Marcus
Name: Marcus
Born: July 21st, 1102 BC in Palermo, Sicily
Died: January 15th, 1069 BC
Status: Undead
Eye Colour: Currently vampire burgundy, but with milky cataracts. Bright blue when human.
Height: 180cm (5'11")
Hair Colour: Chinlength jet black
Talent: Sees relationships and their magnitude
Star Sign: Cancer
Spouse: Didyme (deceased)
Human History:
As a human, Marcus was a pensive young man, preferring the company of the books in the library to other people. He was born the son of a poor Sicilian tomato merchant, but his mother was hailed as one of the most beautiful women in the land. As he grew older, it became apparent that he was a highly intelligent boy. His mother say this, and tried her hardest to send Marcus to the best school the family could afford. Marcus soon finished school at he age of 15, and wanted to pursue a career as a carpenter. He made the finest wooden carvings in the land for 15 years, making his mother very proud. Marcus' life was soon changed dramatically when his father fell ill and died, leaving him to look after his mother, who had grown frail in her old age.
Marcus diligently took care of his mother right up until she died when he was 33. Distraught, he ran away from Palermo in hope of leaving his grief behind. It was in this state that an elderly vampire found him, and changed him to give him a higher purpose in life, and to let go of his grief.
Vampire History:
When Marcus found he was a vampire, he destroyed his maker in a fit of rage for making him immortal. Marcus despised what he had become, but quickly realised the benefits of increased strength and brainpower. Marcus wandered Europe for hundreds of year before he met a beautiful young vampire, Didyme. Didyme was indifferent towards Marcus at first, but she learned to love him for the sensitive and broken young man he was inside.
Marcus and Didyme grew lonely after a few decades, and they toyed with the idea of making a child companion. Didyme kidnapped a young girl from a nearby village, and turned her. The young girl, named Kendra, was 3 years old at the time or her change and stayed that age up until her destruction.
Kendra bought new life to her adoptive parents, and they wasted no time flaunting her to any passing vampires, who fawned over her beauty. One pair of vampire who saw Kendra thought the destruction of a young life was reprehensible and a sin, so they launched an attack on the trio. Marcus and Didyme fought valiantly to protect their child, but the attacking partnership made off with her and destroyed her. Marcus and Didyme went back to solemnly wandering Europe, heartbroken after their beautiful daughter was taken away. It was by chance that on their journeys they discovered the couple that had destroyed their child, Caius and Athenodora, running with another black haired vampire.
Marcus and Didyme attacked the group, but were talked down by the black haired Aro. They thought that starting a new life as King and Queen would help to fill the void that Kendra left in their hearts.
They ruled together for many years in Volterra before their rule was challenged by a crazed coven of vampires. The battle was ferocious and Marcus fought his hardest to defend his wife and his city, but he was never a good fighter, and Didyme was captured and destroyed. With his life being destroyed for the third time, Marcus withdrew into his own mind for centuries after losing his wife, only gracing other with his company to drink in the castle turret. Marcus began talking again in the late 1800's, but he is still an apathetic sad sap.
When Aro became interested in the Cullen family and Bella Swan in the mid 2000's, Marcus was amazed at the attachment the youngest Cullen had for his human mate. This gave him hope for the first time in millennia that he could overcome his suffering. Marcus tried to be happy once in a while, but his attempts were futile, he only managed weak sarcastic humour, which people only like if it's good, and it wasn't.
Marcus is currently ruling Volterra on his own while Aro and Caius are hunting an insane South American vampire. He has made laughter a punishable crime in Volterra.