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Villains Contest 2: Candidate n°18 (Kalmaar)

Presentation: (tw: r*c*sm, anti-Lego r*c*sm)

Kalmaar is an antagonist of Ninjago. He is the king of Merlopia. he hates humans that he seeks their extermination. Benthomaar is his adoptive brother and archenemy (alongside with the Ninjas).

-Voldemort: "Another Lego humanoid again. And this time, it's a creature with tentacules. 😤"

-Kalmaar (upset): (to Voldemort) "I am Kalmaar, King of all Oceans from Ninjago, filthy albino human ! 😡"

Voldemort (mad): "The fuck ?! I am a wizard. To compare me to a filthy Muggle can be a fatal mistake, squid. 😡"

-Maleficent: "It seems that squid sentient has issues with mankind."

-Loki: "What do you think about humans, King from the sea ?"

-Kalmaar: (to Loki) "Humans from the land are disgusting. They pollute the waters and they can't naturally breathe in the depths. And you and your Jury mates both look like humans."

-Loki: "I am a God even if I look like a Midgardian. Do you act like Namor ?"

-Kalmaar: "I just rule a world without humans where the water is omnipresent and I don't want any emerging island. 😈"

-Frieza: "I begin to like this guy. Earthlings are an useless species to the universe."

-Magneto: "In my homeworld, there is mutants and normal people but I am aware that they are both biologically humans."

-Doctor Doom: "You look more humanist than us, Magneto. There is too many r*c*sm in this Jury. 😒"

-Magneto: "Yeah. Some of you are more r*c*st than I was against non-mutants. I think about to take control of the Jury. 😠"

-Palpatine: "You will try your chance later, lord Magneto. But let's time to listen the Kalmaar's career."

His villainy's journey:

Kalmaar is the son of king Trimaar of Merlopia. When Kaalmar was kid, he was already hateful and mockful toward the human people. He didn't tolerated the presence of Benthomaar (adoptive brother) in the royal palace. His father King Trimaar who was nice and wise) was disappointed by his son's anti-human sentiment. In same time, Kalmaar was fascinated by Wojira, a godly water snake who could cause the apocalypse on earth. So, he made secret researches on the water snake for years at his father's unknownledge.

His biggest crimes:

Kalmaar captured Nya and her mother and he pressured them to give the Guardians Island's location to better take the missing amulet that can reawaken Wojira. He later killed his father, King Trimaar, and he falsely incriminated the Ninjas for the regicide. That justified a war against the humanity from Ninjago continent. Once Kalmaar became King of Merlopia, he invaded Ninjago. He managed to reanimate and to control Wojira. So, he elevated the level of the sea to flood Ninjago. But Kalmaar met his demise by being eaten by Wojira after his cursed brother Benthomaar destroyed the amulet.

The reaction(s):

-Voldemort (mockful): "It seems that you wasted your role, squidman. 😅 My own snakes cannot eat me. 😏"

-Magneto: "Too racist. You lose. 😛"

-Kalmaar: "You are really all too arrogant even in this universe, you non-aquatic beings. Humans are arrogant. 😒"

-Sauron: I am a Maia, I dislike humans too."

-Maleficent: "I am a fairy."

-Frieza (annoyed): "I am an alien who can survive in Space and I destroyed planets. Don't put me in the same class as these tailess monkeys. 😠"

-Kalmaar (delusional, angry): "So, I must flood the entire multiverse to drown everyone. I'm pissed off to hear your annoying voices anymore. 😡"

Kalmaar's Mother: *Walking away with a suitcase* Trimaar, I'm leaving you. Our land-hating sociopathic son is your problem now.

Initially, when civilization in the sea was just being infected, the sea serpentine tribes and the Nyad's tribe lived at the bottom of the ocean in more northern and colder waters. Naturally, there were many sea Serpentine clans, so there was enmity. It was at this time that the tribes united under the leadership of the ancestors of Trimaar and the Shark dynasty. Then the events with Vojira. As a result, in the final unification, the second dynasty of Sharks was overthrown and expelled from the settlement. However, it was there that the Nyad's tribe lived, naturally after her death. (I haven't come up with a name yet, so I'll call it that for now.) As a result of which, over the generations, there was a mixture of blood and genes, so, in fact, the purebred Nyad species no longer exists.

But there is Bentomaar and my shark!OC. They have different ancestral traits. Also, the Bento family lived in warm waters closer to Merlotopia, so the appearance is more different.

And a couple of notes:

The canon doesn't seem to say what race the Bentomaar belongs to.

However, it was more human genetics that turned out to be the descendants (masters of water) to be people. And yes, then I left the fact that Nyad is Nya's ancestor, and not as the writers came up with.

+We don't see anything completely like her race. But her skin/scale patterns are similar to Bento's patterns that the others don't have. So the proximity of species is possible.

Keep character icons.

So, with Kalmaar, he ofc immediately goes to his parents about his feeling, slightly placing his revenge on hold. They are...dubious about it, but Maya raises the point of how there has never been a human/merlopian hybrid before, and from what Ray has told them about having two EM parents it’s possible for Kai to have some water abilities himself, which could be what gave Kalmaar his feeling. So, they agree to look into it.

Moving on..... Uh. Kai doesn’t have a fun time in S6, as briefly as he’s there. You see, Nahdakahn knows exactly what buttons to press and is able to get Kai into a panicked state where he, on the verge of a panic attack and mental breakdown, just says “I wish that I could just be normal! I wish I could just go home! I wish I could be with dad and mom and father and Kal and Bentho and Nya!!!”

The “normal” comment comes from how they weren’t able to completely hide Kai’s heritage since yeah, there were other people on the boat who saw him. That and he also tried a lot less to keep it hidden. And because some humans are assholes, he has to deal with that.

So ofc, Nahdakahn interprets it in the worst ways and as two wishes. Kai is now a full human yes….but was also sent to where the fish fam currently were……which just so happened to be at the bottom of the ocean.

So yeah, double trauma for both groups. Kai got to experience what drowning felt like, and his fam was essentially forced to watch him die since there was nothing they could do. They were too far under to take him to the surface and too far from the palace to take him there.

But dw, it gets even worse.

You see, the whole reason Nahdakahn is being this malicious about Kai’s wishes is because he learned that Kai was the reason the Preeminent was destroyed, thereby destroying Djinjago.

Nahdakahn is then able to do a “oh? Is this not what you wanted? I thought you wished to be normal.” Which ofc sounds really bad since it’s in front of his family. “But, I understand. You grow tired of the stares in the street, how they whisper behind you back about what you are. Not human, not merlopian, not normal. Just a freak masquerading as one of them.”

This ofc supremely pisses off the fam. Like, weapons drawn ready to commit murder.

But then Nahdakahn stop them with a “ah ah ah, I wouldn’t do that if I were you. After all, I am the only way your son has a chance at living. So go ahead. Make a wish.”

Trimaar ends up being the one to do it, and is smart enough to know this uh will twist it in anyway he can so says. “I wish for Kai to be sent safely to the surface without harm done upon him.”

Blah blah blah, your wish is yours to keep, Trimaar realizing “wait there’s a lot that could be interpreted” but too late BAM now Kai’s kinda stuck on the Misfortune’s Keep.

And he....generally has a pretty bad time. Think Jay but this time it’s personal.

However, Kai’s appearance had Trimaar get the Merlopian army and start heading to the surface. The remaining ninja have a brief moment of “are you kidding me two enemies at once” before learning that this is Kai’s lost family and they’re here to help.

So now the ninja have a whole ass fish army to help them, plus a very protective, very angry fish family.

But for the rest of canon, the only difference is that when they’re leaving Tiger Widow Island, Nya gets snatched along with Jay(who was taken because he hadn’t used his wish yet) and they aren’t stuck on the island, and then later that Kai gets sucked into the sword when the ninja launch their rescue mission.

But yeah, it gets all Un-Happened by Jay’s wish(which at seeing Kai physically hurt and being emotionally torn apart at his baby sister dying, wished that none of this ever happened and that Nahdakahn was never found), only like canon Nya and Jay still remember what happens.

Nya is now firmly on team Kai Is Alive and tells her parents everything about what happened and the wish Jay made, and more importantly where Kai is.

Unfortunately, they need to take some time and prepare. Trimaar and Maya have been doing their best over the years to open the populace possibly making bonds with the humans, but now it’s finally happening. They can’t just go up there out of no where, since from what Nya has told them 1) most humans don’t even know they exist and 2) in the past few years they have been subject of many attacks, mostly from non-humans, so they need to make sure the humans understand they don’t mean any harm.

So DotD happens, then the beginnings of S7 :)

Right out, Kai never liked the museum curator. Up to that point he’d only ever caught fleeting glimpse of him but something about him Kai just despised. As a result, he also visited the museum as scarcely as possible, and thus didn’t notice a very interesting painting containing a two very strange figures.

When he learns his name was Dr.Saunders.....things don’t go well.

It happened when Kai brought the helmet with his dad’s symbol on it. As much as he disliked the curator, he was the most likely to be able to recognize what kind of helmet it was.

Then in his anger he gets himself captured.

He’s taken to a special cell lined with vengestone and has guards around the clock, and Krux takes extra care to make sure Kai doesn’t know where Ray is.

ofc it’s around this time that the Merlopians arrive and express their wishes for a possible alliance between their two races. Unfortunately they showed up at literally the worst time, and double unfortunately the people in charge of diplomacy decide to bring some of the ninja in as an extra precaution because of the villains have been running around.

So the people who join the meeting are Lloyd and Jay from the ninja(they would’ve brought Kai but he hasn’t returned from his missions yet and isn’t answering their calls) as well as some police officers and from the Merlopians is the whole royal family plus a few guards.

Both Jay and Nya have a silent moment of staring at each other since “I know and I’m not sure you know but I think you know but I don’t want to say anything since you might not”

And just as they’re about to start, The Time Twins attack. Because why the hell not.

They’re actually able to hold them off for a while, but unfortunately there are too many Vermillion. Then Kalmaar whips out his Water Powers which causes him to get kidnapped since they need both Fire and Water masters for the blade.

While they’re recovering, Lloyd then gets a panicked call from Zane saying that he checked the museum footage and Kai has been captured. The gets overheard by the royal family, and then Lloyd asks why they looked so upset at which they learn(sans Jay since wish) that Kai is royalty. The eldest son actually, and thus first in line for the throne, as well as being presumed dead for the past five years.

So basically Krux has kidnapped the King and Queen’s husband, the crown prince, and the second in line prince(if anyone knows a more fancy term for this please let me know)

Maya, Trimaar, Nya and Benthomaar are not happy. Not with the Ninjagian people, no they’re fine, but they’re bout ready to murder Krux, and they don’t even know about Ray yet.

So they offer any help they can.

Zap back to how Kai and Kalmaar are doing.

Kalmaar is….kind feral tbh. Like, he’s biting, clawing, trying to strangle them with his tentacles, and before they got vengestone cuffs on him was trying very hard to drown anyone.

Ofc, this does little to the Vermillion and soon Kalmaar finds himself in the cell right next to Kai’s. He’s overjoyed to see his brother again, albeit upset that this is why.

They both reluctantly come to the conclusion that there isn’t much they can do at the moment, and there are many Vermillion guards right outside their cells, so they decide to start catching up.

And for pretty much the rest of the season canon is pretty much the same, just shuffle around the characters a bit and add a protective Fish Fam. 

Though their little trip back in time is quite sight for the Past EMs, especially because of how Kalmaar is using his powers, which leaves Kai mostly stuck in his Fish Form. This time they don’t even bother trying to explain, just give instructions on how to defeat the Vermillion and jumping into the battle. 

And I mean just imagine that from the EMs perspective. An enemy you thought you defeated just returned with a giant metal creature and an army of snake things that don’t look like any kind of Serpentine they’d ever seen. Then a shark person and squid person??? show up and not only do they know how to fight the snake things but they also seem to be Elemental Masters???? Despite the fact Ray is very much alive and they didn’t even know there was a Water EM. Then the two not only summon dragons but they also fuse their dragons into an even bigger one with two heads.

And then all of them disappear into the sky without a trace.

W i l d

But yeah, after that it calms down quite a bit. Kai spends the time skip before S8 reconnecting with his family and his dad, and through some tech courtesy of Borg they're able to bring Ray with them :D

And Kai actually goes to meet the Jade Royal Family since y’know. He’s the crown prince. He’s kinda important and legitimately forgot about it. Luckily Kalmaar is able to help coach Kai through it, but is also a bit smug about how he finally has something to teach to his older brother. Kai was actually the one who suggested asking the ninja for help protecting the mask.....but we know how that inevitably ends.

Bentho, Kal and Nya were actually on the ship for this particular adventure, and then Nya and Bentho were dragged along when they got sent to the First Realm. Bentho, despite being the youngest sibling and to the surprise of literally everyone, was actually really good with kids and spent the most time with Little Wu, right behind Cole.

But yeah S9......Nya and Bentho have a really bad time in the First Realm beause of the heat, but at least they don’t get captured. Kai on the other hand....

Yeah at some point he gets accidentally splashed with water and well.....it definitely doesn’t help with the Oni accusations. The Dragon Hunters decide to burn him along with the Wind Dragon, which moves up their Build Our Own Dragon time table.

After they escape Faith is actually pretty chill about the whole fish thing, but she does ask a lot of questions. 

And then S10..... kinda the same. They end up dropping off as many people as they can with the Merlopians since the smoke can’t reach them.