more memes from the jttw server convos <3
[This fight is already good, but this last part of it is the best. I love the animation for Sun Wukong is constantly taking advantage of his anatomy and how he constantly follows through with moment. Unless he’s taken a really hard hit he is rolling along/after getting hurt right into being able to doge or attack.]
At this point xuanzang is probably bald less from shaving and more from the stress of these 2
trying to find certain trailers subtitled in English, lead me to finding these 3 posters (?) on GoldPoster.com
Tang Sanzang: Okay, look. Whoever ate the baby fruit come forward and, by the mercy of Bodhisattva Guanyin, all will be forgiven.
Zhu Bajie: ….
Sha Wujing: …
Sun Wukong: …
Tang Sanzang: Smart. You knew I would never forgive you.
It’s really not that deep, but in jttw when Sun Wukong got banished by Tang Monk and the Six Eared Macaque started impersonating him, 6 ears got violent and cruel and vengeful quick. 6 ears beat their master unconscious and hurt Bajie and Wujing. All the pilgrims thought that that was Wukong’s natural response to being cut out - that he was angry, that he felt spurned, and that he wanted retribution. That he totally would snap one day and bite those he once protected.
Meanwhile the real Sun Wukong was at Bodhisattva Guanyin’s crying his fiery golden eyes out and poor Gunayin was basically patting his back trying to console him like, “I’m sure he didn’t mean it, we all say mean things in the heat of the moment, I’m sure they all still love you. You can crash on my couch for a few days until you can get back on your feet :)” And he did. He crashed on Guanyin’s metaphorical couch at the South Sea and did depression meditation while Guanyin looked after him.
God I remember this was one of my favorite arcs. When fake!Wukong started doing all that shit I was like “yeah no that’s not by baby he would Never”. Like when Bajie killed one of the monkey spirits pretending to be him Six-Ear was like “that’s so sad” and then Ate His Corpse. Like what the fuck. Why would you ever think Wukong would do that. Fuck you.
Meanwhile Wukong spends like a week moping at Guanyin’s place, solidifying her role as team mom.
There’s also the fact that Six-Ear basically said to Wukong “You are replaceable. No one can tell the difference. They don’t need you.” Which never got explored cause the main part was the allegory of a mind at fight with itself, which is disappointing. Wukong’s whole complex is about Wanting to Matter™, be it to Heaven or to Sanzang, so having been replaced so easily must have been terrible for his ego.
Sha Wujing arriving at the South Sea: “Bodhisattva! Come quick! Eldest brother has turned on us and gone insane and started cannibalising monkeys and brutalising master!!
Sun Wukong from behind Guanyin’s legs: “I DID HWHAT??!”
making gifs to cope with not being able to see this; making it worse
my sincerest apologies for this
ah, a perfect family picture.
Monkey King: Hero is Back
西游记之大圣归来