Monkey Magic

Director: Gérard Johnstone / Craig Owen / Peter Andkidis Screenwriter: Craig Owen / Jacqueline Peach / Christiaan Van Vuuren Starring: Chai Henson / Lucian Buchanan / Josh Thomson / Emily Cockrell / Josh McKenzie / Jordan Mooney / Jared Blakiston / Fasitua Amosa / Michelle Hong / Jim Cawthorn / Samson Chan-Boon Genre: Fantasy / Action / Comedy / Adventure Country/Region of Production: Australia / New Zealand Language: English Date: 2018-01-28 (Australia) Number of seasons: 2 Number of episodes: 20 Single episode length: 25 minutes Also known as: Legend of the Monkey King / Journey to the West / 新美猴王传奇 / 猴王传奇 / 西方西游记 IMDb: tt6807662 Type: Reimanging

Summary:

The Monkey King was imprisoned under a mountain 500 years ago by his enemies in Heaven. Five hundred years later, the Earthly realm is overrun, and its humans oppressed, by demons. The gods and immortals are in hiding or oppressed by demons as well. A scholar secretly concocts a plan to bring together a few warriors and a monk, named Tripitaka, to undertake a quest to resurrect the Monkey King and find the Heavenly scrolls that were stolen by Monkey 500 years ago and hidden away secretly on earth. Anyone who finds the scrolls would gain unlimited power. However, the night the group is about to start on their quest, a demon attacks the scholar's home and kills everyone inside except for the scholar's adopted daughter, taking the golden crown necessary to revive the Monkey King. In his last moments, the scholar entrusts his daughter with the quest. She takes on the identity of Tripitaka and ventures out into the world, narrowly escaping death herself.

In a town she gives charity to a monk and ends up forced to work for a tavern owner, thus gaining a job and a room to sleep in. When the same demon that killed her adoptive father shows up, she secretly steals the magical crown and makes a run for it. When demons begin searching the town for her and the magic crown, she is disguised as a monk by the same monk she helped and successfully makes her way out of the city. In an opening along the side of a mountain, she finds the stony visage of the Monkey King's face, and puts the crown on his head. Finally, the Monkey King is free but he soon discovers that the crown is repressing most of his godly abilities. The pair return to the town and join up with Pigsy and Sandy, who are also gods, and the four of them begin their quest of finding the lost scrolls and gaining enough power to overthrow all the demons.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Legends_of_Monkey

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: The New Legends of Monkey (TV), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Tripitaka (The New Legends of Monkey), Monkey King (The New Legends of Monkey), Sandy (The New Legends of Monkey), Pigsy (The New Legends of Monkey), Eievui | Eevee, Hoho | Hoothoot, Casey | Abra, Goukazaru | Infernape, Font Demon (The New Legends of Monkey), Absol (Pokemon), Kojofu | Mienfoo Additional Tags: Tripkey, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Pokemon Battles, Talking Pokemon, Action/Adventure, Friendship, Slow Burn, Found Family, Pokemon Journey, Humor, Fluff, world building, More tags to be added, both of these worlds are my sandbox and I’m just playing in it, Mostly this is just my personal love letter to both of these fandoms Summary:

You know that one NPC on the first route of your journey you forgot to battle? What’s her story like?

Tripitaka just wants to get to her research internship. What could possibly go wrong along the way?

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But The New Legends of Monkey kinda has a good trans allegory

Like Tripitaka spends the entirety of the first season pretending to be a boy, everyone around her thinks she's a boy, everyone uses he/him for her, and she feels terrible about keeping it a secret from everyone. She's afraid of being seen as a fraud for not being the boy everyone expects her to be, the boy everyone wants and needs her to be. When Monkey finally finds out, he's confused and a little hurt. He needs some time to process. Pigsy, on the other hand? He's just cool with it, and he tries his best to switch to she/her for Tripitaka, though he wants to know why she didn't tell anyone. Neither of them feel very much betrayed. Hell, when asked, even Monkey says, "Betrayed? No."

There's only one way to destroy the Shadow Scroll. Fly it into the Sun.

favorite pairings of all time, a series

Monkey King & Tripitaka

(The New Legends of Monkey, 2018- )

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