KAMANDI

Aka "Pup", "Human Cub", "Blue Eyes"

5'10" tall. Approximate age 18 years old and 125 pounds.

Fighting: 23 Ex
Agility: 30 Rm
Strength: 10 Gd
Endurance: 29 Rm
Reason: 7 Ty
Intuition: 21 Ex
Psyche: 23 Ex
Health 92
Karma 51


Powers: None


Equipment:
+Shorts & Boots which provide Feeble armour vs physical attacks and damage from the environment
+Variable Pistol (4 Resources): range 3 areas, Typical damage (or 1d4+3 points), Rate of Fire 1 per round, Shots: 9. This pre-Disaster pistol has a variable flange, barrel and cartridge or shell sleeve able to accept and caliber from .10 to 20mm and of length up to carbine round. This allows use of almost all non-Rifle or non-Rocket Launcher rounds from pre-Disaster ballistic (non-Energy) pistols and carbines.


Talents:

Acrobatics
+Tumbling
+Hunting
+Survival
+Artefact Evaluation - Kamandi can attempt to understand, use and operate any pre-Disaster or other advanced technology he encounters.
+Classic MSHRPG website Martial Arts: Type A: Level 1: Focus Energy, Meditation, Feint and Fall


Limitations:

Berzerker: in the right triggering circumstances Kamandi totally loses his temper and lashes out in a rage at any opponents (NOT any target, enemies only). After 1d10 rounds he collapses semi-conscious for 1d10 rounds. During his Berzerk phase he gains a 1 Rank boost on Fighting and loses 2 Ranks of Reason and Intuition with all applicable modifiers.

Lonely: Kamandi is the only known surviving real human of pre-Disaster stock. He encounters a variety of talking animals and near-humans but no other real humans such as himself. In roleplaying terms this makes Kamandi much too trusting and easily depressed although of course his situation is a nightmarish one, more in fridge horror terms than day to day horror, although to be sure he is deeply affected by the relentless constant violence of his world.


Background:
[comicvine.gamespot.com]
In the future, the Great Disaster destroys society as we know it, changing the status quo and leaving mutated animals as the dominant species and mankind as mindless animals. It is into this world that Kamandi emerges from bunker, Command-D and it is here that his struggle to survive begins.

As with most of DC's characters, Kamandi's origins have gone through many and various retcons and reboots over time. In his original appearance, Kamandi, along with his grandfather were the last survivors of bunker Command D on Earth-AD (which the series asserts stands for, After Disaster). Though the actual cause of the disaster is never mentioned in the original run of the Kamandi series itself, it was later established that a virus known as Morticoccus was brought to Kamandi's world by a time traveling Karate Kid. Upon his death, he released the virus into Earth 51’s atmosphere, turning the human populace into animals, whilst reverting animals into primal humanity. When Kamandi surfaced from Command D, generations later, he believed that he was the last, truly human boy on Earth. He did not realise that the now dominant animals around him were actually his true descendants, not the mindless humans who now dwelt there.

Returning from exploring this strange new world, Kamandi found the bunker in ruins, having been invaded by mutant wolves, who had killed Kamandis’ grandfather as he sought to defend their home. Having seen to the invaders, Kamandi left Command D behind, yet what Kamandi was not aware of was that his grandfather had once been know as Buddy Blank, known to the world at large as the hero, OMAC; the One Man Army Corps. OMAC had been created by a sentient computer satellite known as Brother Eye as a means of dealing with threats foreseen by a group of aliens, working under the name The Global Peace Agency. OMAC and the GPA failed to prevent the Great Disaster, seemingly causing Buddy to take to the bunker, (and his grandsons namesake) Command D.

Having long ago lost his OMAC powers, Buddy Blank lived out the years after the great disaster in a bunker in the New York area. There he raised his grandson Kamandi - named after the bunker itself, Command D, using a micro-film to teach him about past civilization.

Before the Great Disaster however, a scientist at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Dr Michael Grant had developed a mutagenetic chemical called, Cortexin. This chemical purported to mirror the reasoning abilities of animals and although many of his research animals were exposed to Cortexin, Dr. Grant released them into the populace. He also infected the water supplies by dumping the drug into a broken water main, allowing various other escaped animals to drink from the stream and became infected, their intelligence and physicality becoming altered by its affects.

The animals' descendents inherited these genetic changes, and as a result (within two human generations), talking animals (including lions, tigers, gorillas, leopards, rats, dogs and dolphins) dominated the earth. The planet had since been split into various warring factions, the majority of which, Kamandi visits during his adventures.

After leaving the bunker, Kamandi made various friends, including Ben Boxer and his friends Steve and Renzi, who were three survivors of the scientific community. Other allies were the scientist dog Doctor Canus, and the young girl, Spirit. Kamandi, Ben and Canus did not wish to conquer the animals but to restore humanity to a civilised state so that human beings could live as equals with intelligent animals.

At the conclusion to the original series, Kamandi is shown the multiverse by the mysterious entity known as the Vortex (who seemingly has some connection to the Great Disaster). Having come into contact with The Sandman, it is revealed that Kamandi is actually an alternate version of Jed Walker. Given the choice of choosing an alternate reality to live in, Kamandi decides to return to his own world and fulfill the promise to his grandfather of rebuilding the world better than it had been.

Contacts:
+Doctor Canus, an intelligent humanoid talking dog;
+Caesar, leader of the Tiger Empire;
+Tuftan, Caesar's son and heir;
+Sacker, an intelligent talking snake merchant;
+Ben Boxer, a mutant humanoid with Amazing nuclear based powers;
+Batman (only during "Crossovers", times when time and space travel between parallel worlds in the multiverse occurs)
+Superman (only many decades after Kamandi's usual time period)
+OMAC (deceased)


Roleplaying Notes:
Kamandi is extremely brave and driven to find a place he belongs. His bravery gives way under great stress first to depression and sadness and sometimes (50% of the time on average) to hysterical anger which becomes his Berzerker phase. He wanders Earth-AD, his home world, making friends along the way and trying to survive against extreme violence directed at him by a wide variety of humanoid animals and even stranger foes.

He had a girlfriend who he loved very much and who died tragically. Since then he has had female friends but none have really turned into a girlfriend again, perhaps because he has not recovered from the heartbreaking and fatal end of his first love.