Kelvin Sycar

Kelvin Sycar is an expat and an Angler currently stationed at Adelphi Shelter. Converted to Christianity by Minister Aner, Kelvin was extracted from the cities in Montana and baptized by Asa Colt, joining the Adelphi formally and training as an Angler. Kelvin assisted Asa with multiple field operations, notably the retrieval of Roman Shelter's data drive and the rescue of Joy Eversnow.

Kelvin was born and raised in the cities, a resident of Montana who grew up during the years of the Transfer and the Declaration. Initially accepting the Primacy's directives and rule, Kelvin indulged in many of the vices and pleasures recently legalized by the Primacy across its territory. Ignoring his single mother's warnings, he began experimenting with both psychoactive drugs and the Primacy's Envisager technology, virtual worlds that allowed him to experience and explore varieties of sin and existence that rarely occurred to the human mind otherwise. In what should have been his best years, Kelvin became a "Wirehead," losing both employment and friendships as he became lost in a life of hallucinations and numbness.

Kelvin's wakeup call came as a young adult, when his mother was killed in a head-on car collision. Shocked out of his mental haze, Kelvin was forced to mourn his only family far sooner than he could have expected, and was also confronted with the truth of his own mortality. If his mother could be taken from the Earth so suddenly, so could he. And from the few scraps of faith he remembered from his childhood, he knew he wasn't ready to face death yet. In all his years of digital fantasy and psychoactive dreams, Kelvin had transformed from a young, vital teenager into a malnourished, anxious shell, unable to go a full day without a dose of one pleasure or the other. But with his mother gone, the weight of responsibility broke through his indulgent mind, and Kelvin recognized that he would need to either shoulder the responsibility of his eternal fate, or have it decided for him on Judgement Day.

Aware of the dangers of pursuing faith under the Primacy's rule, Kelvin used his underground contacts to seek out anyone who could tell him more of God, eternity, and how to escape Hell. As he struggled through an agonizing withdrawal process to escape the false life of Envisage and the substances, Kelvin managed to locate a black market minister named Aner, who spoke to him about the ramifications of sin, the existence of a resistance movement against the Primacy's rule, and the hope of salvation. Repenting and confessing his sins, Kelvin set out on his journey toward Heaven, directed to escape the cities by Minister Aner before his new faith could be discovered and he could be executed by the Primacy.

Kelvin was sent to an extraction site on the outskirts of the cities to board a shuttle, one that Minister Aner said would take him to a Shelter where he could pursue his new life freely. Given an Arcus Suit by the minister to protect him from the Primacy's nanoscopics, Kelvin fled the cities on the shuttle, but his escape was nearly brought to an end as their transport was struck by a Heron attack. Suffering a dislocated shoulder in the crash, Kelvin found that he and Asa Colt, one of the Current's Anglers, were the only survivors. The two managed to escape the crash site, embarking on a long journey to reach Adelphi Shelter by foot. Battling exhaustion and a pair of Eidolons along the way, the two eventually managed to reach safety, where Kelvin was welcomed by the Shelter's Huntaway, Phoebe Adrakis, and baptized by Asa.

An official member of the Adelphi, Kelvin quickly elected to be trained as an Angler by Asa, spending the next several weeks getting to know his fellow believers and studying the arts of ranged and melee combat, survival, and security.