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Robot Rock
Shujinko, many of us hate him, few of us love him. I want to give him a story that makes him seem more relevant, and less of a a last second hero.
I was listening to this song while writing this, I encourage you to listen as you read.
Many many years ago, Shujinko was raised by a small monk monastery, high in the mountains. Ever the philosopher, Shujinko questioned everything around him, always looking to understand everything he encountered.
This led him on many travels when he left home. On one of his travels, he stumbles upon a mortally wounded man. The man looked very aged. Using herbs and torn cloth, he nurses the man back to health. The grateful man offers to teach Shujinko the ancient black magic act of Immortality.
Taught never to dwindle in such tainted affairs, Shujinko respectfully refuses. The man feels shamed and angered that this fool would decline such a privilege. Sensing much weakness in Shujinko, the man challenges him to Mortal Kombat.
Shujinko barely defeats the man, had this mysterious stranger been at full power, Shujinko would not have stood a chance. The man utters a strange incantation and blasts Shujinko with a horrid power that aches and twists his body.
When Shujinko awakens, he feels a vigor never known to him.
For years Shujinko travels, eventually settling down at an abandoned monastery. He is troubled by something. He is aging at unpredictable rates. One day he feels he could take on a tiger, another he feels weak and looks twice the age he should be. Then he is young again.
Skip a few hundred years ahead and Shujinko is still living, he is the abbot of a Shaolin Temple he and a few (now deceased) monks built over the years. He trains warriors for the Mortal Kombat tournament, in hopes of destroying the one who placed this curse of immortality on him, Shang Tsung.
Many failed attempts later, Shujinko is presented a child, left on the Temple's stairs. He names the child Liu Kang, after his father. He raises Liu Kang along with his son, Kung Lao. They train almost identically.
When the time comes to send them off to the tournament, Shujinko is torn by the decision of sending his sons off to almost certain death. He conquers his fears and much to the shock of the entire temple, enters the tournament himself. He forbids his sons from entering, telling them he needs to end this curse once and for all. By either killing Shang Tsung, or by Tsung killing him.
Liu and Kung Lao see this as him being selfish, for he is only thinking of himself and not of Earthrealm. Shujinko is shocked to find he sons already on the island when he gets there.
Shujinko does not believe his sons can take down this threat. He is driven mad, in his eyes, the only way to stop his curse, is to get to the top of the tournament. He is heartbroken that his sons are in the way, but he has no choice. His lack of faith will be his undoing.
Again, I winged it on the ending since I have things to do in a few minutes.
Tell me what you think
I was listening to this song while writing this, I encourage you to listen as you read.
Many many years ago, Shujinko was raised by a small monk monastery, high in the mountains. Ever the philosopher, Shujinko questioned everything around him, always looking to understand everything he encountered.
This led him on many travels when he left home. On one of his travels, he stumbles upon a mortally wounded man. The man looked very aged. Using herbs and torn cloth, he nurses the man back to health. The grateful man offers to teach Shujinko the ancient black magic act of Immortality.
Taught never to dwindle in such tainted affairs, Shujinko respectfully refuses. The man feels shamed and angered that this fool would decline such a privilege. Sensing much weakness in Shujinko, the man challenges him to Mortal Kombat.
Shujinko barely defeats the man, had this mysterious stranger been at full power, Shujinko would not have stood a chance. The man utters a strange incantation and blasts Shujinko with a horrid power that aches and twists his body.
When Shujinko awakens, he feels a vigor never known to him.
For years Shujinko travels, eventually settling down at an abandoned monastery. He is troubled by something. He is aging at unpredictable rates. One day he feels he could take on a tiger, another he feels weak and looks twice the age he should be. Then he is young again.
Skip a few hundred years ahead and Shujinko is still living, he is the abbot of a Shaolin Temple he and a few (now deceased) monks built over the years. He trains warriors for the Mortal Kombat tournament, in hopes of destroying the one who placed this curse of immortality on him, Shang Tsung.
Many failed attempts later, Shujinko is presented a child, left on the Temple's stairs. He names the child Liu Kang, after his father. He raises Liu Kang along with his son, Kung Lao. They train almost identically.
When the time comes to send them off to the tournament, Shujinko is torn by the decision of sending his sons off to almost certain death. He conquers his fears and much to the shock of the entire temple, enters the tournament himself. He forbids his sons from entering, telling them he needs to end this curse once and for all. By either killing Shang Tsung, or by Tsung killing him.
Liu and Kung Lao see this as him being selfish, for he is only thinking of himself and not of Earthrealm. Shujinko is shocked to find he sons already on the island when he gets there.
Shujinko does not believe his sons can take down this threat. He is driven mad, in his eyes, the only way to stop his curse, is to get to the top of the tournament. He is heartbroken that his sons are in the way, but he has no choice. His lack of faith will be his undoing.
Again, I winged it on the ending since I have things to do in a few minutes.
Tell me what you think
