Tomas Vrbada (Earth-19999)

Tomas Vrbada, also known as Smoke, is a shinobi assassin of the Lin Kuei, as well as the best friend and confident of Sub-Zero Kuai Liang, who is later turned from a Human into a Cyborg in the original timeline of the Mortal Fighter Series. He made his debut in Mortal Fighter II, and returned in MFIII and Kombat as an major character in Human form, and then became playable in Cyborg form during Mortal Fighter 4: Broken Destiny as a relutanct villain, just to be returned as a hero in latter installments.

Early Life
Tomas Vrbada was kidnapped when he was a child by an obscure cult who intended to sacrifice him to a demon. As he was immolated, he'd changed into an Enenra, a being of pure smoke, and killed his kidnappers. After killing the members of the cult, he returned to his mortal form but suffered from amnesia and was unaware of the incident. Some time later he joined the Lin Kuei and had taken on the codename Smoke.

Smoke quickly turned into a friend and ally of Kuai Liang and Bi-Han, the Sub-Zero brothers, who were the most promissing shinobi of their clan. After years of training together and gaining an true friendship, Smoke and Kuai Liang would discover that Bi-Han had brutally died by the hands of the once dead shinobi Scorpion. Heartbroken, Kuai asked for the Lin Kuei's grandmaster his permission to travel to Outworld and avenge his brother, to which he conceded. Not too long before going, Smoke would secretly accompany his fellow clan brother as they would enact their revenge.