#httylk

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Can't wait for the lore behind the HTTYLK tag to drop ;)

oh hkdhskfhs it stands for "How To Train Your Lin Kuei" its my tag for my mk OC(s)

Basically in mkx they were like "mmmh despite making him the coolest character ever, we didn't make Sub Zero the most relevant one in the story... what should we do for his ending?"

And some genius said... Oh I Fucking Know

Ice Dragons

Long story short the Lin Kuei was on little field trip in Outworld and Kuai Liang and the gang found an Ice Dragon with eggs and Kuai Liang was like "sweet" and took the eggs to hatch them himself.

So yeah this ending is non-canon because I guess ice dragons would make the Lin Kuei too op BUT. this is the coolest concept ever and it's a shame to waste it. So to include them in a potential canon, youd have to nerf how powerful an hypothetical ice dragon would be, and make their inclusion earlier in the timeline. And boom. Lin Kuei Ice Dragon Riders.

And that's where my boy Mitra comes in, they're a Lin Kuei warrior, and they're like. Not a bad fighter but Not incredible either, like they're definitely stronger than your average guy on account of being Lin Kuei but they'd get their shit wrecked by an actual canon main character yknow? They're those guys' level. It's fiiine

What they DO have however is Horse Girl Powers and that's how they were chosen to form a bond with one of Sub Zero's scaly frozen kids

So Mitra is partnered with Boreas (Initially I went with the roman Aquilon but I realize the greek name of the Cold North Wind God, Bringer Of Winter, worked better because Boreas -> aurora borealis (they ARE in arktica after all) -> that cool green dragon aurora. remember that? anyway) who is a good boy.

So their arc would go something like:

Ice Dragon Rider basic training/learning to make your dragon do cryomancy for you

mk11's time disturbtion happen and the revival and raid of the Cyber Lin Kuei of the Lin Kuei temple follows

Mitra and the other dragon riders flee with their mounts, they have to kill the already captured dragons on their way out to avoid the Cyber Lin Kuei from making Cyber Dragons (yes) with freezing breath. Only Boreas and one of his sister make it out alive in the end, as well as Mitra and two other riders. ("But Dam, why doesnt the CLK just take the dragons' corpses to cyberize?" Ive decided Ice Dragons explode into ice upon death idk theyre elemental beasts. It's convenient bear with me)

an handful of Lin Kuei warriors (like. less than a dozen, including Mitra) manage to avoid getting kidnapped by Sektor and Frost, who betrayed them. The rest, so almost all of them, are processed.

So the survivors scatter to make it more difficult for the CLK to find them. Mitra & Boreas just kinda. live in the wilderness (fun antics happen there I'll think of some) until everyone gets the call from Papa Subz Grandmaster Sub Zero to come back home

While Papa Subz Grandmaster Sub Zero does his thing with his good pal from the Shirai Ryu to shut down the CLK, the Lin Kuei temple is still occupied by some CLK there and it's up to Mitra and the few survivors to take it back. It's goon on goon violence so there's more stakes. At least they have Ice Dragons.

So yeah that would basically be it! They also have a buddy over at the Shirai Ryu but I havent put a lot of thoughts into them yet. Other than they met when the Shirai Ryu whooped their ass during the newly established Lin Kuei/Shirai Ryu friendship tournament