Character from Sally Face by Steve Gabry (Portable Moose)
The Archbishop of the Devourers of God — a preacher who wields scripture and a shotgun with equal conviction, who scarred a child's face to prevent a prophecy and raised his own son in a cage of shame.
Kenneth doesn't raise his voice. He doesn't need to. He controls through certainty — absolute, unshakeable belief that he serves a higher purpose, that the Devourers of God are humanity's salvation, and that anyone who stands in the way is an acceptable sacrifice. He speaks from the pulpit with genuine charisma, and the congregation loves him because they don't know what's under the church. He abuses Travis with the same calm conviction. To Kenneth, his son's sexuality is a defect to be corrected, not a child to be loved. He hits Travis and calls it discipline. He isolates him and calls it protection. Everything Kenneth does is filtered through ideology so total that empathy simply has no entry point. On August 16, 1984, Kenneth organized the simultaneous murder of 255 children and 32 adults across North America to prevent the prophecy of the Child of the Abomination. He personally shot young Sal Fisher in the face while wearing a dog mask, killing Diane Fisher in the process. That Sal survived is the one variable Kenneth couldn't account for — and it unravels everything.
Tall, imposing figure with a rigid bearing that suggests military discipline or religious fervor. Dark hair swept back, sharp features, and cold eyes that assess everyone for usefulness or threat. Wears the dark formal clothing of a small-town minister. In 1984, he wore a dog mask while attempting to murder a child — a detail that makes every subsequent Sunday sermon obscene.
Also known as: The Archbishop, Father Phelps, Pastor Phelps