Marcus Netallic

A highly social and affectionate Zoroark, grown and raised on the east coast of Vesppuccia, who’s taken on the self-appointed job of ‘traveling Magician’, touring the states in an effort to hone his skills before aiming for the big-time. Currently, he resides in Peregrine, both pondering what tricks he’ll use next, and if he can use them for more than simply entertaining people...

Appearance
Quite a normal-looking Zoroark by any means, as far as shape is concerned. He’s got chocolate-colored fur in place of grey, and his hair is colored a muted pink. He’s also fairly scrawny for a member of his species, even if most of his species does look...well, pretty scrawny. His other forms vary, though the one he’s taken up the most in Peregrine, a short youthful human, looks to have equally pink hair, a small pointed nose, and very slightly anime eyes.

Attire
Well. He has a hair bead and Toby's silver snake earring. That count? In his human form, he wears a chocolate brown button-up shirt, a pink vest covering it up. And it’s topped with a dark grey bowtie...he also wears a pair of shorts, same dark grey in color, and a pair of pink light-up sketchers. Whether they’re actually based on a model of light-up sketchers or Marcus simply based them off of pink shoes and his powers just so happen to make them glow when he stomps is another matter entirely.

Personality
Marcus is a very compassionate man, and a very social butterfly, seeing any person he meets as a new opportunity to bond. Of course, he thrives off the attention, sometimes bringing himself into conversations not enough to be the center of attention, but definitely to where people notice he’s there. Still, he knows when to respect other people’s boundaries...sometimes. He’s also quick to react to others, though also quick to assume he’s at fault for something.

Drives and Obstacles
Goal(s): Become Famous, Fight Crime Maybe?

Motivations: A big drive for Marcus is to make both of his parents proud...though, he’s so enamored by Tara uncovering his illusion with such showmanship that he’s now considering using his powers to help around town in much the same (overdramatic) fashion.

Obstacles: “How do I even use these claws???”

Affiliations

 * Marcus’ Traveling Trick Show: Marcus’ one-man show that, with Tara’s suggestion has evolved into a two-man show with Chen. He does the tricks, and Chen has the business instinct. They may yet go far!

Romance

 * None yet!

Family

 * Alex Proarch: Marcus’ birth father, an experienced programmer known to have worked on a variety of indie games, and even dabbled in making AI programs. Sadly, he was not there for much of Marcus’ life.


 * Toby Netallic: Marcus’ adoptive father, a snek man who’s love of Marcus is only matched by his love for Val...and steaks. The man loves a good steak.


 * Valentine Netallic: A Cautious Mienfoo, And Marcus’ adopted younger sister. She loves his brother quite dearly, and would’ve gone traveling with him had she been just a bit older...

Friends and Foes
Friends:
 * Moon Emisirit: A strange man that Marcus met while wandering the the forests and being wrapped up in the affairs of a village who’s people were long lost to time. Afterwards, the two realized ‘Hey, we’re illusionists’, and formed a bit of a friendship afterwards.
 * Dimitri Barrenmore: A volunteer of one of Marcus’ more ambitions magic tricks wherein he and the rest of the crowd were lead to believe he was a chicken. Though, afterwards he’d struck up a bit of conversation with the shy Mage Guild worker, and the two exchanged contact information.
 * Tarolina Malcruz: A really cool dude, and their meeting is one of the few times Marcus has felt truly humbled. Tara offered him protection under the deck, though he’s gained an interest in more than protection...
 * Chen Liu: A bird boy that Tara directed towards Marcus, thinking it’d both help Chen bring his storytelling to life, and bring Marcus’ tricks to a wider audience. And hey, he seems nice enough!

Allies:
 * My friends are my allies!:

Frenemies:
 * Not really any!

Enemies:
 * Erikson, kinda: “You’ll never take me alive, coppers!”

Acquired/Learned Abilities

 * Ventriloquism: Using his powers of illusion, Marcus can throw his voice anywhere he wants to, at whatever volume of his choosing, up to a 30ft. radius. He’s able to do this with more than just his voice, though, projecting any such sound of his choosing up to 30 ft. away.


 * Antiventriloquism: Much like how he can project sound, he can also project the absence of sound, creating a silencing field or silencing certain sounds within a 30 ft. radius. This does not count as Mute, and cannot stop spells from being cast.


 * Was the room always this small?: Another of Marcus’ abilities tied to illusion, he’s able to make any room up to 30ft. appear differently, re-shaping walls to be closer or further away. Though, only walls made to look closer can have collision, given that further walls *will* be bumped into long before seeing them.


 * Who Turned On the Dark?: Another power Marcus can pull off related to his illusory abilities, Marcus can warp light around a person’s eyes in order to blind their sight. This is a concentrated ability, and requires a turn to use, though it can be circumvented largely by moving away from the affected area.


 * Bippity Bippen, You Are Now a Chicken: Although it takes s great amount of skill, it’s possible for Marcus to hijack a person’s motor skills to create more elaborate illusions that can make a person accurately feel slopes and inclines, adjusted height and body parts, among other things. It’s a skill Marcus has absolutely no confidence in using on the fly, and requires s great deal of concentration, but in a prepared stage show where he has to fool both audience and participant? It’s very effective.

Skills

 * Master of Illusions: As a skill possessed by all Zoroarks, Marcus is able to disguise his appearance or go completely invisible, hiding himself from prying eyes. However, the illusion can be dispelled or seen through by magic, and will be dispelled should Marcus be dealt any damage.


 * Me and my Clone: If given time to focus, Marcus can create a duplicate of himself, or even turn invisible and shift where his body appears, and (while needing to focus solely on it) can give it definition enough to have collision. He can only create one such duplicate at once. He’s also able to make an assortment of figures and basic collision to create a ‘faux crowd’, though it’s an unstable trick that can be easily dispelled with enough force. It takes 1 whole dedicated action to summon an illusory clone, and they can be desummoned with a bonus action.


 * Big, Meaty Claws: Marcus has fingers. They’re very sharp. He’s able to use his claws for 1d6 slashing damage each. Any clone created with this technique can also cause damage, though for them it’s instead 1d4 psychic damage.


 * General Skills: Marcus can do stuff! He has proficiency in Stealth, Acrobatics, Sleight of Hand, Deception, and Performance.

Weaknesses

 * No Thumbs: Self-explanatory.


 * I Did Not Think This Through: 90% of all of Marcus’ abilities revolve around illusion magic. Any battle with him against someone that can dispel illusions or see through them can and will look like a comedy routine with at least 3 pantomimes playing along.

Key Items

 * Jar: Marcus’ money jar. About the only part of his stage show that DOES actually exist.

Weapons

 * Claws: “I mean...yes, my hands DO count as a lethal weapon.”

Other Equipment

 * World 21 Smartphone Ver. 6: It a phone. Even though he’s a chocolate guy, and thus has cookie delivery on speed dial, he also has that for the Pizza guy. And Tara. Sometimes he asks Tara to be the Pizza guy, it’s great.

Inventory

 * Bag of Holding: It’s a bag that holds stuff!
 * Deck of Cards: A set of 52 cards. Comes with the four standard suits, and has a pair of jokers and--you never know--a rules card. Initiating a game of 52-pickup is a(n ill-advised) bonus action.
 * Serpent Earring: An earring given to Marcus by his dad, Toby, when he left. It's silver, and oddly enough kind of looks like it could actually just be a chocolate wrapped in metallic foil. (Koop Note: Xeno has stated to me that Marcus wears it every day.)
 * Moon Arcana: A Card received from Tara after the two met up. Marcus is holding onto it, hoping it’ll come in handy...

Biography
On a cold Winter evening on Dec 4th, 1994, Marcus was birthed to an eager father, Alex Proarch, and a mother whom...Marcus has never found out the identity of. His years with the two were short, and not even years, as his mother left the young Zorua in the sole care of Alex. Alex was a programmer by trade, and often working for scraps. Given the residency’s high bills, and the costs for raising two...he felt he had no choice but to put him up for adoption. Unable to contact any close friends willing to raise him, he was brought to an orphanage with the hopes that he’d be given a loving home.

And so, Marcus was raised up for a few years in that orphanage, until a man by the name of Toby Netallic happened upon him while looking to raise a child of his own. He was able to support Marcus up through the years, the two forming a close bond and sharing much of their life together...along with his younger sister, Valentine, whom Toby adopted sometime later. As he got older, Marcus found that he quite loved playing innocent tricks and pranks on people, and wondered if he could make a living off of it...or at the very least, see more of the world. So it was with that mindset that he decided ‘I’m going to travel the world’. And...off he went, bidding his father and sister goodbye.

And from that point on, Marcus’ life has been one adventure after another, taking on a new persona each town over to bring his trickery to new, unsuspecting audience, reveling in the joy he was bringing people. But there was something else: he wanted to meet his real parents, with the little information he had of them. And he did meet one: Alex Proarch. To his surprise, he met another: Zarxon, a young Zangoose working as an apprentice for Alex. Marcus caught up on life with his biological dad, and was even able to convince Zarxon to help with a few of his magic shows...however, the Zangoose recoiled at the idea of helping him with it full-time at Marcus’ suggestion, and the two left off on uncertain terms.

It’s been a few months since that meetup, and Marcus has finally arrived in Peregrine to test out his refined material with another fresh audience. Though, there’s more to it now. He aims to make it big here, and have his name known across the town, the town of opportunities. Perhaps make both of his father’s proud, in the process. But with all of the weirdness happening around town, he can’t help but wonder...’Is all the world more than just a stage?’

Points of Interest
Former Homes: Alex’s Apartment, New Joysey; New Joysey Orphanage; the Toby Household, New Joysey

Former Jobs: Orphan