How Many Layers Of ‘glamour’ Does Macaque Have?

How many layers of ‘glamour’ does Macaque have?

We know that Macaque is using magic to hide his blind eye since we briefly saw it in S1EP9

However there is a chance that Macaque is changing his appearance even more than just covering up his blind eye

During S3EP8 ‘Benched’ we briefly see Macaque’s tail turn white before turning back to black & this has caused some debate on whether or not Macaque actually has white fur since there are white furred Macaque’s & previous interpretations of Macaque such as Monkey King 2009 have depicted him with more of a white furred shade

So there is the possibility that Macaque could have white fur but is using another layer of glamour to cover it up though since we saw his blind eye in season one a lot of people have argued that Macaque doesn’t have another layer of glamour usually & that the white fur we saw was from LBD’s influence on Macaque in season 3.

Whether Macaque is naturally white furred or not though in season 3 it’s possible he had two layers of glamour one to cover his blind eye and one to cover his white fur but there’s also a possibility of a third layer of glamour.

For his six ears

Despite introducing himself as the Six Eared Macaque & LBD also referring to him under the same title we’ve never actually seen Macaque’s six ears though the shows team say that Macaque’s reaction to Pigsy’s singing is a reference to his six ears & keen hearing.

There’s been some debate on whether Macaque actually has six ears since we didn’t see them when we saw his blind eye & the argument that people have made is that the six ears are metaphorical since there’s a chance that Macaque’s ‘six ears’ are actually a pun based off an old Buddhist sayings of “The dharma is not to be transmitted to the sixth ear [i.e. the third pair/ person]”. A ‘sixth ear’ refers to an extra person in a private conversation, someone possibly eavesdropping or listening in & Macaque is said to have exceptional hearing. 

Macaque being called the Six Eared Macaque because he has the ability to constantly be 'the sixth ear’ or third party listening in on peoples conversations.

Those that believe that Macaque had come from Monkey King representing his ‘evil side’ think that Macaque’s six ears are actually a reference to the six desires a concept found in some Buddhist and Taoist writings & those desires are things that Sun Wukong had to cast aside in order to achieve true enlightenment.

However in the show there is a chance that Macaque does literally have six ears that he’s hiding since he has at least one lego figure which were given six ears & the season 3 concept art showed him with six ears as well

So there is a chance that Macaque has six ears in the show but is just covering them up though that has led to some debate on why he revealed his blind eye in S1EP9 but not his ears even though he introduced himself as the Six Eared Macaque. The debate may continue until we actually see Macaque’s six ears in the show itself.

So as it stands it’s possible that Macaque is using three layers of glamour:

One to hide his blind eye

Another to hide his white fur (debatable since the white fur could have been caused by LBD 

A final one to hide his six ears