Character Bio

Born November 20th, 1990 (Day 10 Reed) in the Oaxaca, Mexico.
Father "unknown", mother Maria Teresa Tonatzin-Alarcon

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
   Ethnicity Mexicano
   Build 5'6" tall, 135 lbs
   Skin Marcus has cinnamon-sugar colored skin and short black hair, which he usually puts up into a fohawk. Marcus is very handsome, although on the short side, with a leonine musculature and easy grace. His amber eyes burn with creative energy.
   Dress Marcus most often goes casual in dark jeans and a plain white v-neck t-shirts and hemp sandals or sneakers. His clothing seems strangely clean for a painter. He always accessorizes, usually with a bunch of bangles on one wrist, a flashy belt, toe rings, or a pendant of some kind. Marcus is never seen without at least a pair of obsidian spike earrings and a turquoise-studded bracer.
   Quirks doodling, sleeping in odd places/ insomnia, wearing as few clothes as possible whenever possible.
   Enjoys Eating, reading, kayaking, painting, marathons, community involvement, painting; empanadas, Oaxacan moles, and any type of dark chocolate; music from Juanes, , and Imagine Dragons; the Simpsons, Fisica o Quimica, and Godzilla; Robot de Madera, Anthony Goicolea, Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Carlo Saraceni, Michelangelo, M. C. Escher, Frida Khalo, and Diego Rivera; and the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan.
   Dislikes Beer, fast food, eating with mouth open, stodginess or "coldness"; elitism, drug trafficking, social inequality, watching others suffer

BACKGROUND Marcus and his mother moved from Oaxaca to Acapulco in June of 1998. Maria Teresa soon met and married the policeman Gregorio Florez Ibarra, and in 2000 they had the twins, Teresa Maria and Tochtli Florez Alarcon. In January of 2004, during the prosecution of a drug cartel in which Marcus was a key witness, Gregorio was gunned down. The Florez-Alarcon family moved to Albuquerque, NM in the United States shortly after, where Marcus finished up high school. His social activism, working to place clinics in impoverished neighborhoods of Albuquerque, won him and his cohorts national attention, and the incredible murals he created to advertise the clinics arrested it. After graduating in 2007 with Honors in Spanish and Art, Marcus spent some time travelling the United States, installing exhibitions and guest-speaking in various locales on local-level social activism. He took a full ride scholarship to the California Institute of the Arts and studied their for 3 years, but in 2011, tragedy struck his family. His mother and the twins were 'deported' back to Mexico under highly suspicious circumstances. Following them almost cost Marcus his life and the lives of his family. A Visitation by Tezcatlipoca turned the odds in Marcus's favor, and with some help both governmental and supernatural, he was able to extract the twins. His mother remains missing.

   Family Maria Teresa Tonatzin Florez Alarcon (mother; whereabouts unknown), Gregorio Florez Ibarra (stepfather; deceased), Teresa Maria Florez Alarcon (sister; California), Tochtli Florez Alarcon (brother; California); William Eldridge (private retainer; California), Margarita Ugarte Alarcon (aunt, mother's sister; California); Extended Florez family (Acapulco)
   Education CALARTS graduate, Apache high school graduate
   Occupation Artist-Social Activist. Marcus is a very successful artist, with most of his framed work selling for between $700-$3,000. His murals have attracted bids between $30-$75 dollars per square foot; Marcus routinely donates 90% of the money made from murals to community health clinics and involves the community they benefit from conception to execution. He has also given frequent seminars on how the program works and jump started murals in over a dozen other sites throughout the United States. Besides the high school project, Marcus has personally created 8 more of these community mural projects; 3 in one crazy summer and fall. The most meaningful to Marcus, personally, is the Aztec creation story painted on the clinic of his old barrio in Acapulco, where his mother used to work. !Saludarte! as the program is called, has been Marcus's major project up to this time.

BIG TICKET ITEMS
   Apartment 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment, combined kitchen and living area, large bay windows; the place has been painted (with permission) and is completely covered in murals. Recessed lighting, stainless steel sparsely furnished kitchen area, large ‘Aztec Calendar’ rug with futons, love sacks, 30 inch flat screen TV. The little room contains a bed and closet/dresser, and the third room is the art studio.
   Toshiba Satellite laptop
   Samsung S4 smartphone
   2009 Toyota Prius
   $34,000 in savings

CHARACTER
   Affect Candid, Warm, Cautious
   Mood Animated-Melancholic; Marcus is mildly cyclothymic, and goes through strong mood shifts, from manically creative to moderate depression. Not medicated.
   Personality Conscientious, Neurotic, Agreeable, Conventional, Spontaneous, Stubborn
   Sexuality homosexual (Kinsey 6), high libido, seductive, high fidelity
   Religion unorthodox- Catholic/Teotl-centric polytheism, inclusive, occasionally aggresive conversion tactics, fearful and respectful towards all teotl.

VIRTUES
   Liberator driven to free others from oppression
   Empathic feels what other people feel; tries to heal them of hurts
   Devoted faithful/ steady/ unwavering/ passionate to causes and people
   Creative driven to expression and creative use of energies