Idk why but I just think that Kitana would absolutely love legos. She’d be building a heavily detailed replica of her kingdom in her room for hours at a time that Mileena would be so annoyed and have to drag her out of her room lmao.
Oh! And Kuai Liang would happily join her in building all sorts of stuff with legos to spend more quality time with his princess 💙💛
((Friendly reminder that just below the surface of ‘tee hee horny blonde’ is a girl who grew up in a world constantly at war. Where her job as a woman was ‘have a kid and either work in part of the eternal war economy or fight’. While I haven’t decided for how long the world exploded, it’s a least a year and she probably has a decade of service in a war where ‘you can’t do war crimes in a war. It’s not crimes if you do it to the enemy’ was her education’. She probably was modified upon choosing (or being chosen) for military service. And likely had genetic modifications going into life. She’s been a soldier from birth and it was only right before (relatively speaking) she left in the mystery armor that things went all to hell in hand basket and she began to lose faith in her culture, largely because it rapidly ceased to exist))
First random head cannon of the new year: Mortimer is a cuddle addict. Whether he is a tiny, a smol, a lil, or an adult, this is what he loves and can quickly be hooked on. Wrap him in a blanket and hug on him and he is the happiest guy ever.
((So take this with a thousand grains of salt and potential retcons but one path for Stella’s life pre-armor goes something like this
Pre-conception, genetically selected for a mix of optimal species and genetically augmented genes to be as healthy as possible with as little risk of expressing genetic defects.
Born safe and sound and exposed to a chemical mixture to further optimize her expression of her genetic traits. This continues through childhood and puberty where she goes to what is a sorta military-schooling situation. It’s not military school as many students will go onto (in theory) not directly fight, but they recieve basic training for survival, firearms, close combat etc. though lacking anything more than the training to either make their enemies waste a few more shots or take one or two down if their homes are invaded.
Stella, as a female, is assigned ‘three kids three years’ upon completing her education. Her kids are selected like her based on the needs of the war in 15-20 years. They get 8-1/2 months pregnant, 3-1/2 recover and right back in.
During her third child as a flex genentic Stella is given the choice of economy work or war service. While not optimal for either she can do both. She chooses military service and after doing a recovery period she goes in mandatory surgery for assorted cybernetic military implants, her womb and eggs are removed at this time.
She goes through probably a years training just for ‘second skill service’ as her genetic expression is less than optimal for primary service. She scores higher than average marks and is given decent equipment. She graduates and doesn’t see too much combat for a while aiding in logistics and security.
Then she gets a short break from service to re-deploy on another front when it all goes to hell. Because she was nowhere near the front or home she survives the initial big kaboom and has to now join the few hundred fellow soldiers in surviving. Rapidly it gets worse and worse as many of them die from exposure and madness. Horrors unleashed that had been kept just in case it hurt the users. Alexa persists for *some time* (as of now at least a year possibly more) and she wanders the wastes getting stabbed shot burned, poisoned and god knows what else before one day alone she sees two mecha fighting and figures she’s finally gonna die.
Then the armor appears and she is saved. Not certain she’s alive she touches it and then BAM another universe not choked with poisons, toxins, gunshots, traps, radiations explosions. None of that. Her wounds and scars vanish due to the mystery armor healing her and she has a body she hasn’t felt since before she had kids.
((Because they are much lower stakes Stella loves bar brawls and other small fights now that's she's off world. She was primed with her body modified to be aggressive and while she's channeled it into moderately better avenues of expression (being horny and curious) she still gets a rush when she nearly no-sells a punch and then sends the other guy right through some glass with a crash.
She hates that she now has to pay for the glass, but it was so fun in the moment.))
((I wrote this blog with ‘horny idiot’ archetype in mind. I intend to act on the ‘horny idiot’ archetype when I can.
Other things may happen, but remember Stella is wildly unused ro the world and isn’t totally aware her current sex drive is not natural. She just assumes it comes from not trying to be murdered all the time.
Though action threads are also fun so if you need a mercenary she can do that too))
✂ How well they do yardwork (or blow up the lawnmower)
You’d think with computer assistance, enhanced biology, and combat training the girl would be good at it.
At least the lawnmower doesn’t explode.
Stella has no aesthetic sense to anything other than herself. She will plow over grass, flowers, rocks, sticks, leaves with the same impunity as raw dirt. She’ll dig random holes and fill nothing in. She *could* do a good job, but has no basis for what it is. If watched closely and tightly guided she could be good if not great. But left alone ‘trim the hedge’ ends up with her melting it with a plasma blade until she has scoured the root from the earth.