#jttw inspo character ideas

[quitealotofsodapop]

Okay, so Wukongverse - LMK!SWK is Peach Kong...what are the others?

LMK!SWK= "Peach Kong" aka "Peach": The SWKs joking call LMK!SWK that cus he's obsessed with those tasty mfs, and his face marking sorta looks like one too. LMK!Mac = "Plums" because of LMK!SWK calling his beloved by the petname. This leads to multiple monkeys getting fruit-based nicknames.

HeroIsBack!SWK = "Dasheng" [great sage]: Unofficial nickname in his film via Liuer. They either call him that, or they call him "The tall one". His HeroIsBack!LEM = "Zhanshi" [Warrior] cus of his more up-close fighting style compared to the other LEMs.

Reborn!SWK = "Smokey": Accidental on the kids part cus of his eye markings looking like smokey eye shadow. Initally refuses to be known as any nickname, but it just stuck. Also known as "Fruit Dad". Accidentally calls his Reborn!LEM "Liang/亮" ["bright/clear"] (cus of his silver-white fur) when complaining about the nicknames, and that stuck too. His Macaque/Liang thinks the nickname is lovely.

Netflix!SWK = "Cherry": Unoriginal nickname based on the fact that he's the most red furred of the monkeys. Netflix!LEM ends up being called "Olive" to keep with the fruity theme. They think its cute - its become their version of the LMK!Shadowpeach's Peaches/Plums petnames.

Meihouwang = "Shihou" or "Sunshine": Since he doesn't go by the SWK title in casual convo, he keeps the name Shihou. "Sunshine" is used cus he's a walking piece of it. Meihouwang!LEM is just "Mihou" or "Moondrop" to the other LEM's keep it simple.

NewGods = "Grandpa" "Ace": Cus of the fancy gambling suit. NewGods!LEM = "Joker" cus of the playing cards theme, and the fact that they're terrible for pranking the other monkeys.

2000sCartoon = "Sugar" or "Ganzhe/甘蔗" ["sugarcane"]: The gang think he's such a sweet heart... also is on a constant sugar-high from all the modern candy he's been exposed to. His LEM has yet to officially named, but they sometimes call them "Spice" so they can be "Sugar and Spice".

Smash Legends = "Starfruit": Pun on him being a celebrity. Also called "Big Shot" by the older SWKs. Takes a lot of names for a single one to stick. Smash!Mac is currently sticking with "Lilac" (one of their fave colors), but also responds to "Diva/The Idol".

These are unofficial, mostly cus I legit be wracking my brains for if these monkeys would use chinese or english for the nicknaming

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For today's mythology sh*tposting, I'd like to give some inspiration to the fanfic writers out there by giving you an antagonist that has a beef with a certain monkey.

Way back when, there was a goddess called the Old Mother of the Waters/Shui-mu Niang-niang who was notorious for causing floods. The other gods kept trying to catch her, but she always slithered out and kept being a problem. What was heaven to do?

Call their OTHER recurring problem and have HIM deal with her! So good old Sun Wukong went down to deal with the Old Mother, but even though catching up to her was no problem (this is Sun Wukong we're talking about) he couldn’t stop her from slipping away again. Naturally this got him very frustrated, so he went to HIS go to solution:

Guanyin!

So he motors over to her palace in the Southern Seas and they hatch a plan.

Now, the Old Mother was getting pretty hungry. This running from the law business takes it out of you at that age, you know? So she decides to take a little break at a food stall and get something to eat.

JUST AS PLANNED!

For you see, the owner of that stall was Guanyin herself and the food the Old Mother just ate were actually really heavy iron chains that very painfully revert to their true form! Unfortunately for the Old Mother, she was already halfway done with her meal by the time this happened, so she was stuck with iron in her gut and chains coming out of her mouth (honestly I'd just be thankful they weren't coming out the other end...).

So with the flood lady all tied up Sun Wukong drags her to a well at the foot of a mountain in Hsu-i Hsien and locked her up tight, where I'm sure she'll NEVER cause anyone problems EVER AGAIN. There's no way this ancient and powerful goddess of primordial oceans is sitting there, steaming while she waits for escape and dreams of monkey leather boots. Nope, she'll stay there forever, just like the Demon Bull King!

..... oh. OH NO.

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[Netflix!SWK: "And let me tell you, sifu Tripitaka was very shocked when our Xiaotian made his presence known!"]

....So, either those two did NOT realize they made a baby until said baby was leaving its first home...or it took the kid punching innards to realize something's there?

More that Tripitaka didn't know XD

At least one elder on Flower Fruit Mountain had given the young monkeys The Talk at some point. But the two mystic monkeys hadn't cared for precaution after a fight where they almost lost one another.

And they sorta forgot that they "did things" not appropriate around celibate monks (or wise for the temple of a certain fertility goddess they were crashing at) XD

Cue a few weeks later when Wukong uses his gold vision, looks near Macaque and... whoops. They both mutually agree not to tell Tripitaka until it becomes too obvious too ignore.

It takes until the Kingdom of Women for Tripitaka to start asking questions. When he gets his own "Egg" from the river, he starts putting two-and-two together for why Wukong has been so protective of his mate recently. Tripitaka asks to feel Mac's stomach for comparision to his own tremors. Mac's stomach kicks back at him. Tripitaka faints. Wukong and Sha Wujing are a little puzzled when they get back + a misunderstanding occurs where Zhu Bajie panics assuming Mac had also drunk the river water.

Mac has Xiaotian around the time of "His" chapter. Macaque joins Sun Wukong in his banishment and they make it in time for their infant to be born on Flower Fruit Mountain. They're happy just to stay there for a while.

Then Guanyin busts the door down and warns them that Tripitaka is about to be eaten by demons at the flaming mountains. Shadowpeach take their baby with them, cus clearly Tripitaka is gonna need more than two monkeys to protect him in future.

Tripitaka is saved, and promptly faints once more upon meeting the infant monkey strapped to his diciple's back. Each of the other pilgrims vow to destroy any creatrue that dares pose a threat to their newest member.

By the time of the pilgrimage's end, Xiaotian is a teenager and has grown up surrounded by the all beauties and horrors of the world. He has no interest in enlightenment; just sharing what he's seen and might see through the arts. His parents and adoptive uncles love him very much.

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About the smash au one of the best parts about them being streamers is LMK macaques currant VA is a popular Vtuber named CyYu. Smash Mac being one too would be funny because of that and the fact that Smash Wukong would never be able to recognize him in public and call him a coward for hiding his face or something.

omg you're right. Alejandro Saab is CyYu - mf does a bunch of video game and anime voice acting and youtube vids. Smash!LEM being an active Vtuber is so in character - poor Smash Wukong wouldn't be able to recognise him by face details alone cus the virtual ai avatar covers his irl features.

Smash!SWK, on discord voice chat: "Face me irl coward!" Smash!LEM: "You can't even face me in vrchat - get over yourself Princess." Smash!SWK: "DONT CALL ME A PRINCESS MOTHER[beep}! I am the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and I will not be talked down to this way!" Smash!LEM: "Well you just did. Toodles." *disconnects* Smash!SWK: *rage mode screaming* *ping on phone!* Smash!SWK: "Oh hey my minecraft bf is texting me. Apparently they just had a rough interview and need to chill for a while." :3 LMK Shadowpeach: "......"

Smash!SWK and LEM's relationship really do be like this one tweet:

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I can imagine newlywed Red Girl just kicking down Red Son's door, bridal-carrying Netflix!MK to show her honorary big brother because now she has a beautiful and kind and creative husband! Look at him! Perfection incarnate!

Netflix!MK: "I have no idea what's going on, but I'm happy to be here."

Red Son: "Yeah, yeah, that's Noodle Boy."

Netflix!MK I imagine is a delighted-looking, orange-furred stone monkey demon, with the personality of lovestruck golden retriever - just in completely in love with his scary fire demon princess wife. Fur is almost perma-stained with paint, chalk, and ink from his projects. Looks similarly more feral monkey-ish like his parents.

LMK!SKW, cheeky smile: "What's this about As If I'll ever have kids?" Netflix!SWK, bashfully: "Well uh... during a certain point in the pilgrimage..." *pauses to think of a kid-friendly analogy* "Egg." LMK!Macaque: *nods in understanding* "Egg." Netflix!LEM, bluntly: "He means we had-" LMK!SWK: "We get the picture." Netflix!SWK: "And let me tell you, sifu Tripitaka was very shocked when our Xiaotian made his presence known!"

Thats how they learn that the monkeys still on pilgrimage are *also* able to have their own MKs.

I imagine Netflix!LEM as having the vibe of Aubrey Plaza as April in Parks & Recs.

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So now that Netflix!SWK and NewGod!SWK have a MK, does that mean HeroisBorn and Reborn will get one too? Well HeroisBorn does have Liuer so maybe not yet?

It'll be cute if the kid somehow helped him in meeting/winning over HeroisBorn!Mac though. 😅

I just finished watching the film properly, and Wukong/Dasheng in it is so "I didn't plan to be a single father, but I guess this is my life now"-coded. His interactions with Liuer and the baby "Silly Girl" just solidify it.

Jiang Liuer in "Hero is Back" (2015) is actually meant to be that timeline's Tripitaka! The creators of the film stated that Liuer is the 9th Golden Cicada incarnation, and that he pretty much released the Monkey King "early", hence why the seals/measures around the mountain were actively trying to restraint SWK. It's believed that the machinations of Hundun/Chaos in the films is what caused this new timeline to occur.

HeroIsBack!SWK finds his Macaque clutching a strange stone oval that the hunters targeting FFM are very adamant on stealing...

Liuer def would be the little kid that wants their parent to find love and a partner, and now that there's another special mystic monkey in the team with a weird stone baby monkey? Perfect! Parent Trap shenanigans most certainly ensue. Uncle Pigsy is all for it! He can taste the wedding banquet already...

As for Reborn!SWK, his MK has already lived it's first life... and now must be reborn as something new.

Maybe that six-earred monkey demon Wukong keeps seeing in his dreams can help them figure out why a bunch of demons/celestials are so adamant that the two never meet...

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Since I've made a lot of mythology sh*tposts, I decided to make a masterlist for anyone who wants to skip around quickly.

The 5 Emperors

Red Son and the Red Emperor

Xing Tian, the headless giant

Red Emperor 2, the Reddening

Chiyou causes problems

Yellow Emperor makes a corpse drum (yes, really)

My fellow nerd and I have a lot to say about weeds

Dragons

The dragon princess and the dumbest in laws ever

The Dragon Kings who don't do anything

Ao Qin shows us why we shouldn't give in to peer pressure

Moving branches on the dragon family tree

China has a dragon problem

The Sun and Moon

The very similar stories of Hou Yi and Shen I

Erlang Shen killed the suns too

Why the 10 Suns were being jerks

The 12 Moons

Ancient Chinese Alice in Wonderland

More fun stuff about the 10 suns

Does Hou Yi have a backstory?

A dramatic retelling of the 10 suns myth

Earth and Sky

Eggs come up a lot, actually

Nuwa cleans up a big mess-

-But there was still more for Yu to clean later

Why is the sky all the way up there?

Sun Wukong

The 4 Spiritual Primates + 4 Elements

The Old Mother of Waters gets some bad takeout

Sun Wukong's first crime (they grow up so fast)

A more dramatic telling of how Monkey became Monkey King

The Underworld

The Chinese underworld is very judgy

But it also has a wholesome grandma who feeds you

Kuan Yin

Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy

Kuan Yin 2, Electric Boogaloo

Kuan Yin 3, This Time It's Personal

Rulers of the Cosmos

Xiwangmu, the Jade Emperor, and Nuwa

The Jade Emperor is someone's OC

Possible line of succession for the rulers of the cosmos

Was the Jade Emperor in charge for Wukong's entire life?

Shangdi and the void where his characterization used to be

How the Jade Emperor got his badass wife

Miscellaneous

Si-Men Bau is a genius

The very heterosexual fox and his 'drinking buddy'

This fox had one job and he decided to create footbinding instead

Seriously, what are the 8 trigrams?

Erlang Shen plays Sidekick while th 4 kings get their asses whooped

The 5 members of the 4 Guardian Beasts

The 5th Element isn't just an old movie

The cow can jump over the moon, but not the Milky Way

Cute figures I don't need got my research blood pumping

Dragon Ball Parallels

And I needed 2 posts to geek out appropriately

More info on some cool critters that happen to have adorable minis

Bulma Briefs, Great Tang Monk

Tien Shinhan, Lord of Sichuan

Yamcha, River Spirit of the Desert and Puar the Dragon Horse

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@latvian-spider referencing this: ask about the Smash Legends Wukong.

Omg that would be perfect. Smash!Wukong finally collides with his fated Smash!Macaque, and they turn out to be a 2000s *pastel* goth gf/bf or even deep in that pink historical fashion aesthetic.

Pure white fur (like some younger LMK Mac hcs), pink face markings, all pink/pastel purple attire, likely wears a mask/face covering whenever doing public appearances/videos. Online musician and voice actor. Keeps their irl identity a mystery to contrast Smash!Wukong's open book vlogging, but has no problem hacking rival accounts. Out of place old-timey mannerisms/speech mixed in with modern tech. Smash!Macaque and Smash!Wukong have a massive online rivalry that spills into their fans/chat. Whether or not Smash!Wukong is aware that his "biggest hater" is his Macaque has yet to be known.

Smash!SWK, reading a notification on his phone: "Ugh." LMK!SWK: "What's up?" Smash!SWK: "My twitch rival posted a vid putting me on blast for causing collateral damage in my last fight. Freaking coward won't even talk to me irl." LMK!SWK: *looks at screen* (The Username is something like: "♡xSixEaredMoonx♡") LMK!SWK: "Oh."

Mei defs follows both Smash!SWK and Smash!Macaque's accounts to watch the drama unfold.

LMK!Macaque finds his Smash counterpart adorably devious and talented. Mihou is terrifed of how heated the Smash duo fight without even speaking directly to one another. NewGods!Mac is just laughing his butt off at how these two practical strangers get worked up over one another.

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Question:

Where the heck is Ao Lie?

Like, I can understand the other Pilgrims dying. Tripitaka is human, and Baije and Wujing were former celestial warriors cast out from heaven and a mortal life span could have been part of their punishment (or not... *looks at Sandy suspiciously*). But Ao Lie? He's an immortal dragon, direct descendent of one of the 4 great Dragon Kings and a badass in his own right. Why is he not in the show proper? I might have an answer, and it involves Mei.

See, despite being part of the Dragon Clan, Mei and her parents are oddly... human. Like, she still has cool dragon powers from the start, but they seem to have mortal lifespans. For example, Mei calls Ao Lie her great-great-great-times-a-thousand-great-grandfather, but that wouldn't make any sense if she were a full blooded dragon. Dragons, while depicted as different than demons and celestials, are implied to have similarly long lives as evidenced by Ao Guang, who Wukong knows from at least 1,000 years ago, if not more.

Mei's branch of the family, however, can't be more than 700 years old because she inherited the Samadhi Fire from her ancestor. He was not a host for the fourth ring until after the ritual, so he must have married/had children after that. As I stated in my last post, that can't have happened too much more than 500-700 years ago considering Red Son's age. Considering that timeframe and how long dragons probably live, if Mei were a full blooded dragon she should be Ao Lie's daughter, or maybe granddaughter. So she has to be at least partly, if not mostly, human.

Now, here's a question: do you think Ao Run, a Dragon King, would have approved of his son settling down with some human woman? Do you think he might have, oh I don't know, forbade his son from seeing her? Do you think Ao Lie listened?

My answers are yes, yes, and a big fat no.

My theory is that Ao Lie was punished for getting in a relationship with a human woman in defiance of his father, but quietly, so that no celestial monkeys come in to try and help their bestie. And in order to keep the Great Sage Equal to Heaven from asking to many questions about where his sworn brother has gotten to, they come up with a lie that Wukong won't think too much about. Perhaps he got sick and died, or maybe he ascended and is doing Very Important Things for a Buddha or Bodhisattva. No matter what, he's not coming back and can't see his friend ever again.

That still leaves his wife, now a very single mother. Moang or Longnu could have intercede and convinced their father not to do anything to her and their brother's child, but not welcome them into the clan either. Maybe Ao Lie even took the punishment under the condition that his family wouldn't be harmed, but they were also banned from asking a certain monkey for any help. Thus, Mei's branch of the Dragon Clan spread into the human world and prospered because they were part dragon after all, but not really welcome in Ao Run's court either. This would explain why her part of the family seems a bit separated from the rest of the clan. Ao Guang, for instance, didn't know about her at all, despite her being his brother's great-something-granddaughter. You could chalk that up to him not keeping track of every member of a very large clan, but it could also be that his brother tried to keep his son's 'shame' a secret.

This theory probably isn't cannon, but damn if it isn't a good tragic love story!!! It also holds the possibility of Ao Lie escaping his punishment and coming back....

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Liang and Smokey were rivals to lovers.

Smokey was going to his favorite moody cliff to brood dramatically only to find that there was someone already there. They fight about it, and Smokey totally isn't impressed by how strong and handsome skilled this new guy is. He manages to chase the stranger off, but it keeps happening. The rest of the monkeys just kinda watch their soap opera happen.

It continues this way until the Rampage through Heaven where Liang gets super angry at Smokey for doing something that puts the entire troop in danger because of his own issues and ends up leaving before sh*t goes sideways. Smokey definitely doesn't regret their final argument as he's imprisoned under the mountain for 500 years.

They don't meet again til the Journey, right after poor Fruit Baby died and Smokey is all kinds of torn up inside. They of course have another argument, with Liang throwing all of Smokey's flaws and mistakes in his face and it escalates to physical violence. They're tearing up the countryside, terrifying the local deities. And then...

Smokey: IF YOU HATE ME SO MUCH, THEN WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE??!!

Liang: I DON'T HATE YOU!

*both pause, equally taken aback*

Liang, quietly: ...I don't hate you. I never hated you. It would've been so much easier if I did.....

*Smokey comes closer and puts a hand on Liang's face, gently wiping away a tear*

Smokey: I don't hate you either.

AND THEN THEY KISS!

They're so edgy and emo and I love it. 🖤

Heeheehee. The problem with two tsundere's falling in love. XD

Liang (Reborn's LEM) has been "an annoying shadow" to Smokey (Reborn SWK) his entire life it seems.

As cubs on Flower Fruit Mountain? Liang was there as a fellow outcast who combed through the future king's fur. The fellow monkey dubbing him "Smokey" after mistaking his facial marking for volcanic soot.

As a student under Subodhi? Smokey swore he'd see a fellow monkey demon watching him curiously as he tended to the monastery's garden.

When the newly dubbed Sun Wukong returned to the island and found it ravaged by the Demon of Havoc? The infuriating snow macaque was at the King's side to help save his people.

When the Brotherhood of Sages formed? The Great Sage Informing Wind was crowned alongside the Great Sage Equalling Heaven. Many dinner fights were had. Brother Lion joked that their arguements were more entertaining than any opera he'd seen.

When a certain Havoc rocked Heaven and put a target on Flower Fruit Mountain? The Macaque had grabbed the King by the shoulders and shouted at him, teeth bared. A nasty physical fight ensued, one that got so bad that the Stalwarts had to step in and separate the two. The smaller monkey shrieking that they hated their King and that they'll never forgive him for what he had done.

Still, Smokey swears he still saw a familar shadow visit him in those 500 years under the mountain.

Even now? As "Monkey" traipsed across the continent for a task that could take him a few minutes if not for this stupid spiritual Journey? He sees a cloaked figure following behind him. Never speaking, but he knows there's quick wit and a sharp tongue behind those lips...

He had dubbed the other monkey "Liang" in his mind so long ago due to the thick silvery fur that caught moonlight like a reflection in the water. He thought it was a far nicer name than "Liu'er Mihou/Six Eared Macaque".

Smokey honestly doesn't know *what* him and Liang are. Friends? Enemies? Rivals? They've traded as many punches as they have secrets. And out of all his connections from before the Mountain, Liang seems to be the only one of the Sages to want to confront him head-on.

Of course the whole situation with Yuandi and Fruitie happens...

That very night, Smokey finds a familar dark robed figure sitting at the spot on the mountain he had claimed for his own. This time Liang doesn't whisk away into the shadows.

Liang, mocking bravado: "The Monkey King! Great Sage Equal to Heaven! Punished once again for pilferingproduce!" Smokey, growling: "I'm not in the mood Liu'er." Liang: "Oh, but I am!" *jumps off rock and walks closer* "You see, there's a lot of talk that you destroyed a heavenly tree. One that contained super dangerous primordial demon. One that everyone seems to think is their ancestor! Do you know,how many demons I had to run and hide from to prevent that overgrown worm from finding me?!" Smokey, shit-eating smirk: "You've always been so good at running and hiding." Liang, pouncing: *angry snarl!* *monkey fight ensues*

Which all leads to... yeah. Confessions and a first kiss occurs in the carnage of their fighting.

Liang bolts back into the shadows the second silence falls. Smokey is left dismayed and hopeful. He feels better than he's felt in a long while, he just hopes Liang doesn't stop being his shadow...

And then the next time they meet, Liang is holding a pink-ish monkey cub who seems to reach out towards the Monkey King like he's an old friend...

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Wukongs Two Gay moms au

a response from @safekeeperscosm on a post I made about my ideas for the other celestial primates/mystic monkeys made me think of a cute and/or funny au applicable to almost any Sun Wukong.

Baby SWK hatches out of the Stone Egg, and is adopted by the Long-Armed Gibbon ("Gibbs") and the Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey ("Babs") almost immediately. They recognise him as being an unnatural creature just like them, and don't want him to grow up in a world that will reject him for it.

So cue a version of Sun Wukong who has an unironically healthy childhood and upbringing cus of his moms. Still gets in trouble with the Celestial Realm tho. His moms were gonna ground him but the Buddha already did it for them for 500 years.

A Wukongverse meeting going like that one scene in Metalocalypse;

Bonus if its the most random of the Wukongs.

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I have made Lego versions of my "Monkey King Hero Is Back" & "Monkey King Reborn" versions of Liu'er Mihou/Six Eared Macaque using the Lego OC Picrew.

HIB: "Zhanshi" - once the Great Sage Informing Wind, now current regnant of Mount Huaguo in her mate's absence. Zhanshi has been awaiting Dasheng's return with baited breath, though not standing still. She's become the nightmare of human hunters that target the "defenseless" island thinking it's an easy mark for demon trafficking. Zhanshi has recently discovered a Cloudy Stone Egg that almost every mercenary she encounters seems to to want. She quickly becomes attached to cubs, Liuer (or "A-Liu" as she affectionately calls him) and Silly Girl, her mate returns with. They did talk about having a big family!

Reborn: "Liang" - Considered an annoying shadow by many that knew them growing up on Mount Huaguo. Liang would consider Sun Wukong (who've they nicknamed "Smokey") their closest friend, rival, begruding fellow brotherhood sage, and greatest eneny. Things might have gone smoother between the two monkeys if they hadn't had a falling out just after the Havoc in Haven, but so is life. Liang has taken up a morbid career of guiding passed demonic souls to the afterlife/revival when no other person would. They recently got their hands full with a massive battle that just occurred outside Five Village Abbey, and decides to take an oddly-shaped rock left by the Ginseng Tree as payment. The "rock" quickly hatches into the new stone monkey form of Qi Energy. Whoops. Time to track down Wukong so Liang can blame him for this. Xiao Qi is super cute though.

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@dorothygale123 Reborn!Red almost giving me Helga Pataki (Hey Arnold) vibes - super aggro little girl jock in puppy-love with a super demure boy and not being sure how to express it.

Reborn!Red to DBK: "Father, how did you court mother when you first met?" Reborn!DBK, dramatically: "I stormed the celestial palace and declared my everlasting love to your mother infront of the heavens themselves!" Reborn!PIF, teasingly: "Liar. You would sneak in, sing and play pipa to me from beneath my window. You even convinced the other sages to provide distraction for the guards so we wouldn't be caught." Reborn!DBK, blushing like a teenager: "Because my songs of love were meant for no other ears!" Reborn!Red: "I'm getting mixed messages here."

Later outside Pilgrims campsite/accomodations;

Reborn!Red:

Reborn!SWK/Smokey: "She can finish the song. Then I'm setting the wolves loose." Zhu Yu & Ku Ai: *borking with protective instincts/excitement!* Xiao Qi: "Noo!!!" Reborn!LEM/Liang: "C'mon, it's super sweet. Let her do her serenade." Reborn!Pigsy, brandishing his rake: "It's disturbing our sleep, thats what it is!"

Xiao Qi later starts sneaking away from the group to hang out with his Red without the rest of the fam looming over them. Liang always hears him sneak away, but lets him so the kids could be alone for once. Smokey being a hypocrite - having snuck his LEM out of the palace many a time to spend time alone as friends.

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Out of genuine curiosity, will JackpotShipping or CherryandOliveStones get more kids? Other than their own respective MKs and Luzshens.

If they don't it's fine, just wanted to ask.

Jackpotshipping is unlikely. They've gone through the hassle of raising their "MK" and currently are trying to take care of Luzhen. Honestly they're happy with Li Yunxiang and their kids. Unless they find another freebie in the trash/dumped on them by the gods, then they're unlikely to make any more. Street orphans are negotiable.

CherryandOliveStones though? After they've figured out that they can make kids together (naturally and through clay-egg-projects), they would def plan for more. Cherry would think aloud like;

Cherry, holding baby Xiaoshi: "Man, I'm gonna be so bummed when the Pebble is too big to be carrying around like this." :( Olive, light-heartedly: "True... but once he's large enough and running around on his own two feet, we can think about making him a little sibling for us to carry." Cherry, geniune shock: "WE CAN MAKE MORE!?" :D!!

So yeah, the moment any empty-nest feelings kick in; Cherry and Olive are doing terrible things Ghost (1990)-style and making more baby monkeys. Xiaoshi probably gets slammed with the news of a baby sibling(s) when he's like... a toddler cus his parents could barely hold themselves back.

After the birth of Pebbles 2 & 3 (carried by either parent); The rest of the Pilgrims become suspicious whenever the adult monkeys are left alone for more than a few minutes.

Zhu Bajie, hearing noises away from the campfire: "Hey! You two best not be making another baby over there!" Cherry and Olive: *actually picking berries* "No promises!" "What a great idea though!"

Also; Cherry did not know baby monkeys could come in multiples. So when he learned that TWO BABIES were coming his eye lasers went off in joy and took out the roof of the palace they were crashing at.

Names of twin Pebbles undecided.

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Okay, but consider: I Need a Hero, Shadowpeach Edition

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@dorothygale123;

Olive aka my idea for Netflix Monkey King's version of the Six Eared Macaque/LEM, has a backstory similar but different from his Cherry/SWK counterpart.

A monkey is hatched from a Stone Egg. However, instead of Flower Fruit Mountain; Olive was "born" on the Moon. Technically in the world of Immortals, Olive originally grew up around them before becoming disgusted by their gluttony and frivilous nature.

Pulled a "I don't want to be a royal/prince(ss)" and escaped to Earth... where they immediately got harassed into living on the outskirts of FFM by the superstitious local monkey demons. A certain red-furred Monkey was the only one that seemed to think Olive's ears were "amazing/awesome!" instead of something to be feared. But he left sometime afterwards for some reason... something about 100 demons?

Olive spent a lot of the last 500 years just travelling, falling into different bad crowds, tricking unwise humans, and getting tangled up in a current celestial uprising.

Olive is mistaken for the Monkey King by people & demons who've only heard stories of Cherry's exploits. A macaque demon with weird physical traits/abilities? Must be the Monkey King.

Olive initially approaches the Pilgrims for a devious plan, but quickly finds himself way underestimating how fast he falls for the red-furred super-powerful himbo. Hopefully these feelings wear off before his boss's plans come into play.

It also gives the pair interesting conflicting ideals of; "wait you rejected living the Celestial Realm/a quiet life on FFM?!"

As for the SWK/LEM child of this verse Xiaoshi ("little rock" cus pebble); Originally I thought to make his creation a "natural" one (wink wink) bonus an accidental prayer to Guanyin. But now Im considering if theme of "rocks" could play an extra part in his creation.

It probably occurs sometime after the initial "betrayal-to-forgiveness-to-maybe lovers?" plotline.

Something like...

(The Pilgrims are staying at a temple of Guanyin. Cherry is trying out this whole prayer thing Tripitaka has been teaching him)

Cherry: "...Amitabha. Hope I did that one right." Olive: "You really think a silly sutra is going to convince the gods to give you what you want?" Cherry, shrugs: "Its a start. If I do enough of them that might let me take this stupid gold headband off." Olive: "Then what?" Cherry: "What?" Olive: "When you get the headband off - what will you pray for?" Cherry: *thinks for a while* Cherry, quietly: "...a family." Olive, softens a bit: "Just... that?" Cherry: "I never had one before. Would be nice to start one. Like, I wanna be the kinda dad that hugs their kid and tells them how much I love them everyday! I wanna start as soon as possible!" Olive, fond laugh: "You might be missing a few steps there, hero." Cherry: "Like what???" Olive: "Like, do you plan on making this family with anyone?" Cherry, confused: "Anyone? No probably- OH. You mean like-!" *blushing snort of laughter* "You mean like with a mate!" Olive: "Yes, my king. Unless you plan on making one out of clay. Or adopting." Cherry: "...you can just do that? Make one out of clay?" Olive: "Huh? No, it's a joke. It's said that the goddess Nuwa made the first humans out of the clay." Cherry, disappointed: "Oh. I still would like to though..." Guanyin, listening in: >:3 *blesses* (later when the gang are camping on the road) Olive: "What are you doing?" Cherry, forming wet clay around a pebble: "Trying to see if I can do the same thing Nuwa did." Olive: "Nuwa was a literal creation goddess, I don't think you could-" Cherry: *has sad hopeful look in his eyes* Olive: *sighs* "Ok, move over. You need something for the clay bind together too." (later) *An "Egg" made of clay, road dust, and whatever they could find is made, and hardening in the sun* Both Monkeys: *covered in filth* Cherry: "That was fun!" Olive: "Surprisingly so." The "Egg": *suddenly starts giving off a weird energy signature* Both Monkeys: Σ( O_O) (O_O ;) Stick, humming: "oh you dum-dums."

Cherry and Olive have an awkward time explaining to the rest of the Pilgrims that they may have accidentally made a new Stone Monkey together. Tripitaka and Zhu Bajie gets grossed out looks on their faces before Sha Wujing whispers that they meant literally - hence the weird clay/stone egg they have wrapped up in a basket.

The Clay Egg bares witness to a lot of weirdness on it's travels with the Pilgrims. Eventually it hatches in a dramatic fashion - only Olive noticed at first cus of super-hearing - and the fight/conflict they were in was immediately forgotten.

An infant monkey falls out of the clay shell, chirping and reaching for a hug. As you can imagine, Olive and Cherry nearly crash into one another answering the baby's request.

Xiaoshi is named for the fact that he started out as "just a pebble".

Also I find it funny if the little monkey known for making art, started out life as a clay art project between his parents. XD