[Ready] Mark Orca - District Two | Hunger Games: The RPG

[Ready] Mark Orca - District Two Apr 21, 2014 21:42:57 GMT -5

Post by Anatra on Apr 21, 2014 21:42:57 GMT -5

Mark Orca

Name: Mark Orca
Age: 17
Gender: Male
District: Two
Height: 6"0
Profession: Career
Codeword (totally forgot this and edited it in): odair

Appearance

A smile that is warm, but a shape to his face tells you that he's tough. His hair is a dark brown, just as his eyes are. The typical Orca style. He has deep eyes. Ones that, if unapproving, may look fearsome and striking. There's two part to Mark. There's the warm, happy and reasonable side of him that is seen by most, especially family. Then there's the dark, formidable and perhaps even scary side of him. That side of him allows people to notice that he does have deep eyes, he does have a tallness to him. The unassuming side of him is extremely predictable. A smile here, there and everywhere. He puts one up everytime he sees somebody he knows, or somebody he loves. Mark's little mannerisms are polite and strong. His walk, his talk; all of it. He looks like a strong kid simply by the way he transfers his courageous attitude through everything he seems to do. He can sometimes be labelled as 'without error', simply because the way in which he conducts things appear as strong and dominating. His confidence is not arrogance, it is assured fact.

His usual clothing choices range from sweaters and long-sleeved tops and rarely short-sleeved t-shirts or anything of the like. It's simply because he doesn't like the idea of showing off, or showing what he has. He likes the idea of being reserved, and prefers the practicality of a warm sweater to a colder, more exposing t-shirt. He usually wears sweatpants as well, simply because of the practicality. Casually, he's not always the best dresser on the block. He dresses for practicality and little more. But when it comes to formalities such as parties or formal gatherings, which are a frequence for the family, he definitely scrubs up well. It goes to show that if he wants to do something, despite previous tendencies, he can do it. Albeit a simpler example.

His general upkeep of his facial hair is less than dependable. He doesn't bother to keep it fully maintained, but he doesn't let it grow too sparse or too wild. He doesn't have much, being young, but when he does he prefers to keep it decently short and grows it all around his chin and sideburns, and even around his mouth, too. His hair is short, but quite long at the same time; long at the top and front, short on the sides and back coming to a neat blend between the two.

Personality

^{(Mark, left - Tyren (cousin), right)}

Being a part of a huge family, the Orcas, he has always had friends and buddies around him. But as much as this is a good thing for most children, as Mark grew up he tended to stray from being greatly involved in their outings. He liked to be more on his own, because he thought that perhaps he could do better independently. He was definitely right, but he never let that affect his reasoning for not being necessarily the biggest family man around. The reasoning of course is because he is a career. He doesn't want to get too wrapped up in family - people who depend on him - because he wants to be able to go into the Games like a dark horse. Without any of the bullshit that comes with most tributes... family, friends and all of the rest of it. He wants to be able to hone his skills privately to a point where the moment he is reaped, or the moment he volunteers, he'll be able to show everything he has to offer in confidence, but not arrogance. He has earned his skills by sacrificing a lot of potentially beneficial events such as his twin cousin's eighteenth and such. But not only that, but he's missed out on being part of the mining company that the Orca family own.

His parents are hugely supportive of him being a career. Primarily because he is their only child, and forcing him to do anything he doesn't want to do just would never be worth it in the end. This has made him be brought up fully supported, financially and even medically when he's been injured. They've paid for everything from his training sessions to his equipment and gear. This has poured all his time and commitment into becoming a fearsome warrior. He is simply one of the more professional careers. There are people who train, but there are people who live in fighting. This brutality has made him very callous about emotional pain, and he has a high disregard for anything generally sensitive or touching. His future, to him, is the Games. He doesn't have any aspirations afterwards.

Mark is soon to turn eighteen, which makes him all the more anxious to be reaped, or to get his chance to volunteer. If anything was to make it impossible for him to be in the next Games, he has nothing to fall back onto, he feels. It's his future, and it's his time. He wants nothing more. But if the worst was to come to worst, he would probably have to settle for something similarly dangerous. Like hosting the pregames, or training others to fight. He's never been good at that. He just likes winning too much. So much that he's willing to be tactical and formidable about it. A ruthlessness and a brutality comes with being a career, but Mark has mastered the art of being such a person. He has no regard for pathetic attempts at spears, or fake usage of swords. Despite this, he isn't perfect. He most definitely can't use the bow all too well, and with knives and throwing knives... His aim is whimsy, at best.

History

Born into the Orca family, Mark's parents are most definitely more of the rich than they are the poor. They have a decent and ordinary house on the outskirts of one of the towns in District Two. His father was and currently is a desk-man at the Peacekeeper Academy, but his mother, who is the Orca of the couple, co-owns a cafe with her sister, Cecilia Orca. Mark's first few months were spent overcoming an illness that made his kidneys vulnerable to infection which meant he had to be in hospital for most of his first year of life. Missing out of key points of education meant that his parents assumed him to not be as smart as the other children. His whole upbringing was focused around the fact that he'd be better at practical work - hard labour or even being a career. The Capitol, however, insist with every child that they attend school. This meant that although he was terrible at literacy, and anything to do with things like that; maths, writing and reading, he had to have a basic understanding. He got at least that, though it cost him dearly because children are expected to be normal. There was never a case of beatings, but teachers especially pointed out how bad he was, usually in front of people.

His early teens involved moving into the higher set schools. This brought on much more choice. He first watched the Hunger Games when he was younger, though. Around eight. It was accidentally, and he asked his parents why the kids were murdering each other, that's when he realized and was told. At first, like any other child, it really scared him. He wasn't thrilled or excited to see people who he had perhaps seen at school, die. When he came of age for the games, twelve, he went with his cousins. He has lots of them, similarly aged as well. Tyren and Alex, particularly, were his best friends at the time, his twin cousins. That frightful day, he vowed himself never to fear something so much again. It was from there, that his inner thoughts began to develop as he started to see the point in the Games - the sport in it. He wanted to improve himself. He started attending the career program and he was already beginning to hone his skills ultimately. He went originally with his cousins, mostly the twins. But as he got to around the age of fifteen, he made a brave choice of not going with them any longer. It was from there that he decided to train alone - and spar with people he didn't know almost every time. This way, his methods were realistic. He began to build himself into a true warrior.

Getting to the age of seventeen, he is now at his peak. He is fully capable, probably the most he'll ever be. He wants nothing more than to be in the Games. But not only that, he'll be eighteen soon. When somebody turns eighteen in the Orca family, they are landed with a party, and a whole deal of responsibility. They have to join the family company, and they have to stop training professionally for the Games. All his hopes would be dashed if he is not to be reaped during that year. He doesn't know, currently, what he will do with himself if he was to ever not be reaped. He has focused on it for so long, it's been his primarily focus for all this time, he doesn't know what life would be like if he wanted anything else.