Kyle Kane is a witch that has been a Lunar Cove resident since 1967, and is ready to be the life of the party again after his resurrection.
DON’T THEY KNOW IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD?
GENDER/PRONOUNS: Cis Man, He/Him AGE: 55 OCCUPATION: Snack Counter Employee at Sunset Drive-in FACECLAIM: Leo Woodall
IT ENDED WHEN YOU SAID GOODBYE
SPECIES: Witch COVEN POSITION: Not a member ABILITIES: Animal Telepathy, Aura Reading, Telekinesis
WELCOME TO LUNAR COVE, KYLE KANE
Trigger Warnings: Death, Parental Death, Violence, Insects, Alcohol, Vehicle Accident
The son of a witch, Kyle Kane grew up in the very outskirts of Shadow Lake, hanging around the run-down extermination business where his single father worked. For several generations, the Kane family itself had rejected the leadership of the coven, dating back to a bitter fight between great-grandfathers. And to that end, Kyle himself always felt like a bit of an outcast, cut off, to some degree, from polite Lunar Cove society. That said, while his family’s reputation did genuinely precede him at times, he himself was also not exactly a likable kid. Something of a bully, a pest, and a clown, shoving his peers around under the guise of joking and becoming the bane of more than one school administrator, he found new friends as a young teenager, when his magical abilities began to manifest themselves for the very first time.
With a gift for animal telepathy in particular, Kyle, who accompanied his dad on house calls, began guiding the less desirable creatures of Lunar Cove away from his exterminator father’s wrath. A savior of rats, mice, and insects, pests misunderstood as he was, he once found a nest of wasps in an abandoned home and found great exhilaration in becoming “part” of the hive mind. Moreover, as a reader of auras, he did perhaps get some private pleasure from seeing how frightened those beings that did not frighten him could make those around him.
Nevertheless, as he grew into himself in high school, Kyle was able to discover a niche. While not exactly popular on his own merits, he did attend all the same parties as the cool kids, who, at the very least, thought he was funny and amusing in his dangerous, stupid recklessness. He was the classmate who did stunts, who jumped off tall things, who made rude noises in the back of science lab, and who could send teachers reeling with crude graffiti. A good time, but not someone you genuinely wanted to be buddies with.
Upon finishing his education, then, Kyle never did leave his hometown. Working at a video rental store, he began hanging around with a group of others in much the same boat as him, Lunar Cove’s troublemakers, eternally cruising about in search of the next great thrill.
Kyle became particularly close with their ringleader, a young man already in the sights of the town’s elders for a string of petty thefts, vandalism incidents, and hazardous pranks (like the removal of road signage).
Together, they dubbed themselves the Stingers. They couldn't afford jackets, but there were airbrushed t-shirts once.
One evening, their headlights off, this group of misfits were prowling the parking lot of a local supermarket, chasing shoppers in their vehicles to try and frighten them. An innocent person was injured, and while Kyle was mostly let off with a slap on the wrist, his best friend was harshly punished by the Council, due to witness testimony from an onlooker.
Kyle, who already had a distaste for authority, found a new ire awakened by this incident. His leader whispered in his ear about it, talked of vengeance, talked of how Lunar Cove had never liked them. But while Kyle had staked his very identity on being part of the hive, he was caught alone by a group of hunters and killed in 1992.
Resurrected on Halloween, Kyle has since taken a job at the drive-in, mostly for the later showings. No one even seems to directly recall the attack that claimed his life, and this reality has only added more fuel to the fire within him, as though Lunar Cove really was once again turning its back on him.
But he’s been laying low, having a few drinks and a few laughs, but the pleasure of life cannot mask the ghosts lurking in his peripheries. The motorcycle accident on Halloween has not been linked to him, and so, he’s largely avoided direct scrutiny. Damn, though, how nice it would be for things to be simple and fun and easy again.
What is the purpose of your character being in Lunar Cove? What are their end goals?
In 1992, Kyle Kane, a witch who had grown up in Lunar Cove on the outskirts of the actual coven, met his end at the hands of a group of hunters. However, one could not call his demise untimely, because, after all, it would have arrived one way or another—the only proper conclusion for a young man with such frightful powers, living so recklessly, so wantonly in the throes of ill-gotten glory days.
On Halloween 2022, Kyle found himself returned to flesh by strange magic he had never before encountered. That night, however, he happened upon an old acquaintance, someone who had once seen him and a few friends execute a prank gone terribly wrong in the early 1990s when they were playing chicken with their cars in a grocery store parking lot.
Said neighbor was a witness to the Council when the group’s ringleader received harsh punishment for the injuries caused. In an act of deliberate, frantic vengeance, then, Kyle cut their Halloween reunion short through a violent act of telekinesis, causing the man’s motorcycle to “accidentally” swerve and claiming a life to restore his own.
He would have gone on living were it not for the pesky pitfalls of life as a reanimated husk. He is haunted now by visions of ghosts long gone: his father and of course, his very best friend, the ringleader whom he had once followed as a dutiful lackey.
Kyle would do anything to be normal again, to go back to the way things were, to reclaim the life he could have had back in ‘92, to no longer have to look into the astral plane, and to throw it all in the face of the very town that excluded and forgot him.
What is your character's personality like?
In truth, Kyle can be a genuinely good time. He likes to party. He likes to have fun. His outgoing inner child has not vanished. And to that end, he has a somewhat juvenile sense of humor, bordering on mean-spirited at times, but when you’re not on the receiving end of it, it can feel like being in the inner club, the freedom to give in to your worst impulses because everyone is laughing with you, not at you. What he is not, however, is a methodical, logical, or even intelligent leader. He is the muscle, the dutiful scrappy ranger. An eternal follower, Kyle has spent his life just looking for some place to fit in and someone to shadow, and he has found just that once again. He is easily manipulated and riled up by perceived or genuine slights, especially those directed at his personal companions, his ride or dies. Call it peer pressure. Desperate and reckless, he has little regard for collateral damage in his quest for some peace and quiet.
Is there anything else you'd like the residents of Lunar Cove to know about this character?
Kyle would like everyone to know that while he is best at animal telepathy, he can still read auras and use some degree of sloppy telekinesis. So he knows if you don't like him, and if you don't, he can throw wads of paper at you with his mind.