well its your fault shifu, not giving a child a lot of affections will affect their reaction on receiving hugs. po can vouch
luckily tigress gets you and she hugs you back so no worries
anyway this is based on infini-tree’s headcanon on shifus reaction to tigress waking up after her arm got amputated by herself
so yeah this takes place in an au that she got tagged as the jade petrification au so check out that tag to see more crazy ideas between us on this au


au or a ‘ua’ aka universal alteration where lee left the whole ‘leading the pandas to safety”
(if that’s what their going with in the movie)
 to someone else and went looking for his son cus he needed to know if he was still alive and after a good year or 2 he finds po in the valley of peace however by that time in the eyes of the law mr.ping was the legal guardian which caused a little conflict
they came to a compromise where lee basically lived with them and that’s how po was raised by 2 dads
look at this adorable family
for the first years of his life and a bit more po thought they were married


Even with the virus spreading po had always the hope that once he deafeated the collector -because he had to, he beat tai lung AND lord shen there was nothing different here- everything would go back to normal, everything would be fine
but meeting tigress again-so so long- and saw her prostetic arm was like a cold slap to any hope he had of the world going back to normal, and hearing about oogway, shifu, monkey, and mantis gave him a reality check that no nothing will ever be normal
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poor po having his hopes destroyed
this takes place just take abit later their reunion
besides the shading on po im actually proud of this
if your wondering about her prostetic its actually a club with a hidden blade in it , one of others she has
and I didn’t think much of outfits I was just being lame and thinking that they would have some protection
anyway that’s it for now since I don’t have any ideas yet
don’t worry happy things will come