Marco Rossi

[Marco Rossi]

NAME: Marco, Durante, Rossi
NICKNAME: Marc, D.
AGE: 37
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
POSITION: Groundskeeper
FACE CLAIM: Peter Facinelli

POWER:

Plant Manipulation

Plant or Nature Manipulation is the way to create, shape or manipulate the nature around him. This can be used for him to protect himself by creating a root wall, or using his powers for others by medical use. He sees medical use as letting the herbs that are used for healing appear that are in range. He will control them and get them unless they aren't in range. An other way is using roots to wrap around the leg to keep it in shape or even bonded. While protective isn't always the option, he also learned to be offensive with is powers. When controlling the nature around him, he can make vines root people, summon plants to attack with thorns or even make plants move. But most important and the talent he has, is reviving dead plants and flowers to give them a second change.

The touch of life as he likes to call it, is a way for him to give up his own energy to give life to a new one. The resurrection will only work on a flower or plant within a week. Anything that passed away after a week can't be resurrected. All he has to do is to focus on the plant and he has to touch that plant. Once the energy drain is complete, he will have no energy left and the flower is back alive. He won't give up all his energy, at least not enough to pass out, as that would make him too vulnerable.

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Side-Effects

APPEARANCE SECTION:

Marco born and proud as the Italian Blood in his family took the fashion with him. While he doesn't care much about his hair or even his appearance he always wears something nice. Most of the time a suit, but also enjoying wearing shorts. Standing at 5'8" high he isn't that long, but he doesn't mind. His face well what can we say. His eyes have a wonderful light green with a somewhat grayish tint in them. His skin sometimes a bit pale, but his hair always styled out into different ways.

His walks are a different thing, while he enjoys walking around with a wooden cane, he sometimes walks without it. The wooden cane helps him with walking, but also can be used to have a bit nature with him. While Marco comes over as a professional, when he is alone, he could walk barefoot, giving him a connection to the earth, and enjoying to spend time there.

MUST HAVE APPAREL: Suits, sometimes Shorts, wooden cane, necklace from his Nonna

PERSONALITY SECTION:

Marco is the person that has a hot Italian temperament. Sometimes flying out when it needs to. While he has Italian blood, he knows how to be calm and having respect for the elderly people and women. Respect learning from his Nonna. Staying calm was something they taught him at the Academy. If he doesn't stay calm his powers take over control and he rather doesn't want that. He even fears for his powers if they take over control, so he tries to stay calm all the time.

An other description of Marco can be protective and caring. While he doesn't look like the warm and friendly person that talks to everyone, he still cares a lot about the students and the staff members of Bellefonte. While his passion is nature, he will do anything to protect the students from harm. May it be a fight or getting attacked. He will do anything to stop it. While people need the help, he will be there to give the compassion and love or even advice for the once that need it.

Last but not least Marco is shy. While he has problems with the women or with man, he can talk to them. He just doesn't like talking about himself. He rather wants to spend time talking about nature, food or even the person's life, as long as it isn't about him.

EXTRA QUIRK:
Tree hugger, and he loves to talk with animals while he doesn't understand them.


FATHER:
Daniel Bryan Rossi (Deceased)
MOTHER:
Rosalie Martha Rossi - nee Williams
SIBLINGS:
Aranka Lucy Rossi (31)
PET:
A Labrador called Walles
SIGNIFICANT OTHER:
N/A
WORTHY MENTIONS:
Nonna Rossi (Grandma - 93 years old)


CHILDHOOD:

Marco Durante Rossi was born on a cold winter morning in Italy. He was the first child of Rosalie and Daniel Rossi, who were very happy to have a son. They were going to be a happy family. His mother was a nurse, his father an important person in the Ministry. He wasn't much at home, and when he was Marco heard the most wonderful stories of his work. He never minded that his father was most of the time gone, but it was hard for his mother. He could see it in her eyes. Years went by and when he was at the age of 6 he got a little sister. Aranka Lucy Rossi was born. The family loved the new girl and the family was complete.

2 years eventually passed as the family had a normal life. He went to school and made friends, until he was at the age of 8, where he got a letter that his father went missing and they never found his body. The letter was from his work that they haven't seen him in a few days. It was strange because he came home every day, until the day before they got the letter. His father made a call that day, he told mom that he had to work over and that was the last thing they heard from him. His father a ministry worker, got killed in a crime, a crime the ministry didn't know off, nor his family.

While Marco always wanted to find out what happened, he was too young to even try or bother to find it out. His mother mentally broken from the news didn't know what to do anymore as her heart was broken. Knowing she lost her husband, taken the fact she would never see him again. It was a dark day for the family, and they didn't know what to do. There came Nonna Rossi, the grandma and mother of Daniel Rossi. She got into the picture as she decided to fall in for the father. While his mother was broken, she took care of raising Aranka. Marco was a different story as he was taken by Nonna Rossi. The old lady that had a heart of gold and trying to help him. Nonna Rossi wasn't rich and because of that she could only raise for one person. She thought it was the best to take the boy, missing his father figure. Therefore she took him to live in America.

ADOLESCENCE:

While being a teenager it wasn't easy for him. The family separated. His father gone and dead, his mother broken and raising his little sister. He was with the sweetest woman he could think of. Nonna Rossi his old grandma from fathers side.
Two years after the death of his father. With the age of 10 he went to a school where he learned the basic subjects and even made a few friends there. While he enjoyed the years there he soon had to leave the school when he was 14. Leaving his friends behind because one day his life changed.

The day started when Nonna Rossi asked Marco to help with the garden. While trying to help, Marco was looking at the beautiful rose that was in the ground, as he put his hands around it. Giving it extra earth. While he was doing that, the rose began to move, and one of the thorns cuts him. His Nonna surprised what happened, couldn't believe it. Until a few days later one of the recruiters visited him.

That day when the recruiter came by, he was told he had to come with them. His Nonna knowing what the best was for him, gave him away to the school known as Bellefonte. There he found his new home. Marco was happy to be there. Enjoying the time with the students there, but also slowly learning how to control his powers. His time there was getting better and better. While he didn't make many friends, there was a group of students he could be with. Mostly the people that controlled the earth, or had the same ability. They had a connection just like him to Mother Nature or even Mother Earth. Either way all on all, he followed the lessons and liked to spend his many years there.

While staying there for many years he always wrote every week a letter to Nonna Rossi. Telling him the stories of his week, asking how she was and that he missed her. The old lady was getting older, so he had to ask how it was going. While Nonna was his family, and his friends getting closer to friends, he also wrote a few letters to his little sister. 6 years difference between them, but they still had contact with each other. Hoping to see them once again. It was his dream and idea after he could control his powers to visit them again. One day when he was 18, he wrote to his little sister that he promised her to visit her. Taking away the bad dream she had. He was the big brother she needed to have, and he was going to be that for her once he learned to control his powers.

Because he was a late bloomer he finally graduated on the age of 21. It took him so long because of the energy draining and headaches that stopped his powers. The control over his powers happened until one professor took the time to give him the help he needed. The calmness he was looking for in his head that involved all the controlling of his powers. He finally graduated after that by the age of 21.

ADULTHOOD:

After Bellefonte, Marco returned to his Nonna who was getting older and older. While he wanted to study further, he also wanted to stay around for her raising her. But the words of Nonna Rossi took him. A few years later when he was 30, she once walked up to him and her words still following him now. "My dear grandson follow your heart and dreams."
It were those words that helped him go study at the College in California. It was a big College and there were many different studies there. While he wanted to do something that was connected to his powers, he took the study of Horticulture and Gardening. There he studied in the mornings for his degree and in the night, training his powers. After a year or 4, he finally got himself a degree into Horticulture and Gardening.

His Nonna proud of him, he finally followed his dreams and by that she gave him a necklace. A necklace to always remind him to follow his dreams. It was a great present and he would never put it off. It was a gift that stood for his heart and the love for Nonna. While being at the age of 34, he once traveled back to Italy. Once in Italy he went to see his mother again and his sister. The young beautiful girl that was 6 years younger than him. Meeting his mother again did much to him, as he hugged his mother and even cried. His mother finally accepting the death of his father, as she went further with her life. His sister working as a nurse. While it was so many years ago that his father was killed, he had to let it go. So to close the book, he put a picture and a few flowers of his dad in the garden as he left his mother and his sister again to go back to America.

It was then that he noticed that there was a position open at Bellefonte Academy. A position where he studied for, and while he wanted to be there for the job, he also wanted to help the students. He always enjoyed the time at Bellefonte Academy, and maybe he could help a few students, with what he learned. To keep calm. So he applied for the job and found himself being the Groundskeeper of the Academy. Walking proud with his wooden cane he once found in the forest there one day. Giving him the nature with him that he needed. Not necessary needed to walk with, but he just like having nature with him and who doesn't like a pimpcane.


SAMPLE:

--Somewhere Unknown, but known to the Heart.--

The wind carried away the many leaves as Grandmother Willow knew what she had to do. She felt the wind telling her about a child. A child that might not know her true heart but could use it. Anything could happen with the child, but she knew she had to be there for her. Just like she has been for many people there. The wind told the story, and her roots could feel her getting closer and closer. The creatures knew what they were doing leading them closer to her. Grandmother Willow slowly opened her eyes as a girl stood in front of her.

A image of Grandmother Willow appeared as the wind slowly surrounded Belle. "Hello my child." Grandmother Willow said as she gave a smile to the female. "Don't be scared. I won't do anything." The old willow said as her voice was deep but soft, telling her that she wouldn't do any harm.

--Storybrooke--

Storybrooke never ended for Grandma Wood. She had her powers after the curse that broke. Grandma Wood was happy to have her powers back again. It was something special she always had. She could control the wind in her tree form and had her vines that she would use. It changed when she got her freedom. She had been for ages a willow and then she was free. Something she never thought would happen. It was so much for her, but she enjoyed every free minute she had. She could run in the forest, be with the animals and her trees. She had a connection and she always would have. That is what happened with Willow.

Now she was standing there, the curse took her and bringing her to Storybrooke. If anything she enjoyed at her age, it was the animals she had in the shop. If it was a dog, a bird or a cat. Anything that you could or wanted, Grandma Wood had it. She wasn't a person that sold many pets, but that was okay. People still went to her to talk to her because something inside Grandma Wood told her that people needed advice. If it was the fact that she was old with many experience, or maybe it was the heart she had for people. That golden ear to listen to people, and see behind them. The real heart behind the person. Either way she enjoyed it very much in Storybrooke.

Sooner or later the curse broke and Grandma Wood remembered who she was. The shop changed as the nature grew making it a part of the Enchanted Forest again. The animals enjoyed it more then being in the cages, as she gave them the freedom. The freedom in shop and every day she enjoyed spending time around that particular shop. A new day appeared for Grandma Wood as she turned around to look outside the windows of her home. Grandma opened the window as the wind slowly flew around her. A fresh air and a few leaves like always surrounded her. A smile appeared on the old ladies face, as she touched the rose next to her bed. It grew slowly but precious as she saw the beauty in it. The wind told her something about Belle. She was going to visit her, so the old lady prepared herself for Belle.

As fast as the old lady could walk she headed to the shop as she opened it. The animals run quickly to her, as she petted one by one giving them the food they needed. It was nice to see that the trees grew perfectly around here. The animals enjoyed it and she also enjoyed it and that was good enough. She walked to the back to grab some food, as she suddenly heard a voice. While Belle opened the door the wind flew by again surrounding the forest, Belle and the animals.

Grandma Willow then walked out from the back to the entrance as she gave a smile. "Welcome child."Grandma Willow said as the smile stayed on her face.

USERNAME: Marv (In C-box as Rossimarc)

AGE GROUP: Early Twenties

EXPERIENCE: Probably 3-5 years.

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