Mark II

> We may have beaten Mariah Carey, but we didn't destroy all evil, and we never will. There will always be evil, no matter how much we try. But.. we need to keep fighting it, no matter what.
>
> Mark, to SD

## Background Information

### Appearances

Two-Tone
 Spy-Tone
 Game-Tone
 After-Tone
 Future-Tone (mentioned)
 New-Two-Tone

## Character Information

### Nicknames

Markie (Vee)
Marks (SD and Amelia)
Black Sheep (June)
Dear Brother (Henrich)
Murderer (Ghost of the Past)
False Lord (Mariah Carey)
King of Industry (Tyas)
Fool of a king (Sterk)

### Likes

Cloudy weather
Rain
Parrots
Fixing problems in the empire
Music
Theatre
Vee's caring personality
Peas
Grilled fish with grilled vegetables
Tennis
Philosophy
Alone walks in forests and meadows
Chocolate
Books with depressing endings

### Dislikes

SD's carelessness
Amelia's rage
His past
Summer
Mariah Carey's ego
Mushrooms
SD's extreme optimism
Lying
Hadik not knowing something
SD being naive
Giving speeches
Anarchism

## Characteristics

### Abilities

Piano and Violin playing
Close combat
Agility
Great memory and imagination

### Age

23 (**TT**)
24 (**TT**)
25 (**TT**) (**AT**)
27 (**NTT**)

## Relationships

### Family

Vee Witherbone (wife)
Francis Witherbone (son)
Henrich Witherbone (brother)
David Witherbone (father)
Helen Witherbone (mother)
George Witherbone (uncle)
James Witherbone (Grandfather)
Mia Witherbone (Grandmother)
Mark I. of Witherbones (Ancestor)
Amanda Caeso (Ancestor)
Julius Caeso (Ancestor)
Markus Caeso (Ancestor)
Fimali Vogeler (Ancestor)
Clair Vogeler (Ancestor)
Toul II. (Relative)
Timir (Relative)
Frederick III. (Relative)

### Friends

SD (best friend)
Amelia
June
Crow
Vee (wife)
Tyas
Henrich (brother)
Hadik
Peels (pet parrot)

### Romantic interests

Vee (wife)
June Onzel (as child)

### Enemies

Mariah Carey (defeated)
June (formerly)
Henrich (formerly)
SD (formerly)

### Affiliations

King's council (Leader)
The royal family (King)
Sientian University Tennis Team (Representative (formerly))
Cult of Kel (Member (formerly))

Mark Witherbone is one of the two protagonists of *Two-Tone* series. He is the king of the Empire of Northwest and brother of Henrich I., direct descendant of Markus Caeso, husband of Vee Witherbone and best friend of June Onzel, SD and Amelia Flynn.

## Appearance

### Two-Tone

Mark is a human with Rito ancestors. He is tall and thin, having quite pale skin and grayish-blue eyes. He has curly dark brown hair that is little bit under ear-long.

Mark also has a scar on his left hand, caused by Henrich during one of their trainings when he was young.

Mark mostly wears blue monarch coat with light blue sash and collar, three medals and four gray buttons, gray pants and black shoes and rarely a crown. While not wearing monarch clothes, he mostly wears a brown waistcoat with four buttons, a white shirt under it, blue jeans, gray shoes and a brown cloth cap.

### After-Tone

In After-Tone, Mark looks looks almost the same as in Two-Tone, but he has longer hair and more medals on his coat.

### New-Two-Tone

In New-Two-Tone, Mark has much longer and more color-less hair than in Two-Tone. He has gray shorts, white shirt and a brown waistcoat.

## Personality

During speeches, Mark seems optimistic, charmful, open and ecstatic, making a lot of jokes and seeming like, he sees his job as nothing serious, but also very royal and somewhat sassy.

However, this all is just a mask taken from his brother's personality and his true personality is shown to be overly dramatic, pessimistic, clumsy, perfectionistic and quiet. He takes his royal reputation too seriously, and gets easily taken over by emotions.

Mark has a high need to be right in everything, correcting people if they say something wrong and arguing if they don't agree with him. Yet, he is shown to respect opinions of his closest to some extent.

Mark also has great knowledge about melee weapons, animals, history, math, writings, music and religion.

He is also shown to have quite comical side, making jokes based off situations and word puns.

Although Mark may seem arrogant, he cares deeply about his friends, casually overthinking their feelings, but not caring about feelings of people he doesn't know.

He is very quiet and a great listener, yet still able to somewhat talk about himself.

He is also very lonely and isolated, rarely talking about his problems and past, much to his wife's dislike. It is also shown that his only friends in childhood were Henrich and June, until SD started talking with him on university. He also appears to have issues of self-confidence and self-worth after Henrich's death, seeing himself as "a weak bug that sucks happiness from others" and seems to have problems with eating, stated by Vee.

Mark also suffers from hallucinations of the "ghost of the past" which is fusion of June and Henrich's dead body, to which he seems to be aggressive, but quickly becomes afraid when swallowed by his own thought.

Mark is really creative and strategic. He, as stated by June, "takes too much time to think and then has too little time to act". He also has extreme need to make fixes for problems, as stated by Henrich.

Mark has really short temper, becoming annoyed from small things really easily, but at the same time becoming depressed from little things too. While these reactions are real, Mark states that he does them in order to "scare away another possible victims", yet not realizing that they're real.

He is also shown to dislike judging book by it's cover and mostly judges people by their personality and actions.

### Design

The card is showing Mark having two jugs, both pouring water, one to a body of water and other onto land, that is making it's way to the body of water.

* The body of water is representing the Empire of Northwest.
* The jug with water going into the water is representing Mark's help and loyalty to Northwest.
* The jug with water going onto the land is representing Mark's past, killing his brother, betraying June and his relation to Mariah, as he's looking away from it, representing his desire to forget his past, it's still coming back to the body of water, representing his past affecting his position.

Above Mark's head is a black star with an eye, representing the ghost of the past.

The flowers on left are daisies.

* in language of flowers they mean innocence, loyalty and an ability to keep things secret.

The flowers on right are purple hyacinths.

* in language of flowers they mean sorrow.

The bird on the tree is a crow, representing his brother and his death.

### Meaning

Upright: hope, inspiration, positivity, faith, renewal, healing, rejuvenation.

* Upright is mainly representing Mark's personality mask, being optimistic and hopeful, but it's also representing Mark after After-Tone, where he starts trying to be more positive.

Reversed: hopelessness, despair, negativity, lack of faith, despondent

* Reversed is representing the true side of Mark, hopeless pessimistic man with negative thoughts.

## Abilities

### **Skillset**

* **Musical Talent** - Mark is shown to make songs on spot, mostly based off situations he finds himself in. He can also play a violin, that he plays rarely, as it reminds him of his brother. He can play piano too, mostly accompanied by his singing.
* **Songwriting** - Mark is able to compose piano and violin songs, such as "Nevermore".
* **Close Combat Weapon Proficiency** - Mark is shown to be proficient in close combat weapons, mainly with rapier, but after death of Henrich, he dislikes using them.
* **Great Memory** - Mark is shown to have photographic memory, being able to remember things that he heard in his childhood. It is confirmed in New-Two-Tone that this is due to him having Rito ancestors
* **Great Imagination** - Mark is also shown to be able to imagine anything, with precise details.
* **Drawing** - As shown many times, Mark is able to draw things in great detail.
* **Animal Handling** - Mark is able to tame wild animals, taming a wild parrot as a child named "Peels".
* **Tennis** - Mark is shown to be extremely good at tennis, thus being quite fast and able to deflect fast. This is also confirmed in New-Two-Tone that this is due to him having Rito ancestors.

## Concept & Creation

Mark is based off Gotyx, one of the series' creators, and his hair based off Napoleon II.'s hair.

His personality and backstory was based off one of Gotyx's previous characters, also named Mark.

## Trivia

* Mark's favorite song is Big Bang Theory Theme.
* The surname Witherbone is inspired by surname of Owl House character, Philip Witterbane.
* Mark's middle name is based off Orobas from ars goetia.
* In Game-Tone, Mark says that he's allergic to strawberries and pumpkins.
* Mark is ambidextrous.
* Mark's favorite food is a grilled fish with grilled vegetables, foreshadowing him having Rito ancestors
* As stated by Gotyx, Mark is the malewife in his and Vee's relationship.
* Mark is a basilist.
* Mark's zodiac sign is Scorpio, having his symbol inspired by it.