u/ObjectoMenace

I can't believe none of you pointed out in my other posts that I had failed to make the most iconic character in Baki -

Kaiou Kaku.

I mean, seriously, how can you guys even call yourself fans??

I'm still not going to make Baki 😔 but with Kaku that's actually my personal top 5 on my Island.

I wanted to go much more in depth about his character here than my last post! Game spoilers further down (I'M WARNIN' YOU!)

Ignominy is a medical practitioner (jack of all trades) that is confined to a secret layer in the corporation. In the earlier days, he did try and help employees, but Angela put a stop to it since it was inefficient, and isolated him from interacting with employees. I imagine she would have abnormalities breach and deliberately target and kill employees he had helped because she just hates him in particular 😭 (this would cause him a lot of horror and guilt upon realizing). Instead his job becaming processing the bodies of employees, serving as a mortician. This has caused him to become very lonely and somewhat paranoid and unstable. He's incredibly sweet though and would never harm anyone (....we'll get to that). His sawblades for this reason he is sensitive of, since anyone he would interact with would probably assume he's a brute. I imagine they're kind of like a physical manifestation of his trauma in life. He uses them for his mortician work or would've for large scale surgery, as he's surprisingly gentle and precise with them. His eyes will glow and the blades will spin involuntarily sometimes based on his emotions (still, he has enough control to stop them). The bandages do nothing to impede his vision, if anything they're more a comfort from things he wishes he didn't see from his prior life.

In a context where he could interact with people (or how he'd behave towards the manager), he's weird and warm. He's a bit cheeky, but very sweet. He can be catty too, he would have some colorful things to say about Angela. He has a very thin tolerance towards remarks about his blades. He'll be understanding, and explain that they are just tools that are a part of him, they are absolutely not dangerous, and he would never hurt anybody. If it's continued though he'll become a bit snippy towards that person and feel hurt. When the manager first meets him he'd be covered in blood from performing autopsies all day, since it's been a long time since he has had to look presentable. He'd make wistful and matter-of-fact morbid remarks about his work, and talk about medical things as if the average person would understand what it meant. ALSO if Plague Doctor was in the facility he would become a jealous little demon.

Gameplay wise I imagine you could send employees to him to get healed faster or maybe get a buff, and at the end of the day he'd pop up with a menu of all your dead employees, and you could pay him to revive them per employee (but at a really small success rate since, yknow, they're DEAD... I guess energy wouldn't work to pay him with since you already ended the day, if he was incorporated into the game there'd probably be a currency just for this, and the price would scale based on the employee's level and equipped EGO). His department would be to the left of Hokma, fully zoomed out to view the whole facility you would have to drag the screen and he'd be there lol.

The only Sephirot he knows well are Hokma (a good acquaintance), and Hod (he'd be like a father figure to her, and encourage her).

Ignominy would suffer a core meltdown (the horse thing in the pictures). Like Gebura's you would have to directly suppress him. The inspirations behind it are war horses and war time nurses kinda. The name for it would be Mercy (Mercy kill). He would have an attack where he charges through whatever room he's in and slices everything with his saws, dealing very heavy red damage (this would ohko most employees). He would also have a more targeted attack with his gattling guns, dealing heavy black damage, and a rapid fire variant of it that targets an employee until they're dead, then targets the next (GET THEIR ASSES OUT OF THE ROOM). Last he would have a stomping attack that deals white damage. Any employees under level 3 immediately panic when he enters the room.

His breaking point would be the futility of trying to help people due to the nature of the facility. There are a lot of fucked up ways to die in this game, and most likely the employees he treats will suffer this fate anyway. He'd begin to feel like death is just the kinder option and begin to spiral. Flavor text during his suppression would be things like "It's for your own good." "I'm sorry." "Just DIE already!" "Please don't run away from me." "I'm helping you." "I am the only one that cares." He really loves and cares about people, and it's extremely hard on him being surrounded by so much death. He genuinely cares about his patients and would provide them with the highest standard of care, and wouldn't charge them at all (why Angela would've stepped in).

I can imagine a scenario with an employee who has an untreatable condition, where Angela would be extremely cold towards them. Ignominy, meanwhile, would be extremely kind and gentle, reassuring them. He'd give them a placebo treatment (since they can't be helped) and tell them their worsening symptoms were just a sign that the medication was working. The employee would die, but they lived much longer than they would have if Angela had kept crushing their hope. They died feeling loved and happy, believing they could get better, because Ignominy believes that hope is the most important thing. To begin to get better, you have to believe you can get better. Or that's how he thinks anyway :P

I have put thought into human Ignominy, but I have two very different angles on it and decided not to discuss them here. I also haven't sat down and designed his true robotic form yet, but included a doodle with how it would look. Genuinely I ADORE this character, he's one of my favorite ocs ever. I'm glad I can share him here, this is a really nice community. I hope you'll think of my little doctor nurse surgeon mortician robot from time to time :]

EDIT: I forgot the Ignominy Playlist OOMMGGG

These are songs I put together to kind of tell a story and give you a taste of his character :>

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4MODA2ePnuJtnb6GqI_avxFdchuJAqGF&si=qr-vDDdHs2emwuMC

So before I shared artwork of my employee oc/ insert thingy, and have since expanded on him a lot and wanted to share

Before he was a level 5 employee in Hokma's layer, and was assigned to work with The Silent Orchestra. He is mentally unwell, but so self aware and introspective that somehow it just cancels out, and he can work with it just fine (I feel like they'd actually be good friends, but TSO probably sees him as like a sad crazy animal or something and mainly likes to listen to him vent). He's honestly kind of dumb so his only real job is to be on stand by if TSO undergoes Qliphoth meltdown, so it can't STEAL ALL THE FUCKING BOXES start it's performance and kill people. His ego suit is original, but it's basically a cooler, more extravagant version of TSO's. He does just use TSO ego weapon. He's kind of a people pleaser, and is incredibly laidback. He is irrationally attached to someone he just can't let go of, and views talking to anyone but them as kind of meaningless, so it's hard for him to form genuine relationships. Despite that, him and Netzach would probably be really close (as close as one can be with Netzach anyway...) and get wasted with him all the time. I can also see him getting along well with Chesed. Hokma uhhhh tolerates him.

But like, I was thinking more about it, and his outfit to me also kind of looks like a cool ship captain or something. I really like thinking about him as a captain and kinda spun him from an employee to an abnormality. I wrote a shitty vent poem that would act as his log entry. Basically he was stuck reliving an endless cycle and dying because he refused to move on. He would either be a hostile, frantic captain who lost his sanity and attacks anyone that gets near, or this ghost that lives in the ocean, finally at peace and freed from the cycle. Hokma would have probably sent someone to fetch his corpse from the ocean to house at the corporation (maybe he had a soft spot for him after all). Here's the poem if you're curious:

"Theseus Ship of Insanity"

From my dream I had recalled
A man I wasn't meant to see
The bruises on his gentle face
Called me out to sail the sea

Throughout my hopeless life
I never felt like I belonged
And it was from a young age
I could tell that I was wrong

In the whole world there was nothing
That could make me feel complete
But if I could get to love him
That's more than enough for me

In all the sea's salty miles
He's the only thing that's sweet
I'd gladly live to see him smile
I'd kill to keep him company

When I at last had reached him
The world completely disappeared
And of the billions in it
It's him alone that I held dear

All the pain that he had felt
I'd give it all to take away
And I can only hope now
It brings him peace someday

Because when I arrived
He liked my company at first
But I had failed to realize
That my love was his curse

It never crossed my mind
While sailing out to find him
That I was a sore reminder
Of a past put long behind him

That I was a complete stranger
In his life I had no place
And all that I knew of him
Were memories of his disgrace

"It's you alone that I fit in with
Please, you have to understand
We could be a family
And i'll find us a better land"

"I didn't call for you, boy
You know nothing of my pain
You and I are strangers
So forgive me when I say

Your presence is overwhelming
And I can't take it any longer
I'm not a person to revere
You're no knight in shining armor

You're alone, your mind is broken
And it won't be fixed by me
Don't mistake these words i've spoken
It's time you set sail back at sea"

All alone, with my mind broken
Aimlessly adrift at sea
I made my sorry ship
Suffer for my misdeeds

I split the wheel that steered my way
I breached the hull that brought me here
I tore the sail the tempests guided
And let the sea drown out my tears

In denial I destroyed it
In despair built it again
But a ship made from the same parts
Always reaches the same end

Overtaken by the sea
My ship is shortly wrecked
The crashing waves and whirlpool
Drag us deep into the depths

Always failing to save us
Never fixing my mistakes
I drown among dead sailors
Who all bear my bloated face

Forever on a doomed course
Too steadfast to turn around
I, the Insane Captain
In Theseus Ship go down

Nothing will change the story
No words could sway his heart
But in my dream's delusion
I'm compelled back to the start

Boarding the ship with all replaced parts
I could sail for a new end
But my soul with all the same parts
Sets sail for him again

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(I already know that shit didn't format correctly -_- )

I also just think it'd be really funny if this idiot had a ship and would take people for rides and just keep dying and coming back, but like imagine one day he's like "Oh yeah, btw the boats gonna sink we're all gonna die."

Context for some of the art - yeah idk just doodles of him. (AND HOLY SHIT IS THAT IGNOMINY!?! IGNOMINY NATION MAKE SOME NOISE?) The first image is the ghost I was talking about, I really wanted to share that art :^>

Also like fun fact, Hieronymus (pink suit angel guy) who is my sona and brand now started out also as an abnormality oc so that's neat.

If you read all of this genuinely you deserve a Nobel Peace Prize

Holy shit sorry, I finished them all like 2 days after I just kept forgetting to get pictures lmao. Gebura was definitely the hardest, I just wound up drawing on her hair because honestly she was unrecognizable. I drew on some of Binah's and Malkuth's hair and I think it came out super good on them. The Tiphereths I knew would be a challenge because of their hair, so I did my best to get their... vibes across? And I still did keep a similarity between their hair, being a braided portion. I think they read pretty well as who they're supposed to be. They just uh got haircuts lol. Also Ignominy nation if you're out there, i'm working on new art for him that is as close as I can get to the artstyle the other Sephirot are in. I'm really happy with it so far, so expect that art and an updated info post about him eventually. I hope you guys enjoy the lobotomites. Chesed, Angela, and Netzach are definitely my favorites as far as how they came out. Be glad you guys never had to see the original Netzach and Hokma.

These are my favorite Baki Grapplers 💔💔 if you even care 💔

One pic with my oc Ignominy I always torment you guys with but yeah yippee

I do NOT feel like making custom clothes for all of them rn 😭🙏

If this gets uuuhhh 30 upvotes I'll make the other Sephirot