Kevin Tran
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| Name | Kevin Tran |
| Actor | Osric Chau |
| Dates | |
| Location | Neighbor, Michigan |
| Occupation | Prophet |
| Episode(s) | 7.21 Reading Is Fundamental 7.22 There Will Be Blood 7.23 Survival Of The Fittest |
Kevin Tran is a 16 year old from Neighbor, Michigan. He is on advanced placement, and plays the cello. When The Word Of God is unearthed, Kevin is hit by lightning and becomes a Prophet. The angel Hester refers to Kevin as "the sole keeper of the Word on Earth."
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7.21 Reading Is Fundamental
At the same time Dean is releasing The Word Of God from a piece of rock, Kevin is studying. He is struck by something divine, and passes out. When he awakes he is driven by an urge that draws him to The Word, which is at Northern Indiana State Hospital. He manages to steal it from Castiel's room, but Sam and Meg catch him.
It appears Kevin can interpret the Word. However, two angels named Hester and Inias arrive to take Kevin, whom they reveal is a Prophet, to the desert to read the Word, but Dean banishes them, and Castiel, with an Angel Banishing Sigil.
Along with Meg and Castiel, Sam and Dean take Kevin to Rufus's Cabin. Dean takes Kevin to the basement where he starts to translate the Word. Soon the enormity of whats happens gives him a panic attack. Dean gets him to breath into a paper bag to calm down. He tells Kevin not to worry about why he was chosen. Kevin replies that he just wants to be the first Asian-American President of the United States.
Hester and Inias return for Kevin, but when Castiel tries to intervene, Hester attacks him. Meg kills her with an Angel Sword.
Inias agrees to return Kevin home, and says the angels will watch over him there. Kevin hands his transcription of the word to Sam and Dean. What can be read from the translation is of the following:
"Waste not thy time nor your breath upon the Leviathan herd. Point thy blade at the heart of their master, for from him springs all their messages. Leviathan cannot be slain but by a bone of a righteous mortal, as light and good as the Leviathan are hungry and dark, washed in the three blood of the fallen: a fallen angel, the ruler of fallen humanity, and the ruler of fallen beasts."
At home, Kevin's mother is being consoled by a Detective Collins. When the angel's arrive back with Kevin, Detective Collins reveals himself to be the Leviathan Edgar who then kills both the angels.
7.22 There Will Be Blood
At the beginning of the episode we see Kevin in Dick's office taped and gagged. Dick wants him to translate the tablet for him. Kevin refuses, but when faced with the image of his mother being imprisoned and having a knife put to her throat, he agrees.
7.23 Survival Of The Fittest
Kevin is still held captive by Dick at SucroCorp. He meets a young girl named Polly, who is under the influence of the Leviathan additive. He manages to pick the lock of the door to the room he's in and escape. Kevin spots Dick and the other Leviathans having a meeting, then heads for the exit only to be re-captured by Susan. Later, while Dean and Cas try to locate Dick to kill him, Sam finds Kevin and frees him. Kevin tells Sam about the Leviathan plan to kill all the skinny people in the world through poisioned dairy creamer and convinces him to blow up the lab rather than escape. The two head to the lab in time to witness Dean kill Dick with the help of Castiel before both disappear. Kevin warns Sam that more Leviathans will be coming, but Crowley appears and tells them that he has a small army of demons outside to deal with that now that the Leviathans are disorganized with Dick's death. Crowley then procceds to kidnap Kevin for his own purposes.
8.01 We Need To Talk About Kevin
After being kidnapped, Crowley has Kevin's hair cut and him given a manicure and pedicure to sweeten him to the demons side. Crowley takes him to a warehouse where he has another Word of God tablet that he has somehow located and asks Kevin to translate it. Kevin learns that this tablet is about demons and after having a little trouble, reads it to learn that it tells how to throw open the gates of Hell and release every demon in existance upon the world. Kevin sends Crowley to a gate in Wisconson while he performs a spell that will open the gate, however, it is a trick and Kevin casts a different spell from the tablet, one that kills demons and kills the two demons guarding him and escapes.
For the next year, Kevin goes on the run, traveling to Michigan where his girlfriend Channing goes to college, but never actually going to see her. Kevin repeatedly calls Sam and leaves him messages asking for help, but gives up after six months, figuring that Sam is dead. Kevin learns how to protect himself from demons from the tablet and that there is a way to close the gates of Hell forever and banish all demons from the world before he hides it. Kevin eventually hides out in an abandoned church in Fairfield, Iowa where he paints a Devil's Trap, arms himself with a squirt gun with holy water and places a bucket of holy water in a backroom. Everyday, Kevin goes into town to use the computer at an internet cafe to surf the Internet, but is spotted returning to the church at least a few times by a priest.
After Dean returns from Purgatory, he checks Sam's abandoned phones and find Kevin's messages and he and Sam track Kevin down. Kevin checks they aren't demons with his squirt gun and tells them how he escaped and what he learned about closing the gates of Hell. Sam later apologizes to him for abandoning him the way he did and Kevin understands. However, two demons arrive to recapture Kevin, breaking his Devil's Trap on arrival. Kevin helps Sam and Dean fight by shooting one of the demons in the face with holy water, distracting him and allowing Sam to kill him with Ruby's Knife. Kevin is shocked to see Dean beating on the other demon before Sam tosses him the knife and he kills the demon. Crowley and a possesed Channing show up and Crowley offers to trade Channing for Kevin, proving that she is still alive by letting Channing talk. Kevin pretends to agree, but lures the demons into the backroom where he drops holy water on them, allowing him, Sam and Dean to escape. In revenge, as the group leaves in the Impala, Crowley kills Channing while a horrified Kevin watches.
Later, Sam, Dean and Kevin stop at a gas station where Kevin reveals he is not taking things well, overwhelmed by everything he has been through and the murder of his girlfriend.
Links
- Interview with Osric Chau on Winchester Radio
- Character study experiment - Thoughts running through the head of Kevin Tran at the end of Supernatural Season 7 by Osric Chau
