Can I ask a risky question?what do you think bi hans body count is? There's alot of differences in the bi han nsfw alphabets I read some people say oh no bi han doesn't care about sex and is probably a virgin( which I disagree with him being a virgin because that seeme too far fetched )and others saying oh bi han would probably go to brothels as a stress reliever. Tbh i might as well count nitara as a body because she refers to bi han as a "bed fellow"
Hi Anon,
No, it's not a risky question at all, at least not with me! I'm always up for gossiping about Bi-Han's love life and sex life!
In fact, I've already written several posts about Bi-Han and his relationships with women, including one that addresses the issue of the term "stranger bedfellows" used by Nitara to describe her relationship with Bi-Han. I'll put links to these posts at the end of this one.
But before that, and before answering your question about Bi-Han's bodycount, I'd just like to point out that I believe fans are free to have whatever headcanons they want, whether they prefer to imagine Bi-Han as a virgin or frequenting brothels to relieve stress (personally, I would see the Bi-Han from the Midway timeline and the first NRS timeline doing this during or between missions, i.e., the assassin/mercenary/thief Bi-Han, but we could just as easily assume that he was on the aromantic/asexual spectrum, as OG Kuai Liang Sub-Zero seemed to be). The same goes for his sexual orientation and preferred relationship type (monogamous, open or exclusive, polyamorous, x reader/self-ship...). At least personally, it doesn't bother me at all. Sometimes there are headcanons that annoy me, and I've expressed my disagreement with some of them here before, but ultimately I believe that everyone is free to see Bi-Han (and other characters) however they want.
Of course, headcanons should not make us forget that fictional characters are part of original works and canons that provide us with "objective" information about them, as decided by their creators. But once again, multiple fan headcanons and canon can coexist perfectly and peacefully. Overall, I think fiction is a hobby that everyone is free to practice as they wish, as long as they don't aggressively impose their vision on other fans, for example by stalking/harassing/doxxing them because they (the latter) see things differently from them (the former, who simply can't stand it).
But don't take anything I say personally, I was just using what you wrote to explain my view on the subject, but you are of course free to disagree with me.
Now that I've made that clarification, let's get to the point: according to Khaos Reigns, Bi-Han and Sektor are a couple. We have no way of knowing whether they are in an exclusive or open relationship, as the game provides no information on this subject, so I therefore prefer to assume that they are monogamous, since that's the most common arrangement on Earth.
And what we can deduce from their official bios is that they've known each other for a very long time, perhaps even forever: Bi-Han is the heir to the Lin Kuei clan, and Sektor is her father's heir as the clan's Master Armorer. So they most likely grew up together, just like the original Bi-Han and Sektor.
What Sektor's bio also tells us is that Bi-Han saw her as a "kindred spirit". They share the same vision of the future and the new purpose of the Lin Kuei, which Sektor confirms to Cyrax during the attack on Kuai Liang and Harumi's wedding:
Scorpion: That. Is a lie. Spoken by the man who let my father perish. [...] So impatient to lead, to make the Lin Kuei his, my "brother" went even further. He broke his sacred oath, and sided with outsiders against Earthrealm! [...] Cyrax: Grandmaster? Is this true? Sub-Zero: Every word. Cyrax: You knew about this. Didn't you?! Sektor: I share his vision for the Lin Kuei. We won't be bound by Liu Kang's limits.
For my part, I also believe that what brought them closer together were their shared life experiences. There are indeed many biographical parallels between them:
1) The reason Sektor probably resents her mother is because Madam Bo abandoned her family (her husband, their children—we know Sektor has siblings) to open a restaurant in the village where Raiden and Kung Lao were born so that she could train them from an early age. Sektor therefore lacked the affection and attention of her mother, who instead focused these feelings on two young strangers destined to become the future champions of Earthrealm, while the Lin Kuei were relegated to the shadows, eliminating threats to Earthrealm without receiving any recognition from Liu Kang or the Earthrealmers, who were obviously unaware of their existence;
2) On the other hand, Sektor is very close to her father:
Raiden: It's hard to believe that you are your mother's daughter. Sektor: Because I take after my father.
Sektor: My father wishes to return to service. Sub-Zero: His first task can be reigning in your mother.
Scorpion: Your father supports your actions? Sektor: He knows they are in the Lin Kuei's interests.
Baraka: Give my regards to Longwei. Sektor: You know my father? How?
Baraka: Longwei never told you he trained with Daybreakers? Sektor: My father keeps to himself.
3) Bi-Han lost his mother, for whom he seemed to have great affection. His mother must therefore have been a huge support for him as a little boy:
Smoke: If mother were alive— Sub-Zero: She would applaud my actions.
4) On the other hand, everything suggests that Bi-Han's father did not recognize or love him for his true worth (I wrote a long post about this here). An Invasion node even confirms the subtext present throughout the story modes of MK1 and Khaos Reigns, namely that Kuai Liang was the favorite son:
Tomáš also speaks fondly of his father. The old man took him in and made sure he felt welcome and integrated into the clan (one might think that this was also hypocritical on his part, given that it was his men who killed Tomáš's family, and that making Tomáš a Lin Kuei was therefore a long and subtle exercise in manipulation to prevent him from seeking revenge later), which means he must have spent a lot of time with this new son and consequently neglected his relationship with Bi-Han even more. Which may explain Bi-Han's violent rejection of Tomáš.
One may also question Liu Kang's recognition of Bi-Han's hard work and efforts as heir to the throne. In my opinion, if Bi-Han hates Liu Kang so much, it is not without reason, and it's because Liu Kang must also have been indifferent towards him. Because if Liu Kang had treated him with sincere respect and care, Bi-Han would not have considered him an oppressor and an enemy from whose chains he had to break free;
5) Also, by Sektor's own admission, ideological divisions within the Lin Kuei between the camp loyal to Liu Kang on one side and the secessionist camp on the other have been going on for centuries:
Sindel: The Lin Kuei's quarrel with Liu Kang— Sektor: Has been brewing for centuries.
Kitana: The Lin Kuei's ambitions— Sektor: Are born of centuries of frustration.
6) As a result we have—regarding Bi-Han and Sektor's respective parents and siblings: on one side, Bi-Han's father, Madam Bo, Kuai Liang and Tomáš, who are loyal to their oath of selfless defense of Earthrealm and to Liu Kang; and on the other, Bi-Han's late mother, Longwei (Sektor's father), and Sektor's siblings, who embrace(d) the opposite side:
Sub-Zero: Your siblings must do more. Sektor: They will honor theirs commitments, Bi-Han. I swear it.
Honestly, when you see all these parallels between Bi-Han and Sektor, with on one side a supportive parent who's powerless to change things because they are on the wrong side of the ideological fence (Bi-Han's mother, Longwei), and on the other, a parent who supposedly defends universal peace, goodness and virtue in general and has the approval of the protector god of Eathrealm and the imperial family of Outworld but is hypocritically cold and distant—perhaps even disparaging—towards their children (Bi-Han's father, Madam Bo), it makes sense that Bi-Han and Sektor would relate to each other's experiences and that feelings would develop between them as a result. Furthermore, this is just a theory, but perhaps because Bi-Han lost his mother, he became close to Sektor's father, who took him under his wing and gave him the emotional, moral, and ideological support he needed. At least, we know that Bi-Han speaks highly of him:
Sub-Zero: Once again, you outdo yourself. This facility, the armor. Even your father's dreams weren't so grand. Only you could've replaced him as our Master Armorer.
Ultimately, I know that some people think that Bi-Han and Sektor don't really love each other, that they are opportunistically using each other to satisfy their appetite for power and, incidentally, their sexual needs, or that Bi-Han is using Sektor for his own ends while Sektor is completely smitten with him, but quite frankly, that's not at all how I perceive their interactions in the story mode of Khaos Reigns or their intro dialogues. And I, for one, am convinced that their love is sincere, but absolutely toxic and self-destructive.
That's why, for my part, I think that in MK1, Bi-Han and Sektor have been together for a very long time (they look to be around 35-40, Bi-Han I'd say still in his mid-to-late thirties and Sektor in her early forties? But that's subjective, I admit). I would even find it consistent that they have been together since their teens and have only ever had each other as partners and so, that they lost their virginity together—and that they are very faithful to each other as well. But all in all, it's just what comes out of my personal analysis of the story/canon, which lack far too many details about their relationship to form a definitive opinion about it, so I'm not claiming that it's the truth either.
As a side note, I would also like to add that, according to the French translation, Bi-Han and Sektor are even engaged. Indeed, in an intro dialogue, General Shao calls Sektor Bi-Han's "fiancée", even if it's an inaccurate translation that goes a little too far, since in the original version Shao condescendingly and pejoratively refers to Sektor as just Bi-Han's "woman"—which tells us nothing more than that they are in a relationship, but says nothing about whether or not they are married, engaged, or neither:
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 8 · In the French Version of the Game, Bi-Han and Sektor Are… Engaged?! · Dang, I definitely need to start seriously watching M
And so, to return to the question of Bi-Han and Nitara, I think they were just business partners, and nothing more—especially since the term bedfellow is synonymous with "partner" in the broad sense, and not just in the sexual one. As I wrote a few things to clarify this subject, I'll share the links with you, since summarizing everything in this post would be too long and therefore unnecessary:
💬 1 🔁 3 ❤️ 28 · Do think bi han and nitara actually..did it OP, I don't know why, but your blunt statement (or was it a question? Well, l
💬 4 🔁 1 ❤️ 5 · I'm finally taking the time to put in my two cents to your post as I had intended; and after Khaos Reigns turned things ups
The first post dates back to July 2024, before the release of Khaos Reigns. At that time, however, fans couldn't have known that Bi-Han/Sektor was canon, which is why it was impossible to truly determine the nature of the relationship between Bi-Han and Nitara, and doubt therefore persisted. But since Khaos Reigns, I think we can say that there was never anything between them other than a circumstantial business partnership.
Besides, nothing in the other interactions between Bi-Han (whether as Sub-Zero or Noob Saibot) and Nitara, or Sektor and Nitara, suggests that the first two could have slept together. In any case, I don't think that if that had happened, Bi-Han would have hidden his infidelity from Sektor, and even if he had, I'm sure Nitara would have chosen to reveal the truth to Sektor in order to sow discord between her and Bi-Han. Or Nitara could have chosen to blackmail Bi-Han by threatening to tell Sektor everything unless he submitted to her demands. In short, if Bi-Han and Nitara really had had a fling, it seems to me too huge an event not to come up in other intro dialogues between the three characters.
That said, a meta question remains unanswered: when Megan Fox recorded the "stranger bedfellows" line, had NRS already planned for Bi-Han and Sektor to be a couple? Maybe not, and so perhaps they had initially intended to imply that Bi-Han and Nitara had indeed slept together, before finally deciding at the last minute to turn Sektor into a woman and Bi-Han's lover.
This could explain why, if it is indeed Sektor who appears in Bi-Han's ending, she was originally a man:
But then again, maybe NRS just thought of this guy from the beginning as one of Sektor's assistants tasked with manufacturing the armor she had designed. We know she has a staff that helps her in this regard:
Raiden: Without Sektor, who maintains your armor? Cyrax: My secret allies who remain on her staff.
To put it plainly, on this point, the mystery remains unsolved.
By the way, the French version of the game literally translates "bedfellows" as "lovers", which is yet another good example of how translators working in my language didn't think things through very far, since "bedfellows" is precisely a term that deliberately left the nature of the partnership between Bi-Han and Nitara vague, before Khaos Reigns confirmed Sekhan and thus rendered any Bitara insinuations null and void. But anyway, I've noticed several clumsy translations and even outright errors in the French version of the game, so I'm not that surprised. See, once again, Shao's "woman" translated as "fiancée".
Moreover, in my July 2024 post, I also checked how "bedfellows" was interpreted in a few other languages, and if I remember correctly, all of them translated it as "allies", not "lovers", thus confirming that Bi-Han and Nitara were merely working partners insofar as their interests converged at a certain point. The French translation is therefore problematic due to its amateurishness on certain points.
All in all, I don't know if this long explanation answers your question, but I hope it does! My answer may disappoint you, I don't know, since I don't know whether or not you like the Sekhan ship, which I know isn't really appreciated by the fandom. But since Sekhan is canon in MK1, I couldn't ignore that fact in my analysis. So yes, I believe that the only romantic and sexual partner Bi-Han ever had in this new lore is Sektor, and that they are faithful to each other.
Just below, you will find my links to posts about Bi-Han and women (sorry for quoting myself like this, but it allows me to avoid redeveloping from scratch points that I had already covered):
💬 13 🔁 12 ❤️ 76 · Bi-Han and His Relationship to MK Women: An Analysis · DISCLAIMER: I wrote somewhere in this post, that according to an
💬 7 🔁 10 ❤️ 79 · The Femme Fatale as Bi-Han's Ideal Type of Woman (1/2) · Bi-Han: Sareena or Sektor? Sektor or Sareena? Gosh, I really don
