Kenneth

**Kenneth** is one of the characters of The Bullshit. Much about him isn't known, including his surname. This is all because of how he was born into war and used as a child soldier in Grenada, which meant he has many mental issues but thanks to Yamato, he has calmed down.

> "chaos reigns! Chaos Reigns! **AVE IMPERIA**! CHAOS REIGNS!"
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## Personality

Kenneth is a naturally quiet and shy individual that would avoid confrontation at all costs as he'd much rather be alone in his own head, thinking to himself rather than talking aloud. But due to his upbringing, he has developed different personalities, with one being his natural personality, a much shyer, more introverted one, and another being a psychotic war criminal. In all three, he will suffer from frequent PTSD episodes, which normally triggers his personality to change, except it is completely unpredictable which one it'll change to, or even if it does at all. Anything could potentially trigger this, for example a balloon popping. His natural personality has become more common, which is due to him being around Yamato.

In his more reserved personality, he will try not to speak or do anything as he becomes scared of attention. He also does not want to do anything that could harm anyone else because he is aware of what could happen if he snaps. This mean he could go on a killing spree and will just become much less empathetic and caring, often leading to fights which Kenneth then escalates into a murder. While in this state, Kenneth refers to himself in 3rd person, which could be used as an indicator that he isn't in control of himself. Kenneth also has a much more childlike personality that will cause him not to take anything seriously and often won't care about what's actually happening. When he is like this, he will often be playing with his stolen military equipment. This includes various tanks, guns and even a fighter jet.

## Appearance

Kenneth is a 47 year old, despite looking 21, as similar to Nozomi, he stops aging once something traumatic happened in his life, which was the attack on Altis. Although he is white, where specifically he is from is unknown. He is 6'0 and weighs 180lbs. Kenneth also has ginger hair, which is normally cut short but has grown out due to him living in Alaska and hasn't cut it for ages and his eyes are a light brown colour. He used to wear custom military attire, which included red and white military uniform, pink body armour (which he used to store pistols, ammo and spare rations), safety goggles and deer antlers. But after an incident involving Kenneth shooting himself, he began to wear more casual clothes. This meant he got rid of the goggles, antlers, and his military uniform in favour of an orange shirt, and beige cargo shorts. This lasted until he went to Alaska with Yamato, wear he decided to wear warmer clothes since it was considerably colder there. He now wears a green hoodie over the top of his orange shirt, and bought greyish trousers, since it was cold in Alaska, as well as his beige ones (see picture).

## Backstory

### Growing up

Very little is actually known about Kenneth's birth, not even who is parents are. He was born on a custom battleship built to house and train units of children to be used as soldiers. Kenneth grew up in these conditions, having to face many trials and challenges, which included him killing any friends he made, forcing him to gain the mindset of being alone, everyone else developed a similar mindset.

There were times where Kenneth would go days, weeks even without sleep, food or even water. The punishments were even worse if you were caught breaking the already strict rules. On some cases, even asking an officer a question could result in an execution, which their peers had to do themselves, and bury their body. Punishments could range from emotional torment, to violence. Even rape was used to "break the soldiers in" in an attempt to mould them into an "ideal soldier".

It was awful conditions all the children had to put up with, including intense training with old WW2 era tanks and rifles, which Kenneth would take a liking to. This went on until he was finally deployed onto Grenada after 5 years of constantly being pushed to his limits.

Kenneth, along with all the other soldiers never had names either, which is why they don't have surnames because they only came up with first names for themselves. There were some like Digby and Kenneth, that chose somewhat normal names, then there were others like Quebec, who got his name from looking like an officer from Quebec, and Echo, who got his name from echoing all the orders.

### Grenada

(see **here** for Kenneth's experience in Grenada, along with backstory to the war and Cadian.)

### Attack on Altis

#### The skirmish

All went mostly according to plan. Except during the operation, Kenneth realised that he had an opportunity to stop the conflict in Grenada. He told the other 5 to drop him off on a nearby island, called Altis, and to take the girl to the US. Kenneth's new plan was he would be the bad guy. This was so everyone would stop fighting the enemy in Grenada and fight him instead.

After he was dropped off, Kenneth had forgotten all about his plan, due to his multiple personalities beginning to show, he was now in his childlike state. This was when he'd develop his red and white striped uniform that he'd wear. As soon as Kenneth had arrived, the 5 left him there, but he only made friends with fellow soldiers. He started off by Kayaking with them, but headed for a massive rock in the middle of the water. He declared it the nation of "Rockmania" and said any that threatened it shall be hit with panzerfaust.

This is where things started to spiral out of control. The soldiers, who didn't have as much experience in Grenada as Kenneth, began taking pot-shots at Rockmania. Although Kenneth didn't actually have an intention of firing, them shooting at him triggered something and so he fired his panzerfuast, killing two of the soldiers.

#### Escaping

Kenneth made a runner, completely ditching everyone and Rockmania. As he ran he came across three soldiers with a car. Kenneth decided to steal their car, along with one of the soldiers. That soldier had actually heard of Kenneth and was too frightened to do anything that could aggravate him. As he was driving the car, Kenneth managed to flip the car. Seeing this, the soldiers began to shoot at Kenneth.

After escaping from them, Kenneth realised that there was something that didn't make sense to Kenneth over by the cliffs. This simple misunderstanding made Kenneth question what is actually real or not, as well as this, he realised that everything is chaos, which is unavoidable.

As Kenneth was making his way to the cliffs, he found more soldiers that had a car. He decided to highjack their car as well. That other soldier from before was still with him, as well as two more which were in the car as Kenneth stole it. Kenneth exclaimed to them about how Kenneth doesn't know anything about what is real and what isn't, and about how things have been spiralling out of control in his life, and that all he wants to do is go to the wall, even if he takes them with him.

After crashing the car again near the cliff, he had to make the rest of the way on foot. This meant that the rest of the soldiers could catch up to him, which they did in an armoured car. But Kenneth realised he was safe if he simply got into the car. The car had two of the soldiers Kenneth had met before, who decided to help him, their intentions for this vary. They decided to take him to the wall where Kenneth saw the excavator hanging off the side of it. Kenneth then got into the car, in an attempt to escape again, leaving the two people there. They attempted to shoot at Kenneth, which worked as a bullet had hit him in his back. This briefly immobilised him, but soon he was up and continuing to drive off.

#### Capture

Kenneth drove off in the armoured car to a radio tower, where the two soldiers caught up to him. They tried their best to explain to Kenneth they were trying to help, but Kenneth didn't trust them and started shooting. He was later incapacitated by them.

A chinook had flown over filled with soldier command had sent in order to bring Kenneth back. After a brief skirmish where the two soldiers were unwilling to let them take Kenneth, the soldiers had disarmed him, put Kenneth in zip-ties and aboard the helicopter. The previous two soldiers were met with three of the five soldiers from Kenneth's team back in Grenada, and together they tried to liberate Kenneth. This was because one of them was sent to escort that girl back to the US safely, but was unfortunately killed in doing so. One of them jumped into the chinook amongst the chaos and managed to get Kenneth out right before the chinook began taking off.

After Kenneth escaped the helicopter, one of the soldiers helping him freed him of the zip ties, for Kenneth to run off back to the armoured car to get his rocket launcher. He then fired it at the helicopter, causing it to crash, killing all the soldiers inside.

As Kenneth was walking back to the car, he saw the other soldier from his team that wasn't there. He had stolen a helicopter and crashed it into another helicopter delivering more troops to take out Kenneth. This killed himself and all those troops.

#### On the run

Kenneth drove off in the armoured car, heading to the town in order to lose anyone that were following him. He was heading to the airfield in hopes he could find something to fight back with, but as he neared it, he was spotted. Because of all the chaos that's unfolding, this meant Kenneth was succeeding in drawing forces away from Grenada, as they were all being sent to seek and destroy Kenneth.

Once he reached the airfield, he managed to get his hands on a tank that was there. He then used it to shoot down another helicopter, which was most likely what spotted him in the first place. But as he destroyed it, it came crashing down onto Kenneth's tank, flipping it upside down. Kenneth had to be, once again, rescued by his collaborators who pulled him out of the now burning tank.

Destroying the helicopter didn't stop it from relaying Kenneth's position as another helicopter full of soldiers were sent to take Kenneth out. Fortunately enough for Kenneth, they were unaware of Kenneth's collaborators, as one of them managed to shoot the helicopter down. This made Kenneth recognise that they are useful, so he sent them to the nearby town to cause a distraction as he headed to the lighthouse.

#### Counter-attack

Kenneth began walking up to the lighthouse, albeit, very slowly because of a broken leg, caused by the helicopter crashing onto Kenneth's tank. Kenneth's soldiers were good at causing a distraction, so good that they were completely unaware to where Kenneth was. But as another helicopter was flying over the town to deal with the chaos being caused, Kenneth was worried it had spotted him, to which it was luckily shot down. This was good news until the helicopter managed to get a message out saying they spotted Kenneth walking up the hill to the lighthouse before crashing.

Surprising even Kenneth, there was a tank just sitting there next to the lighthouse. Kenneth took the opportunity to use it against the oncoming soldiers, killing them all, but after hours ok Kenneth killing everyone in the tank, he noticed more soldiers were coming, and since he's only one person driving the tank, its best for him to ditch it and head back up the the lighthouse. But Kenneth also wanted to "send a message", which was something that had been drilled into him, thanks to his time in Grenada. He decided the best way to do this was to put satchel charges onto the tank, which he carried around with him at almost all time, again thanks to Grenada drilling that into him. So as the soldiers noticed Kenneth heading back to the lighthouse, one of them tried to get into the tank he'd left behind, everyone else knew something was up, but didn't tell him. This sentiment had been forced into them thanks to the intense training on the ship. The tank blew up, killing that soldier.

Kenneth stayed in the lighthouse to rest for a bit, seeing a mortar, no one tried to get even close to him. In this time, Kenneth had cracked their radio frequency, meaning he could listen to their radio chatter. Nothing of use to Kenneth was being said, but one phrase did peak his interest; "All units, all units, be advised, Kenneth has found a nuclear mortar at the lighthouse". Up until, Kenneth hadn't realised it was nuclear so when he heard that, he was just as confused as everyone else on the radio.

To send a final goodbye, Kenneth fired multiple shots into the town. This killed everyone on the island, radiating the island for years to come. Fortunately, these were not proper nukes, but they had the same properties, only that these were smaller, so they could be fired out of a mortar. This also meant they do significantly less damage, but since it was a relatively small island, it destroyed everything and everyone.

Due to the failures of killing Kenneth, and all of the property damage he caused, this company was forced to merge with the ministry. This meant they had to pull out of Grenada, and stop their child conscription programme, so in the end, Kenneth got his wish for peace, at least for Grenada. But for Kenneth, what happened to him remains unknown. He was presumed dead, but he would later appear in Seattle a few months later so it is unclear to how he survived it. In the end, Kenneth was the only one that survived. All of his surviving teammates and sympathisers on the island were rounded up and executed for treason