Baron Squid

"Baron Squid"

- confronting Leopold Mara.

About
Baron Squid is the creator and ruler of Squid Paradise and the main antagonist of Galzoo Island.

Born an ordinary Squidman Guy Monster, Baron Squid was often bullied by other Monsters for his weakness. His sole source of joy in life was his friendship with a Kraken Gal Monster, who treated him with respect and kindness despite being significantly stronger than him. The two steadily developed romantic feelings for one another, which eventually led to the baron mustering the courage to propose marriage to Kraken, who happily accepted.

After asking for Kraken's hand in marriage, Baron Squid cheerfully took a walk along the seaside to celebrate. As he was walking, he was struck on the head by a mysterious crimson orb known as the Red Fate that had fallen from the sky. Not knowing what it was, the baron mistook the object for food and immediately ate it. His body began to mutate drastically after consuming the orb until he found himself to have nearly quadrupled in size and gained a much more humanoid form. Along with altering his physique, the mutation bestowed Baron Squid with unfathomable power that allowed him to distort space itself, transforming him into the strongest monster in existence.

Baron Squid wasted no time in putting his newfound power to use by taking revenge on those that had bullied him. As no monster could stand against his incredible strength, thousands started to look to him as a leader, giving him status that he previously could only have dreamed of.

When the initial high from basking in his own glory had worn off, Baron Squid became filled with a great anxiety about creating a sustainable legacy for himself. To limit the number of offspring that could inherit his super-powered genes, his mutation prevented him from being able to ejaculate more than once in his life. The knowledge that he had only a single opportunity to reproduce made the baron fear that he would squander it by mating with a subpar gal monster. This caused him to call off his marriage with Kraken, who had remained by his side after his transformation, due to her now being much weaker than himself, and begin treating her much more coldly. His fixation with finding the perfect gal monster continued to grow over time, until it became the only thing that he could think about.

Eventually, Baron Squid resolved to hold a competition to determine which gal monster was worthy enough to carry his child. Using his immense power, he created a large island paradise within a pocket dimension and transported several notable landmarks from his homeworld onto it. Titling it Squid Paradise, he intended for the island to serve as a backdrop for various romantic activities he would engage in with a pool of potential love interests before selecting one from among them to become his bride. After he had finished constructing the location, he used his powers to instantaneously transport 30 exemplary gal monsters from his home dimension onto it and sent them each an invitation to gather at Squid Palace, the villa he had made for himself at the center of the island, where he prepared to host an extravagant party to introduce himself and the nature of the contest.

The night of the party, Baron Squid spent most of his time playing a concerto on his personal pipe organ, both to allow his guests time to mingle with each other and to establish himself as a sophisticated gentleman. He finally made his presence known during dinner, where he revealed himself as the creator of the island and the eligible bachelor that they were to compete for the right to be with. Though he was met with a cold reception, with the few gal monsters not stunned by disgust or confusion angrily demanding that he return them to their homes, he did not allow it to phase him, and instead eagerly encouraged them to seek him out to improve their chances of winning before sending them away from the palace with gift bags.

After a few days of waiting patiently, Baron Squid became concerned when none of the gal monsters had attempted to contact him. Attributing it to shyness, he decided to invigorate the competition by devising a challenge for his bride candidates to compete with each other in. Sending out swimwear to each gal monster, he declared in an attached letter that a swimsuit contest would be held on the island, with the winner being given the right to become his bride. When the day of the contest arrived, however, he became upset to discover that only Kraken, who had followed him to the island despite not being among the roster of chosen gal monsters, had bothered showing up at the venue.

Agitated and perplexed by his lack of popularity, Baron Squid began to consider changing his approach to wooing his guests. He eventually reached the conclusion that women were more naturally drawn to wild and aggressive men rather than the courteous gentleman he had attempted to present himself as, and decided to pursue the gal monsters of the island more aggressively. While he was at first at a loss for how to do this, as his delicate heart made him terrified by the idea of rejection, he assured himself that it was his right as the strongest monster to do with others as he pleased, and started acting on whatever impulse rose within him.

Over the following few days, Baron Squid wandered across Squid Paradise in search of the missing gal monsters to spy on them during private moments. While he derived perverse joy from lusting after their bodies, he had to fiercely resist his urge to masturbate for fear of wasting his one and only opportunity to ejaculate, causing his sexual frustration to worsen. His spying was further compromised when he was forced to rescue a Sketch from being assaulted by an Akame and narrowly stop a Splish-Splash and a Tokko from committing suicide. Preventing these incidents made the baron worry that one of the gal monsters could die without him being around to stop them, which compelled him to place a Curse on the island to ensure that it wouldn't. With the exception of Kraken, the curse affected all of the gal monsters on the island and made it so that they were incapable of dying, getting impregnated by any guy monsters other than himself, or leaving the island until he had selected his bride from among them. The restrictions of the curse temporarily put his mind at peace, allowing him to resume his lascivious new hobby with gusto.

While out on one of his daily peeping sessions, Baron Squid encountered a Lantyrn being attacked by a group of Anton. Though he repelled the group with ease, he became concerned that, even with his curse in place, the gal monsters of the island would engage in lewd activities without his knowledge. To assist in monitoring the movements of the island's residents, he summoned two powerful guy monsters from his homeworld: a Torture Warrior and a Lady Killer, and commanded them to serve under him as his chief vassals. The pair were at first skeptical, but were quickly pushed into compliance after the baron promised to give them any of the remaining gal monsters as a reward after he had selected his bride from among them. With two new allies now by his side, Baron Squid finally felt free to do whatever he wanted on the island without any sort of panic or doubt.

As he prepared to resume his usual spying, Baron Squid was stopped by Lady Killer, who told him that he was wasting his time merely using his power to peep. When the baron asked what more he could do when he could only have intercourse once in his lifetime, Lady Killer suggested using his tentacles to molest women. Having never considered this before, Baron Squid excitedly went out in search of the nearest gal monster, a Magician, to test out this new approach on. The experience instantly proved to be addictive, prompting him to begin doing so to every gal monster he could find.

The mounting sexual abuse they underwent at the hands of Baron Squid drove several of the island's gal monsters to take up arms against him. Though many attempted to attack Squid Palace, they were each swiftly defeated by the combined powers of the baron and his vassals. Baron Squid contemplated imprisoning these defeated gal monsters in the basement of his palace, which he had allowed Torture Warrior to modify into a torture chamber, but decided to instead let them go free after performing his usual molestation out of fear of the gruesome fate that may have awaited them if he left them in Torture Warrior's care.

Though Baron Squid continued to happily indulge in tentacle play for several days, he steadily began to feel his sexual frustration return to him. While fantasizing to himself about the sensations of sex, he was approached by Lady Killer, who advised him to use his tentacles to stimulate the gal monsters' bodies rather than grope them. The baron perked up at this idea, and had Lantyrn captured and brought to his bedchamber to experiment with it. After forcefully pinning her to his bed and ripping off her clothes, Baron Squid became transfixed by the sight of Lantyrn's crotch, having never seen a woman's genitals so clearly before, and momentarily considered making her his wife to have sex with her then and there. Rationalizing that he needed to sample the body of every gal monster on the island before making such an important decision, he chose to instead do as he had initially intended and use his tentacles in the place of his penis. He found the sensation to be euphoric, and made it his new goal to do the same to all of the other gal monsters to determine which among them was the ideal choice to be made into his bride.

During the events of Galzoo Island, Squid Palace was approached by Leopold Mara, a Human Monster Tamer trainee who had been summoned to Squid Paradise by Captain Vanilla and Kusushi, two of the gal monsters that had most consistently opposed Baron Squid. Mistaking an ordinary squidman for the baron, Leo attacked and killed it, which created a commotion that attracted Baron Squid's attention. While surprised by the sight of a human in his domain, the baron did not seem particularly concerned by the new foe, and quickly defeated Leo in combat. Before he could kill the young monster tamer, his attention turned to Captain Vanilla and Kusushi, who appeared on the scene to help Leo. Making the connection between them and the sudden appearance of a human on his island, the baron resolved to punish the two gal monsters by assaulting them with his tentacles. The satisfaction of doing so made him completely forget about Leo's presence, inadvertently causing him to spare his life before returning to his mansion. Realizing that facing Baron Squid directly would be impossible for him, Leo decided to instead capture and tame all of the gal monsters on the island to foil his scheme.

A few days later, Baron Squid received a report from Torture Warrior that Leo had caught the Can Can and Maid Lady that resided on the island and made them into his servants. Rather than show outrage, the baron dismissed the intruder's actions as being beneath his interest and affirmed that Can Can and Maid Lady were too weak to ever seriously consider making into his bride. Despite this, the activity reminded him of the Gecko that inhabited the same forest as the two captured gal monsters, which caused him to arbitrarily declare her as his bride. Scheduling their wedding to be on the seventh day of the month to guarantee good luck in their relationship, he ordered his subordinates to abduct Gecko the day before and began preparing for the event.

Not long after he had announced her as his chosen bride, Baron Squid began to have second thoughts about his marriage to Gecko, worrying that he had been too hasty in making such an important decision. Just as these thoughts began to enter his mind, he received a report confirming that Gecko had also been caught and tamed by Leo, preventing him from marrying her. Rather than outrage, the baron showed relief at being given a grace period and pushed the date of his wedding back by a week. Turning his attention to the three gal monsters that resided within the Mysterious Giant Stone Statue on the island's southern beaches, he began debating which among them he would marry. To decide between the three, he had them each brought to his palace to engage in a final "tasting" session to determine which was the most desirable.

Before the day of his wedding, Baron Squid found that his plans had again been ruined by his bridal candidates getting caught and made into servants. In addition to Leo, a second monster tamer known as Elina Batch had been transported to the island and started capturing gal monsters, while Valkyrie, the strongest of the island's gal monsters, had begun assisting them both in doing so. Using the excuse of heartbreak after having more of his potential brides stolen, the baron delayed the day of his wedding yet again and ordered Lady Killer and Thunder Taiko, a powerful gal monster that had chosen to follow him out of convenience, to defeat the meddling rebels. The two monster tamers continued to capture gal monsters over the following two weeks, deflecting attacks by Thunder Taiko with Valkyrie's aid. The repeated interferences caused Baron Squid to continuously postpone his wedding, which made his subordinates grow irritated by his indecisiveness.

On the eve of the fifth week, a fourth threat to Baron Squid's ambitions emerged in the form of the Octoman Temple suddenly appearing off the coast of the southern beaches. The natural enemies of squidmen, the Octomen declared war on Baron Squid for control of Squid Paradise. Baron Squid was initially ambivalent to the octomen, believing them to be too weak to truly pose a risk to his rule, but became instantly troubled after learning that they had kidnapped Kraken, who had been strolling along the beach when their temple rose to the surface. Unwilling to admit his care for Kraken's well-being, the baron took advantage of a report that sighted Valkyrie near the Octoman Temple to command Thunder Taiko to investigate it, making sure to tell her to search for Kraken while she was there.

By the end of the week, Torture Warrior reported that, while the octomen had been defeated, the monster tamers succeeded in capturing all of the gal monsters dwelling around the southern beaches. Baron Squid showed little interest in either subject and instead inquired about Kraken's whereabouts. After hearing that she had fled to parts unknown after being rescued from the octomen, the dejected baron pushed the date of his wedding back once more, too depressed to decide on a bride.

Kraken returned to Squid Palace days later, returning Baron Squid to his usual mood. His spirit was further lifted when he was informed that Lady Killer had subdued Valkyrie, ridding him of one of his greatest obstacles. At Torture Warrior's suggestion, he ordered Valkyrie to be used as a test subject for an experimental mind control drug and converted into his obedient slave. With his vigor restored, the baron took a walk along the shores of the island to consider his next move.

On his walk, Baron Squid lamented the repeated interferences of the gal monsters that had rebelled against him, and wished that he had killed them before they had been given the chance. While brooding, he remembered that the immortality he had cursed the gal monsters to possess would wear off the moment he had married one of them. Eager to take revenge against those who opposed him, he declared that he would hold his wedding a week after it had been previously scheduled and that his wife would be selected based on which among the remaining gal monsters proved themselves to be the most capable.

As preparations for the wedding were underway, Squid Palace was invaded by Elina and her servant TenTen. Equipped with the Squid-Killing Naginata, the ultimate weapon against all squid-based creatures, Elina charged toward Baron Squid with intent to take his life. With TenTen's assistance, Elina was able to fight through the baron's hordes of monster bodyguards and approach his throne, only to trigger a trap set up by Battle Notes, a gal monster who had allied herself with him, and get knocked unconscious. While the defense effort was a complete success, with both Elina and the Squid-Killing Naginata getting imprisoned immediately and TenTen being forcefully recruited as Baron Squid's subordinate, the commotion of the fight caused the exquisite wedding cake that Torture Warrior had painstakingly prepared to topple over destroyed. Refusing to have his wedding without the greatest cake possible, the baron postponed the date once more to have a replacement prepared.

Soon after her victory against Elina, Battle Notes requested Baron Squid's permission to personally dispose of Leo, the sole remaining threat to his wedding. Recognizing her as the front-runner for the position of his bride, the baron complied and granted her the aid of Lady Killer, Thunder Taiko, and Valkyrie, who had been successfully brainwashed into a mindless servant, to aid her in ambushing the monster tamer inside of the island's Volcano. To his horror, the operation eventually revealed itself to have been a ruse set up by Battle Notes to kill Lady Killer, his primary defense against the rebelling gal monsters, and to get herself, Thunder Taiko, and Valkyrie safely captured and placed under Leo's care.

With all of the island's gal monsters now having been captured and unavailable to be wed to, Baron Squid was thrown into an intense rage, desperate to find a means of getting back at the humans who had undermined him. He soon turned his thoughts toward the imprisoned Elina, and concocted a diabolical strategy around her that would allow him to take his revenge while simultaneously claiming his bride. Using powerful chemicals Torture Warrior had created that increased the body's susceptibility to magical mutations, he planned to remodel Elina's body into that of a gal monster and force her to carry his child. Despite its audacity, Torture Warrior confirmed that the idea was indeed possible but would require Elina to be exposed to the chemicals for a full 24 hours uninterrupted and then consent to signing a magical contract that forfeited her humanity. Though the baron was agitated by having to wait once more, he begrudgingly agreed to hold off on having his way with the human girl.

One day later, Elina was presented to Baron Squid, still naked from her time in the tank filled with conversion chemicals. Sensing her discomfort, he politely offered to allow her to take a bath and receive new clothing under the condition that she first sign a contract, deliberately hiding its contents. Elina responded with suspicion, and demanded to be allowed to read the contract before signing. She instantly refused upon learning that it would force her to become a monster and marry him, which prompted the baron to take up aggressive measures to gain her compliance. Using his tentacles, he began relentlessly assaulting her body, intending to break down her spirit with pleasure until she was finally pressured into giving in to his demands. Elina's strong will put forth a tremendous amount of resistance, enduring his molestation for dozens of hours straight.

Before he could compel Elina to sign the contract, Baron Squid was interrupted by the appearance of Leo and his gal monster servants, who had stormed Squid Palace to stop him. Seeing each other for the first time since Leo had arrived on the island, the now bitter enemies engaged each other in an ideological debate. When Leo asserted that it was despicable to force marriage on another person without their permission, Baron Squid insisted that it was natural behavior for strong monsters to impose their will on those weaker than themselves, and that it was not a human's place to project his own sense of morality onto them. While Leo relented that it was true that he was incapable of seeing the matter from a monster's perspective, he stated with confidence that his experience working alongside his gal monsters had shown him that they desire to be with the people they love just as humans do and it was unfair to deprive them of that right. Baron Squid was shaken by this statement, but defiantly drew his weapons and engaged the young monster tamer in combat, intent on having his way.

After a ferocious battle, Baron Squid collapsed onto the ground in defeat, with the concerned Kraken rushing to his side. As Leo and his gal monsters had secured Elina's safety and begun celebrating their victory, the baron suddenly staggered to his feet and pushed Kraken aside. His eyes filled with hatred, he shouted that he was the creator of Squid Paradise, and that if he were to fall the entire island would fall with him. At this proclamation, the entire island began shaking as the dimension itself started to tear apart, forcing Leo and his allies to hurriedly retreat to their base in the Battleship Yamato with the island's other inhabitants to escape to their homeworld through a teleport gate.

As the group moved out to sea in the direction of the teleport gate, an enormous shadow appeared underneath the Yamato. Rising to the surface, the creature revealed itself as Baron Squid, who had transformed his body into a titanic form in a final effort to prevent his enemies from leaving. With no other options available to them, Leo and his gal monsters prepared to defeat the baron for a second time and escape to safety.

Despite its best efforts, the party stood no chance against Baron Squid's colossal strength and was eventually pushed to the brink of defeat. As the baron prepared to destroy the Yamato with a final attack, he was stopped by the voice of Kraken, who had crawled to the top of his body without his knowledge over the course of the fight. Yelling for him to cease what he was doing, Kraken began pulling on the Red Fate, which had appeared on Baron Squid's forehead, in an effort to remove it from his body. Realizing what she was doing, Baron Squid begged her to stop, unwilling to return to his former life as a weakling. Kraken refused to listen to his protests, saying that she would love him no matter how strong he was, and continued pulling. The panicked baron began lashing his tentacles wildly across the top of his head to knock Kraken off of it, inadvertently crushing her body beneath their tremendous weight.

Upon hearing the sound of Kraken's bones breaking, Baron Squid momentarily became paralyzed with fear before apprehensively calling out to her. When she did not answer his cries, he was hit by the full gravity of his actions and become overwhelmed by anguish and regret. Losing himself to the despair of having killed his beloved, he reached to his forehead and forcefully ripped the Red Fate from it. With the source of his power gone, his body began to rapidly deflate until it disappeared into the ocean, never to be seen again.

Immediately following Baron Squid's defeat, the Red Fate fell onto the deck of the Yamato and attempted to make a similar pact with Leo as it had with its former host, promising to grant him the power to attain all that he desired. Having just seen the agony the Red Fate had brought to Baron Squid, Leo resolutely refused its offer, causing the mysterious object to take on a humanoid form and attack him. With the aid of his gal monsters, Leo managed to destroy the Red Fate in time for the Yamato to move through the teleport gate and escape from the dissipating dimension. Before returning to his original world, Leo took one final look at the disappering ocean and sadly mourned the fates of Baron Squid and Kraken.

If Leo takes more than three days to rescue Elina from Baron Squid, the baron will succeed in breaking her spirit enough to sign his contract and relinquish her humanity, and wastes no time in impregnating her afterwards. When Leo reaches their location, Baron Squid reveals that he had transformed Elina into a gal monster and that she was now carrying his child, pushing an enraged Leo into engaging him in combat. After Baron Squid is defeated, Elina will attempt to convince Leo to abandon her by claiming that she has no way of returning to her former life. Leo responds by saying that he will perform a servant contract to make her into his gal monster, and promises to do everything in his power to help her happy. Moved by his kindness, Elina consents and becomes his servant. The remainder of the sequence plays out identically to if Elina was not transformed into a monster.

If any of the arranged dates for Baron Squid's wedding are allowed to pass before all of the gal monsters in a designated area have been caught, he will finally settle on a bride and go forward with the marriage proceedings. On the day of his wedding, the baron announces to his subjects that his marriage signifies the beginning of a newfound era of peace for monsters everywhere before forcefully kissing his bride. After the ceremony is finished, he wastes no time in bringing his new wife to his bedchamber and begins preparing to impregnate her. As this ending results in a game over, it is not considered to be canon.

If Sour is taught to perform the spell Black Destruction Beam and is in the active party during the initial battle against Baron Squid, she will use the attack to kill him. With the baron dead, she cuts open his corpse to claim the Red Fate's power for herself, in the process becoming the new ruler of Squid Paradise. After declaring that she would rule over the island with an iron fist, she offers the dumbfounded Leo to lead alongside her. As this ending results in a game over, it is not considered to be canon.

Personality and Appearance
Once an ordinary squidman, Baron Squid's body was radically altered upon consuming the Red Fate, becoming significantly larger and more humanoid in shape and gaining a pure white pigmentation to his skin, sharp red pupils, and a wide mouth filled with jagged fangs. While he is often derogatorily referred to as being an old man by his enemies, he is actually deceptively young relative to his appearance, and is said to have only recently reached adulthood by the time of Squid Paradise's creation. Baron Squid's clothing consists of a large red cape with black and gold lining, a squid-shaped golden fastener, and a collar styled to look like a squid's head crest.

During his final battle against Leo's party, Baron Squid transformed his body into a massive and more monstrous form, gaining an elongated jaw and several additional rows of teeth. In this state, his body became covered in several pulsating veins and his eyes emitted an eerie pink glow while the Red Fate, the source of his power, became visible as small stone on his forehead, overall causing him to look much more wild and unhinged. He is shown to have towered over the Yamato, a large battleship that took up a significant portion of Squid Paradise's landmass, when in this form, suggesting that it was comparable in size to the island itself.

Selfish and arrogant, Baron Squid is an inflexible being who demands that all others bend to meet his desires. He is a firm believer that it is the privilege of the strong to rule over the weak, and so considers it to be his inexorable right as the strongest monster to force others to blindly follow his commands. This egotism was shown throughout his time acting as ruler of Squid Paradise, where he abducted dozens of gal monsters against their will for the sake of choosing one from among them as his bride, freely ignoring their demands to be allowed to leave and desecrating their bodies as though they were his property. He has no apparent awareness of his abusive and despotic behavior, and regards himself as a cultured and charismatic gentleman free of all faults who others naturally desire to be around. When confronted by someone or something that shatters this inflated image of himself, he responds with violent frustration and often immediately tries to have it destroyed to maintain the illusion.Despite his contemptible behavior, Baron Squid is not an inherently malicious person. He is described by his childhood friend Kraken as having a naturally kind heart, with much of his most horrendous actions coming about as a consequence of the negative influences around him and his warped self-image. The blind faith he maintains in the absolute authority of strength is the result of the mistreatment he suffered during his time as an ordinary squidman, while his indifference to the feelings of the kidnapped gal monsters comes from the delusional belief that all women find him irresistible. As the new ruler of monsterkind, he intends to lead his people into an era of peace apart from humanity, with his primary motivation for finding the perfect bride being to ensure that he has an ideal successor to his legacy. These fundamentally good intentions can be seen in his creation of Squid Paradise, which is recognized as a legitimate haven for monsters by even his most ardent critics, as well as during the early stages of his bride selection competition, where he made a conscious effort to make the candidates feel comfortable and attempted to choose between them by hosting a variety of innocuous challenges.

As he is only allowed to ejaculate once in his life as a side effect of his mutation, Baron Squid is deeply sexually frustrated and constantly seeking out an outlet for his carnal urges. He is shown to be astonishingly naive and childish in his perversions, however, and chose to covertly observe his bride candidates changing clothes after resolving to adopt a more aggressive approach to pursuing them. It was only after he recruited Torture Warrior and Lady Killer as his subordinates that he began using his tentacles to violently rape the captured gal monsters, suggesting that he would not have thought to do without their input. Even after embracing this behavior, he is prone to allowing his libido to get the better of him, declaring whichever gal monster he is currently most aroused by to be his chosen bride simply so that he may have sex with her. These spur-of-the-moment decisions are inevitably foiled by his chronic indecisiveness, as his tendency to have second thoughts about the validity of his selection causes him to seek out any excuse he can find to delay having to make a final choice. The most longstanding relationship that Baron Squid has maintained is with the Kraken gal monster who he has known since childhood. Due to being often bullied by other monsters for his weakness, the baron naturally gravitated toward Kraken, who showed him kindness and compassion no matter the circumstances. While he nursed strong romantic feelings for her for quite some time, he was reluctant to confess them due to feeling that the difference of power between them made him unworthy of being with her. After finally gaining the courage to propose to her, he was overjoyed to learn that his love was reciprocated, and earnestly promised that he would do all that he could to make her happy.

Baron Squid's treatment of Kraken took a sharp turn after he consumed the Red Fate. With his strength having magnified exponentially, his earlier feelings of inadequacy completely reversed and he began to worry that she was now too weak to be worthy of carrying his child. In response to this concern, he called off their wedding and started acting hostilely toward her: refusing to address her by name and repeatedly telling her harshly that their previous romance was over. Contrary to this outward rejection, his love for her continued to dwell deep within his heart, causing him to hesitate when forced to decide on marrying a gal monster other than her and show great grief and concern when she had been abducted by octomen. The baron's lingering feelings for Kraken were so transparent that they were obvious to all who witnessed their interactions, with his subordinates making numerous unsuccessful attempts at convincing him to simply marry her rather than further prolong the process of selecting his bride. It was only after he had accidentally killed Kraken with his own hands that Baron Squid was forced to acknowledge their love, where he was immediately thrown into a state of despair so great that it drove him to rip the Red Fate from his body and sacrifice the power, status, and future that it gave to him, unwilling to have any of it if it meant living in a world without her.