I Don't Know If Someone Said This Before, But I'll Say It Now:

Me: *just chilling in class*

My brain: hey what if you made a super long oneshot with an AU about the Samadhi Fire. The five parts of it(the four rings plus Red Son himself) could represent the five stages of grief AND the five elements(because in jttw the Samadhi Fire is made of all elements and that's why it's inextiguishable and super powerful) and the rings took not ring forms and for example the blue ring could be depression and water(despite the obvious choice of having the dragon ring be the water one) and it could take the form of a fish and just imagine it swimming around in nonexistent water in a crater on the moon as if it's a lake, but it's really just swimming around in the air.

And so on, and they arent exactly conscious, but they are constantly trying to go back together, but the one that ended up in Ao Lie DOES have a teensy weensy tiny bit of consciousness and it can experience everything the current person it's in experiences and it hates it because the wanting to go back together again is way more painful like this that it can experience things, and you know just the general feeling of not being able to do anything, being locked inside a foreign body and having to see everything they see.

And Red Son would sometimes randomly get insane, like, immobilizingly painful flashes of pain(aka the pain of the samadhi fire (aka him) being ripped apart) and even more rarely he would, in his dreams, see flashes of what the dragon part sees and like-

IM DO SORRY TO ANYONE I SPILED THINGS TO I ACCIDENTALY DIDNT PUT A SPIULER WARNING BUT HERE IT IS NOW

S4 special spoiler warning

Me in school:

Wukong: Alright. Just have to keep my sworn-brother-who-i-just-sealed-under-a-mountain's kid from dying for an unspecified amount of time, no problem

Baby Red: *holds wukongs finger in that specific baby way*

Wukong: Oh no! I am attached

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:

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.

Wukong @the DBPs:

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

S4 special spoilers kinda

HELP NOT MK MAKING A RED SON