#sha wujing

[bumblingbeees]

Wujing and Bajie sketch dump!

Some closeups and thoughts under the cut!

Sketch dump of some of the drawings I mentioned in my last post. Not quite satisfied with how they look but we’re getting there! Also apparently I’ve made it so none of the boys are strict in all he Buddhist practices (except for our boy Tripitaka ofc) because I tried drawing them without hair and I was not loving it lol.

For bajie I wanted to do more bristly hair, something spiky and coarse, like a wild boar. It would not be pleasant to touch or to try and wrangle into some sort of style. It also wouldn’t be easy to cut. I ended up not liking the pony tail so that won’t show up too much in later drawings I think.

For Wujing I’ve had the idea of floating hair pinballing around in my brain for a while. I liked the idea of his hair moving around like it’s underwater, even when he’s on dry land. Maybe this happens when he’s feeling strong emotions or using some sort of power. I love leaning into otherworldly aspects like floating hair and glowy eyes and that kind of thing! Lol also his hair gets really flat and crunchy when he’s dehydrated.

Some closeups of my favorite bits:

[bumblingbeees]

Trying to figure out my designs for wujing and bajie and having TROUBLE. I’ve got several pages of designs and I’m not sure about any of them. Silly pilgrims. Had to go and get kicked out of heaven and have their bodies permanently transformed in such a way that their humanity (divinity?) is partially stripped from them and likely causing them to deeply struggle with feeling like their body is no longer their own any more and THEN make it MY problem.

[theloremaniac]

Which Miitopia Job Should Sha Wujing Have (Grand Finale)?:

Warrior

Vampire

Remaining time: 2 days 21 hours

[journeystudiosofficial]

Our first character, Sandy! In a drafted 360, this was the first drawing of him that Daffy and I felt confident moving forward with.

Sandy is the last of the main characters to be introduced, a cannibalistic fish monster hoping to redeem himself by helping Tang Sanzang on his way west. In the book, Sandy is described as having blue-black skin and matted red hair, we did away with this pretty much entirely! As neat as Sandy’s original description is, he seemed a bit too intimidating to be a main character, so we went for some warmer colors and a more recognizable face.

Originally, Sandy was going to be a salmon! He had red skin and a much bigger lower jaw, but that was… also… scary. Then he was going to be an eel, which ended up looking too dragon-y. After trying a turtle, frog, and mudskipper, we finally circled back to eel, but with more crocodilian inspired facial features.

His weapon is a meteor hammer, a heavy metal ball with three blades attached on one end, and a sturdy rope on the other. While originally he fought with a spade (yep, a shovel), we decided to give Sandy and Pigsy different weapons in our series than they have in the book. As a treat.

[superkat500]

I need someone funnier than me to come up with Sandy headcanons surrounding mudskipper mating rituals cause they’re Hilarious

a male will build a kickass den and then fuck off as far as possible at the beginning of mating season, later packs of migrating female skippers will roam around and chose dens to cozy up in, leaving eggs and fucking off after a few weeks. The males will come back, fertilize the eggs, and either (depending on the species) raise the kids or Fuck Off Again to let the kids fend for themselves in the kickass den

[chernobog13]

JOURNEY TO THE WEST (1996 Chinese television series)

[theloremaniac]

Which Miitopia Job should Sha Wujing have (part 1)?:

Warrior

Mage

Cleric

Thief

Pop Star (Male)

Pop Star (Female)

Chef

Cat

Imp

Scientist

Tank

Princess

Voting ended onAug 11

[thecinnamoncheese]

various unfounded sha wujing headcanons go

(please)

I am stuck between delight at the opportunity to yell about Wujing and the fear that I am just going to be rehashing old territory, because I think I put most of my good Sha Wujing headcanons into The New Recruit.

But okay uhhh let's see what haven't I really covered yet...

Okay so I did touch on this in my fic but I haven't really gotten to talk about it as much as I want to: Wujing is poison resistant. Not immune, as he still experiences some effects, but poisons that could kill people within days just make him feel sick, and neurotoxins would probably give him a seizure or two but he'd survive. I'd imagine that the centipede demon who poisoned the pilgrims in ch. 73 wouldn't actually succeed in killing Wujing with the spiked tea, but probably just knocked him out for a while.

Speaking of poison, Wujing's blood is poisonous! This is because I took a lot of inspiration from eels while writing him, and eels have a type of ichthyotoxin in their blood. The poison can be rendered harmless by cooking and also by the digestive process (still don't recommend trying it) but that's boring and Wujing is a cool demon so I'm gonna say his blood is super toxic and most digestive systems are not enough to handle it. So. Don't bite him.

Wujing's favourite foods are the really iron and protein dense foods like legumes and mushrooms— while he'll eat basically anything, he'll admit he finds most fruits and vegetables a bit too light for his liking. Man also loves his carbs because they make him feel nice and full which is something he isn't particularly used to, especially at the beginning of the journey.

He gets quite slow and sleepy during winter, because back when he lived in the river the surface would freeze over and Wujing would make like a frog and hibernate until the weather warmed up again. Of course on the journey he doesn't need to conserve his energy and slow his metabolism so drastically to survive— he has plenty of food and warm clothes and fire and things, but he still gets quite drowsy in the really cold weather. He doesn't like when this happens and is convinced the others hate it as well, which couldn't be farther from the truth— Wujing isn't really cute very often, but, well, he gets all soft and sweet and puts on a lot of weight and is often bundling himself up in blankets and can barely keep his eyes open they've all got to admit that yeah, that's pretty cute. Wukong takes full advantage of his little brother's severe and acute cuddliness during this time.