I've Always Liked The Headcanon That Wukong Basically Made Macaque.

I've always liked the headcanon that Wukong basically made Macaque.

Just imagine a random demon with shadow magic trying to hunt the monkeys on FFM and Wukong having a hard time catching them because they keep on teleporting using their shadows, when they do catch them and Wukong kills them, their magic still lingers there.

Wukong being Wukong, gets curious and tries to use the shadow magic on his own and accidentally creates a sentient shadow entity, the shadow then just runs around exploring, while Wukong is in a middle of an existential crisis, because oh my god he made that thing, and it's alive how the fuck?!

When they finally caught the shadow, their obviously confused on what to do with it, Wukong comes up and basically tries communicate with the shadow (wow, that's a first) and while Wukong is talking the shadow suddenly transforms into a black version of him (albeit a bit shorter than him) with six ears.

Wukong gets a bit confused by this until suddenly a thought pops into his head. The shadow is alive, it looks like Wukong, it acts and assumedly it has the mentality of a child, it was technically like a newborn monkey, he can't just leave it alone. So after a bit of hesitance he takes the shadow in.

since no one wanted to house the entity because of its strange features (that being the six ears) and Wukong was the one responsible of it being there in the first place it stayed with Wukong. After a while Wukong decides to give the shadow a name, Liu'er Mihou or The Six Eared Macaque,

After a few days of taking care of the shadow (since it was technically a copy of Wukong, that means it's a he, right?) Wukong starts to grow attached, when the shadow surprisingly spoken out of nowhere, calling Wukong his brother, he was obviously surprised and confused on how and where the shadow got the idea that he was his brother from.

But then looking back at it, it makes sense.

Wukong's basically raising him, so of course the shadow would see him sort of as a parental figure, and on the other hand Wukong has a family now! Sure he loved his subjects to death, but he never really had a family to call his own. And now he has someone who is basically his little brother and he is not letting this go.

Until he did..

I'm okay with religious beliefs, because most of my family is religious.

But they gotta stop blaming everything on the devil.

Oh, you're depressed? Well go and pray it's the devil's work! Oh, you're crying? Don't cry the devil's trying to get to you! OH, you can't concentrate?? Go and pray that'll definitely help!

Like, NO MOM. I'M SAD, OF COURSE IM CRYING! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO?! AND I HAVE ADHD! CONCENTRATING IS HARD! ESPECIALLY ON SOMETHING YOU FORCED ME TO DO!

Okay okay so real quick season 4 spoiles ahead

Okay so we all know how sun Wukong was confirmed by one of the writers to not be mks dad right?

We also know that Mk was born from Wukongs stone.

We also also know that in the OG jttw fandom, there’s a very common interpretation where wukong and macaque are siblings.

I’m just saying you guys- shadowpeach fan artist you guys are on thin fucking ice if lmk decides to go the ‘there brothers’ route

Silly bros being bros !! 🫶💗