#railiu

[gentlesurgeryenjoyer]

[unknownsprings]

Just saw this in Twitter/X and I had to post it like-- LOOK HOW RAIDEN IS LOOKING AT LIU, AND THE CLOSENESS!? I REMEMBER THIS SCENE IN MK95 THINKING HOW RAIDEN JUST TUGS HIM CLOSE IN SUCH A TENDER WAY LIKE--AGHHEDGYEGDEW, HOW TF CAN I NOT SHIP THIS 😍😭🫶

[cureofthenonesense]

Liu Kang didn’t make Raiden mortal to ‘get back at him’, he made Raiden mortal because he loved him. Liu Kang knew, from experience, there was no better life for him than humble beginnings next to Kung Lao. It was never about punishing him, or taking his power. His mortality was a gift - giving him freedom, a purpose without the world on his shoulders

[dustdusti]

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[yourthirdparent]

actually thinking about liu kang and raiden. liu kang expecting an infinite loop that will never happen? a loop where raiden makes him a god and liu kang has to remake the universe and then makes raiden a god again? again and again and again? him dreading the day he has to force that burden onto raiden the same raiden forced it on him? because raiden made him champion and that was something liu kang never wanted, and then raiden forced godhood onto him and that was an even bigger point of suffering. do you think he made raiden champion as a revenge bit? do you think he wanted to make raiden suffer? that he wanted to make him bear the burden of godhood one day? that he wanted raiden to make him suffer the same way when he would have to make a new timeline? (do you think that, when he watched raiden at the tournament, he regretted that choice? because raiden was more like him than he was his prior self? do you think, when he really got to know this raiden as more than a champion, as an ally, as a friend, he wished he hadn't arranged this?)

(do you think that years later, though heartbroken, liu kang is quietly relieved by raiden's death?)

[aceofknaves89]

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[starsurfacemortalkombat]

Your little Nightwolf having nightmare headcanons were so beautiful! 😭😭 Fujin is so warm and loving to his little baby 😭😭 It made me curious about what kind of nightmares the others might have though, especially regressor Fire God Liu with CG Raiden? 🥺

Warning!!!! There's a bunch of hinting to what happened in MK9, like Kung Lao's neck snap and Raiden accidentally killing Liu Kang!!!

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

CG Raiden w/ Babyspace Liu Kang MK1 Nightmare Hcs

🌩️ Oh this poor baby :(

🌟 Liu Kang doesn’t get nightmares incredibly often?

🌩️ But when he does, they’re bad

🌟 Like, really, really bad

🌩️ Mostly old or alter memories that happened throughout MK 9-11 (even some of his old reverants memories)

🌟 When he gets these memory nightmares, he usually wakes up alone, afraid, and small

🌩️ Lord Liu Kang already regressed pretty young, about 2-3, but these nightmares can make him smaller to about 1

🌟 He use to just lay there and kinda cries, laying there in the dark, desperately holding onto his blankies and pillows and whatever he can reach

🌩️ He’s too small to get up, too scared to leave his bed

🌟 And it really sucked for the long (eons long) time he didn’t have a cg

🌩️ Especially since he had a bad habit of accidently wetting himself because of the nightmares, which he usually couldn’t clean until the morning :(   (Be weary of rashes guys!!)

🌟 Luckily, Raiden came along!

🌩️ The first time he saw one of these nightmares, Liu Kang had actually been set for naptime

🌟 Raiden woke up to screams and cries, and Liu Kang was just kinda sitting there absolutely sobbing

🌩️ But this time, he wasn’t alone

🌟 Raiden scooped him up, cradling him tightly and rocking him

🌩️ Liu Kang tries really hard to babble out what was happening, what his scary dreams were about, how scary it was reliving them, how he just watched again and again and never questioned (y’all, MK9 is super screwed up if you think about it)

🌟 Liu Kang’s grip on Raiden’s shirts are usually tight but Raiden swore that if he tried to move, Liu might actually tear his shirt

🌩️ Raiden let Liu Kang sob, cry, and babble about what was wrong, gently scratching his hair and listening to the, what a baby Liu Kang can get out, terrifying story

🌟 When Liu Kang’s crying died down slightly, he’s very sleepy, sitting on Raiden’s lap with big, puffy eyes

🌩️ Raiden noticed the wet spot on Liu Kang’s pants and his sheets and feels absoluetely terrible

🌟 Liu Kang never has accidents!! Does he always have them during nightmares?

🌩️ He got Liu into a comfy diaper, changed him into a much comfier onesie, and held him while he sat in Liu Kang’s rocking chair (I just feel like he’d have one)

🌟 They read some books and watch some nice cartoons

🌩️ Liu Kang did end up falling asleep again, and Raiden couldn’t move for a good hour (not that he tried)

🌟 ^ Oh my goodness, Liu Kang felt so embarrassed when he woke up

🌩️ Apoligizing, swearing it’ll never happen again-

🌟 Not on Rai Rai’s watch, so the two had a talk

🌩️ Raiden has one of those baby monitors set up in his and Liu Kang’s rooms

🌟 It’s usually off (for privacy reasons) but Liu Kang will turn it on at night

🌩️ Raiden’s a bit of a light sleeper, and he’ll wake up to Liu Kang’s cries and rush over

🌟 Liu Kang is incredibly clingy after nightmares, especially if they’re about a certain person

🌩️ Such as Kung Lao’s neck scene in MK9, he’ll pratically beg Raiden to have Kung Lao come over so he can ‘make sure he’s okay’

🌟 Everyone gets really sad at Liu Kang’s nightmares, and doesn’t mind being his personal teddy bear during these times

🌩️ Raiden is usually to go-to though, and who Liu Kang runs to the most

🌟 He understands that Raiden’s not Dada, but this Raiden is really good and comforting too, and he wants his Rai Rai

🌩️ One time Liu Kang had a nightmare about getting zapped by his Lord Raiden (that unfortunately MK9 scene) and Raiden full on espected him to ignore him and demand someone else

🌟 But instead Liu Kang still ran to him, making Raiden promise that he wouldn’t hurt him, and telling Raiden that he wans’t Dada

🌩️ He’s also very insistent that Dada never meant to hurt him that badly, but everyone has a few words for Lord Raiden (they do understand some actions he made though)

🌟 Liu Kang gets really embarrassed about diapers

🌩️ When he’s having the nightmare, he’ll gladly accept them, mostly because he might have a second accident, not the best bladder control when he’s this tiny :(

🌟 But when he’s bigger, either out of his headspace or in his normal headspace, he gets super embarrassed because, well, it’s diapers, Rai, he’s too big for diapers 🥺

🌩️ Raiden is very gently and comforting when it comes to the poor baby, telling him that no ones too big or too small for diapers and he doens’t have to feel embarrassed at all

🌟 Liu Kang might wear diapers in his normal headspace too, but no ones allowed to say anything because he will gegin to cry 

🌩️ He also use to wear diapers in his old universe, but also only for nightmare reasons, It was his Kitana that suggested them, and unfortunately they didn’t have enough time for Liu Kang to see that it’s not anything embarrassing or to get use to them

🌟 Overall, Liu Kang’s nightmares are terrible, but luckily, he does have Raiden to help him through them <3

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

*sigh* I love giving angst to Liu Kang <3

Not but our poor baby, I'm very glad he has his friends now 🥺

[420thewritersroom]

ask what your feelings are about the fact that there are few Liu x Raiden stories

I'm honestly surprised not a lot of people got into the ship for a game that's been around since 1992. Hell, I'm surprised that it barely gained any traction when MK9 rebooted the franchise. Now, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I know everything Liu X Raiden. I never owned any of the games, never got into the various comics, never watched the shows, or the movies. I only got into the series way back when MKX came out, dropped it, then got into MK1 (skipped out on MK11). So, I'm not gonna sit here and act like I know everything LiuRaiden here. I'm certain there are PLENTY of ships in the fandom that people find more interesting

But my eyebrows went to the roof when I saw there were barely any fics under that ship name. Which, I honestly wanna know why THAT's the case. Not to ridicule or argue, but I genuinely wanna know, in a franchise as long-standing as this, how has Liu Kang X Raiden fell under the radar?

Because the ship is pretty versatile in my opinion. What a soulmate type relationship? MK1 Raiden X Liu Kang, want unrequited love? Raiden X Liu Kang in any timeline. Want friendship-to-lovers or teacher/studen? Raiden X Liu Kang in any timeline. Want Doomed Lovers? MK9-11 Liu Kang X Raiden

I just think there's some potential that we're not cracking here!