I am good at loving things that can’t love me back, that don’t have the power to leave.
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Kendall
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Post by Keegan M. O'Malley on Jul 23, 2014 22:03:39 GMT -5
KEEGAN MACKENZIE O'MALLEY-- 16 -- ERUDITE full name: Keegam Mackenzie Ann O'Malley
nicknames: n/a
age: 16
faction birthplace: Dauntless
current faction: Erudite
sexuality: Heterosexual
occupation: Initiate
play by: Freya Mavor
personality: The most important quality Keegan exhibits is her stubborn dedication to everything she takes on, whether it be shown in her vast loyalty to those she calls her friends or her insistence that each endeavour be seen to the end, no matter how discouraged she becomes. It works to her advantage but sometimes her stubborn streak as gotten a bad side.
She loves books. If you go into her apartment, she has a wall of bookshelves filled to the brim with different books. Her apartment is almost like a library. She loves them because she can fall into someone else’s life, if only momentarily. She can escape the guilt that still nags at her and become, not a killer, but a saviour. The knowledge in them is overpowering and she feels important. It's the main reason she chose Erudite.
She really likes fire. It conflicts with her love of books, because she’s always worried she’ll leave a candle burning and burn down her apartment building, with all of her precious books inside of it, but she can’t help it. It’s so simple, and beautiful, yet so potentially destructive that’s she’s captivated by it.
When she wants to be, she is prince charming. Her smile turns to gold and her words sound like music in the air. When that happens, one can’t help but smile, can’t help but like her. She’s the friendliest person if she wants to be. But she has to want to be. She greets people she doesn’t know.
She wants to be remembered by everyone, but unattached. She wants to burn brighter than the sun. She wants the love of everyone and to be the best at everything. She knows the brightest flames burn the fastest but even good lives end in death.
After craving the attention of her father for so long, Keegan refuses to try and please anyone. She does what she wants, whether someone likes it or not. She will fuck when she wants to, smoke what she wants, and curse when she wants to. She does what makes her feel happy, free, and most importantly, alive.
She has a foul sailors mouth and will frequently be caught saying a curse word. Its ugly but sometimes it just slips out. Erudite doesn't appreciate it but Dauntless never seemed to mind.
She is dedicated in her schoolwork to the point that she almost refuses to take a class that isn’t advanced. She’s very insecure so she feels the need to try and constantly prove herself smart and strong.
She doesn’t like for people to know much about her, so when she gives you a bit of herself, a part that is true and not a lie, that person should feel honoured. You’ll get Keegan in bits and pieces, and once you fit the puzzle together, only then will she ever be able to give you her heart.
She also doesn’t tell people that she has money. She’s afraid that people will look at her differently. She wants people to remember her for her, not because she was rich. She’s afraid that if people think she has everything, she’ll end up with nothing, empty handed with nothing but her money.
She doesn’t love easily because she thinks it’s just human nature to leave, to see only the bad and not the good. She thinks that humans always look at only the dark. She loves things, not people. Because people can break her, and she can’t have that. She’s burning her brightest and can’t afford to have love let her fizzle out.
Keegan is hot-headed to a severe fault. If you say the wrong thing, she could blow up in your face faster than you can realise you said something wrong. Or she’ll just hit you. She does that a lot, which is why her knuckles are built and scarred from hitting so many faces and walls.
mother: Ella O'Malley ( deceased )
father: Kevin O'Malley
siblings: none
other: none
history: Keegan was never supposed to happen. Her mother, a Manhattan socialite, and her father, a man of old-money and a family of politicians, met in a club one night and fell in love instantly. Keegan’s father would tell anyone that would listen that it was love at first sight. They loved each other truly and deeply, and two years later, they were well on their way to getting married. Having been the unexpected surprise just two weeks before her parents were to set to get married, they weren’t quite sure what to do. They had both agreed they didn’t ever want to have kids, but neither felt comfortable with abortion. In the end, Ella, Keegan’s mother, decided she would love this child, her child, even if it wasn’t what she had originally planned for herself. So, nine months later came Keegan, blue-eyed and crying as her mother lay dead on the table.
Ella had begun hemorrhaging and it was either save the baby for sure, or try to save Ella, whose chances were minimal to non-existent. The doctors did their job and saved the life of the one who had the better chance: Keegan. But with their decision came a price. Keegan would forever blame herself for her mother’s death, she would always carry that weight around on her shoulders - and her father would never make it any easier. If anything, her father made it worse. Coming from a well-off environment, Kevin had always been a bit snobbish, and, from what Keegan remembers, constantly had his nose up in the air. He would force the girl into frilly dresses and go to fancy soirée’s with more pretentious people she hated—whether or not she wanted to do it. Having originally enrolled her in dance classes at the tender age of two and a half years, he nearly forced his blonde daughter to do something she not only disliked, but was terrible at, having had no sense of rhythm in her body. Finally, when she turned seven, she refused to go to dance classes and he gave up pushing the subject. But that only resulted in him stressing perfection in every other faction of her life. Once she was old enough to get graded assignments, anything less than an A would result in a lecture, a ‘how dare she waste her life by being anything other than perfect when her mother had given hers for Keegan to live.’ This constant pressure forced Keegan to crave excellence, not only in academics, but in all aspects of her life. She constantly got good grades and did everything she could to impress her less than loving father.
The pressure, however, kept building and building, layer upon layer, until one day, she just burst. She couldn’t handle it anymore, and when that stranger tried to pick-pocket her, she grabbed them and punched them as hard as she could. Granted, being the first real punch she had ever thrown, it didn’t exactly knock the guy out, but it was what she felt when she hit him that was most striking. The pressure flowed right out of her and suddenly she could breathe again. Eventually, she realised that the physical act of hitting someone and getting hit was the most incredible, freeing feeling she had ever experienced in her life. After that day, her rebellious streak grew and grew, never wanting to be the princess her father pushed her to be, no, she wanted to the hero of the story. She didn’t want to be saved; she wanted to be able to save herself.
When her desire to become her own person started to grow exponentially more obvious, her father became outraged. How dare she dishonour her mother’s memory by becoming anything but the person Ella was? Because of her father’s constant criticism, Keegan was terrified at the thought of being different than the mold her mother had set for her, but it was always her motto to never let fear get in her way. She would never get anywhere if she didn’t try everything she was afraid of. She runs towards her fears, or she tries to.
At some point, her disgrace grew to be too much for him, and he asked her to leave. He didn’t do it cruelly, like some parents did. He just sat in an armchair sipping melancholily at glass after glass of scotch, and when she got home, he asked her to leave. He didn’t care where she went, what she did, or whether or not she wanted to. He just said, “There’s a new bank card on your desk, it has more than enough to get you by. My only request is that I never have to see you again.” And in response, Keegan ran to her room and cried. She cried so hard one would’ve thought she cried more than the clouds did on that day. But she made it through, her lion’s heart surrounded by that steel fortress made it impossible for her not to. That was the day of her choosing ceremony. Although her test result was Dauntless, she chose the life of knowledge. And so he hasn’t seen her since… she almost couldn’t even blame him. She was a constant reminder of what his wife died for, something that he hadn’t even wanted in the first place. He had kept her at first in order to have some piece of his wife, but when he realised that Keegan would never be like Ella, he threw her away. Keegan would have thrown herself away if she could, but she couldn’t. So instead she ran. Erudite was where she ran and hopefully they would accept her unlike her father.
Kendall -- 16 -- Mara, Sharla, Asa
Last Edit: Mar 30, 2014 at 10:56pm by ADMIN QUINN |
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I am good at loving things that can’t love me back, that don’t have the power to leave.
16
years old
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Heterosexual
Single
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Initiate
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Kendall
is Offline
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7 posts
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Erudite
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Post by Keegan M. O'Malley on Jul 24, 2014 12:16:19 GMT -5
done // the picture isn't working for some reason |
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Post by ADMIN HAYA on Jul 24, 2014 21:24:26 GMT -5
accepted, welcome to ordinary acts, KENDALL. we are pleased that you have chosen ERUDITE. please take this time to make your claims in the registration board and post a plotter. if you have any further questions, feel free to PM ADMIN QUINN , ADMIN HAYA, or @mikael.
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