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"You're a monkey!"
MK has been so upset by his monkey form, I NEED Someone to make him feel good about it
PLEASE
when Monkey King Gets out of the scroll I need him to be excited for MK, I NEED someone to hug this kid and tell him the monkey form is fine and good, please
LMK Season 4 shots in the dark
Ok so I’m not trying to theorize or anything like that, I don’t think we got enough info for that anyway.
But well I have been thinking about that ominous scroll and with my limited knowledge of Journey to The West (so basically OSP videos, the Saiyuki anime and the first 5 books) there’s 3 options I imagine the scroll to be :
-One of the sacred scroll they went to get in their journey.
-the scroll with the circlet activation spell (would make for great angst material).
-One of the register of the dead that SWK “edited” to give himself and some of this monkey friends immortality. The one with his name on it to be precise.
Just imagine if that’s the case and that both his and Macaque’s names are on it and it got stolen. Suddenly the Monkey King is mortal again and so is his greatest rival.
It would also make a great excuse for flash back to their relationship before JTTW.
Man’s yeah I know that SWK is like 7 time immortal but the thing is in the book when they dragged him to hell he was already immortal. So clearly if your name’s on the register immortality doesn’t mean jack.
It would also suit LBD parting words. Of course MK would fight this because it’s his mentor. But the destiny of every mortal things is to die and while no one except the Mayor wanted of LBD vision of destiny this time a lot of people would be on board to finally get rid of SWK et Macaque. Especially in the Jade palace. How’s that for pain?!
Sorry for rambling I swear it’s not meant to be taken seriously.
idk if I like this one might, plus the quality ate shit lmfao,
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𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗢 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗱 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 + 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦
𝗡𝗘 𝗭𝗛𝗔 𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗢𝗥𝗬
I know this theory has been talked about a lot, but I would like to put my own thoughts and opinions about Ne Zha’s age. Of course, Ne Zha died at the age of 12, yet in the series; considered to be a somewhat spin-off/sequel to the Journey to the West novel, he appears to be physically an adult.
Understandably, some people wanted to defend the idea of Ne Zha physically and mentally grown since Journey to the West by using other country’s beliefs of Ne Zha depicted as an adult, however, other countries still depict Ne Zha as a child, and the crew for LEGO Monkie Kid revealed he was canonically a child during Season 4, Episode 5 “The Court of the Yellow-Robed Demon”. This leaves to the question of how he managed to appear older.
I have been pondering on the idea for quite some time, and while going through several posts of people’s headcanons, references from other media depicting the other characters from Journey to the West, I have come to a conclusion.
To support this theory, I will be using Macaque as an example to answer the mystery behind Ne Zha’s sudden ageing in LEGO Monkie Kid. It has become abundantly clear Macaque has a missing eye, and in the Season 3, Episode 8, “Benched”, while trying to retrieve the third Samadhi Ring from Tang, for a split second, the tip of his tail becomes slightly white.
While going through fanart, people often depict Macaque, having glamorised his looks in order to hide his features (i.e., his scarred eye). Saying that, I believe Ne Zha has adapted to glamorise his child form into an adult form, possibly from wanting to fit his mental age physically and feel comfortable. Macaque so far, hasn’t shown his true form for a prologue time, I believe Nezha can hold his adult form without any difficulty.
𝗠𝗞’𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗢𝗥𝗬
Season 5 of LEGO Monkie Kid is bound to show Nuwa, or MK’s supposed mother, on the show. Most people are wanting Nuwa to be a loving and caring mother, however, I do not believe that will be the case considering the direction the show is taking on MK’s backstory.
In the Season 4 special “Emperor’s Wrath”, the Kings of Hell in the Underworld are shown to be devising a plan for the upcoming events for Season 5, and personally, I believe Nuwa will be some sort of secondary villain associated with the main plot in Season 5.
I am predicting that Nuwa has some strong connections, or at the very least, is acquainted with the Kings of Hell. Perhaps in the past, the Kings of Hell held a grudge against Sun Wukong after erasing his name from the Book of the Dead.
They weren’t able to change the pages since the paper magically link to the people whose names are written, and possibly, recreating a new set of paper will negatively affect the other people’s mortality; which the Kings of Hell are not willing to risk.
Leading to the Kings of Hell requesting the aid of the creator of humans, Nuwa, since the residents of the Celestial Realm are not going to approve such a dire plan without the approval of the Jade Emperor.
Maybe the Kings of Hell gained Nuwa’s interest throughout a promise with a type of reward at the end of deal, and making her create a lifeform with equal or stronger power than Sun Wukong.
From the flashback in Season 4 Episode 6, “Show Me The Monster'', there were several stone statues of various animals before the creation of MK (hinting there were several attempts to create the perfect lifeform).
The idea of creating MK as a mystic monkey probably links to the Journey to the West novel, in the chapter where Macaque shapeshifted into the Monkey King and deceives the other pilgrims; and before the reveal of the Six-Eared Macaque, it was stated that the imposter was close to Sun Wukong’s power level, which, I’m assuming, Nuwa took note.
Since Season 4 has hinted that Sun Wukong had some sort of connection with MK before he was created, I am predicting that he possibly knew Nuwa as a friend before she became an acquaintance with the Kings of Hell. Nuwa used that relationship as an advantage to analyse his skills and powers, while discussing using Sun Wukong as a pawn to help MK to be trained by the Monkey King, in order for MK to unlock his powers later in life.
Reasoning why I believe Sun Wukong isn’t aware of Nuwa is supported in the Season 4 special, “Emperor’s Wrath”, when Azure Lion was defeated, Sun Wukong questioned him who set him free from the Scroll of Memory, and Azure Lion had no recollection.
Supporting this theory, judging the age of MK when he first met Pigsy in Season 4, Episode 6, “Show Me The Monster”, he seemed to be around the age of 5 years old, which when he should some remembered of Nuwa or Sun Wukong to some degree, but it’s possibly she must have erased MK’s memories. This might be an ability that she might use in Season 5.
Nuwa must have deceived Sun Wukong somehow to convince him to protect MK when he proves himself to have potential to become Sun Wukong’s successor, not only to allow MK’s abilities to develop and become stronger, but she might also use MK to spy on the Monkey King from afar.
To support this theory, I will use the 5th Anniversary LEGO set of Monkie Kid, as Nuwa is seen to be in disguise while running a jade shop in Megapolis. Perhaps she purposely dropped MK off at Pisgy’s Noodles and lived around the city to observe MK and waited until he was ready to wield the staff. Sun Wukong must have done the same, but without the knowledge of Nuwa’s plan with the Kings of Hell (To learn Sun Wukong’s weaknesses for the sake of devising a plan).
In the pilot episode of LEGO Monkie Kid, “A Hero is Born”, MK needed to deliver some noodles to a customer, but ended up dealing with the Demon Bull Family. Perhaps Nuwa also purposely made MK make the trip so that he can find Monkey King’s staff and allow MK to meet Sun Wukong and start training because Nuwa might have a deadline to finish her end of the deal, before the Kings of Hell will take action in Season 5.
𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗞𝗘𝗬𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
Connecting to the last theory, I believe there will be a likely chance that Season 5 will introduce the other mystic monkeys from the Journey to the West novel. Judging from the direction of the LEGO Monkie Kid series, there will be new characters introduced other than Nuwa, considering that Season 5 will focus more on MK’s past, and him learning how to control his monkey powers.
For those who aren’t aware, in the Journey to the West novel, it is canon that there are a total of four mystic monkeys, which includes Sun Wukong (Spirit Intelligent Stone Monkey) and Macaque (Six-Eared Macaque Monkey).
The other two are known as the Red Butt Horse Monkey and the Pass through Arm Ape Monkey (using the translated names from the Chinese characters).
Since the series does slightly alternate the Journey to the West lore, perhaps the Red Butt Horse Monkey and Pass through Arm Ape Monkey were created before Sun Wukong and Macaque, and the idea of MK being a new mystic monkey existing in the LEGO Monkie Kid show does bring their attention and they will contribute to the main conflict of Season 5 (Perhaps they know much more about the upcoming conflict with the Kings of Hell and MK’s monkey power awakening).
This prediction might be a bit of a stretch, but since MK’s monkey powers will most likely be one of the main focuses for the plot of Season 5, I believe these two monkeys are willing to become an influence; both negatively and positively.
Reasoning for this prediction is connected to the fact that the Red Butt Horse Monkey is known to have the ability to avoid death and lengthen its life, which I believe might lead the show to make an alliance with Nuwa and the Kings of Hell.
Meanwhile, the Pass through Arm Ape Monkey might be helping MK through his glitching when it comes to his monkey form, and might have more knowledge about dealing with MK’s problem than Monkey King.
To support this theory, in Season 4, Episode 7, “Pitiful Creatures”, when Wukong first sees MK’s glitching, he looks like he doesn’t look like he know how to deal this side-effect of unlocking the monkey powers, considering that Sun Wukong and Macaque were already created as monkeys and were able control their powers.
The Pass through Arm Ape Monkey might have known of MK’s existence through the battle against Azure Lion in the Season 4 special, “Emperor’s Wrath”, as the sky and the whole world was breaking apart, and since the Pass through Arm Ape Monkey can manipulate the moon and stars.
It could be the reason why the Red Butt Horse Monkey told Nuwa and the Kings of Hell about MK’s powers.
I don’t have anything else to say about this theory/prediction. However, if the series doesn’t show them, there HAS to be some influence, Easter eggs, etc. connecting to these mystic monkeys.
𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
Aside from Sun Wukong and Macaque having their pasts explored, the series does have the Demon Bull King appearance in these flashbacks since he was once a member of the Brotherhood, first revealed in Season 4, Episode 2, “New Adventures”, as everyone is discussing who will be the next Jade Emperor after overthrowing the current one.
From this single flashback alone, DBK was shown to be a good guy, fighting alongside his sworn brothers for they thought was right, and it does beg the question: What made him change his morality from good to bad?
In the pilot, Season 1, “A Hero is Born”, he is first introduced as the main antagonist whose goal is to conquer the world, and suddenly Sun Wukong traps him under a mountain despite DBK being his sworn brother. This minor detail is very unusual considering that in Season 3, Episode 10 “The Samadhi Fire”, showcases Sun Wukong, Demon Bull King and Ne Zha helping to separate the Samadhi Fire from Redson as a child.
Judging from this scene, the event must have taken place post to the Journey to the West, as the Monkey King isn’t wearing the circlet, as most of the flashbacks which are taking place in the Journey to the West shows him wearing the circlet given from Tang Sanzang. The pilot does show Sun Wukong wearing the same suit of armour as in Season 3, Episode 10 “The Samadhi Fire”, and it's strange how the Monkey King went from helping the Demon Bull King to fighting him.
Either something happened between the events of removing of the Samadhi Fire and the events occurred in the pilot, or off-screen there was some conflict between the two, but set a temporary truce to help Redson with the Samadhi Fire.
The most assumed event that could pinpoint the morality change of the Demon Bull King would be when he and Princess Iron Fan met during the battle against Heaven. However, I highly doubt that. Since this event took place before the birth of Redson, and if Demon Bull King and Sun Wukong didn’t have conflict during this time period, then this accusation would be inaccurate.
This wasn’t a theory or a prediction, however, I REALLY do feel like talking about this since it’s been bugging me for quite some time. I hope that Season 5 will be able to resolve this plot hole and perhaps it might correlate with the main plot of the next.
While I do hope, I also doubt it since the Demon Bull Family has not had much screen time in recent seasons. But simultaneously, I bet there will be a chance since the new 5th Anniversary LEGO set does display Redson working at the BBQ restaurant in Megapolis, so maybe a slim chance.
I was going to talk about Peng and Erlang working together in Season 5, considering the current conflict with the Monkie Gang and Peng, and due to the fact that Erlang is a cousin? Brother? Or a family member of the Jade Emperor according to the Journey to the West novel, and wanted to avenge his death.
(Probably ignore this one, this was a last minute theory)
But I didn’t know what else to talk about and it does seem like the two will be working on their own.
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy the theories that I have come up with. I haven’t gotten the chance to re-watch all of the episodes of LEGO Monkie Kid, so I mostly relied on my memory. Leave some comments about your thoughts and theories of the series or what will happen in Season 5.
🐒💛THE MONKEY AND THE SERPENT SERIES IS HERE🩵🐍
As last minute as the title - my story is FINALLY HERE!!! You can access it either as a registered user or guest user.
I would provide a description about what's this is about, but I don't wanna spoil the book, so here's a summary:
"MK the Monkie Kid and his friends, alongside other allies such as Sun Wukong, will continue their adventure against their usual foes and facing the same struggles; but with the aid of a new ally - a wild card who may or may not have more influence on their story than initially thought. But she can't possibly have any connections to the events of what is happening to our heroes... right?"
I don't know who may need it, but for anyone who's struggling to watch Season 5, there you go.
CREDITS TO THE CREATOR OF THE PLAYLIST ON YT
🐒💛THE MONKEY AND THE SERPENT CHAPTER 2 IS HERE🩵🐍
Apologies for the long wait, but the third chapter will be coming sooner than you might think ;)
Chapter 2 Demon Bull Family summary:
Our heroine has been taken to the Demon Bull King Fortress as a prisoner, but then, the truth has finally uncovered to the whole family about her and Princess Iron Fan...or Gongzhu as Dajing refers to her, leading to more secrets kept than revealed.
wukingkong and macarena
Tysm for adding novel bits!! Weird might’ve been the wrong word choice on my part but you basically reiterated what I was trying to say in a better way: that SWK was being controlled.
I’m very excited for the specials and hopefully s5 to give us more insight on the details and tell us how the characters felt about the whole ordeal. All in all it was a very interesting read, thank you for adding the original source material lore onto my rant!
SPOILERS FOR LMK SEASON 4
So we all agree that the whole Azure Lion and Sun Wukong escapade is like super suspicious right?? Like not only does turning on his friends (and killing macaque for that matter) feel out of character for him, but right before he does all these things he’s seen being put under the jade emperor’s control??
Like look, in this scene where Sun Wukong was cemented as the true villain in Azure Lion’s eyes for destroying the paradise he had made what are him and his companions shown to have on their heads? The fucking celestial realm crowns
And I haven’t read the original source material for this show (the journey to the west) so I don’t know wether the point I’m making here is clarified in it and if I look really dumb rn but either way…
And to like add on top of everything else I’ve said here it’s super weird how shadow or ink (not sure what the terminology is yet) Wukong was teasing him.
Feels oddly specific for a curse that’s entire gimmick is to get in your head to choose to taunt Sun Wukong with the very same crown while talking about not being able to fight against your destiny and what you’re chosen to become.. It just all feels very suspicious and I am super excited for S5!!!
TANG AT THE MPREG WATERS?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!!!??!??????!!?!??!?!?!!??!!??!?!?!?!!??!
Behind The Mask (MK Dad AU)
This post was posted after a brief but important conversation I had a while ago with @melancholialapelada7, the other co-creator of MK Dad AU, about why the seals are placed on children and the MK monkey form. I am going to explain some things as I have come to understand them.
With that understood, here goes:
Going back to some things I said in this previous post about the seals MK put on children, I forgot the small detail that not all children were planned, so there was no way MK prepared for it in advance.
So let's say he put them on after birth as a preventative measure.
Although…
After thinking about MK wanting to seal what could affect his children's lives, I remembered a very important seal placed on him.
Warning: I will make a small spoiler of season 4 if someone has not seen it yet.
Returning to a small scene in season 1 of chapter 1 where the Monkey King puts a seal on MK to limit his powers and thus be able to control them better, I thought... What if that seal were relevant again when MK discovers his monkey form?
In season 4...
During his fight against the Ink Demon, there is like a decisive blow that he makes against MK before he has his imbalance between his human form and his monkey form. Right there, I felt that it was the precise moment where the seal was broken, and although originally I thought that it could have been the seal that was given to it during its creation—that flashback will haunt me until I have an answer—I thought about the other possibility that it was the one that Wukong put on MK.
Now...
The MK Dad AU takes place after the events of Special 3, with the variable that the Monkey King disappears, and therefore the events of Season 4 would not unfold as in the series... so MK would have no way of knowing about his monkey form.
So I actually made MK achieve that transformation after years of solo training.
As I must remind you, 17 years passed after the victory against Lady Bone Demon and the mysterious disappearance of the Monkey King. So MK would have continued with his training despite the circumstances, which would have led to him breaking Sun Wukong's seal on his own by reaching a level where he already perfectly masters almost all of his powers.
Therefore, the seal that was originally placed as a limiter would be canceled naturally.
It's just… MK isn't entirely sure about using his monkey form.
Although his reasons for that insecurity are different from those raised by season 4, there is something that I did leave and that is that MK feels that this form is not just one more transformation.
He can only feel it.
The power. The force. The horrible need to cause… chaos.
So MK decides to meditate, on Nezha's advice, in the brief hope of keeping the seal under control. Taking care that it doesn't break.
But this one will eventually, and MK knows it.
And he's not ready.
He doesn't want to be ready.
This aspect of his life no longer affects only MK, who decided almost indiscriminately to have children of his flesh and blood. So now he's scared that whatever he has, he's passed it on to the children.
Let this form that he doesn't fully understand change him, take everything he is, and become something he can no longer control.
Something unstoppable.
So he tries to lock it all away until he can't handle it alone anymore.
And it would be from there that Wukong would resume relevance in the AU.
Yay!
Although the details about how I would get to that situation are not clear to me yet, I will only say that from this small conflict, the relationship between MK and Wukong, whose teacher-student relationship was ruined, begins to be solved, or at least advances to its possible solution.
I actually have some little plots that I want to tell with that monkey form, the seals, and how this affects children.
But I still don't feel like writing a full-fledged fanfic at the moment, and I draw slower than I write. Haha…
So that...
That's all for now, bye! (ouo)/
How does the timeline work in the mkdadau?
An interesting question (owo)
As I previously established in the introduction to the MK Dad AU, the events in this universe occur after the defeat of Lady Bone Demon, with the only variant being that at the end of that year, the Monkey King disappeared, leaving MK in doubt about his whereabouts. And consequently changing the course of the original line of the series.
Previously, I spoke with @melancholialapelada7, the co-creator of the AU, about whether to follow the future events of the Lego Monkie Kid series, and what we decided was to include them slowly at our discretion. So I am free to exclude or include certain events at my convenience in this AU.
So the events of season 4 along with Special 4 will still occur, just with a delay, with these events falling in succession along with the return of the Monkey King.
As far as I have raised the issue of MK's monkey form and the chaos that will be generated in heaven, it will happen, just in a different way... like, for example, the issue of who will open the scroll. That's going to change.
And in addition to other events, such as the topic of Azure Lion's late presentation and the doubt about the man from the underworld, they will occur simultaneously, as if they were waiting to start after a long pause.
Although of course, with the inclusion of children.
So, you guys know about the announcement of lmk S4 right?
Well I've been rambling all about it to my siblings who at this point are starting to get sick and tired about my obsession with kids cartoons at this point and they said it to my face. I don't know what happened because we all used to enjoy the show, we'd watch it together late at night and everything.
So just making sure you guys are fine with me talking about my obsessions here instead of posting Dog/Cat pictures or something,
LMK S4 SPOILERS!!
Macaque And His Therapy Monkey
You cannot tell me he doesn't rant to the little guy. Man was just vibing in the background while the others were reliving trauma, and he looked good doing it.
Also does he live in Flower Fruit Mountain now?? Are he and Sun roommates?? Did they make up off camera Orr??
MAJOR LMK S4 SPOILERS!! I REPEAT!!!
MAJOR LMK S4 SPOILERS!!
I'm obsessed with how they animate them walking in this scene, it's so realistic?!? So smooth!? God damnit Flying Bark Productions, how do you make WALKING ENJOYABLE TO LOOK AT?!?
LMK S4 SPOILERS!!
HELP?!?!
Sure it could just be a different scarf entirely but STILL!!
(At least I think it's a scarf please correct me if I'm wrong)
I'm not the only one who sees the Demon Accountant Lady as Jin and Yin's older sister, right...?
I mean, come on, she has Soo Much tired older sibling energy.
She tries to stop them from being idiots all the time, but will just somehow get involved in their mischief
SPOILERS FOR LMK S4 COMING UP!!
She also saves their butts on the first episode of season 4,
Jin and Yin are the annoyingly mischievous younger brothers, while Demon Accountant Lady here has "They're Dumbasses, but they're MY Dumbasses so you better not hurt them," energy.
So i'm putting together a reference of Macaque expressions/emotions because I like him a regular amount and this is the coolest frame by frame subtlety find i've found yet
like the fact that Wukong was willing capable of showing restraint and mercy but not for him-
also, absolutely enthralled he ended up like this from this
what happened bud
SOMEONE UPLOADED THE SEASON 4 SPECIAL OF LMK ON YOUTUBE I AM SCREAMING, CRYING, THROWING UP-