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There’s a comic by @sonolus where Macaque uses his future hearing to listen to future songs and sings it for Wukong (super cool and beautiful and sad. Highly recommend)

It’s a good excuse to use my “Macaque” Spotify playlist

This ghosting comic came about from listening to this song too many times

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New AU idea-Ghosting AU

So I’ve had this major head cannon about macaque, more specifically about his body.

In the book it says the monkeys don’t age cause their names are crossed off the book of the dead, but why not take it a step further where their bodies just straight up don’t change and that includes decomposing.

I head cannon that the LBD had a lot of reasons for choosing macaque as her champion. Main one being that she wanted to use him as a vessel cause of the 6 ears ability to listen to the past, present and future, and how how his strength is equal to Wukong,which I’ve seen a lot of ppl have this head cannon.

Another one is, as far as I can tell, Macaque is the only character in LMK that Wukong actually killed. But if we take the head cannon that his body can’t decompose, and how since his name is crossed off the book, he not under the 10 kings rule so technically they can’t make him stay in Diyu or have any say over his soul, plus with Wukong smashing the Diyu up last time, I don’t think anyone down there is jumping at the chance to try that stunt again. So Macaque is free to go, but his head on his physical body is still crushed so it can’t hold his soul

So LBD saw this as the perfect chance to try to make a deal with Macaque to help with her plan, saying she can bring him back to life. She leaves out the part of where all she has to do is heal Macaques head so he can just pop back in, and makes it seem like a huge and complicated feat that requires a huge amount of magic (which she didn’t have being trapped) and it would be only fair that Macaque help free her for all the trouble she’s going though to resurrect him. And as an added bonus, her healing Mac’s body would mean putting a lot of her magic in it, which would make him easier to control

I had an au idea where Macaque doesn’t accept LBD offer. He probably had enough with scheming, manipulative jerks trying to tell him what to do from being in the brother hood. Just like that song from Beetlejuice the musical “ I’ve been swimming with piranhas, I dont need a shark”. But he does get her to slip before he says no about the fact that macacque doesn’t have to stay in Diyu.

Macaque of course is salty about dying, and just haunts Wukong. Sometime Wukong can see Macaque with his golden vision but just assumes he’s lost it and just hallucinating Mac cause of his guilty conscious (which he doesn’t admit he has cause he double down on his hatred for Mac’s action and convinces himself it was justifiable ) and then resorts to just ignoring Mac. This of course angers Macaque, but 500+ years of haunting a guy, and watching him change and grow and mature might cool his anger and frustration a little and cause Mac to self-reflect too. Also its exhausting screaming and crying at someone who’s basically acting like a wall.

Eventually Mac is just so tired and off handed asked if Wukong could at least move his body to FFM cause he wants to be laid to rest at home. This finally gets a response from Wukong cause he doesn’t care how fucked up his psych is to be imagining his dead ex. He refuses to desecrate a grave. Besides Macs body probably long since decomposed. Hearing this does destroy Mac emotionally further since his body was the only thing he had left in the world and he didn’t even have a proper grave.

Some time passes and Wukong is glad the Hallucinations finally stopped and he can finally sleep. Meanwhile Mac’s ghost is out looking for his corpse which is a little difficult with how much time passed. He does eventually find it and was hoping that at least some of his bones survived. So color him shocked when he sticks his head in the ground and sees his whole ass body looking just like it did the day he died.

Mac does some math, figures out why LBD sought him out specifically, and inferred if he can get someone to heal his body he can stop ghosting around.

Wukong is the only one who can see him so of course he rushes back to Wukong begging for help, even stating he promises to leave and Wukong never has to see him again. But wukong just thinks the hallucinations are back and ignores him.

So when the new kid with wukong’s power start showing frustration in wukong teachings (which Mac also agrees that wukong sucks at teaching) he jumps at the chance to follow mk to town and wait for the next time he gets his butt kicked by a rampaging monster. Mac makes mk activate his golden vision, and gives the kid some actual pointers on his stance and fighting style so mk can take the master down

Mk is originally freaked out at this transparent monkey, but Mac lies and says its astro projection, and offers to help tutor mk where Wukong is slacking in teaching. In return, MK will help Mac out of the (literal) ditch when the time comes.

Mk agrees thinking Mac just wanted a friend. Mk still hides the fact that someone else is helping him train, but wukong is getting suspicious when mk starts asking about astro projection, but mk just says he read it somewhere so he doesn’t get the “have you been 2 timing me?”speech (which should have been a red flag to wukong cause mk doesn’t read, that’s why he has tang) but wukong buys the lie

Eventually wukong leaves for his ‘vacation’ so Mac asks for mk’s help now that he can’t ask for wukong to also help, and risk finding out what he did in the past. He asks mk to come to this specific area with a bed sheet (just because Macs body doesn’t decompose, doesn’t mean his clothes and armor don’t) and a shovel, saying they’re going to be digging up a fossil.

Mk had a dinosaur phase, hes psyched to find fossils. He does freak out when his digging unearths a hand, and tries to run away. Mac gets scared that mk won’t help him and screams that mk promised to help him out of the ditch. This makes mk stop and turn back to Mac scared and upset expression, and how the hand mk dug up looks like Macs. Mk asks if Mac is a ghost, and Mac says yes but not really.

Mk oringaly thinks Mac wants his help solving his murder until Mac clarifies the limbo state he’s in and how he just needs mk to get his body to a healer for him to come back to life and be free, upping th tear jerking fact that he’s been trapped in this state of existence for so long without anyone to talk to or hug and its such a soul crushing existence

Mac purposefully leaves out how he and Wukong know each other and how Wukong is his killer, cause Mac thinks with his hero worshiping, mk would take wukong’s side on this, and believe Mac is a schemeing villain who deserves his fate.

Mk agrees and digs out the rest of Mac to bring him home and starts trying too find a healer, this also involves stuffing macaques corpse in his closet(lol), hiding him under the bed, and weekend at bernie’s hid body so no one freaks out that mk has a corpse in his room.

This all comes to a head when LDB appears in the desert to take mk's staff and seal his powers, and she took Mac's corpse from MK's room when he was away and is using it like a puppet to attack the group. Mac is freaked out, and is double upset when mk's powers are sealed so Mac can't talk too mk anymore.

Wukong also is freaked out about his ex's corpse when he makes it back, and tells the group "i dunno how or why she has macaque's corpse" when everyone is on the ship flying away and theyre making the plan to get the fire. Which MK asks how Wukong knows mac. Wukong still has his gold vision and sees mac try to tell mk to stop. Wukong asks mk how he knows mac, and mk tells the story about how he and mac became friends. the others are freaked that mk not only was being haunted but was hiding a body, Wukong finally has the heart dropping conclusion that the hallucinations aren't hallucinations, cause other wise mk, who has never met macaque (or read journey to the west), wouldnt be able to see mac, and all these years where mac was begging for help was actually the real mac and he was ignoring him.

mac thinks Wukong still wont help and doesn't want to be around when he tells mk all the awful things mac did in the past so he leaves, but not before Wukong sees the pain, sadness and hoplessness on macs face. mac is gone before Wukong can stop him and is left processing all this. he doesnt get to do it long, cause LBD sent zombie mac to kidnap wukong and mk. wukong doesnt see mac's ghost but he does hear him when mac yells at him that mac had a injury that didnt heal right before his name was erased from the book of the dead, wukong uses that to get out of zombie macs hold, mk blows up the engine, and the ship sinks

i got more ideas of where this would go but wanted to make sure i wrote at least this out in case i wanna draw anthing later