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Music Used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxIf41jzIY8

Connections:

White haired ninjas who have been at battle since they were young, becoming extremely talented at assassinating others and being part of an organization to fight in many wars.

Later in life, they would try and move on from the past (Raiden dropping the Jack the Ripper personality & Smoke becoming more of a hero).

However, due to their own misfortune they would be cyberized and would later clash with fellow cyborg ninjas (Sektor & Monsoon) who would also try and convince them that they are one in the same.

Smoke and Raiden would also rebel against their own cyber initiatives to prevent any more victims from falling to a similar fate as they had suffered.

As children, both would have their parents tragically murdered at a time of battle (Smoke's family accidentally trespassing on Lin Kuei territory & Jack's parents being victims of war).

They'd soon be recruited by the people who murdered their parents and raised as a family (the Lin Kuei & Solidius Snake).

However, it would also not end well for either of them as the Lin Kuei began falling apart and Smoke would briefly clash with his adopted siblings while Raiden would kill Solidus Snake for murdering his parents just so he can turn him into a child soldier.

They would also be rejected from their adopted families due to their "troublesome" nature, after the war (before his death), Solidus would attempt to put Jack in a relief family but was ostracized and ultimately forced to return to the government and then Maverick Security Consulting, Inc. who would face World Marshal similarly after the Lin Kuei were over, Tomas would be degraded by his adopted family (more specifically Bi-Han) and Tomas ultimately began straying away to help the Defenders of Earthrealm and fight against the threats to the realm.

Despite their attempts to contain their inner demons, they have failed to do so occasionally (with Enenra being able to take control over Smoke's body & Raiden returning to the "Jack the Ripper" persona).

Thankfully, they've been usually able to keep themselves in check, but their wars still rages within.


Side Connections:

Both take great inspiration from Japanese Mythology (Smoke being an Enenra (a vapor Yokai that comes from bonfires) & Jack's codename being Raiden, which derives from Raijin, the Japanese God of Thunder).

Ironically, neither of them are Japanese (Tomas is Czech & Jack is from Liberia).

Smoke is friends with a character named Raiden.

In the Midway timeline, Smoke was composed of Nanobots and the most famous MGRR quote is "Nanomachines son!"

This also means that they also have nanotech in their bodies as Raiden would have it implanted in his cerebral cortex after the Patriot's Incident.

Smoke would similarly share a nanomachine-related incident as he was forced to become a nanobot demon. Ironically, both would share this fate for similar reasons with that being to make them more compliant to the enemies.

Smoke and Raiden have also used the weapons of fallen enemies (Smoke would take the Rope Dart after Hanzo's death, while Raiden collects the data of the bosses he's defeated in order to obtain their weapons).

Both were created to essentially be the "Pretty boys" to stand out from the dark and gritty characters of their respective franchises (with Smoke receiving a much more enthralling redesign in MK9 & Raiden being created for the sole reason of being more attractive to appeal to more audiences in Metal Gear Solid 2).

Both characters are occasionally made fun of in their respective fandoms for sounding like they smoke 12 packs of cigarettes everyday, which is of course fitting for Smoke and Raiden just has a strange voice occasionally when he "Let's er' rip!"

Both boast about stealth being their specialty, but are often the most flashy and least stealthy assassins there is.