I just wanna do a little dress up. Wukong I was clearly bias with
I just...I hate coloring so much this line art has been done ages ago I just really dreaded coloring......Mostly Wukong......I can only blame myself but I would like to JUST blame Wukong
My own ocs here have less detail on them but it was meant to be subtle. Meanwhile Wukong stands out so much it hurts and Macaque slighjtly gets away with it cause I have him power puff girl ear colors
Ahhhhh
anyway I love these idiots so much. Manni and Gibbon are my babies and I wanna draw them more <3
Will we ever get to see Chikao and Tongbi in the new past? 🥺👉👈
sadly not in this AU😔
perhaps only as a little cameo, just one of them passing by, says hi and go back doing whatever they were doing.
I did make their designs! (I love make characters design-)
Chikao goes from city to city, and exchange a lot with people, whereas Tongbi travel the world as a nomad and only goes in little village.
I'm thinking of adding them to another spin-off of "the new past" tho👀
About Wukong and Macague is more or less clear, but I depicted Gibbon and Mahou in this way because I have certain Headcanons ✨✨and there is very little information on them:(
Red-Buttocked Horse-Monkey
I read somewhere that he is also called 'Red Baboon' or 'Red-Butt baboon'
Baboons themselves Cruel and belligerent , and it was difficult for him to fit into the group (flock?) Because of his good-natured character
Of all 4, he is the most good-natured, it’s very ironic, because he’s also the scariest, because of this, ordinary people and demons are afraid of him
He is very interested in people and their culture, but as I said because of his appearance they are even afraid to look at him
He’s just a big good-natured guy who can’t even kill butterflies 😭 because of this, it’s just as difficult for him to communicate with his relatives
He is the tallest and most muscular of the 4, as well as the wisest, but it is difficult for him to communicate and command
Don’t try to lie to him, he literally feels yin and yang and knows when he’s being lied to or when the interlocutor is happy with him
100% empath, but doesn’t know what to do with it
Long-Armed Gibbon
In my opinion, she is a girl, although she never clung to her gender, she can literally change her appearance and become a man
Because of her physique and appearance, I often take her for a guy
Always on a tree, she doesn’t like to be looked at from a height and so she feels safe
It’s the lowest almost like Wukung
She has the least muscles and physically she is the weakest, but magically she will be stronger than her brothers (there were a lot of inconveniences about this)
The most tactile of the group, if she liked you, you will definitely be in her long hands
Not eating meat can only fish (and rarely chicken)
Very fast, and climbs trees best of all, It’s also very lucky (don’t sit down to play cards in it)
Quite impulsive and joyful can’t sit in one place, She’s gentle only with children, otherwise she’s just stupid
Acrophobia was afraid of her, And she is afraid of snakes
Unlike her brothers, she was brought up by people since childhood, because of this it was difficult for her to fit into the society of demons and spirits and find a partner,
She couldn’t even communicate with monkeys, no one wanted to accept her and her group, there was no place for her
The first monkey who started talking to her was -Chikao mahou
Their relationship is more like a brother x sister
He was interested in the human environment in which she grew up, and she wanted to understand herself as a demon monkey
I’ve been writing this text 3 times already (kill me 🥹)
Sorry for the mistakes that will definitely be here
I really tried to translate it more or less logically
Please write your head canons for these 4 monkeys, I’ll be interested in reading
"Brothers, not bound by blood but by the bond that holds them together."
I've been wanting to make my own version of the Celestial Primates for a while. I really like the idea of these four having a brotherly bond.
(Their designs are still in the works. These are just some very rough ideas.)
(Well I do believe that the other three monkeys are an aspect of Wukong's mind, that doesn't mean I dislike the idea of these three being their own separate beings. We'll just call this an AU lol)
Hello, may i ask if you have any info on why the four celestial/spiritual primates were translated into english as such? Because the original term buddha used was "hunshi sihou" which im pretty sure literally means "four primates of havoc/chaos"
I can only confidently speak for myself: I often saw people asking for info about the "Four Monkeys" on the internet, and since some of the creatures are described as small apes, I opted to call these powerful beings the "Celestial Primates" in my article. But I do note the correct translation in the first paragraph:
That article gets a lot of views, so perhaps this is why people often call them the Celestial Primates now.
As for actual translations, the W. J. F. Jenner edition translates them as the "four kinds of ape that cause confusion" (page of 809 of this PDF). That's close enough.
The Anthony C. Yu (2012) edition just calls them the "four kinds of monkeys" (Vol. 3, p. 115). I'm not sure why.
Was discussing in the notes of this post with @silverlycanthropelover about the possibility of Celestial/Stone Monkeys surviving the Great Flood by adapting to the sea.
One of the jokes is that "Sea Monkeys" (the frozen brine shrimp toy), are actually a misunderstanding of sea dragon records talking about the little mer-monkeys that inhabited their seas.
Basically
Ao Guang: "What are those things hiding in your mane?"
Ao Shun, surrounded by tiny mermaid-like monkeys: "I dunno man, they just showed up one day, and they won't stop picking through my fur."
Ao Guang: "Why haven't you scared them off?"
Ao Shun: "Honestly? They are pretty adorable. They clean my body of parasites, and comfort me when I'm feeling unwell."
Sea Monkeys: (*happy chirping + porpoise-like squeaks!*)
Ao Guang: "They do seem very useful... How do I go about hiring them?"
Ao Shun: "I believe you cannot choose them brother, they choose you."
(*cut to hundreds of years later when Ao Guang is lying at the bottom of the East Sea, despaired at the loss of his youngest pup Ao Bing*)
Sea Monkeys: "Chirrp?"
Ao Guang: (*looks up to see a swarm of brightly-coloured mer-monkeys, all swimming around his gigantic body as they pick off the barnacles and parasites that settled in his depression.*)
Leading Sea Monkey, petting the king dragon's face with sympathy in their eyes: "Chirrrrp."
Ao Guang: (*smiles for the first time in weeks*) :')
Like pilot fish to a great white, the smaller creatures stick to dragons in a symbiotic relationship. The royal dragons are very protective of their monkeys. Ao Guang refuses to acknowledge the irony of a Stone Monkey being one of his greatest annoyances, whilst tending to his beloved servants.
Wukong has no idea that these little spiritual monkeys exist! To think that some Stone/Spiritual Monkeys survived the Great Flood by changing their whole biology, or existed even beforehand, is an amazing discovery!
The Water Monkeys are a lot smaller than Wukong or Macaque, being roughly the size of tamarins. They don't speak "human" languages very well, their vocal cords are more attuned to the calls of dragons and other sea life. They can still chirp and chatter as monkeys do, allowing for some delightful conversation between the Stone Monkey King (they do not recognise Sun Wukong as their king) and the school of excited fairy-like monkeys.
