#pif

Because my brain can’t stop making ideas. Essentially, an alternate terrible au of the big Family. Where, in a reverse Taken situation, Wukong and Macaque are sealed away/missing due to a certain snake demon who unintentionally drops all three of them into a rift leading into Chaos, and aren’t spat back out until 13 years later

Where their children… have grown.

Leaving when Bao was only 4 months old as the youngest, this left their cubs defenseless and without a proper peotector. With FFM so vulnerable, the Celestial Realm seized their opportunity.

Starting with our eldest Haoyu, who was 13 when his parents vanished, it wasn’t until he was 26 until they appeared again. In the time he was gone he was taken by the celestial court. He did his best to fight against them, proving quite the little nuisance, until they managed to slap a circlet over his forehead

He’s been a slave to then all those 13 years, forced to fight battles he didn’t want to in order to protect the rest of his siblings taken by the courts. He at least can see his siblings Bao and Nova, within the celestial court yards.

Many attempted to spur arrange marriages from Haoyu, but just as many were far too scared to even attempt to tame him- even with the circlet on.

He is forced to fight and take care of any demon the Jade Emperor wants him to. Hardly given time to eat and sleep.

He is given some relief as Guanyin, his mother by magic properties, is allowed to take him for a month every year to recuperate. She has tried to get fully custody through the courts, but he is far too valuable a piece for the Jade Emperor to let go. Haoyu is also given the chance to learn of Xiaoxiao from Muzha during this time, and see Rumble and savage on tv.

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Next comes MK and Xiaoxiao . Who were 10 when their parents disappeared and 23 when they returned.

MK was thankfully secured and rescued by the Brotherhood during the attack on FFM. It took a lot of work just to get one child out of there, assisted by chaos energy emerging from MK on that day. Since then he’s been living at the Monkey Kid, fighting along side the Brotherhood in the war against them. Gathering more and more forces now that he is older to help the fight and quite the pain in the Celestial Realm’s side.

Being the Harbinger of Chaos, the courts are terrified of him. He is able to sneak from time to time to see Xiaoxiao, thanks to the help of Nezha. These are short visits but enough to keep them both stable.

While Xiaohua wasn’t as lucky. Xiaoxiao was taken to the courts where he was gifted to Li Jing for his loyalty to the Jade Emperor. Entrusted to turn Xiaoxiao into a weapon and essentially given as a status ranking. With a circlet placed around his neck Xiaoxiao was forced to comply, but wasn’t quite what Li Jing hoped for as the brother of the Harbinger of chaos’s

Still, he found a use for Xiaoxiao in selling him off in an arranged marriage to bring some more power to his family home as well as potentially get some powerful children from Xiaoxiao. The one to place the biggest price for Xiaoxiao’s hand was the Demon Bull family. As a way to keep an eye on Mihou’s child and find a way to save him, Princess Iron fan set Red Son in an arranged marriage with Xiaoxiao. (This is rather awkward as Li Jing is always there, forcing conversation to be awkward and stiff. Xiaoxiao often unsure what Iron Fan’s or Red Son’s true intentions are since he never gets the chance for an honest conversation)

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We move to Sying next! She was 8 years old when her parents vanished and was 21 when they returned.

Similar to Xiaoxiao, she was gifted as a status prize and sign of loyalty- intended to be trained and used as a weapon by this person or arranged into a marriage with the intention of spawning more “soldiers”.

She was given to Erlang Shen. He found this an insult, knowing this was a mockery from the Jade Emperor. A way and excuse to call him into the Palace for check ups. Still, he… didn’t mind all that much. He was not cruel to Sying during this time and valued her presence. Made his cold domain feel warmer. He trained her, taught her, raised her.

Even grew protective of her, refusing all match making or arranged marriage requests with different excuses and often dress Sying in a tomboyish look to avert eyes towards her. He quietly worked to help free her and take down the Jade Emperor, often taking her to the moon to visit her siblings and little visits to Guanyin to see Haoyu when he was there.

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SURPRISE! The next child Is… NOVA! That’s right, im that mean. Her first legit appearance in an au is in this tragedy. She was 6 when her parents vanished and 19 when they returned.

She was gifted by the shade Emperor to Laozi/ Lao Tzu. This was with the intention of using her blood line in a series of experiments to uncover the secrets of the Wukong’s and Macaque’s powers and essentially trying to harness it. As well as test other things on her.

While originally having a circlet on her to prevent her from escaping, Laozi saw no use for this as she got older. Essentially raising her within the lab and by his side, Nova began to grow an appreciation for science and the unknown. As she saw no current future of anything to back to the way it was, or her parents returning, she was more willing to assist in experiments- even on her.

Laozi was not cruel, and pushed boundaries, but never had her suffering. He gained an assistant from her, and Nova in results held high respect in the courts- or else they would have to handle Laozi’s wrath. He refused to lose his assistance for dumb matters such as marriage and offspring.

She often got to see Haoyu and was the one to tend his wounds. She also saw Bao, giving them little treats and new clothes. Uncertain if she should reveal to the cub who she really was to the unknowing child.

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Next are the Moon Twins! Savage and Rumble. They were 4 when their parents vanished, an 17 when they returned.

In this time, they would have been sold off or given just like their siblings- if not for Chang’e. As they had come into existence with the assistance of her power, she had a blood claim over them. Being less valued than their brother, and already having many other under his thumb, the Jade Emperor allowed her to take them both.

Under the condition they are trained and are useful to the celestial court when needed.

Chang’e trained them best she could, but kept her focus to treating them the way they deserved. She raised them as her own, trying to do right by her dearest friend Macaque. They were her little Moon Prince’s

Often joining her on her cooking show and even doing some shows of their own like music hour or magic show. They didn’t remember much of their parents, but Chang’e always made sure to tell them countless stories. They also didn’t know many of their siblings, but often got to see MK, and Sying, when the two would sneak up there.

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Next is Xue. She was only two when the attack happened, and was 15 when her parents returned. Many things happened during the initial attack, but she was not taken by the Celestial realm.

No, in the chaos, she was stolen by another force. The Lady Bone demon. While the Witch would have loved more, she made due with only being able to snatch one child.

In the years to follow she trained Xue in the ways of her magic, as well as the art of charm, misdirection, and deception. While LBD was often disappointed in the child’s lack of power like her elder siblings, she was quite pleased with Xue’s innate ability to persuade and convince. Often able to even coerce Celestials into giving her intel or doing as she asked. All unexpecting since Xue was not known to the celestial realm, being so young.

Having been raised by LBD, Xue holds her ideals close to her heart. She always wants the world saved, and perhaps destroying it to start fresh is the right path.

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Finally, we have Bao. Bao was 4 months when their parents vanished, and was 13 when they returned.

Bao, being so young, knows nothing of their life or family. Be it parents, siblings. To Bao, the only life they know is as a servant working in the Great Jade Palace.

Being both a runt, and blind, the Jade Emperor saw no value in the child. Half tempted to just kill the child, he thought otherwise. What better cosmic justice than making Sun Wukong’s child willingly bow to him. Willing clean and tend to the Celestial court like the servant these monkeys were supposed to be? So he let the child stay in the palace to be raised as a servant, cared for by other servants, some guards, and the Peach Maidens, who fawned over the cub.

Happy, naive, oblivious, Bao lives with a bounce to their step, not knowing that the nice Assistant above gives them candy for a reason. That the scary Beast of the Jade Emperor pats their head so gently for a reason. That Mr. Erlang and his student often bring them new clothes and good food for a reason.

To Bao, they are just surrounded by a lot of kind people.

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This was their life for 13 years…. Before chaos split the sky and their parents, along Xiangliu, were spat back into their world.

Ready to burn everyone to the ground for the atrocities they committed.

my first four sprites for the pokemon infinite fusion fan project ♥

Con parole letteralmente da incorniciare, Pierfrancesco Diliberto in arte Pif, siciliano doc, ha preso una posizione durissima sul Ponte sullo Stretto, demolendolo da cima a fondo.

Ma, soprattutto, ha demolito politicamente e culturalmente il suo principale promotore: Matteo Salvini.

“Il Ponte sullo Stretto? Nient’altro che una mera, ma costosissima, operazione d’immagine - ha detto a “la Stampa” - Un monumento all’ego di Salvini, l’ipoteca che ha messo sulla sua carriera politica.

Probabilmente pensa che realizzando il Ponte si assicurerà una vita politica. È un monumento a se stesso. Altrimenti non si spiega perché abbia cambiato idea.

Fino a qualche tempo fa Salvini sosteneva che il problema non fosse attraversare lo Stretto ma arrivare allo Stretto. Me lo ricordo bene perché è stata la prima volta, e probabilmente l’unica, in cui mi sono trovato d’accordo con lui. Poi ha cambiato idea pure sul Meridione: prima gli faceva schifo, adesso si è eretto a patriota del Sud”.

Sarebbe bastato questo per undici minuti d’applausi. Ma poi Pif è entrato nel dettaglio.

“Non si tratta di essere di destra o di sinistra. È fattuale che il progetto non è assolutamente una priorità politica, con tutti i disastri che abbiamo nella nostra isola.

Quei 13,5 miliardi sono una bella cifra che non spenderei per collegarci alla Calabria. Li investirei per far sì che la Sicilia diventi una regione di un Paese europeo e non dell’Africa centrale. Per esempio si potrebbe cominciare dagli ospedali siciliani che sono a livello del Terzo Mondo. I medici e gli infermieri vivono e lavorano in condizioni indegne, ma purtroppo ancora una volta la politica gioca sulla vita dei cittadini per un proprio vantaggio.

Mi concentrerei sulla viabilità interna. Nella vita quotidiana dei siciliani i problemi pratici sono gli spostamenti: per arrivare da Trapani a Messina ci metti dalle sei alle otto ore in treno. Fai prima ad andare a New York (e non è una battuta). Ora tra l’altro stanno facendo i lavori e non ci sono manco i treni. Ormai in Sicilia si circola solo in pullman: è tutto pullman, come in Messico, e guarda caso alcuni politici sono titolari dei trasporti siciliani.

A chi ci governa dico: prima risolvete l’infrastruttura interna alla Sicilia, liberatela dai pullman, fate una metro efficiente, sostituite i treni a gasolio, e poi, se volete, una volta fatto tutto questo riparliamo pure del Ponte senza problemi... Non sono contrario in linea di principio al progetto.

Ammesso che si riesca a fare, e che non crolli, impiegheremo cinque minuti per attraversare il mare e ore e ore per arrivare a Menfi.

Per dirla alla siciliana, questa storia del Ponte è una minch**** pazzesca”.

Stimo quest’uomo, quello a sinistra.

Oggi un po’ di più.