Captain Kenshin Atanok

Kenshin Atanok was a character created by The_Samurai. It was his first character, and one of the first created on the original Lost in Serenity. He has since become a symbol of, not only The_Samurai, but of the quality of role play that can be achieved on Lost in Serenity. His ship is the Hades. Which he has been heavily attached to. And you will generally not see Kenshin Atanok without Hades by his side.

(This storyline is taken from LIS 1.0 and some subsequent seasons and ittarations of LIS.) Kenshin started on Persephone, in the storyline "Persephone: High Noon". He started off with the Hades, and also with a pilot named "Raid", who was Kenshin's best friend and compatriot. There, he recruited Jamie Cobb onto his crew. And escaped on the Hades during the height of an Alliance rally/riot. After that, he journeyed to Whitefall. And in a large battle with some nomads, Raid was shot in the head, and Hades was rendered immobile. At the end of this fight, Kenshin mourned the loss of his friend, and this is generally accepted as the start of his insanity. Soon afterwards, the Alliance began bombarding the planet, cracking the surface, with intent to destroy it outright. Hades was saved only moments before it's imminent destruction by Lupin. After this most famous and memorable of Kenshin's adventures, he became more or less an independent character. Bouncing from story to story. Although, even more famously, running his own stories, which largely dictated his fall into madness. He became a reaver hunter, claiming that he knew how they thought, and could predict their movements. This, of course, until he was left to die in a coma on a shuttle, with limited life support systems. He was eventually captured by an Alliance prison vessel, kept in solitude, and tortured mercilessly. This led to the absolute depth of his madness, as he began to hallucinate. He eventually escaped, biting out the throat of a guard, and leading into a cargo bay where he believed Hades to be. Alliance security surrounding him, he committed Seppuku with a rusty pipe, which he believed to be his own katana. He was found dead, in a pool of his own blood.

Kenshin Atanok is one of the more iconic characters to those who know him. Largely due to his level of madness, which hadn't truly been attempted in a Lost in Serenity character until him. His insanity is also what is generally most remembered about him, along with the Hades. The_Samurai has expressed some interest in bringing Kenshin Atanok back in Finding Serenity, but only under the correct circumstances. Of course, this would include retconning some of the established facts of Kenshin's story. But The_Samurai has negated that, stating that it's worth it to bring back such a deep and interesting character.