#someday lt bae

[cagebladeweek]

Someday, Lt. Bae...

Of course he wins - because with her, how could he not?

[dei2dei]

these two, seriously, time to cause some trouble <3

[dei2dei]

MOOD, OP.

I've bitched about a lot of this too. I got upset and wrote a (still unsent) letter to NRS. I'm upset, I'm frustrated, I'm writing fanfic to cope because that's how I rollllll and CageBlade week is going to have two little fix-its and I know @cosmictapestries and I both are brainstorming bigger things.

We can both be excited that old faces get to come back, and sad and disappointed that our favorite isn't in. We can be happy for other people and sad for ourselves without hating on other fans (which makes me upset when I see it - as if you have to slam and insult one character to prove how much you like another). Canon and NRS fucked us over. So it's on us to fix this in whatever way we want. Jax introduces Sonya to Kenshi, who introduces her to Johnny? Messy, delicious threesomes or qprs or platonic friends or true love? Sonya undercover with the Black Dragon and Kenshi meets her that way? Sonya rocks up with government ID to one of Johnny's movie shoots, flashes a badge, and takes him aside? SO MANY OPTIONS. Here's a small chunk of my NRS letter because I am grumpy and also proud of it:

text:

As a fan right now, I feel hurt and more than a little betrayed that at the thirtieth anniversary, the literal first woman of the franchise is nowhere to be seen. The kameo is hardly palliative, and I don’t feel it should be “better than nothing”, “at least she’s in it somehow”, “you should be grateful, who the fuck wants a boring-ass soldier anyway?” as the internet so readily declares. “She can sit out a few games,” they say; if someone dared to suggest Liu Kang or Scorpion or Sub-Zero could do the same, you’d be able to fuel entire countries on the power of the internet rage that would follow.

Her absence is painfully conspicuous—Jax gets name-dropped in dialogues and plays a major role in Kenshi’s ending. Li Mei has the “protector” archetype and the terrible work-life balance Sonya endured; Johnny gets her “Kombat time!” line from Defenders. Harumi appears multiple times, between arcade endings and Invasions and name-drops. Suchin gets name-dropped. The Black Dragon play a role in multiple conversations…

And Sonya is nowhere to be found. Liu Kang and Geras are secretive figures, much like you’ve chosen to be about her role. Like Johnny, we’re left trying to eke out the thinnest thread of a hint about who she is and what she’s up to, because surely Liu Kang wouldn’t have simply… not let her exist?

Yet that is at this moment exactly what it feels like has happened. Sonya is gone, as if Liu Kang wiped her away along with all of Kronika’s machinations. As though she were a flaw in the plan, never intended. That our love for the character has been misplaced, and this is all a big “haha, fooled you!” prank. It feels like we’ve been strung along and are now being laughed at for holding out hope based on pre-release commentary and implications.

Okay the game's been out for a few days now, but spoilers!

While it has significant good points, am I allowed to say now how angry and disappointed I am by how Liu aka the devs treated our queen?

I'm glad to see old faces return, I'm so happy for fans who missed their faves for years and yes not every kharacter has to be on every roster...

But FFS, this is a reboot of MK1! The original game Sonya was the first female kharacter for. I love Kitana, love Sindel, really happy to see Mileena finally getting her due, but we wouldn't have any of them if Sonya hadn't done so well for the OG game, if Ed and John hadn't realised they needed a badass lady amongst all those men.

Plus the way NRS handled this whole thing - both the marketing and the storymode - was a mess. Frankly they led Sonya fans on despite knowing how upset fans can get after what happened with Mileena in MK11. I know because I was roped in since May on Twitter. I wish they'd have managed expectations early on, esp in a game we'd expect her to be in. A few kind words at cons, even just a few references in Storymode to explain her absence, it would have been really sad, but not the almost contemptuous erasure we got here.

Worse, it makes the pious, compassionate Liu Kang look awful for just ignoring or erasing one of his best friends and most loyal allies. Earthrealm starts out with no female champion and an overload of guys. And it seems to support all those awful takes that 'Sonya's boring', 'she's just a gun lady' or (and I don't know where they get this one?) 'she's a Tr*mp supporter!' 'She & SF can sit this one out'.

Finally, some of Sonya's lines, moves and roles have been taken and not just in this game. It's heartbreaking to see certain rude fans troll Sonya fans with how 'awful', 'boring' and 'militant' she is, but see people praise/enjoy other kharacters for what Sonya does. You can see from her Kameo how magical, athletic and vivacious Sonya used to be, she wasn't always a hardened military vet played by a fighter who sadly couldn't voice-act. Even then, I still love her as a general, she's always fought for Earthrealm and been loyal to Raiden and Liu, even if the majority seem to forget that.

I'm just fuming that all we get of her is 1 intro hint, an unlockable Johnny's announcer voice talking about her and the awful evil version with Kano's eye at the end for 2 mins. While Johnny has an ex wife and flirts with every woman he comes across, Kenshi partners with Jax, Johnny uses a drone, Kitana has a virtually identical fatality, Li Mei has some of her moves. Now I hear (spoiler) that Cassie - her daughter might be in KP2 without her.

Rant over, I just hope Mortal Kombat 2 (the movie) does her justice and shows NRS and some of the fans what they are missing.

[gowiththeflowxx]

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[dei2dei]

Happy holidays to my CageBlade crew. A little MK1 holiday fix-it. We've had one hell of a year in the ship community, and so here's a little holiday gift from me to all of you. <3 Rating: E. Very E for all the smut. Summary:

Roped into a job interview and holiday party at the newly formed OIA, all Lt. Sonya Blade wants is to get the hell out of cold and snowy New York City and back to her base where she can be nice and warm. When Jax almost shoves her at Johnny Cage--talking to him a task her former CO clearly doesn't want to do himself--she resigns herself to an evening of boredom.

What she ends up with is anything but.

[dei2dei]

My guess, my deep guess, is that they're doing something with her in the background. My wild fantasy is she's in dev in a DLC or Invasions (see: this thing I pulled out of an Invasions screenshot; doesn't vibe Nitara for me) and they don't want to put too much in and have to change it - so she's just been wiped so she can be dropped as a big surprise.

It feels like she's jus been erased entirely by Liu Kang (and NRS) and all the fans of the character are told that the kameo is 'good enough', and... it's not, and it won't be. I can only hope she's being worked on and given time to kick ass and take names in the spotlight, but they just didn't want to have to deal with prior contradictions in what would have been released in MK1 by that point, so they pulled all hints of her.

Okay the game's been out for a few days now, but spoilers!

While it has significant good points, am I allowed to say now how angry and disappointed I am by how Liu aka the devs treated our queen?

I'm glad to see old faces return, I'm so happy for fans who missed their faves for years and yes not every kharacter has to be on every roster...

But FFS, this is a reboot of MK1! The original game Sonya was the first female kharacter for. I love Kitana, love Sindel, really happy to see Mileena finally getting her due, but we wouldn't have any of them if Sonya hadn't done so well for the OG game, if Ed and John hadn't realised they needed a badass lady amongst all those men.

Plus the way NRS handled this whole thing - both the marketing and the storymode - was a mess. Frankly they led Sonya fans on despite knowing how upset fans can get after what happened with Mileena in MK11. I know because I was roped in since May on Twitter. I wish they'd have managed expectations early on, esp in a game we'd expect her to be in. A few kind words at cons, even just a few references in Storymode to explain her absence, it would have been really sad, but not the almost contemptuous erasure we got here.

Worse, it makes the pious, compassionate Liu Kang look awful for just ignoring or erasing one of his best friends and most loyal allies. Earthrealm starts out with no female champion and an overload of guys. And it seems to support all those awful takes that 'Sonya's boring', 'she's just a gun lady' or (and I don't know where they get this one?) 'she's a Tr*mp supporter!' 'She & SF can sit this one out'.

Finally, some of Sonya's lines, moves and roles have been taken and not just in this game. It's heartbreaking to see certain rude fans troll Sonya fans with how 'awful', 'boring' and 'militant' she is, but see people praise/enjoy other kharacters for what Sonya does. You can see from her Kameo how magical, athletic and vivacious Sonya used to be, she wasn't always a hardened military vet played by a fighter who sadly couldn't voice-act. Even then, I still love her as a general, she's always fought for Earthrealm and been loyal to Raiden and Liu, even if the majority seem to forget that.

I'm just fuming that all we get of her is 1 intro hint, an unlockable Johnny's announcer voice talking about her and the awful evil version with Kano's eye at the end for 2 mins. While Johnny has an ex wife and flirts with every woman he comes across, Kenshi partners with Jax, Johnny uses a drone, Kitana has a virtually identical fatality, Li Mei has some of her moves. Now I hear (spoiler) that Cassie - her daughter might be in KP2 without her.

Rant over, I just hope Mortal Kombat 2 (the movie) does her justice and shows NRS and some of the fans what they are missing.

[cosmictapestries]

This is incredibly well put.

For months Sonya fans hoped, speculated and tried to be upbeat as character after character was revealed and we got... nothing. Not a mention beyond Kameo. Misdirection and vague answers to fan questions. From the first trailer on where she was noticeably absent, it was clear we were in for disappointment. We looked for easter eggs in early footage and watched Kombat Kasts hoping for something. What we got was led along and it feels like a total disservice.

It's MK1. It's a new universe and the OG female fighter for Earthrealm isn't present for the story. The Earthrealm squad is a sausage fest on a very bro-tastic journey. The base roster is mostly 3D characters from an era where the game company was struggling and I just don't get it at all. We don't get to see how Sonya could have changed or grown. Instead we get erasure. Other characters have her moves, Lei Mai has her attitude. Johnny has another wife and acrimonious divorce under his belt. We get nebulous references from him saying "Who was she? " and "Someday Lt. Bae."

The message boards are filled with hate, people calling her basic, boring and bitchy. "She can sit out this one" or maybe one of the what five? different colored ninjas could. Or Radian, considering Lui's status now. If that happened people would riot but when Sonya fans do rhey get slammed down.

It f***king hurts. It makes me emotional and angry because every game seems to do Sonya a disservice in some way. MK9 gave her a ridiculously misogynistic costume, MKX made her guilt/trauma/work the reason her family broke up and MK11 straight up killed her. Now she is just...gone. *Spoilers* Even the supposed datamine has nothing for her and Cassie may come in without her? Like WTF?

They had a world of story options. Have Sonya undercover with the Black Dragon, have her as the new head instead of Kano. Put her in the FBI with Jax. Neither expressly needs to be SF.

As a CageBlade writer, my hopes keep flickering because our new content from the source is paper thin. Cage Match comes out next month and i highly doubt we will get anything there either. I'm not going to yuk anyone's yum( because God knows we need more LGTBQ stories. As a Pansexual, I am all for characters loving who they want) but we are already watching hits for Johnny/Kenshi go through the roof. Its new, its hot and it's visible. So our small fandom may get even smaller.

@dei2dei and I are both working hard to write new fics but motivation is hard when you are angry, anxious and disappointed. It feels like NRS has failed Sonya fans on just about every level. So we'll write and we'll fix things and we'll bring the content.

Treating Sonya like a flaw in the plan that can be erased is heartbreaking but you know who is really good at taking heartbreak and writing something better?

Fanfiction writers.

Okay the game's been out for a few days now, but spoilers!

While it has significant good points, am I allowed to say now how angry and disappointed I am by how Liu aka the devs treated our queen?

I'm glad to see old faces return, I'm so happy for fans who missed their faves for years and yes not every kharacter has to be on every roster...

But FFS, this is a reboot of MK1! The original game Sonya was the first female kharacter for. I love Kitana, love Sindel, really happy to see Mileena finally getting her due, but we wouldn't have any of them if Sonya hadn't done so well for the OG game, if Ed and John hadn't realised they needed a badass lady amongst all those men.

Plus the way NRS handled this whole thing - both the marketing and the storymode - was a mess. Frankly they led Sonya fans on despite knowing how upset fans can get after what happened with Mileena in MK11. I know because I was roped in since May on Twitter. I wish they'd have managed expectations early on, esp in a game we'd expect her to be in. A few kind words at cons, even just a few references in Storymode to explain her absence, it would have been really sad, but not the almost contemptuous erasure we got here.

Worse, it makes the pious, compassionate Liu Kang look awful for just ignoring or erasing one of his best friends and most loyal allies. Earthrealm starts out with no female champion and an overload of guys. And it seems to support all those awful takes that 'Sonya's boring', 'she's just a gun lady' or (and I don't know where they get this one?) 'she's a Tr*mp supporter!' 'She & SF can sit this one out'.

Finally, some of Sonya's lines, moves and roles have been taken and not just in this game. It's heartbreaking to see certain rude fans troll Sonya fans with how 'awful', 'boring' and 'militant' she is, but see people praise/enjoy other kharacters for what Sonya does. You can see from her Kameo how magical, athletic and vivacious Sonya used to be, she wasn't always a hardened military vet played by a fighter who sadly couldn't voice-act. Even then, I still love her as a general, she's always fought for Earthrealm and been loyal to Raiden and Liu, even if the majority seem to forget that.

I'm just fuming that all we get of her is 1 intro hint, an unlockable Johnny's announcer voice talking about her and the awful evil version with Kano's eye at the end for 2 mins. While Johnny has an ex wife and flirts with every woman he comes across, Kenshi partners with Jax, Johnny uses a drone, Kitana has a virtually identical fatality, Li Mei has some of her moves. Now I hear (spoiler) that Cassie - her daughter might be in KP2 without her.

Rant over, I just hope Mortal Kombat 2 (the movie) does her justice and shows NRS and some of the fans what they are missing.