<br/>These characters are GM characters and are to be found on the first page of the characters thread. I put them up here because they are important and thought it would be good for those who might miss them to see. Also, I just completed Maria's profile tonight.  8-)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Marco Xantelli</strong></span></div><br/><div align="center">(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o288/Leapyear12/tommy_lee_jones.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Class:</strong> Family member<br/><strong>Height:</strong> 5'9<br/><strong>Weight:</strong> 193 pounds<br/><strong>Hair:</strong> Black<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong> Violet<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong> Marco Xantelli's is one of only two members of the family who can change his appearance at  most common appearance. His preferred appearance is that of a middle aged man who looks to be in his early fifties. He is hale and hearty, his body fit, lean, and muscular despite the signs of aging he has allowed. Some streaks of gray line the sides of his hair though it is mostly black and has receded slightly. His skin exudes a healthy tan from work and plenty of sun. He prefers white suits, clean and pressed to perfection, as his principle manner of dress. He has dark hair on his arms, legs, chest, and even the back of his hands.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong> Marco, above all things, exudes calm and control. He is shrewd operator with a mind for all aspects of the business, though he does not like to bothered with trivial matters as he is beyond that stage now. His main guilty pleasure is expensive cigars from all over the world, though some of the best tobacco he ever smoked is grown right on the island. On occasion he may take a drink but is not a heavy drinker. Marco deeply enjoys the finer things in life and despite his age never tires of the benefits his power affords him. He never leaves his island anymore, running the business from his manor and acting as guardian of the island. Marco practices the martial arts nearly everyday in order to perfect his body and center his mind. At times he will stroll the Island or drive into town for recreation, though his main hobby is collecting the occasional unsuspecting stray to work his abilities on. It is not easy to incur his wrath but doing so has drastic consequences. He is wise from long years and much experience with the world, but he can also come off as jaded. The power has made him selfish about getting what he wants, yet he has avoided outright arrogance.     <br/><br/><strong>History:</strong> Marco grew up in early 20th century Argentina. His family was of Italian heritage, his father a Vineyard worker and his mother a seamstress. From this poor background Marco was determined to escape at an early age. He displayed incredible business abilities and began to small fortune in the twenties. The great depression wiped him out but for a fishing boat with a modern engine for its time from one of his many enterprises, which he refitted for exploration and cartography. By this time he was married to the love of his life, Maria Xantelli, who was the main inspiration for his reckless change in career paths. He actually prospered on the high seas by doing odd jobs and transport functions. One job helping to map an Island led them to current day Xantelli Island. There, while exploring, Marco Xantelli found a neon blue spring with a basalt rock that was exuding a strange violet light. He entered the spring with his wife following cautiously and touched the rock, thinking it valuable. That is when the couple received the power to alter the reality of others. Soon, the indigenous people of the island were recognizing Marco and Maria as their leaders. And when they returned to the base camp at the shore, they discovered that the crew they hired were at their mercy. From there, they were always able to return to the island and bring more people, over the years, an empire was built. <br/><br/><div align="center">------------------------  </div> <br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Maria Xantelli</strong></span></div><br/><div align="center">(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o288/Leapyear12/pretty_middle_aged_woman.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Class:</strong> Family Member<br/><strong>Age:</strong> Older than she looks<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'4<br/><strong>Weight:</strong> 128 pounds<br/><strong>Hair:</strong> black<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong> Violet<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong> Maria has a mature look about and her face is most often kept in a stern expression. She has pale lips and fairly smooth pale skin marked only slightly with the onset of middle age. She is thin and her body is kept is fit, her hands and feet are petite and just slightly weathered from her time on the island. Her eyes go deep, and give the sense of far more knowledge than her appearance permits. She will often dye her hair or wear contacts to change her appearance. As for clothing she usually wears very conservative business wear unless there is a special occasion where she feels there is not the need to be business like.   <br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong> Maria is actually far more cold and calculating then her husband. Whereas Marco enjoys the finer things in life and longs for some personal intimacy with his victims, Maria longs only for the domination, only for the game. Her favorite past time is taking a strong willed man and twisting him into whatever she sees fit, often with a penchant for emasculation. Besides her husband, Maria hates men, she thinks they are disgusting vile filthy creatures and the world would be better off without them. Though this doesn't mean she shows favor to female captives who come her way, sometimes it is quite the opposite. Much depends on her mood at the moment, as she is a woman who fluctuates her mood at whim. She likes bondage and control, and is experimenting with ways to twist the minds of certain subjects using her powers even though she is aware of the wish. Despite her hatred for men, Maria loves sex in all its forms, and is possibly the most sex obsessed member of the family. At times, she seems like a ball of contradictions, but she is a talented manger and runs the brothel like a finely tuned machine. She is mysterious and reclusive, rarely showing any emotion to anyone besides her husband, who she see's only sparingly.  <br/><br/><strong>History:</strong> In her more innocent day Maria had fallen in love with Marco and his dream of exploring the world. Then they came to the island. When Maria received the power she had first tried to deny it, had tried to stop Marco from using it to build an empire and convince him to leave the land and travel the world. For a while they did leave, but it turned out to merely be a way to form connections. Years passed and Marco became busy, too busy for her. Maria soon began to experiment with power, moved away from the lavish island home Marco was building and oversaw the construction of her own estate. As Maria became more obsessed with her power and more consumed by her lusts the place she created eventually became the brothel. It grew in steps, with the lower levels and tunnels being constructed after the main building.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>