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hitchyboi · 4 months ago

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🔥Scorpion/Kuai Liang Headcanons #1🔥

Y'all I'm so sorry about my lack of activity that's been a month at least I think... Been working on projects for college and it's been taking a lot of my time and zapping any energy to write. T^T I promise I'll get more stuff out once my projects are completed, I have ideas and things in the works!

Much like Bi-Han, Kuai's body naturally runs warm however Kuai controls it to make sure he doesn't burn people by just shaking their hands. Bi-Han had no care and doesn't want people touching him.

Kuai also grew up learning to play an instrument, while Bi-Han chose to learn the Dizi; Kuai learned to play the Banhu.

He's a frequent visitor of Madame Bo's, he enjoys visiting after his missions and relaxing with some freshly brewed tea she serves. He always makes sure he's in more relaxed and casual clothes as its his time to unwind and relax from his duties.

Has a specific table at Madame Bo's that he will ALWAYS sit at, it has become his table at this point. It's a simple table located closer towards the windows where the sun shines pleasantly onto. A small image of a scorpion has been carved into the wood of the table after one night he went there with his brothers and had a little more sake than he should've.

Absolutely brings Tomas to Madame Bo's as well if they both have the time or after another dispute between Tomas and Bi-Han has happened.

Daddy's boy, Kuai adored his father and worshipped the ground he walked on. He wanted to be able to make him proud and work hard for the Lin Kuei and Earthrealm's protection. His father was his idol.

Giant Family man

Kuai is the peacekeeper both between his siblings and in the clan itself. He wants nothing more than his siblings to get along and tries to find compromises and ways to dim the fire Bi-Han directs towards Tomas. Because he's used to being the voice of reason many clan member's will go to Kuai rather than Bi-Han when they have concerns, knowing Kuai will take the time to listen to them and find a more effective way to bring it up to the grandmaster.

Multiple clan members have made comments of how Kuai would've been a better Grandmaster but Kuai shoots them down and defends his brother each time. Until Bi-Han betrayed him.

Has always looked forward to finding a partner to marry and have a family of his own to take care of. Kuai wants to be as good and noble a father his own father was to him.

Kuai is an avid reader in the small moments of free time he can get. He enjoys sitting out in the gardens on a calm morning and relaxing with a good book. He's a sucker for romance.

Big animal lover, specifically cats as they also naturally draw towards Kuai due to his warmer body temperature.

Has a pet cat that's his little buddy whenever he's home. The little guy will frequently be cuddled up on his shoulder while Kuai reads or is just going about his daily routine.

Has considered on multiple occasions of getting a pet scorpion... He still considers it from time to time

(@cemetery-sunset 's headcannon; They know nothing about mortal kombat but offered to help XD) Kuai Liang collects postal stamps.

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fsfghgee · 4 months ago

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Do you think Bi Han's father and Madame Bo might have been against their relationship in their youth? They hate their father and mother so much.🫠🫠🫠

Although Madam Bo opposes Sektor and Bi-Han's relationship now. I don't think Madam Bo had any reason to oppose her daughter's relationship with Bi-Han before he abandoned his duty to protect Earthrealm, betrayed Earthrealm by freeing Shao from prison, and used the Lin Kuei to support Shao in battles in the rebellion of his forces in OutWorld…

General Shao: I owe you nothing, Bi-Han. Sub-Zero: You would still be in prison, were it not for me!

Baraka: Your attack will be avenged. Sub-Zero: I thought your kind welcomed the release of death.

Kitana: You'll never be welcome in Outworld. Sub-Zero: Perhaps after a change in regime.

Sub-Zero: Surrender and Shao will show mercy. Mileena: If you believe that, you're a fool.

Sindel: With one act, you betrayed two realms. Sub-Zero: Neither deserved my loyalty.

Sindel: Today, pay the price for your failure. Sub-Zero: You forecast victory prematurely, Empress.

Reptile: An Emperor Shao would've wiped out Zaterra. Sub-Zero: Which is of no concern to the Lin Kuei.

Raiden: I never thought *you* would betray Earthrealm. Sub-Zero: My only loyalty is to the Lin Kuei.

Rain: Bi-Han and I made a huge -- Sektor: You may have failed, but it was no mistake.

General Shao: Sub-Zero sends his woman after me? Sektor: He sends his most skilled warrior.

Sektor: Of all the duplicitous snakes -- General Shao: My loyalty is to Outworld, not the Lin Kuei.

Sektor: Bi-Han risked everything to free you. General Shao: Not every gamble pays, Sektor.

If we follow the chronological order of events in the new Mortal Kombat lore, Mortal Kombat 1, we can see that Madam Bo had a good relationship with the Lin Kuei even though she had not been a Lin Kuei for a long time….

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And according to what she herself says, she has trained Kung Lao and Raiden since they were boys and saw them born, besides considering them as sons she never had. Even though Sektor has siblings (it can refer to brothers, sisters, or a combination of both. Most likely a combination of both in this case) that everything indicates are from her father's second marriage...

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...or Longwei cheated on Madam Bo.

Sub-Zero: Your siblings must do more. Sektor: They will honor their commitments, Bi-Han. I swear it.

Taking into consideration that according to Tomas' ending, he lived with the Lin Kuei for 15 years. And that according to his bio, he was adopted when he was still a boy, but he was already capable of hunting (he was not a small child, but more likely a boy between 10~12 years old). And since according to the dialogues between Sektor and Smoke, Sektor was Smoke's Master, therefore she must be about 10 years older than him (at least)…

Sektor: I taught you obedience, Tomas. Smoke: It can't be blind, Sektor.

Smoke: Today the student becomes the master. Sektor: You will not best me, Tomas.

Sektor must be around 35~37 years old and Smoke 25~27 years old. And knowing that Kung Lao and Raiden, from the dialogues without much politeness, they must be close in age to Tomas…

Madam Bo left her clan, her daughter, her family and her legacy as a Lin Kuei warrior leader behind, when Sektor was still a teenager. And apparently on a mission ordered by Liu Kang, since he is the one who asks her about his future champions (if they were ready because she trained them since they were boys etc):

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Sektor was deprived of contact with her mother since adolescence. And although her father has a good relationship with Bi-Han and has been close to Bi-Han's family for many years, since Bi-Han even knows about her father's dreams…

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There is nothing in the story mode, bios, endings or intros that indicates that Bi-Han and Sektor have had a close relationship since childhood or adolescence. But more precisely, everything indicates that their relationship began when:

A- She became young Tomas' master, when she and Bi-Han were already over 20 years old, she actually started to frequent the Lin Kuei palace where the Grandmaster and his family reside to mentor Tomas. Thus, really getting close to Bi-Han and both developing feelings for each other.

B- They became close after her father retired and she took his place as Master Armorer. Considering that Bi-Han let his father die just to become Grandmaster faster, while Sektor actually waited for her father to decide to retire to take his place. Just as the deceased Grandmaster was close to the Master Armorer, Bi-Han stayed close to Sektor's father until Sektor took his place. And the expected closeness between the Grandmaster (leader of the clan) and his Master Armorer (leader of the Armorers of the clan) escalated to the level of romance because they both shared interests, beliefs, ideals, were attractive and single.

I'm inclined to believe in alternative B.

So, even if Sektor and Bi-Han have been in a romantic relationship for years (which I believe they have been, but not since childhood/adolescence because her bio contradicts this assumption) and Madam Bo is against their relationship now, there is nothing that points to Madam Bo as a major impediment to Sektor and Bi-Han's relationship to the point of making her daughter hate her for it. Sektor's anger towards her mother stems from the abandonment she suffered (or so she felt, at the time her mother left the Lin Kuei to train the farm boys in Fengjian).

Now, regarding Bi-Han's father being against Bi-Han and Sektor's relationship…

[...]Sektor advised that we avoid detection by building our army using science, not sorcery. We've invested much time in this endeavor, and we are beginning to see results. Once again proving the depths of Sektor's genius. When we are done, all of Earthrealm will honor our desires and heed our demands. If not, they will face the Lin Kuei's wrath.

Sub-Zero's ending

"Bi-Han, no! Not this fight!"

last chapter of the story mode expansion (Khaos Reigns)

Scorpion: You have influenced my brother -- Sektor: He is his own man, Kuai Liang.

dialogue between Scorpion and Sektor

According to Bi-Han in the story mode, Kuai Liang is basically the ghost of their father since the old man died. Which is reflected in what he says to others, the way he judges others and the way he sees the world.

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Kuai Laing is not wrong in thinking that Sektor has influenced his brother, but this influence is far from being any kind of control over what he does. Bi-Han hates being controlled, he hates being in anyone's shadow, he is an ambitious, self-centered, remorseless and ruthless man.

Liu Kang: Come in from the cold, Bi-Han. Sub-Zero: And again kneel before you?

Sub-Zero: My father was a fool to follow you. Liu Kang: He wisely honored Earthrealm with his service.

Sub-Zero: You wield the power that I aspire to. Sindel: Too bad you're unfit for it, Sub-Zero.

Smoke: You've always been cold to me. Sub-Zero: Because your blood is not Lin Kuei.

Takeda: Kuai Liang told me all about what you did. Sub-Zero: If you think I'm ashamed, you are wrong.

Smoke: You've no regrets for attacking the wedding? Noob Saibot: Only that I failed.

Sub-Zero: Expect no compassion, freak. Baraka: Such a cold heart, Sub-Zero.

Sub-Zero: Your kind should be exterminated. Baraka: Disease does not make us disposable.

Sub-Zero: Liu Kang now relies on demons? Ashrah: He welcomes all who are pure of heart.

Sub-Zero: You don't belong in Earthrealm. Ashrah: It's now just as much my home as yours.

Sub-Zero: Do you hate being reptiloid? Is that why you mimic us? Reptile: It’s to hide from warm bloods who hate me for being one.

Noob Saibot: You reptiloids shouldn't leave your caves. Reptile: Afraid, Bi-Han? Or just prejudiced.

Sub-Zero: What you are is abominable. Noob Saibot: I thought so too, at first.

Tanya: Is it possible you're worse than before? Noob Saibot: What you meant to say is 'more perfect'.

Geras: Your brother. Your father. Is there -- Noob Saibot: No one will block my path.

Sub-Zero: You follow Kuai Liang to an early grave. Cyrax: If so, I'll at least die with honor.

Cyrax: The Lin Kuei deserve better than you. Sub-Zero: I am the Lin Kuei, Cyrax.

This has been his personality and true nature for many years, long before he betrayed Earthrealm, he literally watched their father die when he could have saved him. He chose not to save their father and is proud of it:

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Sektor has nothing to do with this. There is nothing in the story mode, intros or endings that support unsubstantiated claims about Sektor being responsible for the things Bi-Han does, manipulating him or whatever else they are saying about her out there.

If anything, Sektor is the only person capable of inspiring positive feelings in Bi-Han. Because even though it's exclusively for his own good and his relationship with Sektor (not for the good of the world and such), what he feels for Sektor is capable of making him think of someone other than himself, capable of making him feel proud of someone other than himself, his love for her is capable of making him go out of his way to defend her, he trusts her with his eyes closed (literally, since he sleeps with her 😅), he shares the leadership of the clan with her, the love he feels for her makes him a better person (or as others would say, gives him depth, makes him a multidimensional character).…

Noob Saibot: If Liu Kang seeks to punish Sektor -- Geras: It would be his right to do so.

Liu Kang: Sektor should have trusted me to heal you. Noob Saibot: You should not have made her wait.

Liu Kang: Continue, Bi-Han, and it will not end well for you. Noob Saibot: I have beaten one god. I can beat another.

Sektor: I couldn't leave you locked away in the Temple. Noob Saibot: You were right to be impatient.

Sektor: Is it best for you to remain this way? Noob Saibot: It is best for the Lin Kuei.

Quan Chi: You were supposed to retrieve the amulet. Sektor: Saving Bi-Han was all that matttered.

Sektor: Our deal is off. I no longer -- Quan Chi: I thought Lin Kuei honored their word.

Quan Chi: Sektor refuses to abide our agreement. Noob Saibot: I won't force her hand, sorcerer.

Shang Tsung: Bi-Han will pay a steep ransom for your return. Sektor: Just how are *you* planning to abduct *me*?

Sektor: That you thought you could abduct me -- Shang Tsung: The day is still young, Sektor.

Noob Saibot: It is time you answer for Sektor. Shang Tsung: For what, exactly? She escaped me unharmed.

Noob Saibot: The Umgadi's kombat isn't as perfect as you -- Tanya: No? Then how is it I pummeled Sektor?

Shang Tsung: This hostility is unwarranted, Bi-Han. Noob Saibot: You tried to abduct Sektor!

Noob Saibot: You tried enlisting Sektor against me?! Quan Chi: Not against you. To help you see reason.

Noob Saibot: Leave. Before this gets ugly. Quan Chi: I am here to haggle but if we must fight, so be it.

Kenshi: So you and Sektor, eh? Hm. That tracks. Noob Saibot: If that is mockery, you are a dead man.

Reiko: Do you share Bi-Han's power? Or just his bed? Sektor: Careful, Reiko. Disrespect can be fatal.

Rain: What will Bi-Han do without his Master Armorer? Sektor: He'll never find out, will he?

Noob Saibot: That disguise is a hologram, Sektor?! Noob Saibot: My latest invention, Bi-Han.

Sub-Zero: The armor isn't enough. Sektor: Patience, Bi-Han. There is more to come.

Noob Saibot: Cyrax's defection proves we must tighten control. Sektor: I have a plan for that, Bi-Han.

Noob Saibot: The sub-clans remain with us? Sektor: All. Even the Zaki.

Sub-Zero: Together we will make the Lin Kuei immortal. Sektor: I am honored to fight by your side.

Sektor: We will stop Kuai Liang. Sub-Zero: And finish his Shirai Ryu.

Sektor: If Liu Kang continues to stand -- Noob Saibot: We will neutralize him.

Noob Saibot: Your mother concerns me, Sektor. Sektor: She knows nothing which can hurt us.

They are true partners. And if they really have been in a romantic relationship since before Bi-Han's father died (which is likely since Sektor is Bi-Han's confidante before being his woman. She has known for a long time that Bi-Han let his own father die and that doesn't affect her in the least) and if the deceased Grandmaster noticed some kind of increase in Bi-Han's disobedient behaviours because of his son's relationship with Sektor…

He could have been against this relationship. Although, this kinda goes against what other characters insinuate about her past, because according to Takeda, Sektor was respected by Kuai Liang:

Takeda: Scorpion no longer respects you. Sektor: That's not the burn you think it is.

Which indicates that his father also respected her. So much so that she was Tomas's Master.

Anyway, I still believe that Bi-Han's hatred and contempt for his father and Liu Kang stems from his mother's death. I really think that his mother is the one responsible for his ambition, his desire to control everything, his desire to make the Lin Kuei rule… To me, this dialogue:

Smoke: If Mother were alive -- Sub-Zero: She would applaud my actions.

Combined with the lack of any intro from Kuai Liang about what their mother's opinion would be regarding Bi-Han's actions:

Scorpion: Father would be ashamed of you. Sub-Zero: Only because he lacked vision.

He only mentions that their father would be ashamed of his actions. While with Sektor he only mentions Madam Bo:

Scorpion: You have dishonored Madam Bo! Sektor: Leave my mother out of this!

Because he knows that her father supports her:

Scorpion: Your father supports your actions? Sektor: He knows they are in the Lin Kuei's interests.

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