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Cecil is generally friends and well acquainted with the people of Night Vale. Although he doesn't seem aware of it, he is quite possibly one of the town's most prominent citizens. Despite being quite friendly, he tends to hold grudges, for example, he had a grudge against Steve Carlsberg since his sister married him till episode 110, a grudge against Telly for cutting Carlos' hair in episode 3, and a grudge against Susan Willman, even after she reveals herself to be Huntokar. While he comes across as a decent, kind, and ethical person, and sees himself as such, calling himself "innocent and kind," he is comfortable with many horrific things in cooperation with the authorities, such as legalized murder. This doesn't seem to be out of the ordinary for Night Vale citizens. While Cecil is generally quite cheerful, he is also often somber, and can switch between the two quite quickly. Additionally, he often experiences memory loss and dissociation, some of which is connected to supernatural happenings, such as possession. He is very fond and proud of Night Vale, despite its horrors, many of which he has experienced firsthand, and during uncertain and/or dangerous times can often be found in his booth providing updates and comfort as he can. Though he is quick to praise the City Council, the Sheriff's Secret Police, and their draconian policies, his views on many social issues are surprisingly tolerant for a resident of a police state, and he even occasionally calls out the town's crooked politicians on air, despite the risk of retaliation. Occasionally he criticizes one of these bodies, and he is the only Night Vale citizen, excluding deceased Old Woman Josie, to publicly acknowledge the existence of angels. While he's rarely actively malicious, he treats his interns dismissively and either doesn't notice or doesn't care about the intern death toll, sounding genuinely hurt and/or offended at the suggestion that something is wrong with his management style.

All of this goes to show that Cecil's belief systems and living circumstances require a tremendous amount of cognitive dissonance. His broadcasts often are internally contradictory, contain impossible instructions, although that may just be how Night Vale works, or get banned midway and must be renounced. Cecil occasionally gets in trouble with Station Management for describing things that are indescribable or discussing things that are not supposed to be discussed, and he worries — openly and on air — that he will get in trouble with the authorities. Despite this, he remains enthusiastic about nearly all upcoming events, even those involving death and destruction — so long as they are scheduled by the city's leaders, of course. From time to time, things come up that expose and clarify this cognitive dissonance. His delivery can sometimes give the impression that the words he speaks express different things than the thoughts in his mind — and that he tries to repress or change at least some of these thoughts. His blasé attitude towards the discrepancies in his own memories implies that he does his best to ignore them and avoids trying to resolve them.

Cecil presumably existed, along with the radio station, before Night Vale did. Though Cecil ages from adolescence to adulthood, episode 67 suggests he exists somewhat beyond time, or at least, lives much longer than humans normally do He frequently states that he doesn't know how old he is. When Cecil was five years old, the prophecies were revealed saying that he would become the voice of Night Vale. That was when he first got his Little Reporter's Book of Big Boy Note Taking, a book he makes notes in always, even when he's not aware of it, and even when he's not holding a pen. Cecil's mother was implied to be neglectful towards him, and his father is implied to have left or died when Cecil was young. When Abby and Cecil were young, she would take them out to Redwood Remains State Park to leave flowers at tree, walking fast in order to lose Abby and Cecil in the forest. When going to this forest, Cecil was told to go into a tree by either Cal or his father, likely his father. This may have been the tree Cecil's mother left flowers at. He and Abby used to be babysat by Jerrod Bansky's mom. When Cecil was 14, his mother abandoned Cecil, leading to Abby having to drop out of college to look after Cecil, leading to resentment between the two of them. Cecil was interested in radio hosting early on. At age 15, he started recording himself on cassette tapes, enthusiastically imitating previous NVCR host Leonard Burton.[2] While recording these cassette tapes, he began to see a mysterious flickering out of the corner of his eye which increased in frequency when he spoke or sang.[2] Eventually, Cecil did land an internship at NVCR, before both Night Vale and radio came to be, and got to work with his idol, Leonard. But the mysterious flickering got stronger and Cecil either blacked out or died, after seeing the Dark Planet.[2] In "Filings", it is revealed that flickering was Cecil from 2017 and when teenage Cecil sees adult Cecil in a mirror in the station bathroom.

Cecil was interested in radio hosting early on. At age 15, he started recording himself on cassette tapes, enthusiastically imitating previous NVCR host Leonard Burton. While recording these cassette tapes, he began to see a mysterious flickering out of the corner of his eye which increased in frequency when he spoke or sang. Eventually, Cecil did land an internship at NVCR, before both Night Vale and radio came to be, and got to work with his idol, Leonard. But the mysterious flickering got stronger and Cecil either blacked out or died, after seeing the Dark Planet. In "Filings", it is revealed that flickering was Cecil from 2017 and when teenage Cecil sees adult Cecil in a mirror in the station bathroom, teenage Cecil passes out or dies, and disappears from the future. The flickering, or the thing that called teenage Cecil to pass out or die could potentially be the creature from episode 171, as it is implied that this is what his mother told him would kill him. Cecil claims to have traveled to Europe after college. Cecil specifically mentions the countries of Svitz, Franchia, and Luftnarp, and seems completely unaware that they don't actually exist anywhere in Europe in real life. Cecil also claims to have met Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) during this trip and witnessed him inventing the radio. [citation needed] It is clear that NVCR predates radio itself, although it is unclear how the show was disseminated before radio. It is also unclear how Cecil had cassette tapes at age 15 when they weren't invented until 1962. Cecil became host of the NVCR during World War 2, and his first broadcast as host concerned the war effort. In 1983, Night Vale would have been destroyed, but Huntokar prevented it, splitting Night Vale into multiple Night Vales. Some time when Cecil was an adult, his mother came back. Cecil felt flat and sad about this. Cecil and Abby tried to patch up their relationship, and a few months later, their mother died. Sometime, Abby married

Cecil's mother was an oracle, who predicted Cecil's death involving a mirror and a snake-like being with a human face. She was a neglectful mother towards Cecil, and she frequently hid from him, which Cecil interpreted as her being proud. She left when he was 14, something that caused him great pain, and reappeared when he was an adult, something that made him sad. She gave Cecil a cassette recorder when he was 15 for his birthday, and was seemingly around for Cecil to notice she was gone after that.

Cecil does not speak of his father, and he is a mysterious figure, even to Cecil himself. It is implied he looks like Cecil. In episode 182, Cecil intends to talk about his, Carlos, and their son Esteban's trip to Redwood Remains State Park, but ends up speaking of a man, presumably his father, urging a boy, presumably either Cecil or himself, into a tree. Later, Cecil finds a cassette tape of himself going into the tree three times in a row, but Cecil thinks the tape is blank, and doesn't remember those times or his, Carlos, and Esteban's trip.

Abby is Cecil's sister, Steve Carlsberg's wife, and Janice's mother. Cecil and Abby had a strained relationship, due to Cecil and Abby's mother disappearing when Cecil was 14, causing Abby to have to drop out of college to take care of Cecil. Abby resented Cecil for this, and Cecil resented Abby in turn. When their mother returned, they started to patch thing up, but are not exceptionally close, though they do love each other.

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