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and what if s6 is the season where things are normal again? what does he do then? MK gets his more episodic kind of villains back, the occasional random encounters with those twins--Jim and Ben? Metal and Tin? does he care?--and compared to what he's fought before it's almost amusing. it's almost boring. he can almost ignore the static under his skin telling him that something is coming, something must be coming, it's a hoax, a false sense of security and he will not let himself fall for it.

what if never comes? what if MK has new hoodlums to fight, people with powers who decided not to use them for good the way he had, and that's it? what if everything is changed and finds its own new rhythym? what if there's a new normal? what if the world he'd fought to keep from being reset is so changed that he doesn't even recognize it anyway? what if the world is moving faster than he is, accepting this new normal? a Normal where mischievous children turn invisible and that taxi driver just picked up his own cab?

he is so tired and anxiety ridden and desperate for some normalcy, but Pigsy has considered making the shop a more family-oriented sit down restaurant to connect with the community, and Tang heeded the teachings of Master Subhodi and cracked down on his studies, and Mei has been inspired to connect with her family and anscestors a little better, and-

MK knows he's being unreasonable. his friends finally have a break from all the disasters, and they want to enjoy it. MK wants to enjoy it, but he's not doing his deliveries as often, and Tang rarely has time to tell stories anymore, and Mei has canceled their designated arcade time to attend galas with her parents twice now, and-

it's not fair of him to be upset. but it also isn't fair that he can't get back what he had. he is back to protecting his city, he has the relative safety of his friends, he can go train with Monkey King whenever he likes, and it's not enough--or maybe it's too much, he can never be sure.

he only knows for sure that he's finally gotten what he wanted, and it's all so hollow and empty; it makes him wonder if there was a part of him that died in the Pillar and never truly came back.

Bai He has magic now do you See my vision; Bai He is watching everyone develop powers with their fragment of celestial power, and she can't even bring herself to try because she has such a bad, bad feeling about it; Bai He can feel the celestial power thrumming in her core and she just can't bring herself to reach out and grab it because she knows, she knows; Bai He, a child already exposed to the Lady Bone Demon's power, a child who hosted ice shards and whispers of death in her very being, has magic and she can feel it hiding there, begging to be unleashed, but she just can't do it; Bai He wakes up with frost on her fingertips and reasons it must be the open window, and she knows how ridiculous of an excuse it is--especially on the nights when her window is shut and locked--but she can't stand to look at it, or think about it, or even consider the implications that the Lady still lingers; Bai He has magic now do you SEE my VISION, DO YOU SEE-

thinkin about Xianglu calling himself the tenth king and claiming that he's Wukong's old friend (and enemy), because the tenth king is the one in charge of reincarnating souls and if he actually knew Wukong, then chances are he saw how much good the pilgrims did for the spicy murder monkey and wanted to make sure the newest lil powerhouse he was about to unleash onto the world was at least surrounded by good people ("it all would have happened anyway, you just wouldn't have had... i wanted more for you than just the path, the sacrifice, destiny.") and he specifically chose to wake MK when three reincarnations and an ancestor were all in one place like he really did try to give MK the best possible life he could knowing what the alternative for the Harbinger was

actually lemme talk my shit again, because there HAS to be a reason that Macaque remembers being sad/tired and Wukong remembers him laughing maniacally, like there's gotta be a reason Macaque's flashbacks look like this

but Wukong's look like this

there's a disconnect between these memories and i'm convinced it's because of This Shit right here

we've seen in season five how tired Macaque gets when he overexerts his magic, and those chains in Macaque's death scene look a lot like the ones that bound the Lady to her box thing. if the pilgrims tried to seal/imprison Macaque, and Macaque overexerted himself tryin to get out (it literally looks like his shadows are trying to rip him out of the chains) then it's reasonable to assume that's why Macaque looks so sad and tired in his version of the flashback, but if something else came over him, ie

and maybe that something else tried more desperate measures--since merely hijacking the pilgrimage didn't work, perhaps he really did try attacking the Monk--then that could be why Wukong had to do what he did, begging "stop, don't make me do this" to a Macaque that might've not been fully aware of what was happening (we don't know much about this red Chaos magic yet, but Xianglu saying he's been old friends and enemies with Wukong, he just doesn't remember, suggests that there could possibly be an amnesia-esque element to it, but that's all speculation on my part, pretty much all of this is, lmao)

and then they just straight up Never talked about it, because from Macaque's perspective, he did a crime (and, really, who is Wukong to judge on that front), got imprisoned, tried escaping, and got killed for it; and from Wukong’s perspective, Macaque did a crime (knocking his master unconscious and stealing supplies, kinda not cool, dude), was imprisoned, escaped, then absolutely lost his shit and forced Wukong to fight him in a way neither of them could come back from.

[just a theory, of course, but until canon says otherwise, i'm convinced that this red Chaos magic is at least partially to blame for the discrepancies between Wukong and Macaque's memories]

SLIGHT SPOILERS FOR S5

i haven't seen anyone point this out yet, so i'm gonna point directly at it because Macaque's new magic makes my 3am Theory Brain go brrrrr- Anyhow, what is that?

What Is That??

if that's actually Chaos magic right there, it opens up a whole new line of questions about Wukong and Macaque's fight and i fear a bit.

thinking about that seal Monkey King put on MK in episode one and how little it actually mattered. after everything that happened between seasons 1 - 5, MK is like a hundred times stronger than he was before the seal, anyway. it came free with his 'Being The Goddamn Harbinger'. assuming the seal wasn't broken on its own by one of the several mystic encounters he's had, the only thing breaking it would accomplish is making MK invincible, and what good would that do? the things he's already faced make the concept entirely obsolete, nevermind anything he'd have to face in the future. would being invincible have saved him from the Lady unraveling the world? would being invincible have saved him from Azure’s crumbling reign over the universe? would being invincible have saved him from Nuwa reseting life as they knew it? being invincible and being immortal aren't thing same thing, and MK is neither. and even if he was both, it never would have saved him.