Kevin Tran

Kevin Tran was a normal high school student whose life was turned upside down when he became a prophet.

Powers and Abilities
Kevin has been shown to be a very intelligent and cunning young man, eluding both the Leviathans and demons alone, as well as escaping capture from Sam and Dean multiple times.
 * Reading the Word of God - He was able to translate the stone tablet which had the Word of God written upon it. He was also able to reconnect pieces of the stone back together when it was broken into pieces.
 * Spellcasting - Upon the discovery of the tablet on demons, he has since been able to cast a spell or create a magical bomb that could destroy all nearby demons and their vessels.

Reading Is Fundamental
Kevin was a normal kid studying for his university exams when he was struck by lightning. Waking up the next day, he is compelled to take his mother's car and go after the tablet. He steals the tablet from the hospital while nobody's looking and makes a run for it. However he is chased and eventually caught by Sam and Meg. He explains to the brothers that he couldn't explain what happened or why he feels compelled to keep the tablet close to him. However he informs them that he can read it, although it is hard to focus on for a long time.

Two angels, Hester and Inias appear to take him to the desert, a rite for every prophet in order to read the Word. However they are banished by Dean using a sigil. Kevin freaks out but then calms down. He accompanies the brothers, Meg and Castiel to Rufus's cabin. After he has translated the tablet, the Winchesters allow the angels to take him. The angels agree to return Kevin to his mother, and watch over him. Unfortunately, Edgar the Leviathan is waiting for them at Kevin's home. He kills both of Kevin's angel escorts and kidnaps Kevin.

There Will Be Blood
Kevin is sitting bound and gagged in a conference room. Dick Roman removes the tape from his mouth and has Edgar unbind him. Dick tells Kevin to translate the Word of God, which Edgar stole when he kidnapped Kevin. When he initially refuses, Edgar turns on a live video feed, showing his mother being held hostage with a blade to her neck. He translates the tablet for the Leviathans, and Edgar releases his mother. Dick, however, says that he needs Kevin to stay a little while longer, presumably so that he doesn't warn the Winchesters.

Survival of the Fittest
Kevin is seen in a waiting room where he meets Polly - a brainwashed human test subject. He tries to converse with her, but quickly realizes she's too "stoned" to care about anything. He later escapes the room but is caught by Susan after spying on Dick, finding out the Leviathans plans, and is taken to a room and is bound and gagged to a chair. Sam comes and rescues him and Kevin tells Sam they need to destroy the lab. Sam and Kevin later go and find Dean, Castiel and Dick Roman and witness Dick's death. Dean and Castiel inexplicably vanish. Moments later, Crowley shows up with two demons and orders them to take Kevin.

We Need To Talk About Kevin
Kevin, who has had his hair cut and a manicure and pedicure on Crowley's orders in order to spiff him up, is brought to a warehouse by Crowley who reveals that he has somehow gotten his hands on another Word of God tablet, this one about demons. Crowley asks Kevin to translate it for him and Kevin learns that part of the tablet describes how to open the Gates of Hell and let all demons out upon the Earth which is what Crowley wants. Kevin directs Crowley to a Gate in Wisconson while he performs a spell to open it. However, Kevin takes advantage of the fact that Crowley can't read the tablet and casts a different spell, this one to kill demons. Kevin kills the two demons guarding him with it and escapes with the tablet. Kevin learns many things from the tablet, including the effects of holy water and how to make a Devil's Trap and that there is a way to close the gates forever and banish all demons from the Earth. Kevin hides the tablet and travels to Michigan to the college his girlfriend Channing is studying at, but doesn't go and see her. Kevin then travels to Fairfield, Iowa where he hides out in a church. All throughout this time, Kevin tries to contact Sam for help, but gives up after six months of not being able to reach him, believing him to be dead.

After Dean returns from Purgatory, Sam and Dean track him down and explain why they didn't come find him. Kevin explains what happened to him and what he learned. Sam later apologizes for not helping him. Kevin expresses solemnly the disbelief that this is now his life, and ultimately does not believe Sam when he says it will get better. Shortly after Kevin leaves, two demons show up. Kevin helps Sam kill one by shooting it repeatedly with holy water, distracting it. Crowley arrives with a possesed Channing and offers a deal: Kevin turns himself over and Crowley will let her go, proving that Channing is still alive by letting her take control for a moment.

Kevin pretends to agree, but instead lures the two demons into a backroom where he pulls at a string that releases a container of holy water above the door, dousing and distracting them, allowing him and the Winchesters to escape. Enraged, Crowley snaps Channing's neck while Kevin watches from the speeding Impala. Afterwards, Kevin is seen upset over the loss of his girlfriend in the car, and snaps at Sam who asks him how he's holding up.

What's Up, Tiger Mommy?
Kevin wants to check on his mother for fear of her ending up like Channing, despite Dean's reassurances that it's better they do not endanger her by heading off into a trap if Crowley is waiting for them. On Kevin's insistence, the Winchester brothers bring him back home and watch his house at a distance. After clearing the demons keeping watch on his house, Kevin reunites with his mother and explains along with the Winchesters on the existence of demons and the supernatural, which Mrs. Tran takes in this information with surprising ease.

After getting anti-possession tattoos, Kevin, along with his mother who has insisted in going along with the group, and the Winchesters attend the auction held by the pagan god Plutus to retrieve the stolen The Word Of God. Kevin is then kidnapped by Beau, with Mrs. Tran offering her soul in exchange for the release of her son. Before this can happen, Crowley possesses Mrs. Tran and steals the tablet after killing Plutus. Dean attempts to kill Crowley in Mrs. Tran's body, but he escapes. Kevin, angry by the fact Dean was willing to kill his mother to get to Crowley, secretly disappears with his traumatized mother to get away from both the Winchesters and Crowley.

A Little Slice of Kevin
Kevin and his mother stay in an abandoned restaurant to hide from the demons. Mrs. Tran, who has recovered from her possession, attempts to replicate the demon bomb that Kevin made for his initial escape from the demons to deal with Crowley so they can strike back at him. She hires a witch, Delta, to deliver the ingredients to them, but Delta betrays their location to Crowley. Kevin is captured by Crowley while Mrs. Tran incapacitates one of his demons with holy water and overpowers him.

Kevin is brought to an abandoned warehouse where Crowley has kidnapped all the future prophets in an attempt to translate the tablet. Crowley forces Kevin to translate the tablet by killing one of the prophets and later cutting off his left pinky finger when he refuses. While the Winchester brothers and Castiel arrive at the warehouse to rescue him, Kevin reads the tablet and tells Crowley that there is information on how to kill demons and close the gates of Hell. Before he can be forced to reveal more on the existence of other tablets written by God's scribe Metatron, Castiel interrupts and inadvertently smashes the demon tablet in half when Crowley tries to escape with it.

Kevin is tended to his injuries by his mom, who is warned by Sam that calling a witch has resulted in this situation. The brothers call Garth to look after them while Castiel believes he can heal Kevin's cut-off finger.

Torn and Frayed
Dean and Sam are teleported by Castiel to a freighter holding a disheveled Kevin, who Garth has relocated. Mrs. Tran is revealed to be hiding in another hideout away from Kevin while he attempts to translate his half of the demon tablet to no avail.

Trial and Error
After several weeks of translating the demon tablet without much sleep, Kevin finally discovers the way to close the gates of Hell. He informs the Winchester brothers that the method involves three trials of God's design, the first of which is to bath in the blood of a hellhound. Noticing Kevin's disheveled state, Sam urges him to take better care of himself and see light at the end of their ordeal.

Taxi Driver
Kevin becomes even more restless and weary, finally reaching the point that he begins to have dreams and waking hallucinations of Crowley speaking to him in his mind and dismembering his limbs. Despite the terrifying ordeal, Kevin makes progress on the translation of the demon tablet and informs Dean and Sam of the second trial, which is to rescue an innocent soul from Hell and deliver it to Heaven.

While Dean and Sam doubts that Crowley is speaking to Kevin in his mind and try to calm him down, Kevin isolates himself in a small closet in fear of being discovered by Crowley. He tells Dean that he can't take it anymore but Dean urges him to get a grip and keep going, because that is what they do best. Kevin comes to a decision and hides the demon tablet in a secret location only known to himself, to Dean's chagrin.

Alone on the boat later at night, Kevin once again hears Crowley's voice in his head and tries to assure himself that it is a dream, but the room shakes and Crowley appears as the windows break. He tells Kevin that he has killed his mother and discovered his address on her cellphone. Kevin becomes distraught while Crowley says that he like the rest of them are just flitting blits of light while Crowley is forever. This causes Kevin to finally break down and scream in despair. When the Winchester brothers return to the boat after Sam has passed the second trial, they discover that Kevin is gone, along with all his belongings and research done on the demon tablet.

Trivia

 * Kevin is the second prophet to appear in the series, not counting the false prophet Leah or the Jehovah's Witness Dean talked to who seemed to be a prophet, the first being Chuck Shurley.
 * Kevin was formerly a vegan and an AP student.
 * He plays the cello.
 * Kevin is the only prophet that does not have an archangel protector.