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| - Kegan was born near the Texas border in Louisiana. His mother Stacy was a skating waitress and his father a construction worker. Lil’ Kegan spent his days rummaging around finding critters and being your regular ragamuffin kiddo. He didn’t have many friends, but a girl a little older than him befriended him and they went on adventures in the woods behind his house all the time. When Kegan was about 8 years old, his parents divorced. He never quite understood why, and his mother never quite told him. A few months later, shortly after Kegan’s 9th birthday, his mother found out about the STEP project and thought it was a godsend. They packed up everything and left, hopeful for a better life there. The project itself seemed dubious, but their future in Louisiana wasn’t looking too good as it was. Kegan was upset he had to leave his closest friend and his tree fort, but she gave him a little flower pin to remember her by. They moved in to the island in X083 into the orange district. His mother’s experience as a roller girl in a retro diner got her a similar job at a similar diner and they both began to adjust to big city life. Kegan was left angsty without a woods to explore or trees to climb. A few months in, he found that taking drumming on things was a good stress reliever. A drum kit quickly appeared on his wishlist. Their first year in the STEP project went well overall and the docks closing didn’t affect their happiness on the island. When V-Day hit, Kegan was in school. He felt the rhythm… it pumped, it moved…! In a fit of pure drumming fury, he accidentally ripped all the metal from the walls and floor of the room and then ran home. His mother didn’t experience any changes but kept it hidden. The diner was shaken to bits by the blast, so she decided to jump in to the new clubs that were popping up like weeds. It lasted for a while before she was discovered as jamdeaf. Some of the clubs blacklisted her, but most continued to let her dance with some sympathy. Kegan pickpocketed to get cred for bribes to the bouncers. Kegan witnessed the Funk Mafia and the ruthless nature of their conquest of the research district in X093. When he heard of the new resistance force in opposition, he volunteered by gathering and salvaging parts to rebuild and give help to the displaced Steppers and Squares. His days of pickpocketing drew to a close as the realization that the whole island could explode into conflict sobered him up from being a rowdy little spitfire. Kegan’s skills with his sticks and Vibe were now going to be used for practical purposes (almost) exclusively. Presently, Kegan’s collecting is less for charity, more for profit. He acquired a lot and built a shed where he keeps all the valuables including jewelry, musical devices, and miscellaneous appliances locked up tight. The rest of the stuff he finds is just kind of helter skelter on the yard. He sells on a needs basis and there’s no guarantee how much he’ll haggle for.
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