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tumblr tuesday: hyrule compendium

The world is healing, Rauru is great, your art blocks are being cured, and no one, absolutely no one, is thinking of the Zelda x Link ship name being Linda instead of Zelink. Tears of the Kingdom is here, and mentally, we're all in Hyrule for the foreseeable future. Here's some fanart for your heart containers.

(Please, proceed with caution. There are mild spoilers for the game ahead!)

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Darren Criss | 2023

[mrrebecca]

Loooooooong Lilith 😍

[supratoyota-catboy]

Just realized that Nona's hair is so long in just six months cuz Ianthe's hair troll enchantment thing is still working on Harrow's body

[lumi-of-frost]

Rather than actually hovering I usually just use it to keep my body from dragging

[hey-michael-young-history]

Hotline Bling: An Excerpt

This is my offering to the SubCage overlords who have conquered my heart. A what-if situation - sometime after Ice in the Netherrealm, Hanzo decides to kill Sektor before his nuptials with Kuai Liang. He catches a lead and needs to depart ASAP but since that whole jaunt through the Netherrealm, Kuai Liang has been unstable. Hanzo doesn’t want to leave him alone so who does he ask to keep his Omega company? Alpha extraordinaire, Johnny Cage. It’s long. Like this isn’t even half of the draft. :

“Relax, baby, it’s nothing I haven’t done before.”

This close, Johnny Cage’s tone was playful but sincere. His overly familiar touches still made Kuai Liang tense up, but gods, he needed it. 

“That’s it, you’re such a good Omega, and I’m gonna take care of you,” the actor said, pulling him into a kiss by his chin. 

After all these years… the elders were right. Kuai Liang really was a slut. 

But this was Hanzo’s idea. Hanzo had to tend to business in other realms and wanted Kuai Liang to be comfortable. His heat cycle was still too intense and unstable to just leave him alone. 

“Purring already, babe?” Johnny asked as he separated them with a smile. 

His kisses were different. Hanzo’s were passionate and domineering, but Johnny kissed softly.

He rubbed his jaw and laughed. “It’s been a while since I had beard burn. You’re a natural, you big ice queen.”

Kuai Liang tried to focus on Johnny, but it was hard enough keeping his eyes open at all. He opened his mouth but groaned as his stomach cramped. 

“Easy there, don’t worry. I’m gonna take real good care of you.” Johnny removed his shirt and ran his hands up Kuai Liang’s abs. “Your eyes are so fucking gorgeous. Ol’ Grandmaster Grumpy Face really snatched you up before the rest of us could get a shot.”

He moaned, but at this point, his purr was so loud. 

“God, you taste good. Want me to take off your headband?”

Kuai Liang leaned forward and caught Johnny’s lips, pulling him into a deeper kiss. Anything to shut him up. 

Johnny growled and pulled him onto his lap. “Look at me, defrosting the ice king.”

“Mmmmm…” Fuck me, Alpha. It was embarrassing enough to think that, let alone say it out loud. 

He reached into Johnny’s pants and found him quickly hardening. “Ohhh fuck. God.”

He pulled Kuai Liang into another kiss as the Omega tugged at the pants. He had his hands in Kuai Liang’s hair, pulling him closer. Then his hand was caressing his ear. 

He could feel his face heat up. This kind of foreplay… the attention…

“Y’okay?” Johnny asked, kissing his shoulder. 

Fuck. Me. He closed his eyes and embraced the warmth that Johnny was giving him. 

His body was aching, his stomach was cramping, and he felt dizzy without Johnny’s lips. But… he couldn’t. He couldn’t do this. 

“I… no…”

Johnny stopped and let go. “We don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. I’m at your service, K-boy.”

He shuddered, and Johnny pulled him back into a warm embrace. He laid them back down, keeping Kuai Liang against his chest. “Anything you wanna try, anything you wanna do. Even if it’s just this. That’s a Johnny Cage guarantee.”

He needed an Alpha. Here was an Alpha. Not his Alpha. His friend. They couldn’t do this. He needed to do this. 

Kuai Liang wanted to express all these thoughts, but when he opened his mouth, a sharp breath escaped, and he was tearing up. No. No. Not in front of him.

Losing control of his emotions in front of Hanzo was one thing - even before they had bonded, Hanzo was his closest friend, his confidant. He had seen Kuai Liang through the worst of it. But for others to see this vulnerability… he didn’t want this. He had told Hanzo-

“Shhh, shh, I know this is hard.” Johnny wiped his tears and cradled his head, gently rocking them. “You miss your Alpha. You want some relief, but you feel guilty that he isn’t here. Your body feels like it’s swallowing itself. I know. Shh, shh.”

How… how did he know all of that? Hanzo wouldn’t have revealed such intimate knowledge.

He looked up, and Johnny’s gentle expression immediately changed to alarm. “Your eyes are green. I hate that you’re feeling like this.”

“Hanzo told you–”

“Hey man, how long have we known each other?” Johnny asked, taking his chin again. “It happens more now that you’re not holding back, but I always saw… oh…”

He laughed, but Kuai Liang didn’t understand. “What is amusing you?”

“Your eyes are gold,” Johnny said softly. “I’ve only seen it once. But don’t worry, snowflake, I know exactly what to do.”

He kissed him again, sliding his hands up Kuai Liang’s ribs. “Mmm, Fire Daddy’s feeding you well.”

Before Kuai Liang could react, Johnny buried his face into his neck and licked his outer ear. “I can’t wait to really taste ya, babe.”

He sucked on the small earlobe before pulling him up. “All aboard the SS Carlton!”

“No.” It came out immediately. “I need to take care… I cannot…”

“Relax and enjoy yourself? Yeah I know,” Johnny finished sympathetically as he slid his hands up Kuai Liang’s thighs. “We’ll work on it. Take off your pants.”

The last part was an order. Ordered in a voice that made Kuai Liang absolutely rigid. Johnny’s voice was much deeper than he’d ever heard and… sensual. 

He pulled off his pants, dismayed that hearing the Alpha voice had caused him to slick. He was still amazed that he was producing it without pain.

“Good boy,” Johnny said, grabbing his hand and pulling him closer. With his other hand, he grabbed Kuai Liang’s cock with shameless abandon and started working it. 

It almost brought the cryomancer to his knees. He was already weak to his Alpha servicing him but for another strong Alpha…

Every thought that came after melted as air from Johnny’s nose blew through the hairs on Kuai Liang’s crotch. 

His tongue was, gods, it was all over him, curling around the shaft, teasing the foreskin, and massaging the head. He took it all, holding Kuai Liang against his face while he worked. 

He let go with a satisfied grin just as heat began building in Kuai Liang’s stomach. Johnny pulled him back on the bed and looked him in the eye as he caressed his face. “I know you think everything is a joke to me, but you’re one of the best people I know, and that list is getting a lot shorter. I can help you. Trust me.”

“You are an Alpha,” Kuai Liang said slowly. “How are you…”

“So good at sucking dick?” Johnny laughed and embraced the cryomancer again. “Oral is my specialty, Alpha, Beta, Omega, no matter the gender. When I first came to Hollywood, I was a nobody who needed to pay the bills just like every other nobody. So in between auditions and reads, I was accompanying the elite as their handsome, fit, Alpha arm candy.”

He chuckled and held Kuai Liang in his neck, grounding himself before memories of those days resurfaced. “Trust me, my icy friend. I am more than qualified for this job.”

He leaned back down, but Kuai Liang grabbed his hair. “I can’t. Not before you.”

Johnny’s head snapped up, and his confused expression morphed into that mischievous grin that the cryomancer usually dreaded. 

“What I’m hearing is that my esteemed guest has a thing for punishment. I think I can accommodate you there.”

“No - we shouldn’t—”

He moved forward and brushed his lips against Kuai Liang’s before sliding against his cheek to his ear. “Have you noticed that you’re breathing easier?”

Fingers rubbing his earlobes now. “And your pheromones are pretty stable.”

“Y-you should have no ability to smell me,” the cryomancer complained. He balled his fists in frustration. Even being bonded didn’t save him from these embarrassments. He was too old, too strong for his body to be so chaotic. “Only Hanzo-”

“Cut yourself some slack,” Johnny said softly. “You’re in heat, so that’s an automatic pass. But you’re in heat without your Alpha. You’re not giving yourself enough credit, Kuai. A bonded Omega in heat without their Alpha usually just goes feral. The fact that you’re still conscious and with me shows how much control you have over yourself.”

The praise made him feel warm and heavy. He wanted to please this Alpha, offer himself completely as long as Alpha continued saying these things to him. Johnny Cage, of all people, was making him feel this way. 

For a moment, he could stop and appreciate the luxury that Johnny provided. The sheets were soft silk, covering his skin in a protective cool without creating friction. Music played in the background, easy, soft melodies that relaxed Kuai Liang when he took note of it. And the air…

“This smell… your pheromones?” He asked as Johnny rested a hand on his head. 

“What kind of monster do you think I am?” The Alpha laughed. “No, it’s just some essential oils. Vanilla rose. I figured this whole situation would be overwhelming enough… you don’t need my scent clinging onto you too.”

Kuai Liang blushed, and the ache in his body shifted from exhaustion to desire. If only his first time with Hanzo had been so…

He dove down before his mind finished that thought. He had Johnny completely in his mouth in one move. 

He could admit that he had gotten lazy with Hanzo. His Alpha was a disaster when it came to giving oral pleasure. It made sense - his sexual experience was stilted compared to Kuai Liang’s. What Johnny had done for him… Kuai Liang wanted to reciprocate. 

“Oh shit, shit, shit,” Johnny gasped. His hand returned to Kuai Liang’s head and forced him to take it deeper. “Holy shit, it’s been too long.”

This show of force was familiar to him. No hesitance. No concerned faces. Just an Alpha enjoying what Kuai Liang had to offer. He was already wrong for engaging with another Alpha - what was the harm in being wrong about this too?

Kuai Liang had closed his eyes when Johnny pulled him off. “World-class, baby.”

Once again, the praise made him blush and drew out his purr. Johnny didn’t laugh or tease him for it. He simply kissed Kuai Liang. 

No demands for explanation. No sudden loss of his temper. If Kuai Liang stumbled out of the moment, Johnny would just nonchalantly reel him back in. 

This. This was the Alpha he wanted. 

“Lay down on your side,” Johnny whispered. He didn’t demand it in his Alpha voice, but it didn’t matter. Kuai Liang wanted whatever he had in store. 

He lay on the bed and thought he understood when he was confronted by a full view of Johnny’s hard cock in his face. He resumed his duties. 

And found that he did not understand the plan. 

As soon as he felt it slide past his throat, he felt Johnny’s mouth embracing his own hard-on. The pleasure, heightened by his heat, ran through Kuai Liang like fire, and he moaned and purred around Johnny’s cock. 

The actor withdrew and Kuai Liang, tempted to look down, managed not to get distracted. He couldn’t let up on Johnny. 

“Goooooooood damn,” he sighed. “It feels unreal having you purring on my dick, babe. Just fucking marry me already.”

Marry him? Oh. Kuai Liang was…

… cut off from those thoughts as Johnny aggressively took his cock again, burying his face in Kuai Liang’s pubic hair and making these unholy sounds of sin as he did so. 

It made him purr louder, which caused Johnny to moan, which only heightened the arousal between them both. 

Just as quickly as he started, the actor stopped. Kuai Liang kept working. Johnny laughed and pulled away so that he could sit up. Kuai Liang immediately continued as Johnny caressed his face. “Know why I stopped?”

His fingers made idle movements, but Kuai Liang realized that Johnny was avoiding his scars. He also realized, with great alarm, that he wanted Johnny to touch them. Johnny wouldn’t look at him with pity as Hanzo did. Johnny would accept the scars as part of Kuai Liang, not see them as damage that other Alphas caused.

He shifted his head so that Johnny could feel his own cock pushing against the wall of Kuai Liang’s cheek. 

He closed his eyes and uttered a soft groan. “Jesus baby, are you trying to kill me?”

Johnny lifted him and ran his fingers from Kuai Liang’s abs to his chest. “I saw your thighs tensing up. You were about to sing for me.”

Sing… that was how Hanzo referred to it as well. 

“And as we both agreed, I get mine first,” Johnny reminded as he pulled Kuai Liang into another deep kiss. 

He cupped the back of the cryomancer’s head, then spread his fingers through his hair. This, he always wanted to do. The man had great hair. 

With his other hand, he shamelessly groped Kuai Liang’s chest. This was the impossible dream. Johnny wasn’t ashamed, tits were his thing, and he had the glory of associating with many people who seemed allergic to shirts. Sonya’s chest was something to behold, and he still daydreamed about motorboating the fuck out of them, but Sub-Zero’s tits were a whole different league. Johnny started with small touches but quickly began squeezing his nipples, squeezing his pecs, gods they were gonna feel so good in his mouth—

He felt Kuai Liang’s breath hitch and his body heat up under him, but he was holding onto Johnny’s neck. Damn, the arms on this dude. 

Johnny ended the kiss and started rubbing Kuai Liang’s feet. 

“What—”

“Hey, I’ve been watching. Whenever you get close, your whole body goes stiff. Even when you come down, your toes keep curling. Your feet must hurt.”

He gathered all of that from simple observation. Kuai Liang looked away. 

“You’re still kinda toasty, but it seems like we’re managing your heat. Good, good, you’re such a good Omega.”

He set Kuai Liang’s feet down, so the cryomancer’s legs were on his own. “Okay, K-man, this is where things might get a little weird.”

Kuai Liang looked up, expecting to see a playful face. Instead, he found solemn eyes staring into his. It was just him, just them in this bed, in this universe. 

“The safe word is ‘ninja,’ got it?”

“I am not a ninja,” came the standard Lin Kuei answer. 

“No,” Johnny said, lifting his feet again. “But I was. Are you ready?”

“What is the meaning of ‘safe word’? Why do I need it?”

Johnny smiled, and it was such a relief not to have to face Hanzo’s concerned and pitying expression simply for asking a question. 

“You’re going to feel some intense pleasure, but your body’s gonna fight it. You might tell me to stop, but if you say ‘ninja,’ I’ll know that you actually need me to stop. Make sense?”

“Yes.” Kuai Liang couldn’t imagine saying “stop” and not meaning it. He couldn’t imagine pleasure that was more intense than he was already feeling. Johnny trusted him with this, while also providing a way to control it.

“Okay.” The actor’s loving gaze turned mischievous as he locked his arm around Kuai Liang’s legs and began tickling his feet. 

He was confused by the feeling of his feet being scratched and began to ask why—

And then he felt it. 

A strange numbness, then a nervous stimulation all through his body. It felt good, it felt painful, and when Kuai Liang opened his mouth to protest it, he laughed. 

Oh, gods. It had to stop. But he couldn’t form a word through his bellowing laughter. He tried to kick away to escape, but Johnny held firm, saying, “Oh no, you don’t!”

This was torture. Kuai Liang could feel every nerve in his feet, and it felt like fire. He was laughing so hard that his face hurt, and his thrashing was useless. His heart was pounding so hard that it, along with his spine, felt like it was going to eject from his body. 

A flushed warmth spread over him. He could feel his body trying to lock up, desperately trying to create a protective layer of ice. It was concerning. He had worked so hard to keep his ice from threatening innocent people since the misfortune of the kamidogu incident. He wouldn’t let it harm Johnny. 

Kuai Liang lurched forward and grabbed Johnny’s face. The actor turned and immediately abandoned his assault when their lips came together in a kiss. Kuai Liang was still smiling, but he smiled harder when he felt Johnny’s lips turn up. 

Johnny pulled him into his lap again and deepened the kiss, holding on to his neck and back to keep him in place. 

He never thought he could feel this kind of stability with anyone but Hanzo. And this… there was a growing idea in his head from which he allowed Johnny’s kiss to distract him. 

Until Johnny’s fingers brushed against his scent gland. 

He broke the kiss, but Johnny didn’t stop smiling. “How’s my favorite tasty frosty frozen treat feeling?”

The truth was… he felt amazing. Like he had already climaxed and needed to sleep. His body felt absolutely relaxed, but the shame was starting to kick in. He was brought down by the touching of his feet by Johnny Cage of all people.

“Hey, I recognize that face. No need to be embarrassed. You tightly wound people can never resist a good tickling. And look—” He slid his nails along Kuai Liang’s spine, causing the man to groan and arch against him. “You’re not so tense anymore. Your pheromones aren’t bitter. And your body, ah, let’s just say, you’re ready.”

He pulled Kuai Liang closer to him. “Your body is ready, are you?”

It was an ache in the bottom of his stomach sinking lower and lower, scraping at him as it did so. The pain was starting to come back. This weakness that he always tried to keep from Hanzo… the weakness that he cursed and that caused him to hide himself away…

Johnny didn’t care. He felt the scars; he knew the history. Johnny didn’t look at him like he was some damaged pet that needed to be shielded from the world. 

Johnny looked at him like… as if…

Kuai Liang kissed him again and rested their foreheads together. “I want you to bite me.”

Johnny looked up immediately, as though he was snapped out of a lustful fog. Kuai Liang seized the moment and touched the wrinkles on his forehand. He looked more dignified, more mature. Seeing a past incarnation next to the wizened man here, he realized how much people underestimated Johnny and brushed him off. He was a mortal human, descended from an ancient elite warrior class, blessed with powers he didn’t ask for to protect the people he’d die for. 

Why did Kuai Liang think he would ever be one of those people?

Fever rushed through him and caught his tongue. It was an error. He didn’t know what came over him. He didn’t want—

Johnny’s whole body was on him, and he was being covered in strong kisses and teasing nips. His face, down to his neck and back up. While he drowned Kuai Liang in this passionate embrace, his hands worked to position him. He rolled Kuai Liang over and was on top of him, his face in the cryomancer’s hair, inhaling deeply. 

“God, you feel like silk. You smell…” The words came in a husky whisper, punctuated with a strangled groan as Johnny rubbed the entire length of his cock against the cooling body below him. 

“I wanna say it, but I don’t wanna ruin the mood,” Johnny muttered, taking Kuai Liang’s earlobe between his teeth. 

The teeth dragging along his skin startled Kuai Liang. He quickly closed his eyes and concentrated on containing his ice. This was not his Alpha, but there was no need to threaten him with his ice. 

The melody of Johnny panting in his ear. The pressure of his cock rubbed against the sheets as Johnny ground into him. He didn’t feel threatened. 

But instead of exploding from him, Kuai Liang’s ice calmed and began cooling him, relieving him of the discomfort that heat had thrown him into. He was in control. 

For the first time, he was in control of his ice during heat. 

“What’s going on, baby?” Johnny asked. Never slowing down the biting of his shoulder. Never moving his hips from Kuai Liang’s. 

“Say it,” Kuai Liang said. “What do I smell like?”

A low chuckle. Johnny pressed the Omega’s face into the bed and for some reason, this did not feel like a threat either. Johnny’s grasp was firm, but as soon as Kuai Liang’s face was down, the force turned into loving strokes of his hair. 

“Chocolate. You smell like chocolate.”

People… Hanzo… had only told him that he smelled “sweet.” No one had ever described the smell to him, and he never considered asking. He always took the observation as a warning to get his pheromones under control. 

“Ohhh… now it’s like chocolate and strawberries. How did you know?”

The pressure was off of Kuai Liang’s back, and he tensed at the relief. His stomach seized, rooting pain along every nerve he had. 

Immediately, the comforting heaviness was back, and Johnny was stroking his throat. “Shh, shh, shh, I’m still here. I’m still here. I’m not gonna leave.”

Kuai Liang hadn’t realized he was purring. He was amazed that his disjointed purr quickly died at Johnny’s touch. 

“See? You’re fine. You’re okay. The best Omega. I have a treat for you. Open your mouth.”

Another way to please this Alpha. Kuai Liang opened his mouth and was overcome by Johnny’s tongue on his, their lips matching, and the hand that was on his throat now holding his head still. The strain of leaning his head back was painful, but the sensation of being covered and claimed by this Alpha was worth it, and the ice running through his body didn’t feel strange. It was keeping him present. 

Johnny’s mouth parted from his, but before Kuai Liang could close it, something was shoved inside. Instinct brought his teeth down to crush whatever it was. Biting the item caused an explosion of sweet, juicy, and chocolate.

He continued to chew and swallowed once so that he could savor the taste and speak. But as soon as he opened his mouth, the taste of Johnny Cage mingled with the flavors as Johnny’s tongue sought his. 

Kuai Liang could feel his body start to warm up. The ice inside him quelled the heat threatening him and gave him the strength to kiss Johnny back. 

When they finally parted, Johnny gently pushed Kuai Liang’s head down on the bed, resting on his cheek. The actor was red and an artificial scent was rising from him. It was disappointing. Kuai Liang wanted to smell him. Wanted his scent so deep in his skin that it could follow him for weeks. 

“That was… fruit?”

Johnny tilted his head, then laughed. “Chocolate-covered strawberries. Chocolate’s Callebut and the strawberries are from Poteet, Texas, the tastiest in North America. I made them before you got here.” He smiled and caressed Kuai Liang’s cheek. “I’ve never seen you eat, but I noticed that when Sonya used strawberry-scented conditioner, you stayed near her. It was unreal. You, big badass Sub-Zero with the rugged face scar, wandering after her like you were following her scent. Only Omegas are that sensitive to sweet smells. I knew you weren’t the type to creep on people, so one day, I used Sonya’s conditioner, and the way you looked at me…” Johnny coughed and looked away. “Your eyes were gold. You stared at me, way longer than you’d sneak glances at Sonya.  I didn’t… I guess I didn’t want to think about what that meant. Sonya already thought your Beta cover was bullshit. But I didn’t tell anybody.”

The ice was keeping Kuai Liang’s chest from seizing. How could he have been so careless? Before tonight, he had never even considered Johnny Cage as an option for anything. He didn’t even remember this incident.

Who else…?

“You’re worrying about nothing.” Kuai Liang’s headband was untied and slipped from his head. “I worried about you a lot back then. Noticed stuff. How alone you were. I heard things about… you know. You got snatched from the tournament, turned into a machine, died. Most people who survived the Netherrealm aren’t exactly forthcoming about the experience, and I don’t blame ’em. When I heard what Kano did to you…”

Johnny looked at the cloth in his hand and clenched his fist. “I thought that it was like a brotherly instinct I was feeling. But I don’t know Blueberry Ice. You inspire a lot of weird feelings.”

From the moment Johnny touched him, a coil had spun in Kuai Liang’s stomach, and now it was too tight, and he was too hard—

A great wave covered him. A body over his, warm but nowhere near as suffocating as the hellfire he was used to. And then. 

Then. 

Teeth. On his neck. Arms pinning him down. He could escape them. He could escape this. 

But he asked for this, and he was going to stand firm in his decision. 

The teeth sinking into his scent gland broke through the remnants of Hanzo’s bite, broke through the layers of scarring that abandonment had made. 

Kuai Liang had been bit by many Alphas. They were all forceful, and this one was no different. Most went too deep or bit multiple times. Johnny’s teeth felt… perfect. 

A chill struck through his spine like ice crackling. He groaned and tried to get up, but Johnny pushed him back down and licked his neck, over the bite, where the scars had ruptured from the force of his bite. 

Kuai Liang’s hands relaxed as his eyes closed. He didn’t even flinch as Johnny’s hands covered his own, his fingers slipping between and curling the sheets. 

“God, you’re driving me crazy.” It was rough, harsh, but kind. So kind. Kind in the way only an Alpha can be. 

“I… I should have…” Johnny Cage choking on his own words. A rare pleasure.

 Kuai Liang turned his head, but Johnny was on his neck again, kissing it, nose deep in his hair. 

“I can’t wait anymore.” It was almost a plea. Not a demand. “Hey, are you- baby, look at me, what’s wrong?”

It wasn’t until he was on his back that he realized his face was hot and wet. Johnny’s face hovered over him, though his eyes were down, looking at his stomach tensing and releasing. When Johnny touched him, Kuai Liang shoved him back, sending the Alpha off the bed. 

He sat up, his entire body trembling now. His chest was tightening, forcing him to exhale and cough. Blood dribbled from his neck to his back. 

His body was on fire. 

He concentrated on cooling down, but it just made him hotter. He couldn’t see. When he touched himself to make sure he was really there, it was pain. 

How could he have forgotten?

He was already someone’s Omega, and here he was, giving his body away. A fierce cramp ran from his stomach to his pelvis, forcing him to lurch. But he stayed quiet. 

His hands searched for his mouth, and when they finally found it, he sank his teeth into his palm and gods, it hurt, but he almost came right then and there. The relief was so much. He dug his teeth in further. 

He only heard white noise rising, and then his hand was snatched out of his mouth, and his face was against something. Kuai Liang struggled to catch his breath, and then he smelled it. 

A rich warmth. Like… coffee. Dark and heavy, but it drew Kuai Liang’s nose to what could only be a chest. 

“—okay, you’re—”

He concentrated on the voice until it became more clear. And then he could see. 

This delicious scent belonged to Johnny Cage. 

“Take all the time you need,” Johnny said as he stroked Kuai Liang’s hair and rubbed his back. “Sorry, man. I didn’t know. I should have realized… I mean, you smell too sweet…”

“Too sweet?” His voice, as thin as it sounded, stirred Johnny from his thoughts. The Alpha laid him down and held his hand as he reached under the bed. He let go, only to drape a heavy blanket across them. Then he pulled Kuai Liang close and continued filling the air with his pheromones. 

This was the heaviest blanket Kuai Liang had ever felt. He felt uneasy at first but it settled around him evenly, making him feel less restrained and more secure. The blanket, along with the fragrance and sensation of Johnny Cage almost pulled him to sleep. 

“What… what is…”

“It’s called a weighted blanket,” Johnny answered immediately. “I remember, when we were on Kharon’s ship, you were restless. Couldn’t sleep. When Cass was little… hell, even now, Cass can’t sleep without someone there or a weighted blanket.” He pulled Kuai Liang closer. The Omega’s hair was damp and he was still trembling. “Probably should have known then. Omegas have trouble sleeping alone.”

Kuai Liang remained silent, considering the information. He was always behind when it came to common knowledge. Hanzo carried a lot of latent knowledge but Johnny seemed to know everything. 

The Alpha groaned and tightened his embrace. He slowly reached down and gently pushed Kuai Liang’s hand off of his erect cock. 

Kuai Liang looked at his hand in amazement. He wasn’t even aware that he had been stroking him. 

“You must be a Companion Omega,” Johnny muttered absentmindedly. 

“Companion…?”

Johnny sighed and took another strawberry off the nightstand. He rubbed it against Kuai Liang’s lips until the Omega obediently opened his mouth, kissing Johnny’s fingers once he received his gift. 

The actor shuddered. “Definitely a companion Omega.” He pushed Kuai Liang’s bangs out of his face and settled into his gaze. “There are different kinds of Alphas and Omegas. I mean… most people outgrow their urges but… like… okay, I’m an Omni Alpha, right? I’m compatible with pretty much every combination of sexes. Jax is a Protector Alpha. He ONLY digs the opposite sexes. Omega chicks. Maybe Beta girls too.”

He exhaled sharply and pulled his fingers from Kuai Liang’s mouth. “Jesus. Companion Omegas have to be medicated constantly, or… an Alpha keeps them balanced. You… fuck, Kuai. You didn’t know? How the hell did you survive?”

“What are you saying?”

Johnny turned him over and held him close, so close that Kuai Liang could feel his cock slide between his ass cheeks easily. “You’re so fucking wet. I am marinating in your slick. Companion Omegas were made to be fucked, but something happened to you, didn’t it? Your body still wants to be fucked, but you can’t handle it.”

He wrapped his arm around Kuai Liang’s waist and anchored the other around his neck, up into his hair. He groaned into Kuai Liang’s ear as he rocked them, sliding his cock down the crease, his breath hitching every time it passed the hole. 

Kuai Liang couldn’t think. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the feeling of this Alpha enjoying him. 

He thought back to when he went through his first heat in twenty years. He never told Hanzo but the worst pain of that night was his craving for Hanzo. Wanting him so badly that, as terrified as he was, he would have done anything, absolutely anything, for just a taste of him. 

Fighting the most disgusting part of himself was a constant burden that lowered his worth. He had fallen for Hanzo the moment he smelled him, but even before Hanzo, his infatuations destroyed the few relationships he had.

He couldn’t resist any Alpha who approached him. Not because he was a whore. Or maybe because he was. 

“Stay with me, Kuai,” Johnny ordered, kissing his neck. 

“Yes, Alpha.”

Johnny groaned and pushed him back on his stomach. The weighted blanket was replaced by Johnny’s body.

Kuai Liang closed his eyes as Johnny entered him. He never compared Alphas. He usually only remembered snatches of his encounters. But Hanzo, he remembered lovingly. Even Smoke, he could remember feeling his cock against his own—

“Ohhh fuck me. How do you feel so good?” Johnny pressed his forehead against Kuai Liang’s bare back, avoiding the trails of blood. “You’re perfect, babe.”

Johnny was filling him, and it felt… safe. Good. He pushed back against Johnny’s pelvis, causing the actor to groan. 

He pressed in slowly, then withdrew, dragging the head of his dick through Kuai Liang, who gripped the sheets. 

“I don’t even have to tell you how to do this,” Johnny muttered. “It’s like you were trained.”

Kuai Liang clenched his teeth but remained quiet. These weren’t the shallow thoughts of the Johnny Cage he thought he knew. The actor was trying to figure him out, piecing together the information he was receiving. He didn’t know anything about Kuai Liang before Mortal Kombat, the cryomancer realized. 

Kuai Liang pushed back against him. Hanzo loved that, but it was nothing compared to Johnny’s reaction. He shuddered and withdrew, turning Kuai Liang over and kissing him. His tongue parted their lips and claimed Kuai Liang’s mouth as his hands claimed his body. Johnny roamed all over, holding his Omega’s face, caressing his neck, sliding down, and squeezing one of his incredible tits, Jesus.

Johnny could already feel the pressure building in his dick. A friend in need, a submissive companion omega, his first omega in God knows how long. He needed to knot him. Finish claiming him. Fuck him all night. Fuck anything Johnny had planned for tomorrow; he was going to spend all day worshipping this Omega and feeding and fucking him. 

Kuai Liang was making sounds, and Johnny wanted to hear them. He didn’t want to miss any of them. But he didn’t want them in the air. He didn’t even want a fly to have the privilege of hearing his Omega’s most intimate sounds. So he tilted his head to better seal their mouths. Johnny sank his lower body between Kuai Liang’s legs and finally came up for air. 

Gold eyes were staring up at him, waiting. He wasn’t the begging type. A rash was forming on his chest, where Johnny’s hands had been - and still were - groping. It was still so surreal. 

Johnny had never really seen Sub-Zero as anything more than yet another serious dude. Scary strong, serious dude. Convincing the Special Forces that the Lin Kuei was an ally worth pursuing was a hard sell. Thank the gods that a lieutenant was carrying his child at the time. 

Johnny Cage always prided himself in his ability to charm anyone, and winning Sub-Zero’s friendship left no doubt about his abilities. He just didn’t realize how deep their friendship was going to get. 

He was so fucking gorgeous. He was always, objectively speaking, attractive, but seeing the fine details of his face like this allowed Johnny a moment to appreciate. 

His face was soft. Johnny wasn’t expecting that. Kuai Liang’s nose wrinkled as Johnny’s finger traced the scar across his nose, but before he could object, Johnny met his lips again in an apologetic kiss. 

“I want to watch you,” he admitted, pulling away. “I want to watch you moan on my dick, and I want to see your O face.”

Kuai Liang looked up at him with half-lidded eyes. He was panting now, and his entire body was turning red. He was overheating. He was somehow still lucid, but it wouldn’t be long until he became dangerously feverish or turned feral. 

“Alpha… please…” His dick was like a steel rod, dribbling precum on his belly. Johnny wondered how much he could cum.

“You want me to fuck you?” He asked, grabbing his own cock and teasing the head against the wonderfully warm, inviting entrance before him. 

“Ah… I…”

“Can you handle my cock inside you? I don’t think you can.”

Kuai Liang groaned and tried to slide down, but Johnny wasn’t having it. He leaned into the cryomancer’s neck and sucked hard enough to leave a mark. “Know what else I think? I think you want me to keep you in this room and fuck you until you can’t walk. You’re not gonna say it, but I know you want me to rip off your clothes and send you out covered in my teeth marks. And you know what else?”

He licked Kuai Liang’s earlobe and whispered, “I want everybody to know that this Omega belongs to Johnny Cage now. You gotta bite me back, Ice Man.”

The words just flowed out of him because his mind was going too fast to stop himself. Taking another Alpha’s Omega, what was he, a teenager again? Taking the troubled Omega of quite possibly the angriest and most vengeful Alpha he knew was chaotically stupid, even for him. But goddammit, what was his Alpha doing to leave him without stabilizing his heat cycle first and asking another Alpha to care for a companion Omega? 

This could ruin his friendship with both of them. This could wreck their relationship, and then Kuai Liang would be in an even worse place than before. 

The deep purr that filled the air broke him out of those thoughts and forced him to lift his head. 

God, when did he get so fucking gorgeous? His smile. He had a small smile that didn’t quite match the lust in his eyes. Lust and something else. 

“Yes, Alpha.” He was purring so loud that Johnny almost missed it. 

“Say it again.”

“Yes, Alpha.”

“One more time.” His lips were right over Kuai Liang’s now, and they were eye to eye. 

“Yes, Alph—”

Another heavy kiss cut him off as Johnny used his pelvis to hike up Kuai Liang’s ass against him. So close. They were so close. The cryomancer’s hard-on was rubbed between them, precum lubricating their stomachs and sending a rolling wave of pleasure through Johnny with every stroke. 

Kuai Liang’s fingers reached up and touched Johnny’s neck. The actor grabbed his wrist and shoved it against the headboard. No. Not there. That gland was still basically a scab. He wanted to feel this. If Johnny was leading them to the danger zone, he at least wanted to enjoy the journey. 

“Bite my chest.”

“Chest,” was the uncertain reply. 

Jesus Christ, Johnny could forgive this ignorance if it was just the Lin Kuei’s fault, but why the fuck didn’t Hanzo tell him about his other scent glands?

The muscles in Kuai Liang’s captured arm tensed as his eyes, now changing from bright gold to dark green, looked away. The rich scent of his pheromones was tainted by shame, but he didn’t say anything. 

Why is he ashamed? Johnny kissed him, but he remained in place, his heart beating so rapidly against Johnny’s chest that the Alpha was afraid he was about to have a heart attack. He could feel Kuai Liang’s chest seize and remain still. 

“Babe, what’s going on?” Johnny asked, alarm forcing him to part. 

Kuai Liang shut his eyes, and his purr became rougher. “St-stupid.”

Oh no. Not a stutter. Johnny ran his hands through Kuai Liang’s hair, smoothing it down. It was only when he tried to actively shift his pheromones to soothe that he realized the dark, angry remnants of his own scent. No wonder he freaked out. 

“Ninja,” Johnny whispered as he continued to smooth Kuai Liang’s hair back. His cowlick was stubborn as hell. 

The safe word worked as intended. Kuai Liang gasped as his body eased from the self-imposed rigidity. His eyes settled back into a dark brown as they looked around the room. When they settled on Johnny, he finally relaxed. 

“I am not a ninja,” he murmured. He felt so tired all of a sudden. 

“Yeah, I know,” Johnny said with a laugh. Then he got serious. “Hey, quick anatomy lesson, okay?”

He pulled Kuai Liang’s inner wrist to his lips and kissed it. “You have more than one scent gland, Big Blue. Like here.” He kissed the other wrist. “And here.” He lowered his face and kissed Kuai Liang’s chest, nibbling at the sensitive skin of his lower pecs. “And here.” He dove down and kissed the inside of the Omega’s thigh, making him warm up and grab the sheets. 

Johnny resisted the urge to resume the earlier blowjob and returned to his face. “They’re basically invisible, but the only ones we don’t use to bond are the ones on your wrists. Those are for…” he paused, then smiled. “…kids. Family. You give ‘em a little bite and make a scent for your pack, so they know where home is. See look—” He raised Kuai Liang’s arm and showed him two small scars that, now that he was looking more closely, were unmistakably dry marks. “So this one, probably an Omega. Your mom? It’s small, but it’s there, and it’s healed nice. This one, it’s a little deeper and looks more like an Alpha. You must have been a small kid; I’ve never seen an Alpha bite so gently. Your dad? Wait, no, it was just you and… oh. Oh shit.”

Johnny had been lost in his deductions. He hadn’t even noticed that Kuai Liang was completely silent, once again rigid. His eyes were fixed on his wrist, searching. He must have gotten bitten young. Johnny’s mother was a Beta, and his asshole father was an asshole Alpha that didn’t think of him as anything more than a puppet through which he could vicariously live out his own failed dreams. There was no pack. He didn’t belong anywhere. 

But even before Sonya brought Cassie home from the hospital, Johnny insisted they mark her. Alpha, Beta, or Omega, Cassie, and Sonya were his entire world, and he needed everyone to know it. He needed his girls to feel safe. 

“Hey, hey, hey, look at me. Look at me,” Johnny said softly. When his hands settled on Kuai Liang’s face, he snapped his attention to Johnny. “Look, no matter what, you were loved. If your mom went through the trouble of marking you before you presented, she loved you with a passion, man. She would have told you all of this.”

Kuai Liang closed his eyes and grimaced. It was even more heartbreaking than if he had cried. 

He swallowed hard, then kissed Johnny, pulling him as close as possible and roughly jamming his fingers through his hair. 

Johnny took control and grabbed his neck. He stroked the prominent Adam’s apple, and when Kuai Liang jerked away in surprise, he whispered, “You’re okay. You know what to do. You know where to go.”

He rolled over on his back, and immediately, Kuai Liang took his place on top of him, sniffing around his chest for the exact spot. He didn’t even notice Johnny’s hand back on his neck, guiding him down. 

“That’s it. You’re such a good Omega.”

Kuai Liang ran his tongue under Johnny’s left pec and felt it. The smallest shift, a shift he couldn’t describe but one that felt exactly right, exactly perfect. An overwhelming desire to smell, taste, and be engulfed. Johnny. Johnny Cage. He was going to consume him. 

And that was just fine. 

As soon as Kuai Liang bit Johnny’s chest, he heard Johnny moan and felt pressure on his neck. The feeling quickly dulled as he was baptized by Johnny’s scent, straight from the source. He sighed and inhaled deeply. 

Now his scent, still strong, still rich, so delicious, was being combined with a new smell. His. The greatest treat he’d ever smelled. 

Kuai Liang closed his eyes and laid his head on Johnny’s chest. His mind was drifting a million miles away. He just wanted to sleep. 

Stay with me. 

Johnny’s voice, not out loud but in Kuai Liang’s head. 

I promise that it’s so much better when you’re awake.

With Hanzo, it always felt so good when Kuai Liang could just release control and go feral. Johnny’s proposition intrigued him. 

If you can’t, that’s okay too. You’re safe. You’re good. I’m not going anywhere. We’re not doing anything until you can enjoy it too.

Hands were in his hair, and his body was on autopilot. It was too much. The pleasure convulsed throughout his body, causing random muscles to twitch and slick to leak out of him. A bitch in heat. That’s all he was. Hanzo knew it. Johnny must have known it from the day they met. Hanzo and Johnny planned this. They must have. Hanzo must have deceived him - the suppressants he was on were only supposed to regulate him, but they made him sensitive all over. 

He tried to focus on the colliding trains of thought, but his groin ached, and the coil in his stomach was wound so tight that he felt his foot in the door of the next life. His racing heart would explode if he didn’t satisfy this Alpha. 

That was it; that was all he needed to do. He always fought being an Omega when life could have been so much easier if he had just pleased Alphas like he was supposed to. He should have been flattered by their interest. His body reacted whenever he was near one, even his own brother, if his scent was muddled enough by other Alphas. But he stayed to himself, he fought back every time someone got too close, and for what?

A broken, scarred soul in a broken, scarred body. Quan Chi had given him a body. Taken away all of his earthly needs and gave him strength. He was the only Alpha who gave without demanding Kuai Liang’s body in return. No one else. 

He gave that up. Now he was serving two Alphas, and one didn’t even know it. He had put Johnny’s life in danger. So he couldn’t cheat this amazing Alpha out of what was now his.

Kuai Liang pressed closer to Johnny, grinding against him. A certain satisfaction took hold when he faintly heard Johnny groan. 

After everything Kuai Liang had accomplished, the odds he had overcome, he still felt an immense amount of pleasure, far greater than his greatest orgasms, when he pleased an Alpha. Any Alpha. 

Still so pathetic. 

“You have me,” he muttered. 

Johnny’s hand slid up his back, then cupped his head as he gently pulled him forward for another kiss. God, these kisses were going to be the death of him. 

“Gotta be honest with you, K-man.” He was pushed on his back again. “I’m gonna go into a fucking rut if I can’t have you right fucking now.”

Johnny’s voice was husky and low, with a look that reminded Kuai Liang that he was prey. 

Was this a threat? A warning?

Johnny leaned down and smirked. “Remember, lover. You don’t get to cum until I do.”

He rubbed his face between his pecs while grasping Kuai Liang’s hip and spanking the waiting entrance. God. They hadn’t even done anything yet, but the air smelled like sex and them, and it was just them in the world and sweet thunder god in Olympus, he had an Omega, and he was about to fuck him. 

He caressed Kuai Liang’s face, then slid his thumb into his mouth. He had a whole speech prepared about the necessity of this, but Kuai Liang accepted it, wrapping his tongue around it and sucking gently. 

Johnny shivered, but he looked deep into those bright gold eyes as he guided himself inside to the warm waiting place his dick now knew as home. 

He wasn’t sure what he was expecting, if Kuai Liang would just take it without flinching or if his heat would turn him into a typical blushy-blushy Omega.

When Johnny bottomed out, Kuai Liang’s eyelids sagged, and his chest rose as he sighed. “Ahhh…”

God, this man was beautiful. Did he ever make these sounds for that giant firefly? His Alpha… rage rose in Johnny’s throat like bile, pushing his thumb deeper. 

He regretted it immediately, but when he tried to pull his finger out, Kuai Liang closed his eyes and kept sucking on his thumb. 

The regret swelled into sorrow. It was a stupid thing Alphas did - used to do - to establish dominance. That would choke their partners and get them in line. A quick, cruel way to train them, like dogs. But Kuai Liang didn’t even wince. How many Alphas have choked this man? 

Johnny growled, forcing Kuai Liang’s eyes back on him. He purred, soft and melodic. 

Johnny cooled immediately. Immediately. And so smoothly that he could barely remember what he had been so angry about. 

Yeah, this ice man was going to lead him straight into hell… the Netherrealm… to his death. The man who was literally death walking. 

Ah well. It was a good life. 

Johnny started moving, undulating his body and groaning. They hadn’t even started, but it was way too much. He didn’t even really care about the sex anymore. He just wanted to keep his Omega happy. 

He had tried to keep Sonya happy. Safe. Shielded from the bad things that had forced her to be so cold. But she was an Alpha. It was never going to happen. He knew better than to try to force it. But… still, he tried. 

Kuai Liang suddenly released Johnny’s thumb and yanked him down. When the actor’s face collided with his, he wrapped his arms around him and kissed him hard. Johnny had no issue letting him lead on this. He loved when Omegas took over. 

As soon as Johnny’s tongue was back in Kuai Liang’s mouth, he exhaled a gasping breath, and Johnny felt his abs being flooded. 

It wasn’t until he felt Kuai Liang’s body squeezing around him that Johnny realized that he was cumming. 

He couldn’t help but feel pride. How many people in this realm could say that they made a male Omega cum, solely on the strength of their dick game? 

Johnny looked down and watched him, mesmerized by the way his entire body seized with each release. 

A strangled whine interrupted his quieting purr. Johnny propped himself up and stroked his throat again. “Hey, you’re alright. Stop fighting it. Let yourself feel good.”

He was finished, but his body remained rigid, clenching the sheets.

“I don’t know why you’re punishing yourself, babe,” Johnny sighed. He leaned down and kissed him. His hand was back on Kuai Liang’s chest, waiting for him to start breathing normally, but also to shamelessly grope him again. 

Kuai Liang’s face was still red and pinched as he pushed out another short breath. Jeez, if this is how his orgasms were, Johnny understood why he didn’t want it. 

He scratched behind the cryomancer’s ear and was treated to such a deep moan that he almost stopped. Kuai Liang still wouldn’t open his eyes, but his body was practically melting between Johnny and the bed. 

He was still too hot, but his body looked… man, it looked…

Johnny was at a loss until Kuai Liang laughed. 

It was a breezy, hoarse laugh as he settled limply where he was and ran a hand through his hair. When he finally opened his eyes, Johnny almost threw away the whole night. 

Gold. Still so gold but so clear. He might have been in heat, but he was still here. 

“You stopped,” he observed. 

“Yeah, uh… I…” If Johnny moved, he was going to blow his load without knotting. He was too close to the peak. Needed to pull himself back down. “You laugh after you cum.”

Kuai Liang closed his eyes and rested his head back on the pillow. “Did Hanzo discuss my intimate proclivities with you?”

His voice was resigned but there was an undercurrent of resentment. Johnny struggled to control the heat that spread through his body when his omega said the name of another Alpha. 

Shit. 

“You just came, beautiful,” Johnny replied, offering a smile. Before me. 

Jesus, this omega was making him think dangerous thoughts. 

“You use words of flattery so easily,” Kuai Liang murmured.

“It’s not hard when— whoa, baby, what’s wrong? What’s going on?” Johnny moved Kuai Liang’s hands from his tear-stained face. Crying? He just came so hard that Johnny felt like smoking a cigarette; why had his mood dropped so suddenly? Someone really did a number on him to be so… explosive. 

It was hard to keep up with easygoing Alpha Johnny when fucking Rabid Wolverine Alpha Johnny was awakening. 

“How many years have we been friends?” Johnny asked as he rolled off of Kuai Liang. He lifted his head, and oh shit, blood. A lot of it. Coming from his mating gland. Why didn’t he say anything? 

And Jesus, what kind of pain was this to make fucking Sub-Zero cry?

“I cannot… I don’t know why this happens,” he choked out between gasping breaths. 

His body was rigid again, heating back up. Hasashi wasn’t kidding when he said Kuai Liang’s heat cycle was a mess. Sure, having sex was the only way to soothe an Omega in heat, but how was Johnny even supposed to stay hard when his baby was crying, and his mating gland was ripped up?

And then it hit him like a pile of bricks. “Oh shit, you need a nest.”

Fuck fuck fuck. He should have pushed him to nest as soon as he arrived.

“N-no, no, I have-” He cut himself short with a sudden sob, and it made Johnny feel like he was choking. He could feel a sting in his chest rippling into burns as his Omega cried. 

“It’s not you, babe, uh… I’ll order some nesting kits, and we can pick them up first thing tomorrow, but right now—” He was trying to keep his head clear and think before the distress pheromones overwhelmed him. He used to have tons of nesting kits, but they were all feminine, and most likely, Cassie took them all during her monthly raids. 

He knew that Omegas didn’t need kits and that this bed would probably be fine, but for his Omega, he needed something special. 

Oh, duh! Johnny jumped up, and God, was that a mistake. The abandonment increased, and it almost got Johnny back in the bed. Focus. Focus! This was worse than the struggles he went through with Cassie when she presented. 

She had presented a little early because of a dysfunctional home life, her pediatrician always reminded him and Sonya. It made her a little more vulnerable and unstable those first few years, but they got her through the meltdowns, the potent pheromone spikes, and the irregular heats. After dealing with that, Johnny was confident he could deal with any Omega. 

But when he saw the ice hardening around his Omega’s hands, he knew that he had gambled and lost. 

He had to fix this. 

He returned to the room he had fixed up for Kuai Liang and spotted it immediately. 

He was back in his room - sped up by his green aura moving him forward - and knelt in front of Kuai Liang. 

“Babe, look. Look,” he said softly. “Open your eyes for me, Kuai.”

The cryomancer let his hands fall and saw—

“Baobei,” he said softly. 

He took the bear, and suddenly, Johnny’s heartbeat wasn’t slamming in his ears. A purr timidly replaced it, and he sighed. 

“Bow- bay? That’s like…” Johnny snapped his fingers a couple of times. “Yeah! It means ‘treasure,’ right? Like Hanzo’s always calling you…” He couldn’t stop the snarl that escaped him, but fortunately, Kuai Liang was focused on the bear. 

When he finally looked at Johnny, he grabbed his head and pulled him into a kiss. The Alpha felt absolutely delirious. His Omega’s pheromones were so strong but so pure. The happiness he was getting just from making out was intoxicating. 

“Mmmm, somebody’s ready to come out and play,” Johnny observed, rubbing his Omega’s growing erection. 

Kuai Liang tried to capture his mouth again but quickly gave up in favor of pulling him back down on the bed. 

“I’m glad- you’re- okay,” Johnny said between kisses. 

“Fuck me, Alpha,” Kuai Liang growled. 

“I’ll fuck you so hard that your ice will turn to fog, baby,” Johnny muttered, going down to get one of those glorious tits in his mouth. 

It was… strange. If he was with a Beta that suddenly cried during sex, there was no way Johnny would continue. If he had to give an Alpha a teddy bear to calm them down, his dick would resemble a wet noodle for the rest of the night. 

But for some reason… this Omega, strongest dude he knew… seeing him cry, and being so emotionally exhausted with him just made Johnny more determined to fuck him. 

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Been meaning to ask…Do you have a preferred concept for Eight, and Darth Jadus?Not necessarily together, but for Eight with others and Darth Jadus with Eight, or something?Any thoughts on the concept of Hunter surviving?As a neutral-agent, republican, or “joining” the imperial (co-worker/rival vs companion to Eight)?What about Theron being a double agent for the republic in imperial space (the threat of Eight finding out the truth), or the imperials in republic space (Eight as an ally or rival)?

Ooh, all good questions! I can feel this will get long and rambling, so bear with me.

Darth Jadus and Eight:

Their dynamic isn't that different from whether they're together or not (romantically) so it remains the baseline of a Sith Lord and their favorite Imperial, with a lot of added individuality from both their subversive personalities combined. They both start out with their own reservations about one another: Jadus unsure of his loyalty and ability to carry out his plans, and Eight essentially taking a gamble on how to navigate the most elusive Sith Lord without being left in the dark by him, but soon realize the strengths of the other and just how willingly they work together. This is fortified by a Force Bond they foster where Jadus essentially acts as his eyes, guiding him through the Force-- hence the veil he occasionally wears.

Eight had been interested in knowing more about Jadus from the beginning and strives to understand him on a personal level rather than the pedestal he enjoys naturally from status; to that end, he is able to communicate better with Jadus because he is neither hindered by blind worship or fear. He wants to understand the world he sees and finds his view through the Force beautiful; as an assassin who feels very little on his own, the feeling of fear keeps him alive.

Jadus finds Eight's clever way of talking through disagreements with him bold, and slowly comes to appreciate it over time when most of his advisors have succumbed to madness from being in his presence. He prizes his friendship, as odd as that sounds, and leaves no gesture unrewarded for the Hand who serves him so well and freely, at that. It's implied that Eight is resistant to breaking down from Jadus' presence because his mind does not work like other human-like races in the same way a nocturnal creature would never fear the night.

I could probably go on for hours about the two of them, but the summary is Eight serves Jadus with everything he has. He carries out his orders without hesitation and functions as a companion, advisor, and personal blade. He enjoys Jadus' ideals, his company, even that cold and cruel side of him and can see very few others he could trade for such a lord. He'd be by his side as long as he allowed him to. There are some instances where Jadus can be unfathomable in his actions and they come at odds with one another, but it has never diminished their relationship. After all, both of them lack the animosity for that.

Hunter surviving:

I would definitely prefer it if Hunter survived, though narratively I can understand why he died. He lost, his reason for existing wiped out; tools such as he and Eight who were born to fight for a side to the bitter end know only one way to go. I don't think it's unreasonable or out of the realm of possibility for him to live though, and he could add so much more to potential in the story if he was still out there, fanon or canon. I like it when he survives. He's our counterpart, and to think he's still flipping the galaxy upside-down somewhere keeps things interesting.

I think I can only ever see him as a neutral agent given that's what he is from the start, with his ties in other Intelligence agencies being his covers and I think this would especially hold up if say, he were brought back into KOTFE/ET. I can see him as a suspicious Alliance Alert who gives you invaluable information and forcefully inducts himself into your Alliance's intelligence network, lol. But! To think he'd return to the Republic after everything that happened...I can sense Ardun Kothe tapping his foot with his arms folded in Disappointed Dad ModeTM but....I can also see him giving Hunter a second chance. Hunter might get a little less wild if he's accosted like that yet still shown grace when he has no place to go.

But JOINING the Empire to follow Eight around is hilarious to think about. I have a feeling he'd still go by his fake Minder code and suspiciously "handle" only Eight's missions. Those two shitheads would be joined at the hip. And on the same side? Recipe for disaster and a lot of dead people. He'd stoke Eight's chaotic character to new heights and they'd get up to all sorts of trouble, I expect. They rival each other on the opposite side of the spectrum, so it'd turn into another case of amazing teamwork as if they'd been working together for years-- and whether he's a companion or his rival, Eight would act like him showing up one day was the most normal thing ever. It's that sense of oh it's the other me, welcome back what took you so long. You ugly bastard. (Affectionate)

For some reason I feel that having him around so neither of them are alone would be really good for Eight, actually.

Theron as a double-agent in Imperial space:

That's a fun one! I've never thought about that. Theron in an Imp uniform is an idea as well. The thing is...Eight is also a double-agent in Imperial space, so he'd pretend like he didn't see anything or even cover for him. Unless it interfered with Jadus in any way, he wouldn't hold him back. They might even team up to be partners in crime.

Now if we're talking the OG Intelligence days, that makes it more complicated. Eight still of course, doesn't work past what he's assigned so there's not much chance for either of their paths to cross...unless Theron started sniffing him out. Eight would be annoyed if someone started following him around on missions-- he doesn't like the baggage, so Theron would have to win him over in some way. He's also the eternal watchdog of Keeper since he hangs around him so much, so Theron trying to pierce those defenses by getting close to him is a funny picture. It's definitely risky for Theron: Eight at this point does not know him and would snap him up in an instant if he slips. And he is good at spotting wrong behavior.

It's hard to say how that ends up. Eight's record with those he decides are opponents whether friend or foe is downright lethal. Theron's playing with fire. Honestly, this feels like some kind of psychological thriller that results in a lot of scares for Theron. Eight would be worthy antagonist for him, and probably the source of a lot of nightmares/Bond villain-esque interactions. He might come inches away from revealing him before Theron slips away somehow.

Eight in Republic space:

This is actually the in-game timeline, given he defected to the SIS when ImpInt went up in flames.

As an ally or rival...that most definitely depends on who he is paired up with, so I'll assume you mean Theron. It'd be similar to how he is inside the Alliance; he's a direct, freewheeling agent who throws too many shitty grins around and refuses to do more than the kill itself so he comes off as lazy to his co-workers, but those who are perceptive or hear rumors know he is one of the deadliest they have with a rather seedy past. He doesn't rival people-- mostly because he is unrivaled, with Hunter as the exception and even he can't compare to his sheer ability to kill. He keeps to himself. As an ally, he's a solid one, but he'd still tell his partner to not get in the way once he gets to the dirty part of business, since Republic types tend to get really upset when they see him work, hence why he has a harder time making friends over there.

I guess that's barely different from how he was on the Imperial side, though he'd definitely tone it down if Ardun was supervising him. That guy confuses him on a level that...just tells him to trust him even if he doesn't understand him at all.

This also only feels tangentially related to the question, but Eight originally hailed from Republic space. If we're talking about a timeline where he stays there, that becomes completely different.

But let's not clog this too much, so I'll end it here.

[i-eat-butterflies-when-im-alone]

LONG TAILED SKIPPER BUTTERFLY

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong!!!!!!!!

also!!!!!! this is my 100th post!!!!!!!!! congrats to me for posting 100 butterflies on this silly little blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Its so loooooooong , Meme by Weeblmao.com

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part 10

oh look were having a time skip, hm! well say bye to donnie everyone, we won't be seeing him again til... uh *checks drafts* ... arc two, maybe arc three.

anyway you know that thing where authors say how long something is going to be, and then it turns out to be longer? yeah

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Docs vacation to Quesadilla Island!

So I watched Docm77 last Hermitcraft season 9 episode today and RAN to make this.

More so on the topic!

He needed to take a break and get his creative juices flowing? What's a better break (nightmare) than to come enjoy the island for a short while!

I've been spinning around the idea of Qsmp and Hermitcraft crossover since the start of Qsmp. There's so many ideas in my brain about this topic even though it'll never actually happen! I'm so sorry, but some things are bound to get out of my daydreams and materialize into doodles!

I think Doc would LOVE the eggs! Not to mention all the cute creatures they'd show him! He'd get attached instantly, they're too adorable!

I could only fit 3 here without making it too busy, but I wanna expand on what I could see the interactions being. Massive ramblings, often grammatically incorrect ahead:

Sunny - now we all know she's a material princess, they'd love Docs bedtime stories about the diamond pillar wars and his incredible contraptions made of diamond in the Perimeter and all the riches he had. Now Tubbo not only has Pierre to watch out for, but Doc also, cause Sunny would beg him to make stuff out of diamonds to show off!

Empanada - she'd clock in instantly that Doc is a German and would try speaking to him in German every moment she got. Now she has both her mom Niki and Doc to talk in her language to! It's not much of an expansion, but she appreciates it a lot! They'd have many delightful conversations and Doc is always happy to have her build little things together. They learn from each other!

Ramon - besides finally having another redstone genius with an entire Hivemind on the server, Ramon would be interested in how Doc works - both in a cyborg way and in the way he creates mind-blowing, game breaking contraptions. If they're not destroying the server together for fun, they're not making the most of their time! Jk, but it do be nice when both of them get to hang out and show each other what they discovered that's scuffed on the server.

Some eggs that aren't drawn:

Chayanne - finally! Another farmer came around! Chayanne would show off his impressive potato farm and cooking skills to Doc, who will always be amazed at the kids dedication! Doc can finally have his tomato farm in a Minecraft world now, since the mods allow it! It is too free for everyone to use

Tallulah - If she would show Doc the incredible builds she made and her and her papas place, he would be moved to tears! Everything is made with such love and incredible amounts of effort and thought! From her farm of all possible plants, to her garden and to El Cielo De Las Tortugas. Such incredible places to visit and appreciate! And Tallulahs amazing way of storytelling would only serve to amplify those feelings

Dapper - now besides trying cage trap Doc 1000x times, Dapper would definitely show off everything he got once he discovers that Doc is deeply amused and surprised by all the non vanilla things! They would invite Doc to their base to show everything and I mean EVERYTHING there is for show. It's definitely too much, but Doc is very impressed by her and would praise how much work she puts in! Dapper do be the definition of GRIND!

Leo - Leo and her dads made so many incredible builds, Doc would be amazed at how much they did in such a short time! Besides that Leo herself is an incredibly, theatrically even, good at body language and expression! He'd die of cuteness and laughter like all of us already do!

Pomme - we all know that Pomme has so many talents! From being a little musician, to an incredible warrior, to a thought out builder and a spectacularly emotional writer. There's a lot Doc will have to slowly discover about Pomme! And each time the scale and depths of things will get more and more impressive, because the share amounts of time and effort she puts into her creations, passions and loved ones is massive!

Pepito - this kid! Pepito is such an incredible character to be around! Pepito is so dedicated to whatever Pepito does, especially if it's with friends! Whenever Pepito has fun, it always radiates outwards in many different ways! You can't really help yourself but get charged up with energy when you're around. And Doc does just that!

Richarlyson- Richas is a lot in the best ways possible! But we all know he's very much a jokester, he wouldn't miss a beat trying to mess with the goat! And once he finds out what kinds of retaliations Docs is capable of? OH IT'S WAR (for fun, cause that's what it's all about!)

I'm sorry if this is chaotic at some parts or lacking in others, I have to write this all in one go before my battery dies. I haven't been able to watch many streams so I'm sorry if Im not up to date with the characters, but that is what I remember them as! Any corrections or lore updates are always welcome! I want to learn more, especially now that I can't watch!

Anyhow, now that I look back on that drawing why do I feel like I've done something terrible.... I've seen those designs before......

OH NO

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This is a comic update + general update! I found new work, which means I'm back to being a busy bee! But we're finally concluded with Chapter 01: Trough! Starting Chapter 02, comic links will be updated and added.

I'll do my best to continue working on future updates! Please look forward to Chapter 02 soon! :)

[spoonmoment119]

if requests are still open do you mind doing some desertduo? :D

baking bc people seem to really like it

[grinchwrapsupreme]

i'm still so stuck in the implications of the Captain being ONLY a Captain at his age

like Captain is the second lowest officer rank, it does not take long to reach and he got through the WHOLE WAR without being promoted which is a feat unto itself

the two options for how he got to Captain in the first place are he worked his way up to it through the ranks or (more likely (based on his flashbacks and level of education)) he entered the military as an officer which would imply that for whatever reason he didn't fight in the first war and that, for the entirety of his military career he just... never got promoted

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