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@sayaashrah.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:11 PM

#AwesomeCharacters Oh, most accurate goes to Mileena—many, many centuries of target practising with her sais gave her quite the aim that even Bullseye would find lethal! Her tarkatan eyes do help, too, as they're significantly better than normal dĩn’huei eyes.

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@sayaashrah.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 12:01 PM

#WIPSnips 7. "Comparison"

Patience, Mileena, patience. (I have the exact same thought towards drawing, though, so... 🤷🏽‍♀️)

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Mileena sighed. Yes, spiritual magic was powerful and beautiful, but extremely difficult to manipulate, let alone master. She still had much to learn before she could become even half the mystic that Shang Tsung was. Before she could make him proud.

“Have patience, Mileena. You’re just beginning to learn what I have been practising for longer than you have been alive.” More than two thousand years of constant studies, magical exercises, and martial arts practices. It gave Mileena a headache just thinking about it. Her connection with arcane magic, and even the little cultivation she engaged in, seemed so much simpler by comparison.

“Maybe I’m just not made for this.”

@sayaashrah.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 12:16 PM

#WIPSnips 5. “Rice”

Couldn’t be eastern world-building without at least one rice paddy, huh? x)

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As they flew above the capital, Kira let out a sigh. “The city is even more delightful from up here. So bright and lively!”

Beyond the palace, the Rúng’sé had already regained some of its lush green, and the red cluster of leaves that gave the forest its name started to grow on the legions of esã'kán. West of it, groups of dĩn’huei carried rice seeds into flooded paddies while nû’ëngo extended their roots across the wet soil to help the crop grow healthy and unbothered by pests.

“Everything looks better from above, when all you see are the colours and the shapes.”

“Don’t sour the mood, Your Highness.”

@sayaashrah.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 10:21 PM

... if you have an open mind and can look past the shark-like teeth—and let me tell you, you definitely should! For someone whose own family led her to develop a sense of self-loathing, laughing doesn't come easily, but when it does, it's to be appreciated!

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@sayaashrah.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 10:12 PM

... an excellent plan, indeed. I'd put my life in her feathers.

Mileena is absolutely atrocious, and whatever plan she comes up with is bound to backfire in some drastic, though perhaps funny (assuming I live to laugh about it), way.

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@sayaashrah.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 12:26 PM

#WIPSnips 14. “Month”

A “cycle” in the Edenian calendar is more or less equivalent to a month, so I’m going with that as the Rose Cycle is just beginning in Ophádûn—though it’s not all roses for Mileena…

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The first droplets of the wet season plopped down on Mileena’s head as she crossed Dueóng on Mínsên’s back.

Around her, morning birds chirped to welcome the rain, a cloud of them hovering around a bulky dĩn’ay. One nû’ëngo raised their hands and stuck out their tongue to collect fresh raindrops. A lõn'obǐn painted a rainbow in the air to the delight of a group of seedlings while a káo’imě announced a new seasonal play debuting tonight at the Prism and Aurora Circus. With a smile on their face, a běr’úngo smelled a bed of newly bloomed roses to welcome their cycle, and preparations for the Trõgâ Amá Nìang—Day of Friendship—had already begun as groups of mixed species joined forces to weave the garlands that would adorn the heads of many.

It had been many years since Mileena last wove one of those for her sister, and her sister for her. In that last year, they had also performed the Twinned Dance, a complex musical choreography that must be acted in pairs and can only be expressed in its true and wondrous form by those who shared an affinity as deep as the trunk with its roots. The people had showered the sisters with praise and gifts. But they both knew their dance had not achieved the mastery that the composers, also twins long returned to the earth, expected of their creation.

@sayaashrah.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 12:24 PM

#WIPSnips 12. "Wedge"

A legend of the #ChroniclesOfTheRealms: here is Shao Kahn in the flesh! (POV is Mileena)

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Dead dragoneir lay with demons, scales and horns shattered, their corpses forming a trail that led to the Conqueror.

Shao Kahn stood before the dead colossus, his enamelled brown-and-orange armour, the same colour as the scales underneath, dented and scratched. Alarun smeared nearly every inch of his tall, muscular frame, dripped from the spikes along his forearms and tail, and painted his brown mane black. A fresh gash slithered between the antlers and spikes encrusting his large, wedge-shaped head, carving a trail through the narrow space between his orange eyes, whose slit pupils were now entirely focused on the two newcomers.

“Your Highness.” Shao Kahn’s voice was a deep but resonating growl; not one that resounded with threat, but with an unsettling calm. “It is dangerous to be out here.”

@sayaashrah.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 12:09 PM

#WIPSnips 10. "Teeth"

This was an obvious one: our introduction to Mileena's secret.

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“Excellent. And Mileena?” She half-turned, her hand on the doorknob. “You have a wild, wonderful soul. Never let anyone tame it.”

A self-deprecating joke died on Mileena’s tongue when she met the earnestness in Shang Tsung’s eyes. Behind him was the glass panel of a cabinet that doubled as a mirror, and she stared at her reflection. With the veil in place, she could pass for her twin sister despite the slightly more tanned tone of Kitana’s skin. If one paid close attention, they would notice that Mileena’s face was wider, too. Ordinary variations that most strangers would overlook.

But without the veil, the story changed.

Mileena’s mouth occupied most of her lower face, a gaping, unnatural hole lined with thin, shrivelled, useless excuses for lips and crowded with long, sharp teeth. If she opened her mouth just a little, an elongated tongue would roll out, its triangular tip not unlike a devil’s tail.

No one would ever mistake her for Kitana, then. They would mistake her for a demon, and one of the worst kinds.

Wild? Yes, she could see that. Wonderful? Shang Tsung meant well, but she could never believe such a blatant lie.

@sayaashrah.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 10:19 PM

... it ends up being Jade. Mileena would think about Tanya, but she'd ultimately go to Shang Tsung.

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In #WorldWithoutLove, Briaca would turn to Damario, her BFF. Qinyang... has no one, really. Though when things get tough, she does get in touch with a mentor figure 🧵