Yes! I Was Waiting For Someone To Bring It Up!!

Celestial Water Monkeys

Was discussing in the notes of this post with @silverlycanthropelover about the possibility of Celestial/Stone Monkeys surviving the Great Flood by adapting to the sea.

One of the jokes is that "Sea Monkeys" (the frozen brine shrimp toy), are actually a misunderstanding of sea dragon records talking about the little mer-monkeys that inhabited their seas.

Basically

Ao Guang: "What are those things hiding in your mane?" Ao Shun, surrounded by tiny mermaid-like monkeys: "I dunno man, they just showed up one day, and they won't stop picking through my fur." Ao Guang: "Why haven't you scared them off?" Ao Shun: "Honestly? They are pretty adorable. They clean my body of parasites, and comfort me when I'm feeling unwell." Sea Monkeys: (*happy chirping + porpoise-like squeaks!*) Ao Guang: "They do seem very useful... How do I go about hiring them?" Ao Shun: "I believe you cannot choose them brother, they choose you." (*cut to hundreds of years later when Ao Guang is lying at the bottom of the East Sea, despaired at the loss of his youngest pup Ao Bing*) Sea Monkeys: "Chirrp?" Ao Guang: (*looks up to see a swarm of brightly-coloured mer-monkeys, all swimming around his gigantic body as they pick off the barnacles and parasites that settled in his depression.*) Leading Sea Monkey, petting the king dragon's face with sympathy in their eyes: "Chirrrrp." Ao Guang: (*smiles for the first time in weeks*) :')

Like pilot fish to a great white, the smaller creatures stick to dragons in a symbiotic relationship. The royal dragons are very protective of their monkeys. Ao Guang refuses to acknowledge the irony of a Stone Monkey being one of his greatest annoyances, whilst tending to his beloved servants.

Wukong has no idea that these little spiritual monkeys exist! To think that some Stone/Spiritual Monkeys survived the Great Flood by changing their whole biology, or existed even beforehand, is an amazing discovery!

The Water Monkeys are a lot smaller than Wukong or Macaque, being roughly the size of tamarins. They don't speak "human" languages very well, their vocal cords are more attuned to the calls of dragons and other sea life. They can still chirp and chatter as monkeys do, allowing for some delightful conversation between the Stone Monkey King (they do not recognise Sun Wukong as their king) and the school of excited fairy-like monkeys.

I freaking saw @thelostmoongazer‘s Mob AU stuff for Cuhead and Mugmand and I HAD to draw something for it.

I probably could’ve done better with the dialogue but eh, it is what it is.

shes so

update:

WHO ARE YOU AND HOW DARE YOU BREAK MY HEART WITH EFFIGY AU

Silly AU go brrrrbrbrbbrrrrbrbbbrbbbbbbrbrbbrrrr :D

Have a collection of silly lil doodles

thinking about how wukong reassuring mk and complimenting his hard work and believing in him and telling him he's proud is so easy to him to say it's as easy as breathing for him

and he's not just saying it he 100% mean it and I don't think he understand how much his words mean to mk

Venetian Carnival inspired characters, I can’t wait to make more!

Seafoam prince (AF sona)

I'm actually quite proud of this one. I had the opportunity to experiment with new colors and brushes and I fell in love with the results.

I won't deny it, I would like to receive attacks from this one...

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x01 - “Heavy is the Crown” ↳ "I won't let them corrupt your dream."