MAKE YOURSELF HARD TO KILL.

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𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄
mackenzie leontes stausse.

𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒
mack, mackie, leon (typically undercover).

𝐀𝐆𝐄
twenty-one.

𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐄
the eldurr king's personal guard.

𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘
november 6th.

𝐙𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐂
scorpio.

𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑
male.

𝐒𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘
pansexual.

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘
mackenzie speaks a mellifluous melancholy. his words are his largest, greatest weapon, even though he doesn't always have to use them to get his point across. his lack of words also presents itself as a weapon; his silence is sometimes quite literally a deadly feat.
manipulation is the key to the box that is mack's personality. any type of manipulation you've ever heard of, he's somehow mastered it in his short lifetime. his words are wrapped up nicely with a bow - the young man knows how to get what he wants.
sarcasm is his friend, and one he uses a lot. he doesnt last a conversation without a short little sarcastic remark, funnily enough. it's the peasant boy in him talking, probably.
the boy likes a good laugh, but doesn't get one often. his laugh is infectious and loud, it would easily send the whole room into chaos. but once again, he doesn't laugh very often. small chuckles are common though.
mack carries himself with a badass swagger. he look like he knows what he's doing, even if he doesnt, and he always seems to walk with a purpose.
he can be quite talkative when he wants to be, but once again, his words are purely to impress.
mack cam be a wonderful actor and spy when need-be, mostly due to his heavy usage of manipulation to the point where hardly anybody can tell if he's lying. the key is that the best liars always tell the truth, and he lives by that line. believe your own lies.
he's flirty but doesn't enjoy getting too attached, maynly because mackenzie has a huge power fantasy. being so close to the king's sids all the time, he's grown somewhat jealous of the power he told over everyone. mackenzie wants to rule the world someday and make sure that everyone who has ever wronged him pays their debts. but first, he knows that realistically, he should start with the kingdom.
despite this, he's much like a loyal dog to the king's side. he does what degan wants, and has learned not to ask questions. ever.
maybe he needs somebody to attach himself to, you know? somebody to show him that feelings don't only come from success. he's learnt emotions a certain way, and he's sure he won't ever change. but maybe he just needs a tiger lillie ( ;) ) to brighten up his life and show him that power isn't as important as he believes it to be.

𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄
david mazouz.

𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐒
burns on his arms and left hand, as well as little splotches on his chest.
he has a few scars from knives and other weapons, but most have faded now since he hasn't gotten into a knife fight since petty crime was his job.

𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐒
+ blueberries and blackberries
+ darkness, both literal and figurative
+ classical music

𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐒
- large dogs or beasts of any sort
- boiling water (part of his backstory, but you won't find it there because he doesn't talk about it)
- hand to hand combat

𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃
largely, mackenzie never intended on becoming a guard. in fact, two thirds of his life consisted of heavy crime.
the boy was conceived in a brothel, which is a good tell as to how his childhood went. his father was a figurative bastard, while mackenzie was the literal.
though his mother tried to swindle his father for money upon the promise that she would take care of the boy, mackenzie has never met his mother. so that, obviously, never happened.
mackenzie learnt every trick in the book from his father; they were never rich. every manipulation technique thay mackenzie knows came from his father using it on him, or the tax collector.
mackenzie began his own little crime gang as a teenager, mostly because he needed to get out of the hut that they called a house. fourteen year old mackenzie made a lot of money hiding on the side of the path, breaking into carriages, threatening the occupants, and taking what he could. most of it he sold, though he has a few artifacts that he elected to be too nice to give away.
one day, though, the teenage mackenzie broke into the wrong carriage. although, looking back on it, he now considers it to have been the perfect one.
the king was on his way to some luxurious royal event or meeting when the young teen knocked out the coachman with a pebble and broke in. king degan must have seen some form of potential in the boy during the attempted robbery, because the seven years spent after that were spent in the royal palace, becoming a guard (and maybe hitman, who knows). it was only in the last year or two that mackenzie became the king's personal babysitter, as some might say.
so to say, he'd never go back to his old life now. he's having far too much fun.

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PRETTY FACE BUT A SOUL SO MORBID.