oc description tag game
tagged by: @blushroomx
tagging: YOU!
rules: describe an oc physically and mentally.
Of course I’m going to do my boy Mark Hopkins from Punks Kinda Dead
physical:
hair and eye color, approximate height, defining features.
Okay, so Mark is 5′11″ and will occasionally just lie and say he’s six foot tall, especially if he’s wearing docs. A little over 200 pounds. He’s...wide. I don’t know how to best describe it but he’s not thin, he’s never been thin, physically he won’t ever be thin. He’s muscular, broad shouldered, nice thick thighs, but it’s not the six-pack abs, insane work out sort of muscular. It’s rugby and punk rock. There’s a little pudge around the middle because he can’t eat like he’s 14 anymore and that is just the reality of getting older.
He’s a white guy, permanently sunkissed, which is strange in England. With pretty generic brown hair, he makes up for that in hair cuts and dyes but it’s got some curl to it, very, very thick. His eyes are also very brown because they’re gorgeous and underrepresented. There’s a slightly crooked nose thing going on because it’s been broken more times than he can count.
(I’m not sure what else to add. I use Noah Centineo as a faceclaim but he’s sort of “the best i can do” in Hollywood kind of thing. I don’t have a good pic crew either because they aren’t really diverse in body type. which...obviously is the major obstacle here for having someone to represent Mark but I won’t make him a skinny guy)
mental/emotional:
how are they doing?
Tragically, Mark’s fill with a lot of anger and it takes little for it to come out. He can be the life of the party, tons of fun, and loads of trouble but that flips like a switch. Mark has that golden retriever energy. He’s the sort that doesn’t see his dad’s three year sabbatical from fatherhood as being abandoned, he sees it as three rad years he got to live with his grandparents. Only these things are sitting as problems in the back of his mind, in a way he doesn’t know or understand or see and therefore has him with this hairpin trigger.
As for more story specific, he’s not doing well and that’s sort of a major part of the story. When he was like thirteen he set out to become famous. He loved music and believed so, so hard in his band and his best friend and everything. Naïve but motivated and now he’s lost the naïve part, he can see the writing on the wall, it’s not going to happen but how does he deal with the only dream he’s had in life not being a reality? Worse, how does he pretend it doesn’t bother him like it does all his bandmates?
That all comes with this side of failure. Okay, a heaping main course of failure. He set out to do one thing with his life and no amount of faith and confidence (and some skill) got him there. He has no back up plan, no back up skills, because this was going to be it and now he’s an absolute failure at twenty-five. Something that weighs so, so heavy on him but is also lining up with one brother graduating university and the other going into university. They’re succeeding and he’s failing. There’s a WHOLE load of childhood trauma that links to that.
So Mark is sort of falling apart and while he tries to hold himself together and pretend everything is okay, he has to figure out what the fuck he’s going to do with his life now.
(there’s a lot with Dahey in here too but this is already a mile long)
two things you love about him:
- he’s a big hearted puppy dog type so full of love
- he has amazing taste in music
two things you hate about him:
- how absolutely sappy he is
- the unchecked anger