Name: Marcus Lopez Arguello Door: door pass - submissiveCanon: Deadly Class Canon Point: 1x05: Saudade Age: 16 Appearance: 1 | 2 | 3History: wiki | marcusPersonality: Marcus is, in many ways, a product of his environment. Even as a child, Marcus was a depressed kid, quick to fear his own mortality and struggle with thoughts about his future, but witnessing the deaths of his parents so soon after fleeing his home country only pressurized and concentrated his anxiety, turning him into a cynical, bitter young man. He's stunted by grief, having been forged in the fires of a violent, tragic upbringing, and nearly every facet of who he is circles back to his belief that he's been broken.
After his parent's deaths, Marcus was placed in the care of the Sunset Boy's Home, where countless acts of abuse furthered his cynicism, his desire for control and his all-consuming anger. Marcus has a high tolerance for pain and constantly displays a willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, and his escape from Sunset - by setting off a homemade nailbomb he built from needles smuggled back to his bedroom in secrecy - showed clever, ruthless cunning. Marcus is at heart someone willing to change the world through violence, a trait of his notable enough to earn enrollment at King's Dominion, and detonating that bomb was his first act of violent rebellion.
But not his last. Marcus is driven by ambition and a need for revenge; he blames Ronald Reagan for his parents' deaths, and even before winding up in a school for assassins-in-training, one of the few things that kept him going was his fantasy of assassinating the president. In spite of all his cynicism, Marcus puts weight in huge, sweeping gestures and leans heavily on sentimentality and narrative bookends; he finds meaning in big moments, and Marcus's plan to kill Reagan is just one example how he fixates on finding giant, climactic solutions to solve all his problems. He's a poet and an escapist, relying on music, writing and substance abuse to keep him alive just as often as he relies on unrealistic plans and unfair expectations he puts on himself and the people around him. He's a romantic in the truest sense.
Marcus is, ultimately, needy. He wants to be loved, he wants to be fixed, and he attaches himself to people he's known for minimal amounts of time in the hopes that they'll be the one to make him better. He's socially stunted after growing up in the boy's home and then living on the streets after his escape, and he gets swept up in the romanticism of his relationships, committing multiple murders for the sake of his friends and deciding in volatile, seesawing decisions that numerous people around him could become his reason for living. He does stupid, self-destructive, soul-crushing shit to impress people he barely knows, and even though he's intelligent enough to regret every dumb mistake he makes in the name of acting cool and tough and desirable to the people around him, his toxic, debilitating insecurity keeps the cycle going.
Marcus is introspective and ruthless, intelligent enough to justify every act of violence he commits between his inevitable bouts of self-hate and self-doubt. He has something of a hero complex, which stems from his need to be loved; even if killing Ronald Reagan or Billy's father or the homeless piece of trash who hounded him on the streets wouldn't fix the holes in him, taking out who he considers to be scum of the earth would at least make life better for someone who deserved it. He seeks justice, but he even moreso seeks validation, caring less about his own safety and well-being than he does the approval of others. He's also a little selfish; he'll do horrible things in the name of friendship and love, but if his relationships get too hard or if people lean on him as much as he leans on them, he tends to feel suffocated and frustrated. He wants to be taken care of, and he wants to take care of other people, but only to the extent that it rewards him with loyalty, love and protection. Powers and Abilities: Marcus is only a teenage boy, but he lives in a violent environment where he's been taught how to fight, how to kill, and how to get away with it. He has high physical endurance and a high threshold for pain, and the classes at King's Dominion have given him knowledge on a wide array of deadly arts.
In Assassin Psychology, Marcus learns the history of assassinations and the art of subjugation; he's well-versed in the theory behind manipulating, apprehending and disarming his targets through exploiting human weakness, and though he doesn't tend to use these methods in practice, he has an understanding on how to manipulate people through flattery, psychological influence and sexuality.
Beheading, Atypical/Hand-to-hand Combat and Toxicology speak for themselves; Marcus has a strong understanding of human anatomy and a varied catalog of murder methods under his belt, knowing how to wield weapons, fight in close quarters combat across various martial arts styles, administer poisons to his targets and likely much more.
Life outside of King's Dominion also gave Marcus a handful of miscellaneous survivalist skills, such as lockpicking, hotwiring cars, pickpocketing, parkour and sleight-of-hand. Marcus is also familiar with The Anarchist Cookbook, giving him knowledge on how to create illicit drugs, homemade explosives, improvised weaponry and a myriad of other manufactured devices and substances. Inventory: His journal, his walkman, and the rat skeleton he was given on arrival to King's Dominion. Samples: here |
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needlebomb) wrote2021-01-14 04:14 am
