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'''Delsin Rowe''' is the main character in ''[[InFamous: Second Son]]''. After living a "normal" life for 24 years, Delsin, who is a rebel Akomish Native American, discovers he is a [[Conduits|Bioterrorist]] after touching [[Hank Daughtry|one of them]] and acquiring the latter's powers. He is gifted with the abilities to [[Power Absorption|absorb]] any other Bioterrorist's power after touching them. Once he realizes he is very special, he travels with his [[Reggie Rowe|older brother]] to [[Seattle]] in order to stop the [[Department of Unified Protection]], or D.U.P., and acquire [[Brooke Augustine|its director's]] power of concrete so he can heal his fellow Akomish members.
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'''Delsin Rowe''' is the main character in ''[[InFamous: Second Son]]''. After living a "normal" life for 24 years, Delsin, who is a rebel Akomish Native American, discovers he is a [[Conduits|Conduit/Bioterrorist]] after touching [[Hank Daughtry|one of them]] and acquiring the latter's powers. He is gifted with the abilities to [[Power Absorption|absorb]] any other Bioterrorist's power after touching them. Once he realizes he is very special, he travels with his [[Reggie Rowe|older brother]] to [[Seattle]] in order to stop the [[Department of Unified Protection]], or D.U.P., and acquire [[Brooke Augustine|its director's]] power of concrete so he can heal his fellow Akomish members.
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==

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This article contains spoilers concerning InFamous: Second Son. Read at your own risk.

Damn… I love meeting new people.
― Delsin Rowe

Delsin Rowe is the main character in InFamous: Second Son. After living a "normal" life for 24 years, Delsin, who is a rebel Akomish Native American, discovers he is a Conduit/Bioterrorist after touching one of them and acquiring the latter's powers. He is gifted with the abilities to absorb any other Bioterrorist's power after touching them. Once he realizes he is very special, he travels with his older brother to Seattle in order to stop the Department of Unified Protection, or D.U.P., and acquire its director's power of concrete so he can heal his fellow Akomish members.

Biography

Delsin is a 24-year-old Native American from the Akomish Tribe who believes he is destined for greatness. Being a street artist, his un-containable free expression sets a perfect background for his standoff with the D.U.P. Delsin has a rebellious attitude and favors anti-authoritarian street art. He is also an artist himself and enjoys tagging buildings with his own artwork. Unfortunately, this constantly irritates and embarrasses his older brother, Reggie Rowe, who is forced to keep arresting him over and over again.

Becoming a Bioterrorist

After being confronted by his brother, Reggie, over vandalizing his Sheriff's billboard, the brothers witness the crash of a D.U.P. truck transporting a trio of Bioterrorists named Hank Daughtry, Abigail Walker and Eugene Sims. While Abigail and Eugene quickly get away, Delsin attempts to help Hank out of some rubble and, for his troubles, becomes a hostage in the resulting standoff with Reggie.

During the struggle, Delsin accidentally absorbs Hank's powers and uses them to chase him into the nearby burning fish cannery, attempting to save Betty who is trapped in the building. Armed with nothing but a Chain and his underdeveloped smoke powers, Delsin chases Hank into the D.U.P.'s custody. Unfortunately D.U.P.'s leader Brooke Augustine uses her cement powers to brutally interrogate Delsin.

Despite his best efforts, Brooke doesn't believe Delsin's story about him being a conduit and instead knocks him out for two weeks and turns her attention to the rest of the Akomish.

Arrival in Seattle

When Delsin finally wakes up, he learns that the rest of the tribe were injured by Augustine's cement daggers and, unless they can somehow convince her to remove them, they'll all die. Realizing from his encounter with Hank that he can absorb other conduit's powers, Delsin convinces his brother to take him to Seattle where Augustine's forces have chased down the other two conduits, and absorb her powers to undo what she did.

Arriving in Seattle, Delsin soon learns that the D.U.P. have effectively taken over the city and their ranks are bolstered by Forced Conduits, wielding Augustine's powers. A couple of days later, the brothers learn of a Conduit serial killer wielding neon powers and decide to hunt her down; both to stop her killing and to absorb her powers to help with the final confrontation with Augustine.

Investigating the murders, the brothers discover the victims are all drug-dealers, instead of random people, as the media have made believe the rest of the city. They soon learn that the Conduit is Abigail, and she is seeking to avenge her brother's death at the hands of the drug dealers. Chasing Abigail down and defeating her, Delsin convinces her to work with him and his brother to both dismantle the D.U.P.'s and the dealer's operations, absorbing her neon powers in the process.

Lantern District

After learning that Augustine is directing the bulk of her force into the Lantern District, Delsin makes his way across the ruined bridge where he confronts her, and she forces him to use his Neon powers to fight her higher ranked thugs. After defeating the thugs, Delsin is captured by Augustine and nearly taken into custody, when he is rescued by an unknown creature who drops him off the Lantern district.

Once there, Delsin is contacted by a fan of his, who directs his attention to a D.U.P. convoy carrying civilians suspected of being conduits. In the process of stopping the convoy, Delsin is knocked out for several hours and soon learns that the suspects have fled into the city where they are being rounded up by angel-like-creatures. Reggie disguises himself as a conduit and is swooped up by an angel.

Using the GPS of Reggie's cell phone, Delsin locates the Angel's hideout where he learns that, rather than being kidnapped, the victims are being helped out of their restraints and released into the city. Being sucked into a Video game world, Delsin is confronted by "He Who Dwells" and, after a brutal fight, defeats the giant Angel who is revealed to be Eugene. Delsin convinces Eugene to realize his potential, absorbs his powers and helps to rescue the conduits from the local gangs.

The Return

Later on, Delsin is surprised to hear his allies question him about a rampage he was on downtown. He soon realizes that it wasn't him, but the other Smoke conduit, Hank, who escaped from D.U.P. custody. After chasing Hank down again, Delsin convinces him to help him against the D.U.P. Hank informs him that his fellow Conduit allies, Eugene and Abigail, are both in D.U.P. custody in the makeshift D.U.P. base, at an island off the coast of Seattle.

The brothers and Hank infiltrate the island, but Delsin is soon lured into a trap by Hank who is revealed to be the D.U.P.'s ally. Because of Hank, Delsin and Reggie are beaten and nearly captured by Augustine, who attempts to encase them both in concrete while they're dangling off of the edge of the base. Reggie sacrifices himself to prevent Delsin from being captured, prompting a fight between Augustine and an enraged Delsin.

After the fight, Augustine collapses the island and Delsin washes ashore and proceeds to hunt down Hank who is now on the run from both of his former allies. During the chase Hank explains, and later proves, that the D.U.P. had his daughter hostage, prompting Delsin to either reluctantly spare Hank's life (Good Karma), or kill him out of revenge for Reggie (Evil Karma).

Final Fight

At the end of the game, Delsin meets up with his allies and together they agree that it's time to put a end to Augustine's plans. Using the information with which Hank provided Delsin, he is able to create a gap in the channel 9 news station/converted D.U.P. headquarters and together with Eugene and Abigail assaults the building, making their way through the building.

Finally, Delsin confronts Abigail in the building's news room. There, Augustine explains her true motives: she has been capturing, but never killing, conduits to prevent them from being killed by irrational civilians like they were in the pre-D.U.P. bloodbaths. To this end Augustine attempts to convince Delsin to help her regain the public's trust, and help her save more conduits around the globe. However, he doesn't care about Augustine's excuses and takes her powers.

Without fully developing his newest powers, Delsin is almost beaten by Augustine, who has nearly a decade of experience with hers. Thankfully, Eugene is able to throw several Battery Cores into the room, with which Delsin is able to become powerful enough to slowly wear down Augustine's monster form and capture her.

End Game

Good Karma/Canon

With Augustine captured, Delsin is able to expose the D.U.P.'s operations to the world, all the conduits in Curdun Cay were freed and reportedly Delsin has set off a "Second Age." That said he has some unfinished business to attend to, returning home he heals his people of the injuries Augustine inflicted upon them and sadly informs Betty of his brother's death. Regardless, Delsin chooses to celebrate his brother's life and graffitis him a memorial atop the Fish Cannery.

Evil Karma/Non-Canon

With Augustine captured, Delsin drags her all the way up to the roof and throws her off a very great height to her death, avenging Reggie. He, Abigail and Eugene take over the city of Seattle and Delsin plans to absorb all of the captured Conduits in Curdun Cay. Before doing that, he heads back to the Longhouse to save the tribe. At the Longhouse Betty confronts him for becoming evil and tells him that he has disgraced his people, his ancestors and the memory of his brother and that he is, "Akomish, no longer", before she slams the door. Delsin soon performs an Orbital Drop, presumably killing all wounded Akomish inside, including Betty.

Powers and Abilities

Delsin discovers his powers when he absorbs the abilities of Hank, a prisoner on a D.U.P. carrier, taking on Smoke Manipulation. Later, he discovers that he possesses the ability to mimic the powers of other conduits.

  • Power Absorption: Delsin has the natural ability to absorb the abilities of other conduits, which he discovers after encountering a crashed conduit transport vehicle.[2] This gives him the potential to be one of the most powerful conduits ever in existence, due to the fact that he can have multiple powers at any point and can always absorb more.
  • Telepathic Perception: Delsin along with his ability to take the powers of others, also has the ability, through touch, to look at another person's past and the emotions they experienced to rapidly gain information of their lives. Although it's not confirmed, it appears that this power can't be used on non-Conduits because he has shown no signs of it when touching any non-conduits such as his brother. This power is not to be confused with Telepathy, as he is not reading their minds, but receiving information.
    • Smoke Manipulation: Delsin's initial powers seem to be based on smoke and ember, having taken it from the conduit he helped survive. He suddenly gains the capacity to shoot smoke out of his hands, or even turn into smoke and travel quickly around the city through the use of air ducts. He can also deploy smoke grenades, which, after explosion, cover affected enemies in smoke and incapacitate them. Delsin can use the chain on his arm as a whip, seemingly imbuing it with burning ash, similarly to how the Amp was wrought in Cole's electricity. Additionally, he can make use of a smoke dash ability for heightened motion and produce lateral propulsion for a short while via Smoke Thrusters. His smoke dash can also be used offensively, as he dashes through an enemy and rematerializes behind them, choke-slamming them to the ground in the process. Delsin also replenishes his power by absorbing smoke from chimneys, cars, and DUP tear gas canisters.[3] He can use his special Smoke Karma Bomb abilty called Orbital Drop: Delsin dematerializes into three balls of smoke which propell upwards. Upon reaching a specific height, Delsin rematerializes and rapidly falls down, exploding into smoke and embers upon contact with the surface.
    • Neon Manipulation: Later on the game, Delsin absorbs from Abigail Walker the ability to control neon. With it, he is shown to have powers similar to his smoke dispersal abilities yet instead dissolves and reforms from gaseous energy based semblance. He can discharge Neon stream lasers from his hands, which also blow up upon contact to deal more damage to enemies than the smoke projectile as well as simulate some type of light dash, which when used dissolves him into Neon itself and enables him, and brief after images of him, to sprint up or around walls and literally run on air from a starting jump for brief periods of time.[4] Delsin's chain can also be covered in neon and made rigid, allowing it to be used like in sword-like fashion; he can also use neon to charge it directly into enemies, knocking them over, similar to his smoke choke slam. He also has neon grenades which suspend enemies in air for a short amount of time. Aiming while using the Neon power set utilizes a mode similar to Precision, time slows down and it highlights certain weak points around specific enemy body parts. Weak points are Karma specific, shoot an enemy in the head to cause them to be "obliterated" and explode into a puff of red neon and receive evil karma, or shoot them in the shins to restrain the enemy to receive good karma.[5] Sources show he also has some kind of propulsion ability honed by a force field situated at the lower legs similar to Cole's Static Thrusters and Delsin's own Smoke Thrusters. He can replenish his Neon reserves by absorbing it from the brightly lit neon signs situated around the city. With Neon power active, Delsin can use his special Neon Karma Bomb called Radiant Sweep: in which he concentrates neon energy into himself and then bursts, shooting beams in all directions, producing a massive explosion. The effects of which are currently unknown, other than the swathe of neon flames it leaves
    • Video Manipulation: Delsin then gains the ability of Video by absorbing a conduit named Eugene Sims. Delsin can drain this power from television monitors to computer screen on satellite dishes. When using Video, Delsin can shoot out a stream of pixelated projectiles in a rapid fire motion similar to Cole’s Bolt Stream. Also gaining the ability to transform himself into faint pixels, becoming invisible to enemies for a certain time period. When using melee attacks, Delsin doesn’t seem to use his chain. Instead, depending on his karma, he creates a digital sword (good) or claws (evil) to hack and slash. Furthermore, when dashing he can create wings for himself to fly over obstacles and directly up walls. Dashing into satellite dishes will cause him to launch higher up in the air. Delsin can also mark and summon three Bloodthirsty Blades. When the blades are summoned, they then seek out the target that has been marked. With Video power active, Delsin can use his special Video Karma Bomb called Hellfire Swarm: in which he summons both angels and demons, from the game Heaven’s Hellfire, to swoop down and carpet bombing enemies. When over, the Karma Bomb will either subdue (good) or obliterate (evil) enemies depending on Delsin's decisions.[6]
    • Concrete Manipulation: The last power Delsin gets, which is absorbed from Brooke Augustine, gaining her unique ability to manipulate Concrete. Delsin can drain this power from any down members of the D.U.P. he comes across. What also makes concrete separate itself from the other powers is that while using it, Delsin automatically takes less damage from enemy fire. While using the power he can shoot out a shrapnel of concrete in a burst fire manner. Delsin can also fire off slabs of concrete, very similar to one a Augustine attacks. Like Video, Delsin doesn’t seem to use the chain either when using concrete. Instead, Delsin smashes his hand on the ground, creating a miniature tremor that knocks enemies back. When dashing Delsin is covered in concrete wearing it like armor, making himself a living boulder. Delsin can also travel around using concrete thrusters, similar to Cole’s Static Thrusters, where stones are surrounded under him. Every time the thrusters are used, they initially lift him higher in the air, causing him to glide even farther. Surprisingly, out of all the current power sets (Smoke, Neon, Video and Concrete) Concrete is the only one that doesn’t have a Karma Bomb for some odd reason. Also noted that Delsin cannot use the launching ability the D.U.P. have, which is very similar to the Ice Launch power in inFAMOUS 2.
  • Parkour Skills: In addition, Delsin is physically able to climb up any kind of buildings, having the same free running and parkour abilities as Cole. He is described as not being a very experienced climber, but if he sees something he can climb, there's nothing stopping him from trying. Sucker Punch co-founder Chris Zimmerman has gone on record saying that Delsin can parkour two times faster than Cole.

Basic Conduit Abilities

  • Enhanced Strength: Like all Major Conduits, Delsin has enhanced strength. He effortlessly pulls his brother's arm off of Abigail Walker to the point where Reggie shows physical pain. He was also able to effortlessly pull off a chain link door off a cage.
  • Durability: Delsin is able to fall from relatively high distances and land unharmed.
  • Rapid Healing: Delsin is stated to be able to quickly heal from sustained wounds.

Weaknesses

Delsin's power absorption has a few drawbacks, the primary one being that when he acquires a new power, he is unable to switch to his other powers until his skill with his new power has sufficiently developed.

When absorbing powers from another Conduit he and the Conduit both pass out, which would in theory leave them vulnerable in dangerous situations.

Another drawback is that he cannot switch powers on a whim, he must switch powers by absorbing energy from an acceptable power source.

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Trivia

  • Delsin is voiced by Troy Baker, who also provides the motion capture for the character.
  • He bears a superficial resemblance to an early design for Cole called Talon.
  • Shortly after his first appearance, there was wide speculation on whether or not Delsin was Cole's brother or son. These facts were later ruled out.
  • He is the first inFamous character to have his age confirmed, as 24. This would make him 17 during the events of inFamous 2.
    • Although Cole's age was stated to be 26 in InFamous 2, it was only in the Japanese version, making it non-canon.
  • The name "Delsin" is of Native American origin which translates to "He is so".
  • Delsin follows Cole in referencing Sly Cooper, as he has a button on his jacket bearing the Sly Cooper logo.
  • In a way, Delsin bears a resemblance to Peter Petrelli from the popular TV Show 'Heroes'. Peter is also revealed to be a mimic, and at one point is regarded as the most powerful of all the 'specials.'
  • While not true Pyrokinesis, Delsin's Smoke Powers could be considered an offset of it.
    • Chris Zimmerman stated in a podcast that it is smoke mixed with fire and ash to give it more impact. [7]
  • Delsin comes from the "Akomish" tribe, which is a fictional tribe made so that Sucker Punch wouldn't offend any actual Native American tribes.[8]
  • In Second Son's good ending, Delsin says a quote to his brother Reggie that Zeke had said to Cole, "I love you brother. And I'm sure gonna miss you."
  • As shown during the evil ending, Delsin can potentially gain all powers from every Conduit, meaning he can absorb powers without limit.
    • Although he might be limited by the amount of blast cores there are as he seemed to be weakened whenever he absorbed a new ability.
  • The ringtone on Delsin's phone is the "Sly 4: Thieves In Time" menu theme.

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