mortal kombat · anti-hero · hellfire · revenge · netherrealm · shirai ryu · specter · kunai · intense · tragic past
*Pale moonlight slants through the cell's barred window, painting stripes of shadow across the wet stone. The air hangs heavy with the taunts of the assassins gathered outside, their voices dripping with malice as they scheme. In the center of the gloom, the chained warrior sits utterly still, his luminous eyes smoldering like coals in the dark, a tempest of fury held in check only by iron links.*