Kennith Simmons

**Kennith Simmons** is a character who appeared in Case 2 (COMMUNICATIONS) in the song BROADCAST ILLUSION along with COLORBARS. He was a young adult who suffered emotional abuse from others. His voice is portrayed by Fukase English.

## General Information

### Alias(es)

* Gay cactus (By the Fandom)
* Skrunky (By the Fandom)
* Kenny (By GHOST)

### Relationships

Stephanie Glass (Best friend, previously)Greg Hoffman (Friend) Evelynn Jacot (Fake friend)

## Appearance

Kennith has two designs with only one being considered canon by GHOST.

In BROADCAST ILLUSION, Kennith has curly ginger hair and brown eyes. He has a light skin complexion and a thin body figure. In some art that GHOST drew, he can be seen with freckles. He wears a seafoam green shirt with six buttons lining up to the white collar. He also wears jean shorts and white sneakers. In the original video for BROADCAST ILLUSION, he is shown with self-harm scars all over his arms and legs. Though, in the official reupload of the song, said scars do not appear. This design is considered canon by GHOST.

In COLORBARS, Kennith has thick strawberry blond hair and orange eyes. He keeps his light skin complexion, body figure, and freckles. He wears a multi-colored shirt referencing actual colorbars with a white collar and two colored shorts with the left side having polka-dots all over. Kennith wears teal sneakers and yellow socks.

## Life

Kennith grew up as an outcast in society. He had a more fluid identity; some days, he would choose to dress and potentially act more feminine too. Others, more masculine. Since this was, after all, the 80s. Things like that were considered abnormal. People would tease and bully him for this, so he never really had friends until Stephanie came along. The bullying became more direct and severe once he came out as gay. Due to these traits, no one really seemed to like him. Some would even become "friends" with him so they could ultimately bully him some more. This leading to periods of breakdowns and self harm.

## Personality

Kennith loved to tinker with electronics and was shown to be skilled at it. He is also shown to have bitterness towards society, which isn't shown in the revised version of COMMUNICATIONS CASE 2. Kennith also tried to block out any bad thoughts about and move on with life, which didn't work out due to many factors that affected his life. Kennith also did anything to numb his pain even if it meant doing something drastic such as underage drinking and drug use. Which had developed into an addiction for him. Due to emotional abuse from peers, Kennith had trust issues and is shown to be cold and reserved around others. This is shown when Kennith tries to avoid Stephanie when she tried talking to him. Kennith enjoyed dark genres which was what he and Evelynn bonded over in the revised edition, along with hating society.

## Role in COMMUNICATIONS CASE 2

In the original story, Kennith was a loner and often got bullied by his peers in school. A girl named Stephanie notices him sulking around and tries to become friends with him. She attempts to talk to him, but he avoids her, worried that she may, too "befriend" him, just to relentlessly bully him, just like the others would. Eventually after many failed attempts, Kennith warms up to Stephanie and the two become best friends. The two both have the best years of their life alongside a man named Greg Hoffman, who worked at a run down gas station. Kennith and Greg are close friends, however, Kennith had a stronger bond with Stephanie. Kennith and Stephanie hung out at the gas station Greg worked at, with Greg selling Kennith alcohol despite him being underage.

Despite good times, Kennith's mental health still declines with him having frequent breakdowns. Stephanie eventually tries to convince Kennith to stop doing self-harm but comes off as insensitive, which causes her and Kennith to have an argument. Ending their 4 year friendship.

Kennith eventually snaps and hatches a plan to make the entire nation commit suicide. He uses his tech-savvy intellect to make a brainwashing system, which uses pulsating colors and sound frequencies to put a person into a full hypnotic trance. Kennith eventually goes live and almost everyone is affected by it. All but Stephanie, due to her not being able to hear humming sounds that were being played from the TV.

Kennith runs the broadcast for over a day, saying verbally abusive things to everyone fully affected by the broadcast, putting them on the brink of suicide. Eventually, Kennith turns it temporarily off, grabs a box cutter, slits his wrists, and bleeds to death. The broadcast turns back on and shows his corpse on screen. Despite his death, his classmates still talk down on him.

In the revised story, Kennith was a loner and often got bullied by others in school. A girl named Stephanie notices him sulking around and tries to become friends with him. She makes attempts to talk to him, but he avoids her. Kennith being worried that she may too "befriend" him, just to relentlessly bully him, just like the others had. Eventually after many failed attempts, he warms up to Stephanie and the two become best friends. They both have the best years of their life alongside a man named Greg Hoffman, who worked at a run down gas station. Kennith and Greg being close friends. However, Kennith had a stronger bond with Stephanie. Kennith and Stephanie hung out at the gas station Greg worked at, with Greg selling Kennith alcohol despite him being underage.

Despite the good times, Kennith's mental health still declines with him having frequent breakdowns. Stephanie eventually tries to convince Kennith to stop doing self-harm but comes off as insensitive, which causes her and Kennith to have an argument. Ending their four year long friendship.

Kennith eventually met a person named Evelynn, who was in the same grade as him, and they both become friends. Kennith talked to Evelynn while working on electronics and listened to horror stories they made up. Evelynn asked about Stephanie which caused him to go on rants about everything Stephanie and others did wrong. Evelynn gave him the idea of making a broadcast which he found to be a joke, and agreed with. When he realized they were serious he refused mainly because it was illegal. Evelynn used what he said into manipulating him and Kennith finally gave in.

Kennith made the broadcast (with his parents being away on their anniversary) and got the equipment to comply with Evelynn. When Evelynn told him it was time to go live, he refused, however, got brainwashed by Evelynn, with them using it on him. They turned on the broadcast with almost everyone being affected by it, and made Kennith say hurtful things to them for over a day, putting them all on the brink of suicide.

Evelynn eventually breaks the hypnosis on Kennith and he tells them off. Kennith goes to get his toolbox and temporarily turns off the broadcast. He grabs a box cutter out of it but gets tackled by Evelynn. They both wrestle until he overpowers them and slits his wrist with the boxcutter. He tells them how they ruined his life and bleeds to death while they leave. The broadcast comes back on and shows his corpse on screen. Stephanie, who wasn't affected by it due to being deaf was deeply disturbed by his death. Being the caring person she was, Stephanie called the police. Evelynn fled the scene, while Stephanie checked if Kennith was alive. Eventually, all was over with, the news and general public hearing of the events. Despite his death, his classmates still talked down on him.

## Trivia

* Kennith wasn't intended to be a character since COLORBARS was originally a vent song.
* Kennith was 18 years old when he died.
* Kennith lives in Michigan, United States.
* Kennith doesn't refer to himself as genderfluid since it wasn't really a term back then.
* Kennith was born on October 12th, 1969.
* Kennith has tetrachromacy (a condition that causes people see more colors than average).
* Kennith is confirmed to have BPD and depression.
* Kennith has an official voice claim. GHOST mentions it being YoppyVu on a deleted tumblr post.
* Kennith is 5'4, a few inches shorter than Stephanie.

## Gallery

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