I'm not a historical writer, but ngl this one is still latched onto my brain since I wrote it! Historical accuracy is overrated k
If this does get a continuation, I'm just gonna put it out there that Hanzo & Kuai's relationship is never gonna be healthy in this one.
Weirdly one person kidnapping the other doesn't tend to lend itself to fluffy relationships lol.
This is definitely one of the most toxic versions of them I have, and I'm ngl it's so much fun to write them like this every now and then. I'm sorry, I'm a monster.
While Kuai is reluctant to work with Hanzo at first, he does slowly become almost fond of Hanzo. Does this class as Stockholm Syndrome? Idk, maybe.
Kuai has to teach the kids how to shoot. He also probably has to curb the constant urge to shoot Hanzo too. It's a fun dynamic.
Honestly, I mostly want to explore the relationship Kuai had with his father in this one, because it's somewhat complicated and Kuai's own feelings towards his father are mixed as a result.
Daddy was a conman and a alchoholic. By our standards today, he would have been considered an abusive and neglectful father. Even by the times standards, he's considered an unusual one.
Bi-Han got the idea pretty quickly what kind of man their father was, and from a fairly early age he did everything he could to get out of the house and away from him. This often left Kuai Liang alone with their father.
Daddy taught Kuai Liang how to shoot, and more than that, how to shoot well. Daddy also often used Kuai Liang as bait for his cons. Poor Kuai was roped into more than a couple of incredibly dangerous schemes by his father. There's more than a couple that left Kuai traumatised, due to the violence involved.
As Kuai grew up, he also found himself becoming the homemaker of the family. With Daddy being a bum and Bi-Han never being around, the cooking and cleaning often fell to Kuai Liang.
Despite everything, Kuai was devastated when his father died, and even now he still had a lot of mixed emotions regarding him. He knows Daddy wasn't a good man, understands why Bi-Han hated him, knew that he did a lot of things to traumatise Kuai Liang, yet he can't find it in him to hate him fully. He does miss him.
He does harbour some mild resentment towards Bi-Han for never being there, but he tries not to let it show.
When Bi-Han became a ranger, Kuai Liang followed because without his father, he was feeling incredibly lost and without purpose.
Bi-Han wasn't exactly happy about it, even less so when he realised Kuai was a better shot than him.
Their relationship was strained even before Bi-Han found out Kuai was homosexual. That was basically just the cherry on top.
Despite this, he is genuinely distressed at his brother's kidnapping, it somewhat snapping him into realising that Kuai is all he has. He's on Hanzo's trail, and refuses to let that fucker take his brother for long.