#jttw ao guang

[breadnabreadd]

✦ Happy Lunar New Year everyone!!

✦ We are finally at the year of the dragon! So why not show the dragon king (of east) in the cyberpunk AU...?

+ my son, yall--

✦ I just love suits. It is so- [chief kiss]

#artists on tumblr #art #digital art #sun wukong #ao guang #jttw au #journey to the west #journey to the west au #jttw cyberpunk #jttw cyberpunk au #cyberpunk au #jttw sun wukong #jttw monkey king #jttw ao guang #jttw dragon king of east #breadna doing art

[angryvampire]

Monkey May #7!!

🐉 Dragon 🐉

I struggled with this one a bit TwT i wasn't having any good ideas but then i managed to figure something out, yay!

#artists on tumblr #art #drawing #hand drawn #doodles #sun wukong #monkey king #jttw sun wukong #jttw #journey to the west #ao guang #monkey may #jttw ao guang #sketches #dragon

[quitealotofsodapop]

Ao Guang's Weird Day part 2:

prev post.

Pissed-off Parent!Wukong is a side of the Monkey King that Ao Guang did not expect to encounter. Only recently it seemed like the demon was a pup smashing down his door for a weapon. When did he have time to cultivate a whole family?

I'm liking the idea of Ao Guang being so confused/curious by all the in-fighting that he pulls the gang into different interrogation rooms for some answers. Muppets Most Wanted song for an idea of how quickly it turns nuts. Mostly because Nezha is a hated enemy of the east sea (Ao Bing situation), and Pigsy taught MK never to speak to cops without a lawyer. Wukong strangely enough is very eager to spill the beans once he gets Fire Star on the phone.

Ao Guang: "You understand the severity of stealing the Map to the Samadhi Fire, don't you Wukong?" Wukong, holding the two youngest babies: "Yes. And I hope Mac suffers just a little bit for it." Ao Guang, blinks: "So it was no you who stole the Map? But your mate?" Wukong: "Well it was sorta a team effort. DBK and Red Son have been helping us investigate what LBD has been up to. Plus tracking down my damn husband - and they ran into eachother at Nezha's place. DBK had to go home cus he got hurt shielding the kids from the Map's barrier." Ao Guang: "And... where were you in all this?" Wukong: "I was with my kids??? Dude, I'm not that reckless! I was supervising MK's transformation training outside the city when LBD attacked us with her bony-mech thing." Ao Guang: "But the Staff. How did she obtain it?" Wukong: "MK went to strike at the mech and what looked like some sort of reactor? The missing Trigram Furnace." Ao Guang, pales: "Please tell me you're joking." Wukong: "Wish I was. What ever she did to modify the Furance literally absorbed the Staff, and even most of our powers, like how the Rhino King's ring did. I'm really worried it could absorb other weapons too." Ao Guang: (*realising Macaque was right that the Samadhi Fire might be the best plan against the Bone Demon*) Ao Guang: "Shit." Wukong, covering the babies' ears: "Language!"

Meanwhile Mei and the Eclipse Twins (shadow powers duh. Dragon guards didn't take that into account that they could slip under the door) are busy stealing back the Map and breaking the rest of the Gang out. Wukong's interrogation gets cut short cus MK and Mac bust in to haul him and the babies to the newly-constructed TEA.

Oh and in lieu of Macaque's shadow clones attacking the East Sea?

Well... my ideal Lady Bone Demon has control over all bones and bone-related beings that she has influenced with her icy-crystal-like corruption.

And whats down in the sea?

Plesiosaur fossils and whale falls. Imagine gettign attacked by that.

Baby Yuebei: (*little nerdy squeak that sounds like she's trying to say "Dinosaur!!"*) :D! Macaque: "Aw. She's interested in dinosaurs now?" Wukong: "Yes, ever since she found an ammonite on the beach." Macaque, adoring: "Our little girl is so smart." Wukong, reluctantly sappy: "Yeah..."

Meanwhile the entire East Sea is freaking tf out and smashing skeletons, while the noodle shop gang get away in the TEA.

#post jttw stone egged au #jttw stone egged au #sun wukong #lmk ao guang #six eared macaque #liu er mihou #shadowpeach #pregnancy mention tw #lmk yuebei xing #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk aus

[mintaikcorpse]

I don't think the fandom talks enough about how Mei can turn into a gigantic fucking dragon

#or that might just be a me thing #like i always forget she can do that and then i remeber “oh yeah shes a dragon!” #like dope power and all but i wish her main design had more dragon elements to it #like Ao Guang has scales on his face #and Ao Lie has green eyes instead of black eyes #idk i love mei but i jist wish she had more dragon elements #i do like how her hsir resembles dragon horns and a dragon beard though #that's one of my favorite things about her design #mei #lmk mei #mei lmk #lego monkie kid mei #mei lego monkie kid #lmk #lego monkie kid #jttw #journey to the west

[the-monkey-ruler]

How do you differentiate between dragons that have the water element and those that have the fire element? I assume that Ao Guang's family would technically be dragons that can use only water. And according to jttw, dragons can control the weather (clouds, water, etc.). However, how do you know which dragons can control fire? Or can be assumed that all dragons can handle these two elements? Or a sea dragon that controls water couldn't control fire?

I guess I would ask you what makes you think dragons can control fire? I know that European dragons that it’s a common connection to their folklore, but Chinese dragons are connected to water such as rivers, oceans, and rain. I don’t think I’ve seen Chinese dragons that control fire if it wasn’t connected to the weather in some way.

Like I'm sure there are but I guess I don't understand what makes you think that dragons would have a fire element instead of a water element. Can you give an example from maybe like a story or something? I've read a lot of chinese tales but certainly not ALL so it would be cool to see how other tales could show dragons in a different light.

#anon ask #anonymous #anon #jttw #ask #xiyouji #Chinese dragons #dragons #I'm a little confused by the ask but I really do want to know where this is coming from #the whole family of the dragons kings control water #it not just ao guang #they all control a sea and their father controls the yellow river #they are all connected to water #other dragons all connected to rivers and streams hence why they all live underwater and in the sea

[antidotefortheawkward-art]

Sun Wukong's assorted lingpai (mandate tokens)

[ID: 1) An illustration of the two sides of a mostly rectangular lingpai made of wood. One side reads "令" and the other reads "弼马温", both written in seal script. The bottom of the lingpai is adorned by horses facing outwards, clouds by their feet.

2) An illustration of the two sides of a stone lingpai shaped mostly like a rectangle, but flared at the top and bottom. One side reads "令" and the other reads "美猴王", both written in seal script. The top of the lingpai is adorned with a dragon-pearl surrounded by flames and clouds. The bottom is adorned with mountains, the sea, and coral. The borders of both the top and bottom are decorated with clouds and flowers. The top is swirled in a way that resembles a lingzhi or a ruyi.

3) An illustration of the two sides of a red jade lingpai, shaped mostly like a rectangle but with a curved top. One side reads "令" and the other reads "齐天大圣", both written in seal script. The top of the lingpai is adorned by a ruyi with a flower and mountain at its center. Below the ruyi is a lotus flower, which sits on top of the forehead of a Yazi carving. Clouds extend out from either side of Yazi and below him are flowers. The two sides of the lingpai have the carvings of cloud pillars wrapped in a stylized waterfall. At the bottom are clouds which could also be the foam from the waterfall. Lotuses float atop this foam/these clouds. At the center of the bottom is a mountain with a ruyi at its foot. This ruyi also has a flower within it.

4) The lineart for the three lingpai, with accompanying commentary. The one labeled "BiMaWen" reads "carved and burned wood," "simple, only horses and clouds," and "ornamental, basically no power." The one labeled "Beautiful Monkey King" reads "carved from a chunk of Sun Wukong's stone egg," "customized from Ao family royal lingpai template," and "mostly sea, cloud, and dragon pearl imagery." The one labeled "Great Sage Equaling Heaven" reads "carved from red jade," "fully custom, in style of an emperor's lingpai but HuaGuo," and "flowers, waterfalls, mountains, ruyi, Yazi, and clouds imagery." At the side are simple doodles of the three lingpai. The first is light brown with a yellow cord, captioned "simple cord, no tassel." The second is grey with a red cord and tassel, captioned "silk cord and tassel." The third is red with a red cord and tassel, captioned "braided cord," "jade and gold accented." End ID]

#my art #journey to the west #jttw #xiyouji #visual development #prop design #in case youre wondering about the note on the Beautiful Monkey King lingpai- #yes he did harass Ao Guang for that #as soon as he came back from being BiMaWen he wanted a proper lingpai of his own #so he marched down to Ao Guang's palace with a stone in hand and demanded he get it properly carved #the Great Sage lingpai was carved by the artists of the Heavenly Palace and presented to him when his title was recognized #you may have seen a rough draft of that lingpai on swk's belt in the Seven Sages lineup 👉👈 #much simpler though of course gdhfsjkkdskl #at the time i was thinking of it as being carved from red wood #but nah now it's a solid chunk of jade you could knock someone out with it #also- 如意 means 'by one wants'- same as the ruyi in ruyijinkubang 'as-you-wish golden staff' #but ruyi here refers to the clustered swirls (google image it) bc its a common auspicious piece of imagery #Yazi is one of the famed Sons of the Dragon God #he's a violent and skilled fighter so he's usually used to adorn weaponry and armor #but i think swk would get a kick out of his lingpai having Yazi on it too

[sunny-days-and-warm-mournings]

A nice doodle :)

Tfw you were just a peaceful local deity until Heaven decides to fuck shit up and try to subdue you for some reason.

Also I just love long-haired WuKong— even if he cuts it along the way.

#Have this small bit of an AU of mine #which is basically a world where Sun WuKong was a local deity in the borders around Aolai #but he doesn't start shit #sure he still went and caused some havoc in Ao Guang's palace and Hell but that's it tbh #he became a prosperity deity bc the mortals there associated monkeys w good bounty #so yeah #living the good life until Heaven does theie shit decision skills again #jttw #jttw au #jttw fanart #journey to the west fanart #journey to the west #journey to the west au #jttw sun wukong #sun wukong #sun fanart #xiyouji

[lavaflowe]

He’s just built like that ig

#little doodle while I try not to explode from all the things I have to do 🫶 #I too would be terrified if this tiny monkey picked up a rod that was about 9 tons #he stronk #Ao Guang is rethinking his life choices #sun wukong #ao guang #jttw #journey to the west #my art

[journeytothewestresearch]

Lego Monkie King Set Easter Egg

Lego Monkie Kid fans, the Dragon of the East Palace Lego set includes a subtle detail from chapter 14 of Journey to the West. It's a painting of Zhang Liang repeatedly retrieving and placing a shoe on the immortal Huang Shigong's foot. The Dragon King uses this tale to instill perseverance in Monkey.

My thanks to Irwen Wong of the Journey to the West Library blog for pointing out the painting on the Lego set.

Huang Shigong also appears in a Southeast Asian religious trinity associated with Sun Wukong.

#Sun Wukong #Monkey King #Journey to the West #JTTW #Huang Shigong #Zhang Liang #Dragon King #Ao Guang #Eastern Sea Dragon King #Lego Monkie Kid #LMK #easter egg #Dragon of the East Palace

[violett-orwhatever]

Does anyone know what happened to Ao Lie??

"Duh, he's dead, it's been thousands of years"

...but why the heck did his uncle, Ao Guang, survive for so long but not him? Did the samadhi slowly kill him? Did he just not have the same immortality as Ao Guang?

i have questions

#lego monkie kid #jttw #journey to the west #lmk ao lie #lmk ao guang #white dragon horse #bai longma #ao lie lmk

[lunaiinn]

Decided to work on some Dragon Kings lore outta nowhere.

Haven't decided the main Dragon King color's, just know the main one is gold. Maybe his children main colors.

#lore dump #i like dragons #jttw #journey to the west #ao guang #ao lie #ao bing #lmk

[lotus-duckies]

Aoguang, the

Dragon King of the Eastern Ocean, arose immediately; accompanied by dragon

sons and grandsons, shrimp soldiers and crab generals, he came out for the

reception.

Shrimp soldiers and grab generals... 🥺

#ao guang #jttw

[cassettemoon]

Journey to the West is extremely funny and my arm hurts now

Chapters 2 and 3

#jttw #journey to the west #sun wukong #uuuuh #checks book #ao guang #demon bull king #bull demon king #marshal ma #marshal liu #general beng #general ba #I'm not tagging subodhi #he's a jerk #these are kinda #jttw memes #jttw fanart #my art #i will never scan anything ever y'all get my shitty phone photos #RETURN OF THE KING #(the tag i mean)

[quitealotofsodapop]

I'm just imagining Ao Guang has the monkeys put in separate cells in the Post Stone-Egged AU. Both because he doesn't want any plotting, and also because he's kinda concerned for Macaque's safety with how pissed Wukong looks.

Neither Wukong or Macaque are happy about this, especially when Xiaojiao manages to argue that the youngest of their kids shouldn't be locked in jail.

Prev post.

Ao Guang tries to give his important "How dare you come here"-speech to the gang after they end up in his domain, only for another verbal arguement to break out amongst them as Ao Guang confiscates the Map.

Ao Guang: "You have given the evil Lady Bone Demon exactly what she needs to destroy us all! I should execute you where you-" Wukong, ignoring him: "You see Mihou!? Now we're in trouble with the dragons because you couldn't just tell me where you went!" Macaque: "If I told you, you would have put yourself and our cub in danger! She nearly took you away from me once!" Wukong: "I'm not blind to danger! I know how dangerous she is! I've been in this condition in far worse situations!" Macaque: "AND YOU NEARLY DIED!" Both married monkeys + noodle shop gang: (*arguing loudly*) Ao Guang: "Silence! There are graver matters to attend-" Mei, pulls out sword: "Keep out of it dragon man! We're all super stressed out right now!" Ao Guang, sees sword: "...why do you have Ao Ji's sword??"

Moments later he gets swarmed by crying baby monkeys (one thats a copy of Wukong) asking him not to hurt their Babas or big brother cus they were only trying to protect them.

Ao Guang officially having a weird day.

He can't justify hurting Wukong or his mate given their condition. And the monkeys new pilgrim friends weren't involved. And the many little monkey demons are innocent- oh sweet buddha the littlest one is biting his tail. WHAT IS NEZHA DOING HERE!?

Thats it dungeon for everyone! >:[

Separate cells for the two married monkeys so that they dont fight to the death.

Macaque ends up in his own cell with Tang, and Nezha. Wukong is in with the kids + Pigsy. They all get their own venting room away from the other.

Sandy's handsome face gets him "cleanup duty" to move the crashed airship before he's officially arrested (he stalls like a mf).

Mei is brought away to be accessed as an official Dragon Princess, where she immediately breaks free and steals back the Map.

All the dragon king can do is rub his temples while he; 1: Waits for Heaven to pick up the annoyances, 2: Waits for Mei's parents to get here.

Ao Guang isn't having a great day- how did those twins get out!?!

#post jttw stone egged au #jttw stone egged au #sun wukong #liu er mihou #six eared macaque #shadowpeach #pregnancy mention tw #lmk ao guang #lmk mei #long xiaojiao #lmk #lego monkie kid

[journeythroughjourneytothewest]

Chapter 3 Recap: Four Seas and a Thousand Mountains all bow to submit; From Ninefold Darkness ten species’ names are removed

We are now not very far into the story, but Chapter Three has given us some of Sun Wukong’s most (in)famous acts in very rapid succession! We begin with an account of how the Monkey King turned the Mt. Huaguoshan troop into a proper army and “practiced daily with the little monkeys the art of war.” Yet after some time Sun Wukong becomes disturbed at the thought that the bamboo spears and wooden swords the monkeys were armed with wouldn’t stand a chance against actual “sharp swords and fine halberds,” something that leaves all the monkeys alarmed and wondering where they might get such things. At this, four older members of the troop, “two female monkeys with red buttocks and two bareback gibbons,” come forward to tell the “Great King” he should get such weapons from the king of the Aolai Country, “who has numberless men and soldiers in his city, and there are bound to be all kinds of metalworks there.” Delighted at this idea and making the trip of two hundred miles to Aolai Country in no time at all, Sun Wukong uses his magic to steal the entire armory. And so the Mt. Huaguoshan troop, who are forty-seven thousand strong, became very well armed indeed!

Impressed by the assembly of well-armed and well-trained monkeys, the yaoguai kings of seventy-two caves all come to pay homage to the Monkey King, and even start bringing him annual tributes and joining his army. In this manner Mt. Huaguoshan becomes “as strong as an iron bucket or a city of metal.” Yet while the Monkey King does enjoy the ever-growing impregnability of his beloved mountain home and the strength gathered by his beloved family, he becomes deeply unsatisfied with the scimitar he took from the Monstrous King of Havoc. Coming forward again, the four elder monkeys suggest that he use his vast magical powers to visit the Dragon King of the Easter Ocean, and there request a new weapon. Sun Wukong is quick to make the trip, and is greeted with honor by the Dragon King Aoguang. The Dragon King then offers the Monkey King one weapon after another, each of which Sun Wukong rejects for being “too light.” Aoguang is left “completely unnerved” at witnessing how the monkey easily wields even a halberd weighing seven thousand two hundred pounds, and even though he protests that he has nothing heavier to offer Sun Wukong, the monkey insists he look some more, stating that he’ll give the dragon a “good price” for an acceptable weapon.

It is here that the dragon mother and her daughter suggest Aoguang show the Monkey King “that piece of rare magic iron by which the depth of the Heavenly River is fixed,” hoping that one way or another offering it to Sun Wukong will get the monkey off their collective back. Yet to everyone’s surprise, the Monkey King is able to lift this pole using all his might, and to his pleasure discovers that this metal responds to his request to become shorter and thinner at his command. When he finally gets it to the size he wants, he examines it and “found a golden hoop at each end, with solid black iron in between. Immediately adjacent to one of the hoops was the inscription, ‘The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod. Weight: thirteen thousand five hundred pounds.” And so the Monkey King is now armed with his famous staff.

Aoguang and all his subjects are left shaking in fear seeing how Sun Wukong displayed his might as he mock fought with the staff throughout their court. They are left more fearful still when the monkey proclaims he must also have the “material apparel” to go with his new weapon, even threatening to “try the iron” on the Dragon King if he doesn’t give him something suitable. Aoguang is forced to summon his three brothers Aoqin, Aoshun, and Aorun, each of them also a dragon king of an ocean, in the hopes they might have what the simian wants. They are left outraged at the monkey’s audacity and theft, but ultimately decide that, as it would be suicidal to go against the Monkey King armed with his new “piece of iron,” that they will “assemble an outfit for him and get him out of this place. We can then present a formal complaint to Heaven, and Heaven will send its own punishment.” All agree to this plan, and thus give Sun Wukong an outfit composed of “cloud-treading shoes the color of lotus root,” a “cuirass of chain-mail made of yellow gold,” and “a cap with erect phoenix plumes, made of red gold.” Sun Wukong takes his new outfit and his new staff and leaves with a “Sorry to have bothered you!” to the dragons, something that leaves them even more enraged and eager to tell Heaven about the monkey’s misdeeds.

Sun Wukong, for his own part, is left “beaming broadly” at the praise the monkeys heap upon him at seeing his new finery, and gives them a playful demonstration on the extent to which his new weapon can grow and shrink. Soon after he performs “magic of cosmic imitation” and takes on his war form for the first time, a figure “ten thousand feet tall, with a head like the Tai Mountain and a chest like a rugged peak, eyes like lightning and a mouth like a blood bowl, and teeth like swords and halberds. The rod in his hand was of such a size that its top reached the thirty-third Heaven and its bottom the eighteenth layer of Hell.” All the yaoguai and their kings who see this are left terrified, their fear compelling them to continue paying their respects.

At this time, all the assembled yaoguai have a “great banquet of a hundred delicacies,” and “the cups were filled to overflowing.” At this feast the Monkey King “made the four old monkeys mighty commanders of his troops by appointing the two female monkeys with red buttocks as marshals Ma and Liu, and the two bareback gibbons as generals Beng and Ba. The four mighty commanders, moreover, were entrusted with all matters concerning fortification, pitching, camps, reward, and punishment.” This achieved and the absolute security of Mt. Huaguoshan and his family seeming assured, the Monkey King not only proceeds to travel all over the world making good friends wherever he goes, but also “entered into fraternal alliance with six other monarchs: the Bull Monster King, the Dragon Monster King, the Garuda Monster King, the Giant Lynx King, the Macaque King, and the Orangutan King.” For a long time this fraternal order of seven spend their days discussing civil and military arts while not overlooking a single pleasure, from exchanging wine cups to song and dance.

After another banquet at Mt. Huaguoshan some time after the fraternal order is formed and during which everyone becomes “thoroughly drunk,” the Monkey King sinks into a deep slumber only for his soul to be dragged to hell. Yet Sun Wukong fiercely “protests” this, first making the case to his jailers that he shouldn’t be there because he successfully trained to be an immortal, and when that doesn’t work he pulls out his treasure and “reduced [them] to hash.” Sending bull and horse-headed demons fleeing in every direction, the Monkey King fights his way to the Palace of Darkness and demands under pain of “a drubbing” that the Ten Kings of the Underworld bring out the register of birth and death and let him see if his death was a mistake. Sure enough, he finds himself as “Soul 1350…Sun Wukong…Heaven-born Stone Monkey. Age: three hundred and forty-two years. A good end.” Yet good or not, the Monkey King refuses to accept any form of death, instead forcing hell’s judges to get him a brush soaked in heavy ink so that he can cross out his own name and the name of every other monkey on the ledger. This accomplished, Sun Wukong declares that he’s truly no longer the subject of death and fights his way back out of the Region of Darkness. The Ten Kings, for their own part, could do nothing except “report the incident to Heaven.”

Waking and realizing that his escapades in hell were “all a dream,” Sun Wukong, the mighty commanders, the various other monkeys, and soon enough the six sworn brothers nevertheless are all “delighted about the cancellation of the names,” believing that “those fellows,” the ministers of death, “have no hold over us now.” And indeed, “from that time onward there were many mountain monkeys who did not grow old, for their names were not registered in the Underworld.”

Yet even as the yaoguai celebrate, the Great Benevolent Sage of Heaven, the Celestial Jade Emperor of the Most Venerable Deva, is presented with more and more complaints about Sun Wukong’s various crimes and exploits. Hearing about the terror the Monkey King inflicted on the Dragon Kings, the Jade Emperor declares that he will send his generals out to arrest the unruly culprit. Right after, the Jade Emperor also receives the complaint from underworld on how Sun Wukong is upsetting the very wheel of transmigration, “for birth and death are eliminated in each kind of monkey,” and as such there is now another request for the Jade Emperor to “send forth your divine army and subdue this monster.”

The Jade Emperor, now faced with more understanding of the power this monkey holds, asks which of his divine generals will take on the task of capturing Sun Wukong. Yet the Long-Life Spirit of the Planet Venus steps forward and offers an alternative: that the Jade Emperor, instead of going to war with the Monkey King, summon the simian to Heaven and give him “some kind of official duties. His name will be recorded in the Register and we can control him here.” If he obeys then Heaven will gain another immortal, and if he doesn’t than he can be arrested without any military might needed. The Jade Emperor is “highly pleased” at this idea, and delegates the Gold Star of Venus to inform Sun Wukong of this new (and somewhat dubious) honor. The Monkey King receives the Gold Star politely, is delighted at the offer of a place among the deities, and agrees to go to Heaven. This chapter ends with Sun Wukong instructing his four mighty commanders to “Be diligent in teaching and drilling the young ones. Let me go up to Heaven to take a look and see whether I can have you all brought up there too to live with me.”

Whether Heaven will become a monkey paradise or not is a question that will have to wait for the next chapter.

#jtjttw submission #jttw chapter recap #xiyouji #journey to the west #jttw #sun wukong #monkey king #ao guang #the jade emperor #the four mighty commanders

[the-monkey-ruler]

Does Ao Guang have a wife? I remember reading about him having one but I cannot find any info on her anywhere

It is assumed they all have wives considering that we know that Ao Guang and Ao Run have children, just that (sadly like most wives) they aren't given proper names.

We do see Ao Guang's wife speak though! I thought this was his mother at first but talking with some friends they pointed that this is his wife and daughter.

So yes it is safe to assume this is his wife and that most of the dragon kings have wives that are sadly more in the background than anything else.

#ask #jttw #journey to the west #xiyouji #ao guang #dragon king of the east