“…Y/N…” He glanced over at him with such sorrowful longing.

Liu Kang loved Kitana, he’ll admit that but in the last timeline before he took the hour glass from Kronika, he slowly began to lose feelings for her and instead, felt himself attracted to her younger brother, Y/N. He began to see them in a different light but when he had to erase the timeline after obtaining the hour glass, it pained him that he’d had to erase the young prince’s memories of him for a better timeline.