MARMADUKE, harper bay

[Harper Bay Marmaduke]

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FULL NAME;; Harper Bay Marmaduke
NICKNAMES;; Bay, Duke
GENDER;; Other
DATE OF BIRTH;; January 11, 1984
AGE;; Twenty-Two
HOMETOWN;; Düsseldorf, Germany
ETHNICITY;; German
FACE CLAIM;; radical kiba

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE;; Androgynous, that would be Harper. He can appear as both male and female. He also appears fun and exciting, as he's very bright and colourful. He's short, about five feet and two inches and weighs around 108 pounds. His eyes are hazel, almost a gray or green colour.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES;; For Starters, Harper is biologically a male, but you wouldn't be able to tell. He's very androgynous and that bright pink hair sets him apart from the rest at Ipswich.

PERSONALITY;; Harper is a fun loving guy, but he's very spiteful and insensitive to the way others feel. He's very expressive and he's not afraid to say what's on his mind. Harper's rather opinionated, often times giving an unwanted two cents on any subject. Despite being aggressively insensitive, he's also rather jumpy in some situations and gets obsessive over the strangest matters. He takes risks and usually the outcome is better then what he'd thought. He loves to be outside and both behind and in front of the camera. Festive when he wants to be, the twenty-two year old keeps holidays, even at Ipswich hilariously amusing, or very disastrous.

LIKES;;
+ Bright colours
+ Music
+ Sunny days
+ Animals
+ Being outside
+ Not being sick
+ Vitamin water
+ Water
+ Swimming
+ Sleep
DISLIKES;;
- Religion
- Haters
- Not sleeping
- Rain
- Hulk
- Dead Animals
- Drugs
- Spiders
- Death
- Bad Photography
- Scene Kids
- Hipsters
HABITS;;
x random loud outbursts
x scaring potential friends
x climbing things
x terrorizing new kids
x laughing randomly

FLAWS;;
+ aggressive
+ spiteful
+ judgmental
+ overly energetic
+ vengeful

SECRET;; I live because I cannot stop a beating heart, inside I've died and want not to move forward. Let me be with my Cousin.
STRENGTHS;; creative, determined, economical, risk taker
WEAKNESSES;; Spiteful, insensitive, judgmental, stubborn, obsessive
DIAGNOSIS;;
Panic disorder
- Frequent panic attacks in fear of having a panic attack and worrying about future panic attacks.

Gender Identity Disorder
- Harper often says he hasn't any gender at all, he claims he falls completely outside the gender binary prefers singular "they" over "he/she" or the gender neutral terms of "ze", "sie", and "hir".

Hypochondriasis
- If he's sweating, he'll tell you he has a fever. Often times when he hears television adverts for a medication, and they list symptoms of something, he'll tell you that he has those symptoms. He's very persistent on those.

Alcoholism
-started drinking at a young age, went to it for years, and developed an addiction to it.

PET PEEVE;; being called he or she

PARENTS;;
Beric Marmaduke
deceased, 53

Aletta Marmaduke
deceased, 52

SIBLINGS;;
Douglass Marmaduke
brother, 25, deceased

Aletta Marmaduke
sister, 17, deceased.


PETS;;
None

BACKGROUND STORY;;
"Suffering, it's always been a part of life and it always will be a part of life. Life is one big roller coaster, your ups and your downs. I was born January eleven nineteen eighty-seven to my mother, Aletta, and my father, Beric. I was the second child the Marmaduke family welcomed. I found a fond sensitivity in their hearts. It was when my older brother, Douglass, came into the room, to see his new brother that they knew I'd be a handful. He was three at the time, and he climbed into the bed by our mother's side. "This is Douglass." She said to me, I remember it oddly enough. "He's your big brother." Promptly after I bit him and he started crying and wailing, which caused me to follow in the act. Five years later, I was introduced to the daughter of heaven herself, Aletta. Aletta was named after our mother, and she was our new baby sister.

Life went well for the most part, we lived in a three bedroom house, which meant Doug and I shared a room. When I was seven, my father was laid to rest, he was thirty when he died from heart failure, it was injustice in itself, everything was spinning that year. Things finally calmed down and didn't really stir up again until I'd reached eleven years of life. It was then that I watched my mother be buried in the ground, next to my father who'd passed four years earlier. Us Marmadukes? We were on our own for now.

We went to live with our Aunt Van Schoonhoven. They were brillant folks, I loved them dearly. They had a boy and a girl. Claus and Saskia. Saskia was two years older then Claus and Claus was a year younger than Douglass. Two years later, we suffered another loss, it was awful watching this one go. Sixteen year old Douglass died of Hypothermia. At thirteen it was like watching leaves fall off the family tree. Awful. Three years later I lost my sister, she had a more tragic death then the others. A drowning we did declare it. It was an accident, but when you're sixteen years old and you lose your eleven year old baby sister, you can only blame yourself for not watching her.

Claus, Saskia and I grew up together. Claus had lost his dad the same time I did, for the same cause. Heart failure ran in the family, and it was something we wouldn't escape. As Teenagers, Claus and I were partiers. There wasn't one club that we hadn't been it, there wasn't one night we hadn't come home drunk, or high on some high class drug. Ecstacy was our main game. Claus fiddled with heroin once, but the outcome was rough, so he strayed from it. Saskia was probably about twenty, Claus was nineteen and I was seventeen when Aunt Van Schoonhoven passed. God, she was such a good woman, we couldn't believe it. She like my mother died of cancer, unlike my mother, her cancer was lung cancer. Claus and I continued to Party and Saskia continued to worship and live in the shadow of God. Following the words to bible scriptures, acting on it as though she would find peace in life. She couldn't take our active lifestyle, that was too much for her. She killed herself four months after Claus' mom had passed.

Claus and I were horrified to find her bloodied body in the sheets of her bed. That's where Claus' life change happened. He took a turn for the better though, going into the priesthood, as his sister would have wanted. Claus worked to be a Catholic priest and he ended up in Ipswich at twenty-one. I stayed behind for a few months, but followed him there not too much long after. When I'd got there Claus had left the church for a boy. A stupid mistake on his part, and I intend to not let the boy in question live it down. Claus went back onto drugs, and stabbed himself in the knee a few too many times. He'd ripped enough muscle in his knee to cause permanent damage and after that, I sent him back home, to Germany. I rehabilitated him there, calmed him down, and then I brought him back here. He rejoined the priesthood, but left not too much longer after. He stayed clean this time, and seemed to fall in love with this other boy.

I'm not sure what happened between them but on November fifteenth, two thousand and seven the unthinkable happened. My heart was in panic, as Claus had gotten sick and stayed sick in October. It was that fifteenth day in November that I lost my bestfriend and beloved cousin. You wouldn't believe it if you hadn't seen the paper the next morning. The Obituaries generally aren't a joke. I remember crying so hard, I would vomit, it went on for two months, this crying and vomiting thing. I think, if I were to talk about him now, I'd be okay, but sometimes, when I'm alone and I think about him, I cry and I just don't stop. I had him buried here in Ipswich, not in Germany, as this is what he wanted, he really, really wanted this. Heart Failure's a bitch."

ROLE-PLAY SAMPLE;;

Harper walked into the hospital, with a groan. Hopefully the nurses weren't so crabby today. He asked for Claus' room and immediatly recieved a number. Harper trudged through the halls and finally found the damn room.

Harper eased himself into the room, he grumbled looking at the boy all hooked up to machines and such. He looked at Noah, concerned. Sure, Harper was concerned but he'll be damned if he felt sorry for him this time.

Harper glared at Claus as he questioned his presence. Harper's eyes narrowed harshly. "I-I'm very very disappointed Claus.." He said "I almost suggested I not come save your ass." Harper barked angrily.

Claus rolled his eyes and watched as a doctor came in. He informed Harper that Claus had Hemoptysis. Harper's face scrunched as the doctor said it. "What?" He asked cautiously.

"Hemoptysis is coughing up blood from the respiratory tract. Blood can come from the nose, mouth, throat, the airway passages leading to the lungs, or the lungs. "

"And that's because of his drinking?" Harper said with a minor 'ewwww' expression crossing his face.

"Sadly no, It was caused by a Family history of PND and Drug usage."

Claus doesn't do Drugs!" Harper spat arrogantly

"Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnea, it's a condition related to orthopnea, and is experienced by some people with heart failure" the doctor told Noah, ignoring Harper's arrogant statement. "I guess you don't know much about him then? He's done cocaine in the past, stopped a while back and picked up recently." The doctor said looking at Claus who has a 'How the fuck did you know that?' look across his face. "Drug tests and hair are bestfriends." He said simply.

"B-b-but...Cl-claus..d-d-doesn't..." Harper stammered "H-h-heart failure?"

"As I said, the long family line of PND..It's defined as sudden, severe shortness of breath at night that awakens a person from sleep, often with coughing and wheezing. It is most closely associated with congestive heart failure. PND commonly occurs several hours after a person with heart failure has fallen asleep. PND is often relieved by sitting upright, but not as quickly as simple orthopnea. Also unlike orthopnea, it does not develop immediately upon lying down."

Harper was too stunned for words. "I-i-is he d-d-dying?"

"Heart failure is associated with significantly reduced physical and mental health, resulting in a markedly decreased quality of life. With the exception of heart failure caused by reversible conditions, the condition usually worsens over time. Although some patients survive many years, progressive disease is associated with an overall annual mortality rate of 10%

Harper's jaw dropped, feeling his eyes flood.

YOUR NAME;; Grayson
AGE;; 17
YEARS OF ROLE-PLAY;; 6
WHERE YOU HEARD ABOUT US;; Peyton
ANYTHING ELSE;; ILUH YOU PEYTO

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[Peyton]