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Please remember that these are only headcanons, if you disagree with me then that's all chill.
MK: Trans, also bisexual. I'll admit, I don't normally headcanon characters as trans unless the narrative is trans coded, but there's a rather particular line that caused this headcanon. When the spider queen's minions would call him 'Monkey boy' he'd shot back that he's a "monkey man" which seemed odd to me as he doesn't seem to be the type to be insecure about his masculinity and with him declaring himself as the "monkey kid" he certainly isn't insecure about being seen as a kid. The only thing that made sense for why he'd do that was that he just likes to randomly declare himself as a man, which just seems like a very trans thing to do.
Pigsy: Bi, no known preference.
Tang: Gay.
Sandy: AroAce spec. He can feel both romantic and sexual attraction, but he needs to get to know them properly first.
Mei: Bi, with a preference towards men.
Monkey King: Pan.
Macaque: Pan.
Red Son: Bi, with a preference towards men.
DBK: Straight.
Princess Iron Fan: Straight.
Spider Queen: Bi, no known preference.
Syntax: Gay asexual.
Huntsman: He's honestly just into someone being able to kill him if needed, lol.
Ne Zha: AroAce.
Lady Bone Demon: AroAce.
The "mayor": I don't know what the fuck he his but he ain't straight.
Azure: Pan.
Peng: No clue, but he ain't straight.
Yellow tusk: Gay.
hi besties. First thing (this is relevant) I'm black. Good old African American yippee
Ok.
Let's talk about Chinese erasure.
LMK is a retelling/revisioning of a NUMBER of Chinese Mythologies. Most focused of being Journey to The West a story mostly focused around Sun Wukong.
Now. I have seen, so much fanart, fanworks, headcanons, character redesignes that change the characters from yellow legos (the legos actual colors NOT the fact they are Asian we're not doing that) to more realistic/human looking characters. And a lot of the time these include making these characters Black/Blasian.
Now first of all: I'm not talking about..i think its October? The October challenge to redraw characters as Black/African. I'm talking about art and work just year round.
Hey, first of all, I love that people are drawing more POC characters. But can you make these characters THE RIGHT FUCKING RACE?
The characters in LMK (Redson especially i see so much shit of him being black) are CHINESE they are CHINESE MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS/RETELLING OF SAID CHARACTERS. They are NOT black.
I love seeing the representation and people learning to draw POC characters but please please do it with characters who arent as culturally significant as those from LMK. There's most of the Steven Universe Characters, there's any white characters from media NOT based in mythology you can draw as black but please please please do not forget
LMK is in China.the characters are Chinese. Draw them as such. Learn to draw Chinese characters and hairstyles.
please 🙏 Chinese culture deserves the amount of respect and time your putting into ours
Edit: I am not saying drawing them with tan skin is bad. Chinese people can be tan. but if you give them fucking braids and cornrows aka: black protective hairstyles then your just erasing their ethnicity aka: FUCKING CHINESE.
also please reblog! Tumblr doesn't have an algorithm like other sites so if this spreads it has to spread through reblogging so please do
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