#-not the tiktok misuse of the term 🙃)

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how fucked up would you be if you were told the embodiment of the worst parts of you was capable of killing members of your family

[ID: A sketchy two panel sepia comic. In the first panel, Sun Wukong is dressed in traditional deep mourning garb and kneeling before a grave, back to the viewer. The second panel is a close-up on his face. He has a hollow, terrified wide-eyed expression and half of his face is in deep shadow. He thinks, "Could I have done the same?" End ID]

#my art #journey to the west #jttw #xiyouji #sun wukong #monkey king #so. Six-Eared Macaque thoughts. #i think that in addition to simply being the worst parts of SWK (ie the actual parts of him that are flawed and bad)- #-he's also the worst of what SWK thinks of himself #cuz six-eared cannibalizing members of huaguo shan is good for hammering in how evil he is #but even for the 'worst parts' of swk i think swk doing anything like that is wildly ooc #so.... i think six-eared also embodies swk's intrusive thoughts #(intrusive thoughts as in actual violent reprehensible thoughts swk would never follow through on bc thats what intrusive thoughts are- #-not the tiktok misuse of the term 🙃) #so imagine how fucked up youd be if someone said This was the personfication of the worst parts of you and not clarifying* #* so youre just like. 'oh so my intrusive thoughts are right then' * #*'so they are actually a part of me and im a horrible person' #god the pilgrimage gave swk so much more trauma than ppl give credit </3 #sorry this is messy and sketchy i just wanted to get these ideas down gfdhjskd