#joe taslim fic

[crazytxgradstudent]

**Watching Sub-Zero try and murder everyone**

(Under breath) ...I can fix him.

[pharawee]

I was tagged by the loveliest of gfs aka @snarkspawn. Thank u bb ♥

1. NAME: Jane

2. BIRTHDAY: 20 May

3. SUN SIGN: taurus

4. HEIGHT: 165cm

5. HOBBIES/INTERESTS: oh man, so many. reading + writing. games, movies + tv. gardening, cooking + sewing. finding new synthpop songs on spotify. also cosplay, dancing + touring museums & old places in general whenever there isn’t a pandemic going on. :(

6. FAVORITE COLOR: y e l l o w

7. FAVORITE BOOKS: tbh my favourite book is just whatever i’m reading atm because I don’t really re-read books (so why have faves at all?). Right now that’s uh, lots of Malec fic on AO3. But also lots of Stephen King in general.

8. LAST SONG: Cup Noodles by Jerry Galeries

9. LAST FILM/SHOW: @snarkspawn and I finished Kingdom this week and started on a Warrior rewatch. And nghhhhh Warrior is so good, I’m going to cry if it gets cancelled after season 2 just because Cinemax went defunct earlier this year. I need me some more Andrew Koji and Joe Taslim. :(

10. INSPIRATION: oh, everything! Mostly music and games though. And the gf, always the gf. ♥

11. STORY BEHIND THE URL: It’s literally the name of a very cheesy song. Though I’ve been thinking of going back to lategoodbye since that’s not as famdom-related.

also tagging @viridoculus because fireteam vibes

[bihansthot]

Since I have new followers presumably from the movie I figured I’d just rehash some older headcanons/useful information for my stories.

First and foremost I have a Masterlist which has a TON of Bi-Han/Sub-Zero Bros/Noob Saibot headcanons, asks and fics. Most of the fics are 18+ so please keep that in mind.

Next the eye color inconsistencies, I attempted to fix Midway/NRS’ indecisiveness on whether Bi-Han had brown or blue eyes by having it linked to emotion:

Both Bi-Han and Kuai Liang have naturally dark brown eyes, however; when they are emotional i.e. horny, angry, in battle etc. they are ice blue.

Bi-Han’s eyes are almost always ice blue because he’s almost always horny or pissed off.

Kuai Liang’s eyes are almost always brown because he has a much better control over his desire and anger than Bi-Han does.

Smoke teases both of them relentlessly anytime their eyes are blue.

Next Bi-Han and Kuai Liang are Chinese, yes in the Midway canon he’s born in America and is taken to China a young boy by his Father, who is a Lin Kuei operative. Their Father is Chinese and their Mother is Chinese-American in that timeline, it’s implied their Father is the cryomancer in Midway. They also have a baby sister which was recently confirmed on Twitter by John Tobias, but the whereabouts of their Mother and sister are never know. In the NRS timeline they all just live in China and they’re taken from their parents by the Lin Kuei, neither of their parents seem linked to the Lin Kuei, but the boy are half-Chinese half-Edenian (Cryomancer) in this timeline. Their Grandfather is also the previous Grandmaster of the Lin Kuei (before Sektor’s Father) and was also named Sub-Zero. The name seems to be a mantle that is earned in NRS and I personally headcanon that Bi-Han had to kill his Grandfather in order to be worthy of taking the mantle from him. In the movie universe based off of Joe Taslim’s tweets they seemed to have gone with the Midway backstory but their Mother is Edenia and is the cryomancer.

(Bi-Han and Kuai Liang being abducted in the MK9 Sub-Zero Trailer it’s in the game or here on YouTube)

Since Bi-Han is Chinese no matter how you slice it, his first language is Mandarin (which is what he speaks in the film), he also most likely speaks Cantonese and we know for sure he speaks English too as well as Japanese in the movie universe.

“亲/qīn”, I’m not a fan of using “y/n” as a stand in for a reader insert fic, so Bi-Han almost always refers to the reader as “qīn” which is the Mandarin equivalent of “bae” or “babe”.

“Polar Bear” and/or “白熊/Bàixiòng” the reader/you/my OC often refers to Bi-Han by this nickname. I’ve had some people in the past ask why and it’s super easy and straightforward. It’s Bi-Han’s animality in UMK3, he and Kuai have the same animality, but I’ve been using it as a nickname for Bi-Han for ages.

The temperature thing, they’re cryomancers, they are COLD, cold enough to chill the air around them so much that it becomes visible. I headcanon that Bi-Han is noticeably colder than Kuai mostly because I strongly believe he is/was stronger than his little brother. Though I tend to think his power was more raw and brute force than precise and refined like Kuai Liang’s is, hence why Bi-Han is colder because he has a harder time regulating it. Here’s a HC I wrote about it a while ago.

They are both very susceptible to heat and are extremely bothered by it. In Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero we see how much heat impacts Bi-Han in the fire temple, his special moves require more energy than usual and the fire/lava deals constant damage. Whereas with Kuai in Defenders or the Realm there’s an episode where he and I think Stryker or Nightwolf fall into some crevice and poor Kuai is all sweaty and about to pass out from the heat.

Video game Bi-Han is 32 when he dies, his age is confirmed in the MK1 Malibu Comics as well as the MK1 instruction manual. Movie Bi-Han is significantly older and is somewhere in the neighborhood of 430-440. We don’t have a canon ages for the NRS timeline but considering it’s just a retelling of the Midway timeline the ages are presumably the same. Kuai Liang is most likely 2-3 years younger as you can see in the pic form MK9, there isn’t a big age gap between the brothers.

Video game Bi-Han is 6’2” in Midway and is closer to 6’4”-5” based on Noob’s model in MK11. Movie Bi-Han is presumably 5’11” like Joe Taslim but I will 100% write him taller, sorry not sorry.

Last but not least Bi-Han is spelled 壁寒 in Chinese, it’s deliberately a pun, it means “cold wall” while Kuai Liang is 奎良 which means “quick cooling” and Sub-Zero is 絶対零度, which literally translates to “absolute zero”.

I’m sure I missed some things in there somewhere so if you have any questions or something doesn’t make sense feel free to ask.