Weird Science: Kitana

A Story by Abishai100

Narrated nerd's account of how a fantastic video-game avatar (Kitana) has become his 'visiting' guidance-counselor, but will it engender objective dance?

A fanfiction of Mortal Kombat inspired by Weird Science! Enjoy,

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I've been in many airports in my life, and during these experiences taking in the atmospherics of trafficked civilization, I developed my keen interest in creative writing. It was in this journey that I developed another hobby, sitting in airport terminals and waiting-areas, developing my interest in humanism.

I firstly developed my interests in comic book arts, fashion design, and sports. These hobbies complemented my love of music and cooking, as I wove a tapestry of the 'leviathan' of human imagination. I started thinking about the odd contours of the feminine form and why it'd inform my understanding of clothing-design and the 'fantasy' behind female beauty!

This hobby I mentioned I developed out of my experiences in airports which engendered in me a fondness for creative writing concerns video-games. Sure, it's a childish hobby, but it immerses my spirit in the privacy of the quiet experience, of fantasy adventures and combat and sports and anything really. It's all synthetic --- video-games. It's like a psychiatry gymnasium. I developed this interest in synthesized civilization informing my fondness for a particular immersive combat video-game called Mortal Kombat, which invites players to use 'fantastic' warrior-avatars (like the blade-fan wielding super-princess 'Kitana'!). While indulging in the 'incredible' and super-fantastic world of Mortal Kombat X, I fell in love with the warrior-avatar I cited/mentioned --- Kitana. Sure, other Kombat-X avatars like Raiden (master of lightning) and Alien (invader of species) and Jade (mystery-woman of poison-staff) are cool and wild, but Kitana is a real cool but fiery cat. She'd become my muse of the cyber-civilization.

I've collected many video-games on Nintendo, Sega, Atari, and Playstation, but it was Mortal Kombat which became my ultra-hobby, and it drew me closer to the cyber-civilization shapes of indoor fantasy and synthetic life (humanism!).

"There are fates worse than death!" (Raiden, Mortal Kombat).

It was Kitana, not Raiden (champion in Kombat-storyboard(s)) that became my 'deity' of this cyber-hobby. Kitana had become my 'weird science' of life. Then, suddenly, I had a dream one night that I'd become a warrior karate dude inside Mortal Kombat and fell in love with Kitana who wanted to become my 'love-guide' to train and sensitize me into the consciousness of life itself!

My name's Satan (cyber-alias, "Storm-Shadow"). I'm from Algeria and study blood-diamond highways with Interpol-office(s) for some of my comic book stylized political thrillers about modern value(s). I became the first nerdist of capitalism-storytelling who fell in love with Mortal Kombat's warrior-princess, Kitana.

In this dream, Kitana had agreed to become my angel of wisdom, and hence I started to have more dreams of her in which she'd visit me, make love, teach love, show love, and instruct me in the art of life itself. She was real to me, and I still think she's real to me, that I'll see her someday...in the real world.

Isn't that why you'd find me at the New England GameStop video-game store (chain), perusing a new edition of the Kombat series of games and dreaming of searching for Kitana? The video-game store had become my Starbucks.

Then, one day, at a WalMart or some super-market in some place (I think Boston!), I thought my heart-stopped when I saw a woman, a rather attractive dark-haired woman, who resembled Kitana in real life! I was amazed and had to run to her and tell her she'd been the vision I saw in my video-game tournaments for Mortal Kombat. I told her I'd been a capitalism comic book storyteller online and lived off my princely-inherited fortune(s) in New England. We started dating, and I fell in love with her. This woman is not Kitana. Her name's Shelbye, however, she'd become the 'angel' in my life --- my conduit. Anytime I saw another Kitana-twin (as I referred to the experiences), I'd think of Shelbye.

I've started to think of myself as a rather 'dashing' cyber-witness/fan for modernism, and I'll think of the times I dreamt of Kitana, and still hold-fast that secret admiration for the blade-fan wielding warrior-princess of a faraway dimension called Outworld. This is my 'weird-science' tale, and I wonder what it's doing for my psychological growth/development. I wonder about this time in my mind.

"To win your next match, use the element which brings life" (Kitana, Mortal Kombat).

I began to collect Mortal Kombat comic books, and I began to daydream about the media-franchise and why it'd become my special/secret hobby growing out of my airport journeys and how it fostered my love of creative writing.

My father thinks me insane, and he sometimes tells me warning things like, "If this Kitana is real, I'll make damn sure she's a good influence on you and gets you to become more than an 'indulgent prince' living off your family fortune(s)!"

"Kitana, I've played with you in the cyber-world, and I can 'sense' your spirit, and it's brought me securities" (Storm-Shadow).

I got this terrific GI Joe action-war vehicle called the Havoc, and I think of all the warlike stances/postures/toys that remind humanity of the real-world woes like sectarian Northern Ireland unrest, the Russo-Ukrainian tribulation, and the Coronavirus quarantine endurance. It's a world of complexity and governance complexity, and all this talk of stress, medicine, and war has given me a fascination with storytelling, and it seems to me at least that Kitana (Mortal Kombat) reminds me of the 'magic' of graphic imaginations --- of war and peace.

Sure, I know she's just a video-game 'character' or 'avatar' but to me has become something like a metaphysical deity or angel or 'faerie' or someone like that! She's become my Durga (Hindu goddess of governance), if I imagine that all my civilization labyrinth writings and graphic arts have turned me into a 'destroyer' of innocence vanities/blindness like Shiva (Hindu god of destruction). Kitana is a messenger then to me, and I listen like a teenager. This is indeed a 'weird' science --- video-game consciousness.

Maybe I then have become a courtier of Kitana, some kind of cyber-vigilante 'dude' praising the modernism behind cyber-fantasy and toys and life's strange storytelling. Kitana has become my guidance-counselor, and I'll always now think of myself as her 'ninja' diplomat.