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The son of a demon and a woman who died soon after birth, Oketola was raised by family in a remote village outside of Ouidah which was the spiritual home of the vodun belief. His family shunned him as cursed, and he had to learn to box to keep the older boys from beating on him too much.  Everyone called him 'the cursed beast', a belief which was well-founded when he began to show signs of his demonic heritage during adolescence, at sixteen. The locals wanted to run Oketola out of their village, and some wanted him dead; but his family stood by him if only to honour the memory of his mother. He was kept in seclusion in a hut on the outskirts of the village and remained there for two years.

At eighteen years of age, Oketola decided to leave and smashed through the meager barriers set up to hold him. He trudged off into the sunset and kept away from home for years, moving through the country trying to avoid settlements where he would be branded a demon and hunted to death. He stayed within Benin, but moved to the northern regions where he became a legend.

When the Sons Of Set moved into the area they stumbled across his 'lair' and were thoroughly defeated. Soon after, Oketola was approached by Yemanja and she explained to him about his father, who was a demon. Oketola felt like his life was simultaneously coming apart but also coming together. His questions were answered but he didn't necessarily like what he heard.

He agreed to join the Rada Team because Yemanja promised to help him move back into society. He stayed with the team because he realised that he was accepted, and even wanted, by the people of Benin when he opposed the Sons Of Set.

Baka possesses a demonic form with bone spikes erupting all over his body and bulbous muscles rippling on the surfaces of his bulky form. He can manipulate his bones to produce hard armour plates, extending bone shards and most impressively he can grow to a monstrous size of 10m, increasing his already uberhuman strength to devastating levels. He can also see into the ultraviolet and infrared spectrum and can hear beyond human levels.

Baka is a demon. His body is thick and muscled (the muscles appearing intermittently with jutting bones on the outside of his skin rather than on the inside) and is truly intimidating. Baka frightens everyone, even when he is not trying; so when he grows to 10m tall he leaves an impression in everyone's minds. He cannot, naturally, wear conventional clothing, and usually drapes himself in hessian cloth when not on duty. He wishes he could turn back into his human form, but his life is destined for misery and his dreams are always spoiled.