Keegan O'Conner

Keegan O'Conner is an elven/genasi/undead, and a rogue/wizard.

Appearance and Personality
Keegan is a dark-skinned and bright-eyed elven woman, small and quick on her feet. She's short, about 5'2", and most of her upper body is covered with a black and red poncho. Her hair is messy and noticeably singed at the edges, fading from black to bright orange to unevenly burned tips just above her shoulders. Faint dying embers occasionally drift from the ends, and her hair flares and smokes when she is angry. Underneath her fingerless gloves, there is a bright orange scar in the shape of a small triangle. When her poncho is off, several bright orange slash marks can be seen on her chest and abdomen. Her eyes are orange and she has two silver snakebite piercings in her lower lip. Her canine teeth are noticeably sharp, and her body is much colder than any fire-genasi should be. She is equipped with a bowie knife, saber, and magical Dancing Sword, and she fights in the style of traditional elven sword dance.

Keegan is generally warm, energetic, and reckless. Curious and extroverted, she's typically very friendly, but she lacks tact or reservation. Blunt honesty carries her through most situations, and because of that she can be crass, snarky, and lowbrow. Even though she is typically good-humored and cheerful, she has a very volatile temper that she is not afraid to back up with violence.

Its obvious that the elf is rash and unobservant. She is prone to knee-jerk reactions and miscalculations in social situations, combat, and everyday life. Despite these missteps, and despite the reckless hooligan persona, there is a sort of unpolished cleverness about her too. She doesn't have the airs of an educated woman, but she has a knack and a curiosity for languages, puzzles, magic, history, and other intellectual pursuits.

Her outlook is fairly pragmatic, neither naively optimistic nor bitterly cynical. She generally means well, but is mostly focused on her life in Sanctum more than any illusions of heroism or political change. When it comes to her outlook towards problems, she's helpful but not selfless, and brave but not gallant. She's here first and foremost for her own agendas, which do sometimes include helping other people...but only sometimes.

Backstory
Keegan is from the floating island of Sanctum. She is a member of a Ranaki-worshipping Sanctum gang known as The Illuminated, along with much of her family. She was inducted into the gang as a child, and has lived a rough and tumble life in the anarchic town.

About a week before the start of the game, Keegan killed her sister Tess when a conflict broke out about the magical orb that Keegan was supposed to steal from a warehouse. She ended up taking the orb herself, along with her dead sister's spellbook, and fled Sanctum, hoping to figure out what the orb is and what her sisters motivations were.

When asked why her hair was always on fire, Keegan claimed that she didn't really know the reason and that it had always been that way, but later mentioned off-hand that she had been smiled upon by the gods" and that she was "blessed or cursed by the goddess of fire, one of the two."

Relationships
Clancy Coppergrin: Keegan has grown to care quite a bit about Clancy, and the pair have become friends with benefits. Keegan appreciates that Clancy seems loyal and straightforward and she likes his lycanthrope desperado schtick. Their relationship was badly damaged after Clancy got in a scuffle with an Illuminated member, but they are working through it. Keegan still considers Clancy's emotional outbursts confusing, and she thinks he can be annoyingly self-righteous, but overall she enjoys spending time with him.

Clay Rodgers: Keegan's relationship with Clay is complicated. The pair have become very close, with both of them finding some solace in an almost-familial relationship after the broken relationships they have with their real families. There's something kind of toxic between them, though - neither know how to have real healthy relationships, and Clay's possessive fondness over Keegan has an ugly side. When Keegan was killed by a demon, Clay made a deal with his patron Caroline to bring Keegan back - not because it was what was best for the girl, but because he selfishly didn't want to lose her. The result was that Keegan was raised as an undead, a horrible facsimile of real life that puts her existence in Caroline's hands. The trauma of being brought back in that way now overshadows their relationship. Clay's manipulative tendencies and his now very real power over Keegan, and Keegan's insightless trust in Clay as an older, loving presence, are pretty problematic. The rest of the party sees the toxic side of this relationship more than Clay and Keegan themselves do.

Jaime Luna: Keegan likes Jaime pretty well. Jaime's kindness towards Keegan, and their shared interests in books and boys, have gone a long way to bringing them closer. Keegan is easily strung along by Jaime's natural charisma and she appreciates the sorcerer's magical abilities even if Jaime herself finds them strange. The pair have become friends with benefits and enjoy an easy rapport.

Rogg Deerchaser: Keegan loves hanging out with Rogg - the pair like to roughhouse and goof around and Rogg's laid back nature does good for Keegan. However, she does get frustrated with Rogg's optimistic and short-sighted view on the world at times. In a way, she even envies his natural proclivity towards happiness and goodness, despite his ignorance - she's not sure how he's managed to not have that beaten out of him. Despite everything, she knows Rogg will try to defend her, he's the one that's always beside her when shit hits the fan, and he's really hard to be mad at for long.

Maven of Silver Strings: Keegan has explained that Maven was the reason a vial of acid got splashed on her sister's face. She hates the tabaxi and would like to kill her.

Tess O'Conner: Keegan has complicated feelings about her late sister, unsure about which of them is the one that betrayed the other.

Eliza O'Conner: Keegan is not sure how her older sister is going to respond to the situation Keegan and Tess stirred up in Sanctum, but it's clear that Keegan loves Eliza. (Despite calling her a bitch.)

Siobhan O'Conner: The genasi is very uncertain about her relationship with her mother. She doesn't understand why Tess didn't trust Siobhan with the orb, and why Siobhan wouldn't just explain herself, and now Keegan's just really not sure who her mother is at all.

Trivia

 * Despite having darkvision, Keegan has slightly bad eyesight and wears large reading glasses when she studies from her spellbook or tries to make difficult perception checks. Her terrible eyesight has only worsened now that she's a vampire with sunlight sensitivity.
 * Keegan has lived her entire life on a floating island hovering over a flaming wasteland and so hadn't experienced a lot of mundane things like "Lots of Grass" or "Riding a Horse" or "Large bodies of water" before the game started.

Relevant Quotes

 * "I have what my sister called 'a tendency to escalate'" -- Keegan
 * "I am more fight than sense sometimes" -- Keegan to Clay after she punched him
 * "I don't believe there is such a thing as a controlled fire." -- Keegan to Clancy in Episode 1