Macaque and Wukong designs for the Shadow's Realm AU
Today I suddenly had the inspiration for the final designs for Macaque and Wukong of my Shadow's Realm AU and I'm glad because I really like them
For Macaque , other than the fact I like immagining him as a colourful pretty boy , it would make sense for him to have colourful clothes and long bright fur because of his origins as it's explained on the world's Au concept , and I like to think of him as younger and shorter than Wukong in the AU
Younger because , in the AU , Wukong was born first and shorter because Macaque had to steal to eat so he didn't have enough food to grow properly most of the time
For Wukong he may look chill but after Macaque's death he became an alcoholic and couldn't stay a day without drowing his sorrows away when nobody was looking , that's way I imagine him always with a bottle of alcol with him
Me:*working on art about my Shadow's Realm AU*
Computer:*low battery alert*
Me:"What? But the charger is on"
Computer:*powers off soon after*
Me:"Noo come on"*powers it back on*
Computer:*powers on*
Me:*goes back to work* "huh?!"
My digital pen:*stops working correctly*
Me:*sigh*"okay let's try this"*closes and opens the drawing program*
Me:*Tries again to draw*
Drawing program:*works weirdly*
Me:"Okay that's it!! I'm powering it off , maybe it doesn't work because of the low battery"*leaves computer to charge*
Shadow's Realm AU (Shadowpeach)
MK concept
Guayin discovered what was happening from a drunk and depressed Wukong and made a plan to reunite the two monkeys , she created MK and gave him two bodies , one in the shadow's realm and the other in the mortal realm , so he could switch between the two worlds. The events of the lmk serie goes mostly the same but when MK goes to sleep in the mortal realm he's awake in the Shadow's world and is the adopted son of Macaque and the astral vessel of Wukong , MK will understand the situation and what to do after growing up
(Wukong doesn't know MK is his son because in the Shadow's realm he looks like another primate , Macaque doesn't know either because he doesn't look at the mortal realm anymore so he doesn't suspect Wukong's sucessor and their kid to be the same person , MK also goes by another name in the shadow's world given by Wukong and Macaque)
The MK of the mortal realm is adopted by Pigsy and Tang , the rest of the cast acts the same
It's a running joke that MK thought that his parents were the monkey king and the six eared macaque when he was young , not knowing it was the truth and thinking he was simply a fan even when they find strange for one of the parents to be the dead Macaque , MK eventually gave up convincing them until he found his father Wukong in this realm
Later when Wukong still doesn't know that Macaque and him are real and not him hallucinating MK try to make him see the truth. ( All between the events of the serie)
When Wukong and Macaque finally talk the three of them will be a family of three , for real this time , and Macaque will create another vessel so the three can live some days in the mortal realm and others in the shadow's realm.
Shadow's Realm AU (Shadowpeach)
Wukong concept
After Wukong killed Macaque's vessel (Of which he will not know it to be a vessel until much later in the future) during his journery , he fell into depression and on one night of tentative meditation to avoid nightmares of him killing Macaque he accidentally traveled over to the Shadow's realm with an "astral vessel" (like Astral protection but being able to interact with things) and found Macaque , believing it to be an hallucination Wukong indulged in the fantasy of being with Macaque again. Later on , after more visits to the Shadow's Realm each night and after finding a monkey cub in the Shadow's Realm , he will convince Macaque to adopt the cub and get married still believing it to be one of his fantasies until MK snaps him out of it and makes him realize that everything is real.
His Astral vessel is like a brighter version of himself , basically like a shadow clone but glowing in gold and therefore blending with the other realm's residents perfectly.
Shadow's Realm AU (Shadowpeach)
Macaque concept
Macaque is an infernal primate born from the Shadow's Realm , when he was born he decided to go to the mortal realm because of his curiousity with young Sun Wukong after observing him through the connection of the shadows between the two realms , because Macaque is a special kind of primate like Wukong , he doesn't follow the same rules of everyone else so he could come over the mortal realm by creating a vessel to send to the other world while his real body stayed in the shadow's realm sleeping.
The demons that lived in the Shadow's Realm evolved to be colourful , bright or to have natural body lights to scare away or fight the native dark creatures (their version of animals or beasts) so they could survive and/or hunt them for food. The dark creatures can't stand light or bright colours because of their poor eyesight and they can also be blinded that way.
The same goes to Macaque as well so he has bight white fur , six colourful bioluminescent ears and two golden eyes that become a bright amethyst when using magic to see where it's the darkest.
The vessel doesn't have those characteristics because Macaque thought of them to be useless and too eyecatching in the mortal realm so the vessel looks like the Macaque from the lmk serie.
After Wukong killed his vessel he woke up in the Shadow's Realm and grieved their fall out. But he wouldn't grieve for long because he will later find himself playing-pretend with a delusional Wukong about being a loving couple , and later an husband and parent , in fear of getting killed again. ( He will later find himself caring for the cub and Wukong again)
Shadow's Realm AU (Shadowpeach)
I have an Idea for a Lego monkie kid AU.
I warn you that it's going to be religiously inaccurate. Both because I don't know much about China's religions and because the idea wouldn't work if I didn't change some things.
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AU concept
In this lmk AU exists a place called the Shadow's Realm , a connected parallel dimension with the mortal realm.
The alternative names for the mortal realm is the Realm of Light or Light's Realm.
(I know Shadow and Light aren't very original but they are needed for the dynamics and mechanics of the Au)
The mortal/light realm symbolizes a pathway for beings to travel and find a way to the heavens while the shadow's realm is the pathway for the underworld. They're both secondary realms of Heaven and Underworld respectively.
Both Realms have beings living in it , in the first years of the creation of these two realms the shadow's realm was supposed to have demons and dark creatures while the mortal realm was supposed to have only humans , animals and celestial creatures but because of a mistake of Buddha some demons went to the mortal realm and reproduced to the point it was too late to return them to the shadow's realm without struggles , so Buddha made sure the remaining demons in the shadow's realm wouldn't be able to cross over to the other realm and cause trouble while the heavens would supervise the demons in the mortal realm.
The Shadow's realm looks like some kind of mirrored copy of the mortal realm but with the shadows covering the dimension and having their own shadow's born flora and fauna.