Two New Names:

I updated my '100 Waifus' novel yet again today, like usual concentrating on the naming front.  The fictional character hall of fame embedded within the book is one of its central pillars, so it needs to be as accurate and praiseworthy as possible.

This is why Sub-Zero and Scorpion were never a good fit.  Yes, they're wicked looking, have great fighting mechanics, are huge fun to play, are popular and famous, and technically even heroes in the later games.  So if you look at them from afar they seem like fine choices, but they really aren't.

Sub-Zero and Scorpion are experienced mostly not through the video games in terms of characterization, but the movies, and in the movies they were villains.  The Sub-Zero made famous with the great outfit is actually a villain from beginning to end, now going by the alias 'Smoke.'  The characters I'm praising are then, in truth, villains, which I already set a ground rule against.  All the children are supposed to be named after heroes they could happily aspire to emulate.  They had to be tossed for people who actually followed the ground rules.

It's a high hurdle to be more deserving than the world famous Sub-Zero and Scorpion, but I found two suitable replacements.  Yuna is the main character from Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, and her salvation of the poor orphanage, combined with her dry humorous approach to life and hatred towards anything that wastes her time, easily earns her a place in my story.  It's a great series centered around a great character, and now it's included within '100 Waifus' like everything else already is.

Shinobu Sarutobi is the choujin koukousei who specializes in Ninjutsu -- err, I mean, 'journalism.'  Is there anything not to like about this girl?  She has a fantastic figure, a great, cheerful voice, an amazing skill in espionage and battle, an astute mind that can see through everything instantly, a friendly and hardworking demeanor that's always thinking of her friends, I just can't go on enough about her.  The combination of her ability to both eminently enjoy every minute of her life and sacrifice herself/put herself at risk for the sake of others at the drop of a hat is the pinnacle of perfection in a person.

Between ninjas Shinobu is better than Sub-Zero and Scorpion combined.

The book has been updated to include all the necessary subsidiary changes that go along with their names changing as well.

I hoped to be reading Solzhenitsyn's Red Wheel series right about now, but for some stupid reason it isn't available for kindle, only as an expensive hardcover release.  This means the days before Shenmue III comes out are going to be especially empty. . .