Mark Delbaugh

## Overall Information:

Mark Delbaugh is the main protagonist and the de facto leader of team 'Delbaugh'.

## Backstory:

### Pre-Rebellion era:

Mark was born in the city-state of Azal, Nemotera on November 21th. During his childhood, he was a big fan of the local police forces and law in general. Throughout his childhood, he made friends with a young Carl, a person who will turn out to be a huge influence for him later down the line. Their friendship would go on into their early teenage years before Carl disappearing for the following next few years. As a teenager, Mark was enthusiastic about pursuing a law career, finishing college with a law enforcement degree and having went on a few successful missions by himself. However his career in law enforcement was short lived, with him starting to notice that corruption and murder are the general norms in being a cop in his city. His views started shifting dramatically when he reunites with a now rogue Carl.

### Rebellion era:

Mark is being informed about the breakaway region of his city-state Azal, known as Nacod. He is invited to join fight for the independence of the self-proclaimed 'Free Republic of Nacod' by Carl himself, who by that point has a decently high rank throughout the rebels. While at first, Mark was skeptical about joining a rebel organization claiming to liberate its citizens from the hands of corrupt law and murderous officers, he slowly starts sympathizing with the idea of reforming the law and how should it be applied. Now considered a renegade cop, a crime punished with execution, Mark was a fully fledged rebel fighting against the city-state of Azal. His close friendship with Carl earned him high ranks, Mark worked alongside him as a weapons distributor for the rebels. While their efforts to liberate the breakaway region were starting to look successful, everything would soon change with Carl's death at the hands of the Azal police forces.

### Xod era:

Having to see his one and only friend die in front of him, Mark became ruthless, more determined than ever to liberate Nacod and accomplish the dream Carl has envisioned. Having became a popular name throughout the rebels, Mark gathered his own team comprising of old rebels he knew from Carl, and 3 new personal soldiers, which, with him as the leader, would go on to form team Xod. His squad was feared by other groups in the region, with imports of inhumane weapons and mass murder of rival gangs rising at alarming rates. Xod would not live long enough to see the fall of Nacod, the team dissolving during a failed attempt at heisting Azal's national bank. With the entirety of his team killed in the incident, Mark fled the scene. Having lost everything he fought for, Mark finally leaves Nemotera for good.

## Personality:

Mark is a rather quiet, introverted person. His sense of humor is usually pretty dry and he is often easily irritated by small things and others' presence around him. Despite his monotonous character, he is reasonably intelligent, being able to make up successful plans in short periods of time if needed. Mark is an overall loyal individual when it comes to people close to him, and although he doesn't show it at first, he deeply cares for his team, even being ready to sacrifice himself in order to keep them safe.

## Appearance:

Mark has golden blonde hair, pebble gray eyes, and a rectangular shaped jawline growing what he likes to call a beard. His left eye's pupil is shattered into three equal slices due to him being shot by a laser in the respective eye. Mark usually wears a beige sweater, beneath a black cape covering his shoulders and upper chest, with a golden pin in the middle. On top of it is a dark brown side ways waist pouch. He also wears black cargo pants held by a dark brown belt with a golden badge in the middle, and black shoes.

## Trivia:

* Mark has only ever directly killed one person, it being Carl.
* Although he has only one direct kill, Mark has an estimated proxy murder count of +400 people, killed by his team Xod members.