pk • kit gresham

what you see

Standing at a tall 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) and weighing in at a healthy 194 lbs (88 kg), Kit has always maintained a healthy figure. He prefers to stay fit, knowing full well the downsides to neglecting your health for far too long. Every morning is started with a run and every day finished with a date with a punching bag, leading to his lean and toned body. He's not very large, but all of his muscles are prominent against his skin. Said skin is coloured with a tan, particularly dark during the summer months as he spends more and more time outside. During his childhood years, the skin was rather imperfect and covered with all sorts of bumps and marks. As he has grown older, however, it cleared up and remains smooth.

His hair is dark and rough, always neatly kept away from his face. He tends to try to keep it shorter and appearing more styled, but he never worries too much when it grows too long. The hair is naturally unruly and a little curled, looking as such whenever he takes his helmet off. Facial hair tends to line his jawline and around his mouth, never growing too much before he goes to work on it. During his younger teenage years, he almost always had thick facial hair covering the majority of his face because of his oily skin. Nowadays, however, he keeps it properly trimmed so as to appear professional in his position.

His eyes are a dark brown, flecked with shards of green all throughout. They peer out between bruised eye sockets, each sitting beneath a thick eyebrow. They always have wrinkles along the outside from the smile that seems to be constantly spread across his face. A thin and long nose stretches beneath his eyes with two thin lips right beneath it. His forehead is rather large, ending in rigid lines that form his face. His jawline is hard and pointed to his slightly rounded chin. A smile almost always crosses his face, white teeth peeking out from behind.

Broad shoulders connect his head to the rest of his body, leading to a long torso. His arms are long as well, finishing off in rough hands with bruised and cut knuckles. Calluses cover a lot of his fingers and his palm, often from handling a weapon. His legs stretch the majority of his height, finishing off at the base with two large feet. They too are rugged and worn as he spends most of his day on his feet instead of sitting at a desk. Even during investigations, he prefers to be pacing around.

Professional clothes line his small cabinet, like darker jeans and dressier khakis along with button up shirts and pull over sweaters. He has a rather large tie collection that he is quite proud of, though he'd never openly confess to being such a fan of said accessory. His shoes, too, are fancier and fit with the rest of his style. The only other outfit he is found in are workout clothes like loose shorts and pants, and a tight fitting t-shirt. He also has a Capitol issued Peacekeeper uniform, though he isn't a huge fan of its robotic look.

what you are

A constant smile appears on his face, his eyes squinted with the rest of his face. Kit tries his best to remain in a good mood; both his past and present are filled with darkness that he tries to block out as much as possible. There was a time where he let the guilt and anguish flood his system, a time that he desperately stepped away from when he joined with the Peacekeepers. It was a fresh start from his past, but he soon found that it was just as difficult to be in his position. As a result, he tries to be accepting, kind and caring whenever possible. It gets tough, especially in his line of work, but he tries all the same.

Friendly would be a simple way to put it, as he tries to play a "good cop" role with the citizens. Keeping them on a polite and friendly basis helps him do his job with success, yielding similar results as his harsh counterparts without all of the pain and abuse. He's fun-loving, preferring to keep good vibes going despite all of the hell in the Districts. His first assignment was in District Twelve, a far more lax system than the majority of other Districts. It tends to help amongst other Peacekeepers too, providing a somewhat relaxed environment when the seriousness isn't required. When dealing with a deserving criminal, he can be harsh without care but it is definitely rare for him to get in that mindset. It's a problem of his; he should be far more serious considering the job he tries to complete. In his mind, he should be a "Peacekeeper", not a violent soldier of a dictator. He gets his work done, though, and that's what matters.

He doesn't beat around the bush whatsoever, not hesitating to state his opinion. He's not afraid to express it, even if it may go against the person he is speaking with. It is in his nature, however, to negotiate. His first instinct is to talk people down instead of using physical violence as a tool. He was taught by his parents to use words, not fists. That teaching stuck with him far longer than it probably needed to. It has given him an optimistic view on society in recent years, letting him see the good in most people. He's observant of the negatives, but ends up being fairly trusting and ignorant of what could happen should he give the wrong people his trust.

Some could say he's sensitive; target him at any of his weak points and he becomes offended rather quickly. His parents were everything to him, though they weren't widely loved throughout the District. Any mention of their names, and he starts to lose his grasp on the happy-go-lucky persona. Even worse yet is when his ex-wife is brought up; it tends to bring out a bad side that most do not particularly expect. The past Kit looks to resurface, cracking at his new exterior. Years of darkness rush forward, and it tends to be a bad spiral back into maintaining his niceness.

He takes risk. He jumps into everything. He doesn't follow the typical rules; not quite unorthodox but still random and spontaneous. Kit isn't your typical Peacekeeper, and he loves filling that role. Each task gets completed, and he puts everything into it despite not doing it the way most would expect from someone in his job. He's certainly uninhibited, which may lead to situations which he has difficulty getting out of. Nonetheless, he keeps going forth, fighting the inner demons that exist in his past.

what you remember

Zerach Gresham met Kimi O'Donahue in their youth, typical lovebirds from the beginning. They married and gave birth at a young age to Kit, filling his life with tons of love. He neither excelled nor fell behind in school, never stepped fully into athletics, and only kept a handful of close friends, but he knew that once he got home he would have his parents. He told them everything, and had nothing but respect as they raised him in their young age with low-paying District Three jobs. His parents, however, hid him from all the darkness of the world. Being rather poor, they were fairly ostracized from a lot of the communities, lacking a lot of support.

His father passed when he was six years old, causing Kit to feel as if his world had just shattered. Sick from some disease of which Kit never understood, Zerach passed quietly in his sleep. Nonetheless, his death was a loudness that Kristoff had never heard before. Without a doubt, he took it the hardest, his mother managing to stay strong for him. She kept a smile, and a loving embrace for her son whenever he needed one. Which became far too often, tears stinging at his eyes whenever the thought of his father came to mind. It took far too long for it to settle in, around the age of eleven.

And at the age of thirteen, Kimi was killed on her way home from the factory late at night. Everything rushed back; all the grief pounded into him and he couldn't quite fight it off. Without his mother to help him through it, he allowed for everything to completely control his life. He found himself slowly drifting over into the darker side of life, spending his nights in the abandoned factories on the outside of the District instead of returning back to his new home at the orphanage. Friends would meet him with their parents' bottles of spirits that they'd down within the night. This carried on for five years, growing worse and worse as the years went by.

It all stopped when he met Emi. They immediately attached to each other, using the other as an anchor. Kit needed her to drag him out of the darkness, and she used him to help find herself. They had an immediate connection, and grew closer than he ever expected he could have been with somebody. When they both turned twenty-one, Emi became pregnant with a child. Everything cleared up for Kit; his entire past became a lesson rather than a haunting memory. He embraced this new step towards a proper world.

Emi grew sick only a few months later, falling victim to the illness along with the child. The pieced together world that Kit had once again became shattered. This time around, he fought against falling back into everything he grew up with, looking for any way out of it. It was there that he found more information about becoming a Peacekeeper. He had no family and a need for a fresh start, so he committed to it in a heartbeat. It became his new life, everything else only sitting in the back of his mind. He tried his hardest to avoid letting it all come back, trying always to keep a smile on his face. It became such a defining part of him; the initial faux happiness developed into a real love of life. It was as if he began to appreciate every day and not take it for granted, knowing that everything could change in a moment.

He spent his initial assignment in District Twelve, learning the ways under a senior officer. It was far more relaxed than he had expected, and he quite enjoyed the first few years. Once he was fully through the training and initiation, he settled on returning to his home District of District Three, which he has now begun calling home once more.

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