#also btw think of kung lao in this exchange. how would he feel when he found out. imagine if the loop actually happened. think of kung lao

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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?)

#this is yaoi btw #liu kang #raiden #raiden mk #raiden mk1 #mk raiden #mk1 raiden #← five whole tags for this man. christ #railiu #← to ME !!!!!!!!!!!!! my telekinesis etc etc #mk1 #mk #also btw think of kung lao in this exchange. how would he feel when he found out. imagine if the loop actually happened. think of kung lao #allfatherly guidance #sorry if this doesn't make sense i've thought about it too much and have formed new perspectives on these characters