Mark the Tapir (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Mark the Tapir is a character that appears in the AngieYaz/RoseOfSharon reboot of the Sonic Undrground television series, emigrated from the Sonic Boom series. He is an anthropomorphic tapir who resides on Seaside Island, and the fanatical, self-proclaimed “number-one fan" of King Sonic and his siblings. He also works as the retail clerk in Hedgehog Village's video game store on Seaside Island, and occasionally moonlights as a tour guide.
Mark the Tapir is voiced by Wally Wingert.
==Physical appearance==
Mark is an anthropomorphic, brown-furred tapir with peach skin at about Sonic's height. He has a wide head with large, light brown eyes, round ears, a short, prehensile snout, and a mop of brown hair on top complete with bangs. Noticeably, he has a small mole on the left side of his snout. He also has a round (if not chubby) torso, disproportionately long arms and short, stubby legs. For attire, he wears brown glasses with white bandages on the sides (which are rather loose and often fall off his face), a blue shirt with white rims, a white collar and a blue and white icon of Sonic's head on the left side, white gloves, and long red shoes with grey soles and white cuffs.
While this article shows him with his appearance from the Sonic Boom television series, in the Sonic Underground reboot he is redesigned to be more in line with the Sonic Underground art style.
==History==
===Season 2===
Living alone in a run-down cabin in the woods, plotting to keep Sonic to himself, Mark came to meet Sonic at the royal palace. After he introduced himself to him, Mark began following the King around, trying intensely to please him, and eventually got Sonic to let him become a part of his court. After serving Sonic well, Mark would crash him into a boulder while giving him a lift to a movie he wanted to go see with Queen Amy. He then bound Sonic in a body cast in his cabin (while he was still unconscious so they could spent all their time together living out Mark's crazy dreams. Though Mark trapped Sonic's team in body casts too when they came looking for him, they broke free while escaping and beat Mark. However, Mark was happy to lose to Sonic, noting that he still fights valiantly.
==Personality==
Mark is a fanatical, disturbed, and mentally unstable psychopath obsessed with Sonic. On the surface, he appears as an overly eager and friendly guy who tries his best to do good deeds, albeit with extreme intensity. He is also a supreme fanboy, geeking out over doing the most mundane things with Sonic and seeking to spend as much time with him as possible. When Mark thinks he has failed to live up to his idol's expectations or missed chances to satisfy his fanboy dreams, he is prone to bouts of mood swings and/or minor self-punishment. Mark is also not one to sit still (especially when Sonic is around), as he always has something going on, and is very observant about details. Outside Sonic and those he deems his friends, Mark behaves rather antisocially towards others.
Beneath his nice-guy facade, Mark is cunning and devious, as exemplified in how he lured Sonic into a false sense of security despite his intensity and getting Sonic to make him a member of his courtt for his own agenda. He also shows pronounced sinister tendencies, not only hurting the King to keep him to himself, but also keeping people against their will so they can be his friends. Despite his inexcusable behavior, however, Mark always acts with innocence, showing a complete lack of conscience and empathy.
==Powers and abilities==
Mark is a cunning manipulator, able to capture Sonic by lulling him into a false sense of security with flattery and servitude and then attacking him out of nowhere. Despite his weight, Mark is also deceptively quick and stealthy, able to quietly sneak up behind Sonic, near-instantaneously, without being noticed. Mark also has some skill in setting booby traps. Mark is also a skilled painter, capable of making a decent life portrait of Sonic, possesses some cooking skills, being able to grill hot dogs, prepare soup, and bake pies, and is a very talented masseur, with Sonic claiming that he is an artist with his elbow.
==Trivia==
*Mark's attire mimics Sonic's appearance; his shirt is blue like Sonic's torso, his gloves are almost the same as Sonic's, and his shoes' parts have roughly the same colors as those Sonic wears.
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