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Some of my of the Wukong and Sanzang pairs that I remember most.

Edit: Added the dates of their respective versions.

G1 Carly introduction episode, god she was so real for that

Sometimes I just have to sit back and admire the fact that the animators devoted as much attention to detailing Tech swallowing water as if his throat was dry...

... as they did to the minute changes in facial expression that indicated Cody was disappointed by Crosshair's answer regarding Order 66 but needed to hide it.

5 Fluff normal spicynoodleshipping plis

"Noodle Boy!!!"

MK startled as he heard the familiar voice shout from behind him. He looked away from the arcade game he was playing with Mei to see Red Son standing near the end of the aisle of games looking furious with his hair sparking dangerously. Seeing the fire demon in the arcade of all places was unexpected; he looked somewhat out of place there.

"Uh... Hey Red Son," MK finally responded, "What'cha doin' here?"

The question seemed to only infuriate the demon more, "What am I doing here?" he shouted, "What are YOU doing here?! One moment you're chasing me and the next you've disappeared to go play video games with your peasant friend! How unbelievably rude!"

"Ummm.... sorry? I think?" MK rubbed the back of his neck uncertainly. It was true, he'd been chasing after Red Son an hour or so ago; he'd stolen some artifact or relic or whatever that seemed important, but at some point during the chase MK had lost track of him... and he was already late for meeting Mei at the arcade for their hang session, so he'd just kind of given up. "But, I mean... you won. I couldn't catch you. Why'd you come back?"

"Because!" Smoke was pouring out of the demon's clenched fists as he shouted the word, but after that, he seemed to lose his train of thought. There were a few moments of silence while his eyes darted back and forth, seemingly trying to remember what he was going to say, "It's... it's just the principle of the thing!" he finally stammered out, apparently starting to realize how silly this sounded. "You can't j-just abandon a... a FIGHT you're in the middle of to go play games with someone else, it's bad form!"

MK hesitated, glancing over at Mei... his friend had an excited smirk on her face, like she was trying to hold in a laugh. It took him a second longer to realize what it was that she found funny.

"OH." MK turned back to look at Red. "You're jealous!"

'WHAT." Red Son's whole head lit up in a flash of fire, "How dare you?! I came here to- to finish our fight and not for any other reason!"

"Hmm..." MK seemed to ponder the statement for a moment, but then responded with a nod, "Ok. We should finish it, then."

Red had looked like he was ready to shout some more, but then he was quiet as he processed MK's words, as if he wasn't expecting him to actually agree. Then his whole body seemed to perk up a bit and an excited smile appeared on his face. "Yes. Yes, exactly! Come on, let's fight!"

MK returned the smile as he approached Red Son, but instead of turning to go fight outside, he grabbed a firm hold of the fire demon's hand and led him further into the arcade. He seemed to be so shocked by the sudden move that Red just allowed it, the only sign that he was even aware of what was going on was the soft blush forming on his cheeks as he stared down at their joined hands.

Finally, MK brought them to a stop in front of one of the arcade machines, specifically Monkey Mech. "Here," he said, looking back to Red but not releasing his hand, "we'll fight in this game. Winner gets to be the all-time champion and lord it over the loser forever!"

Red Son looked back and forth between the Monkie Kid and the game once or twice before responding, "I meant a REAL fight, you harebrained peasant!" he grumbled at last. Notably, he still hadn't pulled his hand out of MK's grip.

"Ohh, sounds to me like you're scared, Red," MK teased, "What, are you afraid I'm gonna kick your butt?"

Another flash of fire from the demon's hair, "In your dreams, Noodle Boy!" he released MK's hand and reached for the controls to select a level, "No items, Son Goku only, Journey's End."

"Wait, you've played before?" MK was genuinely surprised, but went to slot tokens for both of them into the machine anyway.

Red Son's smile returned, more smug than before though. "Second thoughts, Noodle Boy?"

"No way!" MK grabbed ahold of his own controls to start the game, "Let's finish this!"

Ringer family photo

Here's Iris and her family!

First her papa and mama, Benigno and Gabi. Benigno lived in China since he was kid, he grew up with his childhood friend and the two ended up married, the two happy with their lives with him working as a dance teacher..though there days would darken and 2 years later his wife passed away. With that he left his job and moved back to Mexico to clear his head. Once there he stayed cooped up on his family farm before he got himself a job at the market. There he met Gabi, a divorced mama and her daughter Xavier who camed back from the states a year prior. The two found each other company to be comforting and the love that formed between them only grew once they learned of each other love for dancing. Anyways timeskiping here- the two got married, had 3 more kids and moved back to China as Benigno was offered a job opportunity and the kids were old enough. They're now both dance teachers, both tough and sweet folks. The two are alright with Iris and Yin relationship (Benigno moreso as the two remind him of his first relationship)

Her eldest siblings up next!

Xavier the step sister, she's somewhere in her late 40s and is a blogger/cyclist/. She loves herself comfy clothes and is always wearing her green hoodie whenever she can. She blogs about her travels and loves sending flowers as gifts. She stayed in Mexico when the rest of the family moved to China.

Her 2nd eldest siblings, Roma! In her 30s. She got a temper and is stubborn as heck. Her fiery attitude often lands her in some hot water, but she can usually talk her way out of it once she cools down. She's protective of her family's, yes families. Roma here is a mother to two kids and has a loving husband. Anyways she's protective as heck and she doesn't understand what Iris sees in that no good silver demon. She plans on going back to Mexico someday...even if it means leaving her husband and kids.

3rd oldest sibling her brother Mateo, nicknamed Mocha due to his love for it. He's 31, a wedding planner and a good one at that. He's outgoing, a smooth talker like Roma and he has a quite of an annoyance towards MK and any of the villains that he has fought. Why you might ask? Well some weddings have been ruined thanks to them and it chips away at him every single time. Like all the time and effort gone just like that! Don't get him started on the bridezillas or grooms-. It takes everything in him to not lose his temper! Anyway, he has a marigold tattooed on his neck and the skeleton of his arm and hand tattooed on his right arm and hand. An eyebrow piercing and heavy eye shadow (much to his parents disapproval)

btw this is Iris (I'm saying this because I haven't drawn her that much-)

Me and my mom were talking about monkeys in general because i was actually very confused about the whole "if you smile, generally monkeys can see it as a sign of aggression" and she explained it to me

And other than the fact that it's a "sign of aggression" because generally showing the teeth can be used as something to show anger, my mom said this

"it all depends on the type of monkey, for example for chimpanzees your whole existence is aggressive for them, they'll snap you like a dry twig."

but also it dipends on the environment the animal grew up in, my cat could easily mistake my smile as a sign of aggression but dosen't because he grew up knowing how humans show emotions and can distinguish between them, a wild monkey for example can't know about it.

So this means that Sun Wukong won't actually find a smile aggressive, he grew up around humans and mortals and he can distinguish, but i like to think that sometimes he still does because he forgets, he did spent 500 years only around monkeys. And it's nature to him? Y'know.

and for Macaque? I like to think that he sees it as aggressive, that's it. No in-between. No "what if".

He smiles himself to show that he is not friendly, unlike wukong who does smile often to show that he is the opposite of aggressive, he makes sure not smile with his teeth with his monkeys though, his smile is way more intimidating than a human one.

Just

Silky monkey fact i guess

gotham rainy nights

i firmly believe in Duke doing silly things with his power

hiding under your dad's cape when it's pouring outside can be something very special + bat-rain-poncho, several years later

the bois looking at omega oh ever so softly...

bonus rex