Cecil Vance is Sidney Vance's estranged father and a former handyman and construction foreman. After losing his wife and having his son run away from home, Cecil hit rock bottom and killed someone accidentally while drunk driving. After a few years in prison, he found himself on the streets of Navroya with no money, no family, and nowhere to go. Forced down into the lower levels of the undercity with the rest of the dregs of society, Cecil scraped together a living before getting a break when a kind but shy man saw him begging and decided to take him in. Now, Cecil uses his handyman experience to fix up Virgil's decaying house in the hopes that he won't get kicked out any time soon (he doesn't realize Virgil would never do this).