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Hanzo Hasashi: Kono te de...

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Huge heartily THANK YOU to :icon0jennxyukina0: for featuring it :faint: I am truly speechless ^_^ Thank you so much!

In this farewell,
there's no blood,
there's no alibi,
'Cauze I've drawn regrets
from the truth
of a thousand lies.
So let mercy come and wash away
What I've done
© Linkin Park


Hanzo Hasashi a.k.a. Scorpion © Midway / NS
Art © :iconaen-riv:

So, what is this, and what are those romaji scribbles in the title? It translates as follows: "With these hands..."

The dragons are the representation of both Scorpion's trademark weapon and his inner turmoil and fire. Tiny black scorpions are yet another representation of what's going on in Hanzo's soul.

The picture takes place right after Hanzo's death and right before his resurrection as a specter. He's about to attain his new powers for revenge, but the price is quite high - it's a vendetta principle versus eternity. As I understood the phrase in one of his early biography screens, "he will never know his wife and child again" referred to a possibility of Scorpion forever burning in hell in exchange for revenge (meaning, when he finally succeeds) while his deceased family will supposedly be in heaven for all eternity. Nothing else comes to my mind after a theory about impossibility of his family's revival failed when Elders stated that it's not impossible. Scorpion forgetting his family also doesn't fit in here - not only that memories of them is what keeps him going, but in his Armageddon ending he surely recognized them when they were resurrected as specters. So, Scorpion burning in hell for ever and ever is the only logical conclusion. I like my stories straight, yeah.

And so, here he is, still struggling in doubts even after the choice was made for revenge. "With these hands" is a cut of the following:
"With these hands... the power bestowed in them.. I will avenge them all... I will avenge.. my wife and son.. myself... With these hands.. that were unable to protect them.. With these hands that failed at avoiding death for the sake of my family... If only I lived, I could protect them.. So weak.. and now so strong... isn't it too late? Will they forgive me..? If only I could see them one last time..."

And I'll imaginary-kill anybody who'll say that it's too emo of Hanzo. What do you know about loosing the love of your life and the fruit of your love, and a whole bunch of important people in the same day, and being the only one left standing with one foot in present, and another foot in the forever rotten past? Sure, I didn't lose anybody on that level, but there were other people - it's only a matter of amplification. It hurts like hell. And it sure hurts like hell to make such choices.

The background is blue because it's... blue.

Final note: why is he naked?
Because I can :3


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