Marcus is the tailor and lead rift sealer on the HTML Wanderpus. He is always trying to stretch the ship's dress code, and looks primarily human except with technicolor skin that changes daily.

Age: 30
Date of Birth: July 1900 C.E.
Gender: Male
Eyes: variable
Hair: Black
Skin Tone/Pigmentation: Variable
Height: 5'5"

Appearance

Physical Description

https://www.pinterest.com/jps0649/marcus-the-tailor/

Identifying Characteristics

multicolored skin and eyes, varying every time he wakes up.

Apparel & Accessories

Marcus wears multiple heavy variations on the Wanderpus uniform. His tools are standard issue equipment, and a portable sewing kit.

Special abilities

Spy class - Strap, Disguise, Dossier, Mimic, Cosmopolitan, Persona, Silver Tongue

Mentality

Personal history

Until the HTML Wanderpus, Marcus Burnhardt led an isolated life in some of the biggest cities in the United States. He was born March 1910 CE in New York city to a US-born-born German father and a Russian immigrant mother. He was born with mottled, technicolor skin, changing in pattern and color every time he woke up. As far as his parents told him, nobody else in either family has, or had, this same 'condition'. The family traveled up and down the east coast a lot, moving for work, or opportunities, or whenever Marcus' makeup faded enough in public to reveal how he actually looked to the neighbors.

Marcus' education was a mix of homeschooling and working in the back of his father's various tailoring shops. It was in the shop that he learned the tricks of the fabric arts, and it's everywhere outside that shop that he learned the tricks of hiding his person, his looks, and his identity. Marcus quickly became skilled at both, and soon he was the secret junior employee at Burnhardt Tailoring in northern New Jersey.

It was a living, but not much of a life. Marcus felt his own talents, and his desire to make clothes that matched his real appearance, were stifled by the demands and fashions of the day. And so, when the stock market crash took his father's business with it, young Marcus decided to go out on his own.

A very foggy morning led Marcus to a recruiter, looking for people with experience in garment sewing. The first thing Marcus noticed is how he fit that description. The second thing he noticed was how the recruiter appeared to be some sort of multi-limbed hybrid of human and deer in an ill-fitting and hastily adjusted uniform. The third was that he wasn't in New Jersey anymore, but instead on some island, with more variations of person, creature, and otherwise than he had ever seen.

Marcus jumped at the chance immediately. He had... some difficulties during training. He had multiple meetings about what parts of the dress and uniform code can be stretched, and which parts absolutely cannot. He also may or may not have made a nemesis thanks to an errant shot during weapons training. But if nothing else, a varied ship like the HTML Wanderpus always needs a tailor on staff. And at least for now, the captain has allowed Marcus to experiment with his work in the process. Now this? This could be a good life.

Education

Home schooled, extensive tailoring apprenticeship

Employment

Navigation department, ship tailor and lead rift sealer.

Failures & Embarrassments

Accidentally shot a fellow recruit during training. Might have one or more nemeses.

person.sexuality

Mostly heterosexual.

person.gender_identity

Male.

Known Languages

American English

Personality

Vices & Personality flaws

Marcus tends to be paranoid, particularly in what others think of him.

Hygiene

Always fastidious about being clean.

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Wanderpus Order 50

Order - Honey Banks uniform

by Marcus Burnhardt

Project: Wanderpus Uniform - Honey Banks
Design Notes: Quadraped, buttoned wing slits.
Context Notes: The costume did great at the tournament! Well, mostly. There was a point where the Captain got hit with a bad attack, and got a major tear that I had to run and fix. The crowd seemed to really quiet down after that, too - I guess there are prudish types here, too. At the least, she did her usual stuff and managed to inspire one of her opponents good enough to get them on the crew. She's named Honey banks, and her uniform is going to be a challenge.

I've had to do some work for quadripeds, and for winged people, but not both at the same time. Hopefully she ends up liking the customizations I'll add, but only time will tell.

Marcus's Journal Ordered oldest to newest

Marcus Burnhardt Uniform Order
Academy Order 23

Uniform customization - Tlalli Sleekfoot
Wanderpus Order 17

[Tailoring order canceled]
Wanderpus Order 25-null

Order - The Captain's Uniform Costume
Wanderpus Order 49

Order - Honey Banks uniform
Wanderpus Order 50

The major events and journals in Marcus's history, from the beginning to today.