[Lore question] Is Wu Kong an hairy human or an Yaoguai monkey?

[kalashnjkov21]

zhu bajie was a human and he can love, that is understandable but what about the monke in this game? "Monke loves Baigujing" is just weird.

[zero.calvin]

he is a celestial monkey born out of sacred stone accidentally left on earth by a goddess....

so he is neither human (mortal) or yaoguai... he is a deity.

[redhongkong]

stone monkey (its similiar to yaoguai)
bajie = one of the god on celestial court (punished to be a piggy yaoguai at human world for flirting with female servant)

[redhongkong]

i think theres few "level" and ur position/level could change based on ur behavior/practice
(eg bajie = from god to yaoguai )

idk if my translation would be appropriate, but u get the idea

heaven/upper world
神界 God / heaven / celestial court
仙界 fairyland/spiritual world

human world
妖界 yaoguai
人界 human

underworld
魔界 devildom
冥界 underworld

[zero.calvin]

Originally posted by redhongkong:

bajie = one of the god on celestial court (punished to be a piggy yaoguai at human world for flirting with female servant)

zhu bajie, originally a heavenly general call general golden river falls in love with one of the fairy in heavens, as romance is forbidden in heaven, he being punish for 9999 lifetime of tragic romance as he is a general, he should have known better, while the fairy being banish into the moon for isolation, which eventually become a moon goddess... (yes this is the same moon goddess that moon cake festive is to celebrate)

in one of the reincarnation, a mistake was made and he got reincarnated into pig and become a pig demon. Zhu means pig, Bajie means all forbidden, Bajie, is a name given to him by the scared monk tang as earthly desire was his downfall, so the name is to remind him to cut ties with his earthly desire...

funny enough, Bajie is a wordplay in Bagaui as he is introduce as Zhu Bagaui means pig monster or pig demon.

In this continuation, it seems like there is another fairy that has fallen in love with him, which got reincarnated as Spider Demon and it is imply that he sleep with her.

in english, the daughter yell at Bajie for ruining her mother's reputation, but in mandrin, she said, he ruin her mother's purity instead, implying that they both sleep together, not only that he left after sleeping with her, which is a big no no in chinese culture. this is also why Spider Demon is obsess with marrying Zhu Bajie... even thought he is a monk by now.

additional to that, he reply with why do yaogui care about reputation in english, but in mandrin, he said, why do yaogui care about purity, which indirectly imply that Spider Demon is a w h o r e, that is why the daughter is so piss off to the point she transform into her true spider form and start the boss fight.

[redhongkong]

most yaoguai are originally just animals/vegetation, they practice to be enlightened(點化) and hopefully one day could rise to upperworld (位列仙班)