#jinchanzi

[arleniansdoodles]

I recently watched "Monkey King Reborn" and got inspired by the art style of its prologue! This is my attempt at replicating it for an idea I recently thought of: Sanzang's past incarnation, Jinchanzi (Golden Cicada), meeting a monkey demon and befriending it XD Sort of like a "past lives meet" thingie, but I imagine this monkey demon is mostly unrelated to Wukong loll

[spaxtan]

[sanflawoah]

Yellowbrow acts so wise but we all know he is just a bastard that likes things going his ways rather than y'know, actually do legit experiments (I've seen better tales where mythical creatures test just how evil or good human is without overdoing it and they didn't control the results at all)

Imagine thinking you're the better one in the Room just because you cheat to get your desired ends lol!

Yellowbrow story would have been more convincing if he did teach the villagers how to work and improve their own lives and if even then, they still want more from him, that can be a fitting result of Humans are selfish creatures compared to how he literally manipulates EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of them, that's just a dick move y'all, his eyebrows are really telling of his nature (I can't trust someone with that furry for eyebrows) and the fact I was fooled when he disguised as the Buddha Kid (I really hate that, I mean Buddha Kid is so cute and better than him, MF had the balls to do that, he's really giving the word Hater more texture)

REAL! There are so many folk tales out there about an angelic figure or someone with a higher power disguising themselves as a humble being, orchestrating a series of events to genuinely test the heart of their subjects. Often times the subjects succumbed to evil deeds and eventually got their karma delivered first hand, meanwhile those with steadfast compassion and good faith are saved from doom.

But Yellowbrow's case is different, it was never about "testing", it was about him wanting the self-satisfaction of winning at the cost of others.

Bit unrelated, but someone pointed out that the sand in Jinchanzi's palm turned into gold here. Maybe it's no more than an aesthetic choice of making the sand sparkle like gold, but others speculate it as an implication that Jinchanzi too has the power to "manipulate" like Yellowbrow did, but he simply never did.

One side bets for the result, other side bets for the win.

[sanflawoah]

Well I definitely didn't know the guy with the terrible tea tussock moth eyebrows have the evil equivalent of the Tang Sanzang's disciples

I mean you can't be a worse anti-fan than that. As if his Bet with Tang Sanzang wasn't already bad enough, I don't like his way of showing how Evil humans are inherently when he intends to do that to them bitch

The way I would give anything to explode that Yellowmustard.

I mean how cruel and sick do you have to be to spent an entire lifetime manipulating people's behaviour just to "prove" that humans are inherently evil and unworthy of enlightenment. On top of it all, as a bet??

You have this hypothesis of "Humans are inherently bad". Then, instead of collecting raw data to prove or disprove the hypothesis, you actively manipulates the data by luring the subject of experiment into the desired fixed result.

Bro made a thesis based on data manipulation just for the sake of winning. Sicko.