#mk minerva

[overlordzeffeero]

Tojira and Minerva with this picrew

Recently tagged by my friend @etherealada05 to try this picrew on some of my OCs. Thanks, Ada! 💯

Here are two of my OCs with this picrew, Tojira and Minerva

No pressure tags:

@bdfightclub

@chaosrealm

@defendersoftherealms (if you decide to try this picrew, it can be any character, not just OCs 🫡)

And anyone who sees and may like to try the picrew!

[overlordzeffeero]

My turn to ask you. 😁 To any ships of your choice for the ask game.

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Thanks, Ada! 💯I'll split this questions in two ships, hope I'll give a good answer 🫡

SORAK AND MINERVA/SORERVA

6- in what ways do they complement and complete each other

They complement each other when it comes to their individual skills, up to a point. Sorak's especializes in the intellectual field, while Minerva does in combat (as a someone trained from youth to be part of the Kahn Guard). It's worth mentioning that I don't take it to the extreme (Sorak is still a warrior and is prepared for war, Minerva is a good strategist and can understand a book if she picks one), but it's still clear what's their main skill, and they enjoy learning from each other when they work together.

They also enjoy teaching the other a thing or two about their respective homes/cultures. Sorak has had insight from the Kahn Guard's inner working thanks to Minerva, and Minerva can fully understand Tarkatan societies thanks to Sorak.

They also extent how they complement each other to the others' people. Sorak has shared some of his knowledge with Kahn Guard soldiers under Minerva's command, while Minerva has helped him train inhabitants of Mireya.

43- how gentle, soft and considerate are they with one another and how do they show up for each other

They are as considerate towards each other as people like them can be.

They have shown how much they cared for each other for thousands of years by fully trusting in one another and allowing the other to show a side of each other they would show to everyone else (something I will to elaborate further in the next point).

It's worth mentioning that the mere fact of openly being together was a considerable act of affection given that they knew how their respective environments would react. Many Tarkatans who are aggressive towards outsiders must have hated the fact that a leader of a prosperous village decided to be with an Outworlder, just as much as the great amount of Kahn Guard soldiers who consider Tarkatans beasts much have hated seeing one of their high ranks with one of them. They were aware of that and it didn't stop them from being together and forming a family.

45- how are they different when they are with each other than when they are with everyone else

One could say that they allow each other to be their true selves when they are together.

Sorak may not notice it, but I want to establish he (and Arranad, for that matter) is trying to overcompensate when he's with other members of the Kahn Guard. He speaks softly, never gets angry even when he's disrespected, tries to show up his knowledge, etc. While part of it is because of his personality, it's also because he wants to prove everyone that he isn't the mindless monster they believe all Tarkatans are.

Minerva also needs to pretend in front of other people up to point. She's been trained to be a ruthless, unforgiving soldier who believes in the superiority of the strong over the weak, that any sign of weakness is intolerable. While she has indeed become a loyal and dangerous Kahn Guard, it's inevitable that a part of her (and of most other member of the Kahn Guard, really) wishes she could be allowed not to prove her strength at every moment, to relax and open herself up to a loved one, if just a bit.

Both get what they deep down want when they are together. They don't have to put the intellectual or strong to extreme persona if they don't feel like it, they know the other won't judge them. They can just be who they are, and enjoy spending time together.

CARMILLA AND ARRANAD/CARRANAD

5 - what visions or hopes do they have for their relationship

They simply expect to advance in their relationship and perhaps form their own family one day, preferably when they have gotten the highest possible rank in the Kahn Guard and can put some of their focus in one another.

10- how vulnerable are they with each other and when are they the most open with e/o

Similar enough to Arranad's mom, since they are Kahn Guard soldiers, there are few people they allow to see their most vulnerable sides, and the other side of the couple is included in that selected group.

Carmilla is one of the few that knows a side of Arranad that's helpful and caring rather than serious and threatening. Similar to both her parents, Arranad is both trying to prove her worth to those around her and to shut the mouths of everyone who tries to mock her Tarkatan heritage (in her case, usually through subtle or not-so-subtle threats). But also like her parents, when she's around someone who she can trust and cares about her, like Carmilla, she's allowed to be her true self, to just enjoy someone's company and openly care about her.

Arranad is also one of the few people who Carmilla is open (at least as much as possible) about her insecurities and doubts, perhaps even more than with Reiko (who she wants to impress as her mentor and big brother figure). The snarky, mocking side she shows to enemy soldiers or other Kahn Guard members is basically gone with Arranad. She can speak with her about how she feels her past still haunts her or how sometimes she fears she won't be strong enough, because she knows Arranad won't judge her and instead will motivate her further (even if it's to be strong enough to kill all their enemies, because still Kahn Guard 😅).

51- what is a boundary in the relationship that they would never cross

With everything I have said in the last point, it's worth mentioning that they wouldn't force the other to be open either. Arranad listens to Carmilla when she needs to express her insecurities, but she won't insist her to do it if she doesn't feel like it.

Carmilla also tries not to intervene in Arranad's business when she confronts other Kahn Guard soldiers or so. She knows Arranad wants to prove herself a capable warrior, and so she lets her do it herself even if she's ready to assist if strictly necessary.

[overlordzeffeero]

Earthrealm OC designs

Hey, there. My friend Ada introduced me to this Picrew

I have ended up kinda addicted to it and I have made Earthrealm designs to my non-Earthrealm girl OCs (like those Earthrealm designs Kitana, Mileena and Reptile had in the last game), and I want to share them now. Hope you enjoy them! 😊

Arranad

Carmilla

Eriisi

Karia

Minerva

Tojira

Ulima

[overlordzeffeero]

Mom and dad's little soldier girl

Arranad is just the ideal child of her parents. Her mother, Minerva, as the Kahn Guard veteran she is, trained her in physical aspects, preparing her to become a ruthless soldier from childhood. Her father, Sorak, being a pragmatic but also merciless leader of his village and a nerd in the worst possible ways (steals relics from conquered realms because he enjoys discovering about cultures, for example), trained her in intellectual aspects, teaching her to have her way with words and search for knowledge, but with the objective of having more ways of coming on top and step over others. Both taught her to be loyal to the Outworld's Empire ideals, and she ended up not just embracing those ideals as her own, but even surpassing her parents as a soldier of the Empire (has a higher rank and more authority than both of them nowadays).

Also, a bit more on the fighting style thing. Arranad, unlike most Tarkatans, fights using only one of her two arm blades at a time, and performs skillful and elegant movements that most Outworlders wouldn't expect from a Tarkatan (a mistake from their part). She can switch from an arm blade to the other during the fight or use both in key moments when she can take someone by surprise to perform more damage.

It would be her weapon fighting style if she were a playable character in the 3D Era (the name would just be Arm Blade), and it's based on Count Dooku from Star Wars (with all the differences that using an arm blade instead of a lightsaber implies of course).

Tagged by: @ellswips as usually (thank you for another challenge! 🤗)

Tagging (no pressure 👍):

@etherealada05 (thought it could be done, for example, with Quartz or Diamond, when you publish her and her parents, so I give you the chance, friend! 😉)

@laismoura-art (pretty confident that, for example, your Harumi or Sektor/Bo II would make for interesting answers, so I wanted to give you the chance for this challange too! 🔥)

Also, as usual, anyone reading this can participate!

Here is the template of the challenge:

[overlordzeffeero]

OC Couples with Picrew

Here are the couples at least one of my OCs is a part of done with this other picrew (M/F version) or its F/F version.

Carmilla and Arranad

Diamond (OC from my friend Ada) and Tojira

Eriisi and Echidna (another OC from Ada)

Minerva and Sorak

Victoria 'Vicky' Manzano and Rebecca 'Becky' Carlton

[overlordzeffeero]

For any of the OCs! 😊

📣 MEGAPHONE - how loud are they? what do they speak like? got a voice claim?

💧 DROPLET - random angst headcanon

🌠 SHOOTING STAR - if they could make any wish with no repercussions, what wish would they make?

Thanks for the ask! 😊 I am super glad to have the chance to make another one of this! 🥳

Now, this time I think I can dedicate it to a full peculiar family I have created here.

Minerva

📣 MEGAPHONE - how loud are they? what do they speak like? got a voice claim?

Since she is a someone trained to be a ruthless Kahn Guard soldier from a young age and has grown to have a fairly high position within Outworld's army as a Subcommander, Minerva usually speaks loud enough to assert her authority while expressing a complete control over her emotions.

When speaking to superiors she's respectful, when speaking with those under her command she's authoritative. In general, she's pretty direct, going straight up to the point of a conversation and having a no-nonsense personality.

I don't have a voice claim for any of my OCs. It's just something I never do.

💧 DROPLET - random angst headcanon

Oh, boy, I would have a lot of potential for angst here.

Minerva is a Kahn Guard soldier. As I write it, the Kahn Guard is an awful faction to be part of. Their recruits are taken whether their family consents it or not (and very few consent it). Their whole philosophy is that only the strongest deserves to be part of them, and so they are constantly sent to missions against the Empire's enemies. Those who die during those missions are considered too weak to form part of the Kahn Guard. It's a horrible, toxic environment that causes people to grow ruthless, merciless, cruel, and to accept that as the only way of life. Minerva has potential to have experienced a lot of bad stuff during her life.But the particular headcanon I am going to propose today is the next one.

One day, a young Minerva who hadn't been taken over completely by the Kahn Guard was in a training duel with another recruit she knew well. Perhaps not a friend, but at least someone she had trained alongside with for some time, and she knew enough about them. She knew they were also recruited at a young age, that they hadn't chosen it either. She could sympathize with them, whether she would say it out loud or not.

The duel Minerva was having with this person was a close one, so much that things went out of control. In the Kahn Guard losing even a simple training duel means a great dishonor, a proof that you haven't grown strong enough. In the end, Minerva would end up accidentally killing the other person. While she was trying to process it, her trainers would just write it off and tell her to grow over it. The weak don't deserve to live, and all Minerva had done was ending someone weaker than her.

That would have been the moment Minerva would have completely given up to the Kahn Guard ideals and allow herself to be consumed by them. She didn't need to accept what she had done in that way. It what was meant to happen, after all: eliminating the weak. That day, Minerva may not have physically died, but what was left of innocence in her did.

🌠 SHOOTING STAR - if they could make any wish with no repercussions, what wish would they make?

Simple. for Outworld's Empire to rule supreme over all realms. It's what she has been indoctrinated to do, it's all she could desire alongside being with her husband and daughter.

Sorak

📣 MEGAPHONE - how loud are they? what do they speak like? got a voice claim?

He doesn't speak very loudly most of the time, just loud enough to be heard.

Sorak is many things a regular citizen of Outworld wouldn't expect of a Tarkatan: soft-spoken, serene, well-mannered. His village is already different from most Tarkatan societies, and he in particular is what we would call a nerd lmao. Still a warrior due to the traditional warrior Tarkatan culture, but one who also enjoys activities such as reading or appreciating pieces of art from different parts of Outworld. His voice would reflect that.

💧 DROPLET - random angst headcanon

Being as knowledgeable as he is, Sorak actually knows about other kind of societies to the one he has lived in under Shao Kahn's reign. He knows there are ones who, with all their problems, are not ruled by Emperors with absolute power, nor based in the rule of the strong over the weak. Something within him may have had hope that a society like that could prosper in Outworld, if only to try an alternative.

Until the genocide of the Cryomancers by Shao Kahn. I think that is a particular event that I can use as what made Sorak lose any hope for another future for his realm. That was the destiny of all who opposed Shao Kahn, of all who opposed the strong: death. He may not have suffered from Shao Kahn's system as directly as Minerva did, but the results from living under it were the same.

🌠 SHOOTING STAR - if they could make any wish with no repercussions, what wish would they make?

Have access to all knowledge across existence. He would feel that's the key to get anything he wanted in the due time.

Arranad

📣 MEGAPHONE - how loud are they? what do they speak like? got a voice claim?

She's kind of a middle way between both her parents. She's as loud as Minerva or as much as Sorak when the situation calls for it.

And the same about her way of speaking in generals. When she is dealing with other Kahn Guard members, she's as authoritative as a Commander is required to be, similar to her mother. When she is in more diplomatic scenarios (like engotiating an enemy's surrendering, let's say), she is more similar to Sorak.

💧 DROPLET - random angst headcanon

She has suffered from discrimination during her life due to being half-Tarkatan, as I have established in her bio. But what may make this particularly angsty, at least from my point of view, is her answer to it.

Get stronger. That's what she believes to be the answer to everything, discrimination included. Be better, grow stronger and step over those who denigrate you. If you can't, then you are weak so you actually deserve it. It's the ideology her parents have and have prepared her to believe in since she was born, and the one followed by the rest of her world, so no wonder she follows it with no question. That's how she has surpassed the discrimination she suffered in her eyes, and what she would tell anyone else in a similar situation to do.

🌠 SHOOTING STAR - if they could make any wish with no repercussions, what wish would they make?

It would be easy to say the same as Minerva, but let's change it a little bit for the sake of variety: she would wish for she and her allies to become the most powerful they can be, to exploit their full potential. Then it is when they would be able to take over the realms and make the glorious unbeatable Empire they all want, built through combat and the death of those weaker than them and foolish enough to resist.

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Sorak and Minerva Bio

On the one hand, the leader of a Tarkatan village called Mireya. On the other hand, a proud Outworlder member of her Emperor's army who has the rank of Subcommander in the Kahn Guard. They are quite a peculiar couple.

Centuries ago, Shao Kahn had decided to isolate and take resources from most Tarkatan communities, in order to make them fall into starvation. He believed that their poor conditions would make them easier to control, and that they would be more likely to unleash their rage on his enemies when he needed it. Fortunately for its citizens, Mireya was a exception.

The village was in a territory close to many other Outworld communities and had established too many important trade relations for the Emperor's new politics to be applied to them. The Tarkatans from Mireya were able to avoid starvation and have relatively better general life conditions than most Tarkatans. Nonetheless, fearing that their lack may not last forever, Sorak dedicated himself to being a soldier of Shao Kahn to keep gaining the Emperor's favor through servitude. It was there where he met Minerva.

Minerva had been a young girl when the prior Emperor Onaga was overthrown, and chosen to be part of the new Emperor's army. It was an hostile environment in which only the strongest could survive and triumph. As such, Minerva trained hard to become the most powerful soldier she could be, achieving many victories through the years which earned her the position she currently has in the Kahn Guard.

After Sorak and Minerva met each other, they started participating in many battles together, impressed by each other's abilities. They even got to participate in the conquest of Fabir of the young General Reiko, one of the many successes with which Sorak ensured Mireya stayed in good conditions. It was during this time that Sorak and Minerva fell in love and eventually married.

Minerva moved to Mireya after their marriage, more than glad to start a new life with her husband, and ready to help him train the Tarkatan soldiers of the village. Mireya still had the charasteristic Tarkatan warrior culture, which was a joy for Minerva to explore and made her feel really comfortable there.

They eventually had a daughter, Arranad, and raised her to become a good soldier and keep earning their village when she was old enough. Arranad has been quite successful in that area, although that would be an story for another moment.

One of the deadliest pairs Shao Kahn's army has to offer, they will be a problem for the oppositors of Outworld's Empire.

Here is a version of Sorak with less expressivity but more accurate Tarkatan features.

These two are actually just backstory OC parents for another OC. Yup, creating these is quite one of my favourite hobby 🔥