Mark Ackerman

**Mark Ackerman** is a main character and one of the main antagonists of Still Life, voiced by Arthur Holden.

## Biography

Mark is Herbert's and his wife's son and Richard's grandfather. He was born in Chicago and moved in London. He was abused by Herbert while his mother knew of this and did nothing. He eventually became a painter fully dedicated to his art, began creating his paintings, came to Prague and settled in spacious apartment-studio. Mark only painted what he saw. He saw and painted one of the streets in Prague and called the painting, "Streets of Prague". He met and befriended Beatrice who was a nurse in Prague hospital. She posed for him at the hospital in her uniform and he painted her, naiming the painting, "Beatrice". Later Beatrice died from unknown causes and Mark was left heartboken. Sometime after Beatrice's death, Mark joined the cult, became it's prominent member and assasin and his apartment became it's base. Cult started admiring and glorifying him and his paintings and used them for it's rtuals. Sometime later cult targeted Otokar's girls and Mark met and convinced him that they should become models for his paintings and come to his apartment to pose and model for him so he could paint them in exchange for money. However this was a trap as Mark was luring them to paint and kill them. Otokar introduced his girls to him and Mark met Ida, Milena, Apolina, Frantiska, Vitti, Katarina, Nadia, Anezka, Sasha, Vladana and maybe two others. Otokar and Mark then told them what they should do and, on their request, girls began coming to Mark to pose and he even payed them for it. Ida and Milena were one of the first to come and posed for him. He painted them and allowed them to leave. Soon after that, however, he began to kill the girls he painted, usually by slitting their throats, and they began dying and disappearing one after another. He usually eviscerated them after death and left them at various places cut up and naked. It all started with Sasha when she came to pose, took off her clothes and posed for him while he painted her. After finishing, he attacked and killed her by slitting her throat. He then eviscerated and left her naked on the street. He killed many girls that came to him since and they were all found dead in the same or similar manner. He was called the Prague or Perlovka Ripper and girls was justifiably terrified of him. Nadia came to his apartment and posed for him like the others while he painted her. After finishing, he allowed her to leave, put on his cult attire and followed her to the bridge across Vltava where he attacked and slit her throat, killing her. He then ripped off her clothes, eviscerated and left her naked and half-submerhed in Vltava. Then Katarina came to him, took her clothes off and posed for him while he painted her. After finishing, he put on his cult attire, attacked and dragged her in catacombs where he stabbed and killed her by slitting her throat. He then eviscerated and left her naked in the alley near the orphanage. Then Vitti came to Mark and posed for him like many others while he painted her. After finishing, he allowed her to leave, put on his cult attire and followed her to Vitkov park where he attacked, grabbed and dragged her along the ground while she was clawing at the dirt. He then killed her by slitting her throat, ripped off her clothes, eviscerated and left her naked on the ground near the fountain. Soon after Vitti was found dead in the park as well, Anezka came to him and posed for him while he painted her. After finishing the painting, he kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured and killed her in catacombs, hanged some of her organs on hooks from the ceiling and left her one of cult's rings. Then Vladana came to him, took her clothes off and posed for him with a black cloth while he painted her. After they finished, Skalnic came and accused Mark of being a killer. He got into an agrument with Skanic and told Vladana to dress up and leave. She complied, dressed up and left. Mark then kicked Skalnic out, put on his cult attire and followed her to Vitkov park where he caught up with her and attacked her. However Roman was nearby, heard her screams, came to her aid and drove him away, saving and taking her to a train wagon at the junkyard. She lived in the wagon since her attack and was constantly guarded by Petr and Roman so Mark couldn't get to her. Then Frantiska came to him to pose, took off her clothes and posed for him naked with a transparent cloth while he painted her. After finishing, he unexpectedly attacked her with a knife and slit her throat, killing her. He then placed her on sofa, eviscerated, covered her wth red cloth and painted her again. Then he put on his cult attire, dragged her in catacombs and put her in a bag. He dragged her through the catacombs to Charles bridge and left her under it, leaving her one of cult's rings. Gus was highly disturbed by the mutilations Mark inflicted on Frantiska when he saw her. Then Apolina came to him to pose, took her clothes off and posed for him with a red cloth while he painted her. When Gus came to his apartment to talk to him and interrupted them, Mark left her and met and talked with Gus. Then he returned to her and continued painting. After finishing, she started to dress up when he suddenly attacked and threw her on a sofa and then killed her on it by carving her eyes out with his knife. He then took her with the cloth, dragged her through catacombs to the mill and left her there half-naked, covering her with a red cloth, associating it with blood and leaving her one of the cult's rings. After killing off Apolina, Mark goes after Ida. He eventually gets to her, attacks and knocks her out, ties her up, takes her to his apartment and places her on a sofa. He then finds and attacks Gus in catacombs and knocks him out too before taking him to his apartment and tying him to a chair. He then wakes them both up so they could both feel the pain and stabs Ida to death right before Gus's eyes who screams in pain and falls on the floor with the chair. Gus somehow manages to untie himself and crawls to Ida just as she releases her last breath. Mark then tries to kill him too, however, he manages to break free and escape from his apartment, leaving Ida on the sofa. Mark then most likely eviscerates and takes her somewhere else and leaves her there like he did to all his other victims. He later painted Apolina's body with a mill in the background and called the painting "Cleansing of soul". He also painted Ida's and Gustav's last moments together and called the painting "Death do us part". When Gustav and others escape from Prague and head for America, Mark follows them and arrives in Yemen. He paints it's landscape and names the painting, "Yemen". He eventually arrives in Chicago and kills several women there. He met and lured a young girl to the abandoned apartment building where he attacked and killed her by slitting her throat. He then ripped off her clothes, placed her in bath, eviscerated and left her in bloody bath. He later painted her body and named the painting, "Disturbed sanctuary". Later he attacked and killed another girl near angel's statue. He then ripped off her clothes, eviscerated and left her lying dead on the floor in a pool of her own blood. He painted her body and named the painting "A sinner's pardon". He meets and befriends Harold and becomes his tutor. He is eventually caught, restrained and imprisoned in LA's prison along with Harold. There he meets Hyde and their cellmate, however, soon Mark causes an explosion in prison, starts a fire and escapes with Harold, killing Hyde in process. He was thought to have died in the fire. He later paints Hyde, calling the painting, "Doctor Hyde", Harold in their cell, calling the painting, "Pupil", their cellmates, calling the paintings, "Mindless" and "Empty shell" and prison's destruction, calling the painting, "Vengeance". He later replaces Herbert as cult's leader. The cult creates a gallery in Mark's honor in Chicago and Richard begins working there. Richard calls Victoria and tells her about Mark and mentions that he's in LA.

## Trivia

* Mark's voice actor, Arthur Holden, also voices Crow Man and Miller.

## Gallery

Mark paints Frantiska after killing her.Mark meets Gustav.Mark killing Ida.Mark imprisoned in LA's prison.