Landon McKnight

Landon McKnight is a friend of Josh Myers and Lucy Felth currently living in New York City with his paternal grandfather Gary. As of June 2019, Landon is now a Captain in the Remnant Army's Officer Corps.
When Landon was only a year old, his father who was a firefighter died as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center. This led Landon's mother to have an immense hatred for The Empire. When he was 14, Landon admitted to his mother he was gay and she began beating him almost daily to the point that he nearly committed suicide. When she decided to subject him to conversion therapy, Gary took custody of Landon and discovered that he was also bullied at his school to the point of allowing his grades to slip low enough that he was destined to drop out. Gary worked with Landon's guidance counselor and his Homeroom teacher Phillip Tate to transfer Landon to where his grades and self-esteem eventually improved. Gary also gave Landon an after school job working at his shoe store.
== Encounter with the Felths==
Landon was working at the store when Kelly Felth came in with Josh and Lucy to buy shoes for the latter's upcoming 13th birthday. While there, Landon was hit with a shoe by a bratty, overweight girl named Bethany who wanted pink shoes which led to a confrontation between Bethany, her equally overweight mother, the Felths, and Josh with Josh calling Bethany a brat and Kelly hinting that Bethany's behavior could land her in jail one day. This led to the three kids becoming fast friends with Josh eventually becoming a fixture at the store.
Sometime after this, Landon told Josh he was gay with Josh admitting it wouldn't change anything adding that he knew other gay people (such as Ryan Pratchard) and they did not fit the stereotype of a gay man at all. Landon also learned what he could about the Jedi to better understand Josh's powers. This came in handy when Padme Skywalker went into labor while Josh was at the store with the McKnights and Gary thought Josh had suddenly fallen ill while Landon explained that it was a Jedi thing and Josh would be fine.
== Spectre Nine==
In 2018, Landon was recruited by Ezra Bridger who had been staying with the McKnights to join his new team of Spectres along with Josh, Lucy, and NYPD Officer Jamal Wilkins. During Operation Lothal Freedom, Landon manned one of the gun turrets on the Ghost and scored numerous hits against First Order TIE Fighters and landing craft. Returning to New York, Landon discovered that the shoe store was being sold after Gary had an encounter with the former CIA agent Thompson who had attempted to kill Gary after attempting to extract information about Ezra. Landon was given the call-sign Spectre Nine after this.
In Late June of 2018, Landon began a relationship with Ezra after much prodding by Chopper and Radar who had put together a betting pool on the couple. However, the money from the pool (which was won by Anakin Skywalker) was seized by Tevin Felth and given to the couple for their first date citing an office policy put in place by the late Bryan Khayman that required money used in betting pools on people to be given to the people bet on.
==Remnant Cadet==
Landon enlisted with the Remnant following the conviction of his mother for numerous crimes relating to her treatment of Landon. He reported to the Academy for the term starting in September, 2018. He quickly proved to be a star cadet and was tagged for training as an officer. During this time, he was also trained as a pilot by Bridger and his cousins Freddie and Rob who had flown in Operation Lothal Freedom. Landon's piloting abilities eventually impressed Hera Syndulla. During this time, Landon also served as a fill-in for Radar among other tasks.
When American Spaceways Flight 534 was hijacked by Black Sun, the three McKnights were recruited into Hera's Phoenix Squadron which would be tasked with flying a group of TIE Defenders during a rescue operation. This also allowed Landon's instructor Mekya Fanes to observe her student's piloting in person. Hera tasked the McKnights with escorting the ASW ship off of Nar Shaddaa after the ship's captain unceremoniously threw a Black Sun guard off the ship as the TIEs had engaged a large number of Black Sun Z-95 Headhnters in what was basically a one-sided battle as many Headhunters were destroyed before even leaving the ground.
In 2019, Landon began bonding with Ezra's troubled student Darius Carpenter after finding out how much they had in common and encouraged the building of a relationship between him and Lucy. He was later given the Trooper ID Number NY-7567 which Ezra found to be interesting.
== Remnant Officer ==
In June of 2019, Landon completed his training and was given the rank of Captain by Tevin Felth at the Academy Graduation ceremony. For the ceremony, Landon wore his late father's FDNY shield on his uniform. The next week, Landon was introduced to his squad of Stormtroopers led by Sergeant Garronly. Landon quickly amassed a number of arrests which included various gang members that Jamal Wilkins suspected of a murder not too far from where Landon had caught them as well as the pirate Hondo Ohnaka who had been trying to sell questionable computers to Reggie Dobbs. Landon and his troops later took part in an operation on and then arrested two suspects in a string of robbery-homicides that ended when they attempted to rob Lamar Clarkson only be confronted by an armed Darius Carpenter. Landon later joined Max Walertin for the interrogation of the two suspects explaining to one that being the getaway driver for a murder suspect is just as good as committing a murder.
In 2020, he crossed paths with Major Hochster of the Remnant Security Bureau after responding to the scene of an attempted ambush on Darius by First Order agent Steven Abernathy and his friends. During the encounter, Landon refused to release Abernathy and his friends to Hochster unless ordered to do so by Tevin Felth adding that Garronly had already read the three suspects their . When Tevin arrived at the scene, Hochster demanded that Landon be charged with insubordination in addition to turning the three suspects over to the RSB, both of which Tevin refused to do. It is likely that Ezra had informed Landon of Darius' Jedi heritage at some point as Landon showed no surprise when he heard about Darius wielding Force powers or Mace Windu's Lightsaber during the confrontation with Abernathy.
== Future ==
By 2030, Landon has risen to the rank of Colonel and according to Kelly Felth arrested and charged Hochster with insubordination over an unknown incident that Typher Marlion seems to believe had to do with the Major screaming at Landon in an attempt to intimidate Landon into doing what the Major wanted which had failed much like the Major's attempt to bully Landon in 2020 had failed.
Landon later joined some of his fellow Spectres, Hondo Ohnaka, and Admiral Eli Vanto on a mission to Ord Mantell that was arranged by Major Eric Schuyler of the Remnant Security Bureau to close the reopened pipeline of stolen goods flowing between Earth, Onyx where a pilot had dumped a load of stolen goods being fenced through the planet upon sight of Admiral Vanto's ships, and Ord Mantell. During the mission, Landon ordered the arrest of the Chimaera's Army commander, a Major for insubordination after the man made disrespectful remarks to Landon and Lucy Carpenter. He also arrested a Bith who was supervising a warehouse on the planet containing a variety of stolen items including various pieces of art which included some pieces that were stolen during a heist at a New York art museum where both a janitor and a security guard were killed which Landon explained made the Bith an to a double murder that would likely result in the Bith receiving the once returned to New York for trial and convicted. Landon later ordered all the prisoners transported to the Chimaera for interrogation care of Major Schuyler. Landon later recommends that Schuyler be transferred out of the RSB as he felt that Schuyler didn't fit in there.
Landon along with Ezra Bridger attended Christmas events in Philadelphia including a High School Holiday Show that featured Darius Carpenter performing 's and Typher Marlion's Office Christmas Party where he expresses annoyance at the presence of Hondo OHnaka and warns the weequay not to try anything after being told that Ezra had invited Hondo. Landon's official duties at this time are unknown although it is likely that they involve doing something related to Ezra's position as President of the Remnant. In 2031, Landon attends the wedding of Christopher Felth and Tori Rodgers where he and Ezra shoo Hondo away from Keisha Banks after the weequay tried to sell Keisha and Jeremie Clarke baby supplies for Darius Banks while also tricking Hondo into admitting that he had been selling salvage from the 2024 battle against the First Order to which Landon says Hondo shouldn't have been selling it in the first place. He and Ezra later attend Christmas Dinner at the home of Lucy Carpenter and tells Lucy that Hondo was not invited due to Lucy's hatred for the weequay.
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