🤜 just over and over again, from Reiko, who has no chill and chooses horrific violence CONSTANTLY
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After the eighth time, Hotaru finally turns around to see who it is.
Oh. It's Reiko.
Unfortunately for Reiko, despite any glow-up he might have gotten in the MKX comic and in MK1, the individual currently embodying Hotaru in this situation remembers when MK4 came out. This individual remembers Reiko's ending of just walking through a portal. They remember that being changed to him putting on Shao Kahn's helmet. And they remember making fun of Reiko for over 20 years, along with everybody else in the MK fandom, including the Midway team making fun of him in MKD Konquest mode.
So here are some 2015 depictions of how Hotaru thought about, thinks about, and will always think about Reiko.