After discussing a bit with @RayanOO , I want to elaborate further. About how should Oda write the Calamities imo. Basically, this is a "what if / fanfiction" thread.
1. King The Wildfire
Let's start with King. While there are some missed opportunities, but I think King is already the best written out of the 3, that he needs the least rework.
Devil Fruit: Fine as it is.
Missed opportunities:
- Oda should have shown the moment Kaido and King travelled together in duo to Marineford, instead of just telling it via Vivre Card or SBS.
In that little flashback, Oda should have explained two things: the motive Kaido wanted to meet Whitebeard (did he really want to attack Whitebeard, or did he want to help him as a fellow former Rocks member, or did he try to stop Whitebeard going to Marineford knowing that was a suicide, or is there any other reason). The second thing is, what actually happened between Kaido / King and Red Hair Pirates: did they talk out of it, did Shanks wifi diff Kaido, etc.
Anyway, let me remind: Kaido and King tried to "attack" Whitebeard on his way to Marineford is not a chicken thing.
Otw-to-Marineford Whitebeard actually had gathered more allies, 43 allied crews than the usual Whitebeard on his regular days. Attacking Whitebeard in that moment was worse than attacking Whitebeard on his regular days.
- King should at least have basic CoC. It is only fitting for King to have Supreme King Haki or CoC.
Can't really comment on awakening part, because Onigashima Oda was really off. He didn't bother to give awakening to even Kaido and Big Mom, and also to Marco, Queen and Jack. Then he also didn't bother to give or show Kizaru's awakening in Egghead.
- As @Sentinel pointed out, his Wildfire should have played more role during act 3. The explosion caused by Kanjuro, could be rewritten as it was caused by King's Wildfire.
2. Queen The Plague
Next is Queen. Queen is the one Calamity that needs the most rework imo.
First of all, let's forget the whole Queen's canon character. Let's forget Queen the Judge's Friend. Let's forget Queen the Franky's dad (the 2 didn't even interact during the whole long arc).
Queen's identity should be Evil Hiyori.
Devil fruit: Not sure. Instead of canon Queen's Brachiosaurus, a female Queen maybe fits more with Queen Bee or Queen of another strong insect DF, leading an army of insect fruit users. But that would feel too similar with Black Maria's Spider DF.
I think Hiyori could genuinely sided with Kaido and Beast Pirates. Unlike Viola, who joined Donquxiote Family but actually against them. And unlike Pudding, who pretended to be good, but changed to good for real mid way. She should be the antagonist until the end, or at least until Wano arc's ending.
"But Hiyori is Oden's daughter, how could she become evil??"
I can think of a build up:
Since the beginning, Oda writes Oden cared more for his adventure than his country's well being. He turned his back knowing there was something wrong in Wano, and still chose to continue his adventure with Roger, leaving his family and sick Toki behind.
That could be the start of Hiyori not liking on his dad, thinking his dad is selfish. She started growing closer to her mom Lady Toki, and to 1 of her retainer Kawamatsu, than to Oden.
Then story continued like how it is in the manga: Oden came back, got tricked by Orochi and Kaido, and ended up dancing naked in street for 5 years like complete moron. Instead of forcing readers to think how Oden is this good, perfect, likeable character, Oda could make that his stupid action should have deeper consequence. Deeper than "oooh he acted stupid but actually he had good motive, Lord Oden so good!!".
The consequence being Hiyori is disappointed and hated him more, in similar way Doflamingo was disappointed and hated his own father.
Then after Oden got executed like how he was in manga, we had Orochi and his goons (note: not the Beast Pirates) killed Lady Toki and Kawamatsu. Instead of just capturing Kawamatsu and throw him to Udon for 20 years, he was killed in this scenario. Both Toki and Kawamatsu were killed by Orochi's side in front of Hiyori.
Hiyori, just like Doflamingo, started to think and blamed everything that happened to her, her family, and her country was not fully because of Orochi and Beast Pirates, but also because of the incompetence and stupidity of his dad, Oden. Oden's naivety of doing nothing but dancing naked for 5 years resulted in Toki and Kawamatsu's death and Wano in ruins. She kept thinking Wano was doing alright for centuries since Ryuma's story, but it fell during incompetent Oden's era.
At first, Hiyori didn't instantly join with the Beast Pirates. But Kaido met her, saw the potential in her (Oden was Natural Born Monster, she could inherit this), and slowly trying to recruit her, along with the line:
Then slowly Hiyori got interested in joining Beast Pirates, climbing the rank until she reaches Calamity as Queen. Kaido gave the young Hiyori protection, good food and good life, she began to genuinely liked joining the crew.
"But-but Sanji can't defeat her then! He can't hurt female!!". Chill, there is always Flying Six for him.
Oden's daughter, Queen Hiyori's arc opponent should be Kaido's daughter, Yamato.
One more thing, this scene
Swap King with Queen Hiyori and her sword. Although it would lessen the relationship between Kaido and King, but Hiyori's matter with Orochi is more personal. Orochi's goons killed Toki and Kawamatsu. She is never loyal to Orochi and only loyal to Kaido and got along with Kaido's Beast Pirates, except Jack.
p.s.
The real Queen the Judge's friend can still exist, but not as Calamity. He can work as goofy scientist and part of Flying Six. The counterpart of Oven or Daifuku. Not as Franky's dad though, if Oda never bothered the 2 interacting.
3. Jack the Drought
Devil Fruit: Fine as it is.
Already mentioned this several times, Jack being 28 years old, the same with Yamato, the 2 should be childhood friend.
Jack's backstory should be expanded. Similar to King, child Jack was saved by Kaido. Probably from slave auction house like the one in Sabaody Archipelago. Jack was sold as a kid fishman, but Beast Pirates invaded the island where auction house was, Kaido met Jack and recruited him.
Kid Jack was a good boy. When he first joined the Beast Pirates, he kinda had a hard time fitting in, because everyone acted more violent than the former slave.
He tried to befriend kid Hiyori, but Hiyori was naturally more evil.
He got bullied like Momo, and couldn't befriend her, because just like almost everyone else in Beast Pirates, she was very violent.
Then, he found kid Yamato which is same age with him, and the 2 quickly became good friends. Everything good until Oden's execution day.
Just like in manga, Yamato slowly hating his own dad and siding with Oden and Wano samurais. But unlike Yamato, Jack was personally saved by Kaido, he got conflicted siding either with his savior or his childhood friend. Eventually, he sided with Kaido the savior and became more distant with Yamato.
Since Jack was supposed to be more of a good guy in the scenario more than how he actually is in the manga. I would change a bit thing of his invasion at Zou.
Jack shouldn't have done this.
He never tortured the minks, he never cut the dukes' limbs. Instead, he fought them, couldn't defeat them, got frustrated and resorted to use poison gas like in the manga.
But after that, he left the island, leaving the minks to die, but we know Chopper came and saved them all.
At first I thought he should have fought Yamato, the childhood friend. But since the Oden cosplayer was more fitting to fight Oden's daughter, then Jack can have the dukes, or Jinbe. Deciding who is the stronger fishman, the strongest known fishman from Fishman Island, or the hidden gem that was kidnapped early and sold as slave.
Long story short, Jinbe beat him, leaving unconscious Jack behind. But having zoan recovery, later he got up again like how Ulti got up again after Big Mom pierced her stomach. He was still wounded then met Yamato. Jack quickly got overpowered in his wounded state, but Yamato didn't want to land the finishing blow to her childhood friend.
As Jack began to hesitating, Hiyori came, pissed off at the thought of hesitating Jack, then KOed him. And the 2 began to fight.
Jack's future role post Wano arc should be what Kaya is, to Yamato's Usopp (Yamato joined the crew btw). Childhood friend waiting in hometown and potential EoS pairing.
Thoughts? Feel free to add how you want to rework Calamities as well. Just refrain from posting low IQ nonsense like "but I think King should fight Sanji because both wear black, are fast, can fly, and have dick (can't confirm the last part though after what happened during timeskip).
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1. King The Wildfire
Let's start with King. While there are some missed opportunities, but I think King is already the best written out of the 3, that he needs the least rework.
Devil Fruit: Fine as it is.
Missed opportunities:
- Oda should have shown the moment Kaido and King travelled together in duo to Marineford, instead of just telling it via Vivre Card or SBS.
In that little flashback, Oda should have explained two things: the motive Kaido wanted to meet Whitebeard (did he really want to attack Whitebeard, or did he want to help him as a fellow former Rocks member, or did he try to stop Whitebeard going to Marineford knowing that was a suicide, or is there any other reason). The second thing is, what actually happened between Kaido / King and Red Hair Pirates: did they talk out of it, did Shanks wifi diff Kaido, etc.
Anyway, let me remind: Kaido and King tried to "attack" Whitebeard on his way to Marineford is not a chicken thing.
Otw-to-Marineford Whitebeard actually had gathered more allies, 43 allied crews than the usual Whitebeard on his regular days. Attacking Whitebeard in that moment was worse than attacking Whitebeard on his regular days.
- King should at least have basic CoC. It is only fitting for King to have Supreme King Haki or CoC.
Can't really comment on awakening part, because Onigashima Oda was really off. He didn't bother to give awakening to even Kaido and Big Mom, and also to Marco, Queen and Jack. Then he also didn't bother to give or show Kizaru's awakening in Egghead.
- As @Sentinel pointed out, his Wildfire should have played more role during act 3. The explosion caused by Kanjuro, could be rewritten as it was caused by King's Wildfire.
2. Queen The Plague
Next is Queen. Queen is the one Calamity that needs the most rework imo.
First of all, let's forget the whole Queen's canon character. Let's forget Queen the Judge's Friend. Let's forget Queen the Franky's dad (the 2 didn't even interact during the whole long arc).
Queen's identity should be Evil Hiyori.
Devil fruit: Not sure. Instead of canon Queen's Brachiosaurus, a female Queen maybe fits more with Queen Bee or Queen of another strong insect DF, leading an army of insect fruit users. But that would feel too similar with Black Maria's Spider DF.
I think Hiyori could genuinely sided with Kaido and Beast Pirates. Unlike Viola, who joined Donquxiote Family but actually against them. And unlike Pudding, who pretended to be good, but changed to good for real mid way. She should be the antagonist until the end, or at least until Wano arc's ending.
"But Hiyori is Oden's daughter, how could she become evil??"
I can think of a build up:
Since the beginning, Oda writes Oden cared more for his adventure than his country's well being. He turned his back knowing there was something wrong in Wano, and still chose to continue his adventure with Roger, leaving his family and sick Toki behind.
Then story continued like how it is in the manga: Oden came back, got tricked by Orochi and Kaido, and ended up dancing naked in street for 5 years like complete moron. Instead of forcing readers to think how Oden is this good, perfect, likeable character, Oda could make that his stupid action should have deeper consequence. Deeper than "oooh he acted stupid but actually he had good motive, Lord Oden so good!!".
The consequence being Hiyori is disappointed and hated him more, in similar way Doflamingo was disappointed and hated his own father.
Then after Oden got executed like how he was in manga, we had Orochi and his goons (note: not the Beast Pirates) killed Lady Toki and Kawamatsu. Instead of just capturing Kawamatsu and throw him to Udon for 20 years, he was killed in this scenario. Both Toki and Kawamatsu were killed by Orochi's side in front of Hiyori.
Hiyori, just like Doflamingo, started to think and blamed everything that happened to her, her family, and her country was not fully because of Orochi and Beast Pirates, but also because of the incompetence and stupidity of his dad, Oden. Oden's naivety of doing nothing but dancing naked for 5 years resulted in Toki and Kawamatsu's death and Wano in ruins. She kept thinking Wano was doing alright for centuries since Ryuma's story, but it fell during incompetent Oden's era.
At first, Hiyori didn't instantly join with the Beast Pirates. But Kaido met her, saw the potential in her (Oden was Natural Born Monster, she could inherit this), and slowly trying to recruit her, along with the line:
Then slowly Hiyori got interested in joining Beast Pirates, climbing the rank until she reaches Calamity as Queen. Kaido gave the young Hiyori protection, good food and good life, she began to genuinely liked joining the crew.
"But-but Sanji can't defeat her then! He can't hurt female!!". Chill, there is always Flying Six for him.
Oden's daughter, Queen Hiyori's arc opponent should be Kaido's daughter, Yamato.
One more thing, this scene
Scene happened after Orochi's death:
Proceeded to target Kurozumi Tama the whole raid
Proceeded to target Kurozumi Tama the whole raid
p.s.
The real Queen the Judge's friend can still exist, but not as Calamity. He can work as goofy scientist and part of Flying Six. The counterpart of Oven or Daifuku. Not as Franky's dad though, if Oda never bothered the 2 interacting.
3. Jack the Drought
Devil Fruit: Fine as it is.
Already mentioned this several times, Jack being 28 years old, the same with Yamato, the 2 should be childhood friend.
Jack's backstory should be expanded. Similar to King, child Jack was saved by Kaido. Probably from slave auction house like the one in Sabaody Archipelago. Jack was sold as a kid fishman, but Beast Pirates invaded the island where auction house was, Kaido met Jack and recruited him.
Kid Jack was a good boy. When he first joined the Beast Pirates, he kinda had a hard time fitting in, because everyone acted more violent than the former slave.
He tried to befriend kid Hiyori, but Hiyori was naturally more evil.
Then, he found kid Yamato which is same age with him, and the 2 quickly became good friends. Everything good until Oden's execution day.
Just like in manga, Yamato slowly hating his own dad and siding with Oden and Wano samurais. But unlike Yamato, Jack was personally saved by Kaido, he got conflicted siding either with his savior or his childhood friend. Eventually, he sided with Kaido the savior and became more distant with Yamato.
Since Jack was supposed to be more of a good guy in the scenario more than how he actually is in the manga. I would change a bit thing of his invasion at Zou.
Jack shouldn't have done this.
But after that, he left the island, leaving the minks to die, but we know Chopper came and saved them all.
At first I thought he should have fought Yamato, the childhood friend. But since the Oden cosplayer was more fitting to fight Oden's daughter, then Jack can have the dukes, or Jinbe. Deciding who is the stronger fishman, the strongest known fishman from Fishman Island, or the hidden gem that was kidnapped early and sold as slave.
Long story short, Jinbe beat him, leaving unconscious Jack behind. But having zoan recovery, later he got up again like how Ulti got up again after Big Mom pierced her stomach. He was still wounded then met Yamato. Jack quickly got overpowered in his wounded state, but Yamato didn't want to land the finishing blow to her childhood friend.
As Jack began to hesitating, Hiyori came, pissed off at the thought of hesitating Jack, then KOed him. And the 2 began to fight.
Jack's future role post Wano arc should be what Kaya is, to Yamato's Usopp (Yamato joined the crew btw). Childhood friend waiting in hometown and potential EoS pairing.
Thoughts? Feel free to add how you want to rework Calamities as well. Just refrain from posting low IQ nonsense like "but I think King should fight Sanji because both wear black, are fast, can fly, and have dick (can't confirm the last part though after what happened during timeskip).
@JoNdule @Sentinel @Tyki_Mikk @Steven @MonsterKaido @ZenZu @TheAncientCenturion @TheKnightOfTheSea @Embers Kaios @Sir Yasheen @Monster Zoro's Tesla Supplier @Buusatan94 @nik87 @L57 @The DevilMaster @Elder Lee Hung @Kizaruber Eats etc.
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Hypes King's relevance to be closer to Kaido than to the rest of Beast Pirates.
