Malachai Parker

Malachai "Kai" Parker was a siphoner-vampire hybrid that first appeared
in the third episode of the sixth season of The Vampire Diaries as well as the main antagonist. He was the son of Joshua Parker and his unnamed wife, the twin brother of Josette, and the older brother of Olivia, Lucas, Joey, and three other unnamed siblings. When his nature as a siphoner was revealed in adolescence, his family began to treat him poorly and referred to him as an "abomination," which, among other factors, led to him growing up to be a sociopath and murdering most of his younger siblings. He was trapped within a Prison World by his father and coven in 1994 until his eventual escape after meeting Damon Salvatore and Bonnie Bennett. Freed, he sought revenge on his family that led him to Merging with his brother, Lucas, and assuming control over his family's coven. His reign was short-lived when he was killed by Damon and found himself in Hell. After he escaped Hell, he bargained with Arcadius to remain in the living world by giving him Elena's coffin. With the deal struck, he attempted to once again kill the last remaining Gemini witches, his nieces Lizzie and Josie Saltzman. After he failed, he was banished and imprisoned in another Prison World by Bonnie, Lizzie, and Josie. A decade later, he was given the key to his escape by Josie, information about the Malivore portal, and worked with the Necromancer, targeting the Salvatore Boarding School. He was decapitated for a second time by Alaric Saltzman after he attempted to betray the Necromancer and destroy the Prison World.
Kai was a member of the Parker Family, and the last leader of the Gemini Coven.
==Early History==
Malachai was born in Portland, Oregon in 1972 as the eldest son of Joshua Parker and twin brother of Jo. As a siphoner, he was shunned by his family, even revealing to Caroline that he wasn't allowed to touch anyone. As twins of the Gemini Coven, Kai and Jo were expected to merge. However, Joshua knew that Kai would win the merge given his powers, and knew that Kai could not lead the coven. Due to this, Joshua and his wife kept having children until another pair of twins was born: Liv and Luke.
Realizing this, on May 9, 1994, he decided to kill his siblings and merge with Jo. He stabbed Jo with a hunting knife to get her out of the way as he went after their siblings, but Jo managed to cloak the twins to protect them, promising to merge with him so long as Liv and Luke could live. However, she had relinquished her magic, and the coven harnessed the power of a solar eclipse to trap him in a purgatory dimension for his crimes, which kept him trapped in a snapshot of the day that he was imprisoned.
In the Prison World, Kai tried to kill himself several times, each unsuccessful. He realized that it was part of his punishment, a safeguard by the Gemini Coven to make sure that Kai didn't end his eternal imprisonment early. 
==Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series==
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In What Are You?, Kai surprised Damon and Alaric by showing up while they were trying to think of a way to kill Cade, and told them that he had a better idea than the one they had thought of.
In The Lies Will Catch Up To You,
In It's Been a Hell of a Ride, Kai attempted to enter a bargain with Cade in order to remain in the living world and successfully did so by giving him Elena's coffin. Later on, he attempted to kill the last remaining Gemini witches, his nieces: Lizzie and Josie Saltzman. After he failed, he was permanently banished and imprisoned in the newly created 2018 Prison World by Bonnie, Lizzie and Josie.
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==Throughout Legacies Series==
In Since When Do You Speak Japanese?, Milton Greasley is given a video recorder by Wade from the Salvatore school's storage. He remarks that he needs something better but Wade tells him that the equipment is booked. MG turns on the video recorder and notices that the tape is already used, and Wade tells him to just record over it. Unbeknownst to him, the tape is actually the one Kai sent the Mystic Falls Gang in The Vampire Diaries.
In Kai Parker Screwed Us, Kai saves Josie from Jade, who is angry at the Saltzman Family and also hungry. He tells her that if she wants to live, she should come with him, and the two leave for the Old Mill. When the two get there, Josie realizes who Kai is, and he reveals that each day in the Prison World, Jade, Wendy and Diego would hunt him down and kill him for sport. He questions how she got to the Prison World, and she half-explains the situation. 
Meanwhile, Alaric watches a tape left by him for Kai in the bar where Bonnie Bennett had previously left him. On the tape, he taunts Alaric, and makes a remark that Alaric is stupid to come to the Prison World, given the amount of angry students he had send there during his time as Headmaster of the Salvatore School. Kai and Josie later go to the bar, where Alaric expresses his concern over Josie trusting Kai. Josie believes Alaric is hindering their ability to escape the Prison World and chains him up, much to Kai's surprise.
Kai and Josie leave the bar, with Kai taking the lead on explaining the objects they need to escape the Prison World. Josie questions if a mora miserium is powerful enough to power the spell without a celestial event, however Josie does not disclose that she is currently in possession of the object. When Kai gives her the ascendant as a sign of good faith, she reveals that the sand clock is in her possession.
The next stop for the two is Mystic Falls Hospital; they need Bennett blood to power the spell, and Kai reveals that Bonnie gave a donation some years ago under her new, married name. Whilst in the hospital, Kai questions Josie about Malivore, including its location and details surrounding. When they get to the blood storage room, it is revealed that Jade has destroyed all of the blood, and the two begin running. Eventually, Kai's performance comes to an end, and it is revealed that he is the one in charge of the Prison World, not Jade as he had Josie believe. When Josie reveals that she did bring a vial of blood to the Prison World, he freezes her and takes the blood from her, ordering Jade to take her back to the bar with Alaric.
Later, it is revealed that Kai is leaving his group of students behind and escaping the Prison World alone. His plan is foiled, however when it becomes clear that the vial of blood was actually a miniature bottle of vodka, cloaked to look like blood with an illusion spell, and Kai realises that he has been tricked by Josie. He later calls her from Fort Valley, Georgia, revealing that if she wants to escape the Prison World, she must break the mora miserium and become the thing she hates: a monster. He tells her to be quick, however as he is about to jump into Malivore and be erased from the collective consciousness. With this, she smashes the sand clock just as Kai is consumed by Malivore; he awakens in Mystic Falls.
In You Can't Save Them All, Kai arrives at the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted and introduces himself as Joshua, revealing that he is an old friend of Alaric's. He tells Dorian that Alaric promised him asylum if he was ever in town, however Dorian is reluctant to allow him entry into the school. Knowing Dorian has probably not taken his vervain — given the hectic situation at the school — he compels Dorian to find someone who can invite him into the school.
Kai is introduced to Hope by Dorian, who tells her that Kai is a Prison World expert. Kai takes a look at the ascendant and reveals that Hope has the wrong ascendant and that a linking spell has been placed on the ascendant; this is what allowed Alyssa to send the Saltzman's to the Prison Worlds in the first place.
Kai later talks with the Necromancer and reveals that he believes the Necromancer to be underestimating Hope and her abilities. The Necromancer tells Kai that he can deal with Hope and that his plan will soon be successful. Kai visits Alyssa in the werewolf transition space and tells her that he is a huge fan and would like to team up with her. Kai is later waiting when Hope returns from astral projecting to the Prison World; he is suspicious that she has just been informed that he is not Joshua, but in fact Kai, however she does not confirm this to him.
Hope takes Kai to a warehouse on the Salvatore Estate and tells him that they're looking for a box with the Salvatore School logo on it. Hope quickly realizes Kai is distracting her, and a fight breaks out between the two of them. Hope is able to get the upper-hand but Kai reveals that Alyssa is currently performing a spell to sever the tie between Kai and the Prison World, effectively causing it to collapse; he also tells her that Landon is in trouble. He warns her that she can either save Landon, or the Saltzman's, but not both. With this, she leaves him in the warehouse tied up. Kai later tries to contact the Necromancer to free him, however the Necromancer refuses, citing that he knows Kai betrayed him. Alaric later appears when he returns from the Prison World and decapitates Kai, killing him for good.
==Personality==
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Kai was a charmingly unstable newcomer with the unsettling ability to seem normal as the situation demands. He can be both playful and obsessive with a mix of adolescent angst, likely stemming from the fact that he was referred to as an "abomination" due to his unique magical ability. He was shown to be a psychopath originally, after merging with Luke and gaining emotions, something he himself later confessed to. This was demonstrated when he killed four of his siblings with no remorse, for no apparent reason. He also called his brother ungrateful for fighting back during his murder. Furthermore, while killing his little sister with her own magic, he commented that the irony is funny, or sad, and that he gets those emotions confused, further demonstrating his lack of ability to feel remorse. He had also stated to be perfectly happy with who he was, even finding the idea of someone changing him funny.
He appears to enjoy killing people, as he has done so when other methods could easily have been used to escape the situation. He had also used the threat of murder to manipulate people into doing what he wants.
After the merge with Luke, Kai had absorbed some of his personality and had changed. He was far less evil then he as before and even shows signs of genuine emotion, such as feeling bad/guilty for killing Luke and his other siblings. He also showed selflessness, which could be clearly seen in The Day I Tried To Live, when he was "half-dead" and yet agreed to help Jeremy to go back in the Prison World after being heavily injured from their encounter with Liv, knowing that his magic could overwhelm him and kill him in the process.
In A Bird in a Gilded Cage, when Bonnie Bennett tried to kill him, despite the fact he changed and gained some empathy towards others, he didn't try to defend himself; he simply teleported away.
Despite the fact that he was no longer the evil psychopath he once was, Bonnie, nor his coven forgave him for his actions as they believed magic couldn't completely alter another's personality. Knowing this and feeling rejected, as well as finding out that the Ascendant was destroyed (to try and prevent him from escaping) and that Jo's children (twins) could take away his leadership of the coven, he became enraged and his old personality quickly resurfaced; as in his own words, he believed that if everyone thought he was incapable of redemption, he may as well prove them right. Kai, who was already unstable to begin with, became emotionally unbalanced, cruel, sadistic, ruthless and vengeful In I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime, he stabbed his twin sister, Josette at her wedding multiple times in the lower back, killing his sister and (apparently) the twins, because he did not want any competition in the future. In I'm Thinking Of You All The While, after he was given Lily's blood (off-screen) he killed himself to wipe out his entire coven, as revenge for trying to permanently trap him in Lillian Salvatore's Prison World. Also, instead of killing Bonnie when he had the chance, he linked Elena's slumber with Bonnie's life, until the day the latter dies, as he believed she 'betrayed' him for being left in the prison world and told her it was "all your fault".
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After becoming a non-original witch-vampire hybrid, Kai's emotions were heightened, including his negative traits; he became more cruel, sadistic, ruthless and vengeful, he also had a sadistic sense of humor, as he found Bonnie's emotional pain very amusing.
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==Physical Appearance==
Kai was a very handsome and charming man with short dark brown spiked up hair, blue-grey eyes and a slim build. When he was in the prison world, his style consisted of darker clothing but became more modern after his merge with Luke. He had also grown out his hair and slicks it back, and facial hair. 
==Powers and Abilities==
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As revealed in Black Hole Sun, Kai had demonstrated that he possessed the ability to absorb a witch's power and use it as his own. This can kill said witch if Kai were to drain all of the witch's power for his needs. Aside from this ability, Kai has no other magical powers of his own, and can only practice magic by stealing the magical power of others. In Christmas Through Your Eyes, Kai absorbed the power of the Traveler's anti-magic spell on Mystic Falls, showing he can absorb power from active spells as well. 
Despite having no magical power of his own, he does have the tendency to simply appear out of nowhere when he's being talked about. An example would be when Damon suggested to Bonnie to steal the Ascendant and leave without him, and Kai just appearing in the hallway. Another example would be in Do You Remember the First Time?, when Bonnie attacks him with magic, and runs out to Damon's car, only for Kai to appear in the backseat.
He also demonstrated his coven's ability to turn invisible during his confrontation with Damon and Elena but only when he absorbed another witch's power.
Despite having no magical power of his own, he appears to have paid attention during his coven's teachings, as he was quickly able to use his powers to cast spells, showing that he has the knowledge required.
In addition to having the ability to siphon magic, Kai can sense magic in others, but this power was limited to being close enough to touch the person he intends on sensing the power on.
However, the little time he had spent practicing magic has caused him to not be able to focus his abilities very well. It took him a few tries before he could get spells to do what they were supposed to do, however, after that he is capable of easily using them.
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After Kai merged with his younger brother Luke his powers grew stronger, which gave him access to Luke's magic permanently. With his new-found powers after "The Merge", he considers himself mega powerful as the new leader of the Gemini Coven. Kai's recent spell was powerful enough to transport himself, Elena, Damon, and Jeremy to the Prison World in which Bonnie Bennett was trapped inside. However, they could not interact with Bonnie physically, and could only see her. After focusing all his magic to Jeremy, he was powerful enough to give him the ability to interact physically in the Prison World, saving Bonnie's life in the process and showing her where to get enough magic to get herself out.
As of Let Her Go, Kai's twin sister, Josette, transferred all of her magic to him making him even more powerful.
Despite the fact that he now possessed the power of two witches, as he was only strong enough to take two people with him to the prison world and back to the real world, however, he later overcame this limit, as he had become strong enough to take all members of the Heretics (Valerie, Malcolm, Nora, Mary Louise, Beau and Oscar) back to the real world with him, (off-screen).
He had become so powerful, he was able to escape Lillian Salvatore's Prison World only with the blood of a Bennett witch without the Ascendant, combined with a the power of a recurring celestial event such as an eclipse or an Aurora Borealis, (off-screen) something that even Bonnie was unable to do, Kai was able to cloak himself and Lillian from Matt Donovan and Bonnie Bennett, despite the latter being a very powerful witch in her own right, as Bonnie was not able to sense his presence, even Damon Salvatore, a 174 year old vampire, with heightened senses was not able to sense Kai's presence, until the latter turned off his invisibility spell.
In I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime, Kai was shown to be more powerful than all of the members of his coven, including his father, the former leader of the Gemini Coven, as he inflicts every individual attending Alaric and Jo's wedding with massive aneurysms, and he destroys most of the church's windows and fixtures by producing high-frequency sound waves, with a simple hand gesture; while he had a knife in his left hand.
He also cast a spell to link Bonnie to Elena Gilbert, causing the latter to be in a mystical slumber and stop aging as long as Bonnie is alive, Kai placed a fail-safe on this spell; if Bonnie or any witch tries to deactivate the spell, not only will Bonnie die, but Elena will die along with her, making sure there were no loopholes in this spell.
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Kai possessed all the standard powers and abilities of a non-original witch-vampire hybrid.
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==Weaknesses==
Malachai had the typical weaknesses of a siphoner-witch. After dying and completing his transition, he had the typical weakness of a siphoner-witch non-Original vampire hybrid.
==Relationships==
===Jo Parker===
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Jo and Kai grew up together as witches part of the Gemini Coven. However, Kai was deemed as somewhat of an outsider due to his species-identity of being a siphoner instead of a regular witch. Their relationship is severely strained and antagonistic due to Kai wanting to be the leader of the Gemini Coven and killing most of their siblings, with the exception of their younger twin siblings (Luke and Liv). In the end, Kai killed Jo on her own wedding day and he died on the same day as well. Kai's death ended most of the Gemini Coven. Jo hated Kai for all of the atrocities he committed against her family and her, but Kai claimed to have loved Jo in his own way despite having the personality of a psychopath.
===Bonnie Bennett===
They first met in Season Six, after Kai attempted to kill Damon in order to reawaken Bonnie's magic. After spending time with Bonnie in his Prison World (along with Damon), Kai shaped up to be one of Bonnie's dangerous enemies. Ever since they met and interacted in the 1994 Prison World, Bonnie loathes Kai for being a murderer. After the several murders Kai committed against other innocents (including his own family), Bonnie imprisons him in another Prison World. Bonnie did this to punish Kai for all his crimes against those she cared about and for those who were innocently killed because of Kai. Before Kai's death, he escaped with the Heretics and became one of them. Kai later spelled and linked Bonnie's life to Elena Gilbert's. As revenge against Bonnie, Elena was forced into a magical slumber until Bonnie died a natural death in order to awaken again. In Season Eight, Kai returns from hell and decided to turn Bonnie and her friends' lives upside down once again, which included him stealing Elena's coffin. After the events of the eighth season, Bonnie imprisons Kai in yet another Prison World in 2018 and Kai is forced to listen to his most hated song for all eternity while chained to a chair in a restaurant. In the end, Bonnie got her revenge against Kai and all his wrongdoings.
===Other Relationships===
*Damon and Kai (Former Allies/Enemies)
*Kai and Liv (Siblings/Enemies)
*Kai and Luke (Siblings/Enemies)
*Elena and Kai (Enemies/Former Allies)
*Kai and Tyler (Former Enemies)
*Kai and Jeremy (Former Enemies/Allies)
*Kai and the Heretics (Former Allies)
*Kai and Lily Salvatore (Former Allies)
*Kai and Alaric (Enemies)
*Kai and Stefan (Enemies)
*Kai and Caroline (Enemies)
*Kai, Josie and Lizzie (Uncle and Nieces/Enemies)
*Kai and Jade (Ex-fling/Former Frenemies)
*Kai and Wendy (Enemies)
*Kai and Diego (Enemies)
==Appearances==
===The Vampire Diaries===
Season Six
*Yellow Ledbetter (Unseen/Mentioned)
*Welcome to Paradise
*Black Hole Sun
*The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
*Do You Remember the First Time?
*Fade Into You
*I Alone
*Christmas Through Your Eyes
*Woke Up With a Monster
*Prayer For the Dying
*The Day I Tried To Live
*Let Her Go
*The Downward Spiral
*A Bird in a Gilded Cage
*I Never Could Love Like That (Mentioned)
*I'd Leave My Happy Home For You
*I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime
*I'm Thinking Of You All The While (Death)
Season Seven
*Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take (Mentioned)
*Live Through This (Mentioned)
*Best Served Cold (Mentioned/Video Footage)
Season Eight
*The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch (Mentioned)
*What Are You?
*The Lies Will Catch Up To You
*It's Been a Hell of a Ride
*I Was Feeling Epic (Mentioned)
===Legacies===
Season One
*Mombie Dearest (Indirectly Mentioned)
*There's a World Where Your Dreams Came True (Mentioned)
Season Two
*I'll Never Give Up Hope (Indirectly Mentioned)
*Since When Do You Speak Japanese? (Video Footage)
*Kai Parker Screwed Us
*You Can't Save Them All (Death)
*Facing Darkness is Kinda My Thing (Indirectly Mentioned)
Season Three
*Goodbyes Sure Do Suck (Indirectly Mentioned)
*Hold on Tight (Mentioned)
==Name==
*Malachai is of Hebrew origin, a variation of Malachi, meaning "my messenger" or "my angel".https://www.behindthename.com/name/malachi
*Parker is an English family name, derived from the Old French with the meaning "keeper of the park".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_(surname)
==Trivia==
*According to Julie Plec and Caroline Dries, he could be irredeemable.
*In I'm Thinking Of You All The While, Kai revealed that he used a Bennett's blood (de facto Qetsiyah's blood) to escape from the 1903 Prison World.
*Kai is the second character to have killed a pregnant woman. The first was Damon. However, both of them have failed to killed the children.
*Kai, like Stefan Salvatore, completed his transition to vampire by feeding on the blood of his dying father, Joshua Parker, like Stefan did to his father Giuseppe. Like Stefan, he is responsible for his father's death, Kai through his suicide, whereas Stefan killed his father by accident with his vampire strength causing his father to fatally stab himself.
*Kai has a Twitter account called Cobrakai1972.
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