| “ | I'm gonna be different, okay? I'm not there doing what they do, I'm there to save lives, I'm gonna be like Superman. | „ |
| ~ Delsin Rowe to his brother Reggie. |
| “ | You are not in control. | „ |
| ~ Delsin taunting the D.U.P. through a soldier's helmet camera. |
Delsin Rowe is the main protagonist of the 2014 video game inFamous: Second Son. He is a Native American street artist who, after discovering his nature as a Conduit, sets out to Seattle with his brother Reggie to save their tribe, the Akomish, from dying from their wounds inflicted by Brooke Augustine, director of the Department of Unified Protection.
He was voiced by Troy Baker, who also portrayed Booker DeWitt in Bioshock Infinite and Joel Miller in The Last of Us.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
- When Delsin saw Hank trapped in rubble, he tried to help him out of it, only to be taken hostage.
- While initially scared by his newly absorbed powers from Hank, he used them to get to the nearby fish cannery, and worked to save his surrogate mother Betty from the collapsing, burning building.
- When confronted by Brooke Augustine about him being a Conduit, he tried to confess to this so that she would not brutally interrogate his tribe, though it did not work due to him initially not understanding how becoming a Conduit works.
- Once he learns that his tribe is slowly dying from Augustine’s concrete daggers, he, with the reluctant help of his brother Reggie, traveled to Seattle to absorb Augustine’s concrete abilities, due to it being the only way he could heal the tribe.
- On the way to Seattle, Delsin destroyed a concrete blockade with his powers so that a bus of civilians could make it to the city, despite Reggie ordering him not to do so.
- During his time in Seattle, he did various heroic acts like healing injured people and rescuing suspected “Bio-terrorists” from cages and/or harassment from groups of people, all the while slowly chipping away at the D.U.P.’s grip on the city.
- He helped Raymond Wolfe and Zeke Dunbar retrieve research on Cole MacGrath’s actions so that they could posthumously clear his name.
- After defeating Conduit spree killer Abigail “Fetch” Walker, he convinced Reggie not to arrest her, but to instead let her go to help them bring down Augustine.
- He helped Fetch take down some drug dealers and rescue some prostitutes they held captive, while encouraging her to use non-lethal tactics going forward.
- When it appeared that civilians suspected of Conduits are being kidnapped by strange angel-like figures, he, with the help of Reggie and a fan named Eugene, started to track down where the “angels” are coming from to try and rescue the people.
- After defeating “He Who Dwells” in a video game world and finding out it was actually Eugene taking those civilians, he convinces Reggie not to arrest him, as Eugene was only trying to rescue the people that his “angels” were taking.
- He helped Eugene rescue the D.U.P.’s former prisoners from Akuran gangsters who were trying to sell the prisoners back to the D.U.P., in the process helping build up Eugene’s confidence and courage in the real world.
- When learning that Celia Penderghast decided that humans and Conduits could not co-exist and that the latter must take their freedom by force as a result of his actions, Delsin felt guilty that he had inadvertently inspired a bloodthirsty assassin, and swore that he would stop her whenever she’d eventually resurface.
- When Eugene and Fetch were captured, he, with the help of Reggie and a returning Hank, traveled to the makeshift D.U.P. base they were being held at to try and rescue them, though the plan fell apart after Hank betrayed the two to Augustine.
- While Delsin was initially planning to kill Hank for his betrayal by choking him with his chain, he ultimately spared his life after he revealed that Augustine and the D.U.P. were holding his daughter hostage, and let Hank leave Seattle with her, telling him to stay safe before walking away.
- With the help of Eugene and Fetch, Delsin was ultimately able to find Augustine, absorb her powers, and ultimately avenge Reggie by defeating her. He also chose to spare her so as to expose her and the D.U.P. for their crimes.
- With Augustine and the D.U.P. defeated, Delsin and his newfound friends were responsible for a “Second Age” where ordinary humans and Conduits could peacefully co-exist, and the shuttering of the Curdun Cay detention facility, leaving the Conduits in it free to live their lives as they saw fit.
- He returned to his hometown of Salmon Bay and kept his promise by healing his fellow Akomish with his newfound concrete powers, and he cleaned up the billboard he vandalized at the beginning of the game to make way for a new art piece memorializing his fallen brother.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Delsin’s heroic actions are ultimately determinant, and he can just as easily commit various villainous actions, such as keeping quiet about being a Conduit and letting the Akomish be tortured as a result, corrupting Fetch and Eugene and amplifying their worst traits, killing Hank and leaving his daughter to fend for herself, and killing Augustine for Reggie's death instead of exposing her.
- All of these result in Delsin, Eugene, and Fetch, merely overthrowing Augustine and the D.U.P. as the new tyrannical rulers of Seattle instead of freeing the city, Delsin absorbing the powers of every Conduit in Curdun Cay, and (if the player has reached the “Infamous” rank) killing every Akomish with an Orbital Drop as a result of them rejecting him for his actions.
- Even if he does not go down the Evil Karma route, he still has moments of arrogance and jerkishness, mainly directed towards Reggie, flaunting his “superiority” over “normals” like him, as an example.
- When Reggie ultimately sacrificed himself to save Delsin’s life, he displayed a rather wrathful side to him, and started using lethal force against Augustine and the D.U.P. during his first fight with her. He also seriously considered killing Hank in cold blood for his betrayal leading to Reggie’s death.
- According to his rapsheet in the pause menu, he’s wanted for acts such as petty vandalism, resisting arrest, destruction of property, and more. Granted, the D.U.P. is mainly using it to try and paint Delsin in a far worse light to make people afraid of him, but he is shown to commit acts of vandalism onscreen via his stencil art, and his interactions with Reggie at the beginning of the game imply he’s done similar things in the past.
External Links[]
- Delsin Rowe on the Heroes Wiki
- Delsin Rowe on the Villains Wiki
- Delsin Rowe on the Infamous Wiki
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 Inconsistently Admirable
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