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Wukong may not have killed Macaque, but he definitely landed a devastating blow that severely weakened him.

Macaque isn't shown dead in the flashback, even though he frequently references his own non figurative death ("ive had a taste of dying..." "kinda on this whole living streak..." his hanfu folded the wrong way, etc)

instead we get this

He's being sealed or restrained by something, but that part isn't important

What's important is this

He's reaching out for help

and Wukong isn't there. Instead his plea is answered by LBD. It may have factored into his immediate abandonment of the skeleton key. He wasn't reaching out for her, he wasn't reaching out for a partner for vengeance, was reaching out for his best friend.

Wukong didn't kill Macaque, but he certainly left him for dead

Like if they really were as close as depicted and as Macaque described them to be, wouldn't Wukong like include Macaque in all of his immortality quests?

I don't necessarily mean drag him into them but things like, erase his name out of the book of the dead too when he was dragged into the underworld. It's already established Wukong erased his own name and the names of as many of his FFM monkeys as he could and one would assume Macaque's included on that list right?

And I wouldn't be surprised if Wukong shared a peach of immortality or two with Mac before their falling out. And they're supposed to be like spiritual equals anyway right?

I mean Wukong was almost showing off how immortal he is in JTTW, from decapitation, to embowelment of his organs, then being cooked AGAIN like Macaque may not be AS durable as Wukong but I'm assuming he can damn well survive impalement to the eye.

My theory is that Wukong delt a devastating blow, enough to incapacitate Macaque/maim him but not quite enough to kill him though it would kill any other random mortal/demon.

Like to him it'd be a "This is for your own good situation" because the journey was enlightment for him and he needed it for his own character development, Mac was clearly not letting go of dragging him home or killing the monk which would undeniably earn Heaven's ire and put EVERYONE including the FFM monkeys in danger possibly permanently. So to him, dehabilitating Mac was kinda the only way to send a message, a painful message.

But again we see LBD's chains where I suspect she intercepted his wounds and yada yada worked her spooky spooks and kept him under her thumb. Or heck, because his name wasn't in the book of dead, she very well could've dragged him into a forgotten section of the underworld regardless just to let that anger brew and build against Wukong for 'abandoning' him

Proceed to Lmk, Wukong acts like Macaque is just a nuisance, not how one would react to an old friend turned foe revived from the dead. It's too casual.

Imagine MKR Wukong with Monkey Baby MK. There is a baby on him and he's so cute and feral and climbing all over him while chattering nonstop.

I propose: FAT baby monkey MK, and this one's got flat colours because I love the idea so much I gotta colour it in hehe

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