The Outsiders Headcanons & Facts

Keith "Two-Bit" David Mathews

Birthday: June 20, 1947

- oldest of the gang

- wisecracker

- still a junior at 18 1/2

- 6'

- broad and sturdily built

- proud of his sideburns

- gray eyes

- wide grin

- can't stop making jokes

- no one can shut him up

- life is one big joke to him

- famous for shoplifting and his black handled switchblade (which he also stole)

- never uses his black handled switchblade; only to show it off

- "Dally knew how much that knife meant to Two-Bit,"

- used his pocketknife when he needs a blade

-thinks shoplifting is fun; doesn't need everything he steals

- likes fights, blondes and school

- never learns anything in school

- good at voice imitations

- scatterbrained: disorganized and lacking in concentration

- hard to tell if he's drunk or not

- his mother works as a barmaid

- has a younger sister

- father left

- smart

- lies all the time

- too lazy to argue with anyone

- doesn't cry at all

- dreams about blondes

- impossible to get mad at

- cocks his eyebrow when he's confused, or when something bothers him or when he feels like saying something smart

- can explain things well

- good fighter

- doesn't get a job so he doesn't ruin his reputation

- "He saw things straight and made them into something funny."

- house is messy

- "He seemed to feel that if you said something was all right, it immediately was, no matter what."

- can to acrobatics

- got jailed with Soda after "doing mid-air flips downtown sidewalk, walking on their hands, and otherwise disturbing the public and police."

- always gets high before a rumble

- "If everybody jumped in the Arkansas River, ol' Two-Bit would be right on their heels."