Pakulihi Lekaho (MAA Fanfic Universe)

Pakulihi Lekaho / Kamohoalii is a member of the Order of the Oraphim. This particular version is a Percolation Wave clone, designed for the Marvel: Avengers Alliance Fanfic Universe.

Abilities

 * Similar to those of his Earth-G7 counterpart.

Move set
All effects are referenced from the Kamohoalii article at M:AA Fanfic Universe Wiki.

Game stats
Cost: 135 CP


 * Organization/s

Order of the Oraphim


 * Team-up bonuses


 * Part of the Fleet: Dozerfleet Heroes.
 * Not of This Earth
 * Bloodlust: Any heroes that can cause bleeding.
 * Debbie Downers: Team-up with Dr. Strange, Ghost Rider, or similar dour heroes.
 * Godlike
 * Indigenous

Recruitment quote
"No fears, Agent! I will defend your shores from the evils of this time just as assuredly as I would defend the shores off the coast of my island home!"

Character bio
As Henry Lohtz continued his pirate crew's quest to keep Marlquaanite rubies away from the Society of the Icy Finger, his enemies caught up to him in Hawaii. A fight ensued, and the Seafarer's Stomper's Ruby was destroyed when an Icy Finger operative, the king's loyal soldier Pakulihi Lekaho, and Lohtz's crew fought over it. The king of the big island was initially suspicious of Lohtz, but later determined that Lohtz and his crew were essential to understanding the new monster that had just been created - one believed by the natives to be a corrupt avatar of the god Ukupanipo.

Paku awoke after some time after the ruby exploded, and discovered himself as a green-spectral Marlquaanite able to assume a shark form in the water. As "Ukupanipo" grew in power, and regrouped with more Icy Finger operatives, Lohtz and his team determined that helping Paku gain control of his own newfound shark abilities would be key to protecting the islands from further acts of Icy Finger aggression. Paku fled into the ocean one night, and was not seen again for three weeks. In that time, the Icy Finger arrived near the island with war ships, prepared to recover Lohtz's remaining rubies at any cost. Their sorcery and military might left the Hawaiians outgunned, and the king feared for his island.

That was when Paku returned, able to command an army of sharks and a few other miscellaneous sea creatures. The Icy Finger troops were decimated, and those that failed to retreat were soon slaughtered by the natives without pity. Their remains were fed to the sea creatures. It was a much-transformed Pakulihi that everyone saw, who now believed his encounter with Lohtz's ruby had somehow made him an avatar of the Hawaiian shark god Kamohoalii. Pakulihi spent the next 15 years defending the island shorelines from foreign invaders, continuing to believe he was Kamohoalii. The natives didn't question that Kamohoalii was incarnate through Pakulihi. He could, after all, do almost anything that the legends said he could do.

In addition to all this, the ruby powers granted him unnatural long life. He discovered himself about 400 years later getting involved with the Order of the Oraphim, and determined to help Anarteq defeat the Icy Finger. The Percolation Wave then copied a good many of Earth-G7.2.1's heroes and villains into Earth-12131-F. The clone Kamohoalii now had a new home on a new Earth, and agreed to aid of SHIELD in protecting the islands of Hawaii.

But in a fit of irony, a clone of himself would manifest in Earth-12131-F! Like the original, Clone John Domeck vowed to defeat the Icy Finger and Hydra - no matter which universe they inhabited!

Personality

 * Similar to that of his Earth-G7 counterpart.

Trivia

 * Kamohoalii is the fifth underwater breather hero to be mentioned in any incarnation of The Gerosha Chronicles. He is, however, the first to have an Aquaman-like ability to actually control seafaring wildlife.
 * The first underwater breather mentioned is Akiak Sundue, who took on the alias of "Anarteq" to honor his Eskimo heritage as a Canadian native. This was after the Eskimo legend of a boy that was turned into a salmon.  Like a salmon, Akiak can function in both fresh and salt water.
 * The second underwater breather mentioned is Rebecca Volstika, who migrated to Canada from Russia to escape the Russian Revolution as a small child. She served in WWII in the Japanese front by the alias "Becky Ryba" (Beck's a Fish.)  She would later marry Akiak.
 * The third underwater breather was Akiak and Beck's son, Toklo Sundue, who became Anarteq II. Technically, Toklo's brother Tulimak as then the third, but he wasn't acknowledged until later in canon development.  The fourth to be acknowledged in canon was Isitoq Sundue, Akiak's grandson.  Isitoq is the bearer of the Anarteq mantle during the events in Sodality: Vindication, and is the one to meet Kamohoalii in Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana.


 * Kamohoalii has the illusion of himself being a true "god" shattered after meeting Cherinob, who helps him save the islands from several Biroots masquerading as Nightmarchers. Regardless of how much the natives worshiped him as one; Pakulihi is not the avatar of a deity.  Rather, he is an elaborate impostor green-spectral Marlquaanite.  In spite this, he continues to stand up for everything he believes Kamohoalli symbolizes to the islands.


 * He is the only major underwater breather hero to be a full-blown Marlquaanite wereshark. By contrast, Anarteq is a Phexo Weresalmon.  Kamohoalii is also one of the few to ever achieve Green Spectral status.  Most Marlquaanites, including Extirpon, never go beyond the Red Spectrum.


 * In classic Hawaiian mythology, Kamohoalii was typically interested in guiding lost seafarers back to shore - though he often demanded an alcoholic beverage as a fee for his services. Several shark demons would attempt to impersonate him frequently, however.  Therefore, Hawaiians regarded it as a last resort to rely on sharks as guides back to the shoreline.  The sharks could just as easily want to eat the seafarers as help them home, making reliance on sharks a dangerous gamble.
 * While Paku in his depression after losing a fight against Hawaiian Democrats does at one point result in him turning to drinking, his dedication to demanding alcohol as payment is downplayed significantly from what traditional myths would imply.


 * Pakulihi's altered physiology via the Marlquaan allows him to assume shark form. In classical myth, however, he wasn't restricted to this.  In classic mythology, Kamohoalii could assume the form of any sea creature that suited his purposes in a moment.  He just so happened to usually prefer to manifest as a shark.  Therefore, in traditional mythology, he could become a kraken if he had to - something Paku has never demonstrated.


 * While highly-modified Hawthorne mythology and literature is much more prevalent in Gerosha mythos, Hawaiian and Eskimo mythology do appear now and then, as do references to other Amerindian legends. This isn't the first time Hawaiian mythology has been alluded to in a Dozerfleet work, however.  The uninhabited ice planet of Menehune in Stationery Voyagers, described as being similar to Hoth in Star Wars, is named after a Hawaiian race of dwarf-like creatures.