Sun Wukong

"*I've seen too many people like him. The burden of being a leader is often too much for many people to bear." - Sun to Indra*

**Sun Wukong (actual name Wukong Sun), Awakening to Emptiness,** is a Primordial that currently resides in Universe Prime's China and is the leader of the Seven Sages. It is unknown where he resides, but he does show himself in the event the Chinese call upon him. He is worshipped as the land's sacred defender.

## History

The existence of Sun Wukong was considered to be a myth by nearly every Primordial. A mortal becoming a god was something seen as feasible, but not even the Daemon Sultan believed that a mortal could ascend to Primordial status. Sun Wukong's birth seemed normal at the surface, but he had been blessed with the power of immeasurable light and immeasurable darkness. It is said that his birth was a combining of a Solstice and an Equinox. Since his days as a teenager, he had been a patriot and was dedicated to doing whatever it took to keep China safe. It was because of this that he disliked the Jade Emperor, who mistreated his own civilians and ignored the constant strife and conflict that was overwhelming China. When Sun left with a group of others, one of his friends passed, leading him on a journey that would allow him to find an Immortal, beings blessed with not just immortality, but immeasurable power. When he impressed the immortal with his persistence, he too then became an immortal while also becoming a devout Taoist. As he would learn more and more about the complicated matters of life, godhood, and the Jade Emperor he became eager to defy everything in life. His power was growing stronger as even the Dragon Kings would bow to his presence and grant him several weapons of his choosing and apparel "necessary for a god." When his life came to an end, he defied death itself by deceiving the Ten Kings, rulers of the dead appointed by the Jade Emperor and erased his and his friends names from the books, granting them immortality. While under the guise as the leader of his newly formed village; he formed the Seven Sages with the Spirits of Nature. As he realized he was quickly ascending to godhood, Sun realized he could use his status as a god to help the Chinese citizens and predicted that instead of trying to fight him first, the Jade Emperor would dance around the issue with a compromise in spite of the Ten Kings and Dragon King's advice for physical action. Naturally, Sun's prediction came to pass and he was ecstatic...Until he had been appointed a Heavenly Stableman. His frustration was immense and he decided to force the Jade Emperor into giving him a different job by letting the horses loose. After a chastising, Sun was appointed keeper of the Divine Garden, where the Divine Peaches grew. He was told not to eat the peaches and for his actions at the stable, was punished by being starved. Sun did his best not to give in to the lure of the Divine Peaches, but he gave in and ate all three, granting him immortality threefold. To avoid further punishment, he replaced them with normal peaches. He heard from one of Heaven's Kings about a gathering of all gods in Asia and decided to attend despite not having an invite. Although only being there to gain a greater understanding of the gods, he was drawn to the wine and had a sip. While it granted him another layer of immortality, it was so potent he stumbled and recognized he needed to leave the area. He stumbled into an alchemist's lab and took the Alchemist's Pills of Longevity. The rage from the Alchemist was so great that he shoved Sun into the distillery in order to reobtain the pills. While initially in no condition to resist, the Pills revitalized his ability and he quickly fled, while he fled, he last ingested the Ginseng of Immortality and gifted the remaining Ginseng to his close friends. Sun was worried. After all the havoc in Heaven he caused, there would be no way the Jade Emperor could ignore what he had done. He went back to his village and asked them to prepare for war. The village was overwhelmed by the Army of Heaven and several of Sun's villagers were killed. He was consumed with such rage, that the latent power within him awoke: He had become a Primordial. Singlehandedly, he decimated Heaven's army and ignored the Jade Emperor's pleas for mercy as he slaughtered him, avenging the Chinese citizens lost to his ignorance and Sun's own villagers. This did not sit well with Buddha however, who sought to track him down. After tracking down Sun, he explained to him the knowledge he had of what he had done, and that all of Asia calls for punishment for his act against all gods in Asia. Sun fought him, but Buddha explained to him that without maturity and honesty, he could never best him. Sun was bested by Buddha and Buddha explained to him what he had in mind for the new Primordial. A lesson and a punishment: 500 years of incarceration to learn patience and ingestion of molten metals to allow for true self-reflection. As Sun sat in agony and torture for 500 long years, he finally changed upon his release. He thanked Buddha, saying to him that he had come to regret his actions, and that even though it was the Jade Emperor, he did not want to deceive anyone. After Buddha and Sun bowed, Sun became a devout Taoist, believing that nature and man should exist harmoniously. Sun had changed since his release, he was no longer deceiving, reckless, and young. He was wiser, blunt, and patient. Sun's actions, although he looks down on them, have been carved in legend as a mortal who ascended to Primordial status. Until much later, it would be seen as a myth.

## Personality

Of all Primordials who have existed throughout time, Sun Wukong is arguably the most revered. Possessing several weapons at his disposal, an unbreakable and multi-layered form of immortality that makes it impossible for him to be erased from existence, something that is regarded as almost fundamentally impossible by those who do not wield the Code or Concept Magic, Sun Wukong's strength is immeasurable. In spite of this, Sun Wukong is laid-back, yet extremely blunt. True to his master's teachings, Sun Wukong is merciful, filled with restraint, and treats friends and enemies alike. Due to his joking nature, people who ask him how he obtained his power are often dismayed at what seems like a joke, but what is actually the truth when they ask him about the source of his power: a dream. Sun is also very protective of his territory and there is nothing more that upsets him than the death of Chinese civilians, good or bad. However, Sun Wukong is extremely philosophical and deceivingly intelligent, with most of this intelligence being masked by his blunt and mellow demeanor. He is also an extremely precise judge of character, often correctly predicting the actions a person can take such as when his prediction of what Elysia would do as leader of the Kinship would come to pass. Sun credits his time imprisoned and Buddha for teaching him the importance of truth, maturity, and patience.

## Physical and Mental Analysis

Mech and Anthropos have done a hypothetical analysis on Sun Wukong, here is what they've obtained:

* Sun Wukong gained the ability to defy existence through gaining immortality by 8 different means, these were:
	+ The Way of Immortality: Taught to him by his master in spite of the Court of Heaven's objections.
	+ The Book of Immortals: When dragged to the World of Darkness, Sun protested when being informed his life as a mortal had ended. He tracks down the Ten Kings, who address the complaint by simply saying they must have had the wrong name. When he asks to see the register of death, the Chinese decree for all mortal life, he scribbles out the names of the Seven Sages and his close friends, making them all and himself immortal twofold.
	+ The 3 Peaches: After being appointed a stable boy in Heaven when negotiating with the Jade Emperor for a standing in Heaven, Sun protests by letting the Heavenly stable's horses loose. To calm him down, they appoint him the guardian of the Heavenly Peach Garden. He does not hesitate to eat the 3 peaches in bloom and became light, strong, capable of flight, and eternal as heaven and earth.
	+ The Heavenly Wine: After not being invited to the Queen Mother of the West's banquet, Sun impersonates a deity, and Sun heavily distracted from the wine's aroma, drinks the Heavenly Wine.
	+ Pills of Longevity: Heavily inebriated from the Wine, Sun stumbles his way into Laozi's lab of alchemy and ingests the Pills.
	+ Ginseng of Immortality: In his attempt to evade execution after the ingesting of the Heavenly Wine and Pills of Longevity, Sun Wukong finds and distributes the Ginseng to all of his close friends and fellow sages.

* Prior to the defeat of the Heavenly army, Sun was imprisoned for 500 years to teach him a lesson of patience and humility.
* He has survived multiple execution attempts including being guillotined, surviving the inside of a furnace for 48 days, imprisonment and torture via ingestion of molten metals over the course of 500 days, and being thrown into an eight-way trigram crucible in an attempt to be distilled alive in a desperate attempt for Laozi to regain the Pills of Longevity.
* He has traveled from one end to Universe Prime to the other and left a trail to leave his mark.
* He possesses the 72 Heavenly Transformations, these transformations powers are not fully understood by anybody but Sun himself.
* He possesses several weapons, these are:
	+ The Book of Life and Death: After journeying to the Land of the Dead and scribbling out the names of the Dead, the Ten Kings attempted to kill him for his deceit. In retaliation, Sun Wukong imprisons the Ten Kings and steals The Book of Life and Death to use for himself, granting him Dominion over the dead of all mortals.
	+ The Weight on the World: A two-handed dagger axe that is said to weigh as much as Universe Prime does.
	+ Storm of the End: A Dao that cuts universes with single slashes. It is said to be representative of the fabled storm the Chinese said would bring universal Armageddon.
	+ Ruyi Jingu Bang: Also known as the Pole of Emptiness, this is a two-handed staff that is even heavier than The Weight on the World. This staff is capable of elongating and shrinking, making copies of itself, and obeying any command its owner gives. This Golden Staff is Sun's signature weapon and when not in use, is shrunk to the size of a pin, where it lies as Sun's left earlobe piercing.
	+ Glory of Ten Powers: A pair of swords that can fuse together to become the 11th Power, these swords were initially created to symbolize the unbreakable bond between two lovers before the two were killed and the swords were stolen by the Jade Emperor. When the Emperor was killed, Sun retrieved the swords.
* His exploits in the Chinese Pantheon and imprisonment of the Ten Kings led Death himself to come and look for Sun Wukong. When Death attempted to fight Sun Wukong, he was easily bested by him.
* Sun, although a protege of many, was taught by many people himself.
	+ He was taught by an unknown master, who gave him Immortality, and is ultimately responsible for his becoming a Taoist.
	+ He was taught by Buddha, who used his imprisonment and torture as a lesson, and turned Sun Wukong into a philosophical and dangerously intelligent Primordial.
	+ He was taught by Aurora, who taught him how to manipulate the elements. With him, Sun and Aurora invented Bending, the rawest and most powerful form of magic. A combination of striking and magic at the same time.

## Relationships

Death (Despised) - Death came after Sun Wukong due to his imprisonment of the Ten Kings and stealing of the Book of Life and Death and multilayered immortality. Death was far too late and was easily bested by Wukong. Sun Wukong despises Death due to claiming the life of his friend and when he bested Death, he took back the soul of his friend. Until the war between the Kinship, Naobi, and Lovecraftians, Sun's presence had largely been hidden.