Tripitaka

Dragonpeach - Ao lie/Monkey king

Stableboys - Ao lie & Monkey king

Eclipsemane - Monkey king/Azure lion/Macaque

Lionpeach/goldenlion - Azure lion/Monkey king

BlueMoon - Macaque/Azure Lion

Inkyfeathers - Peng/Azure lion

Blackquill - Macaque/Peng

Moonmonkey/moonstone - Chang'e/Monkey king

BlackBunny/shadowmoon/shadowbunny - Chang'e/Macaque

Sugarplum/StormOcean/Lunar tides - Sandy/Macaque

Seamonkey - Sandy/Monkey king

Silktea - Sandy/Huntsman

SeaPig/Seasalt - Sandy/Pigsy

Jasminetea - Sandy/Tang

Dandylion - Sandy/Azure lion

Toxicsanity/toxicinsanity - Not Mayor/Syntax

Shadowpuppet - Macaque/Not Mayor ( sometimes platonic, but rare )

RoyalArachnid - Spider queen/Scorpion queen

ShadowVenom - Macaque/Spider Queen

VenomPeach - Monkey king/Spider Queen

Nightshade - Spider Queen/Princess iron fan

Peachbun - Pigsy/Monkey king

Inkynoodles/SmokedBacon - Macaque/Pigsy

Ironbull/Irondumpling - Princess iron fan/Demon bull king

BBQ - Pigsy/Demon bull king

BullMonkey - Demon bull king/Monkey king

Ironpeach - Princess iron fan/Monkey king

BlackFire - Macaque/Red son

Firewall - Red son/Syntax

Cyberhunt - Syntax/Huntsman

ShadowCoding - Macaque/Syntax

GiantPeach - Sun Wukong/Goliath (strong spider)

SpinDragon - Mei/Spindrax

Ghostpepper - Red son/Not Mayor

Mysticbones - Monkey King/Not Mayor

Blizzard Duo - MK & LBD

RottenPlums - Macaque/LBD ( what )

Rottenpeach - LBD/Monkey king ( huh?? )

Stardust/moondust - LBD/Chang'e ( uh )

Rottenfruits - Monkey king/LBD/Macaque ( kill me )

PeachyNoodles - MK/Monkey King ( why )

PlumsyNoodles - MK/Macaque ( GOD WHYYY )

Darksoynoodles - ink MK/MK

Discodragon - Porty clone/Mei

Mixtape - Porty clone/Red son

Firealpaca- Redson/artist clone

Hot wheels- Redson/delivery clone

Hot heels/customer service - Redson/shoe store employee

Locket shipping - Mayor/Shoe Store Employee

GoldenPork - Pigsy/Jin

SilverPork - Pigsy/Yin

FastFood - Pigsy/Jin/Yin

Fizzyshipping - MK/Jin

Milky way/JadeRabbit - Chang'e/Mei ( oh )

( Thanks gh0st-t0wn3, Lmkthings-ela, and Anon for helping me with most of these ^^ )

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Tastes like prion disease ÔwÔ

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Gunna try to do inktober! Day 1, Dream!