Mearcstapa

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Mearcstapa
"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
-- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
   
  OVERVIEW


Appearance:

  • Mask: 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.
  • Mien: 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.
  • Mantle: 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.

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, wily and a true bullshit artist. 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.

Public History

  • April 2015: Returned from Arcadia, arriving in Chicago, Illinois
  • June 2015: Began the MarchWalker613 YouTube channel
  • March 2018: Left the Winter Court to become an Autumn
  • October 2019: Left Chicago after the death of Queen Idlewild, arriving in Philadelphia shortly before Halloween

Rumors:

  • Called Sakima Saagochque "sweetheart" in public with no ill consequences.
  • Involved in protest actions at the Museum of Modern Art during the Lux Obscura fashion show; told a story of the results of police brutality on their public image that was sufficient to scare bike police into not moving on the protestors.
  • Once cowed Anna-Marie Cordray into silence and stillness simply by telling her to 'fuck off'.
  • Supposedly was the one who Sealed a promise that Lux broke.


  RP HOOKS


  • The Net is a Waste of Time - Perhaps you've fallen into a YouTube hole and seen recordings of talks from conferences like DEFCON or Wild West Hackin' Fest, where someone talks about what red-teaming, pen testing and other physical security testing entails. There's a good chance that someone was introduced on stage as Janus Mearcstapa. Or maybe you've even come across the much smaller MarchWalker613 channel, which does shorter videos about security. Example of a conference talk Example of content on his channel
  • Stop Giggling, It's Not THAT Kind of Penetration - The bulk of Mearcstapa's mundane work is actually doing physical penetration testing and social engineering for companies or individuals concerned about their security. This has led to him rubbing elbows with people in all sorts of business, and even wealthy individuals concerned about the safety of their own homes. He has friends all over the place who he's helped sure up their security.
  • They're With Me, It's Okay - Mearcstapa is known to local law enforcement because of his security work--this makes him a great person to take along if you're about to actually break into a place on Freehold business, because he's great at mollifying the cops if something goes wrong. More than once, he's managed to make a potentially damning situation go away with a silver-tongued lie about someone being his partner on a red-teaming exercise.
  • The Belonging Kind - Recently, Mearcstapa's been expanding his circle of contacts beyond just the Freehold and what mundane friends he has. He's made contact with the local vampires, and left an apparently positive impression on their Sakima. While his knowledge of Kindred society is incomplete, he's made a point of offering himself to them for computer literacy and security lessons, as well as his and Wren's usual services. He'll even make a point of using metaphors which someone from medieval times or before can parse.


  CONTACTS



  GALLERY


  QUOTES
  • "This is an example quote. You can leave a quote here, showing how your character would speak about Mearcstapa behind his back." - Your Name Here
  • "Mearcstapa is... perceptive. Skilled. Insightful. Great at what he does, and even good at a few things he probably thinks he's bad at. Feels like I should dislike him for some of that shit, but... well. Y'know how it goes." - Sturm
  PROFILE
Legal Name:
Janus Mearcstapa
(Alternate Identity 3)
Aliases:
Mearcstapa
Mearc
MarchWalker613
Pronunciation Guide:
may-ARK-stah-pah, permissible to shorten to may-ARK
Apparent Age:
26
Venue:
Changeling
Seeming:
Darkling
Kith:
Hunterheart
Court:
Autumn (Mantle 3)
Title:
Scrivener
Keeper:
The Queen of Mirrors
Faceclaim:
Kendall Cleveland (photographed by Nathan Dumlao)
Player:
Solstice
Public Effects:
  • Allies 1 (High Society)
  • Allies 2 (Law Enforcement)
  • Allies 2 (Legal)
  • Contacts 4 (Government, Hackers, High Society, Media)
  • Court Goodwill 1 (Spring)
  • Court Goodwill 1 (Winter)
  • Fame 1 (Youtube/Security Conferences)
  • Status 1 (Local Business)
Soundtrack
"Younger", The Mountain Goats
Set the torch aflame
Call the night by name
Stake out your dark position
Lie in wait
By the gleaming city gate
Try not to lose sight of the mission
It never hurts to give thanks to the broken bones
You had to use to build your ladder


"Carousel", Flobots

Middle of the dark and
I'm lying all alone
Little green spark
Twinkle shining from my phone
I don't know what I'm searching for
But why not
Wishing on a star, my hands are white hot


  LOGS
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