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<font style="color:#00b"><b>Appearance:</b></font> | <font style="color:#00b"><b>Appearance:</b></font> | ||
*<font style="color:#00b">'''Mask:'''</font> A lanky figure with strawberry blond hair and blue eyes. Mearcstapa's skin is covered in freckles--not only his face, but all across his body. He dresses simply, in dark colors or greys, usually with cargo pants and a pretty bulky brown leather messenger bag slung over a shoulder. Around one wrist is a neon pink paracord bracelet. | *<font style="color:#00b">'''Mask:'''</font> A lanky figure with strawberry blond hair and blue eyes. Mearcstapa's skin is covered in freckles--not only his face, but all across his body. He dresses simply, in dark colors or greys, usually with cargo pants and a pretty bulky brown leather messenger bag slung over a shoulder. Around one wrist is a neon pink paracord bracelet. Recently, he's grown his hair out almost to his shoulders, though it usually remains pinned out of his face with bobby pins or hair clips of some kind. | ||
*Occasionally he trades out the casual attire for a dark leather hooded duster with a pattern like panther spots that's well-camouflaged. The coat is decorated with straps and buckles and looks vaguely like something out of a Final Fantasy character's closet, flaring around Mearcstapa's legs. The hood, when pulled up, gives the impression of ears and perhaps a maw covering the face - like the wearer is subsumed by the animal instinct to hunt like this. He pairs this, generally, with leather trousers or tight jeans, as the coat's hidden pockets eliminate the need for the cargo pants (though not the messenger bag). | *Occasionally he trades out the casual attire for a dark leather hooded duster with a pattern like panther spots that's well-camouflaged. The coat is decorated with straps and buckles and looks vaguely like something out of a Final Fantasy character's closet, flaring around Mearcstapa's legs. The hood, when pulled up, gives the impression of ears and perhaps a maw covering the face - like the wearer is subsumed by the animal instinct to hunt like this. He pairs this, generally, with leather trousers or tight jeans, as the coat's hidden pockets eliminate the need for the cargo pants (though not the messenger bag). | ||
*<font style="color:#00b">'''Mien:'''</font> While Mearcstapa is still freckly, he goes from pale with brown dots to dark blue-black with spots of red and green neon across his entire body. His eyes are pure, dead black without even eyeshine, as though they're holes straight into the abyss of his mind. His freckles have been known to shift in intensity from much more red to almost entirely green, and on the rarest of occasions all of them dim at once. | *<font style="color:#00b">'''Mien:'''</font> While Mearcstapa is still freckly, he goes from pale with brown dots to dark blue-black with perfectly square-shaped spots of red and green neon across his entire body. His eyes are pure, dead black without even eyeshine, as though they're holes straight into the abyss of his mind. His freckles have been known to shift in intensity from much more red to almost entirely green with a dithering effect, and on the rarest of occasions all of them dim at once. His teeth are sharp, and bring to mind the fangs of a large cat, like a panther. | ||
*<font style="color:#00b">'''Mantle:'''</font> The rhythmic susurration of someone running through a cornfield--chasing or being chased, paired with strong scopaesthesia: the rippling sensation up the back of the neck that indicates that someone, somewhere, is watching you. | *<font style="color:#00b">'''Mantle:'''</font> The rhythmic susurration of someone running through a cornfield--chasing or being chased, paired with strong scopaesthesia: the rippling sensation up the back of the neck that indicates that someone, somewhere, is watching you. | ||
<font style="color:#00b">'''Personality:'''</font> | <font style="color:#00b">'''Personality:'''</font> | ||
Mearcstapa is someone who has acquired a very distinctive set of skills, and feels most comfortable when he can lean back on them. He's clever, quick-fingered | Mearcstapa is someone who has acquired a very distinctive set of skills, and feels most comfortable when he can lean back on them. He's clever, quick-fingered and somewhat slippery. What he is ''not'', however, is violent, angry or hot-headed. He's the sort of man who will find a solution to a tough problem that another person might call 'cheating', and feel cleverer for having spent less time/energy/effort on the matter. | ||
However, some people might find him awkward socially. He's not the most emotionally intelligent Darkling in town, and has been known to infodump without warning or offer scathingly blunt suggestions to other people's problems. | However, some people might find him awkward socially. He's not the most emotionally intelligent Darkling in town, and has been known to infodump without warning or offer scathingly blunt suggestions to other people's problems. He tends to get wrapped up in work or resolving problems to the detriment of his relationships or well-being; the value he places on being "useful" is not strictly healthy. | ||
<font style="color:#00b"><b>Public History</b></font> | <font style="color:#00b"><b>Public History</b></font> |
Revision as of 15:03, 1 July 2020
-- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
OVERVIEW
Personality: Mearcstapa is someone who has acquired a very distinctive set of skills, and feels most comfortable when he can lean back on them. He's clever, quick-fingered and somewhat slippery. What he is not, however, is violent, angry or hot-headed. He's the sort of man who will find a solution to a tough problem that another person might call 'cheating', and feel cleverer for having spent less time/energy/effort on the matter. However, some people might find him awkward socially. He's not the most emotionally intelligent Darkling in town, and has been known to infodump without warning or offer scathingly blunt suggestions to other people's problems. He tends to get wrapped up in work or resolving problems to the detriment of his relationships or well-being; the value he places on being "useful" is not strictly healthy. Public History
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