Name: Marak Quan
Nature: Praise-seeker?
Allegiance: ISRA
Visual: Mark Quinn looked like a slightly thinner leather
bad boy version of Markey-Mark, Marra Kwann looked like a strung-out Madonna in
the video for Frozen and Marak Quan looks like a creepily attractive version of
the transsexual version of Marilyn Manson (complete with breasts).
Strength 1;
Dexterity 2; Athletics 1, Legerdemain 1, Martial Arts 1,
Pilot 1, Stealth 1,
Stamina 3; Endurance 1,
Perception 4; Awareness 2, Investigation 1,
Intelligence 2; Engineering 2, Intrusion 1, Science 1,
Wits 2; Arts 2, Meditation 2, Rapport 1,
Appearance 3; Style 1,
Manipulation 2;
Charisma 4; Perform 3 (specialty; Bang), Savvy 1
Willpower: 5
Psi: 7
Aptitude: Clairsentience
Basic Techniques: The Sight
Modes: Psychometry 1, Psychonavigation 1, Telesthesia 2
Auxiliary Modes: None.
Backgrounds: Citizenship 1 (Australia, Luna), Followers 1 (bodyguard),
Weapons:
Armor: Armor Vest (1/3, 0), Reinforced Clothing (0/2, 0)
Other Equipment: formless gender-obscuring clothing, bangboard,
vocoder (Thai, Mon (native tongue of Funan), Chinese)
The person now
known as Marak Quan currently appears completely androgynous, an oddly
attractive mixture of racial blends and gender traits attained through cosmetic
surgery, but was known to have been male and a mix of Arabic and Asian
parentage from the high school holos available on the dozens of 'official'
Opsites on the current 'yeh thing' in the Southeast Asian Bang market.
'Marak'
(originally called Nadir) was raised by devoted Islamic parents in the NOE and
given an excellent upbringing. He
rebelled, throwing himself into music and never actually completing his
education in engineering, spending all of his free time assembling the
components he was supposed to working on into components for his bandmates
synthesizers and boards. He was a great
disappointment to his parents at first, but they seemed to get over it fairly
quickly, a sign he thinks means that they never really liked him as much as his
sister anyway. In truth his parents
find his music annoying, but can tell from his incredible fan appeal that he is
at least making people (many thousands of them) happy and certainly seems to be
making good money so they are concentrating on their daughter, who was training
to be a lawyer but got sidetracked on some crusade to become an Imam instead.
It was a chance
encounter with some other niche bands that caused Marak to encounter his first
member of ISRA and she claimed that she could see 'great things' around
him. He was overwhelmed by the notion
that he could be a Bang performer, projecting clairsentient visions to his
audiences (he only had a smaller cult following before his dunking) and the
possibilities intoxicated him like no drug could. He had dreams of being a Hajj pilot or a Qadiyya detective as
well, having always been something of a 'scattershot,' unable to focus on any
one idea to the exclusion of all other possibilities. He would much rather try for both birds in the bush than settle
for just one in the hand any day!
Marak met Otha
Herzog at Huruff al-Hayy (which he thinks is in space somewhere) and thinks the
man is 'out there.' He thinks that the
Hajj have the best toys, the Qadiyya are just the yeh thing, the Ductrans are
right on about the future of the order and that the Bang Divas are simply the
end-all, be-all of existence. He even
thinks the Messianic Bahai have a good point as Otha (from his cursory view)
sure seems more like a prophet than any other person could possibly be. (On the other hand, he thinks that like all
prophets, Otha is a total flake and that Joycean group is pretty weird
too.) But he could never imagine
wanting to leave all his fans behind and he will have to try to fit his other
interests in sideways. He tries to
incorporate as many of the other wondrous possibilities available to him as
possible into his life, if the band needs to be flown somewhere, he will pilot
them, if there is some unresolved issue at the venue or along the street as his
car passes, he will dash out and play 'Psychic Detective.' He *is* a Bang Diva, but he doesn't want
that alone to define him!
Like performers
from time immemorial, Marak has taken on an androgynous transracial appearance
to try and appeal to the widest cross-section of the populace possible (and
also because he wants to blur all of the lines and erase all of the boundaries
of race, gender, predjudice and bias) and acts like some bizarre freak in
interviews, mumbling inanities oblique enough to make any ISRAn proud, often
from the depths of a concealing hood and formless robes. It seems that with every year Marak changes
his name, and apparent gender, having been Marra Kwan only last year and Mark
Quinn the year before.
Marak is a
creature in growth, as Mark Quinn, he was a bad boy of Bang, famous for his
receipt of an award via live feed while seeming like he was tripping or having
some sort of seizure only to later reveal that he had been receiving oral sex
in front of the many hundreds of thousands of viewers beneath the level of the
video feed! In this stage he (and his
music) incited riot and violence and a fuck the world approach called
stutterbang after its incessant pounding in your face juxtapositions of imagery
and sounds. After the dunking, he
changed his name to Marra Kwan and appeared as a woman with a surrealistic
'artsy' and nihilistic / morbid style that some called death-bang, drawing upon
African multi-layered beats, creating multiple 'layers' of song in each performance
and often overlaying multiple lyrical tracks into a single song, forcing the
viewer to either strain to pick out the refrain she is trying to follow, or
just sit back and ‘open up’ and try to get the whole meaning of all the
interwoven songs. The controversy was
still there as Marra claimed to get her visions from sleeping with God. By the third tour, Marak Quan had arrived,
unveiling itself as transgender creature to the point of appearing with 50
random audience members completely naked on stage performing a bit about
unconditional self-love and the insignificance of 'beauty' to a healthy
body-image. It turned into a naked riot
as 4,000+ Bangkok youth ripped off their clothes and ran through the streets celebrating
their unashamed nakedness...
The doctor that
added the breasts later pointed to how realistic they were and uses snippets of
concert footage in his advertisements.
:)