Kenzo

He/him ● Apothiaroace

**Kenzo Bowman** (also known an "Ken") was an adult male anthropomorphic Nile crocodile who was killed by Lron Madden in order to pay off his debt to Waverly Katz. Before his death, he was a good friend of the Madden family, having fought alongside Lron’s father in the military, who had gone missing after embarking on a beast-hunting trip to Africa. However, unbeknownst to everyone, he had willingly been infected by the power-granting leech-like parasites local to the area in his quest for power, something that stemmed from a fear of death and his insecurity regarding strength. After being infected, he became a ruthless, feral murderer and gained infamy after being mistaken for a monster himself by both locals and visitors alike because of his mutated appearance. Kenzo is heavily based on Jack Krauser from *Resident Evil 4* and is one of Scroll’s favorite OCs, acting as a comfort character.

Click anywhere to learn more!

**APEX PREDATOR**

🧪🦠🩸🏹🥩🌴🐊

"*They say the meek shall inherit the earth*

'*Cause us gorillas gonna kill over anything of worth*"

## Character Information

### Species/Nationality

Anthropomorphic Nile crocodile (American)

### Residence

Unnamed suburban town in Georgia (formerly)Unnamed African jungle (pre-death)

### Relatives

Angus Bowman † (father)Sora Bowman † (mother)

### Allies

Evander Madden † (formerly)Lron Madden (formerly)

### Partner

N/A

Appearance

**Kenzo was a massive crocodilian that towered over his peers in life** even before the infection, with his natural height peaking at seven feet. His body was fit and muscular from years of constant training and was covered in multiple scars from the time he spent in the military. His most notable cicatrices included one that twisted from the top of his left brow down to the bottom of his snout, a smaller nick over on the right corner of his mouth, and a rather large and deep wound that stretched across his chest in the shape of an "X". Various other, smaller scars were scattered around his body in random places. His other features of note included a boxy, brutish head and snout alongside a heavy brow that always casted a dark shadow over his eyes. As is common for his species, he had fangs that stuck out of his mouth in all directions.

Before getting infected, Keno’s scales were dull and camo-like, with the base color being a dark, murky greenish-brown. Stripes and splotches of English walnut brown and muddled beige were splattered all across his body, with the occasional cluster of frog-egg like spots of light gray and green waterloo here and there. His underbelly was a dark, grayish red, the color appearing on his bottom jaw and on his chest down to the tip of his tail, but was absent in the neck area. However, his spine was the exact opposite, as, starting at the base of his snout, a long, double Spanish white and chamois tan stripe in the form of his back ridges and the skin between them crawled down his back and ended at the end of his tail.

On his face, the double Spanish white part of the stripe circles around the bottom of his eyes and gave the appearance of two small “eyelashes” due to two small stripes sticking out of the main mass. Kenzo’s eyes were a piercing pale gray-blue and were surrounded by a pool of beryl green while his teeth weren’t too far from matching his sclera, as they were a yellowed, almost-sage like color. He had a pair of “gloves” and “socks” on his hands and feet that were a Nero black, with a slightly lighter shade of gray-red for the palms and soles. His scars were a mix of various shades of pale pink and muddled red, depending on how healed and deep they were. The inside of his mouth was the same muddled red as some of his scars, while his blood and flesh were a deep maroon.

History

**On June 8th, 1976, Kenzo was born to his parents Sora Bowman and Angus Bowman** in a small Georgian suburb. There he had a normal childhood, with his veteran father taking care of him while his mother worked at a local factory, until he turned five. That year his mother died in a horrific workplace accident, her death taking a toll on Kenzo’s mental health and giving him an intense, almost crippling, fear of death. He began to obsessively check for hazards in his everyday life and take extra precautionary measures when they weren’t needed, but his father dismissed his son’s constant worrying as resulting from an overactive imagination as Kenzo was always too afraid to talk to his father about his fears and intrusive thoughts. Angus had been experiencing his own behavioral changes ever since the death of his wife, becoming more unapproachable and uncaring to where Kenzo became distrusting of him and became almost sick at the thought of talking to him out of fear that he wouldn’t care or even snap at him for being "overdramatic".

However, these fears gradually weakened once he began school the year after. Schoolwork and the anxiety that comes with social interaction distracted him from his fears regarding death, although he was still slightly over-cautious at school, being wary of playground equipment and sneezing kids alongside his compulsive habits continuing no matter what. He eventually made friends despite his anxiety, though, which made everything going on in his life a little more bearable. One of those friends was Evander Madden, a confident canine student he met in gym class one day after being paired up with him. The two of them got along extremely well and they became friends quickly because of it, their bond slowly leading up to Kenzo trusting Evander enough to become the guy he went to when things got rough. Thanks to him, his anxiety began to slowly go down to a point where it was manageable.

Gallery

RefMarking refFeaturing LronDustFromStarsInfected conceptColor concept. Punksoda base (do not use as reference)