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[thatoneguy67787]

OCS!

Noel and Tatiana

They are the children of Jacqui and Takeda

They are twins!

Noel has more of Jacqui's personality and Tatiana has more of Takeda's

Domnick Blade

The adopted child of Sonya Blade

Was kidnapped by Kano at 3 years old after his parents were murdered

He is Polish

Feel free to ask any questions!💚☘️

[tacticalblade]

The Misogyny Behind Sonya Blade's Hate

I've seen already several posts about how unfairly Sonya is getting treated both in games' story modes and in fandoms by MK fans. I going to break down how misogyny and hypocrisy forcing MK fans to hate on the first lady of Mortal Kombat.

Let's start off where it all went south:

The unnecessary 25 year skip of time in MKX

A lot of people who skip pre-MKX comics where we meet Cassie, Takeda and Jacqui for the first time. As soon as we start the game, we know that Sonya and Johnny used to be married. Johnny was the one to file for it, reasoning his decision saying:

Johnny Cage: "[your work] is what split us apart in the first place. You never had time for me and Cassie.".

If you ask me, this is selfish behavior. Sonya had to give up her time with family to protect the Earthrealm. Even if the Earthrealms was at temporarily peace, Sonya's work was clearly a coping mechanism from her PTSD.

In contrast, Johnny chose his coping mechanism to be addictions, after fame screw him over. From Jacqui's and Johnny's pre-fight dialog, we learn that Johnny had to attend rehab and complete 12 step program (at least a three month).

Sonya was objectively a more responsible adult, than Johnny. She kept herself away from addictions, but had to stay busy with work. Her performance was vital to Cassie's, Johnny's, and the entire Earthrealm's protection. Meanwhile, Johnny, as a drinking father, introduced Cassie to unpredictability, emotional volatility, and fear into the home.

Of course, it isn't a battle who is worse: an absent mother or a drinking father, obv. both affect the child negatively. But reactions from fans is completely UNFAIR to Sonya.

2. Underlying misogyny and hypocrisy.

When we see a single mother, we tend to expect her to take full responsibility over the child. She has to work, pay the bills, cook, clean and keep her child educated at the time. But when we see a single father, our (already lowered) expectation to men tell us "wow, it must be so hard for him, being a single father is so rare!". But, both parents have to do the bare minimum in raising a child. In contrary, Johnny is biased because he's a man, so he gets praised for basic tasks.

And about hypocrisy, people tend to hate Sonya for doing the similar thing Kenshi did to Takeda. Well, a bit different scenario, but it's the same "absent parent" plotline. Yet, no one bats an eye at Kenshi, because it is expected for mothers to take the child under full responsibility.

Society in general tends to be far less strict with single fathers to "motivate" them to be better, which isn't a right. Single fathers should be treated the same as single mothers -- with an expectation for them to be fully responsible for their children. In sociology and gender studies it called parenting double standard: a father tends to be treated not as a caregiver to a child, but as a babysitter, because mothers are expected to be caregivers.

In my opinion, Johnny Cage does the bare minimum by taking his life together and being a present father. You can see the double standard right here, whereas Sonya, who was risking her life to make sure that Cassie lives in safer world (esp. after Sindel wiped almost every other Earthrealm champion) is called not a real parent. But, Johnny who was alcoholic and did basic tasks was "praised" is labeled to be a real parent.

When a man choses career and works 23\7 hours and spends 1 hour with family, he gets called a "workaholic" or a "breadwinner". But when a woman does the exact same thing, she becomes a "neglectful parent." If Johnny were that dedicated to his career (which has failed, so he had to give it up), everyone would call him a provider. But because Sonya does it, she gets viewed as a neglectful and cold mother. How dare she!

I actually covered the thought of the last Reddit comment before, you can check it out on my page. Sonya's screen time shared with Johnny's, so of course she's going to be sour towards him, esp. after the divorce.

Here we can see people adopt some youtuber's opinion as their own, not really thinking deeper about Sonya's struggles, because WOMEN ARE EXPECTED TO BE SELF-SACRIFICNG MOTHERS by society.

3. Sonya gets tossed aside as the "bad guy"

In MKX, Sonya plays the role of the killjoy: a strict General, who's really demanding of the soldiers under her command (Cassie included). Johnny plays the "good cop", persuading Sonya to softer with Cassie (which is probably turns Cassie into a nepo baby sort of, if she's treated with lower expectations from General just because Cassie is her daughter).

If Sonya weren't portrayed as harshly as Johnny claims she is (in MKX), he wouldn't be the "more responsible" adult by contrast.

Yet, Sonya never threw a word about his past addictions, only telling him:

Sonya Blade: sorry, you couldn't be the center of the attention.

Maybe Sonya just wanted him to see her perspective for once.

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Young Sonya and Jacqui hairstyles!

I kinda got inspiration from Lucy Gray (from the hunger games) for one of them. I feel like younger her would be similar to Lucy Gray

I think.she would kinda have a mix of a masculine/feminine style

I had fun drawing some hair styles for Jacqui :D

[thatoneguy67787]

I HATE when people call Sonya a deadbeat but not Kenshi. Takeda saw his dad ONCE and people are like "he did it to protect him" but not when Sonya also wanted to protect Cassie. Also why do Johnny larpers forget his problems but only focus on Sonya's. He had a drinking problem and didn't pay attention to her either but it gets brushed off. I literally see people make her abusive which she isn't like please play the game please 😭

[thatoneguy67787]

Am I the only one that finds it kinda weird that people only make Johnny call Cassie pumpkin when he never even calls her it and Sonya's the who says it?

This is the most random thought but whatever 😭

[tacticalblade]

Sonya isn't a bad mother in MKX

Many people falsely (in my opinion) thought that Sonya's behavior in the story mode was just her permanent personality now. But, the more I think about it, the less I'm sure of this statement. People forget that present-day MKX mostly shows Sonya interacting with her ex-husband. Her sharp edge isn't her whole personality.

I think her actions and words in the MKX story was not her whole personality, but a lingering resentment towards Johnny over their relationship.

In the story, Sonya was portrayed as a stern, uncompromising and *bad* mother.

Yes, she indeed "chose" work and responsibilities over her family. It did create a deep emotional distance between her and Cassie Cage and also contributed to her divorce, though she still deeply loves her family. In the tie-in MKX comics, we learned that Sonya chose to create a safer environment not only for Cassie's wellbeing, but obviously for the Earthrealms protection. Sonya struggled with her priorities, torn between her duties and her household. Johnny really helped her, by reminding her that she cannot save everyone and they should focus rather on saving the dearest they have (Cassie and Jacqui). (couldn't find the picture)

In Johnny's perspective, Sonya was framed as an absent or cold mother, that has no time for her child. In comics they showed us Sonya chose to save Kenshi, instead of attending Cassie's birthday. Idk, but I think it was the right thing to do, no? I would rather save someone's life even if it meant I will skip my relative's birthday. Maybe Cassie was too little to understand the value behind her mothers absence on the party, but still not a great reasoning behind why Sonya is a bad mom.

Also, in the story we see flashbacks to times, where Sonya, Johnny and Kenshi were trying to stop Shinnok together. We see perfectly normal Sonya, giving Johnny grins, letting others help her. We even see how Sonya still misses her C.O. Jax, even though he's a revenant in that part of time. Another flashback when Johnny and Sonya were in Quan Chi's Fortress. Sonya even jokes with Johnny:

But, when we get back to present, we can mostly see Sonya interact with Johnny, so if she has a grudge against him, it would be the only thing we are be able to notice. Maybe if we saw Sonya talk with someone else or with Johnny after Cassie defeats Shinnok, it would prove Sonya isn't just cold and emotionless.

[tacticalblade]

Johnny got a whole animated series about his origin story

How did they even MANAGE to create a WHOLE DEMONIC CULT PLOT just to talk about Johnny

and they couldn't do the same justice for my military girlie with KILLED father KILLED brother KILLED fiance !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! merely a hint of her origin story would be nice

but if they even did an animated show or just a comics about Sonya, they'd probably fuck her up somehow, so i'll be quiet...

I'd rather read people's headcanons on tumblr....

[underaverage-overachiever]

Lesbian cageblade

[miako120]

the split jaw isn't cute

[thatoneguy67787]

MILEENA

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Sonya Blade wins!

[thatoneguy67787]

Artfight this year🙃❤️

My ocs

Noel and Tatiana are both the children for Jacqui and Takeda

(I switched my team to mystery)

PLEASE ATTACK

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[thatoneguy67787]

SO PRETTY

[thatoneguy67787]

HAPPY CAGEBLADEWEEK!

Here's some old sketches of them. And happy birthday to Sonya!✨️💕

Happy father's day as well :D

[2tunafish]

gun to ur head name ur top 3 cageblade fics and if Legacies in Memory and Dust (dude no way is that the author -> @dei2dei) isn’t on there SAY GOODNIGHT

for cageblade week day 6: legacy

been in a no-drawing coma for a year but it’s ok the doctors hit me with the cageblade week defibrillator

[thatoneguy67787]

Cagebladeweek Day5: sleep

I'm not in to sexual but, I think this is funny🫠

Jakeda 🥹

[thatoneguy67787]

Cagebladeweek day 4: enthusiasm

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cageblade week!!

day 3: AU of choice

kiddos!!

my art style changes every few seconds :P

pose referenced from pinterest