Ken

Listen man, I'm not evil anymore

### Also Known As

Ken, Kevin, Kenneth, Kevster, The Villain, The Grand Cumulon, Ken the Fed, The Fatebringer, Retired Ken, The Mother of Evil, Silly Guy, The Taphouse Detective, The Harbinger of Doom

## Taphouse Information

### Campaigns

Group 13 (Ken), APOC (Aiko), Wayfinders (Han), Above the Stars (Arnold), Truents (Shinra),

After completing his redemption arc, Ken is now a prominent and greatly respected member of the staff team. His ideals have brought about a new age of peace, prosperity, and friendship to the Taphouse. However, his dark past mars his current reputation and often tempts him to return to his old ways.

## Origin

Ken entered the fray on January 7th, 2020, a date now informally known as "The Cataclysm". His arrival marked the beginning of a new, darker age. One that would set the members of the Tarrasque Taphouse down a different path than the one fate had originally chosen for them. His actual origins prior to the Cataclysm are largely unknown and mysterious. However, through conversations with the one known as Scourge, historians have been able to gather that to some degree, Ken was active prior to the Cataclysm, albeit in a limited capacity. Admittedly, because Ken had not yet gone through his Awakening, confirmed records of him are few and far between. The oldest confirmed evidence of Ken activity is dated about **[REDACTED]** years ago, but a number of unconfirmed sources suggest that he walked the Earth even earlier than that.

## Appearance

Ken's true appearance is unknown. Due to his nature and the mystery surrounding his physical form, Ken is often thought to be a shape-shifting archdemon. However, despite being able to change at will, it is confirmed that Ken's ass is often juicy and his hands are usually large enough to block oncoming traffic. He is also rarely seen without his signature purple glasses.

## Personality

Long before his Awakening, Ken was a fairly outgoing and friendly guy. He could make new friends pretty easily and rarely argued with anyone. However, after the events of **[REDACTED]**, Ken became increasingly jaded and abrasive and by the time the Cataclysm rolled around, his personality had made a complete 180. After the Cataclysm, Ken became increasingly evil, purposefully clashing with people for his own entertainment. However, after Skitty's Downfall, he began to change for the better. At the time of writing, Ken is a normal guy. He cares deeply for his friends but at the same time tries to make sure they know how much they suck. He has yet to undergo Metamorphosis, which is his final evolution, in order to become either Celestial Ken or Demonic Ken, depending on whether his friends are nice to him or not. It should be stated that it is unclear which version is the one to emerge in response to being nice to him.

## Powers and Abilities

### The Downercut

After years of honing his killer instinct, Ken has mastered the Downercut, a vicious martial arts move that requires the caster to punch at a downward angle at the top of an opponent's head. This move is most efficient when used against a shorter opponent or when jumping to gain a significant height advantage. The move can also be used to carry out an execution, as a person kneeling on the ground waiting for their death is at the perfect height for a Downercut. At the time of writing, the only person to have survived a Downercut is Portals when they clashed with Ken during World War II. The only reason they survived was because of their fucked up head. Their malformed skull protected their brain at just the right angle to avoid instant death. They did however, suffer severe long-lasting side effects after the event. The last person to receive a Downercut was Shammy the Shamrock on June 14th, 2021, resulting in instantaneous death. However, due to the anomalous effects of Shammy the Shamrock's dimension-bending powers, he managed to resurrect himself using one of his quantum doubles but the interaction with Ken's dark energies botched the resurrection, trapping Shammy in a state of limbo.

## Pre-Cataclysm

### Birth

Due to the scarcity of his earliest records, the unofficial stance on Ken's birth is that he was born at the same time as the universe. It is widely believed among experts that he was created as a side effect of the birth of the universe to serve as the antithesis to the concept of creation.

### The Ouroboros Event

The earliest confirmed record of Ken's presence. Records show evidence of an enormous amount of seismic activity **[REDACTED]** years ago. The Earth was essentially shaken like a baby, resulting in the disruption of its magnetic fields. Sources put Ken at the epicenter of the seismic waves, located in **[REDACTED]**. Upon initial investigation of this discovery in 1962, historians found evidence that the surrounding forest had been flattened and all life had been wiped out in a 5 mile radius. This area is now called "The Circle of Extinction" and to this day, not a single blade of grass can grow within its boundaries.

### The Portals Equation

Some time during World War II, Ken found himself on the opposite side of the battlefield to Portals. Their conflict changed the tide of the war and was well documented in the diaries of soldiers and civilians who witnessed their final battle. The following is an excerpt from the diary of a British soldier who witnessed the battle from the sidelines, dated a few days after the event.

This was the last entry in the diary. The rest remained blank and the author is assumed to have committed suicide.

### The Quantum Sham

Shammy and Ken first met **[REDACTED]** years before the Cataclysm. They were both powerful, sexy beasts who started out as friends. However, one day, Shammy fell in love with Shammette, a young damsel living in a nearby village. Shammy would sneak away at night in order to spend time with his beloved, cutting his hanging out time with Ken short. Over time, Ken became annoyed and then even angry at Shammy for bailing on Guy's Day. His anger soon manifested into a heated argument with Shammy during which Shammette was killed by a stray fireball. Ken, horrified by what he had done, fled the scene and went into hiding for many years, leaving Shammy to pick up the broken pieces of his shattered heart. Once Shammette was buried and dealt with, Shammy vowed vengeance on Ken and began to seek a power that could kill his former friend. His quest brought him to the Quantum Realm, where he trained with Masters of the Quantum Force. Many years passed and eventually, Shammy set out to hunt down the killer of his beloved darling, Shammette. Shammy, now armed with the Quantum Force, decided to collapse all the Realms onto one singular point in time and space. Doing so meant the death of trillions, but at the end of it all, he stood face to face with Ken, the man who had taken everything from him. Ken, who had spent his years in exile mastering the Downercut was forced to use it on Shammy. It wasn't even close, man. Like it was just an execution at that point. Witnesses claim Ken's last words before wiping his friend out of the multiverse were, "I'm sorry, brother." Ken's Downercut landed true, directly on the top of Shammy's head, killing him instantly. Ken then flew away, a single tear rolling down his cheek. However, unbeknownst to Ken, Shammy's many years of training with the Masters of the Quantum Force had given him the ability to cheat death using a quantum double. Unfortunately, Ken's aura prevented the successful resurrection and Shammy came back in a very limited capacity, becoming the one now known as "The Quantum Sham". When Ken eventually found out the truth about his friend's death, he decided to seek out and destroy each of Shammy's quantum doubles in order to sever his lifeline.

### Months Leading up to "The Cataclysm"

In the months leading up to the Cataclysm, Ken lived a fairly normal life. He had just gotten over a pretty low point in his life and was starting to get himself sorted out. He went to work, played video games, hung out with his friends, and was all around just trying to figure out a neat routine to lower himself into. He ended up joining the Tarrasque Taphouse on a whim through Viper, whom he had met on For Honor, a video game that was enjoyed by quite a few of the Taphouse patrons throughout the years. He had no idea what his joining had sparked and how big a part he would play in the events that would unfold.

## The Cataclysm Storyline

### Innocent For Honor/DnD Player

The first couple months of Ken’s experience in the Tarrasque Taphouse were very ordinary, even at times a bit boring. He met a good number of its members early on as he had joined during the server’s First Golden Age. He got along pretty well with most of the members, but every so often, he would speak out against some of the server’s weirder members, earning him a reputation of being kind of a jerk. For the most part however, he tried to stay away from those members as he wasn’t that interested in Dungeons and Dragons and was only really there to play For Honor. After another month or so, this position changed and he reached out to Shammy the Shamrock in order to join a one-shot campaign. Ken’s character was low-effort and he didn’t really take the experience too seriously. However, his experience was overall positive and he decided to try and get more into Dungeons and Dragons.

### Petty Asshole Arc

Ken eventually joined a campaign called Apocryphos, which was run by a fellow named RocketGuyRaeven. Still in his goofy phase, Ken’s character in this campaign would end up being an anime girl named Aiko. Ken soon after joined a campaign run by the dreadful Jacob, who was and still is meek, subhuman piece of garbage. These two campaigns exposed Ken to plenty of situations that tested his strength. He started to become even more of a jerk, lashing out against people who did things that annoyed them. His reputation went from being a bit of a jerk to being the server’s very own AssholeTM. He would spend the majority of the next year bearing this mantle.

### The Evil Begins

Despite being the antithesis to creation, Ken wouldn’t cross the line into true evil until well after becoming a regular patron of the Taphouse. Many believe he was evil from the start, but it wasn’t until he witnessed the interactions between a number of the Brits as well as the Brit-adjacent Americans that he decided these people needed a villain. And thus began the Dark Age.

## Gallery

Celestial KenDemonic KenArtist's Rendering of Ken's Real Form