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K. Rool. A Kaptain and a King
🕑 Added 2021-11-16 11:25:07 +0000 UTCEnter the biggest threat known to the world in the Super Mario AU: Kaptain K. Rool!
Thanks to the World Convention Alliance, world peace has essentially been established. Rarely does the common person have to worry about much in way of danger, but there's still something that keeps them on the lookout. Lurkers in the dark that parents warn their children with through cautionary tales. Pirates.
Pirates, as their name entails, are a completely lawless faction. They commit just about every sort of crime known under the sun, though the most common is typically trafficking, murder, and theft. There's several well known crews out there: Captain Syrup and the Sweet Stuff, Captain Wart and the 8Bits, but none can garner the pure fear one pirate can.
Kaptain King Rool.
As insane as he is dangerous, K. Rool is on a self-appointed quest to conquer every kingdom in existence. There doesn't really seem to be much of an end goal other than chaos and total control; K. Rool is unpredictable and revels in the bloodshed.
He's so ruthless even other pirates steer clear of him, or at least try to, and he's the origin of many a scary legend throughout the years. True to his name though, he's often called "king" due to him having uniting several pirate crews into one cohesive army under his command.
FUNFACTS:
-The brass plating over his stomach covers one nasty wound K. Rool obtained when he was hit in the belly by a cannon ball. Realistically it should have killed him, and for a brief few months the world legitimately did think him dead. Until he began reappearing again... different, somehow. Outside of the glaringly obvious brass plating and fresh scars, the way K. Rool conducts himself is... different. He slumps and drags himself wherever he goes, as if his weight is too much for his skeleton to carry, yet the moment he narrows in on his target he moves like the predator he is. His speech is slurred, heavy, as if he has trouble speaking, and his breaths are deep, wheezing. He often has the tendency to laugh at odd times without prompting, said laugh spindly and croaking like a rickety groaning ship. And his eye bulges; glazed and unfocused one minute, piercing and hungry the next. His other eye is missing.
For all intents and purposes, K. Rool is nothing more than a walking corpse, but that isn't possible because he isn't dead.... right?
-The crowns you see adorning his belt and neck are the crowns of monarchs he's slain. He likes to keep them as trophies, having the penchant of trying them on or switching out crowns at odd times.
-K. Rool holds a personal vendetta against the Kongs for two distinct reasons: 1 being they were able to fend him and his minions off (surprisingly), forcing a retreat. 2 being the fact that the Kongs "stole" something from him.
Aaaaand there ya go! I tried to make K. Rool creepier than what he is canonically so I hope that pulls through! More to come soon!
Comments
Gareth Higgs
Oh my god, i LOVE this design! I really like how you went for the creepy aesthetic rather than the goofy one from the games, it gives the AU a great "Big Bad"! How tall would K. Rool be, out of interest? I imagine he would be quite a big boi 🤣
