Kenny (DoTWD)

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> Gavin Hammon
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> ### Gender
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> Male
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> Black
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> ### Age
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> Mid to Late 40s
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> ### Occupation
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> **Pre-Apocalypse*** Former Boat Captain
> * Commercial Fisherman
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> * Supply Runner for the Motel Survivors
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> ### Family
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> Katjaa - Wife
> Kenny Jr. - Son
> (Unnamed) - Sister-in-Law
> Franklin - Pet †
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> Caucasian-American
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> Alive
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> | “ | *That means your old man’s out there fighting the good fight (...) Sounds like he can handle himself. I’m sure your folks are fine.*
> ―Kenny to Travis[src]
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**Kenny** is a protagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in JunoBox's Dawn of The Walking Dead. He is a deuteragonist of Season One. While he is known for taking action and showing initiative, his short temper and failure to think things through often get the better of him.

## Overview

Kenny is a generally likable and caring man, though occasionally appears stubborn, volatile, confrontational and short-tempered.

## Pre-Apocalypse

Not much is known about Kenny's life prior to the apocalypse, saved for the fact that he was a commercial fisherman.

## Post-Apocalypse

At the onset of the outbreak, Kenny and his family were on the road at a gas station when Kenny notice a man grabbing his son. Thinking that he was trying to abduct him, Kenny quickly pounced upon the man and discovered him to be a walker. Following this, Kenny urged his son back into their truck and drove away. Katjaa noted that they had passed many people during their escape from the area, many of whom needing help that they did not give. They found a farm on the outskirts of Atlanta with an owner willing to let them bed down in his barn for the night.

### Season One

When Lee Everett, Clementine, Rachel Paul and Travis enter the barn, Kenny is sleeping with his family on an elevated platform. In the morning, Kenny wakes Lee up. He jokes about Lee holding onto Rachel’s stuffed Rabbit, and to Clementine about her being lucky to not have spiders in her hair because Lee scared them off. He introduces himself and his family, asking Lee if he wanted to ride with him into Macon for safety in numbers on their way back to Florida. Kenny sets to working on his truck, trying to ensure it was capable of making the drive to Macon. When Shawn Greene shouts from the tractor, Kenny runs to save his son from the walkers. Lee chooses to help Duck first, they are quickly able to pull Duck out of the walker's grasp. After, Lee helps Travis with Shawn. Despite Shawn's cries, Kenny runs from the walkers with his son in arms, regrettably leaving Shawn behind to be devoured with Lee and Travis unable to save him despite their efforts. Hershel discovers his son dead and wholeheartedly blames Kenny for letting him die. Hershel ultimately decides to send all of them off of his farm. Kenny and Lee share a remorseful glance, Kenny telling Lee that he could go with them. Lee accepts, taking the kids to the truck.
As they reached Macon, the truck ran out of gas, forcing them to exit the vehicle and continue out on foot. Duck discovers someone behind an overturned vehicle outside of the drugstore Lee's family owned, Kenny calling out for help before realizing that he was shouting at a walker. Several walkers surround them all at once, pinning them to the locked drugstore. One walker attacks Duck, causing him to scream out until a sudden gunshot rings out and the walker is killed, covering Duck in its blood. Kenny hugs his family out of relief quickly before he is urged inside the drugstore by two people. They lock the building down once more as walkers close in on the entrance.
Inside, the shooter and the other man who had locked the door argue with another woman over having gone out there to save them despite orders to keep doors shut. An older man, Larry, and Kenny immediately jump into the argument, fighting over their shared survival. Lee can point out that they were just people, leading Kenny to assert that he "actually [like] helping people". Larry suddenly notices Travis and Katjaa tending to a blood-covered Duck away from the argument. Inferring that the boy had been bitten, he goes to deal with Duck, but Kenny angrily steps between them. Kenny grows more irate as Larry threatens that they would all end up bitten if they did not throw Duck out. Kenny asks for Lee's advice over how to deal with Larry, to which Lee advocates peace. The shooter and Larry's daughter, Lilly, try to intervene, but Larry berates both of them before explaining to Kenny that Duck's bite would cause him to turn. Kenny tells Katjaa that he had decided to kill Larry, firmly denying that Duck was bitten. Their argument comes to a head, leading Lee to side with Kenny, getting in Larry's face and order him to be quiet or he would have to deal with him. Kenny is grateful to Lee for his defense of his family.
Everyone is shocked when a walker stumbles out of the bathroom and attacks Clementine. The other woman, Carley, saves Lee once again, shooting the walker in the head. Walkers begin banging on the outside of the drugstore, causing everyone to seek cover and hide. Larry whispers that they were about to get in, but Kenny harshly tells him to be silent. Machine gun fire rings out from outside, luring the walkers away. Larry takes the opportunity to berate Carley once again, but he suffers from a sudden heart attack. Lilly explains that he needed nitroglycerin pills from the pharmacy, but the entrance was locked. Kenny calms and directs the other survivors in the drugstore to some tasks to keep the building locked down until they could get the pills for Larry. Glenn offers to go scavenge for gasoline for Kenny's truck so that all of them could get out of the drugstore. Kenny assesses the other people and tells Carley and Doug, a man who had quietly ducked out of the whole argument, to watch the walkers outside of the building. Lilly decides to monitor her father's condition as Kenny does the same for his son, who morosely stares at nothing after Travis and Katjaa finish cleaning him.
Lee speaks to Kenny and Katjaa after everyone goes to their assigned posts, Kenny expresses gratitude towards Lee for defending his family. When Katjaa asks about Clementine and Rachel, Kenny comments on their strength in being able to survive for days on their own.
When Glenn later calls in via Clementine's radio to inform the group that he had been forced into hiding by walkers, Lee and Kenny work out who would go rescue Glenn- deciding on Carley and Lee himself- and bring back the fuel needed. Travis opts to tag along, not wanting to be stuck in the drug store any longer.
When Lee and Lilly accidentally tripped the pharmacy alarms, Kenny did his best to prepare for the group for the escape, while Lee, Carley, and Doug provided cover at Kenny's orders. When Larry punched Lee and abandoned him for the walkers, Kenny rescued him in the nick of time, commented on not leaving a good friend behind. When the group arrived at the motor inn, Lee and Kenny have a short conversation regarding Clementine and Rachel, and whether or not Lee knows how to take care of them. Later, Kenny hears a drumbeat from the city which he hoped was the military, "Winning this thing." He, along with the rest of the group, agreed that they should hole up in the motor inn until all of the trouble passed over. Right when they began to think everything was okay, the power shut off around them.

"Starved For Help"
Three months later, Kenny is hunting in the forest with Lee, Travis and Mark, a new member of the group. They are interrupted when they hear screaming and find two survivors: Ben and his teacher, David Parker. David's leg is caught in a bear trap, one which is revealed to have been altered without a release latch. They rescued him, albeit by gruesomely severing his leg. After taking Mr. Parker back to the motor inn with Travis, Lee and Mark, Lilly chastises them for bringing back more mouths to feed. Travis vouches for them, and Lilly casts his vouch aside, reciting their lack of food. Annoyed, Travis called over Rachel and Clementine to meet Ben. Excitedly, Rachel rushed over and hugged Ben. It's then revealed that Ben is her older brother. Irritated by the situation, decided that Lee should take charge of rationing, and gave him the group's food for the day. Travis told Lee that he would personally feed the kids this time before leaving to help Katjaa with Mr. Parker.
Sometime later, Katjaa calls over Lee and Kenny to tell them that Mr. Parker has died. She is then attacked by a reanimated Mr. Parker. Lee saves her and has to be saved by the others.
They confront Ben and ask him why they didn't tell them his friend was bitten. Ben swears that the recently deceased was not bitten, and he explains to them that everyone is infected anyhow and when they die they will come back unless the brain is destroyed. Doug's alarm system goes off and the group hides as they hear two men come up the road. Kenny and Lee confront them and they introduce themselves as Andy and Danny St. John. The men tell them they're out scouting for gasoline to fuel their generators and electric fence, and offer a trade of fuel for food. Lilly sends Lee, Mark, Travis and Ben to see if it's legit.
Later, Travis and Ben have informed the others about the dairy and have now arrived at the farm. They are shocked to see Mark has been shot and is immediately taken in by Brenda and Katjaa. Lee learns that Ben, Travis, Carley and Doug have chosen to stay at the Motor Inn until they come back.
At that time, Danny St. John asks Lee if he would like to go to the bandits' camp to get some payback. Lee decides to go after checking up on everyone before leaving.
After returning, Kenny seems somewhat suspicious about the Dairy. Lilly is still angry about the idea of leaving the Motor Inn and wants to go back but Larry advises her not to, saying that they should stay for dinner at least. Lee goes into the barn where he finds Duck, Clem and Ray. Kenny is there with Katjaa and Andy. They find a locked door and Kenny begins to get increasingly suspicious. As a method to distract Andy to peek inside Lee tampers with one of the generators, thus luring Andy away.

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Kenny has killed:

* Shawn Greene *(Caused, Alive, Determinant)*
* Franklin *(Pre-Apocalypse, Out of Mercy)*

## Relationships

Allies
* Motel Survivors
	+ Katjaa - Wife
	+ Duck - Son
	+ Lee Everett - Friend
	+ Clementine - Friend
	+ Rachel Paul - Friend
	+ Carley
	+ Doug
	+ Travis - Friend
	+ Glenn
	+ Ben Paul
	+ Mark
* Franklin † - Pet and Mercy Victim

Enemies
* Motel Survivors
	+ Larry - Reluctant Ally
* Greene Farm
	+ Hershel Greene † - Former Ally
	+ Shawn Greene † - Caused Victim

## Gallery

The Gallery for this Character is a work in progress.

## Appearances

### Dawn of The Walking Dead

#### Season One

* "A New Day"
* "Starved For Help"

## Trivia

* Kenny displays numerous stereotypes of a redneck.
	+ He owned and drove a pickup truck in "A New Day".
	+ He has a mullet hairstyle and a horseshoe mustache.
* Kenny's family had a pet Labrador retriever named Franklin.