Hyperfixation Hell

So Kitana is the Dean of the duo— the big sister (by like 5 minutes but let her have this). She remembers a bit of her childhood pre Sindel’s death, but after what happened to their mom it all becomes a blur. She’s always had to be the caretaker because their “dad” Shao Kahn was never around, and even though she and Mileena can sometimes goof around she desperately wants her sister to grow up, afraid that Mileena won’t be able to look after herself should she die.

Mileena on the other hand is Sam— the younger sister who constantly clowns on Kitana for being Old and liking Old Lady Music. She has a very good memory of her own childhood, able to remember pretty much everything except what happened before Sindel died. She can be a bit paranoid and mean, but it comes as a result of her being afraid that Kitana might leave her after everything they’ve gone through. She also made Kitana a protective charm that she proudly calls the “Milamulet”

They got inducted into the hunt very young by Shao Kahn, who aside from teaching them how to kill monsters was generally absent from their lives, leaving them to be semi-looked after by Ermac, another hunter who never really disclosed his past to them (he’s kinda a semi-Bobby for this au). Both sisters kinda latched onto him as a father figure, feeling a weird familiarity that they never had with Shao.

Jade was absolutely Castiel and she only originally allied with the sisters to stop the apocalypse that one time, but ends up kinda sticking around especially when the world keeps getting threatened with apocalypses. She dies a lot, mostly because she keeps sacrificing herself to save Kitana especially and while Kitana appreciates the sentiment she’d much rather have Jade be alive. At some point she does inadvertently take Skarlet (kinda Jack) under her wing, she was straight up going to kill her but saw some goodness in her and now it’s like. A weird mother-daughter relationship between two beings who are millions of years old and two days old respectively and both look mid/late 20s

I also planned to have Tanya be Gabriel as well, especially because og midway/second timeline tanya really fit the vibe. She psychologically tortures the sisters for fun and seems to especially like making Mileena suffer, but all the pain she inflicts is done with the hope of getting Mileena to see the truth— Kitana is going to die, and there’s nothing she can do to stop it.

Kanonically though both sisters die a lot. I think I toyed with the idea of them being forced to be the vessels of Cetrion and Shinnok or some other elder gods to match the whole vessels of Michael and Lucifer respectively but I didn’t give it too much thought.

Another scrapped idea was that either Jacqui or Cassie would be Claire— Jacqui kinda made more sense at the time because I thought Vera from the comics kinda looked like Jade so in my brain it kinda made sense for Vera to be Jade’s vessel but it still felt weird and convoluted so that also got scrapped….