Cyrus Marconi

Cyrus Marconi
"That Little Indian Boy"



Quick Facts
Age: 16
Birthday: November 7
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Nationality: Italian-Navajo
Citizenship: United States of America

At-a-Glance
Gender: Male
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Green
Skin Color: Pale copper
Body Type: Athletic

Under Scrutiny
Cyrus carries like clean-cut, if self-conscious athlete. Whenever he is unaware of himself or what he is doing, he manages fluid grace and precision with the ease of someone who demands high performance from their body on a regular basis. Being around people he finds intimidating, that being most girls and anyone older than around twenty-five years of age, sees him turn into a mess of fidgeting and clumsiness. His posture is always pretty good because he holds his back straight and neck up, but his shoulders are usually slouched.

He has clean-lined features that still have baby fat smoothing the edges. Otherwise he has bit of a mix between the aquiline features of his Native American heritage and the oval facial type of his Italian ancestors. The result is a blend that makes his nationality difficult to guess just from his face for the average person, but easy enough for an expert on the subject. His youth overlays his face with a look of naive innocence that is more than just skin-deep. His ready smile, fun-loving smirk, and unconscious tendency to wink when he is amused are his go-to expressions for most situations.

Perhaps the only thing keeping him from being entirely clean-cut is his hair. He keeps it long to appease his mother, only cutting it so it never goes below his shoulder blades. It is fine, straight, and completely black. He has yet to get any facial hair to go along with it, but his eyebrows are nicely separate and straight.

The body he got has yet to grow into its own. He has enough muscle on him to prove that puberty already started and maturity is in the process of taking over, but his arms are thin and his waist is trim and, perhaps most tellingly, his shoulders have yet to widen. He could even be described as slender if he were not so clearly athletic. His small build has telltale signs of growth in its slight disproportion, but in particular he has big feet and hands into which he still has to grow.

Possessions
Clothing: He wears typical high-school clothing, for the most part—running shoes, cargo pants, t-shirts with various logos and quotations, coats, and a beanie or three. He owns some stranger clothing for tribal meetings, which involves a pretty complex feather-and-wool sash that he ties around his right leg over a pair of animal skin trousers and a scarlet ribbon his mother gave him. He also owns a bear-tooth necklace that he always wears and a pair of fairly large bangles. His tribal costume has no shirt.

Spear: Cyrus got into a whole metallurgical frenzy for about a year during a chemistry class and worked in a renaissance-style smithing shop. The only thing he got out of it was a really strange, wave-bladed lance that he turned into a spear. It has a metal core in the wood, so has some pretty decent sturdiness, and he does keep the blade sharp.

Notebook: His notebook is a Dell Alienware M17x with several personal upgrades for better and more RAM, better and faster video quality, and the ability to leech wireless internet for almost a mile around without much ill effect. His most frequently used programs are Google Chrome and World of Warcraft.

Truck: The keys to a white 2009 Chevrolet Silverado were in the only small birthday present he received on his sixteenth. Since he got it brand new, the truck has become coated with dirt and the back has debris from everything from cinder blocks to hay. The truck has actually been used for truck-like purposes, but is in great working condition.

Combat Profile
Physical: As an athlete in his teens, Cyrus has a near-boundless amount of energy and the kind of recovery rate that makes injuries and bodily strain easier. He has great stamina, strength, and flexibility for a person his age, size, and body type. His physical resilience is above par for his age and species. His species does put him at a fairly considerable disadvantage physically. Shoot him, he can die; run him, he will tire. Most supernatural beings can overpower or outlast him in a physical competition, especially since he has yet to reach even full physical maturity for a human.

(strengths) – High energy, recovery rate, stamina, strength, flexibility, and flexibility for a human.
(weaknesses) – Ordinary human, easily hurt or killed, mundane physically, not fully mature physically.

Mental: Part of him wants to be the knight in shining armor right from the pages of a book, but he is not stupid. He plans ahead as much as possible, arms for bear if he predicts danger, and he does not fool around in a fight. That alone gives him an edge over casual players and dawdlers. His inexperience just about evens the scales, since most of what he can prepare and use is pretty pitiful either in terms of firepower or in terms of protection. Not only that, but his naivete makes it easier to deceive him and he has not been in enough fights to read body language effectively.

(strengths) – Smart and practical approach to fights.
(weaknesses) – Inexperienced, untrained, easily deceived, bad at reading body language.

Spiritual: The coolest part of his entire being is that he was born with a latent magical talent that started developing early. He never had the stigma of a cynical, worldly family telling him he was wrong and never got picked on or called a freak for it. The blessing of that let him develop a spiritual strength that could form into some great metaphysical mightiness later down the line. In the meantime, he is still just a human with some great meditation techniques and a tendency to sense bad mojo.

(strengths) – High latent magical talent.
(weaknesses) – Little useful magical ability.

Personal Information
Relationship Status: Single, not looking.

Personality: Cyrus is an exuberant, energetic, self-conscious, socially awkward teenager. He is a determined young man, but channels his determination towards efficiency as much as possible so that he accomplishes things smarter and better instead of harder and faster. He learns quickly but does terribly in a classroom, preferring to find things out on his own and try it his way before he even considers using conventional wisdom. The result is a strange combination of successes that could make him look like a born winner and failures that make him look like a frequent loser. As usual, the truth is always more complex. He is too young to succeed a lot, too smart to fail all the time, and too idealistic and self-demeaning to let either go to his head.

Leadership and assertive directness come to him almost like reflex when he knows what to do. If he sees something he can and wants to accomplish, nothing can keep him from doing it, least of all authority figures. He bucks authority on auto-play when he has a goal or desire. Accepting a position as a subordinate makes him feel demoralized, useless, and he usually reacts by acting out or doing his job the least effective way he possibly can.

The subjects of romance and fighting are pretty much identical for him. He has a strong attraction to the fairer sex, but never feels comfortable pursuing his interests and tends to stumble into and out of conversations with women. He loves the idea of fighting, but his parents never supported his desire to learn martial arts and he has no confidence in his ability to actually win so he tries his best to avoid physical altercations whenever he can. The will is there, but Cyrus is young and unconfident.

His truest love is magic. It came to him early and he always embraced it, pursuing every fragment of arcane knowledge he could. His grandfather being a tribal shaman, he knows better than most how to focus his energies. One of the reasons his otherwise hard-to-stomach personality is made more tractable is because he meditates frequently and keeps himself calm with self-improvement exercises. His athleticism, his work, and his research almost always has some kind of connection to what he is trying to accomplish in his spiritual life at the time. He takes his heritage as the grandson of a shaman very seriously, hopes that one day he will be accepted into the same tribal role, and exerts himself towards achieving that goal.

Biography: Born in Carson City, Cyrus Marconi was raised in a desert. His father had the money to put him in the best private school, his mother wanted him to be involved with his tribe, and the compromise was to get him into the private school for the children of Navajo chiefs as soon as he was ready.

He manifested some magical talent early. He took his first spirit walk before he was eight, where he met the animal who—unbeknownst to him—would later become his spirit guide. Over time, as he grew more aware of his family and especially his grandfather, he started throwing himself into magic with a passion. It became the weird passtime that set him apart from his peers, who already liked him enough that it never mattered to them. His grandfather became his best friend, and after the first times they talked about magic they became almost inseparable.

Cyrus got his first job when he was fourteen, working for his father on a freight unloading station in Carson City on weekends. That job put him in the city on a regular basis, where he explored every library searching for anything and everything he could about magic. By the time he was in his freshman year he had about as much generic knowledge as the average would-be witch, but he had the spiritual energy to make meditation a useful exercise and sensing exercises an genuine help to him.

Around his fifteenth birthday he stopped working for his dad and started his own business doing landscaping for the chiefs with whose sons he attended school. The move stung his father, but it was probably his first step towards what his parents thought of as responsible behavior. It got him a truck for a birthday present and a noticeably large increase in trust and freedom from his parents, which he used to expand his business and really start taking his shamanistic heritage seriously by visiting and learning from his grandfather as much as possible.

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