This hit me a few days ago, and I've only now had the opprotunity to post it. Let's here everyone's view on this subject!

Lets think. What's a create-a-character option, if you don't have the ability to teach your character special moves ala Scorpion's spear, or Sub-Zero's freeze? Sure, you could always program some of Sonya's flying jump kick, but whats the fun in that? Some people might want to freeze, or elricute their opponent -- and to do so would mean your character, mysteriously, having those powers.

Whether such options will be available, however, is not the issue. The question of the day is -- would such abilities have an affect on your appearance? Raiden is a god of thunder. Ergo, an affect on his appearance is those streams of lightening circulating around him. Sub-Zero and Frost can freeze things. The affect on their appearance is frozen hair, breathing of cold air, and what not. If your character had special abilities such as these, would your appearance suffer (or some may think benefit) from these possibly mandatory alterations?

Lets expand on this, in our thought. WEAPON STANCES, too, could alter your appearance. I think we've seen in pictures already that returning characters are returning from MKDA with their expected stances (ex: Sub-Shredder with his Dragon stance). Ergo, it would be logical to conclude that weapon stances will return as well ... and it would also be logical to expect many players designing their characters would want to USE their favorite weapons from MKDA.

So what happens if you're favorite weapon happened to be Sub-Zero's Kori Blade? It's only logical, that for your character to HAVE a Kori Blade, he would need the freezing ability -- which could then alter your character's appearance?

What if you wanted the cool moves Baraka could pull off with his arm blades? Would you be able to have arm blades? Would that mean that your character would literally have to be a member of Baraka's species, and egro have an altered appearance?

Or, in the instance of the Kori and Arm Blades, would they simply make a whole new weapon that simply operates like the Kori Blade or arm blades (The Ninja Sword and Katana in MKDA looked different, but operated the same). Its possible to just have maybe a Scottish Broad Sword that moved like Sub's Kori Blade, or double straight swords that could be handle's like Baraka's arm blades. But of course, such happenings wouldn't be as FUN has having the real thing!

So what say you guys on the subject?