Hey, Rasta. Yeah, I have seen your reblog of asking for people to bother you with questions, so here I am again lmao 🫡
It came to my mind that, since you mentioned liking Conquest love, I could use this question to give you a chance to yap about anything related to Conquest newcomers, whether it's ideas you've had for your AU or just ideas in general. I am sure that would be interesting!
It can be literally anyone. Siro, Taja, the extra demon ladies, Vorpax and the Kreeyans, Qali, Kiri and Ankha, Omegis or anyone I don't remember. Any Conquest character you are interested in, basically. Feel free to tell us your thoughts about them! 🔥
I'm so glad to receive this ask, Apep!! First of all because I meant to answer you about your take on the kreeyans but also because I've always wanted to ramble about Conquest but never got the opportunity to and didn't know how to format the whole thing. Now, I guess I will just ramble freely. 😅
Also- NOT YOU FORCING ME TO SIT DOWN AND ACTUALLY WRITE DOWN MY TIMELINE BECAUSE REWRITING MK DEMANDS THAT ONE DOES MATHS AND THERE ARE SO MANY FACTORS TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT. 😭
There's so much to unpack about Conquest so it will be a rather long read but I'll try to make it all about the Conquest newcomers rather than delve into the real canon characters (even though I have things to say about them too!!!)
Keep in mind that my Conquest rewrite is a huge W.I.P but that will do for now! 😅
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So first thing first... The Great Kung Lao!!! Honestly, I think that the very concept of developing a story centered around this character was a VERY cool idea and I ended up being more than a bit disappointed when MK1 turned out to take place in the current days rather than 500 years ago like the end of Aftermath had teased.
What I have so far for (the Great) Kung Lao is that he was found orphaned as an infant by Lady Suijin, the Earthrealm water goddess. I know you read my post about Mihiro and the Dansui but also Suijin and how she's a motherly and protective goddess but one unwilling to stay in one place to do one thing, let alone dedicate years to the education of a child. That being said, those who have been taken under Suijin's wing once always remain in her heart, so I imagine she always treasured Kung Lao despite the distance and even grew fond of his descendants... Anyways, Suijin entrusted the baby to the Shaolin monks of the Order of Light and Kung Lao grew up to be their greatest kombatant, eventually representing his faction and realm in Mortal Kombat. He defeated Shang Tsung and became the tournament champion for like the next 250 years until he began to feel tired of this life as an immortal fighter around the time of his 5th tournament as the champion; especially since he eventually met and fell in love with Geneviere Reyland. Lao came to crave a normal life with the woman he loved... Which Raiden wouldn't allow him to have (Conquest/MK95movie/DotR!Raiden is the BEST. I love him so much!)
I don't talk about Kung Lao nearly enough despite my love for him but this post I made can help you understand how I see both our current Lao and his ancestor.
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Speaking of Jen!!! I just want to preface this by saying I just find it really odd how 98% of the people in Zhu Zin are white. That's it. Realistically, I know the reason is "it's a show from the 90's" but my brain finds itself compelled to do the hardest mental gymnastics in order to justify the reason why this Chinese city is populated by mostly white people. Especially in like- around 1500??? Now, I know this show is not historically accurate AT ALL and simply focuses on keeping the retro MK aesthetic similar to the first movie (they take place in the same universe after all) buuuut... As much as I admittedly love it (it's part of the charm!!!) it's still a bit weird lol.
Anyways, Jen's father is given the title of baron, which indicates he's European. Given the name "Reyland", I'm going to assume they're British, though the variant "Reiland" is a German surname. I'm not a History nerd but I think it might be a bit too early for English traders to have settled in China buuuuut... Whatever. Honestly, the thought of MK being 10000% rooted in realism is wrong, it's always been a bit wacky. I've always just assumed the Reyland family had travelled to China to do business and that's it. So that's what I'm going with.
I'd like to flesh out Jen's character in order to have her and her relationship with Kung Lao matter a bit more. I hate that so many episodes tend to portray Kung Lao as a massive SIMP for other women such as Kitana, which makes Jen look like some unimportant piece of meat part of Kung Lao's life even though he was willing to marry this woman. Maybe let's have one protagonist who doesn't stupidly fall in love with Kitana for once?? I know we're talking about Kitana but I find it annoying how she has to be paired with every "Liu Kang-like" character. 🙄
Especially since- Current day Kung Lao is the direct descendant of the Great Kung Lao. Which means The Great Kung Lao canonically banged had a child. I feel like we don't talk about this enough... At all, actually. Jen might have always been destined for the refrigerator but the Great Kung Lao having a lover makes sense and Jen thus could have been a more major character instead of dying in like- the second episode.
I totally imagine Lao crafting what would become his family heirloom as a gift to Jen, something she would eventually give to their child and which would become a symbol of the Kung family.
So yeah, Jen will live in my AU, she'll get to be a kombatant as well and she and Kung Lao will have a child eventually. Kung Lao did teach her some martial art techniques but given that I see her as European back in medieval time, I can see her being skilled in swordfighting but I also think Jen with a crossbow would be sick because I think the crossbow is a sick af weapon and perhaps Fujin could have taught her but I also really want Jen to have a longbow because that's some typical elf weapon to me and Jen kinda looks like an elf. Or a fairy. To me.
When it comes to Baron Reyland, he's pretty much like his canon self. He settled in China to do business, owned the trading post in Zhu Zin and thus accumulated a large wealth. He's no-nonsense, selfish, rather heartless and values money over all things. He also tends to be really condescending towards the culture and beliefs of the Order of Light and everything surrounding the Mortal Kombat or the Elder Gods. As the most wealthy figure in town, he has a certain authority which no one dares question... However, he also accumulated debts after debts which he struggled to repay. While he did care for his daughter, he merely wished to marry her to a wealthy man in order to wipe away his debts to the Red Dragon. Anyways, he dies. Welp.
And yeah, the Red Dragon, not Black!! The Black Dragon being there during Great Kung Lao's time is yet another example of Conquest being like "shit, we have to put MK characters in our MK show even if it disrupts the timeline!" Silly writers! The Black Dragon didn't exist 500 years ago! :P That being said, the Red Dragon straight up didn't exist in 1998. At all lol. Still, I think it would make a lot of sense, was Conquest being rewritten one day, to replace the Black Dragon threat with the Red Dragon. We don't know when exactly Daegon woke up but chances are he was awake 500 years ago? If anything, he had freshly woken up and the Red Dragon was just starting to rise. I just love the idea of Daegon being a threat who's been secretly acting in the shadows for centuries.
I'm also thinking of Daegon looking for one specific sword, the Lungchuan Dao we see in the Red Dragon's Chamber of Artifacts. In my mind, this sword is connected to Onaga since the runes on the blade are the same as the ones seen in Onaga's tomb. As you already know, Onaga is the creator of the Blood Kode in my AU (might have to make a new version of my rewrite) and the Blood Kode ritual requires the use of these runes. Skarlet had the runes scarred into her skin as part of the ritual to bound her to the Blood Kode.
Baron Reyland would have acquired the sword and many other magik items during various trades, which is why the RD is so determined to own the Reyland trading post.
(Also something about the medallion of the BD turning people into dragons, how the RD experiments on human-dragon hybrids and how Kano turns into a literal black dragon in his Armageddon ending.)
I'm keeping Bannak, Kebral and Jola as Red Dragon members AND I'm throwing Mavado into the mix!! Why? Because I just love the idea of Mavado being an actual conquistador (who met the Kotal and the Osh-Tekk) rendered immortal by Daegon. The events of Conquest are Mavado's beginning as a Red Dragon member. He'd be the biggest RD threat here.
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Okay so these two.
First of all, NO romantic tension between them. That's all.
Listen- except for like- perhaps Kung Lao and Jen, or like- what little we saw of it, romance (if you can even call it that) in this show was TERRIBLE.
I cringed so much whenever something happened or was hinted at between them. Please, no.
I think the trio ought to remain friends.
I'm admittedly not super inspired when it comes to Siro right now. The only background pre-Conquest he has is some conflict with his brother because of some girl and we don't know how he ended up working for Baron Reyland. I really want to work with that and his friendship with Jen though, they could be a wholesome pair of friends. I imagine that Jen and Siro have known each other for longer than Jen and Lao have. They're pretty much like siblings and can be a bit silly together... They can share their one and only braincell. We also know Siro's weakness for alcohol and how easy it is for him to fall back in its clutch so I think he's someone who doesn't have the best coping mechanisms and tries to cope with stuff by drinking it all away. That, paired with his protective streak, makes me think he had loved ones he failed to protect and he now dedicates his life trying to save and protect people, which is a reason why Jen is so dear to him. So yeah, I know Jen's death is one of his biggest motivators but DO WE REALLY WANT THAT???? Siro's determination to fight would be the same if not stronger with Jen still alive.
Anyways, when it comes to Taja!!!
So we know Taja's family were travellers who lived in a trailer. At some point, Taja lost her family and had to rely on herself in order to survive. I came up with two ideas based on this fact.
This is like, the very first AU post I ever made so I progressively refined some aspects and will probably do a proper rewrite one day but I have this background for Tomáš that goes about how his family were not just hunters but demon hunters part of a faction dedicated to the protection of Earthrealm (like the White Lotus Society, the Matoka Tribe or the Mediterranean tribe Johnny descends from). They traveled a lot in order to eradicate evil, mostly in Eastern Europe where they were from, but Tomáš' mom eventually found herself compelled to go to China with her children in order to seek help from the Order of Light. Listen, I needed a reason for that Czech boy to be in China because for real literally WHAT are they doing HERE???
Taja's family being travelers, I decided to go with the same background. Taja was born in a family of demon hunters and thus was taught how to fight. However, her family, including her sister, ended up being killed with only Taja making it out alive. She began to live on her own, using her skills as a thief and as a fighter to survive, while holding onto the hope her family was alive since Taja did not witness the massacre of her parents and lost sight of her sister while they were running away. Taja eventually joined a travelling carnival, working as an acrobat, contortionist and stunt woman. She didn't abandon her thief's tendencies though and still tried to rob Lao, Jen and Siro, which is how they met. She also was in the same carnival which had Syzoth as a freakshow. I like to think they would be friends too. At first.
That way, we get to explore Syzoth's past instead of just having him be a random Kahn goon. Though in order to follow the idea that Reptile in Conquest is a traitor, in this AU he would betray the good guys and join Shang Tsung who had let him know he could possibly restore his race.
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Now, I know I said I wouldn't talk too much about canon characters but I want to talk about Scorpion.
Scorpion in this show is another "shit, we have to put MK characters in our MK show even if it disrupts the timeline!" Writers Moment™... But they actually almost got it right and could have made something really cool had they committed to the idea!!!
What do you mean Conquest!Scorpion is a guy named Takeda, like the one who escaped the Lin Kuei and founded the Shirai Ryu, but they never did anything interesting with this????
So yeah, in my AU, the Scorpion we see in Conquest is none other than Takeda Shirai, former Lin Kuei who escaped the clan in order to return to his native Japan. Takeda wouldn't be an enemy of Kung Lao and co, he would be a neutral force first and foremost but seeing that the Lin Kuei serve as antagonists both to Kung Lao and Takeda, they would definitely form an alliance against the common threat.
I also want to take the opportunity to mention Peron, the woman who tags along with Scorpion in one episode. 🥲 In canon, she's nothing more than yet another white blonde bikini fighter in ancient China. Needless to say, I will heavily rework her so that she's basically another Lin Kuei warrior who escaped with Takeda. And Asian. Though I'd like her to keep lighter hair. Genetic can be weird after all.
Her name bothers me. So much. What kind of name is Peron??? It's a surname at best. Google did tell me it was an old variant of the name "Pierre" which is the French variant of "Peter" so I guess she's a geomancer to me now. That's a good thing. We don't have any canon geomancers except for Tremor. Peron can join him along with Motaro (I headcanon Centaurians to be born geomancers; one thing they can do is creating earthquakes by stomping the ground; the more Centaurians there are, the stronger the earthquake).
Anyway, they both manage to make it back to Japan despite being hunted down. Takeda founded the Shirai Ryu and the rest is history!
Oh and Takeda Shirai is none other than Harumi's ancestor too. 🌸
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Now, let's talk about Qali!!!
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She's just Jade.
That's it.
If anything, "Qali" in my AU is the name I give Jade's mother, but as far as my AU goes, the character we see in Conquest is literally just Jade.
Listen, I'll just leave you with these bits from a conversation I had with @ntaras.
Jade loves Kitana, Jade is loyal only to Kitana, Jade dedicates her life to Kitana's safety... And protecting Kitana means betraying Kitana.
The Conquest Rewriting part of my AU is Kitana and Jade's break-up era ajsjdj- Kitana is leading her rebellion but she's seriously walking a dangerously thin life between life and death. Jade is sick of it and doesn't believe in a free Edenia anymore so she does what she has to do to protect her beloved princess.
Even if it hurts.
Kitana gets brainwashed again after the events of Conquest so she forgets her beef with Jade. Things go well for a long time until the Trilogy events and Jade finally gets a chance to make it right.
With that being said, Tanya can also fill a part of Qali's role, most precisely the part where Qali works with Quan Chi to gather souls for the Brotherhood of Shadow army during the Festival of Death. We know Tanya in the Midway Timeline was a member of the Brotherhood of Shadow and as you probably know, I stick with villainess Tanya. Therefore, in my AU she would appear in the Conquest arc, filling the role of the "Brotherhood Era" Qali. It would also be a way to explore Tanya's past and relationships with other members of the Brotherhood, namely the demon sisters. Tanya and Kia definitely do not get along.
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We have two more edenian characters from Conquest who made it to my AU: Maya and Daahraan. Both are extremely minor characters but they still exist.
Maya in Conquest is Kitana's servant who only appears in one scene in order to die. I decided to take this character and rework her to act as Kitana's first bodyguard and nursemaid when she was younger and still the princess of a free Edenia. Honestly, think of Maya as the Impa to Kitana's Zelda. Impa from Ocarina of Time is my primary inspiration for my AU Maya.
Still, I'm not sure about Maya appearing in the Conquest part of my AU. I think I had planned for Maya to die during the invasion of Edenia. Sindel and Kitana had gone into hiding with Maya but Shao Kahn found them, killed Maya but spared Sindel and Kitana.
Daahraan is an elderly retired edenian knight who survived the destruction of his realm and eventually decided to settle in Earthrealm in order to train its warriors in hope they could successfully protect their home. He dies like in canon.
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Siann, Mika and Sora do not exist in my AU. Even if they do one day, they'll be kameos at best but I'm really not interested in them at all. They were just thrown into the show for sex appeal... Like most female characters for that matter... I'd rather use our three beloved sisters and flesh them out more.
I'm not sure what their exact role (aside from being Quan Chi's assassins) will be but it'll be an opportunity to meet them earlier in the timeline and establish their characters/relationships. Kia as the explosive but protective leader and oldest sibling, Jataaka as the most reserved and cautious middle child and Sareena as the most emotional and all-around human of the bunch.
I like to think Sareena would already have made an attempt to escape at the time but failed miserably. While not being a full-time ally to Kung Lao and co, I can see her being generally nicer and more merciful. She's genuinely scared of Quan Chi and submits mostly out of fear, though the sorcerer also constantly feeds Sareena's doubt about her belonging in the light. Sareena's always torn between her human side and her demonic side. She tries to pretend she doesn't mind serving the Brotherhood and actually enjoys being an evil demon but she's really just gaslighting herself.
Ashrah might also make an appearance, being Quan Chi's bride at the time.
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To add onto the Conquest characters who are replaced by game canon characters in my AU, Master Cho doesn't exist and is replaced by good old Bo'Rai Cho here.
Bo'Rai Cho trained the Great Kung Lao and even trained Shang Tsung before him. While Bo is proud of Kung Lao, he lives with the regret that he wasn't able to teach Shang Tsung properly, resulting in the former Earthrealm champion betraying Earthrealm and joining Shao Kahn's forces.
Omegis was also among Bo'Rai Cho's students. And another one he failed.
I feel like Omegis has enormous potential and I love the whole "cursed by immortality" thing but it's something I'll definitely explore more with Erron Black, so Omegis following the same arc feels redundant. Besides, while vanity is an actual flaw, Omegis being a promiscuous woman who merely wishes to be beautiful forever for the sake of it just- doesn't sit well with me??? It's weird and cliché on top of being boring and adding onto the whole "female characters in this show being there for nothing but being pretty faces and boobs" things. Really nothing but just pieces of meat. I don't know, that's just how I personally feel about it. I love beautiful women and I'm not one to be offended by bikini fighters but- Conquest was obvious with its intentions lol. Y'know, it's not even the skimpy outfits that bother me, it's the fact that nearly all female characters in this show are constantly horny and are always trying to have sex with every man they meet. That made me uncomfortable and made watching the show a real pain sometimes.
I love the fact that Omegis is a sorceress who specializes in potions though!! It's not a type of magik we see often in MK games. Although Shang Tsung did create an actual antidote for the tarkat disease, potion making is not specifically his thing and Omegis offers that possibility. This made me remember a side quest in Deception in which Shujinko has to get Blaze a potion in order to help him get his memories back. You get the potion from a random female PNJ and it would be cool to have Omegis brew that potion...
Honestly, I'm brainstorming concepts about Omegis but if you wait for my final take, I will never post this answer ever shsshjd. So here's what I have so far and that I will set on developing:
Omegis is an outworlder that Bo'Rai Cho brought to Earthrealm with him as his student. She was trained alongside Shang Tsung and while the two became close, I doubt I'll write a romance between them. I don't plan on writing Omegis as evil but I can see her being tricked by Shang Tsung the way she was in the show, leading her to do the wrong thing before being betrayed.
The main idea I had is based on the aforementioned Blaze side quest which made me think of Onaga's Holy Men and the Lava Shrine Priest. Just- Onaga in general... Do not ask me why I got the idea of making Omegis a half-dragon lady as a descendent of Onaga. I don't doubt the Dragon King banged at some point, maybe even multiple mortal women. Mythology stuff. Besides, we know some human people have draconic traits. There are the shokans and Shao Kahn's species of course (I chose to make them the Z'ankarian mentioned in the MK11 krypt) but Liu Kang himself definitely has some dragon traits within him; Cetrion does say he has Onaga's fire.
Soooooo yeah, I don't know. Something about Omegis having some draconic traits as far as her blood is concerned and her specializing in potion making, adding her own blood in her potions in order to add magik into them. Instead of her being immortal, I can imagine something about her killing a bit of herself whenever she uses her blood to brew a potion. She could potentially have the power of Onaga's heart, being able to revive people, but it would come at the cost of her own life. Like- she can heal people but in exchange of her own health diminishing.
I also imagined a scenario in which Omegis becomes a follower of Onaga. I don't know why, I don't know how and I'm not sure I'll go there. Onaga is long dead by the time Omegis is alive and I can't think of a deep reason why she would join him. The lady who joins Onaga in my AU is Li Mei and even then, that's temporary and she has a deeper reason to do it. I just found the idea of Shang Tsung and Omegis starting on the good side only to end on the bad side but on opposite bad sides to be cool. Both of them serving bad people but bad people who can't stand each other.
Even if Omegis doesn't serve Onaga, she still is connected to him. I love blood magik lore and I always find a way to throw it somewhere whenever I can. Taking the "it's in our blood" thing really seriously hehe.
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Ankha is a name I've already brought up here simply because it's the name I give to Khameleon!! Now, it goes without saying that my Khameleon (or "Meelee" as Nitara and I like to call her) is way different than canon Ankha who's just- some bratty possessive sub lmao I don't know. I just gave her name to Khameleon. Because I needed a name for Khameleon and well- Ankha-meleon.
In my AU, Ankha is the daughter of Queen Sytholin, the last matriarch of Zaterra who died at the hand of Shao Kahn. Ankha made it out alive and took it upon herself to save and rebuild her people and realm as the next Matriarch. In her quest, she was initially helped by Kiri, a fellow saurian and longtime friend.
One detail I like about Kiri is her skills as a fortune teller who reads within people's blood. As you know, blood magik is really important in my AU and stems from dragon blood. Therefore, I feel like I can develop something interesting around Kiri being a reptilian and being able to do magik stuff related to blood. Kiri being fully loyal to Matriarch Ankha might be too close to what Kitana and Jade have. However, I don't want to make Kiri the evil, promiscuous and manipulative woman she is in canon. While Syzoth already fills the role of the zaterran who joins evil in hope to restore his race, he mostly serves as Shang Tsung's assistant.
An idea I have for Kiri in order to keep her on the evil side while using her connection to blood magik is by having her join the Kahn Guard as a Blood Kode warrior, like Skarlet and Ruby. Shao Kahn has made several attempts in order to bound warriors to the Blood Kode and only Skarlet came out as a fully realized blood mage while Ruby and Kiri only had their powers enhanced by blood magik. I might use the code name "Carmine" or "Sienna" for Kiri.
I also want to add that my design for Ankha is drastically different since I've always headcanoned human Khameleon to be an albino woman (since she's also albino as a lizard to me). Kiri might have a similar human appearance as the one she has in the show and I headcanon her to be a red saurian.
I'll make a proper rewrite of the Saurian History one day but have this old post for now. Nothing has changed except maybe for the fact that Syzoth was born in Outworld now. Plus, I added some lore pieces in my Suijin lore post about how saurians initially were aquatic creatures who evolved to live on the ground.
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The Kreeyans have never inspired me for multiple reasons. First of all, while I like the idea of an all-women race, I already integrated the idea in my AU through Zara and the Amazon warriors from DotR. I write Zara as a former Umgadi matron superior who had a beef with Argus and the whole system she was imprisoned in, resulting in her rebelling against the edenian authority. She was banished from Edenia along with other Umgadi who had followed her rebellion. Zara and her fellow warrior priestess found a new realm to inhabit and have since built a community composed only of ostracized women of various origins. They aim to live peacefully and have succeeded so far since Shao Kahn has not been able to locate their realm.
Not only that, but the kreeyans to me are a less original version of the Kytinns. Kreeyans are just hot women while Kytinns have the whole insectoid "one's body is a hive" thing... Which is essentially ripped off Ermac Bug Edition™ but it's still cooler than the normal-looking kreeyans to me.
To be perfectly honest, I've never found Vorpax to be super interesting. Just another sly, manipulative hot woman. It's a shame because I liked the part when she faced her mother in order to save the other kreeyans from Kreeya's thirst for power... Only for Vorpax to reveal herself as another villain who betrayed her words, went full evil and followed her mother's path... I think Vorpax would have been more interesting had she really been working in order to free her sisters from their mother's clutch and lead them to safety only to never be heard of again. If I fully commit to include Vorpax in my AU, that's what I'll do. However, that's how I might rework D'Vorah... Sooooo, best way I can reimagine the Kreeyans in my AU is by fusing them with the Kytinns and making them the same species; turn Vorpax and Kreeya into Kytinns. The krypt in MK11 tells us this small lore bit about how the former Kytinn queen failed to protect the hive and was thus killed by her subjects. I guess Kreeya will be said queen in my AU. Anyways, "Vorpax" is a cool af name too.
That being said, I looooove your reimagining of Kreeya and her species!!! I never would have thought of making Kreeya a protector goddess. I love the idea of her being a literal Creator™, a goddess who brought life not just as a mother but as a deity, it's a really cool take!! While I'm not a fan of all the big bad having the same goal of invading as many realms as possible, I like the idea of Kreeya being "infected" by the One Being's influence. And her soul ending up trapped in Ermac? Hive-making goddess who ends up in a hive of souls she struggles to control? That's genius!!! Definitely adds a lot of additional depth to what's going on in Ermac too. I can imagine Kreeya and Jerrod being the two souls whose voices are the "loudest" and who most often fight against each other for control over Ermac's body.
I also read about your take on the Kreeyan magik being the source of the Flesh Pit magik and I must applaud that too!! 👏
I don't think I found a Vorpax bio on your blog but I read about Karia and I appreciate that she took the genuine kreeyan savior route Vorpax failed to follow. That being said, since Karia serves the Kahn Guard, it means her sisters do to and they find themselves serving another tyrannical ruler who selfishly sacrifices his army in the name of conquest. That's a never ending cycle Karia can't seem to escape. Kreeyans live to serve, fight and die. I hope she can save her race for good one day.
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There are some original characters I haven't talked about like Lori or Tomas for instance, simply because I'm not interested in rewriting them. Maaaaaybe Lori because I guess I personally want to redeem the girls of this show. I won't rewrite Tomas just because he shares a name with Smoke and fuck it, honestly. Plus, he's got nothing interesting going on. Might as well take the few things he has and give them to Lori or something...
When it comes to the canon characters, what I can say to conclude is that Noob Saibot doesn't exist in my Conquest rewrite because he's strictly a Bi-Han thing so no weird oily Noob Saibot here lol. The Sub-Zero we see is the very first cryomancer used by the Lin Kuei and the last one for a while. The next Sub-Zero after him was Bi-Han and Kuai's great-great-great grandfather. Save for Conquest Sub-Zero, that mantle is just a family thing.
Mileena exists as- herself and not whatever the hell is going on in Conquest. She still had her "normal" appearance at the time, with no tarkatan features at all. In my AU, Mileena only mutates during the Trilogy events, after the psychic bond between her and Kitana was shattered.
Raiden in my AU is basically a mix of Conquest/MK95/DotR!Raiden.
Reiko is there loyal to Shao Kahn as always. Shao Kahn, Shang Tsung and Quan Chi are pretty much themselves...
And there are characters who could be added like Skarlet for instance!! You could even see her before the Blood Kode.
Anyways, I'll stop here but thank you very much for the ask!!! 😊
