Marcia Klopsk - District 5 (DONE)

Name: Marcia Klopsk
Age: 14
Gender: female
District/Area: District Five
Appearance:

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Marcia has a rather round face that is surrounded by long, brown hair with some lighter brown, almost blonde strands that add natural highlights to her hair. Her hair is dead straight with no curls at all. It is long and falls down to the middle of Marcia’s back. Marcia usually wears her hear in a ponytail or separates it into two tails hanging down to the sides. She has no bangs since her hair is the same length everywhere. Marcia has never visited a hairdresser in her whole life. Most of the times, the girlfriends his dad brought home cut her hair with kitchen scissors. Depending on how talented these women were, her hair looked more or less bad, but wearing it in a ponytail concealed the worst of it. Now Veronica Faerxel, the owner of the asylum Marcia lives in now is cutting her hair and she definitely knows how to do it without making the little girl look like a scarecrow.

The most prominent feature of Marcia’s round face are her slightly too far apart standing, dark brown eyes. They are surrounded by dark, almost black lashes, which are so long, that almost every woman would kill for having them. Her nose looks too flat and crooked because of the many times it had grown together the wrong way after her dad had broken it when hitting her hard in the face. Marcia’s lips have a dark pink almost cherry red color. When she was brought to the asylum, her lips were swollen and showed several cuts but these lesions have healed now and only a few very thin scars around her lips tell these stories. Her eyes tell the same story. They always look a little sad and most of the time, Marcia just stares, appearing as if she would look through rather than look at things.

Marcia is small and thin for her age. Her collarbones show way too much and so do her ribcage and her hipbones. Her father did feed her, but it was never enough. He used to keep more for himself and his girlfriends than for his daughter, always explaining it with the words: “Such a small girl doesn’t need that much food.” When she was brought to the asylum, she was covered with bruises, some still red, some dark blue and some old ones turning yellow before disappearing again. Luckily now, her skin is nice and soft again and shows no signs of bruises. Marcia’s skin is fair because she usually stays indoors and inside the asylum but it would turn tan quite fast if she would go out into the sun.


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Personality:

Good Traits:
Marcia is a sweet girl. She is strange, no doubt, but she is really nice once you get to know her and know about her strange way of talking. Even though she is not the smartest bulb on the tree, which is probably also a result of the beating, she is still able to come up with solutions for problems. Some very few and special people, like Veronica Faerxel, have had the pleasure to see one of Marcia’s rare smiles. She has a wonderful warm, and heartily smile that makes other peoples hearts melt, but she doesn’t show it often. She only shows it when she feels perfectly safe, a fact that rarely happens.

Bad Traits:
Even though it’s not especially a bad trait, it has to be said that Marcia has a weird way of talking and communicating with others. Her body had developed some kind of detachment between her body and her mind to be able to cope with the constant physical abuse suffered from her dad. That is why Marcia feels like she is floating above her body, watching everything that happens and everything she does from some kind of distance. Whenever she talks, she talks as if she is narration what is happening or what she is doing. She keeps mumbling to herself everything that happens and this constant murmur scared most of the people that don’t take the time to get to know her.
Because of what happened to her in the past, she is shy and not very outgoing. She usually keeps to herself, that’s when she feels comfortable. It takes a while until she opens up to other people and she can’t remember that there ever was somebody she really called her friend. She just doesn’t trust other people enough to call them friends.
Marcia can be very direct even though she doesn’t mean to. She narrates everything, even her own feelings, laying them wide open for everyone to hear. She narrates if she likes something, but she also tells people if she doesn’t like anything. In her way of talking, she has no secrets.

Likes:

Marcia likes to be on her own. She likes to wander around through the dark corridors of the asylum talking to herself. She has a small stuffed rabbit, which she found in a room in the asylum that she carries around all the time. You could think it is for him, she is narrating everything that happens around her, but that’s not the whole truth, since she had acquired this way of talking before she got taken to the asylum. Marcia loves chocolate. Chocolate is rare in District Five, but it had happened a few times in her shore life in the asylum that Veronica Faerxel had given her this small treat. The first time Veronica gave a piece of chocolate to Marcia and the piece of brown, sweet delight vanished in her mouth, the young girl flashed one of her rare smiles.

Dislikes:

Marcia doesn’t like people that just walk up to her. It scares her if somebody just appears behind her, but not to the point where she freaks out. It just startles her, but she calms down quickly once she realized that she is not in danger. The one thing Marcia hates most is her father, even though she still doesn’t fully understand why he hurt her like that. But he still haunts her in her dreams and it had happened more than once, that Marcia woke up screaming and sweat soaked in the middle of the night.
Marcia is not exactly sure if she likes Max or not. His following her freaks her out and makes her feel weird. She keeps murmuring about how strange he is, following her like that all the time.

History:

Marcia never knew her mom, since she ran away from her home shortly after Marcia was born, leaving the little baby girl behind. When she was small, she never knew why her mom ran away, but she was lucky not to know back then. At the age of six, she should find out why her mom couldn’t stand living with her family, well, especially her husband anymore and ran away. And when she did find out, she didn’t blame her mother anymore for running away; the only thing she still blamed her for was for leaving her behind to grow up with her father.

So Marcia grew up with her dad. It wasn’t what you would call a nice and protected childhood. Her father was an alcoholic, beating her whenever he was drunk and beating her even harder when he was getting closer to the point of being sober. He must have been drinking for many years before he started to physically abuse his daughter. He had been beating his wife before that and his numerous girlfriends in between. He had beaten Marcia to the point of unconsciousness numerous times when Marcia started to mentally detach from her body. It was a safety mechanism of her mind so she could bear the pain. At first, she was able to switch back to normal after the beating was over and the pain soothed. But after years and years, she was stuck in this state of detachment. She always feels like she is floating above her body, watching everything that happens and that she does from a distance. That is the reason for her weird kind of talking, as if she is narrating everything that’s happening around her that makes a lot of people think she is weird and avoid her.

At the age of thirteen, the peacekeepers found out what her father was doing to his daughter. They took him away and she never saw him again. Marcia has no idea what they did to him. Since she was too strange to be given to foster parents and authorities thought she was crazy and a danger not only to herself but also to others, they decided to send her to Veronica Faerxel’s Asylum where she is able to live in peace and safety. Here, she met other kids that also were too strange to let walk around alone. She usually avoids them, but one kid seems to follow her around wherever she goes: Max. Marcia doesn’t know why he follows her, which sometimes freaks her out.

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Comments/Other:

Marcia is a character for Sarella’s Asylum/Crazy House plot.
Face claim: Ciara Bravo

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