Welp, decided to go with the forum user goer grill. Could of made a better backstory, but I think it generally gives you an idea of Marc's life, so here's the finished product.

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[color=f26522][u][b]Identity:		[/b][/u][/color]
Marc Kurosawa, a young man whose appearance could fool anyone into thinking he's attending one of the colleges around, when in actuality he's nothing more than a seventeen year old student at Tenoroshi Academy. It doesn't help that he could be easily picked out from a crowd of his peers, considering his short hair displays a light blonde hue, as well as standing at 5'10. His eyes, while shown to be predominantly yellow, are actually contacts that hide his true, keen dark blue eyes. Further more, his glasses seem to be predominantly for style, as the lenses are popped out. Further more, the aura he exudes comes off as a tryhard, rather than aloof and cool as he'd like, especially with his normally conceited smile.

For his body type, it's decently toned for a high schooler's; he could join one of the sports teams if he even had a vague semblance of interest in it... in fact, not a whole lot of things really interest him, to the point where 90% of the time, he's either going through the motions or trying something new that he'll eventually forgo. He's thankful he lives in a spacious apartment complex in the northern downtown of Tenoroshi as his room is a disorganized mess with myriads of discarded interests littering the landscape. The only things he really finds any interest in is sleuthing, discussing mysteries surrounding Tenoroshi, as well as exploring the city, reading at the library, and sometimes using his moms gym pass (someones gotta use it).

[color=f26522][u][b]Psyche:		[/b][/u][/color]
What's to say about Marc? He's the biggest, badass dude around! Honestly, if anyone hung out with him for too long, they would probably implode from being unable the handle this dudes 'tude.

Well, that's what he would like to think anyways, aside from the whole "imploding" shtick. All I can really say is that, for the life of him, cannot determine what kind of "cool" he wants to be and it's pretty jarring. Unless you get him talking, he stays relatively silent, crossing his arms, sneering, staring, possibly making some cringy quippy one liner that makes him sound like he's been watching too many old spaghetti westerns. Strong, silent, and cool was what he was aiming for, which could almost be possible if he didn't talk as much. Get his mouth running, and you'll have a blowhard who'll peacock himself at the drop of a hat. Honestly, these two states contrast so much to the point where, yes, his tryhard nature comes into full effect.

However, what reason for this is rather simple - a desire to fit in, be cool, be one of the in groups, not some sort of "social pariah." This equates to him going between doing crap that would seriously get him injured to boldly trying to assume control of a conversation that he lacks the skill to manage. Granted, this attention whoring has caused him to alienate himself, save for a select few people he can count on one hand; two hands is just stretching it.

If anything, Marc would love to stop pretending to be this braggart that lacks empathy for anyone but himself, but he lacks the emotional maturity to understand that. The only time he can really stop pretending is in his stopped time, in which he shows a much more upbeat, yet lax, almost borderline lazy traits. For all the energy that he has now, it becomes multiplied when in his own little world. Granted, he'll have to return to reality some time, but he enjoys these brief moments where he can just be him.

And finally, the most important part - his unending thirst for discovering the whimsical reasons for certain events in such a mundane town, as well as trying to discover new places. Marc isn't easily placated, unless you either load him full two or three animal tranquilizers or have him discover the truth behind a mystery. Granted, even once this one thing comes to fruition, he'll begin thirsting for more; he may or may not be on the spectrum.

[color=f26522][u][b]Background:		[/b][/u][/color]
Marc is a foreigner when it comes to Tenoroshi and it shows. While he can speak in Japanese, he often fumbles about, making mistakes, often playing it up as that he meant to say that. Originally, he was conceived in Reims, France to a French mother and Japanese father. While he did have a decent life, he never really did make any friends. Granted, he did move around a lot, never staying in one place with his family for too long, going from Reims to Paris to Biarritz, before eventually traversing beyond France. He has seen many, many European countries due to his father often taking them along, even living in Germany and the UK for a time. 

Granted, all this traveling was whimsical and fun for the time, but Marc's mother, Charlotte, was gradually growing frustrated since they could barely settle down, especially with them struggling to bring home a paycheck. It finally reached a high point when he brought them back to Japan where he promised to try and settle down... before struggling to do so. There were lots of fights, which Marc vividly remembered and shudder to think of till this very day. Eventually, there was a divorce, Marc's mom getting custody of him, and her transferring to Tenoroshi.

There was a... discernible lack of disconnect and his mother tried to stay properly connected to her son by introducing him to myriads of activities, most that he would discard after a while, all while trying to maintain some semblance of consistency in the household, as well as managing her job and social life.

On the other end of the spectrum, we come to Marc's side of the story. He was a bit of a quiet kid, took a bit after his father in a couple of departments, but overall was generally lonely and a bit of a weird kid. It didn't help that he was caught in both being a French and Japanese mix, often trying to associate himself with the other kids and fit in by attempting to go by a Japanese name... and that worked as well as one expected it too.

This was evermore increased with no one to come home to, chat with on a regular basis, and so on. It truth, it was mostly a lonely life, even with someone to support and pay for the apartment, he ended up having to do most of his own food for himself, learning to cook, and be a bit self-sufficient. During this time, however, something began to change, as a caterpillar metamorphosing into a moth. There was a certain cocky grin, a swagger in his step. He began doing increasingly idiotic things that a delinquent might do, hell, he might of even smoked for a bit... though he had a dissatisfying first attempt, so that's the only time he really has smoked.

It was... somewhat manageable at first. Vexing, but most students handled this lone wolf well.

Of course, they began to eventually notice a slow increase in how obnoxious he was becoming; sure, he wasn't disruptive in the classroom, but outside of that, he became almost intolerable to a nearly inexcusable length. His grades slowly began to rise up and rival even the most intellectual in his homeroom. He was an "ace" with no seemingly redeeming qualities whatsoever.

What happened, some might of asked.

The Lostman did. Met... her(?) on the rooftops while he was relaxing, watching the sunset with a can of beer he bummed off Rin earlier in the day. Honestly, the question they asked startled him, more so because he was neither expecting anyone to come up here, much less sit next to him. Of course, he was a little unnerved, trying to counter with a couple of questions of his own, before giving up upon being met with general silence. Of course, this frustrated Marc, causing him to just give them an answer, though with a bit of prose and detail about his thoughts about the city sprinkled in.

Once he believed her to be satisfied, Marc turned away for a second, retreading on the questions from a few minutes ago, only to notice out of the corner of his eye that she had vanished. Of course, that wasn't the strangest thing that happened on that day as he gazed here and there, trying to seek the girl out, only to discover his world was frozen in time.

[color=f26522][u][b]Quirks:		[/b][/u][/color]
If he was asked this question he would shrug, try to prop himself up in a manner that would fit his mind of how he could exude badassery and nonchalantly shrug before stating "I'unno, explorin' the city for anything interestin'?"

Really though, outside of being able to punch something really hard, he's pretty decent at parkour; allowed him to discover the wonderful sight from the Tengu's Villa. Also, great at mimicking other people's voices. May or may not have a number of useless, miscellaneous skills, as evidenced by things around his room, such as "abstract" (i.e. crappy) pottery on his desk, a ditched flute case being used as a substitute for a proper bookend, some unfilled pots in the corner with an unopened bag of seeds, two or three mismatched weights, etc.

For some odd reason, he performs well on most assignments and test, despite goofing off or spending time at the library doing anything but.

	
[color=f26522][u][b]Relationships:	[/b][/u][/color]

[url=https://safebooru.org//images/2623/46c77a816d140ad67d385fa61d1c99cbd3b95293.png?2731803]Kurosawa Charlotte[/url] :
[indent]His own mother, and the only other person that he's acutely aware of that actually concerned about the well-being of those around town, if not for her own safety or her own sons. She's usually seldom home around the same time as Marc, though when she does, its often between seeing how he's doing at school, handling life, or if she needs to express her exasperation about consistent state of detachment the people seem to have when it comes to certain "rumors." Outside of that, she seems to be an assertive woman and may or may not be the one responsible for Marc's medley of "skills" (or lack-thereof).

Struggles to handle both her own social life and being a decent mother to her son; might be straining herself a bit as evidenced whenever she conveys how discontent she is. Probably has a bit of an idea about the stupid crap her son has been doing, but possibly not the whole picture.[/indent]

[url=https://safebooru.org//images/1359/13bd7d33f805ce26515bc8888882893e38a63664.jpg?1412402]Ishikawa Rin[/url] :
[indent]An acquaintance of Marc, as well as a massive conspiracy theorist. He originally met Rin when stopping by Tegami Oka multiple times, often with the both of them exchanging minute amounts of dialogue with one another which eventually allowed them both to open up to one another due to a bit of their familiarity. More often or not, when Marc catches Rin when he's off his shift, they usually hang out in the alley near Tegami Oka. It during this time when they both would let off their own steam while drinking some canned beer Rin provides, whether it was Rin's manager muddling around in the red light district, or Marc getting annoyed at some rumors being spread about him possibly causing the disappearance of certain students.

It regularly devolves into Rin regaling Marc with how most of the rumors around Tenoroshi are rubbish and often stating what comes off as a generally bizarre interpretation of the actual events, half of which he's certain is a result of Rin's intoxicated state.[/indent]

[url=https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRYvWO0NRvaaKlcQWHvnKBhomhNIvKCT7Lo8r2kmxKfiIYTKuKI]Ducking_Enigma[/url] :
[indent]The avatar of one of the many people who frequents the website known "Minds, Mayhem, Mystery," a forum delegated to chatting specifically about Japanese urban legends, myths, folklore, and so on. Its usually to discuss the stories, debate over how real they are, but at least 75% of them tend to be just falsified stories. As far as he's concerned she made her debut by mocking these stories by creating one about a particular student at her school... which resulted in him realizing that his tale was about him. This was one of the few tales he read by her, and was the one he found the least amusing for obvious reasons.

Outside of that, he quickly took to chatting up theories, eventually escalating to if she had any more urban myths or legends about the town she was chatting about. Regularly exchanges information about Tenoroshi with Marc; the identity of this girl is unknown to him, but she's fun to chat with online.[/indent]

[color=f26522][u][b]Locations:		[/b][/u][/color]
ヴィラ天狗さん/Tengu's Villa :
[indent]A rather old apartment complex that has seen better days when compared to the contemporaries surrounding it. While Marc has never been inside it, from the looks of it, looks orderly, antiqued like a shrine, which contrasting against the less maintained exterior. Based on who lives around here, Marc assumes that its mostly older folk, which he wouldn't be exactly wrong about. Granted, the main reason he comes to this particular venue is because of not only how tall it is, but the view when overlooking Tenoroshi. Usually Marc gets to the top by utilizing the fire escape on the side, though he doesn't visit it as much as he could like.[/indent]

Tegami Oka :
[indent]One of the many convenience stores that litters the landscape of Tenoroshi, though it's located near the eastern portion of downtown, which is nearby the red light district. It's located on the path Marc takes to the monorail that leads to an area near his school... he really could have a better commute there and back. While it has customers coming and going, same for most stores, this is where Rin works. This usually gives him more than one reason to loiter about in the back until Rin is off hours.[/indent]

Teru Tiger Traceur Gym :
[indent]Located on the north side of the city in front of a rather gorgeous park that is home to many Japanese spring flowers. The location is visited by many types of people, to the point where one wouldn't even bat an eye at a lean old man or a much younger individual. Outside of the standard parkour gym equipment, they have an obstacle course set up inside, with the owners altering the course every one or two months. Funny enough, this was one of the first activities Marc's mom introduced him to when coming to this city and still does it to this very day... though it is rather far out, so it does take a while for Marc to travel there.[/indent]
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