Marco

What Scholastic Says:
Personality:
Cute, Charming, Witty, Smart, Sarcastic
Favorite Saying: “Are you INSANE!!”
Attitude:
Whatever
Closest Friend: Jake

Hmmm. Witty, charming, smart, cute.... sounds like the perfect guy to bring home to mama. While you're up patting the tip of your nose with your powder, he's downstairs in khakis and a sportsjacket, trading civilized barbs with your father, talking about Newtonian physics with your braniac bro, and flashing that 100 watt smile to your mother.

Backtrack: Um, no.

Cute, maybe. Cute like sometimes your little brother is cute. Cute in the way that, no, his face isn't covered in acne, and he's nice enough to look at for extended periods of time. He's not gorgeous- like I seriously doubt there are girls who just sit there going, "Damn, he's prettier than me."

He's not charming. I mean, he tries to be, but the number of books that start with him getting turned down for a date sort of dispells any of my thoughts of them working. It's kind of like that guy who's always hitting on everyone but no one goes out with unless they're really, really, desperate.

^_^º

Not like that has ever, ever, ever, been an example of me.

Ahem.

Witty is not what I'd call Marco. I'd call him... mouthy. At least, that's what my dad calls me. You know, in a way that he always has something to shoot back with. In my family, that's often called insubordination, or talking back. I might think it's funny, but my parents don't always.

I can *almost* see why they call him smart. He resembles me in a lot of ways. Want to know why?

    1. Procrastination
    Just like any really smart person, he puts off his work until the last minute. Seriously! All intelligent people are too lazy to do their homework- that is, if they didn't get it done in class- during lunch or right before their class, or, my personal favorite, in the bathroom during the first few minutes of class. Heh heh heh.

    2. Even Hurried Work does okay
    He writes a paper at lunchtime, gets a B. Now, most intelligent people can pull off an easy A with a quick paper, but remember, they called him "smart."

    3. Always surprised by test dates
    We usually don't worry about them. If we're hit by one, it's kind of like, ohp, I'm gonna fail. There usually isn't a huge panic or anything. Occasionally we *do* fail, but mostly we don't. ;)

I imagine Marco as a boy in my school... "Joe" is clever, has his mind in the gutter, knows enough Spanish to insult and embarress la Señora during la clase de español, and has an ego the size of California. He thinks he's pretty funny, but often he's not, and to date no girl has been able to stand more than half a movie with him.

Sarcasm isn't just a trait of Marco that makes him amusing, it's a defense mechanism. The way Marco reacts to a traumatizing situation.. silence, and then a few lame jokes.

In fact, Marco's character reminds me very much of that of Prince Kheldar or "Silk" in the Belgariad and Mallorean series by David Eddings. I'm sure anyone who has read the series would agree. Both spend so much time making jokes that we forget sometimes that it's only a way to cover up the pain.

Marco spent two years thinking his mom was dead and watching his dad's downward spiral. In the midst of all this, he still survived. When he found out his mum was actually alive and kicking and the leader of the Yeerk empire, he handled it pretty weell.

If Marco was a food, he would be: Jello.
Sort of silly, but strong- can be ripped and still stand.