Shelby Hawkins

Shelby Hawkins is a minor character in ECKVA.

History
Shelby Hawkins was hired by ECKVA Network to help Andrew Raymond with his work on the archive team. After he was brought on to help with an additional side project, he noticed his efficacy ratings going down, and requested that Shelby be added to the team. After interviewing with Danielle Scott, who was impressed by them in the interview, they were officially hired by ECKVA Network.

While working at ECKVA, they proved to be an efficient worker, at one point archiving 407 items in just under 10 hours. When they were nearly finished with their batch queue, they emailed Danielle about any further assignments; however, they received no response, and instead turned to Andrew, who assigned them a randomly generated batch. While working on the batch, they found information pertaining to ARKlistener, and contacted Andrew about it. He feigned ignorance, and suggested that they bring it up to Danielle. After doing so, she reached back out to Shelby, telling them that there was a project she and Andrew were working on that they could help with. This email also contained broken, unintelligible writing.

Some time after that, Shelby asked Andrew if he had any luck with ARKlistener; however, he gave an erratic response, saying that something was crawling in his brain, and asking them if they knew where the brightest light was.

As of now, their fate is unclear.

Theories
The main protagonist of ECKVA, SHawkins, is given the username SHawkins1926, while Shelby is given the username SHawkins1928. This indicates that they are not the same person, but are potentially related, as they share the same surname. A possibility is that Shelby is an older relative of SHawkins1926, as they inherited a house from somebody. Given that the house already has a connection to ECKVA, it is possible that SHawkins1926 inherited the house from Shelby, who may have either used the house for something related to ECKVA, or had it appropriated by ECKVA while Shelby was employed. There is also a theory that Shelby is SHawkins1926, and that they simply switched the number for some unknown reason.