#i was looking at various dishes and recipes that would be served at pigsy's noodle shop and settled on re gan mian :]

[sunluzhen]

are there parts of being a monkey that mk likes? favorite foods? favorite food from pigsy's shop? how does mk dress in spirale? dyou have any headcanons you really wanna write about? share one? :3c

Being a monkey, by itself, is fine! The part he has hang-ups over is his origins, and the whole "Harbinger of Chaos" thing. That's ominous and scary and confusing. He'd rather not think about all those implications! He actually doesn't feel that different than when in human form, since being a monkey is natural for him! Suddenly all of those weird things he does, climbing everywhere and on everyone for example, makes a lot more sense... Having a prehensile tail is probably his favorite part, though. Plus, now he's as cute and cheeky as his mentor!

Favorite food... that's a toughie! Probably Pigsy's re gan mian (hot dry noodles); re gan mian is quick and easy to fix and it's a yummy amount of spice! Makes for a great breakfast or late night snack. Since it's so quick and easy to make and relatively light on the stomach, a more mild version of the spicy dish is what Pigsy whipped up when a newly hatched Xiaotian waltzed into his shop one rainy evening! So, there's some sentimental value to the dish too.

MK dresses pretty much the same as he would at Megapolis. Durable jackets, comfy hoodies, and pants that allow for plenty of movement, and mixing it up with a tangzhuang or shuhe hanfu during training. The palette of his wardrobe is pretty consistent; yellows and reds with teal accents. Sometimes he'll steal clothes from his friends though.

I've been rolling the idea of MK's "monkey-ness" and powers possibly making brief, sporadic appearances while he was growing up; things that easily got brushed aside because they were always 'blink and you'll miss it' things, and it's not like Pigsy and Tang would have any idea what was going on, or what to do about it. Possibly even just brushing things off as "okay, weird probably half-demon or human-looking demon nonsense, we live in a city where magic and advanced technology is kinda everywhere, no big deal." And MK, being MK, would also brush off anything weird and forget it ever happened. This is a headcanon I've seen floating around and I enjoy it tbh, so! sdafds