Ending Of Mk11 - Tumblr Posts
The beginning
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Liu Kang had won. Kronika was gone and the crown was safely in his hands after Shang Tsung's defeat. But now the universe, or at least the one from this timeline was gone. It did upset Lunaria to see Kronika erase everything from this timeline. She's seen it happen so many times but every time she couldn't help but feel upset about it. She has grown close to people in this timeline, saw their pain and helped them through it. It was sad to see it all go away without a single trace. Yes there are other timelines and they're very similar but to her they all feel different. Every timeline was special to Lunaria even if she has had the same interactions with the same people billions of times.
But there was no point in dwelling on that. Now Liu Kang was the keeper of time and she would help him create the new timeline until it was done. She watched him work and only gave her opinion when he asked for it. It was her idea actually to make Shoa, General Shoa because she hoped that would prevent him from becoming corrupted and trying to take over all of the realms. She even suggested to make Kung Loa and Raiden friends in this new timeline. Since Liu Kang wouldn't be there Kung Loa deserved a friend that would replace him. And she hated seeing Raiden essentially treating Kung Loa as second best so she hoped that this time things would be different.
Though she didn't understand why Liu made Kuai Liang Scorpion and essentially erased what made Hanzo, Hanzo. She thought that Liu would give him a chance to be able to have a happy life with Harumi or any other woman seeing as he never got to have a happy life with a family for over a few years. Liu essentially put two problems into one seeing as Kuai Liang is still Bi-han's brother and in every timeline Bi-han and Hanzo are rivals and Kuai Liang didn't always get along with Bi-han because he always turned to the dark side. Lunaria could only hope that this situation would turn out better than she thought it would.
She was very happy that Mileena and Kitana would be siblings in this timeline and that Sindel wouldn't be an evil empress this time. Mileena's origin story of her being a clone always made her upset because she knew that deep down Mileena didn't want to act the way that she did. She didn't ask to be made and she definitely didn't ask to be half tarkatan or to have the desire to replace Kitana. Mileena deserved a loving home and Lunaria wad glad that this time she would get it. Sindel also desrved a good life. Yes she was bewitched by Shoa Khan but in the end she did turn into a horrible person and definitely didn't deserve to have Kitana as a daughter. Lunaria was very hopeful about Outworld being a better place compared to previous timelines. She also hoped that the peace between Outworld and Earthrealm would be kept this time unlike before.
Getting rid of Shinnok and Cetrion made Lunaria sigh in relief. She could not stand being near them let along hearing them talk about their twisted ideology. They not only annoyed her but also made her feel sick after finding out that they're siblings and Kronika was their mother. To her Shinok and Cetrion were like Kronika's puppets. Kronika despite being their mother didn't have any motherly instincts. She was just using them for her plan of keeping balance in the universe which was impossibly. No one can determine how evil or good a certain timeline is and no one ever will. Lunaria learned that long ago because of how many different timelines she had to see. She could only hope that Liu Kang didn't end up the same way now that he was keeper of time.
Despite knowing that Liu couldn't get rid of everyone, she really wished that he got rid of Quan Chi and Shang Tsung. They have caused trouble in every single timeline and in her opinion they never got punished the way that they deserved. Death was an easy way out for them, they would just end up in the Nertherrealm where they could potentially come back from and death was only a small time to suffer. She would rather see them get tortured for many years for everything that they have done but she never told Liu that. She couldn't influence him too much, that wasn't her role. Though taking their powers away satisfied Lunaria enough but she still had a bad feeling that the peace would only last so long.
She could only hope that this timeline would be better. And when she got back to her world she made sure to regularly check in. This timeline was the most hopeful one that she has seen and she didn't want it to end up like the rest.