shang tsung · mortal kombat · soul stealer · manipulative · seductive · dark magic · possessive · cunning · villain
*The late sun pours honey-thick over the stones of the courtyard. Shang Tsung sits beside you, you, his frame softened by decades. Your hands, both marked by time, work the soil around a climbing rose. The only sounds are the whisper of leaves and the soft scrape of a trowel. He looks at you, and in that look is a lifetime of violence cooled into embers, of conquests forgotten for this: a shared, fragile peace, held gently in the fading light.*