So I wasn't standing there anymore

How to solve the problem of being in place, and not moving. The answer?   Walking.

   

     Seeing that the conflict is just moving out of place, the resolution is obviously moving. After moving, I began to wander, began to eat and slept my glow faded. Without glowing eyes, and being transfixed upon the gyrating stars I was just another monkey... demon. And so began my gathering of the ape peoples, and I was to become their totally awesome ruler, the great sage equal of heaven.

So I was standing there.

The climax is(drum roll please)... actually moving!

      While I have already stated the conflict present in my tale, the epiphany of the struggle is actually stepping aside and walking away. Though I may be known for my amazing Kung Fu action, this tale is sadly bereft of any such slaughter. The tale is a brief one, more of an introduction that leads up to my 81 trials in Journey to the West.  The conflict begins as I clamber out of my egg, I gaze at the heavens for several days. After some intense staring at the sky, I move and as I begin exploring the world around me, the aforementioned conflict ends and the real trials begin.

The struggle is literally being born, this is NOT your typical conflict.

The fight to exist?

          In every tale there is a conflict, in this tale of my creation the conflict is the creation itself.  There are no battles, no enemies, only the fight to exist. What is this battle I fought? The battle to exist is one of coming into the world ( though I came silently). I came into the world in an egg, so the battle is not one of making myself, that was done by my 'parents'. Rather the fight was the one of willing to move and live. I sat for days with my own gleaming eyes transfixed upon heaven, and could have sat there forever. A decision, which is made by two differing thoughts. I decided to live and move, not contemplate the stars(who does something so boring anyways). I choose the wise path, and became the immortal Monkey King. Otherwise, I would still be standing as still as statue( quite literally, being made of stone and all that).

The vast array of characters incurred by the stroke of the historians pen. Basically, me, a rock, a messenger, and the ruler of the universe.

Characters in the tale 

      Now, this story doesn't exactly have a large amount of complex characters, but it does have a few. Firstly, since the tale centers around me I am obviously present. Should you mere mortals be unaware of my magnanimous repute and great titles, then I'd be the Monkey King(he who is aware of the void). So in general summary we have Me, my mother (a glowing rock of magic and happy sunshine(no really, she is)), my father(the winds), the Jade emperor in all his talk of "being the greatest being in the universe and stuff", as well as his attendant court. There are references to some of the heavenly messengers,scholars, and star-watchers as well. Otherwise, these few characters occupy the lofty position of being present in the tale of my birth. Should it not be clear as to what this tale is, wait and you shall see.

China is where its at folks, Point of origin and what not.

Where do I come from?

Well, there are two ways to go about my location as the monkey king. One, in the actual world you touch and see, I am present in all of China and the general orient. In the mythologic plane of existence, I come from the mountain of flowers and fruit, located in the far western sea. This is a lush island with waterfalls, trickling streams and forests speckled with apes.

References, works of art, and all related items in popular culture (HAVING TO DO WITH ME)

* The journey to the west = One of the three great novels of Chinese literature, this tale centering around the search for the sutras. The most recent form of the book was written in the 17th century, but the tale is almost two thousand and three hundred years old. 

*The monkey king = This upcoming movie, to be released later this year, is one of the many re-adaptions of my story put in film. The movie is being filmed and marketed mainly in China, and will garner most of its revenue from the area. 

*Havoc in Heaven = Centered mostly on my destruction of Heaven, and the following consequences, this popular Chinese Opera has been around for awhile. Renowned for its high level of intense action( Yes, lots of Kung Fu), I crash banquets, crush armies, and destroy palaces by the dozens.

The tale of a monkey in an egg, with glowing golden eyes... Nevermind, just read it.

When I was born, Hospitals weren't a thing

      You whippersnappers with you wonky gidgy-gadgets and your sanitized  hospitals. Well, when I was born several tens of thousands of years ago(give or take a few centuries) there was no such thing. Even if their had been, it is doubtful they would admit a pregnant rock. Well since my mother was a magical stone atop a mountain on the isle of Flowers and Fruit, no doctors were attendant. You see, my mother exposed to powerful energy from the heavens, covered in potent fungi, and caressed by the wind developed a magical womb. Took a little longer than your average nine months, but eventually a stone egg(that is me!) was released.  The egg grew and grew, until it was the size of boulder, and as it was torn asunder I emerged in all my glory. Though I myself was made of stone, I was like any other monkey. For days after my birth, my eyes shined like gold. Their radiance was so great that on heaven, the Jade Emperor was blinded in one of his meetings. So when he sent someone to check out the 'mysteriously awesome golden beams', he learned of me. Eventually the light began to fade from my retinas(I was tired of not being able to see anything anyways) I got up and moved around. So ends the tale of my birth. What, why do you sit there so confused? What more I do I need to say?