#kotpota mae

[cursedvida]

Mae and Noa are not Disney-coded; they are clearly Ghibli-coded. Their journey reminds me a lot of the classic Studio Ghibli films, maybe also because of that wild and nature-filled setting, but mostly because the other day I thought of this scene from "Princess Mononoke" and it's literally them, and you can't deny it. I mean, I need fanart of this scene but with Nomae, someone please make it, that's all I'm asking for, I'm not a very greedy person, lol.

#how i couldnt missed this #it's LITERALLY their dynamic #i mean they're a western version of Ashitaka and San in many ways #fight me #kingdom of the planet of the apes #kotpota mae #planet of the apes #nomae #mae x noa #kotpota noa #mae #noa x mae #kotpota #noa #studio ghibli #princess mononoke

[3eyedbibliophile]

Spoilers for KOTPOTA Sequels:

Noa: She has lied to my face 100 times even though I can only look at her when she's around, almost tried drowning me and my family, and is reuniting the human world to commit war against us after hundreds of years. As the leader of my clan, I must make a fair approach to these actions for the protection of my clan and all apes.

Eagle Clan: ...

Mae: *Breathes*

Noa: Go, do another crime.

Eagle Clan:

#kingdom of the planet of the apes #kotpota #kotpota mae #kotpota noa #nomae #noa x mae #mae x noa #planet of the apes #she is gonna be the death of him #and he's gonna like it #noa is a mae simp #facts

[kidasthings]

Kingdom has frankly made me feel crazy. I've seen the movie three times. Noa gives both "important" items to Mae. He doesn't choose between Soona and Mae when literally asked. He gives a bullshit "we were born together" answer (what does that mean, bro?) which literally sounds like he thinks of her as a sister. (Which checks out, bc that's the vibe they actually had lbr) He carries her. Rescues her on horseback. Bonds w/her through the whole damn movie. And all their tension? Not to mention Owen and Freya being the literal faces of the movie and all the promo. I just need to know if they have written the single most unintentional enemies to lovers story or if its all intentional and we aren't crazy.

Let me let you in on a little secret that might shed some light on what is going on, here.

Shhh... don't tell anyone. I don't think they could handle it!

The Planet of the Apes Franchise has had many, many examples of human-ape hookups and pairings before in the comics, and hints of this can be found on the big screen (Taylor and Zira kissing, the almost-was ape-human hybrid child).

Some examples of ape-human pairings in the franchise have been:

Malaguena (human woman) and the male chimp Grimaldi from "Terror on the Planet of the Apes"

Tonus, a human-hating gorilla, fell in love with a "chimp" named Valia who was really a human woman in disguise named Myndith. It more or less changed his stance on humans "Blood of the Apes" miniseries

Fauna, a blind chimp female fell in love with Pete Burke, a human man in an episode of the Planet of the Apes TV series

Various examples of human-ape hybrids, such as the mud people

Some examples of ape-on-ape mixes also occurred:

Minister Shiva was half chimp, half gorilla (Dark Horse comics)

The Chimerae were descended from gorillas, orangutan and chimp blood (Dark Horse, again)

Lieutenant Mungwort was part chimpanzee, part gorilla

You can find all of this detailed here for reference:

So, yeah, if they were hinting something between Noa and Mae, you can bet it would be on-point for the franchise to do that.

Intentionally.

Because, you know, the Planet of the Apes has this long history of mixing species, both on-screen and off.

I know some claim it's bestiality, or zoophilia, or whatever to ship Noa x Mae, and that's fine. Sing it to the rafters, you do you.

I still stand by the fact that if someone claims this and pays to watch the Planet of the Apes movies in the movie theater they are financially supporting their own claims of bestiality and zoophilia for a franchise that has always promoted ape-human pairings.

For the rest of us, it's just par for the course and a typical ship.

Hope that helps!

#kingdom of the planet of the apes #mae #noa #mae x noa #noamae #kotpota #nomae #planet of the apes #rise of the planet of the apes #monster romance #noa x mae #kotpota noa #kotpota mae #interspecies relationships

[trzppyghxuls]

My take on Noa x Mae

If you have watched the new planet of the apes movie, kingdom of the planet of the apes, you'll understand that the two main characters have a underlying tension between them. You'll understand that their relationship is complicated and still hasn't been completely developed. But you should also understand that we're talking about an animal and a human here.

Noa and Mae have a complicated relationship in the movie, but they just met. Noa has spent his entire life being told that humans are dangerous pests. But he is still able to find kindness and mercy to help and even somewhat befriend Mae. At the end of the movie you can tell that Noa doesn't know how to feel about Mae, he's still processing everything that had happened. Same as Mae, she doesn't understand if she hates apes or not. The tension you're seeing and feeling even is two different species struggling to learn to trust each other. It is NOT romantic nor sexual tension.

Some may argue that even if the tension they have isn't romantic or sexual that the shipping is harmless. It is not. Noa is an ape. He is an animal. Mae is a human. That is zoophilia. Noa is smart enough to understand that someone might want a relationship, and he is able to verbally consent, but he is still an animal. And if we're talking about anything sexual I'm pretty sure that Mae and Noa are teenagers, if not they're young adults.

I know that the ship is fictional, but would most of you not freak out if you saw someone shipping an adult man with a little girl? This is just as bad. Even though these characters are not real, it still doesn't excuse the fact that you think it's okay to ship a human and a animal. Just because it's fiction doesn't make it okay. Take Kilgrave from Jessica Jones as an example. That man is a fictional character who is a rapist, and manipulates and mind controls the main character and a few others to have sex with him against their will. Just because he's a fictional character doesn't make his actions okay.

This ship is gross, the people who ship it are gross, and I hope you understand how disgusting you are.

#planet of the apes #kingdom of the planet of the apes #pota mae #pota noa #Pota #kotpota #kotpota mae #kotpota noa #mae x noa #noa x mae #noamae

[tellerficraz]

Girls when beast

"There's something that i see in the way you look at me..🎵"

#kingdom of the planet of the apes #planet of the apes #kotpota #noa kotpota #mae kotpota #raka kotpota #proximus caesar #pota #noa x mae #shrek #shape of water #beauty and the beast #pota's beauty and the beast #similarities #meme #noa x mae kotpota #nomae #noamae

[silusvesuius]

proxy 𝓛𝓞𝓥𝓔

#planet of the apes #proximus caesar #mae #my art #99% of these r screenshot redraws #kotpota spoilers // #not rly thoo #proxy had the best faces in the world in the dinner and vault scenes

[bookishdaze]

Ok but Venus by Sleeping At Last immediately makes me think about Noa and Mae. It's a sweet love song, the title is a reference to the Roman goddess of love, but best of all, it has a telescope metaphor to describe the feeling of falling in love, so obviously I think about them!

At first, I thought you were a constellation I made a map of your stars, then I had a revelation You're as beautiful as endless You're the universe I'm helpless in An astronomer at my best When I throw away the measurements

Like a telescope I will pull you so close 'Til no space lies in between And suddenly, I see you Suddenly, I see you

#kingdom of the planet of the apes #planet of the apes #pota #kotpota #nomae #noamae #maenoa #they have been living in my head rent free #like its bad you guys #noa x mae #mae x noa

[yenyenyen19]

Run away///

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#kingdom of the planet of the apes #planet of the apes #pota #kotpota #noa #mae #art tag #noamae fandom i would like to feed yall. your all valid af

[brucoenthusiast]

Twitter || Tiktok

"Tried to change the ending, Peter losing Wendy."

#kingdom of the planet of the apes #kotpota #mae #noa #maenoa #nomae #noa x mae

[winterfieldfrontiers]

Just One Week. KINGDOM OF APES IS ONLY FILM THAT SURVIVES FROM BOX OFFICE FLOP BLAZE

I think it could be 500M.

Positive WOM in US and international

We are going to have Sequel

Nomae will going on for Sure, Disney seems happy.

#kotpota #the planet of the apes #kingdom of the planet of the apes #Noa #Mae #Nomae #mae x noa #noa x mae

[originalangelfest]

I was able to get some scenes of Mae and Noa.

(i love this song)

I saw many fans saying that Noa and Mae have a lot of chemistry in the movie, since the two of them couldn't stop looking at each other and Noa didn't want to let other's take her away. (you can see it in the scene where they arrive at the ship where Noa doesn't want them to take her away from him.) and since i saw the trailer, i never thought i would pair an ape and a human, but here I am. Throughout the movie you can see that Noa is always looking at Mae. Obviously at first he has zero trust in her and just wants her to go away, but then he starts to gain curiosity in her. In the negotiation scene you can feel the tension between the two of them. While Mae tries to apologize to him and Noa doesn't know whether to believe her or not since he considered her an ally. I know there are people who will tell me that Noa is in love with Soona but, in the scene where Mae asks Noa if he likes Soona he simply says that they were born close together but doesn't say anything else, so Mae just nods and turns around. And I think it is important to mention that Noa gives to Mae her mother's blanket and Raka's medallion, and he himself says that they are important for him. Noa doesn't give to Soona anything that is important to him, even that she is his childhood friend and Mae is just a human (It's a little boring that they make the classic childhood friends into lovers when we had too many scenes of Mae and Noa together.)I also have to mention the moment when Proximus Caesar is yelling at Noa to decide between Mae and Soona (Soona had a knife under her neck) and he can't make a decision. so Mae shoots the ape that had the knife. At the end of the movie we see how Mae walks away sad while Noa watches her sadly. (Although Mae had her weapon hidden, I feel that she did not really want to kill him and only had it as a precaution, since she knews that Noa was going to be angry for betraying him.) The truth is that these two have the potential to be more than enemies or allies, and I think we are ready to see a romantic relationship between an ape and a human.

#nomae #planet of the apes #planet of the apes new kingdom #kotpota #noamae #Mae #Noa

[cursedvida]

"Not love at first sight but curiosity at first glance. The need to know more, to learn everything. An inability to look away. They say attention is the beginning of devotion — you’ve always had all of mine."

I found that quote on Twitter and of course I thought about NoaMae

I mean this is so Nomae-coded it’s basically their whole plot dynamic i love it

#kingdom of the planet of the apes #kotpota mae #nomae #planet of the apes #mae x noa #kotpota noa #kotpota #mae #noa #noa x mae

[kidasthings]

Echoes of Eden by Kida

Noa x Mae - #omgisthisastorywithplot?

Chapter 2: Echoes of Eden by Kida – @kidasthings on Tumblr

Prologue

Three centuries after a catastrophic virus decimated human intelligence, turning the survivors into primal shadows of their former selves, the world has irrevocably changed. The ALZ virus, originally intended to combat Alzheimer's disease, not only ravaged humanity but inadvertently gave rise to a new dominant species: intelligent apes.

Near the ruins of what was once Los Angeles, Noa, a valiant chimpanzee of the Eagle clan, has just thwarted a power-hungry bonobo, Proximus Caesar, from enslaving his people. Guided by the teachings of a certain orangutan, Raka, who revered the nearly forgotten, peace-loving chimp Caesar, Noa believes in a world where apes and humans can coexist peacefully. However, during his quest, he encounters Mae, a human who defies his expectations. Mae, immune to the virus and possessing the ability to speak, challenges Noa's perceptions of humans as mere animals.

Together, Noa and Mae manage to prevent Proximus Caesar from seizing a cache of potent human technology by flooding an old bunker. In the process, Mae secures a crucial computer drive that enables her underground human community to reconnect with distant survivors, bridging isolated pockets of humanity; she also manages to betray Noa and his clan by leaving them to fend for themselves.

As Mae's group in Los Angeles prepares to merge with new allies from Fort Wayne, Indiana, tensions escalate. Unaware of Mae's bond with Noa, a small but well-armed scouting party from Fort Wayne comes across the Eagle Clan’s village on their way to Los Angeles to meet up with Mae’s people.

Far more adept on their own home turf, the scouting party is caught by the apes, rounded up, and held hostage. Their weapons are confiscated. Mae is called in when the scouting party never reports to the underground bunker where the rest of the intelligent humans in her group seek refuge. Caught between her origins and her convictions, Mae faces the ultimate choice during the tense encounter: stand with her human kin or protect Noa, the ape she has come to admire.

This story explores the fragile hope for reconciliation in a world torn apart by fear and prejudice. Can Noa and Mae forge a path toward peace, or will the shadows of old wars darken the future dreamed of by the legendary Caesar?

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Chapter 1

In the dense shadows cast by the towering trees that skirt the Eagle clan's village, the air was thick with tension and the faint scent of smoke from distant fires. The setting sun bled red over the horizon, casting long shadows across the rough-hewn faces of the Eagle clan and their new captives. Five ALZ-immune humans from Fort Wayne sat bound and rigid, their eyes darting nervously as they listened to the low, ominous murmurs of the assembled apes.

Noa moved deliberately among the captives, his demeanor stern yet marked by an inherent fairness. Each human he approached met his gaze with a mix of defiance and fear, but none spoke. They clung to their silence like a shield, even under the weight of Noa's penetrating stare.

"No purpose here can be good if it starts with secrets," Noa stated, his voice resonating with a calm authority as he paused before a younger man whose jaw was stubbornly set.

The chants from the simian crowd grew louder, a discordant mix of anger and fear, with proposals of banishment or worse. They remembered what happened with Proximus Caesar, the obsession with human technology and worldly knowledge, and want none of it. Noa raised a hand, called for silence, but the restlessness was palpable, a living thing that fed on uncertainty and fear.

At the perimeter of the village, a human woman keeps a low profile in the brush. She had followed a single flare that burst bright in the sky to this location. It was a habitual thing, to bypass this region when doing her rounds in the forest. Immunity to the Simian Flu had bequeathed her the role of tracker, hunter, and scout after her initial mission was completed. Brown hair, blue eyes like the sky, Mae can only watch the scene unfold with a pounding heart. Worry lines were etched deeply into her brow, and her hand reached up to clutch at something around her neck - Raka's pendant - the symbol of peace promoted by an ape named Caesar long ago.

Noa gave her that pendant. For an inopportune moment, Mae was lost in reverie.

Without warning, a strong hand gripped her shoulder, yanked her from the shadows. Mae stumbled forward, dragged into the open. Her breath caught as she was thrown unceremoniously to the ground before Noa and his human captives. Dust and small stones bit into her palms as she caught herself, and a small grunt escaped her lips.

The sudden appearance of the human - a known and not particularly fondly remembered human - amongst them drew shocked gasps and murmurs.

Noa’s eyes widened in recognition, then narrowed in a complex tumult of emotion. The last time they parted, it was with a promise of peace, and yet here she was, thrown at his feet, disrupting the fragile balance he had fought to maintain.

Mae’s chest heaved as she pushed herself up slightly, her voice raspy but resolute as she met Noa's gaze. A single word hangs between them, charged with layers of meaning, a plea, a greeting, a reminder of shared dreams and bitter realities.

"Noa."

In that moment, the world narrowed to the space between them. Noa stood motionless, the voices around him faded into a distant hum. His heart fought a fierce battle within, torn between his duty to his clan and the undeniable pull he felt towards this woman who embodied both the past they shared and the future they might still forge. He can see Caesar’s pendant, an encircled diamond, as it swung from Mae’s neck wildly.

She still had it.

It is a symbol of ideals that suddenly seem so distant in the face of palpable tension and looming conflict.

The standoff stretched out, every breath, every silent plea, every hope and fear suspended in the dusty air of the dying day.

“Noa,” Mae tried again, defeated. She pulled herself up to stand on shaky, coltish legs. The Eagle Clan scout that initially seized her did not reach for her again as Noa lifted one hand to stay him.

Noa closed his eyes, as if in contemplation.

“What are you doing here?” he finally asked, as he reopened his eyes and shuttered his gaze.

Mae’s lips thinned out into a seamless line, and she cut a gaze over to the trussed-up humans attached to poles in the center of the village.

Noa nodded, once. He did not need much more than that as he added, “They approached our borders. We do not yet know their intention.”

The five Fort Wayne humans, still tied tight, share deliberate looks of fear between themselves. There is clear intelligence writ into their faces. They are not gagged, much to the chagrin of some of the villagers, as Noa would not have it. Still, they are oddly quiet. A few cast curious looks at Mae, no recognition in their eyes. The only woman in the group chewed her lower lip in frustration. Her blonde hair is cut short in a severe bob.

“Let them go, Noa.” Mae stated boldly, taking a step forward. Two other apes, positioned parallel to her, moved to intercept her advance towards the hero of the Eagle Clan. Once again, Noa lifted his calloused palm and gritted his sharp canines.

“Follow,” he told her, indicating something or someplace to the left with a sharp jerk of his head.

There is a short murmur of indignation from the gathered villagers, save for a small group which consisted of Soona, Anaya, and Noa’s mother. They appeared stuck in a shallower tumult of emotion. Noa’s mother took a step forward, unsure, but Soona placed her palm on the female ape’s furry shawl-covered shoulder and stopped her.

Mae’s eyes followed Noa, capturing his unique profile in a blink, and then dipped her head and hesitated. It is always that hesitation, caught between following an ape and leaving her kind behind, but with a reluctant glance at the captives she turned to follow.

He led her to a towering edifice of wood and natural materials that might be described as a tree house. Far above them, hawks circled in the sky, their soaring shadows blotting out the last rays of the sun. They landed at the top of the tower, a dizzying height, and screeched down at her.

Noa ascended a small ramp and stepped past a woven flap of material.

Mae did the same after taking a moment to peer backwards over her shoulder to ascertain the serious faces of a few apes herding her to the entrance.

Once inside, the darkness enveloped her, and the woman became hyper-aware of a dual pair of reflective eyes that watched her in the darkness of the interior.

“You came back,” he said, voice rough with something like emotion.

“Not by choice,” she quipped, and then stepped sideways away from the shaft of light thrown down by the door.

“Why?” It’s a simple question for a complex answer, and she wasn’t ready to answer it.

“I saw a distress signal in the sky,” she replied easily, eyes skating over the shadows and shapes in the interior of the newly rebuilt tower. “I had to see for myself. It looked like a human flare.”

“A flare?” he questioned; voice flat.

“It’s a human thing,” she sighed.

She heard him padding closer to her, his eerie eyes backlit by whatever reflective photo-sensitive cells nocturnal animals possessed. More of his face came into detail. After he stood about a few feet away, he stopped.

Mae froze.

“You have  ... it,” he informed her quietly.

“Yeah,” she agreed.

A hand reached out, seemingly disembodied in black space, and she felt the immediate lift of the small weight at her neck.

“Do you ... still believe .. in what it stands for?”

Her answer is the same as before, the same empty mantra. “I-I don’t know, Noa.”

A huff, a sigh. The weight on the back of the cord returned and he stepped back.

“Let them go,” Mae demanded, again.

He did not reply, not right away, but he did give her a long look. It was hard for her to discern in the dim dark, but it might be a soft rebuke. “I have to know … why they are … here.”

Mae’s mind shut down, because she wasn’t ready, or can’t tell him that. Her group of survivors had been expecting the Fort Wayne scouting party for months now. The underground bunker housing her people was the last of its kind for hundreds of miles. They had not come across any other intelligent humans in that time, so this must be the group they awaited. Mae was not an idiot; she had seen the sentry apes rifling through a small stockpile of guns on the ground when she was roughly manhandled to the ground.

She trusted Noa situationally, sure, but did she trust him with this?

There might have been a flash of hurt on his face but the dim interior concealed it well. “They belong with me,” is all she can muster.

“Tell the truth,” he parried back. There was a frustrated edge to his voice, nearly a growl.

“I am telling the truth,” she quipped stubbornly.

“Mae,” he refuted quietly, moving so fast that he is suddenly in her space again, too much and too soon. She gasped, caught off guard. His fingers found Raka’s necklace again, still around her neck. He was staring hard at it.

“Tell … me.”

Her tongue is nothing but a slug in her mouth, unable to form words. Noa had never been this close before, taking up her space, her attention, her very being. Caught between one moment and the next, she shook her head in utter disbelief. She could see his features more clearly, the craggy brow, the dark-light eyes, the slight downturn of his mouth beneath an inhuman nose. For a second, he gripped the pendant around her neck tightly, as if he wanted to hold it for some length of time, and then released it yet again to step past her.

Their shoulders brushed, and Mae forgot to breathe.

His voice carried over from somewhere behind her, close to the entrance. “If you will … not speak …  they will.” A rustle of fabric against fur, and he is gone.

Within the crude tower, Mae lets out the breath she held in a slow whoosh.

Noa.

#mae #noa #monster romance #kingdom of the planet of the apes #mae x noa #nomae #planet of the apes #kotpota #rise of the planet of the apes #noamae #owen teague #freya allan #fanfiction #enemies to lovers #kotpota mae #kotpota noa

[arleniansdoodles]

Guess who watched Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes?? Yep, I saw it, and now I can't get these two out of my head lmaoo

As much as I love Caesar and his story, I always imagined a dynamic like Noa and Mae's in the back of my mind. Not necessarily an enemies-to-friends or whatever their endgame is in this new trilogy, but now that I've seen them on the big screen, I'm super excited to see how their relationship plays out!

Before anybody asks, I personally don't ship them; I'm more of a "deeply platonic relationship" kind of gal loll But I can definitely see the vibes! XD Tbh, I really wanted to see them hug in the movie - it's the one thing I imagined after seeing the trailers ... But I don't mind the slow burn either, so I've settled for drawing it instead hahaa

Also, this is my first time attempting to draw apes. It was very hard, but I'll get better at it eventually! T_T

#art #my art #fantasy #illustration #fanart #planet of the apes #pota #kingdom of the planet of the apes #kotpota #noa #mae #family #friends #friendship #platonic #platonic love

[tellerficraz]

THEM:

ME:

#i'm totally fine #not like it matters #that they are still thinking about each other after all #because their paths are intertwined #pota's beauty and the beast #noa x mae kotpota #noa x mae #mae x noa #kingdom of the planet fo the apes #planet of the apes #pota #kotpota #proximus caesar #caesar pota #owen teague #freya allan #kevin durant #kevin durand #peter macon #wes ball #nomae #noamae #look me in the eye and tell me they are not Belle and the Beast

[xplore-the-unknwn]

HEAR ME OUT-

vid by @thatfilmguy5 on tiktok

Their scenes together have this likable tension. Every time Im like WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHY DO I LOVE IT. There was this super intense scene in a field where Mae called for him and Noa came to her aid like a knight on a horse literally. It got me like- Oh… I want to see where this is going. 😳😳🙈

Their dynamic also complements each other that its cute! How they’re parallels but similar in what they’re fighting for. Both opening each other’s eyes to different worlds. HOW COULD I NOT WANT their relationship to develop in future sequels (even if they’re not endgame the TENSION IS THERE)

and their chemistry-

Its chef’s kiss. Its the Highlight of this film. When you watch it you’ll know. Their chemistry makes the characters sooo rootable and makes you more curious that you want to see how their dynamic flourishes whether as enemies or as besties- which is good and healthy for the franchise!!

Idk how they did it but the writers and Wes Ball knew what they were doing pining us with this tension. GENIUS.

#they both got me hooked for the future of this franchise #Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes #Planet of the Apes #pota #kotpota #Wes Ball #Spoilers #your honor I love them #owen teague #freya allan #Josh friedman #Review #the entire movie I wasnt thinking bout the others I was thinking about them and their dynamic omygod #noa x mae #Noa #mae #nomae #nova