Cyalux Clover

**Cyalux Clover** is a major antagonist in the Inkopolis Chaos Trilogy. He is the main antagonist of Inkopolis Chaos 2, and a posthumous antagonist of Inkopolis Chaos 3. He was once a friend of Samuel and Luke, but they drifted apart over the years. When they reunited, Cyalux lost his emotional attachment to them because they befriended octolings, but decided to keep this secret. He is the leader of the Octobusters, a criminal organisation dedicated to keeping octolings out.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* He is a very entertaining and funny character, with how dramatic and hammy he acts. He even runs an entire concert and makes it entertaining, having even sang a parody of ghostbusters.
* When he met Samuel and Luke again, he was genuinely friendly until he saw Natalie, to which he started acting faux affable instead. However, he didn’t slip up his composure and acted normally, hiding that he was secretly a huge xenophobe very well.
* He manipulated everyone else into trusting him with ease, due to his status as Samuel and Luke’s childhood friend, while he was actually secretly planning to capture them all, kill Natalie and Katelin, and wanted the others to join the Octobusters.
* He manages to have total influence over the octobusters, having recruited hundreds of them with his influence while keeping his identity and organisation completely secret for a long time. Keep in mind that he’s only a teenager, so this is very impressive.
* He told Samuel that he would convince Melissa to trust octolings, but instead of that, he snuck into their house and placed a knife into Natalie’s bag, increasing Melissa’s paranoia even more and making her trust Natalie even less, which led to a massive argument between Melissa and Samuel, to which Samuel even accused Melissa of trying to frame Natalie.
* He lured Samuel, Luke and Natalie into an alleyway, then got them captured by Octobusters. He later attempts to manipulate Samuel and Luke into joining the Octobusters, and when they don’t, he leaves them to die.
* He trapped all the heroes in Dylan’s apartment, then when Ruby came out, he captured her, then proceeded to tell everyone the truth on how she was the one who killed Magentark, stopping Ruby from fighting back.
* He hosted an entire concert to his fellow octobusters, and intended to kill Ruby onstage, presumably in a dramatic way.
* Despite his hatred towards octolings, he shows standards he won’t cross. For example, he refuses to torture anyone, even Ruby, and is shown to be horrified at Scarlet’s actions.
* He genuinely does care about his fellow octobusters, and is shown to have good friendships with them all.
* He has a pretty sympathetic origin, of him being gaslighted by Magentark his whole life, and when Magentark was killed, he snapped into thinking all octolings were evil. While he does go pretty far, it’s hard not to feel sorry for him, as he genuinely cared for his brother and thought he was a good person.
* Even his death is pretty funny, as he screams “NANI?” before falling into the water. However, after this minor comedic moment, his moments after death are played with sympathy, as Samuel genuinely misses him, even after everything he did, and Natalie feels a lot of remorse for it.
* While you could argue he was manipulated by his brother, Cyalux did know that Magentark was killing octolings, but he didn’t care, showing that he did know more then you think.
* Overall, despite having turned evil, Cyalux remains an entertaining and intelligent character, with understandable motivations and remains likeable start to finish.

## What Hinders His Magnificence?

* While his hatred for octolings is understandable, preventing it from being too severe, he still takes it way too far and acts extremely stubborn about it. Not only does he spread a lot of hate about octolings, beiliving them all to be remorseless evil psychopaths, and trying to make everyone think the same way, but he even calls them “Pit Dwellers”, which is a racial slur in universe. Plus, he is shown to act quite rude towards octolings when his true nature is shown. This damages his magnificence due to his racism, however due to it being understandable, it isn’t too severe. Plus, his charisma balances out his xenophobia, as a lot of people like him despite it.

## What Makes Him A Baddie?

* He stole lots of golden eggs from Grizz Co.
* He captured hundreds of octolings forcefully.
* He tried to have Samuel, Natalie, Luke, Katelin and around 30 octolings die in a staged train crash to prove a point to the octolings coming up.
* He tried to force all the octolings out of Inkopolis, and back into octo valley, a dictatorship place with horribly strict laws, lots of poverty, suffering, brainwashing and… death. While he didn’t know about Lieutenant Obsidian, it’s still vile, as everyone knows how horrible octo valley is. Plus, he has to have heard how horrible it was from Natalie when he was pretending to be her friend. We also see some of his captive octolings begging to not be send back. Plus, there’s the fact that he is shown to speak to his hostages, so he is 100% aware of how horrible octo valley is, but didn’t care, and still wanted to send EVERY octoling back there, even though deserters are punished severely. While he doesn’t attempt genocide, him sending them back to octo valley to live in suffering is just as bad.
* He tried to have Ruby murdered in front of all the octobusters, and then would’ve sent the video to her friends.
* He tried to kill the protagonists after being exposed.

## External Links

* Cyalux Clover on the Villains Fanon Wiki
* Cyalux Clover on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki