Fanart Liu Kang

The real ones

Reblog to kill it faster

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kung lao in the brain….

i actually have a big fat crush on him

Thinking about former timelines subsmoke and how they ran away from the Lin Kuei together only for one of them to be caught and automated. Thinking about DOTR Cyber-Smoke being forced to hunt down his friend and Kuai Liang refusing to fight him no matter what. Thinking about Kuai Liang being haunted by the fact that he couldn't save his friend. Thinking about Cyber-Smoke remembering their friendship and protecting Kuai Liang, asking him to run away and save himself but Kuai tells him he "won't let him down this time". Thinking about how, when Stryker asks him if he's okay after Cyber-Smoke left and declared they couldn't be friends anymore, Kuai Liang only answers with "physically" because his heart is broken. Thinking about how he swears he'll meet Smoke again. Thinking about Tomáš in MK9 and how his priority, upon realizing the Cyber Lin Kuei were after them, was to check on Kuai Liang to make sure he was okay. Thinking about Tomáš witnessing Kuai Liang being captured while being unable to do anything and how dejected he looked when he realized he had failed his friend. Thinking about how Tomáš ran to deactivated Cyber Sub-Zero and cradled him in his arms, refusing to abandon him despite Raiden's belief that his human soul was gone. Thinking about how Tomáš must have sat by Cyber Sub-Zero's side the whole time Jax was trying to fix him. Thinking about Cyber Sub-Zero's first sight being Tomáš upon finally waking up.

Thinking about them while listening to Never Let Me Down by Depeche Mode even though I have exams to prepare.

🩵 I hope he never lets me down again 🩶

It's my official theme song for them, I copyrighted it.

johnny cage’s mom being a cop is the worst thing ever. like no she’s not. she’s a waitress at a diner that johnny would walk to after school and sit on top of the counter and drink a milkshake with extra whipped cream and promises her that someday he’s going to get enough money to pay her off for all the milkshakes he’s been getting for free

Idk who needs to hear this (I do), but if everyone had a happy life where nothing went wrong ever, there wouldn't be a story to tell.

Not to mention a big facet of MK1 that is repeated, IDK how many times, is that Liu Kang gave everyone the freedom to choose. He laid the foundation for existence and then stepped back. Shang Tsung and Quan Chi made the decisions that led to them being a conman and a coal miner. Liu Kang didn't put them there. They put themselves there.

That scene where they're blaming him for their problems? That is them, deliberately choosing to shirk responsibility for their own actions and shifting the blame onto him because it is easier to believe that a Time God, who isn't even a Time God anymore, was conspiring against them the whole time than to believe that they are faced with the same consequences as everyone else. They would rather scheme and plot to get to power than get there honorably - and they end up doing the latter anyway once the ruse is discovered.

That is not the writer saying, "Hey! Look at this plot hole! Isn't Liu Kang petty for punishing them for a past that doesn't exist anymore?" That is the writer saying, "This is the type of personality that these two have. One of no accountability. One who believes that their problems are everyone elses fault." Because again, if you were paying attention to the story, and not taking that one scene out of context, you would have put Liu Kang giving up his timekeeping powers long before they came along together with the fact that they ended up where they are on their own.

The entire point to the story is that we choose our own destinies. That's what Mortal Kombat has always been about.

You may not like this story. You may even have valid criticism of it. But this is what they were trying to convey the entire time you were thirsting over Bi-Han's arms or Johnny Cage's ass.

she IS stopping the world