#but sonya? well fuck thats something he gives a fuck abot

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Kano’s Obsession With Sonya

I wanna write this down as a headcanon because I feel it’s important to talk about their relationship and establish it on this blog. 

FIY for any Sonya’s / Cassie’s / Cage’s out there - you don’t have to support/agree with this headcanon or apply it in our threading ! This is just a personal take on Kano’s feelings toward Sonya - if you WANT to include it, by all means but if you’d rather a unique take on the relationship, we can plot something out! :)

This is based off of all incarnations of Kano / Sonya’s relationship.

As the title states, Kano is obsessed with Sonya - I’d dare say it’s unhealthy and borders between pure hatred and a twisted sort of love. I’ve briefly spoke before about how Kano doesn’t really feel love for others. He struggles with long term relationships, is afraid of commitment and generally doesn’t care for most people. 

For Kano - Sonya represents everything he isn’t but the two also share some pretty striking similarities. For example, while she’s loyal, good and just (all things Kano isn’t) she’s also headstrong, tough and determined (similar to him). 

He’s a man who likes the chase. He likes a challenge - Kano likes what he can’t have. He’s driven by a desire to reach the unreachable (even though he knows it isn’t possible) and what is more unreachable than his one, true enemy?

( Side Note :: Look how little Kano cares for Jax. Jax is the one responsible for his missing eye and yet he dislikes him in a way which is very ‘fuck you, I’ll deal with you later’ - his focus is entirely on Sonya, despite, well, everything pointing to the fact that he should wanna get back Jax, not her. )

Their relationship isn’t for a moment romantic or loving - the two openly despise each other, but the raw tension that’s there can’t be denied. Both represent sides of themselves that the other despises (if that makes sense). They see the similarities in one another and it drives them c r a z y. 

As in canon and as would make sense - if one got their hands on their other, they’d kill them. Or, in Sonya’s case, imprison them. However, I’m not 100% sold on the idea that Kano would kill Sonya. I don’t think he would - in fact, he’d be stuck and would probably only end up killing her if absolutely driven to it. Otherwise, I think he’d hold her captive. In that sense, the relationship is somewhat one-sided.

( Side Note :: See his Tower Ending in MK11, with ultimate power he doesn’t kill his worse enemy, he instead makes her fight cage matches in skimpy underwear. SMH, but for real - he wouldn’t kill her. )

Another thing I shitposted about once is Kano keeping a lock of Sonya’s hair around his neck, I’m pretty sure this is shown in Deadly Alliance. I absolutely maintain that canon on this blog and accept it as a part of my Kano - he has kept a strand of her hair around his neck before. This was done primarily for intimidation purposes and to deliberately piss her off (seriously, wouldn’t an enemy wearing a part of you drive you insane). Privately, he kept this piece of her close to him because it’s as intimate / close as he’s been able to get near her without a fight. 

( Final Side Note :: I can’t write for Sonya but I sort of feel that she’s exactly the same as Kano but reflected from the other side - the side of good. She’s as obsessed with him as he is her, but in all of the good ways. She’s obsessed because she needs to catch him, stop him, put him away. She’s essentially the ‘good’ version of all this - but it doesn’t make her any different. )

TLDR; My Kano is entirely in love with Sonya but has no idea how to express it properly / thus love becomes obsession, add in a dash of hatred/rivalry and an absolute hard on for chasing / challenges and there you have it - Kano’s obsession with Sonya is so so so weird but absolutely canon on this blog.

#[Headcanon] #its one of the elements of his character that i actually find kind of scary / kind of deep #because this is a man who doesnt give a fuck about anything #but sonya? well fuck thats something he gives a fuck abot #ill write another about his relationship with kabal too someday but #sonya/kanos in my head #and the thing is it isnt romantic - like not for a second is it romantic or love or nice or sweet #its straight up poisonous obsession #and i think in some ways sonya is the same