Stefan “Stitch” Mars | Stitch | FC: Kit Harington | Age: 22 | Bus Boy/ Musician | OPEN
Stefan Mars, the oldest of the Mars brothers was born with a business man for a father and beauty product salesman for a mother meaning he grew up in a fairly conservative family from the modest side of Walterton. Only a year later the family purchased a home in one of the “outsider” area’s as the houses were double but for half the price to make up for the neighbourhood. Stefan didn’t know it at the time but it was too make room for the birth of his new brother Robert. Stefan didn’t mind growing up in that area however, he’d often enjoyed the company of outsider boys to insider, they were a little more rough and tumble. Something he apparently enjoyed when he joined the wrestling team, showing a lot of promise until he suffered a shoulder injury.
After being taken out of his sport and spending an extensive period of time indoors with his injury, he began to show interest in poetry or more accurately song writing. Stefan attended Walterton High, where he met Stanley Perrie the two quickly becoming good friends. With their close knit friendship in full swing, Stefan and Stanley would spend a lot of time jamming in one another’s garage with Stanley’s brothers. Stanley then convinced Mars to join his band, Surgical Silence, alongside his older brother Aiden and classmate Danny.
It wasn’t long after forming his band that his youngest sibling and only sister was hit by a car, killing the girl after three days in ICU. Each family member took her death in a different way, yet all of them mourned deeply, causing them to grow apart rather than band together in their time of need. The brothers that had been so close drifted and became strangers and the parents that were so incredibly in love couldn’t be in the same room as one another without arguing, leading to their divorce only a year later. Robert left with his mother whilst Stefan remained with his father, a move he’d regret in his later years.
During his time of mourning, Stefan could hardly stand to be around his band mates, his own best friends. They couldn’t understand the heart ache of losing someone so close, losing blood, it was impossible for them to grasp losing the other. So he shut him self off, locking himself away until Andie barged into his home yelling something about her brother’s losing their minds over some stupid band. The girl had a reputation, even Stefan had seen Aiden dragging her through the front door hissing and kicking after some wild night out but when she noticed his state she was soft, quiet, kind. She helped him. Everyday she would come over, they would sing together, building Stefan back up until one day he showed up in the Perrie’s garage, guitar and microphone in hand as he grinned expectantly. And like that, the band was back together. Neither Andie nor Stefan spoke of what happened, preferring to share knowing smiles.
Nobody expected local Walterton kids to get anywhere in the music industry, after all no one had before them. But oddly enough what started off as three boys in garage calling themselves Surgical Silence had evolved into a band now known as The Experiments. Receiving mass attention in their home town it seems to have sparked a reaction from other places around the world, getting more follows and shares and likes globally, their first single even ranking on itunes. Most speculate the bands success to they onstage presence, their live performances supplying something their single could not, the atmosphere that was Stefan Mars. Or as he was now known, Stitch. He warranted the nickname after smashing a mans face in against the bar at one of their performances for grabbing at the struggling Andie, not knowing he was searching for his drug money that she owed him. The man needed twelves stitches across his face. Stitch became the main spokesperson for the band due to the attention he received from fans everywhere. He was the archetypal rock showman. He exuded an overtly sexual, macho cool with his long locks, and lithe and exuberant stage movements, bringing the feelings of 80’s to 90’s rock back to mainstream music.
His bandmates, however, maintain he was more introverted than his on-stage persona. Then again they’d never witnessed his bender’s with Andie, now known as Angel, the bands usual guest and his best friend since the infamous day that she walked in swearing like a sailor at him. Stitch should have known not to get involved with her. Everyone warned him over and over that she could drag even the best of men down, but what if they were already down before she got the chance? It was his constant question to himself as the two screamed at each other, throwing things in his apartment, always arguing about something, even occasionally something as small as what they were getting for lunch. This behaviour only got worse when she pulled him into the drug crowd, insisting that it would be alright, that nothing bad would happen. However Stitch began to lose grasp over what he was doing with his life, his songs were a little bit darker, his behaviour a little more volatile as he battled between his good side and his demons, wondering which side was the persona.
The situation with his family has only worsened with time, something that Angel speculates is a key factor in Stitch’s spiraling. He no longer spoke to his mother, rarely his brother and to describe his father in a few words all you would have to do is point out the way he throws empty bottles around his home like he used to throw the football with his son’s. But long gone were the days of Stitch’s babysitting, too preoccupied in his battle with his Sid and Nancy life style, desperate for normality but too vain to ever give it up.
Friends: Stanley “Sparky” Perrie, Andie “Angel” Perrie, Aiden “Ace” Perrie, Genevieve “Gigi” Mertle, Danny “Dipper” Mertle
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