Marco

He grew up an orphan, joining an army only at the age of 13, he was a top soldier in his unit. As he grew older, he had been through many wars. He thought he was numb to the feeling of losing friends, all the other soldiers he’d befriended that he saw die. But then when he was around 19 he met a man named Gabriel, who was a bard. Gabriel had just moved into the same village Marco’s unit took up residence in. As they talked more, Marco fell for the joyful, uplooking, and caring bard. The two were just around 20 they started dating, months later Marco proposed. The two were engaged for about a year, they were only 2 weeks away from their marriage ceremony when Marco’s unit was called back into a war about three kingdoms away. Sadly, the war came to his home village. There was a raid, Gabriel saw Marco fighting in the Main Street. Gabriel had no where to hide and was running out of his ransacked house, he ran to Marco but was hit in the crossfire. Marco held Gabriel in his arms, his armor now staining with Gabriel’s blood, he was begging the lords to save Gabriel, but in his dying moments he took his engagement ring and told Marco to keep it with him and his spirit would always follow. After that, Marco could not bring himself to keep at his job as a soldier, he became an alcoholic, knowing every single employee at the tavern in his village. He took up a job as a part-time bounty hunter and pickpocket, he is trying to get back up and make Gabriel proud. Often times he will fidget with a twine necklace he made with Gabriel’s ring, he will pick up the ring and spin it around, talking to it as if it really was his fiancé. He is usually calm, he can have depressive and PTSD episodes usually caused by seeing medieval depictions of war or someone who looks or acts like his late husband Gabriel. Marco had an alcohol addiction as his coping mechanism. He loves his son, Blaire, dearly and his very protective and nurturing of him, Blaire is also watched by Keith or one of their friends when Marco’s too busy. Blaire has a trouble with walking and still needs help to walk as the three year old as one of his legs was injured for a long time after the attack on their home village. Blaire also has a long-term age regression, which is why he often acts as a one-two year old, and he is smaller than average as Marco had always been poor when it comes to money. He loves Keith dearly, and does still miss and love Gabriel. Keith supports Marco’s love for his late fiancé and helps him with his struggles.