#kamidogu

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Shoutout to Skarlet for having one of the strongest weapons/objects in the Mortal Kombat universe as a cosmetic option

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Kombatember Day 7: Artifact

Throwback to Possessed Kuai 😩

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Okay, so, I had to reread some of the mkx blood ties comics as research for a fic and:

Kuai Liang had just woken up, when Raiden sent him after the Kamidogu.

Like, it's never outright stated, but the implication is that Kuai Liang has literally just been resurrected. He's waking up after being a revenant for the first time since having his humanity restored.

And he's awake for all of 2 seconds before Raiden sends him on that sidequest.

Which, I mean, I hadn't forgotten that (for all that I choose to ignore it for the sake of Plot) but it still slaps me in the face every time.

Because that's pretty fucked up, right?

Kuai Liang's literal entire family is dead, he has nothing and no one left, has Just woken up free to think his own thoughts for the first time in actual years, has woken up From A Nightmare about being controlled by Quan Chi

And Raiden sends him after the Kamidogu while he's still trying to catch his breath

This is made all the worse by the fact that it is further implied that Hanzo got given a Kamidogu to protect around the same time, which would have been before Takeda joined at about 8, and when Hanzo and Takeda are sent (BY RAIDEN) after a possessed Kuai Liang, Takeda is a teenager

Which means that Kuai Liang was going after the Kamidogu for years, and given his skill, it wouldn't have taken him all of those years just to locate it, it would have taken months. A single year tops.

So he was probably possessed for years.

And the comics explicitly tells us (if I remember correctly, if I don't then they Heavily implied it) that Raiden knew Kuai Liang was possessed the whole time. But instead of sending help, Raiden sent Hanzo, who had just lost his entire clan AGAIN, and was fully ready to kill Kuai Liang, which Raiden would have to be a moron to not see coming.

I don't have a point to this rant, I just wanted to point out the fact that Kuai Liang has literally never gotten a single break in his life

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Mortal Kombat Odyssey Bio: Onaga

In the ancient past of Outworld, the realm was divided into a various kingdoms, territories, townships, tribes, and communities.

The oldest of these, and for many centuries the most powerful, was the dragons. They were possibly the first sentient race to come about in the universe created from the defeat of the One Being, before even the humans who would go on to populate nearly every realm in some form or another. They were revered for their wisdom, their strength, and their majesty. And with their considerable army, they were virtually unchallenged.

With this power, respect, and seniority, the dragons of Outworld grew arrogant, believing that their position at the top of the food chain was secured, and their superiority self-evident. Even with the rise of the mighty kingdoms of the Shokan and Centaurs, it seemed that this would remain.

At this point, the latest of the Dragon Kings began to develop desires to expand his empire, and take all of Outworld under their banner. Cooler heads in his council were able to deter this ambition for a few thousand years, and Outworld remained in its status quo.

And then a child was born.

Two mere commoners in the Dragon Kingdom laid an egg which would hatch into the strangest dragon which had been seen in eons. He was… humanoid. Two arms, two legs, and while still towering like an elder Shokan, as he entered adulthood, he was smaller than many of the leviathans among the dragon race. A mutant.

His parents named him Onaga.

Onaga had a very difficult life as he entered the world. The other dragons found his mutation and appearance abhorrent, believing him to be hideous and even unworthy to be considered one of their kind. He was constantly berated and mocked, written off as an outcast and excluded at nearly every venue of life. Even his parents seemed ashamed of him, although they tried to keep up his self esteem in his youth.

This embittered Onaga over a period of centuries, causing him to hate those around him just as they hated him.

But there was something more than the pain of suffering this discrimination. Ever since he could remember, Onaga felt some kind of calling… a higher purpose. As if he was destined for some greatness. While the other dragons saw him as lesser, something told him that he was in fact a being most supreme.

He saw the universe before him and it was if he could bend it to his will…

Onaga’s arrogance allowed him to deflect many of the insults as he got older, and in the same span of time, he began to feel his own inner power grow. Something inside him that granted a might which the realms had never seen.

And one fateful day, it was time to let that power out.

Onaga suddenly snapped under the heckling of a group of his fellow dragons, killing them savagely. And he did not stop there.

As if all his rage had finally been unleashed, Onaga rampaged across the kingdom of the dragons, slaying all who stood in his path. Even his own parents fell victim to his staggering strength.

Entire armies were sent against him, and none of them were enough to stop his advance. Whatever innate power Onaga possessed was beyond them all.

Eventually, Onaga had single-handedly genocided almost the entirety of the dragon face of Outworld, reducing their once-great kingdom to ruin. His final foe was the king of their kind, who had his behind warriors for years and finally had nowhere else to run. Their battle was fierce, but Onaga ultimately succeeded, and laid claim to the title of Dragon King.

Onaga would not stop there, going across Outworld and exerting his might to encourage that all those in his path swore fealty to his burgeoning rule. Even the Protector God of Outworld, Shao Kahn, bent the knee to the Dragon King.

Within another century, Outworld had been reorganized into a unified militaristic empire under Onaga’s singular rule. Kingdoms which maintained their stature had become vassals and he had legions of loyal soldiers at his command which recognized his superior might or saw the opportunity to bring order to Outworld.

For several more millennia Onaga would reign unchallenged, using the intervening time to gain a mastery of several arts of sorcery, including a particular knack for resurrection magic, adding a force undead to his army that was fabled to be undefeatable, and which only grew with time.

He also gained a fascination with ancient legends, relics of potential use. The Amulet of Shinnok. The dark blade, the Ebbonrule. Remaining artifacts of the very dragon kingdom he had destroyed. All potential assets as Onaga began to grow in ambition beyond the bounds of Outworld…

Onaga envisioned a vast empire spanning the entire universe. All of existence beholden to his will. All he needed to do… was conquer.

The Dragon King sent forth his armies, commanded by undead generals and worshippers completely loyal to him, into other realms to seize them and allow him to merge these realms with Outworld. Among those conquests were the Kytinn home realm of Arnyek and the oceanic realm of Ebisu.

This merging of realms was an imminent threat to the relative peace the Elder Gods sought throughout the realms. If Onaga was not stopped, his expansionism risked reconstituting the One Being, and thus destroying the universe that the Elder Gods sought to protect, as well as resurrecting their greatest enemy.

Though still reluctant to interfere, they wished to put a stop to this expansion. Thus, the Elder Gods created the Mortal Kombat tournament. Onaga could no longer freely invade realms without incurring their wrath, and realms under threat had a means to defend themselves with minimal bloodshed.

Onaga was infuriated by this, quickly realizing that the Elder Gods were perhaps the greatest threat to the growth of his empire. He has always hated them, something inside him had always despised their arrogance and presumption to dictate the direction of the cosmos. They sat on thrones which Onaga felt rightfully belonged to him, and he would depose them through whatever means he could.

As the Dragon King regrouped his armies and reconsidered his options, he began to remember back to a story he had known since he was a boy, an unimaginable amount of time ago to most. No one had ever told him this story… at least not that he could remember, he just… knew it.

It was the story of the One Being, the Elder Gods’ battle with them, the creation of the universe

…and the advent of the Kamidogu.

Those artifacts had stayed in his mind for most of his life. He swore to himself that one day he would gather them all and unleash their power. That was his path to omnipotence and total dominion over all reality.

It was a goal his dreams of empire had blinded him to. Onaga realized that expansion through brute force was no longer necessary. If he could venture throughout the relams, or perhaps send agents to do so in his stead, he could gather the Kamidogu in time, without having to wage wars with other realms. Then he could lay siege to the Temple of Elements, claim the final piece, and unlock the secret required to unite these artifacts of the Elder Gods into one.

This however was one factor which his strange innate knowledge denied him… why? What force in the universe would grant him this knowledge of the ancients and forgo the final piece of it all. Perhaps something that had goals which did not align with his own?

Before Onaga could consider the matter of his mysterious benefactor further, he was assassinated at the hands of his advisor, Shao Kahn. The protector god poisoned a drink Onaga had been given, and laughed at him as he fell dead. Onaga damned him a coward as his body failed him.

His remaining loyalists were able to recover his corpse during the ensuing civil war for control of Outworld, taking it to a pyramid which would become known as the Lost Tomb, where powerful mystics among their number engaged a spell which caused the deaths of all present: a ritual suicide to join the ranks of Onaga’s undead army and serve him for eternity. Silent sentinels awaiting his inevitable return.

Shao Kahn succeeded in taking the throne of Outworld and began his own campaign to conquer and merge the realms, abiding the Elder Gods’ Mortal Kombat tournament for the time being.

But in his arrogance, Shao Kahn failed to truly understand the power wielded by Onaga. In his all his time of studying the mystic arts of life and death, Onaga had become virtually immortal. Death would not stop him.

His soul persisted, protected from the pull of any afterlife realm, and Onaga began to put a new plan in motion.

He commanded his mystic followers, the Lava Priests, to gather a stillborn dragon egg from the ruins of the dragon kingdom and construct a shrine around it. If necessary, the body within this egg would serve as Onaga’s new vessel in the living world when he decided to return. The Lava Priests were to stand guard of this shrine until their master’s resurrecifon, and for increased security, they conscripted a firespawn named Blaze using powerful mind control sorcery.

The second part of Onaga’s plan was to find a soul to serve as his agent in traveling across the realms and gathering the six Kamidogu so that he could seize them upon his return and begin his path to being utterly invincible. Onaga knew that this plan could take thousands of years, but despite his rage towards Shao Kahn, he was willing to be patient.

After thousands of years of searching, he honed his focus on Earthrealm, and in particular, a young boy seeking adventure…

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Mirror Shujinko/TR Shujinko

One of the most respected Shaolin masters of the Wu Shi Academy. Shujinko was born in a quiet and peaceful Shaolin village, where he and his friends were educated by the likes of Master Bo’ Rai Cho. Among their teachings, all children including Shujinko were also unwittingly transmitted an eagerness to carry everything in his shoulders, to blame themselves when they failed to act in the help of others as if they had wronged them themselves. A seemingly noble sentiment which can twist a person’s path with enough time and the wrong circumstances…

Shujinko was a particularly good kid, always willing to assist those around him. From helping their friends deal with their bully Mekko to trying his best to return the poor dog Nikko to his owner, all while also training regularly with Master Bo’ Rai Cho until becoming one of his most prominent students. He was very appreciated by many in his village, and yet, he wished to do more, which is why he started a journey of his own once he was experienced enough to do so.

Shujinko started traveling across the different realms on his own, just to discover more, and, in his young hopeful mind, help their citizens to solve their problems as much as he could in the way. Master Bo’ Rai Cho warned Shujinko that such a journey could end with him feeling disappointed, but respected his desires and assisted him in achieving the means. He even asked Lord Raiden if there were any easy means of traveling Shujinko could use, to which he recommended a place known as the Nexus, giving Shujinko indications where to find said portals in the different realms. When all was ready, Shujinko started his journey.

Shujinko lived many adventures, too many to easily summarize. The then neutrality of the White Lotus regarding the different conflicts of other realms allowed him to meet and learn from people of all sides in said conflicts. He tried to learn from every experienced warrior he found fighting abilities and ideals, as different as the latter could be in many cases, with the objective of getting wisdom and maturity, enough to reach his own conclusions. The old leaders of the Lin Kuei in Earthrealm, the demon in search of retribution Ashrah, the follower of Chaos Havik, the Seidan Guardsman Hotaru, Queen Sindel of the Edenian Regime. They are but a few Shujinko managed to convince to teach him in some way. But perhaps the most important one was the dragon Onaga.

When Shujinko wandered Outworld as a part of his journey, he ended up finding the walled city of Lei Chen, governed by the ruthless Overlord Zeffeero. Said Overlord had tried to take over Tarkatan villages in order to get their resources, which had caused Tarkatans to retaliate. Shujinko witnessed the Tarkatans approaching, and went to warn the people of the city, especially their ruler. Scared, Zeffeero asked Shujinko to ask for help from the Seidan Guard, believing they were a force he could negotiate with. But Shujinko was no fool, a short time in the city had been enough for him to realize what kind of person Zeffeero was. He instead convinced the Seidan Guard to help the people of Lei Chen overthrow Zeffeero, releasing themselves and preventing the Tarkatans from attacking too.

Soon after the city was released, the new governors chose to ally with Onaga and his alliance, out of fearing the problems they had faced would have weakened them and wishing to have their protection. Onaga himself assisted to meet with them to close the deal, and it was then when he met the young Shujinko, who asked him to train him since he knew how legendary he was. Having already heard that it was thanks to the young man that the city could free itself, he gladly accepted.

During his training, Shujinko was also granted a special ability from Onaga, the capability to copy the abilities from other warriors. He believed that for someone so willing to learn from others, it would be the ideal gift, and it was indeed. Shujinko deeply thanked him for it. Onaga also tried to teach Shujinko some of his world views, and guide him in the right path much like others had done for him long ago. Shujinko actually took his words to heart, at least for the time being, especially Onaga’s wish for everyone to be able to decide by themselves. It was one of the greatest preachings of Lord Raiden and the White Lotus, after all, as tempted as they had been to contradict it multiple times. After learning everything he could, Shujinko would leave to continue with his journey.

The ultimate result of Shujinko’s journey after all the decades he spent performing it was his desillusion. He had already become an old man, and while he had actually managed to assist many across the realms, he had also reached to the conclusion that, in the grand scheme of things, he hadn’t really been able to change things. The conflicts across the realms remained as active and violent as they had been from before he was a little kid in his village, from far before he had even existed. While he was grateful for all the people he had known and everything he had learned, he was also disappointed he was powerless to resolve every single problem those people faced by himself. He decided to go back to his home and become a teacher in the Wu Shi Academy, hoping he could teach young members of the White Lotus to fight to change the state of the realms in the future.

When Lord Raiden’s decision to ally with the Edenian Regime came to his ears, Shujinko gave himself time to reflect about it. He had known the Edenian society, and disagreed with many of their politics, even couldn’t deny the undeniable contradictions of their authoritarism with the values of free will the White Lotus had once stood up for. But, at the same time, he couldn’t also deny that the Edenian Regime had the resources to intervene in the path of other realms, (supposedly) end their conflicts, at a high cost. Not to mention that whichever side he chose, he would have to oppose old friends of his he had met during his journey. He was clearly conflicted, something which didn’t go unnoticed by people close to him.

Shujinko was visited by many. Lord Raiden, Master Bo’ Rai Cho, Ashrah, even Queen Sindel, who had seen his potential to become a ‘keeper of peace’ from the days she trained him. They had long exchanges, in which they reminded Shujinko of their ideals, their reasons to fight, and how they needed him, unknowingly using his necessity to do his best to assist others in their favor. It was that what made Shujinko ultimately take his decision.

While always preaching to be as merciful as it’s possible even with his enemies, Shujinko is ultimately another ally of the Edenian Regime alongside the rest of the White Lotus, and currently fighting for their cause, to the disappointment and horror of many friends he had once made. He may even be crucial for a key move of the Regime and its allies, since Lady Cetrion has revealed him they had been searching for powerful weapons known as the Kamidogu to use in their favor, and someone with as much knowledge of the realms as he has is very likely to be of great help in finding them…

Glad I have been able to finish it too, for a late celebration of Deception's 20th anniversary! 🥳🥳🥳

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According to Nightwolf and Kotal's dialogue, Shao Kahn imprisoned Kotal in the Flesh Pits because he feared Kotal. Why would Shao Kahn be scared of Kotal?

I wouldn’t say he was scared of Kotal Kahn.

Years ago, Kotal Kahn was Shao Kahn’s general in his armies. So, Kotal next to Erron Black used to work Shao Kahn. 

From what I read in some sources, Shao Kahn out of nowhere betrayed Kotal and had Shang Tsung imprison the latter for his experiments. Using the word ‘scared’ is stretching it a bit on the what happened years ago.

Shao Kahn was more wary of Kotal because he considers the Osh-Tekk warrior as a serious threat to him in many aspects. Going by Kotal’s feats from the comics, its already shown and proven clear enough that Kotal is one of the few fighters that can rival Shao Kahn’s raw strength (Not his Soul-Empowered Incarnation in MK9).

And we’ve already seen Kotal and Shao Kahn fought in MK 11, those two are seemingly equal in strength, but as I said in my previous posts, their fighting styles are different. Shao Kahn is strength and Kotal is skill. In their first encounter, Kotal won due to the fact that Shao Kahn’s judgement was clouded with anger and since it was morning, it’s very likely that Kotal could be passively gaining more power from the Sun. The second encounter, Shao Kahn won due to Kotal already worn out from his previous battles, likely tortured by Shao Kahn’s goons, and attacking Shao Kahn without even thinking. 

I’ve said it before time and again, Shao Kahn was powerful in MK9 only because of him consuming tons of souls and merging realms with Outworld. But he couldn’t do it alone without any help from his allies. He is still a powerful and physically imposing fighter, but it can only get him so far. If Shao Kahn (no souls) were to fight Raiden in Earthrealm, he would lose.  Kotal Kahn isn’t to be underestimated as he was able to take down Skarlet, young Erron Black, and Baraka without too much trouble and his feats in the comics aren’t something we should ignore. 

With the Sun and Blood Magik thanks to his Kamidogu knife, Kotal Kahn, if he were seriously wanting to raise some hell, could potentially rival Raiden in power--hell, he might give Dark Raiden a decent fight. 

Shao Kahn isn’t really ‘scared’, just wary of Kotal in general. That should tell you that Kotal is far more dangerous as a person and fighter than he truly lets on.

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Kombatember Day 5: Ancient Times

Ft young Shujinko