#This lines up way too well Tang is EVERYWHERE when it comes to the Brotherhood being sealed in the scroll

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Yo what if Sanzeng sealed Azure in the scroll?

Alright so, I was imagining how the friendship fall-out between the Brotherhood and Wukong went down and I got an idea when I was imagining the Brotherhood getting sealed in the scroll.

The preceding context for this is that the Brotherhood tried to enact their plan of sealing Wukong in the scroll, which Tang learned about in the episode Court of the Yellow Robed Demon.

Basically, the Brotherhood are fighting Wukong, although Yellow-Tusk was kinda offscreen in my head so it was really just Peng and Azure fighting the monkey. And they have the guy on the ropes, cause Wukong wasn't expecting that they would fight. And when Azure's about to seal Wukong in the scroll, instead, he gets turned into ink, and sucked into a scroll piece. Behind him is Sanzeng, holding out his hand and looking shocked.

In summary: Wukong is on the ropes fighting the Brotherhood, and when he's about to be sealed in the scroll, Sanzeng acts in the spur of the moment and uses his mystic magic to seal Azure in the scroll instead.

OK BUT HEAR ME OUT

This is totally plausible! Because if there are two things we can be certain about, it's that:

Wukong and the pilgrims did fight the Brotherhood

The Brotherhood were sealed in the scroll

And this would line up with that!

Especially considering how Tang is able to teleport through the scroll, which Azure himself says that Sanzeng could do. So it's possible Sanzeng could have some power over the scroll, including sealing people in it.

We also see Sanzeng magically helping a ghost pass on in The Great Tang Man, AKA magic shit to do with dead people, AKA guess where the scroll came from?

Yeah that's right, the Underworld, AKA a place full of very dead people. The scroll itself contains wicked souls who died and were imprisoned within it as punishment for their misdeeds too, actually.

Furthermore, Peng doesn't seem to take very kindly to the monk, as shown in the episode The Brotherhood.

Peng: "If it isn't the great monk Tang Sanzeng. You cannot imagine how I've longed for this moment."

Episode 8 of S4, The Brotherhood

Granted, he could just blame Sanzeng for Wukong getting in cahoots with the Celestial Host, or maybe he knows about the circlet because that DID happen. But it would also fit if Sanzeng was the one who sealed the Brotherhood away in the first place.

And as an additional point, we already know Sanzeng has sealed people away before (or after the Brotherhood fiasco, depending on when LBD was sealed away). So the idea of him sealing people away isn't new.

It also doesn't necessarily conflict with his oath of no violence, as TECHNICALLY, he isn't stabbing or punching or beating them up. He's just kinda sucking them into the hell dimension (although I'm pretty sure he wouldn't know about the hell dimension part).

And continuing on the subject of sealing, Sanzeng was also a key part of the ritual to seal the Samadhi Fire, so that's a double whammy for sealing shit away.

This shit is lining up TOO WELL

But yeah, while I'm not sure about how it specifically happened, I think it's possible that Sanzeng might have sealed the Brotherhood away in a sort of spur-of-the-moment type of way. (So like, he wasn't planning on it, it just kinda happened as a result of the stress of the situation).

So essentially, in summary:

#This lines up way too well Tang is EVERYWHERE when it comes to the Brotherhood being sealed in the scroll #Like he overheard their plan to seal Wukong in the scroll in Court of the Yellow Robed Demon #He can teleport around the scroll #Which it's said Sanzeng could also do #It was literally described as #AND I QUOTE #“It was said the great monk had sight beyond sight” #“The past” #“He could see it as though he were really there” #AND GUESS WHAT'S RELATED TO THE PAST?! #THAT'S RIGHT #THE SCROLL AND DEAD PEOPLE #And we see several instances of Sanzeng interacting with basically ghosts #When he was exorcising that one ghost in The Great Tang Man #When he was sealing away Lady Bone Demon #OH YEAH BY THE WAY #WE ALREADY KNOW HE'S SEALED AT LEAST ONE PERSON AWAY #AKA LADY BONE DEMON #PLUS THE SAMADHI FIRE RITUAL #SO HIM SEALING SHIT AWAY AIN'T NEW IN ANY CAPACITY #BRO'S A FUCKING VETERAN AT THIS POINT #But yeah Sanzeng definitely sealed the Brotherhood away this is the only acceptable answer now that I've come up with this theory #I don't care what the show tells us if it isn't some version of this it's WRONG #lego monkie kid #lmk #lego monkie kid s4 #tang sanzeng #tripitaka #azure lion #lmk theory