Fun monkey fact:
In macaques (especially Barbary), males will often stop fights between eachother by one of them offering the wronged party an infant to hold. The wronged monkey gets so distracted by the cuteness of the baby that they forget what the fight was about.
Macaques will also bond together socially by sharing babysitting duty. The social act is considered so important that long-standing rivals will come to a truce to care for the infant.
So imagine Sun Wukong and Macaque about to fight when...
SWK: "Wait! Consider this!" *holds out MK*
Macaque: "...ok he is pretty adorable." *takes MK and holds him. Starts grooming his hair.*
MK, throughly confused: "What is happening??"
SWK, smugly: "Monkey instincts. You're doing great bud."
*some time passes*
SWK: "...ok, can I have my successor back now?"
Macaque: *hisses and holds MK closer*
SWK: "Aww come on! You've been holding him all day! It's my turn!"
MK: *has fallen asleep by now*
Just the two playing on eachothers instincts as a battle strategy and failing terribly.
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Long hair Macaque, my beloved-
No but srsly, one of my favourite designs is just long hair mac and in this au Mammy's figure is just mostly hair.
I was trying to recreate this screenshot:
Obviously there's some difference like I tend to draw a bit chibi (big heads) and I didn't want to make Mac's hair THAT voluminous-
I wanted to achieve sort of a gypsy vibe with these little skrimblos
AND THEN I FOUND THESE:
And I could NOT pass it up.
So yeah...
Oh! And I also gave the sparkly drip to their ears
(Sh!t I just realised, I forgot the shadow creatures... I'll see if I can add them in later)
I COULDN'T for the life of me figure out the hundred yard stare to match with Mac's sharp eyes (how I draw him) and not make it look goofy so I made them spoopy and glowing instead
I sadly don't have much to say about Bai He here since her black hair didn't leave that much room for shading in a darkened environment (I'm so sorry) And this piece was to show off Mac's design more anyway (I promise Bai He will get her spotlight)
(Also Bai He, nor Mk nor Macaque wears shoes. Wukong is the only one in the family who does and I find that funny)
But oh! The hair? Here comes the fun part
(No his hair isn't purple, I just used purple to shade here)
You see I WAS going to use black hair for this photo but i soon realised how much of a pain it was just to shade it (cause i couldn't) and I was just WISHING I could use his white fur instead
And then I realised....
The white fur could be his winter coat.
Some animal's shed their fur in the winter (I think some rabbits do) and grow a new coat, occasionally with a different colour.
Therefore I could make the white fur the winter coat and during the story, his fur could be black to show how much time has passed since Bai He last saw her Baba...
Mwuahahahahahhahahahaha I'm so evil
(I was very proud of myself)
(Also I know macaques don't grow winter coats but just let me have this one ok?)
And why doesn't Bai He have white fur as well then? Well maybe she's just a different kind of monkey or perhaps it's just an age thing.
Funnily enough, when I showed this to my friend, she said he looked heavenly which is funny cause. As much as I love him, Macaque is a smug bastard and he knows it.
Like I know a lot of it was due to trauma BUT STILL
I just personally dislike how the fandom sometimes makes him seem like he could do no wrong and he is "uwu delicate babygirl that needs to be protected at all costs" when this boi is fockin FERAL man.
So despite taking a bit of a back seat in the main plot for this au, Macaque is still a smug bastard behind the scenes as much as he is a good dad
(Gosh sorry for the rant, I just had that pent up for a while now and needed to get it off my chest)
I wanted to post this yesterday on Friday 13th but oh well,
I hope I achieved the mysterious spoopy vibes as the original lol
(Click photo for less sh!tty quality)
(Also pls reblog, as much as I really appreciate feedback in general, I really like this piece and want to show it to more people...)
Gosh we are on a roll with this Shadowalkers au huh?
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"It's a tough world out there, I'll keep you safe."
All this Dad!Macaque headcanons got to me and now I don't know what to do with myself,
Also, when are we going to get an explanation on Bai He? I worry for the kid after the whole LBD thing :(
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BIG SPOILERS FOR LMK SEASON 4
Do NOT read until you finish the newest season of Lego Monkie Kid!
Somebody on Discord pointed out that MK’s monkey form looks like a mixture of both of his dads (Wukong and Macaque)… essentially it appears he has a mixture of both of the celestial monkeys furs and designs, not necessarily just one. Though at this point it’s still hard to tell as he hasn’t spent much time in this form.
Like fr it looks like he has Macaque's fur and Wukong's facial markings. Coincidence?? I THINK NOT!
I JUST STILL CANT BELIEVE THAT THIS IS REAL AHHHHHHHSJSHSJSMDJAKA
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