#if noob becomes a separate entity from Bi-Han

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I feel like a traitor, I want to finish one of my bitomas fanficions, I really do, but when it comes to MK I can only think about the expansion lately 😭

I'm so sorry!

I'll continue one that I can explore the expansion.

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Headcanon based on this post (x) 

Hanzo Hasashi and his Semi-Immortality 

The Netherrealm is a realm in the Mortal Kombat series. It is comparable to the Underworld, also known as Hell, in religions and mythologies. It seems to resemble an eternally aflame "continent", containing many volcanic fields and lava pits. It appears to be like Outworld, a realm composed of thousands of different layers, which makes the realm infinite in size. In the Mortal Kombat universe, deceased souls or entities who have committed major crimes descend into the Netherrealm to undergo endless torture. After Hanzo Hasashi’s death, he becomes a vengeful hellspawn spectre of the Netherrealm (Scorpion) after he was killed by the elder Sub-Zero (Bi-Han, currently Noob Saibot). 

Unlike most creatures of the Netherrealm, Scorpion is neither evil nor good, and can somewhat withstand the torturous realm better than anyone, because he has travelled extensively and happens to know the realm like the back of his hand (as Hanzo in MKX comics states). His type of reincarnation is based on the Chinese belief that a dead person with unfinished business comes back to settle scores with opponents and can't be easily put to rest.

In the older timeline, it was as if one could not enter the Netherrealm without being evil or having a tainted soul. Additionally, magic users and magical beings are slowly weakened while in this realm. It is an alternative, more generic name for the Abrahamic concept of Hell, as one of its former rulers was Lucifer (whose name appears only in the Sub-Zero game manual but not in-game). It is also described as "the darkest region of reality", and is inhabited by demons, monsters, and beings of the purest evil. Hanzo Hasashi, being the first mortal ever to become the undead spectre with Quan Chi’s darkest magic, and the first-ever Netherrealm spectre to resurrect back to organic, mortal human being, the Netherrealm’s oppressive heat sinks in, diving deep into his happy and sad, his pain and anguish. 

Since the blueprint of his being is still associated with the Netherrealm itself, and I’d like to believe that there wouldn’t be anyone powerful enough (even Titans) that could make the Netherrealm’s existence nonexistent (just as the Heavens and the Netherrealm coexist), Hanzo will go through the symbolism of the serpent biting, devouring, or eating its own tail. The ouroboros; the cyclic Nature of the Universe: creation out of destruction, Life out of Death. The ouroboros eating its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle of renewal. He will often die a gruesome, visceral death, defeat Scorpion just as he did in the comics and escape the Netherrealm.

Though exits from and entrances to the Netherrealm are very limited for obvious reasons, the world had quite a tumultuous history. Millions of years ago, the fallen Elder God Shinnok was banished there. After ages of imprisonment, he was able to break free, deposing Lucifer in the process. He restructured the realm to bear some resemblance to Earthrealm, the world which he had long desired to make his own. He later used it as a staging ground for the invasion of Edenia, but found himself cast into the depths of the realm again after this invasion was foiled. The abandoned war machines of Shinnok were then put to good use by one of his former acolytes, Noob Saibot. Hanzo/Scorpion’s intrinsic connection (since he was the only kombatant who had been already dead as the inception of the First Mortal Kombat tournament began) makes him much more powerful and threatening, his power almost rivaling that of Outworlders, even Edenians. And even in his depressive streaks and guilt-driven anger, the fact that he has literally travelled hell and back and having intrepid courage, iron-will and resilience to go on with his life, it serves as the conduit and catalytic fuel for him to live, instead of seek death.

Hanzo Hasashi and the Concept of Ouroboros 

Hanzo Hasashi’s existence, with coexisting life and death, destruction and creation, this eternal cycle of renewal also has to do with his intrinsic nature, which is neither evil or good. The universe was early divided into Earth below and Heaven above. These, two as one, gave the idea of opposites but forming a unity. Each opposite was assumed to be powerful and so was their final unity. For creation of the universe they projected reproduction to conceive creation. Correspondingly, the Chinese believed Light and Darkness, as the ideal opposites, when united, yielded creative energy. The two opposites were further conceived as matter and energy which became dual-natured but as one. The two opposites were yin-yang and their unity was called Chi. Yin-Yang was treated separately in Chinese cosmology which consisted of five cosmic elements. Since Chinese alchemy did reach Alexandria, probably the symbol Yin-Yang, as dual-natured, responsible for creation, was transformed into a symbol called Ouroboros. It is a snake and as such a symbol of the soul. Its head and anterior portion is red, being the color of blood as soul; its tail and posterior half is dark, representing the body.  

The inyo is the Japanese equivalent to the Chinese yin yang symbol. Both of these symbols represent the universe as a circle. Inside the circle, the two colors co-exist, together yet separate. The colors represent the two types of energies, positive and negative. In (yin in Chinese) represents the negative element. It is passive, weak, empty, dark, feminine, cold, etc. Yo (yang in Chinese) signifies the positive element. It is active, strong, full, light, masculine, hot, etc. Although these forces are opposites, each one cannot exist without its counterpart. Hanzo Hasashi resembles all the amalgam of opposites, as his temperament and characteristics encompass the duality and complexity that defines him. 

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My ask contains a serious sensitive subject matter so I respect if you choose not to answer it, but did anyone else get the weird feeling that Noob Saibot's origins in MK1 had some non/con undertones? I thought I was overthinking it but then the newest trailer just added to my suspicion. They kept it unclear to what exactly Havik's done to Bi Han which makes it more sinister. Bi Han was clearly made into Noob Saibot against his will by Havik, the clothes part of his design is mangled, Havik invaded Bi Han's mind with "chaos", whatever that could possibly mean. Am I on to something or am I just over thinking it?

Do you mean rape? Rape, I don't think so (although they changed his clothes, it was only because, most likely, his old ones had already been ruined and Bi-Han had become a new pet for Havik, he must have ordered his minions to give Bi-Han new clothes. *And as someone pointed out to me, his pants are still the same. Which indicates that they weren't taken off), but he was transformed against his will for sure. It's in the datamined script that he was brainwashed too (although he can still recognizes Sektor and Scorpion even under the effect of Havik's spell), Bi-Han as Sub-Zero believes in order:

Bi-Han as Noob Saibot, does not:

Those needles we see going towards Bi-Han are what he referred to in the trailer as "Havik filled my mind with his chaos".

Bi-Han jumped into the portal with the intention of killing Havik and nothing more. But what was waiting for him on the other side of the portal was not only Titan Havik, but his entire army:

Obviously, Bi-Han lost the fight and was captured to be turned into Noob Saibot, a henchman under Havik's orders who has no control over his own mind (I really don't understand how some people are saying that he volunteered even after watching the trailers...). So much so that when Sektor takes him to Liu Kang, because only another god is capable of breaking Havik's magic, Bi-Han regains control of his mind and goes back to fighting Havik and his minions (just like he was at the beginning of the expansion, in Outworld).

The bio says that Bi-Han died, following the Bio and the datamined script, Bi-Han was probably tortured to death (although, I have agreed with some theories that the death mentioned in the bio may just be a metaphor).

However, he can still be restored to his original form (human, cryomancer)...

I believe we will see Bi-Han being restored as Sub-Zero and Noob Saibot becoming a separate entity from Bi-Han in the Noob Saibot's ending or Sektor's ending.