[b]Keith[/b]

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Age: 24
Gender: Male

Background and Personality: Keith was 5 years old when the apartment that his parents had spent their life savings on was burned to the ground.  During the fire, he woke to a smoke-filled room and no parents in sight. The door was too hot for the child to push open on his own, and he was trapped in the blaze, soon to pass out from a lack of oxygen. The biggest gang in the area was running a weapons shop out of the apartment below his, and rushed to put the fire out and protect their asset when they found Keith. Normally, the group that found him would have put the fire out and left the kid for dead, but the group's leader was stricken by Keith's resemblance to his own dead brother, and was unable to leave him to die from his burns. Jarrod, the leader, took Keith to the gang's doctor to patch him up. However, he suffered major burns on his face, and has covered it for most of his life since. 

After the fire, Keith was told by Jarrod that his parents had died in the fire, and that the gang was his new family. Before long, Keith forgot his last name, and the gang truly did become his family. Jarrod took Keith under his wing and taught him how to survive in the dangerous Undercity while under the protection of a large gang.

As Keith grew older, he began to resent the Undercity and its residents. The questions about his parents' death haunted him as he had never fully accepted that the fire had been an accident. When he was 8, he began running errands for the gang and quickly became acquaintances with many local gang-affiliated businessman and businesswomen. When he was 12, he was allowed to go on scavving missions and began to experience the dark underbelly of the Undercity's criminal world. Keith witnessed people killed over things as small as an unpaid meal, and as serious as a missing drug shipment. Keith was always larger for his age, though, and eventually became the muscle of the groups that he was a part of, being told to beat people in the name of the gang, and eventually gained a reputation for his ability to beat anyone into submission in three hits or less.

When Keith was 19, the gang he belonged to was absorbed by the largest gang in the Undercity, the leader of which Keith knew only as The Queen. This bode well for Keith's gang, meaning more protection and that their actions carried heavier weight, backed up by more manpower than anyone else. The first assignment that Jarrod was sent on was to retrieve payment from a local pawn shop owner who hadn't payed his protection fees. Jarrod took Keith, being that he was at that point the strongest member of their original gang. The group, however, was ambushed when inside the pawn shop. The owner had recruited help from a rival gang for a lower protection fee. In the scrap that followed, Keith took three down, but not before Jarrod was shot in the chest and died before Keith could say goodbye.

Stricken by the loss of the only person that Keith had ever relied on, he gave up speech almost entirely and began to take jobs that were more and more violent, grunting his acceptance of his missions at his superiors. Keith went on like this for about four years, taking jobs that would allow him to take his frustrations with the Undercity out through violence. Eventually, the violence gave no satisfaction to Keith any longer, and without Jarrod there to lead him, he felt disconnected. The gang no longer felt like his family, and he sought out something that might fill a similar role. 

This is how he came to the Scroungers. His gang affiliation gave him connections that would be invaluable to a group like theirs, and everyone in the Undercity could use protection. He still refrains from speech more often than not, rarely giving his input on anything, but is working on improving his communication to become a more valuable asset to the group.

Other details: Wears a mask that covers his whole head to hide his burns, as well as Jarrod's old gas mask. One full sleeve of gang-related tattoos.