He just wanted to help.. how could it all go so terribly wrong?
Keith snuck down against Isabelle’s advice so that he could talk to the two of them. He felt bad about A. Paxton being locked in a dark basement, considering his phobia and was going to give him a tiny flame but he kept running away and couldn’t communicate why. Keith, bless his heart, assumed A. Paxton was scared of him and pursued him to reassure his friend that he wasn’t going to hurt him. In reality A. Paxton didn’t know if his butterflies could infect Keith like the ones directly from reaper bird, and was scared that he’d infect him too but couldn’t say that through the garbled speech.
Sadly, they could, and his magic can’t withstand the pressure of all of them pressing in. The shield shattered, and there was no where to go.
A. Keith is based far more on Reaper bird then every man, so he has a rather positive personality. He becomes obsessed with understanding life, taking on a mystified wonder for life from the final froggit. As this cheery positive outlook isn’t far from his own, he happily accepted this mindset when he took on their traits. He mostly took on the positive traits, but he’s also a lot more dominating verbally and seems to flip to being suddenly harsh. He’s definitely the most assertive, not that the other amalgamated souls really argue with him.
He consoles A. Paxton and reassures him that he’s happy with his new found knowledge, and becomes excited to share his knowledge with the others making him the biggest potential threat as he believes merging mentalities with the amalgamates is the only way to share his newfound knowledge. His assertive personality also means that he quickly realizes how A. Justin ticks, and that he runs like a machine with generally little ambition to disobey instructions. He told Justin to start up the elevator, which he did with his control over electronics and they managed to escape the true lab before the others could notice.
Now the three of them are on the loose, and only three of the kids are actually normal anymore.