Keegan Rhodes, District 7

Keegan's hair is the colour of chocolate. It has several lighter brown highlights mixed into the majority of his dark brown strands. His hair is a standard boy cut, though it is now in desperate need of a trim due to it's length. Keegan's bangs fall far past his thick eyebrows and almost into his eyes, requiring him to constantly push his hair out of his line of vision. The entirety of his ears are covered by his thick hair. It lacks curls and waves of any sort. His hair is naturally straight, which his mother always found very odd due to her mass of curls. Keegan never worries about how his hair looks because no matter how often he showers it always seems to still have dirt in it.

Even though he is thirteen, Keegan has only just begun to show signs of puberty. His mother is constantly reminding him that this is natural, but most of the boys his age are already half a foot taller than him and have begun growing facial hair. Keegan has a round face, though his chin is slender. His almond-shaped eyes are almost as dark as his pupils. People can hardly see that they are just a shape lighter, because if he isn't in bright sunlight they look black. A smallish nose lies in the middle of his face with freckles sprinkled across everywhere. Thin lips of light pink lie just below his tiny nose. His teeth, though straight, are tinted a yellow colour. People hardly ever notice that he has dimples because he never smiles due do his embarrassment of his teeth. Blemishes are just beginning to appear on his cheeks.

Keegan has a petite and slender frame. Some people might call him lanky. He is only 5'3" and weighs just over 100 lbs. The average weight for boys his age is a little higher, but Keegan hardly ever eats. He doesn't have the appetite that most boys his age do and he also doesn't have the money. His stomach is flat with no trace of muscles. The outline of his ribs can be seen because of his weight. Keegan's skin is rather pale despite being outside so often.

If you exam Keegan's arm, there are scars all up and down them. Countless times he had cut himself with axes as he disenlodged them from the trees. He always left the cuts unattended because he never noticed them. Freckles are also scattered along with arms. His fingernails always seem to have dirt caked underneath of them no matter hard he scrubs and his hands always seem to have new bruises that he doesn't feel getting. But perhaps that just because he can't feel them when they happen.

He has a tiny waist, though his hip bones don't protrude as sharply as some of the other kids in his district. Thin, long legs snake down to the ground. They lack muscle. Most of Keegan's strength is found in his arms. Sometimes he wonders how his thin legs even get him around places. He isn't unstable when he walks, but one wouldn't refer to him as graceful either. Despite the colour of the hair on his head, Keegan almost lacks body hair elsewhere. The hair covering his arms and legs is nearly invisible.

When he is seen around town it is always in casual wear. Keegan never feels the need to dress up or down, even for events that people should. He usually wears a t-shirt with a collared shirt or a light jacket over it. He wears denim pants and a pair of ratty old sneakers that he has had since he was eleven.

Keegan is very independent. He always has to do things himself. He doesn't like anyone helping him. For this reason, he is often alone. People get in his way too much. It's not that he doesn't like people or anything, just that they always stick their nose in places that doesn't belong. If Keegan has a problem, he will deal with it himself. He doesn't like telling people about things going on in his life, he's very careful about revealing personal information about himself.

Though he likes to keep to himself sometimes, it doesn't mean that he doesn't like being around people. He does, he is just a person that needs to be alone at times to think things over. He's extremely outgoing and doesn't particularly care what people think. It seems silly to him for people to worry so much about what others think. There are so many thousands of people, who cares if one person thinks something bad about you. He view on life is that if you don't go for something, then you'll never know what might have happened.

Keegan is an realist. He doesn't always think things are going to work out, but he doesn't believe that they will all turn to shit either. He approaches things head on with a logical view of it all. Sometimes when making a decision, he will just sit there for hours playing all the scenarios out in his head and trying to look at every possible outcome. His head is rooted on the ground pretty tight.

Though he looks serious things in the face, he always has a smile. Keegan enjoys things in life. He smiles as much as possible and laughs when he can. There is so much pain and suffering in the world that he doesn't want to add another person. No one needs to know his problems because they aren't relevant to that person's life, so instead he focuses on trying to brighten theirs with jokes and stories.

He loves to talk. He isn't exactly a chatterbox, but if you get him started on talking about something he likes, he will go on for hours. Keegan is very opinionated, and he has strict views on everything. A problem of his is how closed-minded he is to things. His opinions are the right ones. Thankfully, he is good at holding his tongue when he needs to.

Keegan doesn't have a problem with violence. He would never resort to it himself, but he sees what potential it has. Keegan notices more than most people and he analyzes it. He hates the Capitol with a passion, but he admires their government There haven't been many uprisings in history for a reason. Panem knows how to control it's people, and that is a tactic that he has to admire.

Keegan has a natural leadership ability. The way he thinks and his outgoing nature allows him to gain trust easily in a way that he has an edge over other people. Whenever something needs to be taken control of, it's usually Keegan. He's young, but he acts more mature than his age. And the way he speaks allows him to take control of situations. Keegan doesn't get angry easily. And when he does, it never shows. He knows he could easily disarm someone with words. Instead of getting mad at someone when something happens, he tends to just hold on to it, and take revenge at a later point when it is better suited.

Constance and Jerico were married when they were both twenty-two. He worked strictly in the woods and cut down trees. There were other jobs but this one paid a little more because it required more hard work than the rest of them. Constance worked in the bakery. She was extremely fortunate to get that job since because the bakery was owned by a close friend's parents. They worked there together.

When the couple was twenty-four, they had Keegan. He was their first and they loved him more than anything. They tried to get him the best that they could afford in everything. When Keegan was three, his mother became pregnant again. Seven months later, she lost the baby in a miscarriage. Things were hard then, though Keegan doesn't remember his parents fighting because he was too young. When his mother was thirty-one, she became pregnant again. But this time, she gave birth to a stillborn.

Keegan's father left when he was eight. His parents were constantly fighting and his mother was constantly crying. After his father left, his mother just laid in bed for weeks. Keegan was forced to go out and work in the woods after school to get enough money to support his mother and himself. After a year, his mother finally started to come around, but she was different. She wouldn't look at him and she only spoke to him when she had to. It wasn't his mother anymore.

She stayed out of the house as much as possible, finding more work, just so she wouldn't have to be around when he was. And that is how Keegan grew up. He came home to an empty house and he cleaned. He would cook supper and leave it on the table for whenever his mother decided to come home. Then he would go to bed. She would be gone in the morning and sometimes the would wouldn't even be touched. He had to wonder if she even came home at all. She left money on the table once a week so that he could make sure everything was taken care of. She knew he was still her responsibility.

At thirteen, Keegan is used to the routine now. Sometimes he worries that he will actually run into his mother because he doesn't know what would happen or what he would say. He barely even remembers what she looks like because for the last time years he's only gotten glimpses of her silhouette as she has walked by. Keegan's stays away from the bakery because he knows she still works there part time. There is a reason he matured more than the other kids his age. It's because he had to learn to take care of himself.

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