Some random in-game MK mechanics for my main five(mostly Cash tbh):
-when Cash isn't being used in a match, she can be seen occasionally in the background of the Black Dragon Fight Club stage, taking bets on the match from other BD members. If Kano is also present, they will occasionally shout and make rude gestures at each other.
-Because of her luck powers, Cash has a 3% chance in any battle she loses to be randomly granted a Mercy, without any input from the other Kombatant.
-Most of Cash's weapon variants have women's names. She also has a pistol named "The One I Stole From Erron." If she is wearing this variant in a battle against Erron Black, he will gain a small boost to his attack power. If he wins the match, the pistol will be unequipped in favor of a random one, and will have to be re-equipped in the menu, implying he took the pistol back after winning and it must be re-stolen.
-Coco's name on the roster would be her codename, Siren.
-During the end of round taunts, if Cash is facing a woman Kombatant, her taunts will occasionally change to very cheesy pickup lines, usually with a pun related to the Kharacter.
IE: for Kitana - “Wow, I’m such a fan of you!”
for Mileena - “Your smile lights up my world.” etc etc (they’re not good)
-Siren and Calli will not perform finishing moves on each other. this includes Finishing Blows, Brutalities, and Fatalities.
-Of the main five, Sai and Calli's attack styles are more zoning based, with higher speed and range but less defense against close-range Kombatants. Izzy and Cash are the opposite, both preferring close range attacks with a lot of strength but less speed overall. Siren splits the difference between the two styles and is more overall balanced.
You Changed the Locks is about Izzy and Kano finally meeting up again after their brief team-up, in which Kano tries to steal her weapon schematics, but she knows he's gonna do so and changes them to some cheap weak prototype schematics. He has, in fact, changed the locks on the BD compound, so Izzy has to get..... creative in breaking in. (lots of explosions happen)
She's just there to bother him(and probably also for a quick lay lmao). She also embarrasses the shit out of him in front of his entire crew of degenerates lmao
(based off an absolutely bonkers dream I just woke up from lmao)
Rating: T
Words: 503
Warnings: Explicit language
Summary: Izumi Tanaka, the new owner of Tanaka Industries, has a lot of work ahead of her.
“So, why do we have to wear hazmat gear here again?” Izumi asked Cremini, adjusting the mask over her face as she glanced around the room. They stood in the inventory building of Tanaka Industries. Izzy had just turned of-age and had inherited the company, and she’d given the employees a paid two-week off period to make some… adjustments. She hadn’t, however, been allowed to step into the building since childhood. Many things were still unfamiliar to her, having changed quite a bit since then.
“All the data I’ve combed through shows that, at some point, the shareholders began allowing the storage of toxic chemicals on-site,” Cremini, Izumi’s assistant and partner in crime, responded. She was also in full hazmat gear, checking a handheld electronic device with a small stylus. “Luckily it’s nothing radioactive, that’s not something we would be able to fix. As well, that would have been really stupid to store where employees work.”
“It’s still stupid to store anything toxic where employees work,” Izzy groaned as they walked through the walls and walls of boxes and barrels. “Ethical issues aside, it’s not even a good business practice. They’ll be paying for workman’s comp issues for decades after.” She paused. “Or, we will, I guess.”
Cremini couldn’t help but let out a small chuckle. “Good to know you’re thinking of the little guy, Izzy.”
“Hey, I said ethical issues aside!”
“I know, I know, just giving you shit, boss,” Cremini laughed at the woman’s response. She continued to scroll through her palm pilot as she walked. “Luckily, it looks like only a minimal amount has been leaking into the ground underneath. Move all these barrels of corrosive garbage out, rip out the flooring, give the whole area to Agave and let her grow some of her plants here for a few seasons. The place'll be good as new. The plants won’t be viable, of course, but they’ll absorb all the gunk and let us get it out of the soil.”
“A few seasons!? Where are we supposed to store actual inventory in the meantime???” Izumi groaned again, even louder this time. “Ughhhhh, why couldn’t these old dolts not fuck everything up for me?”
“Just the joys of inheriting a company that a bunch of fucked up old dudes went to town on, I guess.” Cremini grinned beneath her mask. “Just wait until you see what they did to the main building.”
A loud sigh escaped the new CEO’s lips. “Well, I guess I gotta stop considering it an ‘inheritance’. This bitch is a fixer-upper, and that money’s all going to re-working this nightmare of OSHA violations.”
“Sounds like an investment to me, not an inheritance.”
Izumi chuckled at the woman’s response. “I like the way you think. Now, let’s get the hell out of here and find a hazmat team to properly dispose of this garbage. This suit is sweaty as all hell.”
“Heaven forbid you have to get a little sweaty, Miss CEO,” Cremini joked.
Tanaka Industries Holiday Party! AKA “how my giant group of found family OCs celebrate the holidays together”
for anyone unaware, Tanaka Industries is a robotics and technology company owned by OC Izumi Tanaka! They have worked with both Special Forces and the Black Dragon(obviously the Special Forces don’t know about that one lmao). This, however, has almost nothing to do with the MKverse and everything to do with my self-indulgent fantasies about my found family of OCs and mostly serves as a fleshing out of characters and an insight into them as people! Plus i’ll be featuring some of my lesser-talked-about OCs, since most of them work at the compound.
Cash: is the last one to arrive to the party, as per usual(she’s only ever on time for work stuff). Shows up dressed to the nines in full western wear: a cream-colored cowboy hat, a nice and even unwrinkled(!unheard of for her) white western shirt with black accents and fringe hanging from the sleeves, a nice pair of blue jeans, and even her nice cowboy boots that she only brings out for special occasions. She shouts a stupid one liner as she enters: “Merry fuckin’ whatever, you lovely bunch of degenerates!” She gets Izzy a bottle of her favorite and very expensive soju, Stevie(the head chef of the compound and one of my favorite OCs ever) gets a bunch of nice cooking wines, and Coco gets a nice bottle of CBD-infused massage oil(she doesn’t drink often, but she is a very physically active person, so her muscles are always achey). This is also where she meets Calli, Coco’s younger sister!
After the food is eaten and people get to drinking and partying, she does a fuckton of drunk karaoke. She does a few modern songs but it’s mostly old yeehaw music. She does a June and Johnny Cash cover duet with a very drunk Coco, and dances like a suburban dad at a bbq.
Coco: forgoes her usual oversized comfy clothes or goth/alt looks for a very pretty black dress that ends at her mid-thigh, and a pair of strappy black heels. Izzy took her to get her hair professionally done for the occasion, so her wild mass of curls is properly diffused and frizz-free, and she’s wearing a full face of admittedly subtle makeup, with the exception of a wine-red lipstick(she almost never has her lips showing bc of the mask she usually wears so she’s very excited to wear pretty lipstick!). She gets Cash a new black cowboy hat that has Native beadwork on it, Calli gets a new sketchbook, Izzy gets some new makeup palettes that Coco knows she wants!
Coco does not drink often, but she decides to say “fuck it” and let loose a little bit. She has zero alcohol tolerance so she’s about one and a half drinks in and MESSY drunk(Calli takes away her drink and asks Cremini, the bartender, to cut her off for her own safety). She and Stevie dance together(they’re both dancers so of course they do!) and she absolutely KILLS it on karaoke. She’s also drunk enough to be outwardly cuddly and happy, and starts talking to people in her native tongue(a very specific dialect of ancient Greek lmao). Calli is the only one who understands her but it makes her happy to see her big sister enjoying herself. She makes sure Coco gets to her bed safely and leaves aspirin and water on the nightstand for her.
Calli: wears a large oversized holiday sweater with simple black leggings and fur-lined booties(comfort above all things is Calli’s MO). her hair, which is usually up in a bun, is down, dusting her shoulders in wavy white strands. Her gift to everyone is a very intricate portrait of themselves, including Cash(she draws Cash’s over the course of the party, since this is their first meeting). She and Cash bond over silly stuff, and she ends up teaching her about memes, to the detriment of everyone around her.
Cash is also very surprised to see Calli drinking a lot and being able to hold her liquor, especially compared to her older sister. Calli laughs it off and explains that she inherited her dad’s high tolerance, and Coco inherited their mom’s lack thereof. She spends most of the party showing Cash memes and drawing her, but does a few karaoke songs too. She doesn’t have as impressive of a singing voice as her sister, but it still sounds quite nice. She also joins the video game group for a few rounds of super smash brothers.
Izumi: goes all-in with a full blowout, makeup professionally done, dressed up in a gorgeous and very form-fitting white bodycon dress with a long slit up to above the thigh, and a giant fur stole. Everyone gets a huge bonus as their gift, with the exception of those who don’t work there(Cash and Calli). They just get cash as a gift anyways lmao.
Being the host, she tries to go around and chat with everyone, making sure they’re having a good time. She ends up spending most of her time playing Smash off in the corner, though. She rarely ever gets to play games with how busy she is! She also does a lot of dancing.
Sai: Sai is dressed as she normally is, all tattered robes and mori kei looking. She’s from Outworld so the holiday season is still fairly new to her. She doesn’t participate in a lot of the festivities, preferring to sit and watch her recently found family enjoying themselves for once. The only gift she needs or wants is to see them happy. She finds Coco’s drunk antics particularly amusing. Her gifts to everyone is a future sight she saw of them in the new year that will bring them fortune or something good. The gift of prophecy!
OKAY NOW THAT WE GOT THE MAINS OUT OF THE WAY LETS TALK ABOUT MY LESSER KNOWN BABES
Sascha: Sascha is a dude who met the Nova sisters at the orphanage they ended up in after their parents passed, and he became sort of an older-brother figure to Calli after Coco ended up getting adopted. They are all still good friends to this day and Sascha is basically considered another member of the family by both of them, and also works as part of the secretive Specialty Team at Tanaka Industries(basically Izzy’s team of fixers who go on special missions and aren’t well-known about by the public), and co-leads it along with Coco. He’s semi-dressed up in a green plaid shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and a pair of jeans. He’s very naturally quiet and chill as shit, and he just has a few drinks and exchanges gifts, spending the rest of his time at the party playing Smash. He’s a Ness main. He wins almost every match.
Aten: stinky man! Not invited. He gets coal in his stockings because he's awful and shot Cash and broke Coco’s heart. I love him but he’s a bastard man.
AND FINALLY MY FAV MERCENARY GROUP!!!!!
The Gourmand Mercenary Group is a merc group that used to front as a fancy restaurant(and indeed, did so well as a restaurant that they were considering retiring from merc shit) before meeting Izumi. She contracted them to help her confirm complete control over her company, and when she took over, she hired them on permanently to help her run things. And indeed, they run most of the day to day business stuff that Izzy can’t handle on her own! Also, all their codenames are based off food. It's a weird concept but it’s fun.
Cremini: The de facto leader of the group! She mostly runs the bar and inventory for the compound these days. She and Sage show up in matching ugly sweaters. She only gets behind the bar at the party to make specific mixed drinks, otherwise it’s all open season and anyone can grab themselves whatever(she needs a break too!). Spends most of her time eating and dancing.
Sage: resident himbo and heavy weapons expert, as well as janitorial staff. As previously stated, he and Cremini wear matching ugly holiday sweaters(they grew up together and have a very sibling-like relationship). Also spends most of his time eating with Cremini, but also does some very terrible karaoke and a little bit of gaming. He’s also super excited to see Calli, since he has a tiny crush on her and she doesn’t live at the compound like everyone else.
Tira: Security specialist for the compound and hyper nonbiney pocket rocket. Pretty much always wears ugly sweaters anyways so is just dressed normally. Also spends most of the party with the Smash group and is the only one to even rival Sascha’s playing. Is a Kirby main and is a TERRIBLE troll player, spamming the same moves.
Mille: The company accountant and vehicle specialist for important missions, as well as transfemme excellence. Always dresses in pink lolita coords and does so at the party as well. She enjoys the food and drink but much like Sai, prefers to sit back and watch her found family of dipshits have fun and enjoy themselves. She cheers at every karaoke performance, even the awful ones.
Burrata: Stealth expert and genderfluid mute. They are dressed femme at the party in a very pretty dress. Gets sloshed and does lots of spinny dancing moves. Smiles more than most of the group have ever seen them do. Mille in particular is very close with Burrata and is very happy about this development.
Agave: Twin sister to Stevie and the medic of the group, as well as the gardener and a poison expert. Spends most of the time helping Stevie in the kitchen, but afterwards picks out her afro and does her makeup quickly and somehow looks the best with the least amount of time(she’s fucking gorgeous). Wears a pretty yellow sundress and puts flowers in her afro and looks like a beautiful ray of sunshine in the middle of winter. Dances with Stevie and Coco for most of the party, and is super amused to see Coco so drunk.
Stevie: MY SWEET BABY BOYO. BEST BOY. Transmasc twin brother to Agave and chef of the group, basically the main reason why the restaurant front worked so well. Makes a HUGE spread of food for the party and it’s all fucking delicious. Is super proud of how everything turned out. Is also an amazing dancer, and spends most of the post-cooking part of the party doing so.
If you read all of this thank you so much and im sorry for how stupid long this was lmao
