Captain Kindly originally led the 2nd Company in the Ashok Regiment. He was renowned for his harsh manner with his troops and known as the "meanest officer in the entire Malazan military". He was described as a man with very little hair left, though he had a passion for his collection of combs.
In House of Chains
He was the commander of the garrison in Silver Lake when Karsa Orlong, Bairoth Gild and Delum Thord attacked the town.
Later, he and his men escorted Karsa and Torvald Nom as far as the port of Tanys where they took a different ship across the Malyn Sea.
He appears again in Seven Cities, where he and his men holed up in the cliff-side fortress of B'ridys where he and Lieutenant Pores fell down a well. They were presumed drowned but actually managed to escape the creature at the bottom of the well only to later be captured and imprisoned in Raraku by Korbolo Dom's Dogslayers.
He and Pores were freed by ghosts of the Bridgeburners on the eve of the confrontation between Sha'ik and Adjunct Tavore. They were then found by Tene Baralta and his men and brought to the Malazan camp.
Later he became a captain in the Bonehunters.
After the battle with the K'Chain Nah'ruk, he was promoted to Fist.