#liulao

Now, need to say, I have been getting more and more tolerant of witnessing switch content/the wrong top x the wrong bottom kinda thing, it's.. there. It exists. But it's still not something I'm gonna entertain. I hate to harp on it but again, I am victorious.

My tempestuous beautiful angel Kung Lao is brutally and ruthlessly dominated by my innocent but masculine charmer Liu Kang. This is the norm. Finally, I am not the odd one out. It feels so good.

I especially love how most of them seem to be in agreement that Liu Kang is super spoiled by Kung Lao. He's able to bully his way through him because of his huge soft spot for him, which he utilizes frequently to get his way. Liu Kang is described as this honest and humble man who's built for the spotlight as he is a spectacle with his chiseled looks + tight athletic build. He's polite to a point with newcomers and seems approachable at first glance, but obviously he's bred to fight so all that superficial humbleness gets thrown out the window when he really wants to gift a beat down.

What's so funny is that he goes out of his way to be cool with everyone else (cool as in he'll form no real opinion until he has to because I don't think he cares much who he's around as long as he has Kung Lao to more freely voice his thoughts) but with Kung Lao he forces a bigger presence onto him that screams out unrelenting dominance. This guy is supposed to be younger, an orphan, trained under the same masters as Kung Lao, and yet he gets the one thing Kung Lao worked so hard for? Here he is lecturing him, sparring no punches during training, valuing Raiden's (wrong!) input over his, and even fighting him when he doesn't get his way.

It's not so crazy to think that Liu Kang, in all his humbleness, virtue, and patience, holds a possession over Kung Lao that no one else has. Very interesting. What's more interesting is that Kung Lao tends to allow this behavior in fics. He's deeply ashamed and humiliated by this allowance but he's managed to convince himself that he has no say in what Liu Kang does to him. Calling him a animalistic brute in his head while simultaneously admitting how he secretly likes to be used in such a way. But even in the case that he doesn't like it, he still won't establish stronger boundaries because of his deep fondness for Liu Kang. Maybe he feels special in some kind of profound way to somehow catch the attention of the chosen one, for once put above Raiden and everyone else who believes he isn't good enough.

Kung Lao of course has his own form of obsessive possession over Liu Kang, believing it's his right to stay by his side. He loves the way Liu Kang had gravitate toward him since the beginning, how enthused he was to have an innocent victim fall prey to his false bravado. He likes having someone around who'll think the world of him no matter what. But what happens when Liu Kang's gravitation drifts elsewhere? Nothing good at all don't think about it.

I also really really love how it's a common trope to have Kung Lao so devastated in the heat of passion that he genuinely believes that he's about to be fucked to death by a ravenous Liu Kang. This happend in 4 fics that I've read so far. Beautiful stuff. In a few other fics, it's common to have Liu Kang deciding when Kung Lao is ready to take him and not the other way around. Kung Lao always thinks of him as a brat and can never do enough to dissuade this thinking. Again, Liu Kang is very spoiled.

Also, so in love with the way that Liu Kang is described as someone who is so socially awkward that he's borderline not very smart 😭 like Kung Lao genuinely thinks he's dumb. He'll watch him flail around people and think "he needs my guidance 😐". He can be smart when he wants to be but he is described as socially awkward.. Kung Lao, however, is of course, intelligent. It's work smarter x work harder and I think that's cute. Kung Lao tends to have a more intelligent gaze and is more freely voicing his suspicions/concerns.

-刘空-