07-09-2017, 12:40 PM
I write Proto Man because, like Proto Man, I genuinely think people are good in their hearts, but they just get fucked up and jaded along the way.
Shang Tsung is the realist, who has seen a vast chunk of human history and understands that people are flawed and imperfect and seek to manipulate and destroy one another for nothing but their own personal glorification. And that action and goodwill can only be brought about with some violence and shadiness. There are no utopias waiting to be birthed. You need to burn a little part of the forest down to let it grow healthy.
Seventeen is just my outlet for wonkiness and is essentially just me if I woke up a fantasy world where my thoughts/will could create magic rainbows.
Shang Tsung is the realist, who has seen a vast chunk of human history and understands that people are flawed and imperfect and seek to manipulate and destroy one another for nothing but their own personal glorification. And that action and goodwill can only be brought about with some violence and shadiness. There are no utopias waiting to be birthed. You need to burn a little part of the forest down to let it grow healthy.
Seventeen is just my outlet for wonkiness and is essentially just me if I woke up a fantasy world where my thoughts/will could create magic rainbows.