I’m weak in the knees 😭 look at this precious little boy! This little bean is probably my stand in for Zhīhuá and Bi-Han’s son. He’s so cute, I’m gonna die.
Ok so here it is, my alternate biography for my self insert, this is speficically geared toward my RP with @corruptedcryomancer but I mean fuck it, who doesn't want to be a legit T-Rex, right? I put it under a cut because it's like three pages of Zhīhuá recounting sad shit to Noob Saibot, hopefully you guys enjoy it though, there's mentions of adultry, suicide, abuse and miscarriages though, but none of it is in detail. It's probably pretty weird, and there's kind of this overarching idea of kind of like a soulmate AU, but I think it's pretty damn good for a random sub-boss in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero lol
“This isn’t the first time we’ve been together,” she pauses to smile lovingly at the wraith, “and it won’t be the last. You may have no recollection of me anymore, but our souls have been bound and entwined since the beginning of time. It’s no coincidence and no mistake I’ve found you again, we will always end up finding each other, no matter how much we change over the ages. Fate is a kind and cruel mistress, she lets us be together in each existence, but it always ends in tragedy for one of us, sometimes both of us.” The blue haired woman waits for a reply from the wraith, but he just looks at her with a quiet curiosity in his milky white eyes.
“My existence in this timeline is a punishment for my past life, you once asked what I did to end up in the Netherrealm, well now I suppose I will tell you aì rén. Our last life together you were a proud and unstoppable general in the service of Puyi, the last Emperor of China while I was known as Zhīhuá, a name you still called me in life and one of his concubines, a disgraced one at that. I committed many grave sins, the worst being falling in love with you instead of the man I belonged to. I was an adulteress and murderer, as I later found out when I woke up here in the Netherrealm, the Emperor learned of our affair, but did not sentence me to death, but exile instead, you however; did not fair so well. Puyi executed you for my crimes and I could not bare to live with it, I couldn’t bare to be parted from you, so in my sorrow and anguish I followed you in death, I don’t remember the exact details, but I remember the sweet taste of the poisoned wine, and the soft silk wrapped around my throat and the clattering of the chair beneath me before I departed from this world,” the woman’s voice is very soft and full of regret as she continues.
“I-I did not know that I was with child at the time, I would have never gone through with it, had I known at the time I had your sons growing inside me. Something that fate loves to torture me with to this day,” she pauses to wipe her eyes and look at the floor, suddenly overcome with too much guilt to face the wraith her lover had become. The shadowy figure is still quiet but tilts his head in an invitation to continue her story. “Generally when one dies, they go to the Void to await their reincarnation, sometimes it can take weeks, sometime years, sometimes decades, but this time I did not awake in the Void, I awoke to the smell of rotting flesh and acrid sulfur and thick smoke. I knew things seemed off, but I didn’t realize how off they were at the time. I remember it clearly, the deafening clang of metal on metal, a trough being filled with a putrid mix of rotted demonic remains and Netherbeast carcasses and cold metal biting into the flesh of my leg as I was dragged away from a warm and comforting presence of a pile of threadbare blankets and soiled rags. I didn’t realize it yet, but I was no longer human.”
The woman pauses again, waiting for some kind of smart remark or quick witted quip from the wraith, he still remains silent but offers her some shred of comfort by wiping the residual tears from her light brown eyes. “I had become an inhuman monster, a dinosaur at the mercy of my captors, I depended of them for everything as I had no freedom whatsoever. I spent my youth chained to the wall of my cell, the thick jagged metal cutting into my soft hide with every movement, everyday I wished it all to end, but at the same time I knew I deserved this life for what I had done. I was beaten and abused day in, day out, terrorized by my handler, forced to fight and kill my brethren for my own survival, there are no horrors or atrocities you can show me that I have not already committed myself,” she says as she gestures to the ninja’s severed head still perched on the armrest of the throne. “I survived time and time again, the thought of you was the only thing that kept me going, knowing that if I had been reincarnated then surely you had by now as well. I was desperate to escape my prison, to be able to search for you, just to make sure you were ok, I knew there was no way you would recognize me in this grotesque form anymore, no way you would hold me close in the darkest hours of the night anymore, but I still needed to see you. So, I played their games, I toppled everything they threw at me, I ate the disgusting slop they fed me, I obeyed their commands without question and when I was grown I became a beast of war, a combat mount for Quan Chi’s elite patrol forces, roaming the Netherrealm endlessly for intruders. It wasn’t much better than my years in captivity, but at least I got to see and smell things other than my cell and constant death, and I finally was able to stretch my legs and walk around.”
“My handler was not as cruel as the demons who raised and trained me, but he was still not a kind man, demons rarely have any goodness to be found, but he at least didn’t seem to delight in beating me. He only did it when I misbehaved so, it was some type of improvement, I enjoyed our time together and when I think about it I may have even grown to care for him, in a purely Stockholm sort of way. I was even beginning to forget my past life, who I was, my identity and even about you, but a fateful encounter thankfully changed all of that. You must remember when Raiden sent you into the Netherrealm to retrieve Shinnok’s amulet?” She pauses and looks up at the wraith, feeling smaller than usual in his presence as the shadowy figured towered over her, he nodded in agreement.
“That’s when I saw you, at first I couldn’t believe it, my handler had received word that a human had infiltrated the Netherrealm and was after something valuable and must be stopped at all costs. We of course followed orders and pursued the target, never in my wildest dreams did I expect you to the target, but the moment I laid eyes on you I knew you in an instant. My memories of our life together that I thought I had buried so long ago all came flooding back to me in an instant, and I was ashamed to let you see me like this, so I lashed out at you as I had been trained so many years to do. You let me live though, you probably didn’t know why at the time and probably never did until I told you all of this now, but even though you no longer knew me, no longer recognized me you wouldn’t hurt me, you never have. You killed my handler with ease, but paused when delivering the final blow to me, I laid there beaten, bloodied, begging for death but you just turned and walked away, returning to your quest. I knew then and there I could no longer be parted from you and would do anything to make it so.” She doesn’t bother looking to him for confirmation to continue this time, she can feel his eerie white eyes boring into her, intrigued by the little dinosaur’s tale.
“I sought out a great and powerful witch living in the deepest bowels of the Netherrealm, a woman so powerful even Quan Chi let her be, I told her my story, my plight and surprisingly she sympathized with me, having once been the victim of similar captivity and oppression in her life. She agreed to transform me into a human to be able to seek you out again aì rén, there was no payment due if I was successful but if I failed again I would serve her for the rest of eternity, it was a deal I jumped at. She must have thought for sure I would fail, but I knew I wouldn’t, I knew our love transcended centuries and it had not diminished. When I made it to Earth I posed as an English teacher in the little village at the base of the Lin Kuei, having already gathered that must from your uniform and Quan Chi’s ravings. It was so strange having a human body again, especially one with such sinful curves, but you certainly never had any complaints and it didn’t take long for me to melt your icy facade and we were wed in secret, not even your little brother knew. We were so, so happy together it felt like an absolute dream, my nightmare was finally over. Gone were the days of my torture and brutality and in their place was comfort and happiness in your strong, cold arms, but happiness never seems to last for us.” She sits down near the wraith’s feet, curling up into a trembling ball, tears streaming down her cheeks as she relays the end of her tale.
“Everything was perfect, so perfect,” her voice is now a cracked and broken whisper, “we were expecting twins, and I had never in all my life times seen you as proud and happy as you were when I showed you the ultrasound photos, you were so proud you even called your brother and told him he was going to be and uncle, but then, then the Grandmaster told you that Shang Tsung had purchased your services for the tournament. I begged you not to go, not now, not when we had a family on the way, but you had to, for our sake, you knew the Grandmaster would not only slaughter you, but he would imprison me, then take our children before killing me as well. So, you fought to protect us. You never returned though. All that returned was stomach churning, crude impersonation of you, Kuai Liang,” she spat his name as if it was tainted with venom before a sob wracked her small body.
“He’s the one who told me what happened, but he was an idiot, he didn’t wait to tell me, he didn’t sit me down and gently tell me the news, in his haste he threw open my door and just blurted it out. I-I went into shock, I was a hyperventilated mess, as my world crashed around me as my body fell to the floor at the horrifying news. I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, it’s all my fault, everything is my fault!” she screams wrapping her arms tightly around her trembling body. “I once again took the lives of our unborn sons because I was too weak to withstand the news,” she cradles her stomach as tears stream down her face and she whispers a litany of apologies, before looking up at the wraith with an unstable look. “Then you came along...and I realized I was back and square one again, and maybe just maybe I could make things right again this time. After all we have eternity to do so,aì rén.”
@corruptedcryomancer are any of these kids and their hairlines less of an embarrassment to carry on your bloodline??
Zhīhuá and Bi-Han’s kid is probably younger but I can’t find good pics of younger kids. Also what are we thinking for a name? We can also just pretend he doesn’t exist if it’s too annoying lol He can be Zhīhuá’s kid with movie Bi-Han and make @thetigerandthedoe happy lol 😂
