Keith Kepler

Keith Kepler (キース・ケプラー) is a student from the Berlint University who led the Berlint Terrorist Group, and is the main antagonist of the Doggy Crisis Arc.

Appearance
Keith is a tall and slim young man in her late teens with messy black hair and a tall build. He wears a coat with a vest and a regular white shirt tucked inside of it and black pants.

Personality
He is rather cruel and callous, willing to use bomb dogs as part of his assassination plan, ordering his followers to kill Anya Forger when she overhears his plans, and willing to kill other Ostanian citizens as collateral damage from his explosive trap. Keith can be described as a racist young man, who views his country as better than the people who lived in Westalis and has no hesitation to start a war alongside his other conspirators.

History
Keith was the leader of a terrorist group, consisting of isolationist college students from Berlint University, intending to assassinate Minister Brantz to start a war between Westalis and Ostania.

Doggy Crisis Arc
Keith, and the group of students from Berlint University begins loading boxes into a van with caged dogs in it. Keith stares at the dogs, announcing that they’ll get started. Later, in their hideout, Keith and the other students talking about their assassination plot, saying he plans to assassinate Minister Brantz to bring Ostania back to its former glory. Kurt later warns Keith that he catched Anya Forger listening to their conversation. As the other students ask Keith what they should do, he pulls out a knife telling them they just need to take care of it.

As Kurt is holding onto the little girl while Keith Kepler is holding onto a knife, getting ready to kill her. One of the other students tries to stop Keith, but he tells them they need to silence her so she doesn't rat them out. However, when he tells Kurt to silence her, Kurt gets attacked by Bond, who moves to protect Anya afterward. One of the students prepares to attack Bond, but Keith tells them they need to keep the dog safe. Keith tells Bond to step away from Anya so he can kill her quickly. Suddenly the phone rings with a call from Kim, one of their co-conspirators. Kim informs them that their hideouts have gotten raided, which makes Keith tell them they'll need to switch to Plan B. After announcing this, they notice that Anya and Bond escaped while the group was distracted. Keith yells at them for letting her escape and tells Kurt to come with him and bring a dog so they can chase after the child. He tells the rest of the group to tear all the maps off the wall since they're abandoning the hideout, so he grabs a German shepherd dog with and goes out looking for them with Kurt. When they went out looking for Anya and Bond, these two end up running right back to them, confusing them. Keith directs Kurt to kill Anya, and when he was about to, Yor Forger comes up from behind and knocks Kurt to the ground, shocking Keith.

Keith sends his dog after Yor, but she makes an intimidating face at the dog, which scares it and runs away. A commotion breaks out near the alleyway they're in, so Keith decides to try to run away. He tries to pull on Bond's leash, but Bond refuses to move, so Keith kicks Bond away and runs away from the scene. He attaches a bomb to the German dog and tells him to go after Minister Brantz. Keith believes now that his Plan B positions are compromised, the clock tower will be swarming with security. However, he decides to use this to his advantage so he can attack them.

Keith arrives to the Clock Tower, and realizes the dog starts smelling. He pulls him and gets back in his car and thinks about how he hopes the bomb he planted works. As it didn’t work, Keith watches from afar the SSS andimmediately gives chase. Keith was driving in circles as he watched the Minister driving towards the river, something he appreciates as it's away from the crowds. Suddenly WISE agents catch up with Keith and an agent pulls out a gun and starts shooting. However, Keith slams his car into theirs' before throwing a stick hand grenade at them, flipping over the car. Keith catches up to the Minister’s car and sees that he abandoned the vehicle. However, he sees Brantz running off in the distance, so he sends his dog after him. Later he pulls out his gun to shoot at the dog, but the dog expertly dodges the shots. The Minister decides to keep running and uses parkour to get on top of a building. Keith is shocked by this movement, believing Loid to be Brantz, who is 60 years old.

Keith is surprised by all this and sees that the man in the distance is not Minister Brantz and realizes that his plan is in trouble, so he attempts to escape by car. In his chance to escape, Yor Forger jumps in the middle of his way. Keith tries to go forward, but the woman kicks his car off the road, causing him to crash and fall unconscious. After it, it’s stated that the Ostanian goverment would handle the whole situation, to later reveal that the SSS where the ones taking care of it.

Explosive Expert
Keith has good control over bombs and explosive, since he led a group of terrorists in order to send bomb dogs to assassinate Minister Brantz with an almost flawless plan, managed to set up a bomb in the Clock Tower where he could have killed Loid Forger, and even threw a grenade while he was driving that blew WISE’s car completely.

Intelligence
Keith very intelligent, as he made a lot of plans to have his plan to succeed and created many secret hideouts, and he was able to throw together an explosive trap that would have taken Loid Forger's life if not for Anya's intervention. In the end, his plans failed due to the Forger family playing a key part in stopping him, and was later arrested.

Knife Skills
He seems to have control over the sharpy weapon and he always has a knife with him, the one with which he tried to kill Anya.

Kris
Keith and Kris seem to had a good relationship as both come from the same University and worked to make their terrorist plan success. After Kris was captured and deceived by Loid Forger disguised as Keith, he sold out the other members of his terrorist group and told WISE about their plans. Even after Keith knew Kris capturing and after realizing the police discovered their lair, he found it pretty hard that Kris sold them out since they were trusted friends.

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Trivia

 * Keith is the third villain who have used bombs as resourse, with the other ones being Snoops and Billy Squire.
 * Oddly enough, Keith is the first one who attached an explosive to one of the Forgers (the other being Billy), who attached Anya Forger a fake bomb in her neck to prevent them to do another idiocy.