#rape mention for ts

[neednothavehappenedtobetrue]

okay!

you currently feel like a trapped animal ready to chew your own hand off at the wrist to get free.

but that's not real. it's just a feeling.

(Big Anger and the prospect of estrangement under the cut, metions of rape and suicidality).

on Monday, HR is going to fix your paycheck. if they refuse to make it retroactive, you can loop in L, M, and N and see who they can escalate to. they owe you (redacted) dollars and they will pay you (redacted) dollars or you will quit your job.

if you have to shelve querying for a little while so you can look for a better job, you will not die it will hurt, but it will not kill you.

tomorrow, text Z and get some time on her calendar for Budgeting Round One.

your brain is generating worst-case scenarios and then looping on them for hours at a time. please try to stop doing that.

you will make a budget.if you have to, you will get a new job. this is BIG SCARY but less big scary than just Doing This Forever.

and then you will invite your parents to go to family therapy. if that doesn't work, you will write them a letter. you will say the stuff you need to say so it does not rot inside of your body and make you so sick you die. they will react how they do. maybe you will need to stop talking to them for a week or two. maybe you will have to stop talking to them forever.

your brain is creating an itemized list of scary escalations they could do if you tried to set a boundary with them (driving to your apartment, forcing you to go back to PA with them, etc.) your brain is spending a lot of itself on making disaster plans for emergencies that are, at worst, a year out and, at best, never going to happen.

your brain is scripting what you will tell your brother, your pastor, your aunts and cousins. you do not need to know those things yet.

please get your brain to stop looping and go to sleep.

you are doing this because you are scared. I think you are a little bit scared that the next time your dad snaps at you on the phone, instead of bursting into tears and folding yourself up like an origami swan, you will instead go YOU DON'T GET TO MAKE ME FEEL UNLOVEABLE ANYMORE FUCK YOU FOREVER NEVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN and you know you can't do that until you can pay your own rent.

I think for part of your brain it would be a relief if they did something totally out of pocket, something you could say to people and they would go 'oh, that's why you don't talk to them anymore, that tracks"

maybe take a break from trying to be grateful it's not worse, grateful that you get to do this on your own timeline, grateful that you can't imagine them doing anything dangerous (apart from the dangerous things they have already done, but those things were neglect-dangerous not abuse-dangerous)

you know, even typing this, that the best-case scenario is to get to a place where you have a sustainable relationship with them. you only want to nuke them from orbit because you feel so trapped and scared.

but maybe just take a little hiatus from gratitude that they didn't/aren't hurting you worse. stop imagining your calmest and most reasonable communication of boundaries in the face of the scariest thing you can imagine them doing. they probably will not do that thing and also there is no legal mandate that you have to be as calm and rational as possible in your maladaptive emergency planning/daydreams.

imagine how it would feel to go "no, fuck you, the ketamine is keeping me from literally dying, I will not stop taking it because I do not wish to literally die. you have done zero things ever to help me in pursuit of not becoming a suicide statistic, even when i was a child and you had an obligation."

imagine how it would feel to go "no, fuck you, I am as loveable as any person who can use a knife properly and I always have been. fuck you for spoon-feeding that garbage to me when I was too young to know better."

"fuck you for preferring shaved leegs with self-harm bandages on them to unshaven legs. your priorities are broken."

"fuck you for every single thing you have ever said about my body and the way I feed it."

"fuck you for every nasty, belittling little remark I am supposed to swallow"

"fuck you for telling me it wasn't rape! you are not the arbiter of that! fuck you for telling me "don't call it that" like my language was the priority when I came to you in pain. your priorities are broken"

"fuck you for brushing me off the first time I tried to tell you I had anxiety. fuck you for convincing me I was lying about having migraines."

"you guys are mean and your priorities are wrong and you did not try very hard to keep me from dying between the ages of 12-18 and you did not have my back when a boy gave me PTSD. you praised that boy for taking such good care of me and you told me "oh, you'll get over it," when I told you he had raped and terrorized me. and you fed me poison that made me grateful for him for a long time before I left."

you might love me, but you sure do treat me like I am hard to love. you do not respect me even a little bit. you are not reliably kind. you do not see me. you refuse to engage with the lived realities of my life. you do not love me in a way that feels like love, now that I have been loved by people who do not prefer a version of me that doesn't exist.

come correct or spend the rest of your life telling people that your daughter was a crazy person who cut you off for no reason. I'm prepared to spend the holidays alone, are you?

you will be able to tell them a version of this in three to eighteen months, depending on how the budgeting and a possible subsequent job hunt go. it will be scary but you will no longer feel like chewing off your own hand every night.

#rape mention for ts #self harm mention #suicidality mention #relitigating my childhood

[orionsangel86]

Something I don't think has been mentioned before about Dream and Nada. So at the end of Season of Mists, Dream offers to Nada to stay in the dreaming. She refuses, but she asks him if he wants to come live with her in the waking world. Of course, Dream being Dream, refuses. So they part ways and all that. The thing is, if Dream had raped her, I really don't think she would have suggested that. She's being given the opportunity to live a life without Dream and she still suggests that maybe he could put his mantle aside and live as a human with her. She did that of her own free will. If the relationship had been entirely unconsentual, I don't think she would have done that. So I'd say there's textual evidence for Dream having been good to Nada at some point, despite how the story in Tales in the Sand may appear.

Another thing about Tales in the Sand is that it's probably worth looking at the purpose of the story in the culture it was told in with regards to men and women having two different interpretations. It's just an assumption that the women's version would depict worse actions on Dream's part, it's an assumption that the comics seem to want you to make, but it's still an assumption. I feel like the version we see seems to be more along the lines of "seeking out a god will end in disaster" more than anything else. It's a story about disaster so of course it focuses on the disaster. We don't know what kind of story the women's version is. Idk, I feel like we just might be wrongly equating the men's version of the story to Dream's perspective and the women's to Nada's. They could just be two versions of the same events teaching different lessons

Idk if anything I've said makes sense, but do you see my train of thought?

I think you have hit the nail on the head with this actually and I agree completely. I totally forgot about that moment in Season of Mists which is annoying because I only listened to it very recently on Audible.

Nada does indeed ask Dream if he would put aside his duty and his role as Dream of the Endless and come live as a human with her. It's actually a pretty significant moment because it at least floats the idea as a potential option that is available to Dream. He absolutely could just put aside his role, pass it on to someone else, and go live whatever life he chooses. Destruction mentions it as an option as well, though he left without passing the role on, and Death also mentions it to him at the very end, to which he states he could not have done it. I actually don't think this is discussed as much as it should be in fandom especially since there are so many fanfics coming out now that explore the idea of a retired human Morpheus living a life on Earth after Daniel assumes the role of Dream of the Endless.

I also agree with your thoughts on Tales in the Sand. The moral of the tale is not to seek the love of a God, for it will bring only death and destruction and pain to all involved. Both versions of the tale should have that same message at the core, because that is the part of the tale we know is fact. But yeah you have a point that the womens tale could be far worse, and paint a worse picture of Dream. But at the end of the day, Nada still loves him, 10,000 years later and even after she yelled at him and slapped him, she still kisses him and asks him to live with her. So whatever else he may have done, he couldn't have abused her.

I kinda really hope that when the show adapts Tales in the Sand, it tells the womens story. I just think it will be really awesome to get that perspective in the show to compare to the mens tale in the comic, and to see how they differ, though as I have said many times already, I am almost 100% certain that the show will attempt to paint Dream in a much more sympathetic light than the comic does.

#the sandman #sandman meta #dream of the endless #rape mention for ts #tales in the sand #sandman comic spoilers #asks

[wri0thesley]

I've been too shy to ask this but what is the difference between non-con and dub-con? I've always thought they were the same-

hi anon! i've answered a question similar to this before so i'll link that former one here. in short: dub-con does not exist in real life (almost all situations described in dub-con scenarios would be rape in real life), but in fic i use it to mean that at some point some vestige of consent was given, whether under duress or not - non-con is for explicit lack of consent/saying no. it is a very very thorny subject that i've already expressed my thoughts on in that linked post up there so i'm not going to repeat myself, but i hope this helps!

#nat.txt #rape mention for ts #non con for ts #dub con for ts

[whisperthatruns]

Misunderstood

I wrote a joke on the bathroom mirror in toothpaste. It was about how there were four combs on the sink, which I think is a remarkably high number of combs.

Who were you brushing?? I wrote and drew a fictional animal with long hair.

My roommates came home and it was like christmas for me, very proud of myself, lying in wait under the covers, listening.

I heard the mean one, Simon, tell his girlfriend, There’s a snide note in there about too much hair in the sink, which was an incorrect reading of my joke.

This caused in me a panic so acute I fainted.

Luckily I was in bed already, so this was not so different from falling asleep, except for one potentially noteworthy difference,

which was I dreamt all night that the men who’ve attacked me in this life (and will ever later) were swimming through dark, thick water towards my sleeping body.

I couldn’t move because my body was asleep and I couldn’t hide because my body was glowing, like a white ember/ridge of maggot/sliver of soap.

I could not turn the damned light off!

The water glowed ’round me where I touched it.

Because of the glowing I saw it was red, thought, maybe this is not water... thought, THIS IS BLOOD I AM SWIMMING IN, and remembered

the time I drove to Washington, DC with a girl named Carly who liked to lucid dream and how in the car Carly told me she had met a shaman once and that that shaman told her,

In a nightmare, Carly, if you are being chased, turn around and walk right back towards the thing that is chasing you. Only one of three things can happen: it will disappear, it will change into something else, or you will wake up.

When I woke up I was staring in the mirror, looking at myself through the toothpaste message.

Who were you brushing?? the mirror asked.

I reached out and began to smudge brushing?? until all it said was Who were you

Chessy Normile, Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party (Copper Canyon Press, 2020)

#chessy normile #misunderstood #great exodus great wall great party #poetry #rape mention for ts #assault mention for ts

[futzingfreak-archived]

Misogyny af…

yeah no. misogyny is not when a csa survivor trans man tells someone not to misuse and water down the word rape and stop needlessly being high strung about tumblr rp.

#chippy gets an ask! #misogyny mention for ts #rape mention for ts

[porchtart]

May I humbly ask who Nikolae and Katya are? (I assume they're your ocs??)

I've seen you tag half the stuff you've rbed from me with them and they sound p interesting ngl 👀

AHHHH omg of course! So sorry, they're all I think about these days so I'm sure most of my blog at this point is tagged with them haha! Nikolae is my OC, and Katya is my friend @angeyrot's OC! We are writing a long rp with them right now that we're going to turn into a more readable book series when we're done. We've written something like 300k words in the last 3 months alone, so there will be plenty to work with when the time comes to make it available for public consumption.

Nikolae is a very old, very violent and fucked up vampire that lives in a cursed living castle that is slowly dying. He's a very unpleasant, miserable person that I often describe as more animalistic than human, kind of like a maneating tiger that eats people that wander into his territory.

Katya is a vampire slayer that tracks Nikolae down with the intent of slaying him as revenge for the fact that he killed her mother. She's a very clever and cunning girl, but is not very wise. She's also extremely brutal and good at killing, like him.

Katya ends up being imprisoned by Nikolae in his castle, and their relationship develops from there. It's very Beauty and the Beast in a lot of ways, but like.... if they were both deeply traumatized and kind of horrible. She goes from actively trying to kill him to trying to learn more about him in order to hurt him very badly before killing him, and they end up sexually and romantically entangled. In the story we deal with a lot of themes of queerness and shame, and cycles of abuse and trauma.

Here's a post of angeyrot and I talking about the Themes and Vibes.

These two OC asks here and here have a little more info about Nikolae.

Tags: #katya tag/#yekaterina muzafarova, #nikolae tag/#nikolae horvatinčić, #nikkat tag, #slayerverse

Some more recent drawings of them:

Aaaaaaaand for posterity, a couple of old doodles with their old designs before Nikolae became bigger and more unkempt <3

#thank you for asking sorry i'm always tagging shit with them LMAO #babbles #asks #del-phin #nikkat tag #romcomdraws #rape mention #age gap for ts #blood tw #long post for ts

[beemblebu]

somce me n the mutals r hating thomas sanders HEAVILY reminds me of my rapist/abusive ex <3 might not actually mean anything but heres my contribution

#ts mention #rape mention #rape tw

[iverna]

I wish you could hear what you sound like. "How do I deal with rape without making the rapist look bad?" I'm sorry but no matter how much you love regina, you cannot downplay what she did to graham

Except that's not what I actually said, is it? That's how YOU decided to interpret what I said. That's how I sound to YOU. Your perception of something is not objective reality, it's a subjective, and from the sounds of it pretty biased, interpretation.

For the record: I can do whatever I want. If I want to downplay something, I can downplay it. Hell, I can flat-out ignore it if I want. For example, in canon, Snow and David steal Mal's baby; I am absolutely ignoring that for the purposes of my fic. And there's absolutely nothing you or anyone else can do about it.

Now, as it happens, that's not what I want in this case. That's not what I said or asked for. What I asked for is meta that takes a more nuanced look at the situation and explains it beyond "Regina is awful". Not once did I say that I wanted to deal with rape without making the rapist look bad. You know why I didn't say that? Because that's not what I want to do.

So I'll tell you what: when you have learned to read to the point where you're able to understand what I actually said, as opposed to reading whatever tf you want into my words and deciding that's what I said and meant, you can give me shit for what I actually said, and maybe we can talk about it. But I refuse to defend things I didn't say, and I can't talk to someone who reads whatever they want into what I say.

#anon #replies #wow #even after all these years #i post about regina #i immediately get this crap #do ye still have nothing better to do? #fandom drama for ts #cw: rape mention

[laufire]

and 15 years later he rapes that girl :)))

#and during this he is feeding on gail (and zach) #and doing who knows what else to her #we're talking about damon so there could be a few things! #stackediaries #plecverse #the vampire diaries #tvd 6x04 #antidamonsalvatore for ts #rape mention cw #id in alt text #captioned

[orionsangel86]

Figured I'd continue this as an ask so we don't keep debating on that poor person's post! Anyways, regarding Neil's edgelord tendencies:

What also throws me off about The Sandman Companion's rape interpretation of both Morpheus' marriage to Calliope and his relationship with Nada (it states that the women's story must be WORSE not better, than the version men tell, and pretty much the only way it could get worse is rape...) is that Neil... isn't shy about SAYING "rape" in the text. He doesn't hide what Madoc does to Calliope, nor what the book version of Desire did to Unity (which thankfully got changed to consensual in the show). So why this roundabout stuff with Morpheus? If the character being evil and abusive is supposed to be a core character trait, why relegate it to an obscure, if still canon, guide text?

My hope is that these particular edgelord interpretations are the work of the other co-author, Hy Bender. Alternately, I wonder if Neil was trying to retcon his own work at the time. I have no idea how the grimdark "Morpheus killing himself was good, actually" ending was received at the time, but I could easily see a situation where, like now, the fans look at the ending and go "yikes". Perhaps Neil was doing his best to cover and go "um well ACTUALLY you should be glad he finally offed himself, see how horrible he was!" even when it went against his original intent for those previous issues.

Like now, he might be able to look back and realize the nasty implications. But I could easily see younger-Neil as an author who just released their long-planned ending to a text scrambling for cover when it doesn't get the expected reception.

That's a TOTAL GUESS though. Like I said, I have zero idea how people felt about the ending in the 90s.

Ooof every new thing you tell me about that book makes me shudder and recoil.

Honestly I have no idea what Neil's intentions were with signing off on those interpretations, and I still struggle with understanding his intentions for the ending of the Sandman, other than the obvious being a "what NOT to do if you are feeling depressed and incapable of improving your life", which sometimes gets a bit lost amongst all the misery and angst with zero pay off throughout the Kindly Ones. Do we know what the initial reception was to the ending of the Sandman when it was first released though? Because hasn't it always been critically acclaimed highly praised and considered one of the all time best graphic novels ever published? It's Neil's Magnum Opus.

I think we have both now mentioned more than a few times that the 90s were a totally different era with a totally different mentality to today. A lot of the stuff in the Sandman comics are eyebrow raising because the different mentalities of the era are so obvious to me. The general portrayal of women in particular is pretty um... outdated and on my first read of the Calliope issue I visibly recoiled at that panel where she is raped by Madoc - because I legit had never seen something like that depicted so graphically before in that artform. But you are right to point out that if Neil wanted Morpheus to be viewed as an abuser and a rapist, then he would have just put it in the comics. Desire is a rapist, and yet people still love Desire.

The show is a much better indication of where Neil's intentions currently lie. The removal of any graphic scenes of sexual violence towards women was absolutely the right decision. Dream is a far more likeable character in the show (and I still like comic!Dream even with his somewhat cold demeanor!) I could scream all day about the absolutely brilliant changes in the Calliope episode which come across so romantic and soft that fans are legit shipping them together (which I don't think anyone can possibly do with their comic counterparts). I think the change in the Dolls House to Desire and Unity's whole situation also has huge implications for Desire's character which fascinates me. In the comic it is literally a one time thing where Desire rapes her while she sleeps and probably never considers her again outside of keeping an eye on their child as part of their scheme. The show however indicates that Desire took the time to get to know Unity, to woo her, and to enter into an apparently long term relationship with her in the Dreaming.

I 100% believe they are going to change the story in Tales in the Sand and I think that they left it out of season 1 because it's going to be a huge indication on how the show will deviate from the comics further. I hope they do away with all that stupid virginity stuff (because I'm sorry but shoving a rock up your vag to break your hymen is NOT losing your virginity and that particular part always baffles me. Dream doesn't care about virginity? Well good for him but like, she's still a virgin anyway? Otherwise you are legit stating that this poor girl lost her virginity to a slightly sharp dick shaped rock? Come on people I thought this was obvious? There are better ways to indicate to your audience that your main character doesn't have a virginity kink. Sorry for ranting about that but it really pissed me off when I first read it because it was SO STUPID).

Basically, whatever the Sandman Companion stated is gonna be forgotten about completely when the show releases its new episodes and we see show!Dream be even more the romantic hero. I think we can be confident that any modern interpretations will do away with these 90s edgelord interpretations and thats the best thing we can ultimately hope for. I won't let it tarnish my opinion of comic!Dream though, because there is more than enough evidence in the comics that contradicts some bullshit interpretation that makes no sense.

#the sandman #dream of the endless #the sandman companion #the sandman comics #sandman comic spoilers #rape mention for ts #sandman meta #sandman speculation #asks

[whisperthatruns]

The First Matter

A lot of men in the books I read are supposedly still alive. I wonder if they’re still afraid.

Right now, in the school library, holding my place in a book on The Secret Art of Alchemy, nobody’s raping me. Superb!

The book says if you achieved THE TRIPLE CROWN OF ENLIGHTENMENT then you were inducted into THE BROTHERHOOD OF LIGHT, which means you are still alive today.

Maybe you’re in this library with Ally and me. Maybe you’re standing outside it. Either way, you’re experiencing your crown. Do I hate you?

The most divine secrets were never written down.

For instance, the Druids were, I’m pretty sure, wizards, and this alchemical stuff’s the same--- we used to keep what was precious private.

That’s how it ought to be: that our secrets light us up, that we spit the rest out.

____________ ____________ ____________

Soon! Someday, so soon, I will do it.

I’ll say your name out loud.

Chessy Normile, Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party (Copper Canyon Press, 2020)

#chessy normile #the first matter #great exodus great wall great party #poetry #rape mention for ts

[futzingfreak-archived]

Excuse me? I do have the full conversation. I said no to something several times and they ACTED LIKE A RAPIST. What do you think violating NO means? It’s RAPE. You’re just as bad. You do NOT force someone to speak to you after they say NO. It’s a violation of consent; it’s force and ignores established trigger to continue interaction. especially when they said consent was revoked. You can’t water down someone’s victimization because it’s comfortable for you.

i've only seen from where you asked them to stop contacting you and they answered that they just wanted to get in touch with the person using their advertisement down. i haven't seen anything above that. i do agree that they should've respected your request to stop contacting them but you also could've blocked them at that point and been done with the entire thing. Rape is far to serious a word for you to water down over someones messaging you on tumblr (as a survivor it's kind of offensive) especially when it's an easy fix to make them leave you be. this is all so unnecessarily over the top.

#chippy gets an ask! #rape mention for ts #drama for ts

[certkidwhocantdomath]

The Lin Kuei's Grandmaster vs A Soul-Stealing Sorcerer

Additional tags: Shang Tsung is an Asshole, Blind Character, Blindfolds, Collars, Leashes, Slight BDSM, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Bottom Johnny Cage, Top Shang Tsung, Top Bi-Han, Slight Humor, Tomas is a Sweetheart, Kung Lao is a Dumbass, Tomas & Bi-Han friendship

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Shang Tsung was in love with his fiance.

The sorcerer hadn't made it obvious but he had a sneaking suspicion about his feelings towards his fiance.

Bi-Han wasn't sure for how long but he heard Takahashi say something about the sorcerer looking at Johnny with desire, greed and hunger ever since he was blinded.

Just the mere thought filled Bi-Han with rage. He hasn't been this angry since his argument with Takahashi.

But now, he finally gets the opportunity to beat Shang Tsung black and blue during this very mission. Johnny had taken the last stand, according to Takahashi, and allowed himself to be captured to save his allies; getting stabbed through the stomach by General Shao and nearly dying in the process.

After hearing this, Bi-Han's eyes were full of uncontrollable rage and his aura was enlaced with murderous, baneful, bloody and destructive intent. Tomas and Kuai Liang had sent him concerned looks as even without the ability to sense auras, they could still feel the murderous aura he was letting out.

Bi-Han was brought to the present by a hand on his shoulder.

Ashrah.

Johnny and the demoness had gotten closer after their mission on Earthrealm and defeating Ashrah's sister.

"You should calm yourself, Bi-Han. Being so full of rage will not help us rescue Johnny." She politely advised.

Truthfully, she was not supposed to join them on this mission. She was supposed to watch Cassie(for she is the only other person Bi-Han trusts with Cassie, besides Kuai Liang and Tomas) as Kung Lao, Kenshi, Bi-Han, Kuai Liang, Tomas, Syzoth and Raiden are all going on this mission.

But Liu Kang himself had offered to watch Cassie in their absence. It was surprising but not unexpected. Bi-Han knew the god was fond of his daughter.

Liu Kang opened a portal in front of them leading to the outside of Shang Tsung's castle.

"Dad?" He heard his daughter call out from behind Liu Kang's leg, "please bring papa back safely." She quietly begged.

Bi-Han walked over to Cassie, kneeling to her height and removed his mask.

"I promise, Cassandra. I will bring him back to us." He promised his daughter with a kiss to her forehead, she smiled at this action.

Her smile was a copy of Johnny's.

Bi-Han could feel the eyes of everyone on him, not used to the usually so cold and stoic Grandmaster showing affection so publicly.

Bi-Han stood back up and put his mask back on, turning back and walking towards the portal with the other kombatants moving aside to make way for him, some slightly bowing their head.

Time to save his fiance.

─────────ೋღ💜ღೋ─────────

Johnny was in so much pain.

He hasn't been in this much pain since he was blinded by Mileena. Or since Alala trained him.

The heavy golden collar around his neck was a pain and he had nothing to do but play with the gold chain of the collar or sleep.

Ever since his capture, he was forced to wear a yellow crossed turtleneck crop top, a gold body chain attached to his neck and right shoulder, black high slit harem pants with another gold chain wrapped around his waist, a gold bracelet with rings on his right hand, a gold with three rings on his left hand and black leather shoes with straps that crossed over his feet. Hell, even his blindfold was replaced with an acidic green one.

The color scheme perfectly matched Shang Tsung's and Johnny had to admit; he looks good in this outfit. But he'll look even better if it had Bi-Han's color scheme.

Johnny was brought out of his musing by the door opening.

"Did you miss me, my dear?"

Shang Tsung.

Oh yeah, did he mention he has been forced to sleep in Shang Tsung's room?

"No. I was actually in peace when you were gone."

"Hm, shame. I quite missed you."

The sorcerer walked over to him and his hands clung to the star's waist.

Johnny felt the sorcerer's hot breath caress his collar bone and suddenly his mouth was suddenly sucking on it.

Johnny wanted to punch him or at at least push him off but he knew he couldn't.

The whip marks marring his back proved that.

So he just layed back and allows Shang Tsung to do whatever.

"Get the fuck away from my fiance." A very deep voice said.

✧༺💚༻✧

Shang Tsung stopped his advances and turned to look behind himself.

Bi-Han.

"Always trying to ruin my fun, Sub-Zero?"

"Fun? That is my fiance you are currently touching.."

The sorcerer pushed himself away from the star, despite his displeasure to do so.

Fiance?

They were to be married? In such short time?

That made Shang Tsung's blood boil.

There was silence for several seconds before they dashed at the other, slamming his forearm with his claws deployed against the Grandmaster's ice engulfed one.

"You insolent little-"

"Are you jealous I am to marry the greatest man in Earthrealm and you do not?"

The sorcerer sent a strong surge of fiery energy that pushed the Grandmaster far, but he stopped himself by creating a spear of ice which he pulled out of the floor and thrusted at him.

The sorcerer taunted him by swinging and slashing around the air before stopping and getting into a battle stance.

Bi-Han was the first to give a hit but it was swiftly dodged by him.

✩.･*:｡≻───── ⋆💜⋆ ─────.•*:｡✩

Johnny felt the surges of energy and listened to the sounds of punches and kicks being exchanged.

The star coats his hands in a thin layer of red energy and he places it on the chain of the collar. When he heard the collar crack, he coats his hands in much thicker layers of energy.

Eventually, the collar broke off entirely. He massaged his neck for a bit before turning back to the two who were still fighting.

"Johnny, help the others! I'll deal with him." Bi-Han told him and Johnny nodded before engulfing his entire body in red energy and attemped to use super speed to get out but was stopped by other collar wrapping around his neck.

"You cannot leave now. Not after all the effort I put into capturing you." Shang Tsung said.

The chain was frozen by a thick layer of ice and was kicked broken by Bi-Han. The Grandmaster punched the sorcerer square in the cheek, breaking his skin causing him to bleed.

"Get out, Johnny!" He firmly told the star.

Johnny got up again but Bi-Han was sent flying to the far right wall by a strong surge of energy and was stopped again by cuffs around his wrists and was dragged right back to Shang Tsung.

Johnny, on his knees, looked up at the looking figure that is Shang Tsung. "You are not going anywhere, my dear." He said with a lascivious smirk.

Shang Tsung was then aggressively tackled to the floor by Bi-Han and there they wrestled.

"Go Johnny!" Bi-Han yelled.

Johnny got up once more but instead of running off he tackled Shang Tsung, who was on top of Bi-Han.

He repeatedly punched Shang Tsung in the face. But was sent back by a green surge of energy.

Quan-Chi.

"It seems your sweetheart is angry." He mockingly told Shang Tsung.

"Keep your mouth shut." The sorcerer firmly told his colleague.

Bi-Han grabbed Johnny by the hand and pulled him up.

"Why didn't you leave?" Bi-Han firmly asked.

"There was no was in hell I was letting you fight him alone." Johnny replied just as firmly.

Johnny could feel Bi-Han looking him up and down, either judging the outfit or because of his response. But he heard him turn away and get back into a fighting stance, Johnny did the same and surrounded his body in red energy.

The two sorcerers at the opposite side of the room also got into fighting stances.

Johnny sent an energy blast towards Quan-Chi but the sorcerer created a portal and sent it outside.

Bi-Han created spikes of ice at the Shang Tsung but he quickly dodged and sent a surge of magic to Bi-Han but was absorbed and redirected by Johnny, causing it to hit Quan-Chi instead.

They continued to exchange blows for a bit before they were interrupted by someone yelling.

"Bi-Han!"

Kenshi Takahashi.

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"Bi-Han! You and Johnny have to get out! Tomas placed two bombs within the castle!" Kenshi yelled to the Grandmaster and Seido Warrior.

Tomas in question looked proud of himself, arms crossed with a smirk, for bringing a fucking demolition bomb and C4. Apparently, those bombs have been sitting in Tomas' pockets, waiting to be used, for over four-fucking-weeks.

No one bothered asking why, how and when Tomas got those bombs.

Syzoth looked like he wanted to ask because he opened his fanged mouth but was quickly stopped by Scorpion.

"Don't. You do not want to know." He told the Zatteran.

Syzoth was silent for a few beats. "Very well then.." He then said.

Kenshi rolled his eyes, "The bomb will explode in 15 seconds!" He yelled once more to the soon-to-be married couple.

"Wait- 15 seconds? I thought it was 20 seconds!" Kung Lao asked, or rather, yelled.

Kenshi face-palmed while Scorpion dropped to the grass in pure agony of Kung Lao's stupidity.

"Kung Lao, my dearest friend, my most loyal companion, my greatest ally.. 5 seconds have already passed." Raiden explained to his friend.

Kung Lao looked like he just found out the biggest secret in all of the timelines. "Ohh! Okay, sorry guys!" He rubbed the back of his neck with an awkward smile.

Suddenly the sound of glass shattering caught their attention.

In front of them, Johnny glowing red with Bi-Han in his arms; being held bridal style.

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Wha- two bombs?

How? Wh-why??

Did they not think about the people inside the building???

Speaking of such, Shang Tsung and Quan-Chi left the room when Takahashi yelled; probably to find and dismantle the bombs.

"Bi-Han," Johnny called, "I have an easy way to get down but you won't like it." His fiance admitted.

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"No."

"Bi, c'mon! You seriously want to take the stairs?"

"I would much rather take the stairs-"

"And die?! I don't know about you but I would like to live until our wedding and have children with you."

Bi-Han blushed at the idea of having children with Johnny.

"Fi.. Fine..." Bi-Han quietly agreed.

Johnny glowed red and he picked the Grandmaster up like a sack of potatoes, slightly stepping back to create momentum and Johnny sprinted.

Bi-Han hid his face within Johnny's neck to shield his face from the glass shards.

Johnny hit the ground on his knees with a light thud.

Strangely enough, Kuai Liang was on his forearms and knees, Kung Lao was rubbing his neck with an embarrassed and awkward smile while Takahashi had face-palmed himself.

Johnny gently put Bi-Han down, allowing the Grandmaster to get on back his feet.

"Brother! Are you alright?" Tomas asked.

"Yes, Tomas, I am quite alright." Bi-Han replied.

Suddenly a loud explosion was heard.

Actually, scratch that.

Two loud explosions were heard; one to the left and the other to the right.

Everyone watched as the explosions destroyed Shang Tsung's castle.

Deserved.

-----HEADCANON W/ AUTHOR'S NOTE-----

• Johnny's powers are multi-colored with each color giving Johnny a certain power.

- red = battle

- orange = strength/super strength

- yellow = speed/super speed

- green = healing

- blue = empathy(Johnny can feel what a person is feeling but he can also manipulate emotions)

- indigo = mediumship(Johnny can basically talk to ghosts)

- violet = pain(Johnny can cause third, maybe even fourth, degree burns if he is violet)

- black = destruction(Johnny can destroy anything)

The reason for this is because I'm indecisive. I wanted to give Johnny his green powers but a different color and I couldn't decide which one. Also, I know black isn't in ROYGBIV but I googled "colors that mean destruction" and that's what popped up.

These are what inspired Johnny's outfit:

This one is yellow☝️

The outer part is black while the inner is acidic green☝️

Just remove the flippin' Nike logo☝️

Now for the accessories:

This one's gold☝️

this one's gold and is on his other hand☝️

I might make a fic explaining how Johnny was blinded, how he was stabbed by General Shao and revived by Shang Tsung and the argument between Kenshi and Bi-Han.

And another thing. This isn't canon to my headcanons; after Johnny was stabbed in the chest(yes, chest not stomach), he was supposed to face Shao's army alone, fight Reiko, die for two weeks, get saved by my demonic OC, revived and reunited with his friends.

And one more thing. Alala is an OC- she was the one who trained Johnny when he was in Seido. She is also a member of the Karlatun Clan. Alala's name is a Greek name meaning "war-cry".

#bi han #johnny cage #coldstar #johnhan #cagetsung #shangcage #not canon to the author's headcanons