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Kalas in SSBB?

Night Avenger

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What are Kalas' (from Baten Kaitos) chances of being in Brawl?? I know that they're practically none, but what do YOU think? Will he be in? Does he have a chance? Or maybe you reacted the same as I did when my friend mentioned Kalas: WHO THE )&"% IS KALAS?!

BTW, to answer the last question:
Due to being born only one Wing of the Heart, he is considered to be malformed and monstrous. Because of this, he was scorned by many, and this left him a somewhat bitter young man. His grandfather built him a custom Winglet that would grow with Kalas as a functional substitute for his missing left Wing of the Heart. After his little brother and grandfather, the only lights in his life, were murdered, he set out on a quest for revenge. Kalas's recklessness and desire for vengeance made him vow he would do anything to kill the one who murdered his family, Giacomo. To this end he allied with himself with Melodia, who helped him contract a Guardian Spirit, who would lend him the power to achieve his revenge. In return, Kalas would aid Melodia in resurrecting the evil god, Malpercio. In addition, Melodia promised Kalas beautiful white wings once the god was resurrected. The spirit he contracted eventually rebels against this, but its memory is erased by a spell so it would lend Kalas its power once more.

For these manipulative purposes, Kalas keeps most of this a secret for the first half of the game, and says that he is focused on revenge for his family. Eventually Kalas and Melodia succeed in their goals of releasing the End Magnus. However, when Xelha and his other friends come to try and stop them from fully allowing Malpercio to be brought into the world, Xelha's final prayer before her death by Kalas's hand and his old guardian spirit rejecting him, makes him realize that she was trusting and supported him even though she knew he was lying. With this realization Kalas is capable of escaping his own bitterness, and releases himself from Malpercio's grasp, a feat that a normal mortal could not hope to accomplish even with the help of sacred items. Kalas rejected the power of Malpercio by tearing his left wing, his new wing, out of his back. After the battle with Malpercio, Kalas rejoins the party, this time honestly seeking to undo the wrongs he has done.

Afterwards, the group of heroes spend their time looking for any means to stop Malpercio. Then Larikush, an old colleague of Kalas' grandfather who was a great genius, revealed that Kalas was born not from a human, but from magnus. Because of this, the fortuneteller (earlier in the game) couldn't see his 'magnus', in this context the part of a lifeform which becomes lost when storing it inside a card, making that process impossible. It was an attempt of his grandfather to unravel those cards' secrets and the secrets of life itself. However, Kalas himself was imperfect, which is why he had only one Wing of the Heart. Further experiments finally birthed Fee, Kalas' little brother, who was the perfect lifeform, and referred to as the 'divine child'. Kalas, in a final showdown with Giacomo, the murderer of his Kalas' family, had an epiphany himself. He discovered that he would have died the night of the murders, were it not for his brother who used his powers to save Kalas from the brink of death, and in the process transferred the powers to him, making Kalas the new 'divine child', destined to face off against Malpercio. It is because he has the power of the 'divine child' that Kalas is able to escape from the hold Malpercio has on him.

After the battle had been won, and man returned to the earth, the unleashing of the ocean also made everyone's wings of the heart disappear, in effect also releasing Kalas from his handicap. This, and the relationship with Xelha he ends up having in the end, leaves Kalas with everything he needed and strived for during the game.
He was made by Namco. Your opinions?
 

Blakethefox

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I hate when people say Kalas has no chance because almost nobody knows him.
First of all, Kalas is very near of being a 1st party character.
You know, Kalas used to be owned by Monolith and Namco before, but things changed after that.

Posted Apr 27, 2007 6:56 pm GMT

Namco Bandai Games today announced on its Japanese Web site that it is selling its majority interest in developer Monolith Soft to Nintendo. According to the publisher, Nintendo has acquired 80 percent of the company's shares.

Namco Bandai will retain 16 percent of the developer's shares and will continue to count the studio among its partners. Best known as the developer behind Namco Bandai's Baten Kaitos and Xenosaga series of role-playing games
I know that happened on April 27, some months after the production of SSBB started, so he's chances were very low. As you may remember, a delay ocurred, which means, he could be easily implemented on the game.

Some of you may think he isn't a 1st party, more like a 2nd party character, but you are wrong.

Monolith Soft is a subsidiary of Nintendo pretty much, making it first-party like Intelligent Systems (which evolved from Nintendo R&D1) and NOT second party or third party (as it is completely owned by Nintendo).
Also, the devolopers of Baten Kaitos series, in an interview I read long ago, said they loved making baten kaitos games, and would love to keep making more, but after the poor sales of baten kaitos origins (sequel to the original baten kaitos) the chances of making another one were low. They mentioned that there was going to be another sequel but not any time soon.

So, I think the producer would like to have Kalas in brawl, it would boost the series popularity, as the producer wants.

Also, Kalas was included on the list of characters Sakurai had interest on, and that was BEFORE nintendo bought monolith. Kalas is now a first party, there would be no problem including him.

And sheesh.. don't even say he would be a PIT clone, just because of the body type and the wings. If you played baten kaitos, you would know he could have a completely different moveset.
 
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