I Struggled A Lot After Writing The Two Princes Bc I Still Wanted To Write Something, But Every Time

Let me tell you my problem with the Samadhi Fire.

So we're given a toddler who understandably throws tantrums and is emotional a lot.

Much like any other toddler.

But this really fucking strong fire is thrown into the mix.

Instead of trying to find ways to teach him how to be calm and control his fire better, they try to control him(as said by PIF, even their combined might could not control him) eventually they decide that they should take it away from him

Now remember what Red Son told Mei in the final battle? That she doesn't wield the fire, she IS the fire

Probably talking from experience.

So basically, they locked parts of this kid into rings.

Also the amazing parenting of DBK makes an appearance: he kept one of the rings.

Since he got a mountain on top of him he wasn't around that much, but he didn't know that would happen, so he fully intended to keep a part of his son on his person at all times, as a constant reminder to the kid that yeah that was ripped from him.

And he didn't even get it back???

I love Mei and i fully support her girbossing around, but it would have been such an amazing move towards Red Son's inevitable redemption arc if he was the one to use the Samadhi Fire in the final battle.

(His whole significance in JTTW was because of the Samadhi Fire, so it feels to me like this way of dealing with it was just an excuse to hint toward dragonfruit(which i feel is forced, but i explained that a bit more in another post))

(For some reason, I feel strongly for characters who got things taken from them, or got replaced, or any combination of the two)

(Dunno why)

I would like to share this specific doodle

Wukong @the DBPs:

When planning my Golden Flames AU of course i had to think about rewriting episodes, and I thought, hey, I can write Red into s2, and I still haven't decided how that particular thing is gonna be handled, if I'll even do it in the first place but that got me thinking.

What the hell is going on with Red Son's backstory in canon?

Like the whole samadhi fire situation is different than in jttw, but in dumpling destruction, the Red Boy storyline was, like, canon, so what the actual hell is up with that? Did all the Red Boy things happen after the fire was sealed and swk got beat up by someone much much weaker than before without the samadhi fire, which was the reason for Red Boy's success in jttw, or did he get his shit handed to him by a baby?

(Also the added fucked upness of all the punishments he received, which is something I'm already pretty loud about in the first place, I will never shut up about how wrong it was(actually made a post on it too, but it irrelevant now) and also another question about canon regarding Red's time with guanyin)

And yeah, it was Dumpling Destruction that started me on this.

It would have been really difficult to try and figure things out for this au given this confusion, because if all the Red Boy stuff happened after the sealing then it wouldn't have happened here, therefore the vase wouldn't be available, but if it happened when Red was a baby then it makes it really funny that swk got beat up by a baby, helped seal world ending fire that the kid used to beat him up inside the baby, then protested against killing him, sealed the kid's dad and went on to raise the baby

So because of that, dumpling destruction does not exist in the au regardless of whether ill rewrite the rest of s2 or not.

Wanted to make a meme with this about the Golden Flames AU, but it wasn't much of a choice

I'll make one anyway:

Wukong: I am a living legend, I don't need anyone (not anymore)

Red Boy: *exists*

Wukong:

Internet: the show is available to watch-

Me: great, where?

Internet: -on this website/streaming service-

Me: awesome, thank y-

Internet: -in the US.

Me: ...

Me: *cocks gun I don't have because I don't live in the us*

Learning French made my brain melt so here a horrible joke:

What was sealed away on a Saturday?

The samedi fire

(Badum tsss)

The owl house s4 actually got canceled because the show gets darker with every season and the poster would basically be pitch black

I'm going to admit, I've never read any of the books

But recently I rewatched all the Tinkerbell movies(big childhood favs) and noticed a big worldbuilding mistake.

In the Pirate Fairy it is explained that whatever you trow pixie dust on, it floats

So it all made sense to me:

They wouldnt normally be able to fly, their wings would be too small, but they throw pixie dust on themselves and use their wings to propel themselves.

But in the Neverbeast it is a pretty big point of the movie that because of the pixie dust the wings are glowing

Why would they glow if it just makes them float?

(As I mentioned before I haven't read any of the books so don't come at me)

This has been bothering me