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Mark Lewis; TCftE
Topic Started: Jan 17 2008, 08:02 PM (219 Views)
Winter is Coming
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Rejoice Luke, I finally got around to it.

Name: Mark Lewis

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Background: Mark grew up in a quiet US suburb with almost no children his age. An only child, he thus found ways to entertain himself by himself. This, coupled with stable family conditions, led to a rather sheltered early childhood. Through elementary and middle school he kept to himself mostly, developing only a small circle of friends. He was usually quiet and contemplative, taken to letting his mind wander for long periods of time. During high school, he became slightly more sociable but never lost his tendency to remain silent. He did well in school and had every intention of pursuing a college education. However, the global sickness put an end to those plans, with the collapse of the economy in the effected areas. Eventually he opted to stay in the decimated continental US, as neither moving to the now overpopulated Australia or living under government support with the rest of his family while the Moon project was finished had any appeal to him. As he drove around the abandoned Midwest, siphoning gas and looting supplies as he went, he eventually found his way to a small town where the battered street signs were labeled "Genoa."

Education: From a young age, Mark did very well in his education. However, as he got older, and more decision was offered in his classes, more often did Mark find himself in indecision. He was good at almost everything he did, but never great. Nothing ever stuck out at him as something that he would be able to make a name for himself doing. His class selection was in all directions as he pursued whatever seemed interesting: AP History classes, accelerated English, Advanced Chemistry, even Pottery. As college neared, he eventually decided to pursue a higher education in writing, for it seemed to be the one thing he was truly excellent at, but intended to at least minor in chemistry and history.

Appearance: Mark is of average hight and weight. He's thin, almost scrawny, with almost no muscle tone and chronically out of shape. Having never favored the outdoors, Mark is noticeably pale with almost no freckles of any kind. He has a tendency to slouch and to get into whatever position is the most comfortable. His jet Black hair falls to about the base of his skull in the back and his eyebrows in the front, often simply brushed just enough as is necessary and then pushed away from his eyes. His eyes are a dull hazel, and seem always to be partially glazed over as Mark's mind wanders.

Mark was never much for trends or fashion of any kind, and simply found the entire thing a waste of time and money. Therefore, he favors anything comfortable and practical, not spending much time caring about what he wore as long as he can get the clay out of it after Pottery and smell of chemicals out of it after Chemistry. After the global sickness strikes, his wardrobe is selected mostly in terms of durability, but even then his clothing seems slightly worn out and covered with the wasteland dust.

Personality: Even as a child Mark has had trouble reaching decisions and seems to always want two or more things at once. His choice of career was always an issue, but as his knowledge increased he realized that his the bipolar aspects of his personality extended farther than that. Ethically, he was divided between a deep sense of morality and a need to remain a good person, an opinion of upholding the balanced path of neutrality, and an sense of survival of the fittest and getting ahead by any means necessary. He also found himself on opposite side of the issue of need for a lawful and orderly society and glorification of freedom and romanticized crime. As his knowledge expanded further, he even found a conflict between his Enlightenment period belief in logic, rationality, and progress and Romantic period belief in the power of human emotion and the glory of nature. All of these conflicts led to a general fear of decision and change, and therefore to an almost universal preference for the preservation of the status quo.

Mark remains rather quiet and withdrawn. He'll never under normal circumstances start a conversation with a total stranger unless it is appropriate or necessary. Even during the conversation he never seems to be listening quite fully, and prefers to let others do most of the talking. He remains mostly calm, and he doesn't seem to emote very strongly to anything.
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Well, Winter. I've got to admit, I'm surprised. This is probably the best I've seen from you on this board, and probably one of the most well thought-out applications I've seen on this board. No revisions necessary. Maybe the two-and-a-half months was worth it? Thanks!
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Luke
Jan 17 2008, 11:00 PM
and probably one of the most well thought-out applications I've seen on this board.

Unless you count several gramatical mistakes and the incorrect use of a term.
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Yeah, I noticed a few. But not many, and the work effort behind it definitely makes up for it.
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You honor me, thank you.

Anyway, what were the grammatical mistakes and the misused term? If I can learn from my mistakes I can never make them again.
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Winter is Coming
Jan 18 2008, 03:13 PM
Anyway, what were the grammatical mistakes and the misused term?

I'm only going to address the misused term as it shouldn't be hard to simply overlook the profile to find the the gramatical errors, as they're only simple mistakes.

Your use of the term "survival of the fittest" doesn't really have any relevance to anything in this profile. As it's really a biology term meaning: the ability to produce surviving offspring. I don't think that Mr. Lewis is really trying to ensure procreation between him and a genetically heathy person.
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Hmm, you have a point I suppose, but that's the terms strictly scientific meaning. A language is never set in stone, it's always fluid, and that term has come to have several different meanings.

The way I was trying to use it was the way it has been applied to human society. Where it's not strictly survival their fighting and competing for, but rather success. The most competent rise to the top by any means necessary, do what they need to, trample as many people below their feet as is required in order to reach a goal. Sort of like realpolitik, if you're up with your 19th century diplomatic philosophies.

The term, when applied with that connotation, simply further describes the aspect of Mark's personality that is in conflict with his sense of morality.
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