Brother dearest. The words make his an entire body tense as if on the defensive, and his eyes snap immediately over to meet Olivier's gaze. Why, oh how he wishes to know, would Olivier enter his quarters during hours in which most are asleep?
Dion is silently grateful that Terence is not here.
"Yes, I am awake." he finally replies after a few moments of contemplation. There is no sense feigning sleep or ignoring the child, so Dion carefully lifts himself up into a sitting position and regards his brother with his normal, half-lidded stare.
"Does something ail you?" he prompts, hoping he can get to the bottom of this most unexpected interaction as quickly as possible.
On the train of your last ask, what are your thoughts on dragons sexuality?
Personally I think he’s Demi something (more attracted to personality than looks or gender)
Honestly because we don't know that much about the guy it's kind of hard for me to form an opinion, and if Crocodad Real then we're going to find out his orientation eventually (since we gotta find out if that was a contributing factor to the Dragodile Divorce (assuming they're divorced)) so I'm kind of okay with not forming any headcanons, since the headcanon could get thrown out the window
If anything, what interests me is how Dragon's orientation could impact the story-- like when I've discussed the Dragodile Divorce I have mainly focused on speculating how Crocodile would've felt about it, but how Dragon felt about that is interesting too
Because if he's straight then yeah that probably contributed to The Divorce, but how did Dragon feel about it? Learning that the love of his life is now happier than ever before after transitioning and being happy for him, while also losing the version of Crocodile that he fallen in love to begin with? No longer feeling thet draw to him because of the thing that has brought him so much joy and comfort? Knowing that even if they did take down the WG the family Dragon had hoped to have would never come to be, because their relationship would now end? And that it would be on some level his fault, because he's not attracted to Crocodile anymore?
Like even if Dragon took things well and the divorce happened "on good terms", it would've been sad for Dragon too.
But then there's a slightly juicier option, because what if Dragon was bi, but the Divorce happened under unpleasant circumstances (be it Dragon lashing out or things getting violent because he couldn't recognize Crocodile) and he didn't figure it out until it was too late?
Because you'd still have Dragon going through some if not all of those previously mentioned feelings, of having to come to terms with the version of his significant other whom he had fallen in love with no longer existed, the family had pictured in his mind would never become a thing, that those things were be kind of his fault and that he had hurt Crocodile deeply in the process.
But then he'd be looking at some news article of Crocodile's most recent heroic stunt, seeing his handsome face with that usual, unbothered expression, and realizing he still loved him? That he still wanted to be with him, wished they were together, even now that Crocodile was a far more handsome man than he was? And then the realization that he's bi hitting him like a fucking truck
But it's too late. The divorce already happened. He already hurt Crocodile too deeply. Knowing Croc, he had probably already moved on. There was no fixing it, the relationship was over. At least for now, trying to go see Croc could be dangerous due to the WG and not wanting to risk the WG finding out about them and The Kid and Croc would probably be furious if Dragon even risked that at this point, after what he had done.
Oh, and then Crocodile killed thousands of innocent people attempting to usurp a country by manufacturing a civil war. Something Dragon can't forgive. (Not to mention, hearing he had been taken down by their own son... Oof)
But what if despite all that, and not knowing the full circumstances behind what had happened (like the fact that Crocodile didn't know who the hell Luffy was), Dragon still loved Crocodile? What then?
Nothing will ever beat when you login to GW2 and find yourself in the middle of some random ass event and instantly get mauled and killed by some pocket raprots or some shit
One day I'll find a better quality version of this clip but omg. It's a TNT from 4 26 1985, so he hasn't even been with the WWF for a month and he's already causing chaos.
I fucking love this show XD completely unhinged, shock twist after shock twist, the drama, the manipulation, the sorrow, the angst. HELL YES SIGN ME UP
i know like two people know what im talking about but i really do have to appreciate hazbin hotel for including my highly specific favorite trope, the "man who thinks he's hot shit routinely abuses a damn good looking italian"
ok,ok,ok. Look I'm completely going FERAL(tm) on main for the idea of a younger shang tsung. Early days dark magic apprentice or just freshly newly becoming a master. Like freshly cursed. Freshly scheming bastard under shao kahns court. You know early days when shang tsung basically betrayed his home realm of earthrealm (srry not srry im retconing back to his og timeline. It makes more sense and is better lore and storywise from him to be from earthrealm and absolutely says fuck you guys im switching to team outworld because shao kahn promised me shit. Oh fuck wait,he trapped me and is using me as a pawn. Oh shit. Oh well,time for scheming) You know like he's been around maybe 90 or 100yrs give or take. His physical appearance is maybe mid late 30s. And he's still trying to get the hang of his cursed to whither and age less he takes the life force/souls of others. (You guys should know by now his curse. But ya know) but yeah. Young/early days courtly sorcerer shang tsung.
Like I'm so down for a PROPPER early days shang tsung that isn't plot convenient for other characters,that isn't changing his whole personality to fit or fill plot holes,that has him actually brash,arrogant,but cunning and very fucking intelligent and dangerous. (He got better with tact over time,look carefully how he carries himself in mk11. And then 12. And see the difference. Mk11 shang is smoldering,tactful,cunning,but poised and courtly. Mk12 shang is a younger,more brash,early days,cocky,more arrogant,less tactful. Bratty even. But he learned to be better thru hardship,war,kombat,torture under shao kahn,etc. So having the idea of him not going thru that. Is interesting to say the least. What consequences would be? If certain trials and tribulations never came to fruition? Like kitana succeeds to take down shao kahn earlier on. Like shang never got tortured by shao kahn. Kitana granted him a little bit more leeway. And due to her not really needing earthrealms help. Liu kang thus never really having that bond quite like they did. A loooot would change. And it would have been more interesting of a plot than what we got. Shang tsung being a bigger threat than ever while simultaneously being the only one person who they could have the snowball chance in hell to defeat maybe shinnok or the gods or even a corrupt fire god liu kang or all three. Like this would be the true deadly alliance. Lao and shang tsung team up anyone?! Helloooo. The blueprint is right there!)
But yeah young,smug,stupud sexy shang tsung.
Im down if the story is written better,if the story is written by competent people. Who care about the characters. The lore. And the game outside of hype and making it a "marketable plushie" (tm)