Sibling/family relations in mk is fucking depeessing
First and second timeline Kuai Liang and Bi Han, Bi han gets killed and (unwilling/unknowingly) becomes quan chis servant making them enemies, cause NRS doesn’t know how to keep characters alive.
mk1 Bi han betrays Kuai Liang and Tomáš, leaving Kuai Liang with a scar and even chasing them down……. R u fcking kidding me
Second timeline Kitana and Mileena, Mileena was a clone of Kitana, that Kitana didn’t even know was made. Albeit Mileena is definitely not sane, but she always looks to Kitana as a sister, while Kitana refuse to acknowledge her (second timeline Kitana had some dick-ish moments ex. Intros with Kung Lao in MkX). Their Mk1 counterparts are actually siblings but Kitana has to watch her sister deal with Tarkat, while Mileena has to deal with it, so a bit better with some tragedy and probably more to come.
Raiden and Fujin, both gods and has a sort of sibling (I repeat SIBLING) relationship through the eons they’ve been existing. Fujin has a more keen interest to mortals than Raiden. They both have to deal with the aftermath of earthrealms champions and co. being killed, two which they saw grow up (Kung Lao and Liu Kang) then, with the dark power starting to corrupt Raiden, Fujin has to watch his brothers ultimat downfall to madness, until the whole Kronika being a bitch happens.
Kung Lao and Jin. Cousins or Uncle and nephew, depending on the game. Jin hardly knew Lao before he was killed when he was probably 5, his family ultimately went unstable, leaving him to thievery to put food on the table. Not to mention Jin probably had some pressure to be like Lao growing up. So the only person who would treat him decently for his sexuality was killed when he was a child. (That one Raiden and Kung Lao intro in mk11)
There are probably other characters I could add but I’m tired…
fridging more often than not has the opposite effect on me because I'm too mad about the women in the story being done dirty to care about the supposed emotional impact of their deaths. but man. when time travel (PLLF) hits it hits.
No no no. You don't get it. Jang Uk spent three years NOT mourning the love of his life, always clinging to a sliver of desperate hope that she'd come back, that she'd still be alive because he did not see her die with his own two eyes.
It wasn't denial as much as it was a coping mechanism. He never wanted to grieve, never wanted to say goodbye because he didn't want to truly admit that she was gone. In his words, by moving on, he felt he was abandoning her.
And we've seen this in the last 4 episodes. Even the plot was telling us not even the people believed Naksu was dead. Jang Uk said it in EP 1: "people still talk about her as if she were alive".
Not even the common people believed she was gone for good, always whispering about her, always waiting for her to come back, just like Uk.
But Uk puts her to rest publicly. He does it for the sake of everyone in Daeho, but also for himself.
And now, at long last, he's finally letting himself feel the pain. He's starting to let go, allowing himself to truly grieve her.
He went to the cliff to get the closure he's spent three years putting off. He got to bid farewell.
IVE GOT SUCH AN IDEA FOR BRIAR but i have to do MY HOMEWORK, which has gotten larger in quantity for second semester so let me try and stay up way later to try and hammer both out
i just wished there was a school LI that i was truely, blindly, horny for