#lmk peter

I have been sitting on this for way too long cause I read it and went “…oh my god. I have no idea.”

MK and Red both, but mostly MK, baby Xiaobo wayyyy too much. So, as an example, Xiaobo will ask to help cook, start stirring some sort of mixture in a bowl, and MK will step in to grab his hand and help him stir.

This is made worse by the fact that Xiaobo had a speech delay.

Luckily, though, Macaque doesn’t put up with that and once he FINALLY convinces MK that Xiaobo is more like an adolescent than he is a toddler, MK starts doing more stuff with him.

Specifically, setting up a whole obstacle course in their vacation home out in the wilderness for the two of them to race through and play together in. MK, obviously, goes easy on Xiaobo but he still takes some wins from time to time. Gotta keep the little guy humble.

That set up has been fantastic for Xiaobo and MK enjoys it just as much.

Peter, however, doesn’t feel good about doing that sort of thing.

Sure, he loves to swim, but nobody else in his family seems into it. (Unless you count Uncle Sandy but this ain’t about him)

Much like how Peter and Princess Iron Fan spend time together by sitting in her library reading, Peter and Red’s quality time is usually spent with meditation.

MK will meditate with them on occasion, but he always gets restless and bored and uses Xiaobo as an excuse to leave the other two to their quiet-contemplation.

Otherwise, any time Peter is spending time with his parents, it’s usually him sitting in a corner, reading a book, studying or even meditating on his own. He prefers to soak in people’s company rather than loudly be apart of it.

Peter and Xiaobo both see him as their fun-loving Uncle Monkey King, but Peter is more nervous around him (Wukong was never good at hiding his preference for cute little monkey boy Xiaobo)

The one thing they both get annoyed at Wukong for is how he will trash talk their Bàmā (Red) in front of them - and sometimes directly TO them as if they would agree with him. But they still know he cares about them both so they both still love him as the long time family friend he is.

Now, how Red Son feels about that, I never considered before.

He’s definitely always annoyed and grumbly towards Wukong when he’s around (similar to his relationship with Nezha but that relationship still has a genuine sense of respect from both sides in it)

When the twins are old enough for Xiaobo to talk, anytime Red and MK start talking about babysitters or sending the twins to spend a vacation with someone else for awhile, Xiaobo will immediately request Uncle Monkey King.

And every time, Red shoots it down immediately. He thinks Wukong is a bad influence on them (not really a bad assumption but he’s not any worse than Mei, really) and he also knows Wukong is always talking shit.

That’s an excellent question that I’m surprised I never thought about before.

Monkey King was the first to pick up on the abnormality and then proceeded to freak out and assume it was some demon curse instead of just a natural thing in Xiaobo’s genes. Which is a theory not helped by the fact that Peter doesn’t seem to have this “affliction.” MK got caught up in Wukong’s theatrics but Red Son would shut it down hard every time it was brought up.

Pigsy’s another person who got caught up in Wukong’s theory. He would end up doing whatever he was told by the Monkey King in order to help his grandson out, including almost going on long journeys with him. MK and Tang stop him before he could run off and had to be the ones to calm him down.

Speaking of Tang, he would inwardly be freaking out and when no one else was around he would end up like that one clip from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The one where the guy has this massive conspiracy theory board with all the red thread’s connecting everything. Eventually he would come to the right conclusion, though. That it’s just how demon, human and half-demon biology works.

Mei is a bit of a wildcard so it’s harder to pin down what her reaction would be. On the outside she would just shrug and accept it for what it is. Xiaobo’s maturing slower than Peter. That’s fine. Means more time to play with a cute toddler. Though she would have her own fair share of anxieties about it. She worries about if Xiaobo will ever make friends outside of the family MK built up, if Peter will always be there to support him, if MK can handle having a child stay at those early stages for so long and how long she can keep up with his never ending energy.

But she never lets those worries show. She just keeps a close eye on him.

DBK would be more concerned about Peter than anything since him and PIF were expecting Xiaobo’s rate of maturity for them both. He would gladly take MK’s surprise about Xiaobo as permission to babysit for long periods of time. Which basically means all but kidnapping him under the insistence that MK’s clearly tired of having a little toddler and DBK has ALL of the experience for this exact situation so obviously he should get to keep Xiaobo himself.

That never goes over well with Red and MK.

Especially since Red Son feels embarrassed every time he has to remind his father that he knows what he’s doing as well and can absolutely handle this.

Princess Iron Fan tries so hard to keep a cool air about her but it slips every time she visits and sees how much bigger Peter’s gotten. She’s not the biggest fan of his quick growth and, similar to Wukong, initially thinks there’s some curse placed on him. MK and Mei end up being the ones to relax her fears on that front.

Sandy is the most relaxed and accepting about it. He was certainly surprised when he took notice of it, but he figured MK and Red Son could handle it. They’re not his kids after all and if they seem to be okay with it and working it out, then there’s no reason for Sandy to be upset about it. He’ll just be there for whatever MK and the boys might need from him.

Hello hello! These twin boys are two of my fan-characters for LEGO Monkie Kid (Bro help I've made so many LMK OCs wtf I usually have one OC per fandom and now I have five and a half for this fandom alone what is thiiiiiis)

(My 'quick blurbs explaining the other two pictures in this post' turned out much longer than expected so here's a read more)

The first anniversary of a failed training session between Red and his son Peter is a week away. And Peter is struggling with feeling it's his fault.

MK picks up on it and has some words for his husband.

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