Kako

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> *"The voices.. t-they keep speaking to me. I'm scared because I'm constantly reminded of who I was back then. I don't want to hurt nobody anymore.. I just want to be happy."*
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> - Kako

Kakolyn Terrifang (pronounced "kah-ko-lyn" and "terry-fang") is the supposed result of the Grimdark being "reformed" by Chikyū during the Guardian Era. But in reality, she was only made to seal the Grimdark away within her. She is the wife of Diesel Terrifang and loving mother of Helga Terrifang. She was assigned to be the new Royal Scientist after Pyro's death and would later be used as a vessel for Frewil due to the Grimdark still being a part of her. She is never known to fight after she was created.

## **Appearance**

Like her daughter, Kako has a very average build but has a noticeably big chest size. She is a tyrant, so she has red skin, yellow sclera with red irises, black nails and matching red ram horns. She is the only tyrant in history to have natural hair that's coloured differently from the usual black, that being white instead.

During the guardian era and before she became a royal scientist, she wore a grey dress with a brown bag strapped around it, tight pants that's a more darker grey and brown sandals. The only pieces of attire carried over for her recent look is her black lipstick, big oval glasses, gold nose ring and her black snake bites near the bottom of her lips.

In her more recent appearance, she wears a white tank top, a long grey lab coat, baggy black pants and matching black heel boots with red accents on the bottom. Her hair also becomes noticeably longer.

Before being Frewil's vessel, she is rarely seen without her glasses. Only really seen when she is sleeping.

## **Personality**

Kako is shown to be a extremely paranoid person, hence she isn't much of a fighter. She is also very smart, leading to her being the new Royal Scientist after Pyro dies.

When Kako started going out with Diesel, she noticeably became very caring and willing to help others in need. In fact, the first time she ever smiled properly was when she gave birth to Helga. Since then, Kako became a very caring and loveable mother to her daughter. Always singing her a lullaby to a much younger Helga before she sleeps every night and despite Diesel dying later down the road, she was still happy to have her daughter with her but was very upset over Diesel's death. Later on, she wouldn't spend much time with Helga that much anymore after she was assigned as a royal scientist. This was due to two reasons, the first being that she had to look after Frewil's seal made by Gregory many years ago and second, she noticeably became addicted to watching over said seal.

The reason why she was addicted was because she would hear a voice in her head when she would go anywhere near Frewil, be it in person, near the seal or just on a regular basis. This voice was the grimdark speaking to her due to the remnants of him still roaming within her, since she was made to be the Grimdark's seal. They would tell her depressing things such as the things he has done. There are times where the Grimdark would possess her as a means to get her attention, which more or less, makes Kako terrified of him and she wanted him to go away but he continues to haunt her and would appear in her various nightmares. This led to her being very depressed and scarred but she keeps this a secret from everyone due to the Grimdark threatening her. The only person she told this secret to is Helga, saying that she is scared and she wants to be happy.

When possessed by the Grimdark, she acts kind of like a grimdark spawn. Having a large forced smile, wide unblinking eyes, always acting twitchy and following every order given to her by the Grimdark himself. When in this state, Kako will mutter cryptic messages such as "The dark lord has called!" and "Destruction will come!" but she will stutter her sentences a lot. As for her behaviour, she tends to creepily wonder around and stare vacantly at random objects when she is not currently ordered. Humorously, she tends to be very caring towards canines, such as dogs. This might just refer to the Grimdark's odd hobby of liking dogs and dogs tend to be a spawn's weakness at times. A noteworthy thing is that she's very strong in this state. As when one attempts to snap her out of it, she immediately grabs their arm and almost breaks it. Showing that her reflexes are beyond imagining. But due to her fragile body and lacking any sort of supernatural abilities, she doesn't really go into a fight as often unless it's someone weaker than her such as a random thief or street thugs.

When Frewil was released from his seal and he uses Kako as a vessel, she noticeably becomes terrified and wanted to be freed but Frewil refused to let her go. To shut her up, the Grimdark would possess her when she was peaking out of Frewil's mouth on rare occasions.

### **The Grimdark**

Kako is seen to not really have any supernatural abilities. However, the Grimdark within her will briefly possess her; controlling her body briefly. This mainly gets stronger when she is around Frewil due to the Grimdark's developing hatred flowing within him. When possessed, Kako's eyes become twitchy, with her voice sounding like the Grimdark's mixed with her regular voice. She doesn't become violent like the Grimdark despite him possessing her but she does do weird things like moving her body irregularly similarly to Evelyn. Besides the possession, Kako is the only other character next to Dare, Terios, Frewil and the Grimdark who knows how to open up the pathway to the Tower of Despair after it was locked up during the Guardian Era.

* **The Grim Nightmare:** When Frewil starts using her as a vessel, the Grimdark would possess her if she isn't peaking out of Frewil's mouth on rare occasions. Though this time, she would be transported to a realm within her subconscious where she would be tortured by the Grimdark directly and sometimes will talk to him. Since Kako can't die here, the Grimdark would constantly torture her to the point of death, only to come back as if she hasn't died at all. Rinse and repeat. Later on, she would realise that this whole constantly dying situation isn't real and she just accepts it. This continued until the Grimdark became bored doing so and just decided to talk to her instead. When Frewil opens his mouth to reveal Kako, she would immediately snap back to reality.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

It is very known that Kako was born when Chikyū created the shy tyrant herself. Though Chikyū kept this a secret, Kako was created to seal the Grimdark within her. Chikyū lies and says she is the reformed Grimdark instead. This was the only way to stop the Grimdark entirely since he is a immortal. When created, Kako is seen bare naked with a grey cloak around her and would be greeted by Chikyū, who helped her up. Kako was confused and couldn't see properly. With the help of the guardians (mainly Diesel), Kako is guided out of the Tower of Despair to help her recover from what has happened. She would rest for a couple of days until she awakes in Diesel's cottage, where she is greeted by Chikyū. Kako still cannot see properly, that's where Chikyū decides to create glasses for her and it works. Diesel would go up to greet her with a breakfast meal he's made for Kako, which is a fried egg, four apple slices and some milk. While she eats, Chikyū would ask her how she feels. This leads to her saying she is confused about everything and she starts to question why she is here. Chikyū says that she is born to live a happy life as a friend of hers and the guardians. However right now, the guardians are disbanded for now, leaving her to bond with Diesel since he asked to take care of her due to being a tyrant like her. Later on, Chikyū would leave to spend time with her family, leaving Kako with Diesel.

Diesel would guide Kako around the world to learn about various locations and they would bond very well to the point of loving each other. The two would later become married and they lived happily together. When the guardians reunite after a long time, Kako would greet several of the guardians happily but acted strangely when she was near Gregory, since he is currently with Frewil. She doesn't know why she acts up when near Frewil but she just ignores this for now. She would notably be decent friends with Pyro since they both share similar interests and she would later become her assistant. Later on, Kako would help with the guardians with opening up the Tower of Despair due to stronger Grimdark spawns being located there. After the guardians successfully conquered the Tower by defeating every one of the remaining spawns, peace was made. With Kako continuing her job as Pyro's assistant.

During the events where Frewil starts to rebel by injecting the grimdark virus into Grace, Kako would bump into him when he runs off. He asks her to get out of the way and for some reason, Kako starts to act up again and her eyes turn pure white and start to glow. When this happens, she moves out of Frewil's way, with Frewil saying "Thank you" and he continues to run off. Kako would then shake her head and return back to normal and would be confused on what has happened a couple of seconds ago. She returns back to Pyro's lab and is met with Pyro saying she is late and there is a emergency meeting she has to go to, leaving Kako to go with her.

Kako would go to the meeting and it's there where Boss confirms that Frewil has run away and injected Grace with the Grimdark Virus. Kako then thinks about what has happened earlier and then is about to say something but is met with her going back to her white eyes state, silencing her. Before returning back to normal again, she starts hearing a voice in her head, saying they need to keep quiet about Frewil. Kako whispers asking why but is met with Boss interrupting her by asking if there is something wrong. With Kako saying that nothing is wrong. Leading to Boss getting angry and saying she needs to take this seriously. Kako gets upset and the voice says "Good.. they don't need to know."

After the meeting, Pyro asks if Kako is ok. Kako says she's fine, keeping the secret from her. Pyro then says Kako needs to take a break for now since Pyro needs to prepare for the inevitable Calamity War and to come up with a cure for Grace. When Kako returns home back to her cottage and is met with the voice again. Kako asks who they are and they say "I am you, and you are me!". As first Kako was confused but when she was instructed to look in the mirror, she was creeped out by a ominous figure staring behind her. When she goes to look back, she sees nothing but when she returns to look at the mirror, she sees the same figure that is standing exactly where she is. She is shocked by this and knocks herself back at the shower. When she goes back to look in the mirror, the figure reveals himself to be the voice in her head and he reveals himself to be the Grimdark, revealing that he is still around even when he was sealed away. Kako was scared and had terrifying thoughts in her head as the Grimdark reveals everything to her. Suddenly, Diesel opens the door and Kako is shocked to see him. He asks if she's alright since she's been acting strange lately. Kako, unwillingly, says she's fine. Diesel then says that he won't be home for a while due to taking part in the Calamity War and advices that Kako stays here safe. When he leaves, Kako goes to the kitchen to see a well-prepared meal made by Diesel with a letter saying that he'll be fine and she shouldn't worry about him. The Grimdark laughs about how stupid Diesel is, with Kako saying that he shouldn't talk bad about her husband. The Grimdark states that she shouldn't be married to the person who helped in defeating him for good. Kako ignores him and spends most of her time alone. The Grimdark would noticeably become quiet but would show up in Kako's nightmares constantly. Each day, Kako would noticeably become depressed after the constant nightmares and knowing that she is merely created to be a prison for the grimdark. When the Calamity War ended, Diesel would return back home and is met with Kako hugging him while crying, being very happy to see him again and saying she missed him. Diesel comforts her and confirms everything that has happened in the Calamity War to her.

Time passes by and three major events happen to Kako. The first is Pyro's death, leaving Kako to become the new Royal Scientist. The second is the birth of her daughter, Helga. Which led to her smiling after a long time. And finally, the third is witnessing the death of Diesel. Who died from a virus not known for now until the Grimdark confirms it to her. The Grimdark purposely infected Diesel with the Grimdark Virus presumably when she was conceiving Helga. This led Kako to become extremely upset, causing her to punch the mirror that she would always talk to the Grimdark on. She would start crying heavily until a young Helga walks in to comfort her. Showing she still has Helga with her and from this day forward, she will do everything to protect her.

Multiple years pass and Kako would not get into contact with the grimdark for a long time and was happy raising Helga. But that was when she was tasked by the current Aranea Draco King, Ander Pastel, with looking after the seal for Frewil made by Gregory ages ago. Since prior to this, Blair was looking after it but failed one day and was killed by a weakened Frewil himself, as well as killing Grim Susie too.

Kako would do as she was ordered and alongside her assistant, Mark Emerald, she looks after the seal and would use Gregory's brush to keep the seal stable. During this time, Kako would barely interact with her daughter when she was alone after Mark goes back home, the Grimdark would talk to her again due to being near the seal at all times and she became obsessed with talking to him but is still scared of him. Because of her lack of interacting with her, Helga confronts her mother on the night before her last day in her high school for summer vacation. She gets angry with her saying that she barely talks to her nowadays and questions if she even is her mother. Kako breaks and straight up reveals everything to her about the Grimdark and how she is his reformed form. All while saying she became addicted to the seal due to the Grimdark talking to her, how she keeps hearing his voice in her head and how she just wants to be happy. Helga comforts her mother and says that they should spend at least one day with her when summer vacation starts. Kako gets cheered up and accepts this, promising that they will go out tomorrow as soon as Helga finishes school. When Helga leaves, the Grimdark says "You have made a grave mistake.." and remains quiet despite Kako asking where he is. Little did she know, tomorrow would be a terrifying day for her.

When Helga returns home, she is greeted by Kako, who tells her to get changed as they are going out. This is where a split between two timelines happen.

In Tangerine's Melancholy Timeline, Mark attempts to call Kako but fails. This leads to Kako and Helga going out happily. This was until Frewil started his zombie apocalypse, which resulted in Kako and Helga dying.

In the Prime Timeline, Mark successfully calls Kako. Prompting Kako to rush back to her lab to Helga's dismay. After witnessing Mark dead on the floor, she notices Frewil and is met with the Grimdark saying "We are one" over and over. Making Kako lose it. Helga barges in angrily and is met with Frewil attempting to latch onto her. Kako pushes her out of the way and lets Frewil latch onto her instead. After this, Kako's eyes turn back to the white possessed state and she screams as her voice becomes a mixture between her regular voice and the Grimdark's voice. All while being wrapped up in the Grimdark's essence, resulting in Frewil appearing where she once was. Kako is now seen in a dark void as she sees her daughter getting thrown to the side by Frewil, knocking her out. She screams at Frewil to leave her alone, which causes Frewil to get a headache and makes him stop in attempting to finish Helga off.

When Frewil walks out of the lab, he opens up his mouth to reveal Kako, returning her back to reality. She says to let her go, to which Frewil thinks for a second, laughs, says "Nah" and closes his mouth again. This makes Kako return back to the dark void, which is later confirmed to be her subconscious. She punches the scream that shows Frewil's point of view as she suddenly gets stabbed by the Grimdark as he says "Just try to weep. No tears will never ever come once this world will be devoured into darkness!"

Kako wakes up as if she was knocked out instead of dying. Confirming that she cannot die here. She notices the Grimdark looming over her. He says that she will be here forever and that she has to accept it. Since then, Kako would be endlessly tortured by the Grimdark, hoping that one day someone will save her from Frewil and the Grimdark.

## **Relationships**

### **Chikyū**

Being the first person she laid eyes on after being created, Kako knows Chikyū fondly. However nowadays, she is sceptical about her actions when the Grimdark told her everything.

### **Pyro Dominus**

Kako was Pyro's assistant back in the day. The two trust each other, leading Pyro to pass over her role as the royal scientist over to Kako herself. Kako is aware that the Grimdark caused Pyro's death due to him possessing her in order to tamper with a machine that would infect Pyro with a fatal disease.

### **Diesel Terrifang**

Diesel is Kako's loving husband. He took care of her when she was knocked out for days when she was reformed. The two fell in love since then and eventually got married. During the calamity war, Kako was notably depressed. Not only because of the grimdark traumatising her with nightmares but because Diesel wasn't around. Confirming that she doesn't feel safe without him. When he returns, Kako immediately embraced him while crying her eyes out. When he eventually dies due to the Grimdark virus that the Grimdark himself injected onto him when Kako was conceiving Helga, she became severely depressed until Helga came in to comfort her.

### **Helga Terrifang**

Like with Diesel, Kako loves her daughter very much. When Diesel died, she swore to protect Helga with her life and to make her into a perfect woman. This somewhat worked but she became too preoccupied with Frewil's Seal. Helga is the only one she confirmed her relations to the Grimdark to, breaking the Grimdark's promise. Kako notably sang Helga a song every night as a lullaby to her. Helga still remembers this song to this day and would sing it to Susie and Teapot later on.

### **The Grimdark**

At the time, Kako viewed the Grimdark as a very important person to herself. Since she thought she was the reformed version of him. They first met each other face to face when she looks at a mirror in her home. Since then, he has been fatally toying with her by possessing her, giving her nightmares, killing her husband via the Grimdark Virus, killing Pyro by possessing the innocent tyrant and now constantly torturing her to the point where Kako just straight up accepts her endless deaths within the nightmares. This eventually makes the Grimdark bored and he would instead just talk to Kako. He would tell Kako about his deep thoughts, revealing his purpose of wanting to destroy the world. Talking about some "balance". Kako was confused and asked that if this whole balance thing is so important, then why would he just destroy things. To which the Grimdark says a very important line to her. "You see, Chikyū is the creator and I am the destroyer. Whatever she creates, I destroy. Since this planet was created by her, I just went ahead and did my job. If anything, I'm grateful she spared me but clearly she didn't want me doing my purpose in life." He then looks at Kako and asks "Answer me this, am I really the bad guy if she lied to everyone about your true purpose? Because in hindsight, your precious goddess isn't what it's cracked up to be." Despite not wanting to take after Grimdark at all still, Kako would remember this moment fondly for the rest of her life. Despite being proved that she isn't his reformed self, Kako is the only mortal who can say the Grimdark's true name without it being muted like for everyone else but she isn't aware of his intentions of escaping Kako's body after regaining his strength thanks to using Frewil as a puppet. Later on, it’s revealed that The Grimdark lied to Kako about this whole “balance” business. He merely hates mortals and wishes to destroy them and create a new universe shrouded in his darkness, devoid of mortal lifeforms. This hatred also includes Kako, as he is currently trapped within her and despite it being part of his plan when it comes to regaining his strength, he wishes to leave Kako’s body for good.

## **Trivia**

* Kako's first name is completely made up but the lyn from the full version comes from most female names that end with lyn or lynn. Like Roselyn or Caitlyn.
	+ Like the rest of her family, her last name, Terrifang, comes from a pun on the word "Terrifying". For her, it makes more sense. Since she is the prison of the most terrifying monster in all of Wowlife.
* Like with many others, Kako was first designed as part of the Level 1 College project that started it all. Being the primary antagonist at the time. As a result, she looked more villainous. Her first design looked more shorter but this was due to Con Air's art style at the time. She wore her normal tank top and black lipstick. With the differences being that she had a messy skirt, black gloves and black heels. Her second design makes her look more psychotic, with her left eye missing a iris and always having a big grin. Her attire, besides the usual tank top, black lipstick and now her nose ring, she has spike collars on both of her wrists, a skirt that now goes to her side and is more cleaner and black boots. Her boots would eventually get a design that references Shark Nose Art for most aircrafts. Both designs have different horns to her current look; with her second design having a tail that resembles a demon tail.
	+ Funnily enough, this wide-grinning, malevolent take on Kako is reflected through the Grimdark taking on the appearance of her in multiple occasions. Main example being her being possessed by him. He even removes her glasses, very similar to her old designs.

* Her likes consist of:
	+ Apple Slices
	+ Her family
	+ Science
	+ Being happy
* Her dislikes consist of:
	+ The Grimdark
	+ Thinking about how she was created
	+ Her hayfever
	+ Large crowds
	+ Tight spaces
* When Con Air was making her pre-time skip reference sheet, her default render and writing down everything on her wiki page, he was listening to the song "Blood Theme", which is the end credits theme for the show, Dexter. While not watching the show itself, Con Air was exposed to this song thanks to a remix of the song found in the Sonic.exe fangame, Sally.exe Continued Nightmare. He thinks the song suits Kako very well. With how it sounds very calming yet sad and creepy. He imagines a song like this would play when Kako is going through crucial moments in her life like mourning over the lost of her husband or talking to the Grimdark in her subconscious. This song helped greatly in him making Kako his now second favourite character that he's created. Beaten out by Tangerine as first.
* During the time where the Grimdark just talks to Kako instead of torturing her, he reveals that the deaths of the many guardians were caused by him or at least have been caused by his influences.
	+ Obviously, there's Boss and Grace dying to Frewil and Mari respectfully during the Calamity War.
	+ Pyro dies to the Grimdark forcing Kako to tamper with the machine that cost the Aranea Draco's life.
	+ Blair dies to Frewil returning back for the first time when she was guarding the seal herself.
	+ Ragnaro's spaceship crashed onto the moon due to The Grimdark putting a part of him secretly into the ship when Kako was helping Pyro in building it. This leads to Ragnaro being stranded on the moon and it is assumed he has died according to his siblings and Pyro.
	+ Scarab dies to the Grimdark Spawn that returns from their defeat on top of the Tower of Despair when the Guardians went back there to get rid of the remaining spawns. Out of vengeance, this spawn kills Scarab by this very spawn. That spawn later being revealed to be Dare.
	+ And the most notable one that Kako is very aware of, Diesel dies to the Grimdark Virus.
* Coincidentally, she shares the same birth month as Frewil.
* Originally, Kako WAS supposed to be the reformed Grimdark in development. However, this was changed to just be a lie made by Chikyū, making her more of a seal for the Grimdark.

## **Gallery**

Kako's Default RenderKako's Early SketchKako's Early RenderKako's Reference SheetKako's Pre-Time Skip Reference SheetKako featured in Frewil's Versus RenderKako featured in Frewil's Reference Sheet