Kevan Bokoloff was raised in an Ixo Syndicate family by parents who made no secret of their role as syndicate enforcers - nor did they hide how much they enjoyed the opportunities for cruelty and brutality this job offered them. In his household, the evening routine included his father and mother returning home from work covered in blood, and Kevan grew up withdrawn and distrustful, shunning social interaction in favor of his solitary study of magic and technology, preferably in combination. He was a perpetual disappointment to his parents, who wanted to give him a place in the Ixo Syndicate but despaired that he was neither tough nor aggressive enough to survive there.
Although rudimentary compared to the advanced networks on more developed worlds, Pan’s infosphere sufficiently connected Kevan with a community of free-thinking, educated, and rebellious intellectuals like himself - individuals who not only broadened his knowledge of computers and magic, but introduced him to essays, philosophy, and music that shaped his worldview. Eventually, after months of online interactions with his new friends, Kevan came to understand that society on Pan was, in fact, a sham, a flimsy veneer to hide the truth: the Ixo Syndicate owned everyone and everything, and community figures and politicians across the planet who professed to care for the people’s well-being had, in fact, sold them out. Disillusioned and embittered, Kevan began to take his life into his own hands at last.
With some purloined codes from his parents’ personal effects - and the assistance of his new friends - Kevan hacked into a secret slush fund belonging to the Ixo Syndicate, siphoning off enough credits to strike out on his own. While leaving his violent home, however, he was caught by his parents, leading to an emotional confrontation that forced Kevan to physically defend himself. Traumatized and enraged, he fled into the arms of his online friends, who brought him to his new home: an underground hacker collective dedicated to undermining the Ixo Syndicate and its puppets. In short order, Kevan had built a reputation for himself in Pan’s criminal underground as a wunderkind whose magical talents were matched only by his technical skills. He has since set out on his own, and he now lives in a modest one-room apartment with an excellent infosphere connection and an even better sound system, but he keeps close contact with the rebellious online community that helped him escape his turbulent home and family.
Kevan appears sullen and antisocial around those he doesn’t know well, opening up only when around those close to him. He wears his loathing of the Ixo Syndicate - and authority in general - on his sleeve, never missing an opportunity to sabotage those in power and point out the cynical truth that those most trusted by society are usually the most corrupt. Among friends, he reveals a more vulnerable side and will go to great lengths to assist and protect those he considers his “real” family.
