Bros Gonna End Up Having A Dark Raiden Arc I Fear - Tumblr Posts

hii!! saw your asks were open and wanted to share some liu kang angst :3 (im sorry in advance)

just thinking about the amount of guilt this man has, good god. and everyone still blames him for everything. but nobody (except for geras probably) understands how mamy sacrifices he had to make, and only to see most of them were completely unnecessary in the long run. just imagine how heartbreaking it was to see everything you worked eons on, and spilled so much blood for being ripped apart.

The way this ask broke me-

No, but that's so true. He probably has so much angst, not only about the guilt of Raiden giving his godhood to Liu Kang in MK11, but also having to watch Raiden's now-mortal form wither and die.

And then he spent eons alone. There was geras, sure, but even then, didn't he have to reform geras too?

And Liu Kang had to painstakingly reform each of his friends, craft their destinies with the hopes that it'd turn out better this time.

And while doing that, he found that all Kung Lao needed was someone who wasn't him. And Liu Kang couldn't grow with his friends like he once had- he had to watch from afar and suffer as they lived their lives together, without him.

It didn't matter that he was a present force or not, it was still the knowledge of his timeline and having to remake everything he knew and being able to do nothing for those he loved most other than make sure they existed again.

Care was put into them each- and that had to have been his personal hell, watching them exist without him. Existing without them on his own.

He finally gets to the point billions of years down the line where he can see his friends again (as he had to go through an entire timeline) and right when he thinks it's okay- the same Shang Tsung he won against the first time dupes Mk1 Shang Tsung (who doesn't have any of the experience to be able to wield all that power with any sort of true surety or understand the depths of who he is as a person quite yet, not like mk11 Shang)-

RIGHT when Liu Kang thinks it's all going to be okay, it crumbles beneath his feet. He loses Bi-Han. Then he loses Sindel, later on.

He has to watch as Kenshi still suffers through losing his eyes, even if Liu Kang made that out to happen for a number of reasons, but it's no less agonizing.

And he watches Rains- carefully crafted, wonderful Rain- go rogue. Same with Reiko. Same with Havik.

Same with them all. Each person, ripped down and destroyed again.

His world- his world that he made- soaked in blood and violence and hate and hurt that spills between timelines like a plague that won't leave him.

That won't let the people he loves be at ease for once.

And it's worse, because he has to reconcile not only losing this timeline too, but all the other timelines existing at all.

Each light!titan, especially titan Bi-Han, titan Havik, titan Kung Lao... Titan Kung Lao which was this Liu Kang's Kung Lao- Titan Raiden, Titan Kitana... A titan Shang Tsung, too.

Each dark!titan too. Each one of them, or each one from Shang Tsung's own rebuilt timeline.

Liu Kang suffers seeing the outcomes they all could've had and it has to break him. How could it not?

There's nothing left to this world too but the same bloodshed his own was drowned under.

And all he can think is that it's all his fault because what else can it be but fault shared between him and his Shang Tsung?

He tried and he still failed and even if it isn't, he still thinks it's his fault.