Eddy Wang
Skarlet scientist
Now they are called Imperial Body Guards, and they have two roles essentially.
First one is to protect the khan/emperor, and have like a sort of side job or a specification while still working as a emperor defender/Enforcer
Basically what NRS did is to give the female Ninjas a military role, so they're like a faction now, maybe mandatory duty for female edenians in the past and only a select few now.
Same way police has swat, bomb squad, investigatigation, internal affairs, same way amry has the exact same things and black ops.
Outworld now has this with the imperial army, with a bunch of qualities required to have the job and it doesn't seem to be something that simple, but it looks like it can be learned over time
Weapon proeficiency:
So all imperial body guards need to have at the very least a weapon skill apparently, and doesn't seem to have a limit to what they can learn specially when it comes to fighting, so of all imperial bodyguards shown in the franchise we know some of them are true weapon masters on a large number of weapons, while some are specific with one until confirmed otherwise.
Class by weapon proficiency
Skarlet: Short Swords (Kodachi blades), regulard sized sword (She is using one in Mk11), Spears, knives(includes Kunai throwing), Whips, scythes
Jade: Bo staff, Spear, Boomerangs and glaives
Tanya: Tonfa, Naginata
Kitana: Fans, Blades
Mileena: Sais
Sindel: ???
Job proeficiency
All imperial guards seem to have an assignment which they do on their daily basis when they are not protecting the Kahn/Emperor/Empress
Kitana: in MK11 its unconfirmed what she will stand for, but Kitana was born to rule, so i think as the princess of Edenia, step daughter of the conqueror as an Emissary even in MK9 she did her job very well, not sure what will appear on her profile, in one of the trailers she is labbeled Empress of death, but i kinda wanted to see what she would do if she was Kahn, and maybe this will be confirmed as Kitana Kahn seems to be a thing now, maybe the Kitana from the otherverse that is comming to dethrone her is a Kahn, but we will see.
Tanya: Tanya before all the mess used to work as an ambassator for Edenia, and she is an imperial bodyguard.
Jade: Currently in MK11 she is labelled as an Assassin, in the MK9 events she was Kitana's personal body guard, so i can see why, and as a personal friend of the princess both grew together fighting a lot and learning, currently i think Jade and Kitana represents the Edenia's finesse at its best as every true edenian character feels like a very well educated person, even Tanya which can be a dick sometimes she throws some offence with delicate words.
Skarlet: Currently in MK11 she is labelled as a blood mage, we know from before that Skarlet was also an infiltration unit for solo stealth missions just as jade was, she was even tasked to retieve Kotal's blood dagger during a mess in outworld which she succeeded by going in and out with the dagger without anyone even notice she was there, just as she was once considered an expert tracker, so she used to be like a spy before learning true blood magic.
Sindel: As the empress of Edenia, we've only seen Sindel's true persona once during the shujinko era and it was just a glimpse, but from what Kitana says it seemed like she was a great mom, there is a lot of mistery surrounding this character right now that its kinda hard to go in detail.
Mileena: As a shadow clone of Kitana, Mileena was to be the replacement princess as the true daughter of Shao Kahn who doesn't give a shit about the elegancy of edenia, instead she acts more like a slut
Final veredict
I think i like them more now as imperial body guards rather than being female Ninjas, while they can still be called that, the new name and new roles widens their purpose in the series and they no longe look generic as hell.
First one is to protect the khan/emperor, and have like a sort of side job or a specification while still working as a emperor defender/Enforcer
Basically what NRS did is to give the female Ninjas a military role, so they're like a faction now, maybe mandatory duty for female edenians in the past and only a select few now.
Same way police has swat, bomb squad, investigatigation, internal affairs, same way amry has the exact same things and black ops.
Outworld now has this with the imperial army, with a bunch of qualities required to have the job and it doesn't seem to be something that simple, but it looks like it can be learned over time
Weapon proeficiency:
So all imperial body guards need to have at the very least a weapon skill apparently, and doesn't seem to have a limit to what they can learn specially when it comes to fighting, so of all imperial bodyguards shown in the franchise we know some of them are true weapon masters on a large number of weapons, while some are specific with one until confirmed otherwise.
Class by weapon proficiency
Skarlet: Short Swords (Kodachi blades), regulard sized sword (She is using one in Mk11), Spears, knives(includes Kunai throwing), Whips, scythes
Jade: Bo staff, Spear, Boomerangs and glaives
Tanya: Tonfa, Naginata
Kitana: Fans, Blades
Mileena: Sais
Sindel: ???
Job proeficiency
All imperial guards seem to have an assignment which they do on their daily basis when they are not protecting the Kahn/Emperor/Empress
Kitana: in MK11 its unconfirmed what she will stand for, but Kitana was born to rule, so i think as the princess of Edenia, step daughter of the conqueror as an Emissary even in MK9 she did her job very well, not sure what will appear on her profile, in one of the trailers she is labbeled Empress of death, but i kinda wanted to see what she would do if she was Kahn, and maybe this will be confirmed as Kitana Kahn seems to be a thing now, maybe the Kitana from the otherverse that is comming to dethrone her is a Kahn, but we will see.
Tanya: Tanya before all the mess used to work as an ambassator for Edenia, and she is an imperial bodyguard.
Jade: Currently in MK11 she is labelled as an Assassin, in the MK9 events she was Kitana's personal body guard, so i can see why, and as a personal friend of the princess both grew together fighting a lot and learning, currently i think Jade and Kitana represents the Edenia's finesse at its best as every true edenian character feels like a very well educated person, even Tanya which can be a dick sometimes she throws some offence with delicate words.
Skarlet: Currently in MK11 she is labelled as a blood mage, we know from before that Skarlet was also an infiltration unit for solo stealth missions just as jade was, she was even tasked to retieve Kotal's blood dagger during a mess in outworld which she succeeded by going in and out with the dagger without anyone even notice she was there, just as she was once considered an expert tracker, so she used to be like a spy before learning true blood magic.
Sindel: As the empress of Edenia, we've only seen Sindel's true persona once during the shujinko era and it was just a glimpse, but from what Kitana says it seemed like she was a great mom, there is a lot of mistery surrounding this character right now that its kinda hard to go in detail.
Mileena: As a shadow clone of Kitana, Mileena was to be the replacement princess as the true daughter of Shao Kahn who doesn't give a shit about the elegancy of edenia, instead she acts more like a slut
Final veredict
I think i like them more now as imperial body guards rather than being female Ninjas, while they can still be called that, the new name and new roles widens their purpose in the series and they no longe look generic as hell.
