#tmw you're the only celestial the royal demon family of hell tolerates

[aroacenezhaanddainsleif]

✨thoughts about Nezha and Red Son:✨

I am ALL for the babysitter Nezha hc, but I was thinking about their relationship from a more canon lens

we don't really get any CANON connection between them for basically almost all of the series, except for the end of S4

so why would Red Son go to the Celestial Realm, of all places, and then (specifically) Nezha?

then I remembered that Nezha was there during the fire-sealing ceremony

PIF and DBK probably respected/appreciated Nezha and Wukong for that (until the whole Wukong and the mountain thing went down), and so Nezha ended up being the one celestial PIF/DBK never talked down on, especially bc he's more an "I'll stay in my lane, you stay in yours" kinda guy

with that, Red Son always associated Nezha as a safe person to go to, even if he had never or rarely met him (plus, they did meet after the S3 special ending- being able to finally meet Nezha for himself probably reinforced the idea for Red Son of Nezha being someone safe to go to)

this whole analysis is also merely just because i'm cackling at the imagery of PIF cradling toddler Red Son in her arms after DBK was imprisoned and going down a line of Celestials like

"this one?"

"bad."

"this one?"

"also bad!"

(gets to Nezha) "this one gets a pass."

"? okay!"

"this one?"

"BAD"

#the last celestial is wukong #tmw you're the only celestial the royal demon family of hell tolerates #nezha has special big brother/uncle privileges he wasn't even aware of #nezha: (gets out of his temple after protecting the map for 500 years) #red son: oh hey that's my uncle-brother(?) i've never met #nezha: what. when did this happen #pif: (shrug) #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk season 4 #lmk red son #lmk nezha #lmk pif #lmk princess iron fan #lmk dbk #lmk demon bull king #lmk demon bull family #lmk hong hai'er #lego monkie kid red son #lego monkie kid nezha #additional hc: #when he was a kid red son accidentally teleported into heaven and couldn't figure out how to get back #so he wandered into nezha's temple #who was just like 'WHY THE HELL ARE YOU HERE?????????' #and red son goes 'mom said she respects you. so i came to you.' #and nezha is suddenly given a familial role to this little demon prince