hello!! i am shinshoyu (pronounced shin-show-you), but you can call me shin or soy! im 21, use he/they pronouns, and i write and draw sometimes :3
all of my other socials are shinshoyu!! im way more active on my twitter, and my ao3 is also shinshoyu, and i cannot say when i will ever finish any of my fics. oopsie
unfortunately im not super active, but ill occasionally post!! i mostly talk about me and @ghostherlig 's johnshi^2 au and my reverse au, as well as other johnshi things :)
my current interests are:
PROJECT HAIL MARY
also just rygos in general <3
mortal kombat (all of em)
pokemon
unus annus (ask me about my tattoo and i'll go bonkers)
Hello! I just got done reading your mortal kombat role swap au (I forgot what it’s called sorry 😭) and I noticed that Smoke x Rain were put in the roles of Milena and Tanya and I was wondering if you have any headcanon for this ship either for your fic specifically or just in general?
hii!! thank you for reading!! i’m so sorry that fic has sat unfinished for years at this point.. i sadly hit a really really huge writers block that i’ve only recently been able to break myself out of. i hope to continue that fic, but, alas…. it’s been a long time.
that being said, i mostly just have headcanons for the ship in my fic specifically! i’m kinda focused a lot on johnshi, especially in that fic, so a lot of what i have to say is pretty surface level because i, honestly, have not thought about them in two years, but i did have some headcanons!
i just remember mostly that their relationship was similar to that of mileena and tanya. rain was the leader of the umgadi, which was a more sorcerer focused warrior group rather than the strength that tanya embodied, while tomas was the forgotten brother, cursed with tarkat. it was very much still a forbidden romance, especially with the fact that tomas had tarkat.
in my swap au, i tried to keep a lot of the base character traits of the original characters, while still giving them a new life as another character— it was really important to me that they werent just the same character with a different name. tomas is still tomas, a very skilled warrior who’s specialties lied in smoke and deception, but he’s now been thrust into a position of power, as well as given something nobody would ever want- a curse of illness that cannot be cured. because of this, he is still despised by bi-han, and treated different from his brother. he’s sort of shunned and locked away, but still paraded around as a member of the royal family.
thus, rain is his appointed body guard- rain’s sort of meant to be the protector of tomas, for tomas himself and also for the people of the lin kuei kingdom, as tomas could start to turn further into his tarkat and start harming citizens. but eventually, they fall in love! after spending so, so much time together, rain always at tomas’ side, and sort of being tomas’ only companion, they start to form a connection deeper than that of master and bodyguard.
that’s sort of what i remember, and kind of all i’ve got, im so sorry! i wish i had more to say, but i really dont remember a lot anymore
i come to ask about your headcanons and ideas on Order of Darkness Johnny!!
Ghost said that OOD Johnny is more your area! I'd love to know what you think!
hi!!! omg im so sorry this has sat in my inbox for so long, i’m not super on tumblr anymore, so i’m super sorry for basically leaving you on delivered!
oh, order of darkness johnny..
to preface this, my order of darkness johnny is… very specific. he’s basically an oc with the name “johnny cage” slapped with the unending despair of godhood. bare with me here, it’s been about 2 years since i’ve written a story for him, so the details might be a little wonky. i’ve included some of the snippets of my world building, too! his story goes like this (under the cut):
“The anger— it festers, ebbs and flows through his bones like marrow, infecting every inch of his skin with a sickening buzz, begging him to keep moving, to keep going despite the lack of an end in sight. It doesn't matter if he could see it, if he could look into the distance and gaze upon his final call. He doesn’t care anymore, feels nothing but loss and anger, can do nothing more than pretend to exist, pretend to laugh and smile and cry at the right moments— an actor’s calling, is it not?
He pretends like he doesn't know all life will end. He pretends like the people he knows won’t inevitably die so much sooner than he ever could. He pretends like his life hangs in the balance, like he isn’t a tear in the timeline, a trickle from an older, worse era that only he remembers.
He exists through decades, centuries of life; he watches humanity rise and fall, watches history echo in front of him. He watches subjects he studied in school play out in front of his eyes, like a twisted historical movie where he plays the unfortunate hero.
But is he a hero anymore? After failing so fucking badly that he’s immortal? The only human to fall through the cracks, to survive, to “earn” his right to live- forever carrying the weight of survival on his shoulders, the only one who knows and remembers what happened. The only human, if you can even call him that, who knows of the incoming death of the Earth, of the universe, of the timeline. The only one who will live through it all, start to finish.
Will he have to do it again? Can he survive the implosion of a timeline, twice?
How immortal is he?
When he watches people grow and die, he feels the pit in his soul grow, a big lonely hole that no life will ever fill. It consumes him, eats at his heart as he pretends that it’s fine and okay.”
ood johnny is, essentially, an angry and broken god. after liu kang resets the timeline and sends everyone back, placing them into their little lives to live out their destinies, jumpstarts the universe part two, except something went terribly, awfully wrong. johnny fell through the cracks of the universe— meant to be a simple actor, he wakes in a barren land, a world of nothingness save for dust and sand. this, he finds, is the beginning of the universe.
he’s forced to live out each and every single day from the beginning of time, through the dinosaurs to the creation of humanity, and, really, he becomes the world’s most interesting historical scholar in the meantime, because in order to survive and not drive himself to insanity, he documents his lives as different “people”- some of them end up museums, too, which eventually makes him laugh a little bit. but, he spends his days evolving alongside humanity, the only human who knows the eventual love and losses that will occur.
history occurs as it should- he lives through tragedy and war, through societal advances and falls— he reads from the library of alexandria, and watches it burn just the same. he doesn’t interfere with history as it happens, because it needs to happen, becomes fluent in languages long lost to time, learns as much as he can from the world around him because what the hell else do you do when you’re immortal? he cannot die, a permanent fixture in the state of the universe, a forgotten moment in time that can never be rewired.
liu kang forgets about him. doesn’t realize there’s been a roach in his palace of a universe, too focused watching other parts of humanity grow, too busy waiting for his beloved friends to be born into the universe again, that he doesn’t notice johnny’s already been there. johnny’s never left, johnny was never born, he was always just there. he shows up in the headlines one day, and liu kang doesnt batt an eye.
once the events of mk1 start to take place, things take a turn for the worst. johnny, after centuries of forgetting, suddenly remembers the events that got them all into this mess in the first place. he meets familiar names, sees people he’d long forgotten, and while for the first time in centuries does he feel like he’s found some kind of purpose, it’s oh-so-quickly squandered once shang tsung sinks his claws into them. and johnny, despite his lifetimes of knowledge of the world, is unable to see past his anger once he meets liu kang again. he remembers what they’re going to go through, the world that they’re being thrust into, and almost, almost, says something.
but he holds his tongue- he remembers the lightning god raiden, so this must be different, right? this is all a little different. it must not turn out the same!
instead, he is witness to more bloodshed then he could imagine.
after centuries of missing people he’d forgotten, after finally meeting his friends again and needing to pretend there isnt a deep-seeded sense of familiarity that will never, ever go away, he loses them again. as quick as they come into his life, they are gone, a fleeting year or two in the grand scheme of the universe, and johnny is done. an anger, a numbness consumes him, and with no regard for himself or the world around him, he retaliates— he kills shang tsung, murders the entirety of the lin kuei, is unable to see anybody as a real person anymore because he was never given that dignity from the beginning of time. eventually, he makes his way up the ladder, bloodied and bruised but still alive and unable to die, and he faces liu kang.
blinded by anger, by the desperate need to kill himself and finally fucking die, he kills liu kang and takes control of the hourglass.
he destroys the universe. crumbles it all to dust, lets the timeline finally die the way it deserves, but johnny himself still cannot die. as a god now, he has the power of the universe, and he still cannot use it to free himself from his torment. instead, he absorbs the universe within himself, because if he cannot die than nothing will ever get to live. it kinda works against him, though, and he kind of becomes the worshiped god of his internal universe. the people pray to him often, yet he is nothing more than a broken man.
“He feels his throat start to seize, a soundless scream tearing itself through his throat, the empty void suffocating his cries.
What happens when you give a deeply broken man godhood?
Nothing.
If he had a physical body, it would be curled into a ball, tight and unmovable. His body, now stars and constellations, is echoed across the universe, his universe, his stars curling in on themselves as he cries.
Planets, gaseous bodies and galaxies squeeze from his tears, falling through the universe to settle themselves in their places. His heart, his sun, the star that carries his soul becomes the center of the universe. His universe.
There is nothing human left, not of Johnny Cage.
He is a doll, discarded on the floor, bent and twisted into sickeningly snapped limbs, unable to move, unable to care. His heart carries the universe, a forever exploding star that will never fully erupt. It squeezes in his celestial form, pushes at his galaxial skin, echoes all throughout life.
This universe, this timeline, it only lives because he cannot die.
Life is born from his cries, from his tears. It forms itself from his hatred, his anger, his love. His love, impure and tainted, a sacrificial promise. He should have been the one to die, to fall at the hands of that fucking sorcerer. He should have been the martyr, the drive for change— if only Kung Lao had lived, Raiden had lived, Kenshi-
Stars explode when he thinks. The life they house, the universes that encircle them, die with each labored breath he takes. His universe is full of life, but it too, contains nothing but death.”
this is where ood kenshi comes into play! the universe, contained within johnny’s body, becomes subject to one of ood kenshi’s timeline raids— however, instead of finding an entire expansive universe, he finds a man, floating in a void, his body barely held together with stardust and galaxies. ood kenshi finds him, a much, much more broken version of his former lover-that-never-was, and cries tears of gold that seal the cracks of the universe in his body.
he, gilded midas, becomes ood kenshi’s second in command— his body is forever cracking, forever breaking apart as it fails to contain the universe within. it is constantly expanding, constantly growing, and really, there is no glue that could give it a permanent fix. there is only the temporary relief of wealth, the temporary soothe of gold in his cracks, tears of love fueled by horrid anger and guilt.
so, kenshi continues to plunder- because he needs more gold to fix his beloved- and johnny stays by his side, because it is the only relief he gets from being a god.
Loved your post, it was really informative and I literally gasped when I read about naming Adrian's planet after suchin, because it definitely, **definitely** makes sense that johnny would do that, even after knowing what taka really did to him in the end...
and him and kenshi learning how to interact and speak with one another following the translation issues in the first place, it just feels so intimate that johnny would pick kenshi's name and name a planet after kenshi's mate (if suchin is still his mate in this au).
I see a lot of stuff on twitter about rocky and adrian basically making grace into their third, or being adoringly in love with him because he's their little human! he saved erid and brought rocky home! he's theirs!
-- and it just makes me wonder, would kenshi do the same with johnny? and, of course, the mary does end up being repaired but all i can think is that they'd just use her technology to send messages back to earth, for johnny to send word to taka and john that he's happy where he is even if he misses home :((
YESSSS yeah johnny absolutely becomes kenshi and suchins third #real. he does have his mate i fear adrian is too embedded in my psyche to ignore <3 also i need someone to top that rock anyways this got long again
i also constantly think about them learning to interact and speak with one another- as a linguist it pains me to say that johnny would be so so ass at figuring out eridian. in the book (and the movie) grace's 1000 words in a few days is litearlly just bull im so serious theres no way for that to happen. it would take MUCH longer for him to reasonably make a dictionary of eridian words, even with the added benefit of the fact eridians have an eidetic memory and he's using a hand coded software meant for this. kenshi would totally be doing a lot of the heavy lifting here, mostly because of the eidetic memory. (i could also go on a tangent abt eridian but thats gonna have to be a different post)
now to the meat..
i do think the eridians fix up the hail mary, but johnny absolutely stays on erid. like i said, he kinda left most of earth with a pretty sour impression of him, even after he was humbled by those 14 year olds- he still held people at arms length and kinda had this idea that he wasn't really that important (despite being the 2nd highest ranking person in the world at one point??) because he never really got over the rejection. i mean, he was rejected at most of the important parts of his life- his father, his mother, and then he goes and makes a name for himself in academia only for his own actions to condemn him from ever being accepted in his chosen field- yeah, basically, he never felt accepted by earth. and he found out how disposable he really is because despite being that guy who knew everything, the leading scientist, the second most powerful person in the world, he was as expendable as the next guy. i mean, the things you do in an oncoming apocalypse, right?
either way, he stays. he stays on erid with the first true friend he was able to make- not just someone forced into proximity that he became unintentionally close with. thats not to say he was never close to taka or john, though! of course, he was close to them, but it's obviously nothing like what he has with kenshi- that kind of bond could never be recreated. but still, he always figured that taka and john were just around him because he could make himself useful. which was kinda true but hey they did also like him back!
and that's why he would absolutely send some messages back to them. even if it was, you know, years down the line and likely wouldnt make it back to earth for a very, very, very long time, he'd give it an attempt. he'd throw his own hail mary in hopes that earth's all right too. he'd already sent the beetles, so he got those messages back to taka and john, and he'd left some little tidbits in there for them, but after that? i think they'd absolutely fix up the hail mary just to send one last message. it'll take far too long to get there, and he'll never get one back, but it's a nice kind of closure, you know?
johnny does miss earth, but he would miss kenshi even more if he even tried to go back to earth. his home's among the stars now!
The “Always muscles?” being so high up on the who am I board is so funny. Grace like ok i just woke up from a coma. First question: why am I Ryan gosling
this is true of all survivors but grace being both the haunted house and the ghost haunting it as a result of the whole "nonconsensually medically induced amnesia to make you comply with the suicide mission long enough to succeed" thing is really getting to me rn
