#dadcaque

💜🌙 To Raise a Cub — Macaque & Cub!Reader HCs 🌙💜

Genres: [platonic/familial] fluff || they/them pronouns for reader || No warnings needed

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- Macaque initially found your gravitation towards jewelry to be amusing. Seeing you coo and babble at shiny gems and ornaments made him smile to no end. He'd frequently snatch artifacts from Wukong's dojo whenever you two visited so you'd always have more to keep

- It only really became worrying when he started to be super conscious about how small most jewlery is, constantly making sure you're not trying to eat a ring or small chain. He eventually only started giving you super chunky jewelry that you couldn't possibly swallow instead, but he still watched you extremely close

- He liked to talk to you while you looked in a mirror so you could happily babble to yourself as he gently told you many soft compliments, about how you were the most perfect cub he could've ever had and how he was always so proud of you

- He was slightly less enthusiastic as he noticed how close you were to Wukong. He still allowed you to visit him, of course, but not without snarking at the king endlessly and being petty towards him

- Wukong loved introducing you to every single Flower Fruit Mountain monkey that would come up while you hang out, which is usually pretty easy since they tend to cling to Macaque whenever he's outside

- Macaque always lectures Wukong very thoroughly when it comes to taking care of you. Wukong can't help but mentally log how intensely protective Macaque is, but he can understand the angle. He was secretly proud his old brother managed to be responsible enough to take care of you so well

- Macaque knows that he likely feeds into how much you tend to be focused on appearance seeing as he's constantly calling you the best cub he's ever seen and letting you have all the (safe) jewelery you could ever want. But he doesn't plan to stop that anytime soon. Ever since Wukong gave you to him and he saw your fuzzy face and wide eyes, he knew immediately he'd never seen anything more adorable. His heart melted seeing you well and vibrant, and he felt his love grow back tenfold

- He'll always let you use some of his clothes to do little modeling shoots, especially his scarf that he's fond of swaddling you in. He even offered to make you mini leather armor to mimic his own so you could match

- He's mostly good at shadow puppets that he conjures with his powers, but eventually he did pick up a small habit of making felt toys for you to play with. He used the sewing skills he learned to make you all your own outfits, including letting you pick the colors and patterns

Macaque would totally take Bai He (LBD’s hostess) to see Six: The Musical.

Macaque: “So what do we think about kings who kill people for not doing what they say?”

Bai He: “They’re really bad and mean and unforgivable!”

Macaque, loudly while glaring at FFM: “That’s RIGHT!”

Bonus:

Well, Wukong himself would be reeling and confused. He'd feel so complicated and jealous - though he's not sure of who. He's a lot a little hurt but he doesn't know why. But then the rest of his thoughts are filled with plans to attack LoES to save Macaque's kid.

The Four Generals would be all: ??? Good for them I guess? But also - oh my BUDDHA there's a child left behind! Liu'er's child! We gotta save her!!!

The rest of FFM are less guilty about starting to warm up to Shanzha now that it's revealed that Macaque had a past with her too. Perhaps she'll be the glue that finally makes Shadowpeach canon?

So uhhh, I made another one. .3. This is Zhizhu's younger sister, Xiao Mihou. Yaaay, Macaque has two kiddos now.

Also experimenting with a new rendering style. Loving how it turned out!

Since Macaque only gets murderous when Wukong shows romantic interest, Shanzha wouldn’t be ignored or bullied at the revelation, but Wukong would definitely have some complicated feelings and maybe (?) a moment of enlightenment about his feelings towards Macaque.

And here's Zhizhu, Xiao's older sister. Thought it'd also be neat to show off some shadow demon powers. Xiao also has them, but I didn't draw her with 'em. =u=