OKAY! I HAVE SUCCUMBED TO THE VOICES OF MY LATEST HYPERFIXATION: LEGO MONKEY KID! UNTIL I SATISFY THEM I WON'T BE ABLE TO WORK ON ANY REQUEST! Get ready for the most absurd rants you've ever heard about Jttw, lmk AND EPIC THE MUSICAL! YOU ARE WARNED!
I find it somewhat funny how the vast majority of adaptations of Sun Wukong leave out that the Monkey King HAD A WIFE. a fucking wife that he KIDNAPPED AND FORCED TO BECOME HIS BRIDE.
She literally appears singing about this :'D before Nezha and his father rescue her.
and while I was learning about this, I couldn't help but think about the songs from Calypso, from Epic: the Musical (another recent hyperfixation) and in some way relate it to Monkey Kid.
after all, LMK's Wukong knows that the things he did when he was young were QUESTIONABLE to say the least (he literally said it) and that he regrets many things, and I wondered what his dynamic would have been like in that case with Jiaozi (his "wife ").
and that is precisely why I relate it to Love in Paradise in a certain way.
Like, we know that this Wukong definitely had good intentions, which were initially driven by good reasons, but which became more and more selfish, so here perhaps he could have brought Jiaozi to Flower Fruit Mountain as a direct response to 1- monkey logic + 2- after his trip to the west he needed a way to deal with loneliness and 3- demonic courtship is WILD.
Anyway, I can see this more (ONLY IN LMK) as a response to mourning and handling loss (the Brotherhood? Macaque? is up to your interpretation) and that he really doesn't know how to manage/communicate his emotions in a healthy way.
Imagine being Jiaozi, being taken from your comfortable princess life overnight, waking up in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE with a monkey man who is too... friendly to be a kidnapper?
Like, lmk's Wukong acts just like Calypso, with a lot of familiarity, his normal confident post-trip to the West self, explains the situation to Jiaozi (but in a much friendlier way than it really is) and she's like "uh HELL NO" but there really isn't much to do against the literal Monkey King, THE SAGE, THE EQUAL TO HEAVEN, and poor Jiaozi is having a full-blown crisis while Wukong doesn't understand why she's so distraught, don't she understand him? They have everything they want and need in the mountains!
Ironically other texts also described Wukong as a "spoiling husband who gave a lot of clothes/food/things to his wife" and that was probably the route he took after the beginning, Wukong has a lot of trash, but he was more than willing to share with Jiaozi as long as she was happy, that she wanted him back...love him Back.
He JUST doesn't understand the seriousness of the matter that KIDNAPPING YOUR SPOUSE REALLY IS...until Nezha and His Father come along.
Now, I don't think Wukong is stupid even before that happens, he would see Jiaozi's clear anguish, her sadness, the desire to return to her old life with her family, and although he consoles her and such, he is having a crisis, This is supposed to be normal, right? So why does he feel so bad when he sees her so distressed?
The glass fills slowly but surely.
I don't think he was a bad husband Per se, like I said, he was very pampering and such (maybe even Jiaozi sees him in a certain positive light, even if not as a husband, because of his good deeds of the past), but he had a big problem with taking things too lightly and not dealing adequately with his emotions.
so when he receives the ultimatum from Nezha and company, he has a very Im not Sorry for Loving You moment.
in which he does just that, he explains to Jiaozi that he let her go with Nezha, that he regrets having made her go through all this just out of selfish fear, and he very much regrets not regretting loving her even so (many years of being alone screwed him up a little head, so this type of interaction definitely marked his isolation even more in the future).
Even if in lmk Jiaozi doesn't keep track of him or anything like that, she makes it clear to him that she couldn't love him the way he wants her to love him. and it hurts, but it hurts good. because he learns from it.
(PS, it would be quite ironical if this Jiaozi marry Nezha of all people lol)
waaaaaaa I just love finding parallels between my hyperfixations, I will soon publish another one, but it will be much fluffier and from this same fandom.
(the songs that give the idea)
Shares, reblogs and comments are very welcome!
27 notes
·
View notes
I was tempted to choose the poly route and letting orla watch jax manhandle me once again against the car but also excuse us we were having a moment do you mind??
sjakjska not u saying u got cockblocked by your boss 😭
31 notes
·
View notes
Clockwork, Baby Danny and Time Relicts:
Clockwork, the Master of Time, chose to intervene when powerful time-related artifacts appeared. It was more about him not really caring, but the time travel gave him a migraine.
He enlists Danny to restore the relics and bring them to him.
Danny said if he is caught as a thief, he will be seen as a villain!
But Clockwork knew a way to fix it, and the next thing Danny knows, he is a toddler with a radar in his hands.
With a letter, "Search the artifacts, and then I will teleport you back."
Danny had to give it to Clockwork, who would arrest a baby or call him a villain!
And he had fun, pranking the heroes and villains. Stealing the relicts, and after he had all seven of them in his base. Clockworks hand came through a portal and packed the toddler and pulled him into the portal.
+
True, Danny isn't a villain for the world, but he is a cute meta toddler who, for some reason, did go to Hero's home and museum and stole that one thing before he left. He was like two times in a museum Wonder Woman was working on, stole the relict, and left. And in Gotham, he helped Catwoman in return for the thing she stole.
So now the Justice League is looking for him.
+
Back in Amity Park, no one but Wes notices that both Fenton and Phantom are now toddlers.
And when they did, they just accepted it!
By magic, the Fenton boy and the hero Phantom are toddlers at the same time, which makes sense in their eyes.
And whenever Wes tried to say something, the others looked at him as if he were not very smart and crazy.
Danny loves being a toddler, he can do so many pranks! Worth it to stay a bit longer this way.
1K notes
·
View notes