My headcanons for the deadly alliance before being recruited by Damashi
cw suicide mention
some of these r inspired by my friends' hcs ily cicada and leonarnd!!! <33
SHANG TSUNG
born in an impoverished village near the seaside
his mother had him at a pretty young age
she wasn't the best nor the most loving but she did care about him, she tried to be the best for him even though it was really difficult to do so on her own
mama shang had to teach him basic survival skills
however she committed suicide when he was around 16-17
shang wasn't left with much but in his late teenage years he had gained an interest in alchemy along with some biology
sold what he had to get his caravan, he knew he wouldn't be able to survive if he stayed in one place
at first he did try to plan out an honest living but he realized that he could just. cheat and lie? so he came up with the whole hack salesman thing
"a living? it is barely survival" so what if it doesn't work. so what if he kills a few people. as long as he's getting by
he stays in his caravan a lot and doesn't go outside unless he absolutely has to (eg to gather ingredients n stuff). the inside is a complete mess, it's not like he doesn't want to clean it he just doesn't see the point if everything is just going to revert to a mess once again
he does not care if he's gonna die tomorrow and doesn't care for any consequences
and of course he longs for more but in the conditions he's in right now? don't even think about it
until damashi steps in and offers him a chance
QUAN CHI
born in the mines to parents who didn't want him, was a complete accident
his father died in a mining accident shortly after he turned 5
grew up to resent the world since his mother almost didn't care at all and barely treated him like her son
started working w/ the rest of the miners around 13
autistic + really awkward + no confidence at all
barely interacted with anyone else, not like he wanted to anyways
always just went about doing his job everyday even though it fucking sucks
the others always thought he was an odd one since he almost never talks and just stares and observes a lot
resulted in him always being picked on and nobody really put a stop to it until it gets out of hand
outside of work he would rather spend his time alone
killed his mom when he was around 17. He thought about taking the easy way out and just bash her head in or smth at first but he didn't want to raise any suspicion since ppl knew about the mutual disdain him and his mother had for each other
eventually ended up poisoning her
that was when he first piqued damashi's interest, he doesn't approach him yet though as he wants to observe him more
around the same time he discovered he had an aptitude for magic and had been practicing it in his own time in secret, he couldn't do any crazy stuff yet though
possibly inherited from his father? maybe he was some kind of mage who was thrown into the mines because of some hard labor sentence
and liu kang let him keep this power as he wished for him to use it to aid the slave revolt
when he first heard about his fellow miners planning a revolt he didn't think much of it. he didn't want to have anything to do with them anyways
had he actually had a good relationship with the others he might've had considered helping, but as time passed he decided to snitch. not only to raise his station but also out of spite for how he was treated
late at night the same group of ppl tried to kill him a few days after he ratted them out, although he was strong and had a bit of magic to defend himself he was overpowered until damashi intervened and saved him
he made a complete mess out of the others, blood everywhere
it terrified quan chi at first. he had never seen such power before and he was almost certain he was next before damashi offered him his aid and power
he was hesitant to trust this stranger at first but having seen what he could do it was impossible to refuse
and that's how the alliance came to be :) tysm for reading!
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The "i don't want to kill Edelgard" dialogue the game forces you to pick for Byleth in Verdant Wind is still one the funniest things in the game when you think about what that means in-universe; Byleth has had no issues killing people to get what they want all route-long, but the second Claude brings up killing the girl who started the war and is most at fault for everyone that died because of it, including her own soldiers, they say they don't want to, presumably just because they had such a deep bond with her during their time at Garreg Mach (even though it's perfectly possible to have Byleth spend all their time there never interacting with Edelgard once).
It's shit like that that makes me understand where the same-crest attraction people come from; that forced dialogue choice is at least understandable in Silver Snow, where Byleth is forced to teach Edelgard for a while and would have logicaly formed a bond with her because of that, but the only way that line makes any sense in VW is to assume that their crests made them feel a deeply-heightened and accelerated sense of attraction to each other, to the point that the few short and irrelevant interactions they had in their short time together at GM was enough for them to form a deep bond.
Anon,
If same crust attraction was a thing, do you really thing Billy would angst about Supreme Leader in VW, when Nemesis himself pops up at the end of the route???
I mean, between Supreme Leader and Nemesis, who are you going to simp for if you never talked to any of them, and both are leading a faction to destroy you and your allies?
Supreme Leader, or Nemesis??
All jokes aside,
There's, sadly, no Watsonian explanation for the very Doylist "but she lufs u!!! feel sad about her!!!" approach the devs wanted to hamfist in their game : Billy will feel bad for killing Supreme Leader, even if it doesn't make any sense for them to do so because that is why the devs designed FE16 to be : a story where the player will feel bad about killing the red emperor.
(or at least the player avatar, because damn if this completely missed the mark regarding some players lol)
Just like you feel super BaD for icing Randolph and Ferdie who still works with the Empire, fighting side by side with a Demonic Beast - when the game doesn't expect you to feel a thing when you kill the poor sod who was turned into a monster because the Imperial Army needs War Assets.
that's why some people really felt a bit disturbed by all this Supreme Pandering coming out of nowhere - same with Rhea in VW since her supports are optional, so if Billy is really a player avatar, why should they care about Rhea?
(granted, I'd say even if you only do the strict minimum, Billy still wants to help Rhea in the cinematic before falling in a ravine, so at least there's this sign that Billy cares about her - sure, Billy protected and saved Supreme Leader against Kostas, but after the Flamey reveal, we don't have anything to even remotely indicate Billy still cares specially about Supreme Leader : Billy's avatar status is the reason why they're written to care about Supreme Leader, and yet, Billy's character status explain why they care about Rhea - again, another example of the devs wanting to have their cake and eat it too!)
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