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The kind of dynamic this monkey family have based off vibes
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The kind of dynamic this monkey family have based off vibes
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The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Summary Navigation Masterpost
The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II is the sequel series to Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files. It is set in 2007, three years after Case Files and Fate/Stay Night, and adds two new main characters to Waver's group: Rin Tohsaka, and an amnesiac young man named Ergo. The plot of the series is about Ergo's past and the Divine Spirits inside of him, as well as hopefully finding a way to cure Gray of her saberfication. Also we explore the magical world outside of London, learning about mage organizations and styles of magecraft in places like China, Japan, and India.
These summaries are provided by Comun (@kaibutsushidousha) on Beast's Lair. I'm just gathering them all in one place for ease of reading.
Also, the novels are slowly but surely being translated by Azwhoisverybored here.
Wuzhiqi Shengmu, goddess of the Huai river and Sun Wukong's long-lost older sister.
I wanted to make a character out of the chinese mythology. Then, I even made a backstory for her with the information that I gathered up.
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SHOUT OUT TO @muffinsouffle FOR THE ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE WESTERN AU DESIGNS I simply died seeing them
characters from left to right:
Suki belongs to @peachy-puddin-cup
Ru and An He belong to @lumidotexe
And Wuzhiqi belongs to @muffinsouffle
Besides the monkeys in JTTW, and the monkey mentioned in Investiture of the gods, or SWK's kids in Journey to the south, are there other monkeys?
In general? Billions probably.
In mythology? Thousands.
In Chinese mythology? Maybe a good dozen or so.
We got Wuzhiqi who is kinda an early inspiration for Wukong being the monkey demon that was trapped under the mountain. There are Guoran which is more mentioned in like poetry. The Zodiac Monkey which isn't really a character but still a thing. Juefu are morso just like early versions of monkey demons that raped men/women depending.
I can't say the rest are really "characters" but moreso just neat monkey facts in Chinese mythos. Like Gibbons being considered very cultivated because of their howling or 'singing.' I really think with the introduction of other mythos like Hanuman and the 'Mind Monkey' from Buddism that Sun Wukong was able to grow from his early perverted nature like in the Zaju play to the clever and loyal pilgrim in the Wu Cheng'en version.
Heaven is spiralling cause these Yao didn't even EARN their titles. the audacity, I'll tell you what!
Yu the Great and Sun Wukong's Staff
This is my answer to the following reddit question:
Did the Ruyi Jingu Bang, as a tool used by Da Yu, exist before the novel?
Monkey's golden-hoop iron staff can be traced to the khakkhara and iron rod respectively used by his precursor in the 13th-century JTTW. The story doesn't mention anything about Yu the Great. The demi-god's connection to the staff is, as far as I know, unique to the standard 1592 edition of JTTW.
This association probably came about in a couple of ways. For example, there is a Chinese graphic similarity (and possible totemic connection) between Yu and a specific kind of monkey:
The generic Chinese primate names have identical pronunciations or spellings to those of the earliest Chinese emperors. For instance, the character 猱 (Nao) is considered as the ancestral name of the royal family of Shang dynasty (商朝 ca. 1600–1050 BCE) (Cao, 1997; Wang, 2001). This word is used to denote a primate species that is good at climbing. Similarly, the character 禺 (Yu) represents a long-tailed monkey. This word is the same as the character 禹 (Yu), a legendary emperor well known for his brilliance in regulating floodwater (Huang, 2011). This association between primates and the earliest emperors indicates a possible totemic status for primates (Niu, Ang, Xiao, et al., 2002, p. 91).
(The aforementioned Yu (禺) monkey was apparently well-known, for it is referenced several times in the Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhai jing, 山海經, c. 4th-century to 1st-century BCE), a popular Chinese bestiary, in order to indicate the shape and size of certain primate-like animals (Strassberg, 2002, pp. 83, 84, 91, 99, 104, 122, 123).)
Also, Yu is known for imprisoning Wuzhiqi (無支奇 / 巫支祇), a monkey flood demon, beneath a mountain in Tang and Song-era folklore. This likely influenced Sun Wukong's punishment under Five Elements Mountain.
Therefore, all of this probably led to the author-compiler of the 1592 JTTW associating Monkey's staff with Yu the Great and his efforts to end the world flood.
Sources:
Niu, K., Ang, A., Xiao, Z. et al. (2002). Is Yuan in China’s Three Gorges a Gibbon or a Langur? International Journal of Primatology, 43, 822–866. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00302-1
Strassberg, R. (2002). A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas. University of California Press.