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MARCUS SMITHSON

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OOC Name: Alex Email: theladyunicorn@gmail.com AIM: theladyunicorn@gmail.com CDJ: theladyunicorn Timezone: GMT+10 THE BASICS Full name: Marcus Smithson Alias | Known as: n/a Date of birth: Dec 31 Age: 43 Sexuality: Bisexual Occupation: Commercial Pilot Species: Human APPEARANCE Appearance: Marcus looks like someone who doesn't care much for his appearance, he's the type of person who would blend in easily in space ports, bars, clubs and the seedier areas of the world. He has long ragged hair that he keeps messy, dresses in darker coloured clothes and with a beard and moustache he looks like someone you don't want to come across in a dark alley. Played By: Viggo Mortensen PERSONALITY Marcus Smithson doesn't give a fuck about what you think. Really, the only person he cares about is himself, from a young age he learned to fend for himself essentially living on the streets from the age of five. Yes he lived in an orphanage but it was so run down and horrible that he hardly spent any time there, over the years. It was here on the streets that he learned how to fight, steal and generally survive by himself. Marcus isn't good with other people, just not understanding how to interact with them well. Growing up he found all children his own age immature and annoying which lead him to the street gangs that were made up of older people which combined with what happened at the orphanage forced him to grow up quickly. He can be incredibly blunt, sarcastic and far to selfish to be any good at making friends with others not that he wants to. He has an incredibly bad habit of speaking without thinking of the consequences, often insulting people as he does so. He can also have a very short temper when it comes to dealing with people, especially ones that are exceptionally dumb. He'll curse, swear and yell and if you really push him he might slap you across the face though he has learned how to temper the last bit since coming to work as a pilot - though in the right circumstance it is definitely helpful. Despite this he knows how to behave at times too. When he was a teenager he discovered sex and took to working on his reputation with the girls and guys not having a preference for gender - sex was sex after all. He loved flirting with them and he found that a lot of them would give in to him once he flashed 'his charming smile' or even just for a drink or two, he was surprised at how easy it was to pick up girls for sex. While Marcus loves flying he has no problem with working outside of the law as well. He will deal with drugs, on the black market and even smuggling people or good to other areas of space. If it gets him money and work then he'll do it. Of course his 'public' occupation is a commercial pilot for those who want to travel elsewhere but you have to make the most of your life after all. HISTORY For the first five years of Marcus's life it was just about as normal as it could get. He was the only child to a happily married couple who lived in New York, America and worked onboard the Excalibur. Then disaster struck and there was an explosion in Engineering which unfortunately killed them both. Not having any more relatives, Marcus was sent to the local orphanage. There he found life was hell. The matron who ran the place squandered money for herself instead of spending it on the orphan's who she put to hard labor cleaning, scrubbing and generally taking care of the place instead of hiring people to do it. That was as well as attending school during the day as was required of them. By the time Marcus turned ten he was barely around the Orphanage and he didn't really attend school either for that matter. Instead, Marcus took to wondering the streets for days at a time. It was here that he found himself falling into one of the more prominent street gangs, it was they that taught him how to survive on the street, now to steal and not get caught, how to fight with knives and how to kill people. He was soon spending nearly all of his time with the gang who he considered friends even if they were only out for themselves, as he was for himself. Upon turning eighteen, he and his 'friends' helped fake records that gave him the marks necessary to train as a pilot for Earth. He attended the training course for three years before graduating and it was then that he realised that he didn't want to work for Earth flying on long missions and the like, instead he sold a lot of the things he'd stolen over the years, stole a few more things and sold those and so forth until he had enough money to buy his own ship. By the time he was twenty five he had started to make a name for himself as a pilot and as someone you could go to if you wanted to do something not so legal. He had no morals and would do anything you wanted as long as he received a decent price for the object or job that he was carrying out. The next twenty years or close to, passed by quickly. He gained more and more connections in the Black Market and made more of a name for himself as a pilot. He slept his way from one end of the galaxy to the other and back again, not caring what happened from those nights. He made a few friends along the way but preferred to operate by himself. All in all he is happy with his life and wouldn't change it. OTHER Three Random Facts: 1. He knows he has at least one child out there but it doesn't mean anything to him. 2. His favorite drink is Scotch 3. He hates the Galactic Legion and thinks they're too restrictive. Storylines: ( Want any specific lines for your character? 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