Thomas Parker
Thomas Parker exists in a system within a city in the Capital of Mindgate known as New Oceanus. He works as a detective within the West sector of the city. He does sport a very standard outfit for his profession, almost Victorian in nature. A fancy suit, hat, and cane sport an equally fancy beard and combed hair style. One would think he almost pulled this out from a Sherlock Novel. But nonetheless he is the inheritor of the Mark of Apathy. His job as a detective primarily came about as a result of lucky chance, as he came across a murder scene in his youth, intrigued by the processes that went into it, he learned that sooner or later the trail he was leading went cold in all directions, and eventually went to the detective in his time to inquire. He was a curious child after all. Impressed by his initiative on the topic he was hired as an assistant. Hundreds of cases later he gained a knack for this sort of thing, and as a whole eventually inherited that business when the old detective retired. Though something had changed at this point. He seemed far more indifferent to his cases, he seemed to find no difference in his opinions one way or another and was set to solve a case because “It was his job.” There was no longer a sense of justice or empathy in his cases and he treated everyone as nothing more than a lead to a lead. This normally wouldn’t even be that bad to be marked. But the true sin that set him apart was his indifference to one case in particular to his own personal life. One day his assistant simply vanished, and ultimately this became the biggest case of his life. He hunted, and hunted, and hunted, and no matter how much he tried to get along with his suspects, he couldn’t get through. His empathy had no reward. Sounds similar to the current engine no? Ultimately this was the case he gave up, the one that he decided, if he couldn’t charm his way through it, how would he get progress. And so. It was never solved. And with it that decline in Empathy came. Interesting how easily this can happen to people. As a result his marking came about following a cold case, of which, almost like that out of a novel he stumbled across the current Engine. A conversation followed, one which he refuses to comment on, that seemed to suddenly spark this regret in him, and as a result he was marked. This mark resembles that of a broken bottle, collecting dust with liquid leaking out of it, spilling onto the ground below it, representing the indifference to help. He knows for a fact there is a power to unlock and is actively researching it, with more vigor and empathy than anyone’s seen out of him. Perhaps he sees it as a redemption. He is halfway to finding out how to unlock it.