Augustus Waters has mahogany hair, bad posture and blue eyes, well built, as he used to play basketball, attractive, charming, romantic. His right leg was replaced with a prosthesis due to osteosarcoma and he has cancer. Gus constantly symbolized the situations at hand. One example is his tendency to put an unlit cigarette in his mouth, a sort of trademark of his: "It's a metaphor, see: you put the murderous thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its job. killing."