"I'm not a character." ― Brennan Lee Mulligan as Evan
"My name is Evan Kelmp, please refer to me as such" ― Evan Kelmp to various Aqrabus Students
Evan Kelmp is an American exchange student at Gowpenny Academy of Arcane Arts. He is in Chimeron.
Description[]
"I'm Evan Kelmp. [...] I think Evan is currently probably walking down the road. I'm sleeping right now at an available cot-- in one of the non-used bunks at Camp Lonefield. There are a lot of summer camps in the area that don't have max capacity and you can usually find a cot or a bunk in one of the bunkhouses that is not currently being used by a rented camp service. I'm over six feet but slouched below six feet, very much from the Adam Driver school of like "Coin flip if you think he's handsome or spooky looking. Could be both." And I have just a white T-shirt, khakis that are way too long for my already long legs and are kind of accordioned around these seemingly brandless chunky sneakers. Rubber Casio watch, waterproof watch, pockets bulging with belongings. Just a grocery bag with T-shirts, socks, and underwear in it. And I'm just walking down the highway."
Personality[]
Evan is awkward around people, possibly due to having few relationships prior to Gowpenny, and even fewer positive ones. He desperately doesn't want to inconvenience others, and often apologizes for potentially making people uncomfortable. Evan is very intelligent and loyal to his friends in the Misfits, especially Jammer. He can be aggressive when even slightly threatened. He also tends to be paranoid and cautious due to the nature of his familiar. Evan also preps excessively for any possible outcome, and though he's afraid of his familiar hurting those he cares about, he displays little hesitation when threatening those who threaten him or his friends.
Appearance[]
Evan is over six feet tall, but appears under six feet because of his slouch. His appearance is compared to Adam Driver– people tend to find him either handsome or "spooky-looking", and sometimes both. When starting at Gowpenny, he has long dark hair, wears a white t-shirt and khakis that are too long for him, brandless chunky sneakers, and a rubber Casio waterproof watch. He carries extra t-shirts, socks, and underwear in a grocery bag at all times. His wallet is double thick and has a plastic gas station phone with no screen or camera. It has three contacts in it: 911, poison control, and animal control.
Evan's wand, the "Scary Monster Wand" [1]
At the beginning of season two, he has cut his hair short, and wears a large boxy black wool coat, black leather wingtip shoes, and a backpack of holding (a gift from K) instead of a grocery bag. His coat and shoes are very nice, but the rest of his clothing is basic and replaceable. The only color he wears is his work shirt.
At the end of Magma and Mingle, as K attempts to heal a wound on Evan's arm, she fails tremendously, and his arm explodes, removing it entirely from his body for a short period of time.
Background[]
Evan's parents were involved in a cultic ritual which promised Evan as a vessel for a series of demons. Because of this, Evan struggled with episodes of chaotic, disturbing, and uncontrollable magic. This made it difficult for him to maintain a stable living situation or family. Evan has lived in many different areas of Iowa, including Des Moines, but he had never before left the state prior to being enrolled in Gowpenny Academy of Arcane Arts. At the time he received his letter, he was sleeping in an empty bunk in Camp Lonefield.
Evan's shadow, which he later learns is his familiar, is often the nexus of the horrific magic in Evan's life. The shadow's presence has an effect on many living and even once-living things in his vicinity. Sometimes they die, but other times they do things or tell him to do things. He claims that, one time, in a butcher shop, a disembodied pig's head told him that God and the devil killed each other.
In the fourth post-episode talk, "That's the Squad," Brennan reveals that Evan also spent time with a fundamentalist militia for a time, but it didn't come up over the course of the campaign. At 15:17, he says, "there was a period of years that he was raised on a fundamentalist militia compound that hyper-adopted people and were like, "we're going to raise you." It's that weird 'get more people into the cause' kind of thing. So there's a couple years he was there. So a lot of his worst skills and knowledge of how bad stuff gets was from those couple years."
History[]
The Chosen Ones[]
Evan is walking along the highway when a large owl starts circling overhead, carrying a large envelope in its beak. It lands in front of him about 20 feet away, drops the envelope, and spreads its wings to bow. Evan pleads with it not to be weird, and it struggles to gain composure, its eyes flickering between bright golden irises and an inky black. It jerks around on the ground, trying to back away, and Evan asks whether or not that's normal before picking the envelope up and opening it.
The owl screeches at him as he does, and he urges it to leave for its own safety, but while it does want to leave, it is still bound by its duties to dictate the letter it delivered. Evan opens the letter to read it and hears a hiss of appreciation in the back of his head. When he finishes, the owl approaches him and coughs up the teleportation pellet along with a splatter of black ichor. Evan begs the owl to make eye contact with him tell him that's normal, but it turns its head around completely.
As the owl leaves, it dips and bobs as it struggles to regain its bearings, and Evan loses sight of it beyond the horizon. Once our of his eye and earshot, however, something snatches it out of the air and laughs menacingly.
Evan wonders how it could have made it across the ocean, as owls cannot lock their wings like albatrosses can, and takes out a pen to sign the letter, informing the school that although he is a minor, he has no legal guardians. He then swallows the pellet, and it is eventually crushed through the processes of peristalsis. He appears in Vertiq Alley alongside the rest of the Magical Misfits: Whitney Jammer; Dream; and Sam Black.
Class Conflict[]
Evan arrives to Gowpenny with the other Misfits, immediately apologizes for banishing Digby the previous day and also his general existence, as he often has already. As Dream figures out how to get cell phone reception, he adds their numbers into his phone, the only non-governmental numbers in his phone, which also maxes out his six saved numbers.
After the Headmistress explains the sorting process and houses, Evan promptly points out his concerns with the system, calling it educational tracking, including calling out the idea of one of the flavors of child being 'evil'. As he mentions that he will cry if he's sorted into 'the Scorpion house', emphasizing it will be an ugly cry.
Family on Six[]
Th episode begins with the dramatic walk up to their evocation class, where the door is blasted open with flames. The flames are caused by Penfrew who was turned into a fire monster as a kind of unwilling joke by his classmates. After Dream charms and traps the fire creature in a cage of furniture, Evan pulls the student out of the construct with his bare hand.
The fire effect on his arm allows Evan to get to the nurse, who mentions the option of an exorcism to remove Evan's magic, but would also remove Even fully from his new friends. Instead the Nurse offers Evan a way to manage his powers, and support him in his effort, but Evan states that for the safety of his new friends and the world at large, he would still like the treatment, but Evan is updated that the apppointment is set but five weeks out.
Time skips a month forward to a Scupper game, where it's Chimeron against Hercinel, and Evan's appointment is a week out. The game is going initally well, but when Tallulah takes cheap shot spell at Evan, Dream attempts and fails to block it, causing Evan to choose to accept the help of the dark voices inside him to save her. They are saved, but he is bodily transformed and now sharing his physical form with at least one of the demons, which Sam is able to see is actually six different entities. Sam works to dispel the various demons, through charm and persuasion, trying to save her friend, managing to dispel several entities. Dream is able to reach Evan and talk to him directly, and Jammer is able to do the final reach out to Evan. With the help of his friends, Evan is finally freed from the entities that have been with him his whole life. Evan and Dream share a kiss.
We're the Heroes[]
The episode opens with Evan once again asking Nurse Stitchnit for the exorcism, and Evan pulls his friends out of the common room to explain the what he had asked the Nurse to do and why. Evan is afraid he will never truly be free of the eternal entities that have plagued him his whole life, and he's willing to sacrifice everything to block the beings from returning, at the loss of his memory of his magical life and friends.
As Evan's friends are trying to convince him to stay with them, the Headmistress Philtrum comes down the hall to the group, apparently to collect Evan for the ritual with Nurse Stitchnit, immediately raising Evan's suspicions. Philtrum is insistent that Evan goes through with the ritual, and the group offers to go with him to collect his grocery bag of socks. While apart from Philtrum, Evan summons his shadow for the first time and commands his shadow as under his control, saying he is done running. He then sends his shadow to get weights for Jammer, and as they 'collect' his socks (which keep being taken out of the bag by Theo) the shadow deposits an assortment of weigh lifting equipment, and Evan declares his intention to stay a wizard and not go through with the ritual. They instead bring up Tallulah's cheap shot offensive spell during the game, and say that Sam has footage on her phone. Philtrum insists on taking Sam to her office, and only Sam, but Dream sends various mice and spiders to track her.
Magma and Mingle[]
Following a battle against three magical, fiery salamander-like creatures, the party recuperate in a healing spring and discuss prior injuries. Evan acknowledges an old arm break that healed badly, but seems unbothered by it. Desperate to help, K impulsively attempts curative magic to rebreak, set, and heal the old injury. Failing to do so, the magic swells in Evan's arm and it explodes from his body. Evan almost immediately falls unconscious and slips below the waters, dying due to a combination of shock, drowning, and severe exsanguination.
Relationships[]
Evan has no relationships prior to enrolling at Gowpenny Academy of Arcane Arts.
Whitney Jammer[]
Whitney assists Evan with a Charm roll when Evan becomes distressed and subconsciously casts magic on a number of people in Vertiq Alley. Jammer often helps Evan regain his self control, and they get along well in general. Evan was the first person that Sam saw Jammer build a magical link with, and Jammer has a true broship with Evan.
K[]
K is fascinated by Evan and his possession of such dark and sinister power. Evan is deeply uncomfortable with this admiration, as his familiar is dangerous and has caused problems for him all his life which led to him isolating himself to protect others. He continuously feels discomfort and receiving more pity than understanding when she swoons over his very sad things he says.
During the Scuppers tournament, he succumbs to the darkness in order to save K, who was trying to save him from the very same fatal blast cast by Tallulah. Giving in, they teleport to safety where he struggles to maintain his consciousness to the various entities he contained as K, newly transformed and pink, tries to connect with him and talk to him through it all. She successfully, along with Sam's charismatic negotiations and Jammer's encouragement, dispelled the entities, freeing Evan. Finally at peace, at least for now, he feels relieved and is kissed by K.
Sam Black[]
Sam, like Dream, initially remarks often about how sad Evan is. She calls him "Kelmp" upon meeting him, which he considers a nickname. Sam and Evan have bonded closely despite being very different, as Sam has often talked Evan through tough situations, and Evan has used his physical prowess to defend Sam in battle. When Evan is in his Shadow Evan form, Sam is the only one he feels comfortable with.
Trivia[]
- Evan knows many facts about birds. This seems to be because Brennan knows many facts about birds. In the holiday special this expanded so that Evan knows facts about deer, such as what deer velvet is and what seasons they grow antlers in.
References[]
| Misfits and Magic Characters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player Characters | Main Season | Dream | Evan Kelmp | Sam Black | Whitney Jammer | ||
| Live Show | Dangerwolf Darkhawk | Chip n Rip Andre Henreek | Premium Va-Casians | |||
| Non-Player Characters |
PC Families and Familiars | BooBoo | Dangerwolf's Parents | Evan's Shadow | Janet and Maurice Tanaka | Mordecai | Ravageur | Ron | Sam's Mother | Spalding | Terminator 2 | Theodore | Troxie Darling | ||
| Gowpenny Academy of Arcane Arts |
Faculty | Headmistress Boudicca Philtrum | Nurse David Stitchnit | The Frunthwinkle | Dr. Norman Boodle | Sausage | Professor Viniscus | ||
| Hercinil | Digsby Cooper | Fergus Ponst | Khanh Nguyen | Tallulah Jillymont | |||
| Aqrabus | Penfrew Lairmsbury | Raclette Camembert | |||
| Messanteu | Sylvie Ecclentripe | |||
| Chimeron | Anamika | Coggle and Hoggle Undergus | Frink | Jesse | Lemli Irving | Peter | |||
| Other | Confirmation Dais | Freya | Golden Snitch Kid | Jammer's Coach | Juice Freshman | Roger | Vertiq Alley Shopkeepers | |||