Kelly McCabe is easily misunderstood on first blush as the golden locked, all-American jock. The truth is: Kelly is a deeply kind, generous, earnest young man - that rare quality in a millennial - he's a gentlemen. In a period piece, he's the young gentleman the ladies gossip over, who really wants to spend time with the horses and stable hands.
Kelly is the sweet hero, the frat guy who regrets the juvenile antics of his bros. The impossibly good looking paramedic who takes extra care to be kind to the elderly woman he is strapping to the gurney, the college football quarterback who falls in love with the awkward nerdy bookworm. The kind older brother.
He is a leader: a calm, intelligent presence that inspires others.
Don't write him off as simple. This is a young man with a complex inner life. There is a slight "hauntedness" about him, a taste of sorrow that lurks beneath his enthusiastic energy. He's the eager young man trying to make his way, while coping with the loss of his mother.
Kelly is the super hero; the genuine nice guy who is thrust into a new world, whose kindness is his foil against the bad guys, and whose dark secret dogs him in his quest.