Marek Alfweine
Marek Darren Alfweine (a.k.a. GraveRobber, Graves, RiffRaff, Mark Elfwine)
Physical Description
Identifying Characteristics
Special abilities
Mental characteristics
Gender Identity
Sexuality
Employment
Mental Trauma
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
- Topp's; Rich's mentorship
- family and talented friends
- Midnight Theater
Personality Quirks
- Can't eat immediately after waking up without getting sick.
- Prefers beer to wine
- very tactile; plays with his hair when he's thinking
- spins in his chair while talking to his mother
- prefers to drive a motorcycle; cites sensory issues while driving a car
Social
Contacts & Relations
Family Ties
Marek considers Steve Petit and his younger sister, Denny, as siblings.
Speech
Relationships
History
Elle and Marek met when Marek was booking the library meeting room for Topp's Nautical Society. They flirted heavily over the phone and started dating after the meeting. Their relationship has moved carefully and cautiously due to both's histories of nasty previous relationships.
Nicknames & Petnames
When scening, Elle calls Marek "sir."
Commonalities & Shared Interests
They both love music, both performing it and just experiencing it. Marek introduced Elle to the local Midnight Shows at the downtown theater. Additionally, they have excellent compatibility in the fetish sector.
History
Marek and Hunter met at the Midnight Show's first shadowcast of Repo! The Genetic Opera in 2009. A few weeks later, they ran into each other again at a meeting of Topp's Nautical Society. They've been close friends ever since.
Nicknames & Petnames
Hunter almost exclusively calls Marek "Graves" or "Graverobber."
Shared Secrets
They're both members of Topp's Nautical Society.
History
Marek and Steve have been best friends since 3rd grade, shortly after Marek pulled the school bully off of Steve. They have had their ups and downs like any friends, but they always come back to a comfortable neutral. Marek is the first person Steve came out to in high school and trusts him implicitly. Marek is mostly honest with Steve, except when it comes to the subject of kink and BDSM.
Nicknames & Petnames
Steve is the only person allowed to shorten Marek's name to "Mare."
Relationship Reasoning
While Steve isn't exactly a small man, Marek usually acts as his bodyguard when the two go out. They're incredibly comfortable in each other's company, especially after 2009 when they actually address the sexual tension.
Commonalities & Shared Interests
Both are active in the Midnight Theater and share a strong love for all things goth. While Marek looks great in makeup, Steve is the one who has to apply it.
Shared Secrets
They have shared three kisses: once in 1996 (junior year), once in 2009 (before Repo!), and once more in 2016 (while Marek was dating Elle ). While Steve insists Marek owes him another in 2026, Marek has not promised to honor the expectation.
History
Marek and Katie met through the Midnight Theater in 2016, when the theater produced Sweeney Todd; Marek directed and Katie was choreography as well as principle dancer.
History
Marek met Zan when she was still in high school. Zan is two years younger than Denny, Steve's sister. As a friend of a friend, they were polite and friendly. After Zan graduated from college and joined the local theater troupe, Marek became her boss at the theater and more directly her friend socially.
Commonalities & Shared Interests
They share a love of the technical side of theater which often results in their talking about wiring and sound design long after everyone else has fallen asleep.
Shared Secrets
Both are talented with psychic energy, though they come at it from different disciplines. Zan is talented with finding things while Marek is an empath.
Shared Acquaintances
They are both friends with Denny and Steve Petit, as well as members of the Midnight Theater.
History
Painfully little is known for certain about the nature of the entity Marek and his family refer to as “the dragon.” When Marek was sixteen, he experienced a severe depressive episode during which he turned to self-injury as a release of internal tension and stress. The emotional output of this self-injury attracted the attention of a non-corporeal entity, which latched onto his consciousness. The effect of this was similar to being fed on by a psychic vampire, though there were no external signs of where his energy was going. Even his mother and several other talented Vala were unable to pinpoint the problem.
The only one who really figured out the problem was Steve Petit. Steve recognized the harmful nature of what Marek had been doing to himself and that the self-injury was allowing the dragon to manipulate his mind and psychic energy. He falsified material to make Marek appear over 18 and brought him down to a tattoo parlor with a sensitive artist. The artist, Dinesh Jain, refused to work on Marek, as he was clearly under-age. His sixteen-year-old, Aparna—known to Steve and Marek as Surya and male—agreed to do both the art and a spell to protect him and seal away the entity attacking him. At the time, Surya didn’t have the talent to do a large tattoo and they settled on a simple knife blade high on his shoulder.
Almost ten years later, Marek encountered Maria Davis, a psychic vampire who enthralled him. While Maria fed on him, the spell binding the dragon became weak enough for the dragon to break free and act through Marek. Not content with simply feeding on him, it began reaching out to ensnare other sources of energy. Marek husked nearly a dozen people under the direction of the dragon, most of whom killed themselves in the following years. It took Marek’s mother and grandmother working to subdue Maria and Surya and Dinesh’s intervention to ward and seal the dragon again with a new tattoo. This time, the dragon left its own marks on Marek’s body in the form of two large claw-like scars across his ribs.
History
Surya does all of Marek's spelled tattoos and has since he was sixteen.
Shared Acquaintances
They were introduced by Steve Petit.
History
Marek met Amy Parker in kindergarten. They went to school together through graduation, at which point Amy went to college in Illinois and Marek went to community college in Poughkeepsie. When Amy moved back to Poughkeepsie in 2008, she was using the moniker "Bitch." Marek and Bitch met more formally at a meeting of Topp's Nautical Society in 2009. After some identity sorting, they became friends again, occasionally scening and sleeping together as relationships and preferences permit.
Nicknames & Petnames
Bitch often calls Marek "Graves." While Marek knows Bitch's name, she refuses to let him call her "Amy" without rebuke. She responds less strongly to his use of her name than most.
Commonalities & Shared Interests
Both are fond of musical theater and the goth music scene. They are also fairly compatible in the fetish sector; Bitch is one of the few people Marek will sub for and she returns the sentiment, only subbing if Marek is present.
Shared Acquaintances
Marek and Amy both went to school with Steve Petit. They are also friends with the same circle of people in Topp's and the Midnight Theater.
History
Jared and Marek met when Marek tried out for JV football in 1996. As teammates, they worked well together and continued an amicable relationship until Marek's junior year.
History
Maria first courted Marek through the Topp's Nautical Society. They scened together and started dating not long after their meeting. Once she had him in a relationship, Maria proved to be highly manipulative and abusive, inciting Marek's emotions and feeding from the resulting energy. After a year of their relationship, Marek's family and friends banded together to break Maria's hold over him.
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