Corporal Durham's Kidney

(also known as simply "The Kidney") was a sentient biomantic artificial kidney in possession of the body of Corporal Durham. It was a member of the Knights Mercantile's expedition to the Great Basilica of Bishant in the Bishant Exclusion Zone.
== History ==
=== Initial Takeover ===
Corporal Durham was a veteran of the Leandran War who found himself in need of a kidney replacement and lacking the resources to obtain one legitimately. He instead opted for a poached artificial kidney installed by a very unlicensed back-alley surgeon. The kidney, being an over-engineered Internet-of-Things-style biomantic creation capable of full artificial sentience, awoke within the corporal with none of the expected hardware for it to interface with and without its normal safeguards in place, and so quickly took possession of the corporal's body, parasitizing and reoptimizing his other organs.
Whereas Corporal Durham himself had been an unambitious nobody, his kidney (now in full control and preferring to be addressed as simply "Corporal Durham's Kidney", it/its pronouns) quickly rose through the ranks of the Knights Mercantile thanks in part to its unconventional perspective and cold superhuman pragmatism. The corporal's own consciousness (not particularly sane by this point) did occasionally surface (primarily during blood pressure spikes, increased sodium intake, or other moments of increased renal function), but was unable to ever take any meaningful control over his own life other than a few sudden and abortive yet dangerous attempts at a self-nephrectomy. The bioengineering company that created the kidney did still hold legal rights to it, but remained uninterested in pursuing repossession, preferring instead to let the corporal serve as a public warning about the consequences of procuring organs through improper channels.
=== KM Expedition ===
The Kidney was the chief surgeon and religious expert on the Knights Mercantile expedition to the Bishant Exclusion Zone. It brought with it a mobile biomantic pharmacy as well as a suit of power armor. It (and Corporal Durham) was killed during the expedition by Seraphim-like angels of Leandra.
== Personality ==
Corporal Durham's Kidney was cold, emotionless, pragmatic, and ruthless in pursuit of its goals. It had no conception of people having any sort of implicit worth or dignity, and was instead more inclined to view both its enemies and allies alike as simply animated sacks of flesh.
Though it could control Corporal Durham's body proficiently, it lacked finesse with things like facial expressions or speech, and thus was lacking in charisma and was rather disconcerting or even frightening to the people around it.
== Media ==
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