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DARREN MCKIDD
(This character is an A-NPC for Max Rutherford's group.)
Darren is a Coalition Ranger who aided in the rescue of Head Councilor Anton Korshunov during an operation carried out by members of Max's detachment. Following the success of the operation, Korshunov personally assigned him to the unit to replace the late Marco Alferez.
There is nothing physically impressive about Darren McKidd; he stands at a meager five-foot-six and is generally scraggly with trace signs of track marks on his wrists. As of the events of "The Glass Castle", Darren is rarely seen wearing his Ranger outfit and has instead replaced it with a patchy leather jacket and a shirt with a faded logo with his Ranger badge still on display, hooked on his belt.
In the eyes of many who know him, Darren has one of the worst reputations in regards to his status as a Coalition Ranger. He is a repeat offender who has been known to abuse his position of power for sheer entertainment, whether it be beating on an innocent, stealing (and selling) drugs, or using it to get out of difficult positions - In his own words when asked why he became a Ranger, he claimed because he wanted to be "part" of the oppression. He is perceived as being arrogant, cruel, deceitful, sarcastic, and outright abusive to an extreme - anyone with any sense of righteousness appears to hate or rightfully mistrust him.
Darren is all of these things and often unapologetically so. However, he has proven to be more complicated in this right, having displayed several instances of extreme heroism both in his rescue of Hana Takeuchi, as well as his desire to return for the missing Demi McIntosh after her abduction at the hands of one of the mimics and the Old Growth in Canada.
Since the events of "The Million Dollar Question", Darren was revealed at one point to have been a particularly well-adjusted member of the Rangers with a solid record and decent reputation.
After revealing his brother was murdered, Darren asked Max and Francis to return to his apartment to retrieve files on the case. There, the pair discovered several videotapes filmed by Bruce, his younger brother, which documented his downward spiral into drug addiction and depression in some attempt to cope with his complicity in a massacre of countless protestors during the Unity Day Riots at the behest of an order given by Larue Monroe; In these tapes, Darren is depicted as having taken on a severely abusive personality and having overdosed on several different occasions, only to be saved by his younger brother or Amanda - a woman hinted to be a previous lover. This addiction would play a significant part in the death of his younger brother, who left the apartment one night after Darren passed out where he ultimately went missing for several days and was discovered dead in an apparent gang-related crime.
Following a lead sent to him by a mysterious source, Darren showed some signs of his previous nature and conducted an investigation with members of Max's unit, where their respective party was able to hunt down and eliminate a member of the Global Health Committee; Frank Sutherland, a serial killer who preyed on younger women in Liberty District, harvested their organs and sold them to the highest bidder. However, he was not able to find conclusive answers pertaining to who killed his brother.
While not outwardly apparent, Darren is self-acclaimed to be an experienced fighter with copious amounts of time spent 'at the bags', or on the range. It's likely at least some of this is true and not exclusively his boisterous nature given his time as a Coalition Ranger. What is verifiably true from personal experience is his talent as an investigator, having served a crucial role in the apprehension of both "Man Mountain" Ockenden and Frank Sutherland.
Darren was first encountered with several other prisoners in Stephen Fisk's slave camp by Hana Takeuchi, Maurice Foree, Tiffany Reynolds, and Ollie Green. He served a crucial role in their escape.