Actually a song just occurred to me and I cannot fathom how nobody in the ShadowPeach fandom has thought of this before.
It's one of those ~peak drama~ musical songs that likes to circulate sometimes in like idk shorts or something.
And I just??? It's so obvious once I thought of it???
Like the only flaw it might have is that the recording we have of it doesn't really sound like them at all but like, the lyrics fit very well actually.
Anyway it's I Know Those Eyes/This Man Is Dead from The Count of Monte Cristo (the musical) and it's just. If you needed a song to encapsulate the theoretical vibe of Macaque and Wukong stumbling into each other post-resurrection and having Sad Thoughts about it then this is perfect.
Like seriously, it's a tragic duet about a reunion after a horrible betrayal: the one who was betrayed comes back angry and spiteful; insisting he's not that person anymore. It's haunting, it's heartwrenching.
One lyric is literally "The man you seek is long gone. Dead and cold, a story told by those he trusted, those he loved, and those who then Moved on." Like? Hello Macaque?
Like seriously, give it a listen.
You'll see what I mean. The energy isn't quite right for them but the words, the emotion!
