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Concept for my scrapped "Shrek" OC

In honor of Shrek 2's 20th anniversary today, I thought I would tell you about an OC I thought would work out for "Shrek", but in 2011-ish, I felt like my character didn't add much, so I had to scrap him. But I still remember the plan I had going for my reposed OC.

His name is simply "Lord of the Monkeys", and no, he's not a rip-off of Tarzan or George of the Jungle. He's a completely different character altogether. He's a human being who can talk to primates and summon them from anywhere. He can also climb trees and fly with the wings from his armpits (Kinda like Banshee from "X-Men"). Down below is my storyline for him throughout each movie and TV special.

"SHREK"

The Lord of the Monkeys was once presumed to be a dead corpse lying on a tree by Shrek's swamp, until Shrek's roar caused him to wake up and fall from the tree after the angry mob left the swamp screaming. He meant no harm to Shrek and asked for food and shelter. Shrek begrudgingly allows him to stay, only under the condition that he resorts to only eating Shrek's leftovers. The next morning, they both meet Donkey, who just bumped into Shrek's foot. Shrek lets out a snarl at the Captain of the Guard after the other guards ran away, and the three head back to Shrek's home. While Shrek has allowed the Lord of the Monkeys to stay as his slave, he's only allowing Donkey a one-night stay. During dinner, Shrek sees the other fairy tale characters who were recently banished to his swamp by Lord Farquaad, and Shrek makes an announcement that he and his new slave will take to Lord Farquaad to get those fairytale characters to leave the swamp, with Donkey joining Shrek and LoM ("Lord of the Monkeys").

Donkey leads the two (and of course, the other monkeys my OC had as extra backup) to Duloc, Lord Farquaad's castle home. Despite the vacancy, nobody was there, not even in the gift shops. The Lord of the Monkeys goes to one as Donkey messes with the photo machine that plays "Welcome to Duloc". As soon as Shrek and Donkey got their pictures taken, the Lord of the Monkeys came back with souvenirs he stores in his little backpack. The three, plus the additional monkeys fight off Farquaad's guards, and Lord Farquaad makes the deal with Shrek to rescue Princess Fiona from the Dragon's Keep in exchange for the deed to Shrek's swamp.

After a long walk through the forest, Shrek, Donkey, the Lord of the Monkeys, and his monkey crew arrive at the Dragon's Keep outside. The Lord of the Monkeys flies over the bridge and successfully makes it across, no problem. His monkeys crossed the bridge by walking on the ropes. And while Shrek shook the bridge to make Donkey cower away, he and Donkey made it across as well. Donkey and the Lord of the Monkeys spot Dragon, and LoM helps Shrek until they both got flung into separate parts of the castle. Shrek landing in Fiona's bedroom, and the Lord of the Monkeys ending up in another room. As Shrek pulls Fiona out, he reunites with the Lord of the Monkeys, whom Fiona introduces herself to. After hearing Dragon's roar, Fiona is outraged that Shrek didn't kill it, and Shrek kept pulling Fiona while The Lord of the Monkeys and his crew kept up while running through the halls.

In Dragon's room, which is filled with gold and jewels, the monkeys carry whichever amount they can carry to their master, who stows it into the backpack as Shrek frees Donkey from Dragon's tail. Dragon was trying to kiss Donkey, but Dragon kissed Shrek's butt instead. Shrek let the chandelier go, and the boys and apes ran around for dear life while reuniting with Fiona. The Lord of the Monkeys flies out of the castle, with Shrek, Donkey, Fiona, and the monkeys following him. Even after Dragon destroyed the bridge with her fire breath, the monkeys still linked with each other's arms like "Barrel of Monkeys", and they, Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey escaped the Dragon as she roared in despair.

Fiona asks that Shrek removes his helmet, but while Shrek refuses, he still does it as Fiona insisted. Fiona is disappointed. The Lord of the Monkeys offers to be Fiona's rescuer if she's not comfortable about Shrek, but Fiona, although she thanks him for the offer, gently puts him down, telling him that Lord Farquaad is her true love, and that he should've rescued her. She yells at Shrek about setting up camp, and he finds her an empty cave. Fiona breaks off a bark of tree as a makeshift door and says goodnight to Shrek and Donkey. Once she gets settled in the cave, she surprisingly sees that the Lord of the Monkeys decorated inside the cave with Lord Farquaad merchandise. Fiona apologizes for not paying attention to her "surprise", and starts to warm up a little. Then off-screen, she would tell the Lord of the Monkeys why she had to refuse being in a relationship with him. That night, when the curse kicks in as The Lord of the Monkeys and his primates sleep, Fiona overhears Shrek ranting to Donkey about how the world judges Shrek's appearance and why he's better off living alone.

The next morning, as soon as Fiona sings her "bird song", she makes the crew breakfast with eggs. In the middle of their walk back to Duloc, Robin Hood swings in and captures Fiona, but in the middle of his singing, Fiona kicks him and LoM and his army of primates join in and help Fiona fight off the Merry Men and the friar playing the accordion. With Robin Hood and his Merry Men unconscious, Shrek tries to congratulate Fiona, only for Fiona and the Lord of the Monkeys to shout "There's an arrow in your butt!" in the middle of Fiona's speech. Fiona and LoM order Donkey to find blue flowers with red thorns to distract him. Then, the two humans struggle with getting the arrow out of Shrek's butt. But when Donkey comes back, Shrek is distracted long enough for Fiona to rip out the arrow in one swipe, and LoM bandages Shrek's butt while applying first aid.

The foursome make it to the windmill and see Duloc from miles away. As LoM watches over Donkey, Shrek and Fiona have a private dinner by the campfire, where Shrek made cooked rotisserie styled weed rats. Donkey interrupts as they're about to kiss, mentioning how lovely the sunset is, which scares Fiona. She goes into the windmill, with LoM following her as the other primates look for trees to nest in for the night. Donkey comes in to look for Fiona and LoM, but they scare each other until Fiona calms Donkey down. Fiona tells Donkey and LoM about her ogre form, and how when she was a child, an evil witch cursed Fiona to become an ogre at night. The boys try comforting Fiona and Fiona tells Donkey and LoM about how she has to marry Lord Farquaad and no one else tomorrow.

Shrek comes to the windmill to give Fiona a sunflower he picked from miles away, but when he comes to the door, he overhears Fiona saying "I'm a beautiful princess, and who could ever love a hideous ugly beast? That's why I can't be with Shrek! And "beautiful" and "ugly" don't go together!". Completely misunderstood, Shrek throws the flower and leaves in sadness. She asks if Donkey and LoM never tell the world about Fiona's secret, but while Donkey promises, he insists that Fiona should tell Shrek herself. Fiona sees the flower in front of her, and plucks each pedal, "I tell him, I tell him not.", until the last pedal gives her the sign to tell Shrek.

Before Fiona can say anything, the sun rises, lifting the curse and turning Fiona back into a human. LoM sees Fiona's transformation and sees Shrek angry, clearly hurt by what Fiona said last night. He would also accuse LoM for stealing Fiona from him. Lord Farquaad shows up to give Shrek's deed to his swamp and to take Fiona's hand in marriage. Fiona, unsure of what to do, decides to marry Farquaad and climbs on the back of Farquaad's horse saying "Fare thee well, ogre and friends!" to Shrek and LoM. And Lord of the Monkeys asks that Fiona don't forget about him. Donkey tries to tell Shrek to go after Fiona, but Shrek instead yells at Donkey and LoM and tells them, "You're not coming home with me! I live alone! My swamp! Me! Nobody else, understand? Nobody! Especially useless pathetic annoying talking donkeys!" and storms off, with Donkey sadly saying "Shrek". LoM however blocks Shrek and tells him off, hurting Shrek even more, because he did promise that LoM was allowed as just his slave, but now that Shrek broke his promise, LoM can't trust him anymore.

As Shrek returns to his swamp in sadness, Donkey and LoM go their separate ways. LoM started collecting the monkeys and apes he left behind while flying, and Donkey reunited with Dragon, and Donkey now realizes she wasn't trying to be vicious. She was just lonely. Donkey goes back to the swamp to make Shrek apologize, and while they still butt heads, Donkey told Shrek that Fiona was talking about someone else. Shrek finally apologizes to Donkey and Donkey summons Dragon. Alongside her, LoM came back with his army of monkeys, and he flies right next to Dragon as Shrek, Donkey, and the other flightless chimps ride on her back and arrive at Duloc.

With Dragon and LoM separated from each other, LoM breaks into the cathedral as Shrek shouts "I OBJECT!". Shrek tells Fiona that Farquaad only wants to marry Fiona just so he'll be king, and while she doesn't believe him at first, the crowd laughs at Shrek, once again earning Fiona sympathy. She watches the sunset, reciting the curse, "By night one way, by day another, this shall be the norm until you find true love's first kiss, and then take love's true form." and turns into an ogre. Shrek responds, "Well, um... that explains a lot." and apologizes to LoM for doubting him. Farquaad, however, orders his guards to attack the ogres.

As Shrek and Fiona continue fighting each guard, LoM orders his monkeys to attack. But Shrek whistles for Dragon and Dragon and Donkey crash through the window, much to the horror of Thelonious and the congregation. But Dragon eats Lord Farquaad and burps out his crown, which is now in possession of LoM, despite not being the next ruler of Duloc. Shrek and Fiona kiss and get married, and Fiona is now a permanent ogre. And at the end of the movie, Shrek and Fiona ride off in an onion carriage into the sunset.

On the home media releases of "Shrek", LoM also appears in "Shrek Karaoke Dance Party" before the credits roll (I just don't know what song he would've sung).

"SHREK 2"

As soon as Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon, The Lord of the Monkeys and Donkey greet the newly-wed couple, and explain that they took care of the household chores like sorting the mail, watering the plants, and even feeding the fish. The messenger and royal trumpeters arrive, and Princess Fiona receives a summons to Far Far Away for a wedding ball to celebrate her rescue. King Harold and Queen Lillian also wrote to bring Fiona's new husband with her to thank him. Although Shrek finds it to be a bad idea, LoM and Donkey would love to go to Far Far Away, which is what they do. LoM rides in the middle of the onion carriage with Fiona and Shrek on opposite sides, and Donkey sitting on top of the luggage. LoM tells the fairytale creatures the list of chores they have to do, and tells them that for now, they can have fun.

After the long carriage ride, the foursome make it to Far Far Away. Donkey goes to park the carriage, and Shrek, Fiona, and LoM slowly walk down the red carpet to greet the king and queen. At dinner, Queen Lillian is rather curious about LoM and he explains his origins. Then she asks about Shrek's origins, which Donkey blabs out that Shrek lives in a swamp. After Lillian mentions, "Well I suppose that would be a fine place to raise the children.", Harold and Shrek get into a fight as dinner is served. After throwing the pig into the air, and Fiona storming out, LoM calls out both Shrek and the king, and he goes after Fiona to comfort her.

LoM sneaks into Fiona's room, and sees Fairy Godmother, which makes LoM feel in love. During Fairy Godmother's song, LoM caught as many raining coins as his empty sack could carry. Of course, while LoM may have been a bit of a butt-monkey throughout the song, Fiona eventually notices him as soon as Shrek and Donkey enter her bedroom. Fiona introduces Shrek and LoM to Fairy Godmother, and Fairy Godmother is appalled about Shrek being Fiona's rescuer. However, LoM has a talk with Fairy Godmother about how much he loves her and her magic. Fairy Godmother is flattered and gives him her number, and she gives Fiona her business card, which Shrek swipes away.

Fiona dismisses LoM and explains he did nothing wrong, then turns to Shrek and gets mad at him for not getting along with her father. Shrek explains that he didn't think he was going to get Harold's blessing even if he did want it, and explains that nothing will ever change with him being an ogre. Afterwards, as Shrek has problems falling asleep, King Harold comes to see Shrek and apologizes. Shrek suggests that he and Harold were both acting like jerks at dinner and that they should get to know each other better, which the king agrees with. The next morning, exactly 7:30am by the Old Oak like Harold suggested, Shrek, Donkey, LoM, and the monkeys get lost in the woods. What they didn't know was that the king hired Puss in Boots to slaughter Shrek. The Lord of Monkeys and his pets try fighting Puss to protect Shrek, until Puss jumps back into his boots and puts his hat and cape back on. Puss introduces himself until Puss coughs out a hairball. Shrek, realizing he was lied to by King Harold, goes to a stream to mope at his reflection.

Shrek remembers the card from Fairy Godmother and asks Donkey to cry to activate it. Puss sneaks from behind and stomps on Donkey's hoof, causing him to scream in pain and shed a tear, and the four boys see Fairy Godmother's message from the bubble. After it pops, they walk to Fairy Godmother's cottage and potion factory. Once inside, the boys interrupt Fairy Godmother, and Fairy Godmother is annoyed. However, she is happy to see LoM and his pets. Shrek explains to Fairy Godmother that Fiona isn't happy, and Fairy Godmother looks into books like "Cinderella", "Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty", "Hansel and Gretel", "Thumbelina", "Beauty and the Beast", "Rapunzel", "The Golden Bird", "The Little Mermaid", and "Pretty Woman", only to find no ogres. After telling Shrek ogres don't live happily ever after, she shoos the boys out. However, she's nicer to LoM and his pets, advising that they shouldn't be in the factory, much to the primates' disappointments. Shrek and LoM sneak past the scientist with their disguises, with Shrek's disguise having the lab coat covering his eyes, and the long blue rubber gloves covering his ears. When they make it to the Potion Room, Shrek and LoM tells Donkey to keep watch, while Puss and LoM climb the walls to look for a potion of handsomeness. LoM and Puss don't see anything, until Puss sees the Happily Ever After potion and cuts a hole through the glass with his claws to get it out.

After the boys exit the cottage with the Happily Ever After potion, Puss offers to drink it until Donkey takes a chug. LoM goes next, and then finally Shrek. As the boys head for a barn to take shelter from the rainstorm, a sudden change happens to Shrek, who is now a human being instead of an ogre. As with Donkey, he is now a white horse with blonde hair. And LoM notices he's become a sorcerer, with magical powers. The four make it to Far Far Away and arrive at King Harold and Queen Lillian's castle and Shrek tells a guard that he's here to see Princess Fiona. Ironically, Shrek hears Fiona scream upon seeing a reflection of herself as a human again. Shrek runs into Fiona's bedroom as Fiona runs through the halls looking for Shrek, only for Shrek to be locked in Fiona's room by Fairy Godmother with her magic. Fiona ends up meeting Prince Charming, who pretends to be Shrek to fool Fiona.

After being told by Fairy Godmother to let Fiona go, Shrek sadly leaves the castle and goes to the Poison Apple to drown his sorrows with milk. Donkey, Puss, and LoM accompany him, until LoM sees King Harold in a hooded cloak and starts to grow suspicious. From outside, he overhears Fairy Godmother telling King Harold to have Fiona drink the love potion and make her love Prince Charming. After hearing Fairy Godmother threaten King Harold, LoM starts to becomes scared and starts to feel a small regret for falling in love with Fairy Godmother. Thankfully, she hadn't noticed her secret admirer spying on him, and instead chases after Shrek, Donkey, and Puss. With LoM free, he and his army of monkeys run back to the swamp as soon as the Fairytale Creatures saw the human Shrek get arrested on "K.N.I.G.H.T.S". By coincidence, LoM reunites with his old friends and he tells them everything as LoM and his army of primates head to Far Far Away at the jail where Shrek, Donkey, and Puss are hung. They blow up the caged ceiling and Pinocchio flies down the ceiling with strings on his wrists and ankles. Gingy slides down and lands on the puppet's back, and Shrek and Donkey try to make up a fake lie for Pinocchio to say, which was "I'm wearing ladies' underwear.", but it doesn't work, because Pinocchio is telling the truth. However, when he denies it, his nose gets longer and longer, allowing the Gingerbread Man to free the trio of prisoners.

The crew make a visit to the Muffin Man's bakery, and they all cook up a monstrous gingerbread cookie named Mongo, who rampages through Far Far Away to crash the party. As Fairy Godmother sings a cover of "Holding Out For a Hero", Mongo grabs the drawbridge and pulls on it so Shrek can open it from the other side as the monstrous cookie falls into the castle moat. Puss rescues Gingy with his sword, and Gingy lands in Pinocchio's hands as the cavalry charges through the halls. Shrek stops the music by breaking in, and he tells Fairy Godmother to back away from his wife. After Fairy Godmother yells "You could've just gone back to your swamp and leave well enough alone!", LoM enters the crowd and yells that their wedding is off. Fairy Godmother, however, reveals that she never really liked LoM back, which breaks his heart. However, he and Shrek still have their friends fight the evil fairy and try to steal her wand.

Fairy Godmother remembers her love potion, and tells Prince Charming to kiss Fiona, only the potion doesn't seem to effect Fiona. Fiona slams her head against Prince Charming's and reveals her true love for Shrek. Fairy Godmother blames King Harold and Harold explains that he gave her the wrong tea. Prince Charming takes his mother's wand out of Puss' hand and throws it to Fairy Godmother. Fairy Godmother catches it as she prepares to zap Shrek and Fiona out of existence, however, King Harold blocks them with his armor, making the magic deflect and hit Fairy Godmother instead. When Fairy Godmother is about to try again, she suddenly turns into a bubble and pops, killing herself, and leaving her glasses and magic wand behind. LoM decides to keep the wand for himself.

Everyone gathers around King Harold's armor, thinking he's dead, but Fairy Godmother's magic instead turned Harold into a frog, which was his original form. Harold apologizes to Shrek and Fiona and asks for a second chance, along with his blessing. The clock strikes midnight, and Fiona reveals that the happily ever after she wanted was with Shrek. The two humans kiss, and Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, LoM change back to their old selves. Shrek tells Donkey he's still a steed in his eyes, and LoM, despite being normal again, is still satisfied to have Fairy Godmother's wand so he can learn magic his own way without the Happily Ever After potion.

LoM sings "Livin' La Vida Loca" with Donkey and Puss, and after the song, Dragon flies down to the stage to tell Donkey he's a father now, much to the surprise of Shrek, Donkey, and LoM. Six Dronkeys fly down to tickle Donkey and Dragon breathes a heart-shaped smoke ring to the camera, ending the movie.

On the home media releases of "Shrek", LoM also appears in "Far Far Away Idol", but I don't remember what song he would sing. I know he would've been one of the winners like Shrek and Fiona, Donkey, and Puss were.

"SHREK THE THIRD"

Continuing directly from the last film, LoM accompanies Shrek and Fiona as they fill in for King Harold and Queen Lillian, despite the disastrous results. He even attends King Harold's funeral outside the kingdom. After hearing about this Arthur Pendragon, he and his army of primates go with Shrek, Donkey, and Puss on a pirate ship to Worcestershire. All the while, he tries to comfort Shrek about his father issues as Donkey and Puss do. When they arrive at their destination, they search around the campus for Arthur. They follow the guys wearing mascot suits, and LoM hurts Shrek with Donkey and Puss to prove Shrek's costume is real.

When they arrive in the stadium, they recruit Arthur and set sail to Far Far Away, only for Shrek and Arthur to fight as Arthur turns the ship around. In the middle of their argument, the ship crashes into the rocks, and they wind up where Merlin lives. While talking to the wizard, Shrek and Artie get into another argument, with LoM trying to break up the fight and ask Merlin himself. They spend the night by a campfire, with Donkey seeing the smoke as an ice cream sundae, Puss seeing a village, and LoM seeing a gorilla. Shrek lies that he sees a rainbow pony (even though he saw a baby carriage) and Arthur sees a bird, confessing the metaphor Merlin was explaining, how the bird was Artie, and the other bird was Artie's father.

The next morning, LoM and his army of primates help Shrek, Donkey, Puss, and Artie fight Captain Hook and the pirates, and Merlin teleports the five back to Far Far Away, with Puss and Donkey's voices switched. Regardless, they enter Far Far Away, which has been wrecked by Prince Charming, and thanks to Pinocchio, Shrek finds out Prince Charming is putting on a one-night show where he's about to kill Shrek. The five meet Prince Charming, and Shrek tells Artie that Shrek was supposed to be king, but Shrek didn't want that responsibility. Artie, feeling betrayed, walks away, while Donkey, Puss, and LoM and his pets are thrown in the dungeon with Fiona, Queen Lillian, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Doris. Queen Lillian smashes through the brick wall with her forehead, and the prisoners plan their escape. Snow White sings to distract the trees, and has her birds attack them, allowing LoM and the princesses to fly/climb up to the castle walls and run over the roof to attack the guards

That night, as soon as Prince Charming is about to slice Shrek, Dragon's fire melts the sword as she flies down next to LoM, who is flying next to her. The princesses and fairy tale characters start a war on the stage. As they fight, Artie's "STOP!" catches everyone's attention as Artie jumps down onto the stage. He tells everyone his speech about how just because villains are losers, doesn't mean they are losers. The villains reform, and Prince Charming becomes furious. LoM reveals Fairy Godmother's wand that he was going to use on Prince Charming to make him into a bubble, but Prince Charming and LoM fight over it in a game of tug o'war, until Prince Charming gets the upper hand, reclaiming what is rightfully his. Prince Charming faces Shrek and goes back to trying to impale him. But Shrek dodges the incoming attack, making Prince Charming's sword stuck to the tower prop. Prince Charming struggles pulling it out, but can't do it. Dragon knocks it over with her tail, and after saying "Mommy?", Prince Charming makes his last ditch effort to zap LoM with Fairy Godmother's wand as Prince Charming gets crushed and dies as his crown rolls across the stage.

While Shrek and the others are happy that Prince Charming is dead, they mourn for LoM's death. However, as with King Harold, LoM is still alive, but in a different form. In this case, LoM is stuck as a monkey just like the rest of his pets. But he's still able to talk to the others. If you wanted, you can have Shrek make a solemn promise that one day, he'll find someone magical enough to transform him back into a human, then he would turn to Artie, allowing him to make his choice. Artie dons Prince Charming's crown, and pulls the sword clean out of the tower prop, assuming his new position as the new king of Far Far Away. As soon as Shrek and the others return home to the swamp, LoM gives Fiona birth to three ogre babies, and they all play with the ogre babies and the Dronkeys until Shrek, Fiona, and LoM decide to go to sleep.

"SHREK THE HALLS"

Shortly around the time "Shrek the Third" was first released on DVD and Blu-Ray by Paramount Home Entertainment, "Shrek the Halls" premiered on television in November 2007, and this is where things start to get juicy for my scrapped character.

So, The Lord of the Monkeys is eager to celebrate Christmas with Shrek, Donkey, Fiona, and of course, Shrek's triplets, Fergus, Farkle, and Felicia. And when the Fairytale Creatures get involved, Donkey, Puss, and Gingy tell their own poetic Christmas stories about how they see Christmas. LoM wouldn't have had his own story to tell (mainly due to the fact that I couldn't think of something that works best with my character, even if were jungle-themed). After finding out Shrek hid this book, "Christmas for Village Idiots", Donkey and Shrek get into a tug o'war and the book flies into the fish head on the wall, which causes a domino effect, making Shrek's house a big mess. To add insult to injury (pardon my pun), Shrek accidentally tips over the Christmas tree into the fireplace, and Shrek's butt is on fire. As he screams while his butt burns, Pinocchio gets out a bucket of water and splashes Shrek, putting out the flame. Shrek loses his temper and kicks everyone, even poor LoM and his primates out of the swamp.

However, as Shrek apologizes to everyone, he noticed LoM wasn't with Fiona, Donkey, and the others. As a connection to "Shrek the Third", Shrek starts to worry about The Lord of the Monkeys. He made a promise that he would help him find a way to turn human again, but after blowing up and kicking him and his pets out, Shrek shows full remorse for how he had acted to him as he did to the others. Fiona would remind Shrek that they'll worry about him after Christmas as they return back to the swamp, as Shrek tells his own poetic Christmas story.

If you wanted to, maybe after the end credits where Shrek and the others see Santa's sleigh flying above them, and making Shrek's ears form on the moon, we could have a post-credit like ending where LoM, now at his lowest point, makes a bitter statement about how he'll be back for revenge.

"SHREK FOREVER AFTER"

Continuing from what had happened to my character at the end of "Shrek the Halls", LoM (Now human again) introduces himself to Rumpelstiltskin as soon as he gets kicked out of the library by Pinocchio. LoM tells Rumpelstiltskin what his friendship was like with Shrek until he kicked him and his pets out of the house on what was supposed to be his first Christmas. Rumpelstiltskin feels sorry for how Shrek had treated him and LoM makes a deal that if he can help LoM get revenge on Shrek, LoM will allow Rumpelstiltskin to go with whatever he had planned. Rumpelstiltskin gladly accepts and is hired as LoM's evil henchman.

(SIDE NOTE: Now, before we continue, I owe you a huge explanation. If you remember reading my character's storyline in "Shrek the Third", Prince Charming turned LoM into a monkey with Fairy Godmother's wand before he died in a last ditch effort. And he has remained a monkey all throughout "Shrek the Halls". Looking back on it around 10 or so years ago, I personally can imagine that sometime before meeting Rumpelstiltskin, The Lord of the Monkeys went to Far Far Away for a favor from Queen Lillian and the new king, Artie. Queen Lillian, knowing full well that LoM deserves some reward for helping save Far Far Away, asks what his reward should be. LoM asks if they still have Fairy Godmother's magic wand, and Artie explains that after tearing apart Prince Charming's theater, they kept Fairy Godmother's wand locked on display in a glass case so no one can take advantage of the wand's power. Realizing LoM currently uses it, Queen Lillian uses the wand's magic to turn LoM back to his human form and allow him back the wand. She could even talk to him about his abuse on Christmas, and Artie could suggest that even though Shrek was mean to the Lord of the Monkeys, LoM should just let Shrek have a second chance like he did. We see that while LoM is paying attention, he could possibly have his fingers crossed behind his back without anyone noticing, and LoM lies that he will forgive Shrek (when really he's not going to), but he still thanks the queen and Artie and leaves Far Far Away to look for someone mean.)

When we LoM and his partner-in-crime near the dumpster at the back of The Candy Apple (it used to be The Poison Apple), they both hide as Shrek storms out and has an argument with Fiona. When LoM looks at Shrek and hears him say, "Back when the world made sense!", LoM becomes concerned saying "He wants to be hunted again", then turns to Rumpelstiltskin and tells him to write down that note as part of their evil scheme. LoM also suggests to invite Shrek for dinner too. Later after Shrek signs Rumpelstiltskin's contract and disappears, the inside of the carriage breaks apart as Shrek falls into the timeline of when he was born. At first, Shrek enjoys scaring the townsfolk, until he sees "wanted" posters for Fiona, which doesn't like. After seeing his swamp is empty, Shrek sees LoM on a distant hilltop, all human again. Shrek is happy to see LoM all back to his former glory, but LoM reminds Shrek of the day he kicked him out of the swamp on Christmas Eve. Shrek tells his former friend that he was wrong to lose his temper with him and apologizes, but LoM rejects his apology, making Shrek realize something about this world doesn't feel right. LoM summons his pets and orders them to attack Shrek just as Rumpelstiltskin's witches do. With Shrek captured and taken to this alternate universe's Far Far Away, LoM reveals that Rumpelstiltskin is his henchman. And with Fairy Godmother's wand, he no longer needs it (but still keeps it with him just in case), and reveals a new crown he made which uses the diamond, The Blue Monkey. With his new crown, LoM can punish criminals by turning them into monkeys with The Blue Monkey, just like how Prince Charming did to LoM. After Shrek learns that old friend isn't from this alternate reality, LoM flies after Shrek to turn him and Donkey into monkeys. Shrek really doesn't want to fight his old friend, but doesn't want him going on the path of revenge. Shrek and Donkey escape, and Rumpelstiltskin holds his own meeting as LoM does his own separate meeting for how to capture Shrek, becoming more and more bitter to the point where he now wants to kill Shrek, rather than hurt him.

After Shrek willingly gives himself up to Rumpelstiltskin, Shrek is locked up in the same room as the AU Fiona, who admires Shrek's rhyme about her curse and his act of selflessness. Shrek, finally having enough of LoM bullying him yells at LoM and begs for him to just change. LoM won't see reason, and smiles that Shrek is finally getting what he deserves. During the final fight, my character's army of primates attack the ogres with the witches, and LoM fights Shrek head on. AU Donkey and AU Puss also try fighting him. Once the battle has one, The Lord of the Monkeys throws a huge tantrum and yells out that he'll finish Shrek himself, much to the horror of Rumpelstiltskin. LoM aims the crown on himself and turns himself into a nightmarish King Kong-sized version of himself. Ranging at about 10 or 15 feet high, LoM unleashes all his wrath on Shrek and his friends, going gorilla (pun intended) as he pounds Shrek to a pulp.

Even with Shrek's friends from this alternate reality fighting back, they stand no chance again LoM. But before he can make the final blow, he sees Shrek slowly dissolving and losing energy as his time is up, just like Rumpelstiltskin planned. Shrek faces his former friend pleads with regret and gives out the longest heartfelt apology to The Lord of the Monkeys. Shrek recaps the whole movie franchise's events, reminding LoM about the good he's done for him and everyone else. After said apology, while Shrek and AU Fiona have their final words together, LoM slowly starts to feel deep regret for going too far. And when he sees that Shrek disappeared and AU Fiona is still an ogre, LoM uses his Blue Monkey crown to shrink himself back to normal size and turn human again. Everyone disappears and the alternate reality breaks apart, with Rumpelstiltskin, The Lord of the Monkeys, and the army of primates screaming as they fall from the sky and end up back at The Candy Apple. LoM hits his head, but does not develop amnesia. LoM hears Shrek's roar and starts to feel like Shrek's in trouble. Rumpelstiltskin asks where he's going and LoM tells him that Shrek is more important to him and fires him, but thanks him for the time he spent with him.

LoM and his pets enter the Candy Apple from the back door, much to the surprise of everyone, and they are happy to see him alive. Shrek is the most surprised, considering he wanted to kill him, but LoM apologizes to Shrek and asks him for a second chance, and he willingly accepts.

Optionally, you can also have a scene of him walking up to Queen Lillian with guilt and ask that she take Fairy Godmother's wand away from him, along with his Blue Monkey crown he made himself, but Queen Lillian allows him to keep those things. Because 1, she believes everyone deserves a second chance. And 2, she would be proud of him for giving Shrek another chance and for forgiving himself.

For the first part of the end credits as "I'm a Believer (Weezer version)" plays, a couple of ogres from the alternate reality would give LoM his Blue Monkey Crown back, along with Fairy Godmother's wand. And after "Right Back Where We Started From" plays, LoM could sing a cover of "Hero" from Nickleback as a means of LoM looking back at his character development, how he was good, then became evil, and then went back to good by redeeming himself and making amends with Shrek.

For the home media releases of "Shrek Forever After", I wouldn't include him in "Donkey's Christmas Shrek-tacular", because I saw that after-movie short film years after I scrapped my character. If he were in there though, he would've finally been able to celebrate his first Christmas without a hitch. So maybe think of this as part of Shrek making it up to LoM after what happened last Christmas.

"SCARED SHREKLESS"

While LoM doesn't have a scary story to tell, he still takes on Shrek's dare of spending the night in Lord Farquaad's castle in Duloc. He and Shrek were tied after Fiona, Fergus, Farkle, and Felicia scared Donkey out. LoM decides to have his own Halloween fun while the ogres celebrate the rest of Halloween by throwing eggs at the seven dwarfs.

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