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“ | Olivia, you've always been a stubborn, disobedient young girl, just like your mother. So, how about you join her cut-up corpse in the recycling bin?! | „ |
~ Gami to Olivia before he battles her and Mario. |
“ | TOGETHER AGAIN! ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY! | „ |
~ Gami's most famous quote after becoming God Gami and absorbing both Olly and Olivia into his form. |
King Gami Bendyr, also known as King Gami or simply Gami, is the main antagonist of Paper Mario: The Origami King V2. He is an origami being who was the first king of the Origami Kingdom and the father of Olly and Olivia.
Years prior to the events of the game, he ruled over the First Origami Kingdom with an iron fist. He was heavily abusive towards Olivia, who reminds him of his wife Volda, whom he killed for opposing his actions. He also molded Olly into an intimidating villain to be a worthy heir.
History[]
Background[]
Gami was born over 100 years before the events of the game, to the royal Bendyr family of the First Origami Kingdom, named for it's beautiful origami artwork. He would be appointed as the supervisor for origami crafters, where he saw the potential of origami and it's powers, especially how it could be used as weaponry, and grew sinister plans for them.
On the eve of his 20th birthday, Gami killed his entire family in their sleep by cutting them up with scissors, before taking over as the new king and turning the once-benevolent kingdom into an oppressive tyranny. During his reign, he committed several atrocious acts, including conquering the majority of the world, warring with multiple nations with his new origami weapons, enslaving the Toad and Koopa species, and torturing or executing those who opposed him.
Years later, having now taken over the entire world, Gami realized that he would need an heir if he was to continue his legacy. Therefore, he arranged his marriage with Volda, a young princess whose family was killed in of Gami's conquests, and the two would have two children: Olly and Olivia. However, Gami discovered that Volda strongly opposed his views and was helping resistances to him. Because of this, he confronted and killed her with the same scissors which he killed his family with.
Because of her similarities to Volda, as well as her disobedient nature, Gami would grow to heavily despise Olivia. Whenever she acted out of line, he would punish her with cruel, even torturous, abuse, heavily traumatising her for the rest of her life. However, he was far less spiteful towards Olly, who was very obedient to him, although it's implied that he was out of fear of receiving the same physical abuse that happened to Olivia.
Years later, Gami had grown unsatisfied with his massive kingdom, feeling that, even with all the power he had, it still wasn't enough for him. Therefore, he thought of a new idea: if his army's origami weapons were so powerful, then folding actual people into origami could make them just as powerful. Soon enough, he and his scientist would run many tests on such a method, including painful trials on Toads, before it would be proven as possible.
However, by the time they had succeeded, the Mushroom Revolution had now be begun. Knowing that his kingdom wouldn't last very long, Gami decided to trap himself in a tomb to protect himself. He also ordered Olly to be folded into origami, while Olivia would be left to die. However, Olly took pity on her and folded her into an origami figure himself, before parting ways with her.
Soon after, the kingdom would be overthrown and restructured into the Mushroom Kingdom, with a castle being built over Gami's tomb. The kingdom would also be particularly reduced in size and ruled by the House of Toadstool. Furthermore, the Origami Festival would be annually held on that date to commemorate the revolution.
Paper Mario: The Origami King V2[]
Years later, Gami's voice contacts Olly, who has gone into hiding, and convinces him that can give him all the power he wants if he follows his orders, to which Olly, who has lived in poverty for years and wanted more out of life, agrees. Under Gami's command, Olly abducts and folds multiple innocent people into Folded Soldiers, primarily members of the Koopa Kingdom's army, and assembles the Legion of Stationary out of multiple stationary-based guardians. He also kidnaps Bowser, the king of the Koopa Kingdom, but is unable to fold his large body into origami, so he holds him prisoner as a folded-up square.
Soon, Gami and Olly concoct their master plan: attack the capital of the Mushroom Kingdom, Toad Town, and the castle, now known as "Peach's Castle", named after the kingdom's current ruler Princess Peach, during the Origami Festival, and establish the New Origami Kingdom. They succeed and fold Peach into an origami figure. Olivia, who was attending the festival in hiding at the time, is also trapped behind a wall by the Folded Soldiers.
However, not long after the attack, Mario and Luigi, the resident plumbers of the kingdom, visit the festival, only to find it deserted. They enter the castle to investigate, where Mario are trapped in the castle's dungeons to be folded. Mario frees Olivia and Bowser and confront Olly and Peach. Olly then summons multiple streamers to pull the castle from it's foundations and move it onto a large mountain. Mario, Olivia, Bowser and Luigi, narrowly escape, before setting of to fight the Legion of Stationary to unravel the streamers.
During Mario and Olivia's quest continues, Olly begins to have misgivings about his plan, wondering if Gami is manipulating, but reluctantly goes along with it anyway. Later, Gami orders him to do one more thing: perform the 1000 Cranes technique, which will allow them to make a wish. However, before they can complete the final crane, Mario, Olivia and Bowser, the latter of whom has reverted to his normal form, arrive at the castle, having defeated all members of the Legion of Stationary and unravelled al l of the streamers. Olly fights Mario, but is defeated. However, Gami convinces him to open his tomb,. Upon freeing him, Olly folds the now-faded Gami into a origami being. However, Gami betrays Olly, before fighting Mario and Olivia.
After a long battle, Mario defeats Gami. However, Gami folds him into the final crane, and wishes to become the most powerful being in existence. The cranes then transforms him into God Gami, allowing him to create his own realm, an insanity dimension to damn the people of the Mushroom Kingdom to unending torture, as well as absorb Olly and Olivia into his new form. Mario is reverted back to his normal form, and confronts God Gami who reveals that he plans to turn every dimension into origami and ruling over them with an iron fist.
Mario and Bowser then fight God Gami in an epic battle. During the battle, Mario uses his 1000-Fold Arms to free Olivia and Olly from his army. Soon after, God Gami is incapacitated, at which point Olly and Olivia combine to create the Max-Fold Arms, which Mario and Bowser use to shatter Gami's eye, killing him for good and freeing everyone trapped as origami.
Appearance[]
Gami is an floating origami figure similar to his children. He is made up of a grey paper cube with a hole containing his red eye. He has a grey jaw with a red spike on it, and a grey crown with a red diamond in it's centre, with a red monobrow-like piece under it. He also has two grey fist with red spikes attached to red stretchy limbs, not unlike Mario's 1000-Fold Arms, and two red-and-grey robes attached to his body.
Prior to becoming an origami being, he was a humanoid paper figure. He had light skin, red eyes and white hair, with a large white beard. He wore a silver, ruby-studded crown with a red crystal in it's centre, and grey-and-red robes with red sleeves, resembling his origami form. He also wore a silver chain containing a red crystal, which would later become his eye.
As God Gami, he is made up of an enlarged jaw with sharp teeth surrounding his now-exposed eye, which now has a thin, reptilian eyeball on it, and is surrounded by a dark aura. His crown now floats above himself, with tentacle-like tapes from his eye protruding through it. A multitude of extremely long "100000-Fold Arms" also protrude from his eye, with his two main arms, attached to his jaw hinges, holding the bodies of Olivia and Olly (on his left arm and right arm, respectively), folded into paper fortune tellers to fire lasers. Once Mario frees both of them during the final boss, he replaces his now-bare hand sockets with razor-sharp pinwheels.
Trivia[]
- Due to his oppressive, racist and abusive nature, Gami is similar to Ozai from Avatar: The Last Airbener.
- Gami's name is based on the suffix -gami from the word "origami".
- Furthermore, his surname "Bendyr" is a corruption of the word "bender".