My concept of rewrite Kaidou:
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DESIGN
- a disproportionately, unnaturally tall, thin humanoid creature, like slenderman but much taller. Arms longer than legs. No clothes. He comes from a Race that is called The Towers. Tall, like 10 meters or so, but thin. And he is aquatic, he can live on the ground but his natural habitat is in the sea.
- On a natural state, his skin is transparent like that of a jellyfish, so that you can see his nerve fibers swimming inside his body. Some illustration of what his skin is like:
- He comes from an aquatic race with limited intelligence regarding communication, language, social or civilization. But this race, called The Towers, have innate ability to create pigments on their skin, thus changing their skin color at will.
- Fascinated about this ability, Kaidou instinctively learns about it, experimenting it everyday, with different color, different bodyparts of his, different pigment thickness, etc.
- Even though his linguistic intelligence can't even explain it to himself, he found something.
- Apparently, it's not an ability to change skin color. It's an ability to
create matter itself.
Constantly experimenting with this everyday, Kaidou invents his core ability: World Chrysalis.
Kaidou creates his own original organic substance, growing a biological armor over his body lining. He can grow this substance on his skin for external protection, even grow it in his visceral organs etc for internal protection.
World Chrysalis needs extreme precision and feel to even manifest properly in basic form, let alone to advance, refine, and manipulate. It's only able to manifest due to Kaidou's absolute prodigal mastery over his own body, to the point that he can invent this original ability, and create an original matter, that never even exists before.
With the The World Chrysalis ability mastered, Kaidou is able to alter his size freely, to the point of becoming taller and larger than even Zunisha itself. Kaidou's mass also bulks, especially with World Chrysalis Armor equipped, becoming a literal Titan:
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STORY
In the past, Kaidou resides as The Monster King in Rusukaina Island (the island where Luffy trained). He was a sentient aquatic creature from The Towers race, without mathematical, linguistic, communication, or social intelligence.
- Rocks D. Xebec went to the island and wanted Kaidou, a lifeform without intelligence, as a combatant in his crew. To the surprise of even Edward Newgate and Charlotte Linlin, Kaidou showed an immeasurable power using the power of World Chrysalis, and defeated Xebec in a fight to the death.
- In the verge of death, Xebec used the Mind Mind Fruit, giving Kaidou the ability of comprehension and intelligence. Kaidou, surprised and shocked by his newfound state of mind, questioned Xebec's sanity for wanting a bizarre creature, that can kill him anytime, to join his crew.
- Xebec said confidently, "Saying that means you'll never do it."
- Xebec was right. Instead, Kaidou was grateful for the gift of intelligence, and joined Rocks Crew as Xebec's combatant. Charlotte Linlin offered him devil fruit of Azure Dragon, but Kaidou refused it due to his simplicity of not wanting to divide his focus over many types of powers, and chose to reach new heights of perfection over his own power of World Chrysalis.
During his journey aside Xebec, Kaidou learned about World Government, Celestial Dragons, Marines. All those so-called intelligent beings whose greed ravaged the lands, decimating the natural life while hiding behind policies, media, and military power.
Thus Kaidou's ambition began to grow. To unite all creatures, monsters, beasts, seakings, under his power. He will create The World of Violence. He will lead nature itself to consume the World Government, just like how The Government consumed the nature all this time. To return all life to what it should be.
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ABILITY
Usage conditions of World Chrysalis:
1. This ability enables Kaidou to freely alter his size and mass. He can become even larger than Zuunisha. But he can't turn smaller than his original, natural-state size (more or less 10 meters in height).
2. The Chrysalis armor can make Kaidou more susceptible to certain conditions depending on its types, but it can never be completely separated from Kaidou's body.
3. The armor can change into different types, each has different strengths.
4. Kaidou can use any amount, size, surface area width as he wills over his body or organs, but he only use one type of armor type at one time. The time required for Kaidou to switch Chrysalis types is almost instantaneous, as the biological armor itself is the same, he just change its microstructures thus its functions.
5. The magnitude of power displayed by World Chrysalis depends upon his emotional focus. Being able to direct his conviction on just one mission or his wrath to just one main enemy, will make his armor stronger in its function. Doubting his priorities and overthinking about which of the mission/opponents he should deal with, makes the armor weaker, its pores larger for enemies to exploit. (This point is inspired by Hunter x Hunter's Menthuthuyoupi)
Kaidou's mastery over World Chrysalis ability, is the core reason of Kaidou being World's Strongest Living Being.
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The types of World Chrysalis Armor (the armor changes form subtly whenever switched):
1.
Devourer. Any attack and damage received will increase Kaidou's physical strength and attack power. To clarify, attacks and damage doesn't heal Kaidou. When Kaidou uses this, he will be an opponent who gets stronger each time he's damaged. The effect of increased strength and attack power is
permanent.
2.
Destroyer. Most destructive solid material in the world that tears apart every solid matter upon contact. Using his Chrysalis Destroyer as gauntlets, Kaidou can crush Seastones, Diamonds, The Red Line, the planet's crust or mantle layer, literally into jelly.
3.
Ponderer. The Chrysalis Armor converts any non-solid elements in his surroundings into growth and regeneration factors, healing him. Kaidou must in the state of relaxation or rest to use this Armor. Yes, attacking Kaidou in this state using an elemental attack, will heal Kaidou instead. But since he's must be in the state of rest, usage of this Armor type makes Kaidou prone to physical attacks.
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NARRATIVE
- He finds tranquility in nature. He celebrates his victories alone, away from the wild underwater party of his gigantic monster troops.
- This is also why he want to give The World Government the taste of its own medicine. Kaidou wants to lead the nature's army to literally consume, eat The World Government, its members and structures.
- That was why he made Shirahoshi into his First Mate. Shirahoshi, as The Ancient Weapon Poseidon, can control the Strongest Seakings, Beasts, and Monsters with her call. A perfect First Mate for him.
- He also defeated and then recruited Aramaki, the brutal warrior with the power to rule over all plants, as The Second Mate.
- Kaidou prefers crushing his enemies by his hands in combat. Aside from World Chrysalis Armor, he doesn't like to use weapons.
- Kaidou has extreme power but he is quiet in his conviction and wisdom. He has nothing to proof to anyone, he seeks acknowledgement from no one.
- His presence is basically HxH's Meruem. Once Kaidou feels like going hostile, everything surrounding him surrenders and wilts due to the knowledge of an extreme difference in strength alone.
- Kaidou doesn't have comrades. He considers his subordinates as they are, an army.
- Kaidou also acknowledges power and wisdom, he recognizes that strength come in many forms. In war situations, Kaidou uses his brain and leadership to repel the strategy from the enemies, but lead his monster army to attack in straight-forward and simple manner. Since he believes in his strength, and he believes that his own power will inspire his troops to constantly strengthen themselves.
- Kaidou had convincingly stomped on Oden and his ideals, but left after victory. Orochi was the one executing Oden.
- In the past, Kaidou also had beaten Issho, Wano's renowned swordsman with gravity Devil Fruit. Kaidou told Issho to join him in his uncoming World of Violence since he deemed Issho worthy, but Issho refused and left to join The Marines instead, since he viewed Kaidou as too uncompromising and indiscriminate in his aggression to engulf World Government.
- The World Government tells about legend of Joy Boy, with some criteria involved. Kaidou ticks every box to be Joy Boy. Luffy is the one who breaks Joy Boy's legend.
- Apparently Luffy invents Toon Force G5 and beat him in a solidly-written battle full of ideological clashes, character development on both Luffy and Kaidou, witnessing Luffy's bond with his nakama, and something that never happens in Kaidou's life before: Luffy's creativity and battle IQ besting Kaidou's brutal force in combat. Kaidou finally find his true equal, both in power and conviction. An unforgettable, life-changing experience.
