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#48 - Kid Karnevil

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I'm not going to be able to give a full backstory here. I'm not entirely sure where Karnevil was found. I don't know what he was doing or what the circumstances were that led to that group bringing him back to Z'onn Z'orr. All I know is that suddenly, there was a very, very angry teenager in Z'onn Z'orr who absolutely hates all of us.

Almost all of the villains in the world have banded together to form the Society. Obviously, we act against the Society very frequently. Occasionally we go undercover and find the weak links in the Society cells - someone who doesn't agree fully with the mission or someone who wants more power than they were given. People that we can turn against the Society and help us. Karnevil is not one of these people. Karnevil fully and totally believes in the Society. It brought order to the world. And what more proof does he need than the fact that he is our prisoner? He was brought to Z'onn Z'orr against his will. He was deemed a flight risk and fitted with a collar like the ones the Suicide Squad wears in case he tried to escape. The Society is the heroes in this story and we are all evil for thinking otherwise.

Pepper and Brennus would try to get Karnevil to see things from their perspectives, but they never had any luck. Brennus even worked to get him permission to go out in the field as our scrounger - we sent him back to locations that were deemed safe (in gameplay mechanics, that we completed) to look for any items that we missed. He seemed to enjoy this level of freedom and Brennus tried to send him to cities that had Society cells that we were allies with. People that he looked up to and respected who didn't think we were as evil as he did. Things seemed to slowly be rubbing off on him except for one problem...

He never stopped trying to escape. His collar always had scratch marks on it from where he tried to pry it off. If Brennus sent him to a location that was too remote, he would steal a car and make a run for it. He would kidnap people around Z'onn Z'orr and threaten them to remove his collar and we'd have to go stop him. Throughout all of this, Brennus continued to defend him, continued to say he wasn't too far gone until he made a crucial error...

Karnevil decided to try to make Pocus, a rabbit with magical abilties, get his collar off of him. To get Pocus to cooperate, he threatened the life of Patch. If you've read the other lists, you'll know how beloved Patch is. Brennus is no exception - he loves Patch as much as anyone (except for Data). In the aftermath of this, Lush decided she had enough and dragged Karnevil to the holding cells, which lead to...

Brennus: "Hey, Vostok, I had a question about... hey, whoa, what's happening here?" Brennus asks seeing Karnevil being escorted away
Lush: "Kid thought it was okay to kidnap Pocus and Patch trying to get his collar off so he can escape. He's done."
Brennus: "Look, I know that Karnevil keeps trying to escape and is like, super in love with the Society and hates all of us, but that doesn't mean... ...Patch?"
Lush gestures to the rat on her shoulder
Brennus: "He kidnapped Patch!?!"
Patch waves to Brennus.
Brennus waves back. He then turns to Karnevil, gives him a look and leaves with no further complaints

Some things are too far, even for Brennus.

And now, Karnevil is broken. He's begged Pepper to just kill him and put him out of his misery. The fight has left him. He still hates us, but he's given up. I don't know what will come with Karnevil in this story, but I hope he doesn't just get left languishing in the holding cells until the end of the campaign.

Hint for #47: This character has died, more than once.