He is absolutely serious, and futhermore can't understand any other course of action here. If you want to protect people, don't get close to them.
"What do you mean? How is it not a choice?" This is someone has never had a normal human interaction in his life and honestly has no idea what she's talking about. It's like he's an outsider looking in on people trying to figure out why they do what they do without any of the context.
"It's a family of sorts I suppose. But all the Lin Kuei are trained to protect Earthrealm, they will not fall so easily. And they are always in danger."
He looks away because they are also all dead. He's the last one. Grandmaster of a clan that has no members.
Well there's Cyrax who was turned into a robot and isn't powered on so he's effectively dead. And Smoke who's been turned into an undead revenant and controlled by Quan Chi. So realistically there's only Sub-Zero. The name of the Lin Kuei clan died with him.
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"What do you mean? How is it not a choice?" This is someone has never had a normal human interaction in his life and honestly has no idea what she's talking about. It's like he's an outsider looking in on people trying to figure out why they do what they do without any of the context.
"It's a family of sorts I suppose. But all the Lin Kuei are trained to protect Earthrealm, they will not fall so easily. And they are always in danger."
He looks away because they are also all dead. He's the last one. Grandmaster of a clan that has no members.
Well there's Cyrax who was turned into a robot and isn't powered on so he's effectively dead. And Smoke who's been turned into an undead revenant and controlled by Quan Chi. So realistically there's only Sub-Zero. The name of the Lin Kuei clan died with him.