Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-70.191.255.48-20180328212849

I was surprised to see no info on the inspiration of Sun in the trivia section... so, for anyone wondering, here it is.

Sun is very strongly based off of a character in an ancient Chinese allegory for enlightenment, called 'The Journey To The West'. This character, also named Sun Wu Kong, was a headstrong and mischievous stone monkey, who in his exploits became king of some (not stone) monkeys, got turned immortal 4 different ways, angered, beat in battle, and almost overthrew deities in most all of China's major religions, and helped a divine monk make it from one side of China to the other, get to the Buddha and back.

Similarities between Sun and Sun include:

acrobatics skills

strength

ability to make duplicates

fighting with a staff

being a monkey

names

mastery of martial arts

protectiveness of things they care about

regarless of outside joking demeanors, being good at heart

etc  