Kelly Severide

**Lieutenant Kelly Severide** is a firefighter and the company officer for the second shift of Rescue Squad 3. Severide was previously known as a "ladies man", but has recently become more than that, with his character development and stable relationship. He is portrayed by Taylor Kinney.

Kelly is dedicated to his position in Rescue Squad and is proud to be there, happy that he did not need the help of his father to get where he is today.

Severide has many ex-girlfriends and flings, however the only relationships that seem to last are friendships, like those with his best friend Leslie Shay, his half-sister Katie Nolan and fellow firefighter Matt Casey. Recently, however, he has maintained a steady and healthy relationship with Stella Kidd. He also has two brothers from his father, Benny Severide's marriage to his step-mother.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Benny Severide

Benny is Kelly's father. The pair have a strained relationship because of Benny leaving him and his mother when he was a kid.

As an adult, Kelly still resents his father, but they gradually reach neutral terms. Kelly is also upset to learn that Benny had other children that he never told him about and lashed out at him for continuing his cycle of abandonment. Very soon, Benny meets him and acknowledges he was right about him while apologizing for his actions. Kelly also realized that his father has something to do in the role of a missing gangster who was responsible for kidnapping his sister Katie. However, Kelly likely did not confront his father on this because his father had done something right for their family.

Despite all his years of resentment towards Benny, Kelly ultimately showed that he did in fact love his father and was devastated by his death. Kelly paid his respects by giving a speech to Benny at his funeral.

### Romance

#### Renée Royce

After getting hooked on pain pills, he saved Renée's life and it resulted in them dating. She moved to Spain and he stayed behind. She is also known as 'Renée 2' as his ex-fiancée was 'Renée 1'. She returns in the season 1 finale to tell Kelly that she is pregnant, hours after he learned that IVF with Shay didn't work out. However, Severide soon figures out that the baby isn't his which prompts Renée to depart, leaving Severide heartbroken.

#### Brittany Baker

Brittany Baker-Severide was Kelly's wife. The two first met at a craps table when Kelly goes on a weekend trip to Las Vegas and he asks for her help with betting due to her beginner's luck. After their second roll of winning, he kisses her. The next Monday, Kelly shows up at Firehouse 51 wearing a wedding ring and seems ecstatic, telling all of his colleagues that he married Brittany, 24 hours after they met, at a Silver Bells Wedding Chapel.

The couple get into an argument in *Chopper* because Brittany is scared that Severide will get injured on the job.

Kelly and Brittany decide to end their marriage in *Arrest in Transit*, after Kelly realizes that although they love each other, he became Brittany's escape from her parents after the loss of her sister. They split up at a train station and Brittany heads home to Florida.

#### Stella Kidd

Severide was in a relationship with Stella until his father's death. She told him she had been trying to work with him and take care of him, but he was not reciprocating and broke up with him. They got back together in 7x22 "I'm Not Leaving You" and have been together ever since. Kelly has mentioned that he wants to stay with Stella forever, mentioning their children and grandchildren together.

The pair hit a rough patch, when Stella took the Lieutenant's exam because Severide distanced himself from her. He explained he wanted to support him and not stand in her way, but Stella said she needed him to be there. They reconcile and Severide confided in Casey that he wanted to propose. He later did so when caught in a fire, Severide proposed to her and she accepted.

### Friends

#### Matthew Casey

Kelly Severide and Matthew Casey are coworkers and lieutenants at the fire station. At the beginning of season one, after the death of a close friend, they have some trouble getting along and often butt heads, but would come together for the sake of the house. By season 2, they have stopped blaming each other and get along very well. They are often seen putting themselves in danger to protect each other, such as when Kelly went into an unstable burning building to help Casey rescue his fiancée, Hallie. After Casey is injured in episode 2x10, Kelly was the first to notice that he was not healed. He was very concerned about Casey, asking him numerous times if he was okay and offering help.

Following Shay's death, Severide moves in with Casey and Dawson. Severide and Casey become roommates after Dawson moves out. Some of the strain on Casey and Dawson's relationship comes from Casey and Severide's relationship; with Casey putting Severide in front of Dawson, such as when Dawson tells Casey to ask Severide to move out and Casey responds by saying Severide "is going to need [him] on his side, so good or bad that's where [he'll] be".

In *Headlong Toward Disaster*, Severide instantly turns down an order from his Interim *Chief Pat Pridgen* to spy on Casey. He also tells the chief that Casey is "one of the finest firefighters [he's] ever had the opportunity to work with in the entire CFD."

Casey is the only person on the show to call Severide by the nickname Sev.

#### Leslie Shay

Kelly and Leslie Shay are co-workers, best friends, and roommates. In Season 1, Shay was supplying Severide with pain medication to help with his neck injury. In *God Has Spoken*, Shay and Dawson are restocking the ambulance at the scene of an MVC when a flatbed tow truck blows a tire and hits the ambulance. Dawson only had minor injuries, but Shay sustained a major head injury. She survives, but Severide blames himself for the accident because they were restocking painkillers Shay had given to him. He felt better once she came back to work and the accident was never mentioned again. She also wants him to donate sperm for her to conceive a child.

In Season 2, when Kelly is interviewed by Voight about the disappearance of Keeler, Voight asks him if Shay is his girlfriend. He responds "She would be if she wasn't a lesbian." Shay also said if she was not a lesbian then Kelly would be her choice of a man to date.

At the beginning of Season 3, after Shay dies from a fatal head injury in the building explosion in the Season 2 cliffhanger, Kelly is seen taking her death really hard. He takes a leave of absence from the department for over a month and refuses to come back to work until Casey convinces him. Even when he does return to work, Shay's memories haunt him frequently. Shortly after Sylvie Brett began to work in 51, Severide had to do a double-take due to her resemblance of Shay. The tension from this escalated to the point that he tries to hang out with Sylvie to get past Shay due to the fact they look similar. He's often shown over-drinking in bars and sometimes watching home videos of him and Shay. In *I Am the Apocalypse*, when Kelly is seriously injured during the Chicago Med incident, he's shown to be having dreams about her laughing while he's in surgery.

In *That Kind Of Heat*, Kelly broke into a junkyard to retrieve the old door. He later puts her name on it and honor her memory.

## Trivia

* As shown in Season 2, Severide's Badge Number is stated to be 1751, although in Season 1 his badge number was shown to be 1068.
* Kelly's original vehicle was a vintage Black Camaro, written off after Hadley torched it. He then got a vintage blue Mustang.
	+ The Mustang is later destroyed in a wreck when carjackers attack Kelly and destroy the car.
* According to Boden, in his first two years as a Candidate, he "never looked sideways at the women he worked with."
* He was transferred to 51 after making Squad (8x02). Grissom thought it would be temporary (6x11).
* Behind his back, Squad calls him FILO “First in, Last Out”. Cruz mentions this in 5x12.
* It is mentioned that he was the youngest person ever to join Squad at the age of 23 years.
* He's always shown wearing a gold chain and pendant for unknown reasons.
* Kelly's mother revealed that he got his name from her father.
* He lives in apartment 702 in which he moved in after Dawson and Casey got Louie. The address is 1117 S. Rosemont Ave. (CF 6x21).
* Katie Morales is said to have known him for over 10 years.

## Appearances

* S1E3 Chin Check
* S1E10 At Least It's Justice
* S1E12 8:30 PM
* S3E21 Justice
* S4E9 Don't Bury This Case
* S4E16 Emotional Proximity
* S5E16 Profiles
* S6E2 Endings
* S6E15 Good Men