Marcus Faust
Fracti No Ultra
NAME: Marcus Faust, formerly Darth Vindica
FACTION: N/A, any he'd join now probably would arrest him, and he's against anyone he'd have joined once
RANK: Neutral Master, Guardian of the Whills
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 37
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 6'
EYES: Dull Green
HAIR: Brown
SKIN: Pale, and covered in scars
FORCE SENSITIVE: I sure hope so
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(+) Combatant: From a tender age Marcus has been fighting, and as he failed to die despite the plethora of bad situations he'd let himself get into, he's become quite good at violence. Up close that is, ranged combat is a different story
(+/-) Strong in The Force: Marcus is, and always has been strongly connected to the force, but now his focus is limited mostly to the enhancement of his physical abilities, and tending to the chronic pain he is in.
(+/-) Guilty Conscious: Marcus has lived a cruel life, while perhaps not as malicious as some of his counterparts, Marcus was at one point a Sith Lord, and has the blood of untold numbers of innocents on his hands, and this fact weighs heavily on him. That said, it also has led him to abandoning the dark side, which has seen the beginning of a long healing process for both his body and mind.
(+/-) As the final step in his abandonment of the Darth Vindica persona, he has abandoned all of his armor and weapons, and at least for now taken up a strong wooden, likely made from the wood of a less than normal tree, and begun wearing simplistic robes. He just so happens to be able to hit with the cane hard enough to splinter the armor of a stormtrooper. And kill the man inside if he so choose.
(-) No Marksman: Even with the force, letting Marcus fight with a firearm would be foolish
(-) Ouch, my everything: From crap prosthetics that formerly left him with nasty infections, to the insane amount of physical trauma and mental corruption, Marcus is usually in some sort of pain unless dulled by the force
(-) Restricted movement: Despite being fast and fairly agile for some time, eventually the focus needed to keep the pain at bay will wane and severely restrict his movement until he can once again dull the agony
(-) Voices: Yeah he hear's voices in his head too, he's not in the best shape
BIOGRAPHY:
Marcus Faust was born into a upper class family on Corellia as the fourth of six children, unknowingly the son of retired Jedi Shadow. For a time, life was good, but one day several darksiders who his father had defeated and left for dead in his time as a Jedi arrived at the family's manor. There were no survivors. As he hid and watched his father make a stand against the attackers, saber in hand, Marcus felt all hope die the same time his father was cut down. After he was run through, and his youngest sister Maria was beheaded in front of him, what was left of him died along with his family.
Miraculously, Faust survived and pursued vengeance using his family's remaining financial assets and his father's lightsaber to hunt down and kill those who had butchered his loved ones. In doing so, he full gave in to the dark side in order to destroy them. With nothing left for him on Corellia, he fled to the current incarnation of the Sith Empire and found himself apprenticed to a Sith Knight known as [member="Shinju"]. To say she trained him would be a misstatement, the battlefield and his hunts were Marcus' teacher, Shinju instead tortured the teenager, both physically and mentally, making him kill a child in front of its mother on one occasion. Eventually, he became a Sith Knight despite having the worst trait in any Sith; loyalty.
In two separate coups, Marcus stood with the party in power, and was physically ravaged because of it, with his former master taking both legs on one occasion before severely injuring him with force lightning. The hatred that had consumed him before only grew deeper and eventually swallowed him whole. For a time Marcus Faust was no more, instead Darth Vindica rose up alongside the One Sith Empire. Having become a skilled assassin, Vindica became one of several hands of the Dark Lord, and served for a time with ruthless efficiency, until he encountered a Jedi Knight by the name of [member="Tracyn"]. Time after time the two clashed, and each time Vindica, for all his strength, was bested, but was left alive with the seeds of doubt in his mind.
With the One Sith collapsed, Vindica's loyalty began to wane, and after an attack on the home of [member="Thyrian Hearthfire"], he found his will broken. The hate that had for so long raged inside him like an inferno had burned itself unknown, leaving him alone with the guilt of all he had done. Years of living in isolation and fear passed as he dwelled on the battered surface of Jedha, until one day he was approached by an old hermit. The man had looked to have never left the half-world, and as such Marcus rebuffed his approaches, seeing the fool as incapable of understanding his turmoil having lived in what he saw as blissful ignorance.
But as he seemingly has always been, Vindica was wrong. The man, a Guardian of the Whills, had been a Dark Jedi Marauder during the Four Hundred Years Darkness, and had done terrible things in the name of survival, anger, and greed. He'd even debated joining the Sith as the darkness ended, but after a raid went awry and he was stranded on Jedha's surface, he was forced to confront his demons as Vindica did now. Upon finding the sacred texts of the Guardians, the old man took up their order and began to atone for his sins. Vindica was still uninterested until the man alleviated the most serious of his chronic pains out of mere kindness. He hadn't known such a thing in decades, and he found himself intrigued.
For a year, he learned from the man, and with each lesson the persona of Darth Vindica died, and Marcus Faust was reborn. As with most of these tales, the old master eventually passed onto the force, leaving Marcus to go out into the galaxy a new man, and possibly make right all he had done wrong. All was possible when he was one with the force, and the force was with him.
SHIP:
Nope
KILLS:
[member="Typhon Nebulos"] (heavily injured, committed suicide shortly thereafter) | http://starwarsrp.net/topic/121530-jade-moon-where-fates-collide-and-battles-begin/page-3#entry1699310
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
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ROLE-PLAYS:
Nope. Wayyyyy too many now.