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|actor= [[Osric Chau]]

|dates= December 2, 1995 – 2013 (killed by [[Gadreel]])<br>2019 (raised by God)

|occupation= [[Prophet]] (formerly)<br>[[Hell Ghost]]

|episodes= [[7.21 Reading Is Fundamental]]<br>[[7.22 There Will Be Blood]]<br>[[7.23 Survival of the Fittest]]<br>[[8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin]]<br>[[8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?]]<br>[[8.07 A Little Slice of Kevin]]<br>[[8.10 Torn and Frayed]]<br>[[8.14 Trial and Error]]<br>[[8.19 Taxi Driver]]<br>[[8.21 The Great Escapist]]<br>[[8.23 Sacrifice]]<br>[[9.02 Devil May Care]]<br>[[9.06 Heaven Can't Wait]]<br>[[9.09 Holy Terror]]<br>[[9.14 Captives]]<br>[[11.21 All in the Family]]<br>[[15.02 Raising Hell]]

==History==

Kevin Tran was a teenager from Neighbor, Michigan. He is the son of [[Linda Tran]], and his father died when he was a child.

Kevin was in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement advanced placement], and plays the cello. When the [[Leviathan]] [[tablet]] was unearthed, Kevin was called as a [[prophet]]. The [[angel]] [[Hester]] referred to Kevin as "the sole keeper of the Word on Earth."

To protect Kevin and his mother, he was placed on [[Garth]]'s [[Fizzles' Folly|boat]] where he isolated himself to translate the demon tablet for Sam and Dean, as it promised a way to send all the demons on earth to [[Hell]] and lock the gates, forever. He discovered three [[trials]] that must be undertaken. However, while Sam was doing the third trial, Dean finds out it will kill him, and so he calls it off. Kevin's next task was trying to translate the angel tablet, to find away to reverse the spell which [[Metatron]] used to expel all the angels from [[Heaven]].

Two years after the Winchesters last saw him, Kevin's ghost was called in by [[God]] to vouch for Him with the Winchesters. Kevin insists that the Winchesters can trust Chuck and lets them know that for a dead guy, he's doing fine. Telling Kevin that he's spent enough time in the Veil already, God causes Kevin's [[soul]] to finally ascend to its rightful place in [[Heaven]].

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===[[9.10 Road Trip]]===

Kevin is given a [[hunter's funeral pyre]] by Dean. It is also revealed by Metatron that Kevin was the last of the [[prophets]], as he has made sure that no other ones will be activated.

===[[9.14 Captives]]===

* In [[8.05 Blood Brother]] we see a screen shot of Kevin's application to Princeton which shows his date of birth as December 2, 1993. However, earlier in [[7.21 Reading Is Fundamental]], his age was listed as 16-years-old in a television report. If he was born in 1993, he should have been 18 or 19 when [[7.21 Reading Is Fundamental]] aired. This confusion is most likely due to writers' inconsistencies. Therefore it is unclear how old Kevin actually is. Given that Kevin's first appearance in [[7.21 Reading Is Fundamental]] shows he is applying to college though, and lists his age as 16 in his missing report, we can assume that he advanced grades (which would fall in lieu with his advanced placement line), making him actually born in 1995.

* Kevin also lists himself as an agnostic. Another form shows that he's using a credit card under the pseudonym Kevin Park which is a shout out to ''[[Supernatural]]'' first assistant director [[Kevin Parks]].

==External links==

* [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mediablvd/2012/05/06/winchester-radio-supernaturals-reading-is-fundamental Interview with Osric Chau] on Winchester Radio

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQw_LiZdBvQ Character study experiment] – Thoughts running through the head of Kevin Tran at the end of ''Supernatural'' season 7 by Osric Chau

* [http://spn-kevin.livejournal.com/ Community for fanworks] related to Kevin and [[Osric Chau]] on Livejournal

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