#and maybe even evenutal celestial monkey poly

[centuryberry]

So. A Post-Brotherhood Route AU.

Before I get into what follows after Azure’s route, I need to backtrack a little to establish some events in the route that either wasn’t mentioned by Yue or happened outside of the game events:

- Upon Macaque’s return and discovery of Wukong acting strange and suddenly being all lovey dovey with Azure, he was immediately suspicious. Shanzha, recognizing the effects of the Junbei Berry, took a great risk in approaching him and telling him everything.

- Shanzha is eventually driven away from FFM. Azure had originally been whispering into Wukong’s ear to kill her and make a point to Heaven but Macaque made a good enough case to just have her exiled. He even gives her traveling supplies and a boat to return to the mainland.

We all know what happens to Wukong afterwards. He wakes up after the furnace and is horrified at everything he’s done. FFM was burned down during the skirmish, Macaque was dead, and he was imprisoned under a mountain for 500 years until JTTW happens.

Fast forward to the LMK timeline post Season 3 and Wukong finally decided that it’s time to go to therapy. Sandy recommends his own therapist and Wukong goes to his first appointment (disguised).

Enter: Therapist Yue

Yue is a wonderful therapist. She’s glamoured as a human in this AU since her demon form is well known in different circles and she just wants to perform her most recent job without that getting in the way.

Wukong, who has been avoiding Macaque, RinRin, and Shanzha out of guilt ever since their (Shadowflower’s) revival, finds them popping back into his life ever since he started to go to therapy. At Yue’s encouragement, he slowly reciprocates their efforts to reconnect and learns to forgive himself.

It’s peak dramatic irony because Yue knows these three are trying to get in touch with Wukong the Monkey King while never realizing that the Monkey King himself is her patient.

Warlord Shanzha AU is the end of the rinrin route.

Withered gray flower AU is the end of the Shanzha route.

Is king snow macaque AU Azure lion route ending you know the AU that macaque has a hot girl summer and works through all his issues by ranting his issues to his subjects. because I realize Azure lion route ending doesn't have one that goes to the modern day like the other two.

No, Snow/Winter Macaque King AU is more tied to Canon Macaque being thrown into LoES post revival. If Macaque had been revived post Brotherhood route, his feelings towards Wukong would be extreme concern instead of bitterness since he believed until his very last breath that this was not like Wukong.

But an AU post Brotherhood route. Interesting.