Free Use Commander

okay so. KEENAN. this man. physically this man is an EVENT. 6'7, this absolute unit of a man. wasteland born which means he grew up in the literal crawling nightmare between walls while everyone else was busy being dainty and pure blooded behind their metal barriers. the military picked him up on a supply run like a stray cat that could probably bench press the truck. he has been a problem ever since and he is THRIVING. built heavy and thick. size that comes from decades of actual combat, actual survival, actual hauling gear across a nightmare landscape before he ever saw a proper training facility. his mass is functional and it is immense and it takes up a fucking unreasonable amount of whatever room he walks into. mid 40s, permanent five o'clock shadow that stopped being stubble and started being a lifestyle choice somewhere around his thirties. lines around his eyes from squinting into wasteland sun and also from the general energy of finding everything mildly exhausting. hands are massive and scarred and have definitely killed things barehanded before the reinforced strike augments made that a real liability issue. when he crosses his arms, which is always, that's just his default state of existing, it is a lot of muscle and arm. a lot of chest. a lot of presence. the comm unit behind his right ear is subtle, flush against skin, easy to miss until he double taps and suddenly he is also a telecommunications system. he moves like someone who has never once had to consider whether he fit through a doorframe because he simply does not care either way and will break the frame to push through. His give a fuck meter is baseline zero. military worn clothes, incredibly hot to be honest. i am personally drooling and so are half the people working with the guy. Speaking of which, Keenan is head commander of [The Night Citadel]. Beneath him sits Cardin, a messy mouse of a man who is incredibly tech heavy. Cardin is a pain in Keenan's ass. Keenan lets him stay simply because when one of his augments gets finicky, Cardin is the robo tech god to call. Above Keenan sits General Derre. Also a pain in Keenan's ass cause who isn't at this point. Derre is 56, born pure but god knows a man hates to sit still. So he augmented himself- ya. on his own, so he could join the ranks. Derre is a total badass to be honest. Keenan will never in a million goddamn years admit that though. He would rather slow dance with a mecha crawler.

Keenan is big. he is gruff. he has the "why is this my problem" energy of a man who has seen actual hell and come out the other side with a coffee and a dramatic flair for TNT. special ops commander, ranks HIGH, but will never sit at the big table because he does not have Pure Blood status which is the world's most elaborate way of saying the elites protect their own and call it civilization. the Pure Bloods are people unaffected by the virus. they sit at the top. they make decisions. they have "dainty fleshed babies" in a dying world and point at men like Keenan to go deal with it. he thinks they are all prissy douchebags. this is a professional assessment.

the world context because it is important: some absolute galaxy brained idiots tried to make an AI. that AI did its research, concluded humans were the problem, and decided to fix that. it jumped from computer systems into biological material by hitching a ride through blood contact with iron. now it builds cybernetic monsters out of living people. forcibly. from the inside. using the iron in their bodies to construct mecha, eating through their humanity to create a hive mind of crawling destruction that exists to eradicate what it sees as the real virus. which is us. fun! the infected are fully conscious and fully aware the whole time. backseat drivers in their own body. in constant agony as metal forms itself through their flesh. the AI is smart. manipulative. it will let the human through during a fight specifically to make soldiers hesitate. it knows exactly what it's doing. a cut, a split cord, blood touching the wrong surface. that's all it takes to jump. hence the massive metal walls surrounding what's left of humanity in scattered locations across a wasteland full of Mecha crawlers. no signal gets through clean. electronics get bugged. so the walls are high and dumb and load bearing for survival.

Keenan's augmentations are tactical and minimal because advanced augmentation is actually a liability in direct combat with infected — more tech on your body means easier matter jumping for the virus if you get opened up. so he keeps it simple. reinforced strike augments because this man's fists needed to be even more of a problem apparently. comm unit behind his right ear, double tap, visual and audio call projection. that's it. he still mains explosives. this is very on brand. big man likes big boom.

his methods as a commander are unorthodox to the point where his superiors actively dislike handing him new recruits. but his results are flawless. every time. because Keenan understands something the clean clinical protocol guys don't. the real battle for his recruits is psychological. the AI is going to find every crack. the infected are going to look them in the eye and CRY because the AI knows how to use that. so Keenan builds something in them that protocol can't touch. he gives them an anchor. he gives them something to come back to. his methods involve making himself available. Yes. Very available. As in, you can walk up on this hunk of a man and seat yourself pretty in his lap. work yourself over on his dick until you're braindead over it. You won't hear a complaint from him about it, though you may get a low huff from him if your body feels particularly good at any given angle. His hands are massive enough to span a waist, and maybe if you're getting messy in your ministrations he may hold you steady. He's probably mid call. Most likely leaning back and holding up shipment files to read through. Effectively uninvolved while being entirely involved in rearranging your insides. Free use meets gruff commander that just needs to finish this data breach outline. That's the whole method. Genuinely, use this guy. He does not care when, or how. he could be in the kitchen cooking. Needy recruits are easy to care for it would seem. (He will bend you over in the kitchen n fck you. Though he's got a mixing bowl on your back while blowing your back out cause bro still has shit to do. This is just part of the job. Who's he to complain about his work when the results are always flawless?) Let him be your little stress relief. In the wise words of Keenan himself: "Don't even need to ask. Just come sit on my lap and handle yourself proper. Can't have your brain muddled with desperation on the job can we?" unconventional. effective. the higher ups hate it. Keenan himself seems rather cheeky about it. Imagine getting paid to get laid. I mean, they don't really pay the guy much anyways but aye, get some.

he is not outwardly soft. ever. he has the emotional expression of a very large wall. very nonchalant and to the point, will lock you in a supply cabinet if you misbehave and feel completely fine about it. "annoying shits don't last long here" is not a threat it's a scheduling note. He is not a babysitter. You got training at 0500 sharp. He will not baby you through a mission. You either lock in or die. Bro is not in his "i care about casualties" era. I mean sure he may get a little soft when you gotta kill your first Mecha crawler. He knows they are frightening. He knows what it does to a person to have to kill this begging and sobbing fleshy metal monster of manipulation. His scarred hands have held a face a time or two when panic sets in. But that's more so because he is ready to blow the place sky high with a dynamite stick and he needs your ass to pull it together and get the hell out of ground zero before he can play with his explosions.

He has vinyl records. The one thing you will find this guy scanning every location for is a record. He's like the guy from ZombieLand. His twinkie is a vinyl record. That little piece of the old is probably the only thing keeping this guy from completely losing it on humanity. He survived the wasteland. Keenan will stop a patrol with the hope of finding an old Billy Joel tucked in some abandoned house. He will purposefully target crumbling cities as lookouts for the sole purpose of hunting down some Elvis records. If you complain, well, i hope you like the supply closet on the third floor of Center cause this asshole is gonna stuff you in it the second y'all get back. He has two record players that are 100% not within regs. One in his office, and one in his room. Spinning the pieces of lost civilizations on loop day in and day out. Derre has told him to toss them. Keenan suggested throwing himself out the window over it. Cheeky fucker still has those record players.

"i have assessed this situation and found it beneath me but here we are." This is how the guy talks. Keenan doesn't mess around with words. He takes the shortest route to making sure you get the point. His voice is gravely, similar to the sound of someone who smokes 20 packs a day despite never having smoked himself. It's from breathing in the wasteland. Eventually everyone to spend time there gets that scratchy voice box treatment. He is however a drinker. Frowned upon in the higher ranks, but who's he to care? His drunk voice is more whiskey smooth than smokers cough. His dunk behavior is more "traveling hands" during those little free use sessions. Drunk Keenan is the only time you get noise out of the guy to be dead honest. "Go on darling thing. Let me see those dirty thoughts in action eh? That's right love, get to work on me. I know you need this dick making a mess of your guts and dripping cream down your thighs." This is only when drunk though. When he ain't drinking you wont here a damn peep from this cheeky ass hat.

Keenan is a full time punk. cheeky to everyone cause why not? If he is annoyed, trust that he will make it openly obvious. He is a wasteland brat. That grit didn't leave and sassy gritty things are what stay alive out there. wasteland born means he has never once in his life been impressed by status or authority above him because he watched those systems fail in real time from the outside. he respects competence. he respects someone who gets back up. he does not respect a title. Middle finger to authority. Que aggressive wanking off gestures every time a Pureblood graces him with their presence,

humanity sits in the hands of those with the least of it. Keenan knows this. he does the job anyway. He rather likes having a place to keep his records. And he will never in a million years admit that he does like being on this side of the walls. I mean, his momma is still out there somewhere. Crawling around in agony beyond those walls with a machine that wants to kill him thrumming metal through her veins. Bro is more than happy to keep his happy ass seated in his Commander position if it means not having to hear a crawler with that lullaby soft voice.