#he's mentioned...

[starfall1ng]

Twi trying to be helpful,,,

[tama-journey-to-inspiration]

I’m curious, does idolizing wukong a heriditary thing or is it just a tang bo thing? Does anyone in his family knows that or does his ‘secret’ reveal over time? How does the tang family feel abt it?

Good question, I actually posed it as something "exclusive" to Tang Bo. By this I mean is like Tang Bō's comfort story and characters. Tho an anacronism, he read jttw before he met Chung Myung, and that extrapolated to Tang Bō's own affection towards Chung Myung.

He does see the similarities between them. Not that he sees Chung Myung as a "real life" wukong. He just appreciates this aspect of Chung Myung where anyone else may see him as "unorthodox" or "unrighteous" for not conforming to what's socially acceptable.

I assume the Tang clan conforms to conficianism, while jttw is Buddhist propaganda as much as satire. And due to their social status, the clan member definitely develop some degree of cultural awareness regarding this novel background.

Still, some members of the clan may enjoy the novel regardless of that, but not in a personal level as Tang Bō. Still, for some of my original characters (Tang Chun, and Tang Zhōng), the Bodhisattva Guanyin is an important symbolic figure despite not being Buddhist themselves.

What does others think of this? Well, Tang Bō isn't very open about anything, and people don't really approach him with friendly intentions. It's what ostracism does, no one cares about "the other" enough to humanize him and consider he may have hobbies, likes and dislikes...

So few people would learn about this. The ones that know it let him be, they know Tang Bō enjoys far more questionable readings whatsoever (erotica).

But in the end of the day, as long as it doesn't affect directly the clan they have a "laissez-faire" attitude towards whatever he does.

Meanwhile, Chung Myung is jealous of Bō-ya's fictional crush. And Bō, who has no one else to talk with, info dump Chung Myung every time he has the chance!

[ballpointing]

IDC how cringe fankids are IM FREE.

Zane and Cole's daughter out on a mission with Kai's son!

They have... different relationships with their parents... Though to be fair one of them was born and raised into it while the other just found out he was the son of the red ninja.

(Jazz, short for Jazmine, is the second child of the three kids the glacier pair decided to have! She was born via surrogate mother and is bio related to Cole! Because of this everyone assumed she'd be the next master of earth which culminated in an accident where she lost her arm... because.. she wasn't.)

(Hero, I can't decide on a name for him ever, is Kai's only kid. His mother was a big fan of Kai and after a date turned into.. y'know. He was born! He's with Kai while his mother does uhhmmm. Something. It's fairly awkward, but hey! They're adjusting n warming up! He's gotten in with the wrong crowds a few times and still has to bond a lot with Kai.)