Clancy Dawkins

**Clancy Dawkins**

jp name
クランシー・ドーキンス

Gender
Male

Age
54

Status
Deceased

Affiliations
United States Navy

Appearances
Deep Fear
Sound Drama Vol. 1/Vol. 2

Voice actor
Tom West (English)
Yuzuru Fujimoto (Sound Drama)

Commander **Clancy Dawkins** was the commander-in-chief of the Underwater Fueling Facility Base, Big Table.

## History

Clancy once served as captain aboard a nuclear submarine during the Cold War, but while on patrol in disputed waters, sank a passenger ship falsely thought to be an enemy ship despite warnings from his sonar man, Danny Reynolds. After his actions were exposed through internal investigation, Clancy was tried for war crimes and was ultimately reassigned to the Big Table, serving as the base's commander. Clancy had since resented his sentence, believing that the government was in the wrong for punishing him over one mistake. On January 5th, 1999, the SEA FOX delivered a NASA space pod that had just been retrieved from the Pacific Ocean, along with it's sole occupant, a chimpanzee named Anthony. Upon learning that Anthony apparently possesses the ability to enter suspended animation, Clancy initiated the Deep Blue Project. The project aims to cultivate Anthony's cells and through it develop a cold sleep apparatus, hoping that this achievement would lead Clancy to his reinstatement. Among a few selected individuals, Clancy conspired with Medical Industry researcher, Dr. Gena Weisburg, assigning her as the Deep Blue Project's director and had all research carried out in the Navy Area in order to restrict it from the other Big Table personnel.

Unfortunately, Clancy's plan would eventually backfire as it turns out Anthony's abilities were caused by a mutated bacterium, dubbed by Dr. Weisburg as the Parasite Cells that would mutate other lifeforms into hostile mutants. The Navy Area was soon overrun with the creatures, eventually infiltrating the docked SEA FOX. The combined factor of the creatures and internal mutiny caused the SEA FOX to crash into the Navy Area. Clancy summoned ERS operative John Mayor, tasking him with rescuing Dr. Weisburg. Clancy also contacted the Navy SEALs to provide reinforcement for the base. The ERS were successful, but John confronted Clancy regarding the creatures as he suspects them to be biological weapons. Clancy denied John's claims, but the two are suddenly contacted by the Control Deck, informing them that the downed SEA FOX is preparing to launch a torpedo. Clancy and John immediately head for the Control Deck, putting the Big Table on high alert. They witness the torpedo hit the Air Unit Area, causing the base's oxygen supply to dwindle. The SEA FOX then prepares to launch it's entire arsenal of Poseidon Missiles at the damaged Air Unit Area. Estimating that the Navy SEALs team won't arrive in time, Clancy orders John instead to intercept the SEA FOX in hopes of disabling it's missiles due to the latter's past experience in the Navy SEALs. Although the SEA FOX crisis had been averted, the creatures have now infested the Big Table. Clancy was able to reestablish contact with John and orders him to return to the CCD Area.

Clancy fully cooperated with the newly arrived Navy SEALs team led by Colonel McCoy Lambert. Much to Clancy's surprise, he learns that John was previously acquainted with Colonel McCoy. John warns them to evacuate the Big Table before the situation escalates, but Clancy cuts him off from any further involvement. Holding a meeting with the SEALs in the Conference Room, they plan to lure the creatures to the Air Unit Area and stage an ambush, using their weakness to oxygen as an advantage. Unbeknownst to them, their meeting had been intercepted by John with the help of the Big Table's designer, DuBois Amalric. John goes to Clancy, warning him that battling in the Air Unit Area will cause a pressure buildup that would result in the Big Table collapsing. Unfortunately, the SEALs team had already departed and they have lost contact with them. John heads out to rescue the SEALs, but arrived too late as the SEALs had already been wiped out. The Air Unit Area is destroyed in an explosion due to the SEALs' bomb, causing the air supply to leak into the ocean and expand into giant air bubbles that bursts right underneath the Naval ship, Eldridge, causing one of its docked Harriers to plunge into the ocean depths. The Eldridge contacted the Control Deck to warn them about the sunken Harrier, a frustrated Clancy could do nothing but watch the events unfold. The Harrier eventually crashed into the Energy Unit Area, causing a power outage to 60% of the Big Table and damaging the Energy Unit Area's pipes, putting the base at risk of a meltdown.

After John returned to the Control Deck, Clancy confides in him regarding his true feelings towards the Big Table, as well as details regarding his past. Clancy then warns John about the impending meltdown, instructing him to gather the remaining survivors so they can all escape using the SEALs' docked DSRV. Clancy himself eventually goes AWOL and commandeers the DSRV for himself, knocking out Dr. Weisburg and leaving both her and John to die. While escaping, Clancy began ranting about getting revenge on the people responsible for ruining his career and vows to kill the passenger ship survivors who testified against him. Unbeknownst to Clancy, a creature had sneaked aboard the DSRV and it proceeded to beat him to death, causing the DSRV to descend to the ocean floor.

## Trivia

* Clancy's name is misspelled as **Cransy** on numerous occasions. This is likely due to the Japanese writing system not having an L, therefore an L in a foreign word would be inadvertently substituted with an R.
* Clancy's action of sinking a passenger ship draws some parallel to the real-life sinking of the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th, 1915 in the midst of World War I, believing it to be carrying military supplies.
* During the SEALs' operation at the Air Unit Area, Clancy used the codename, Aquarius, the eleventh astrological sign in the Zodiac.