BLOG RULES...

001 - INTERACTIONS

This blog is independent and semi-selective. I only interact with mutuals, and I will not be following absolutely everyone back. Additionally, I will prioritize interactions with my friends, as they are the reason I have the confidence and drive to write this character in the first place!

002 - SHIPPING

I am extremely selective when it comes to both romantic shipping and nsfw topics. I vastly prefer to let relationships play out on their own before discussing taking a romantic avenue with them. If you see me 'instant-shipping' with someone, it's likely we're either very close friends or have discussed the dynamic privately.

003 - AGE RESTRICTION

Unfortunately, while I am selective about nsfw topics, I can't deny that they might happen. As such, I will not follow writers who are under the age of 18, as that is the age of consent in my country. I additionally urge you not to follow me if you are a minor, and I will block you if I find out you've lied about your age. If your blog does not openly say you are 18+, I will not follow.

004 - WARNINGS

This blog is going to contain dark topics. If you are sensitive to any of the following, I urge you to reconsider following my blog. The characters featured contain themes of suicidal ideation & desires, religious trama, cult activity, dehumanization, gun violence, physical and mental abuse, doom-oriented pessimism, inevitable death, and political & financial corruption. Once again, if you are sensitive to any of these topics, I suggest that you do not follow me.

005 - LIMITS

There are a few things I generally have very hard limits when it comes to writing. If you write these things, I will still follow you, but I won't engage in threads with the following topics: Pregnancy, regardless of the form that takes. Brainwashing, either as a plot device or as a kink.

006 - DO NOT FOLLOW

In addition to my limits, I have many hard lines for my writing partners that will result in an immediate block if I see them in threads you're writing. Incest, sexual assault, and pedophilia are all things I'm uncomfortable with. If it's involved in a character's backstory, that's fine, but please do not follow me if you actively write threads centered around these things happening. In addition, I will block you if you display any racist, sexist, homophobic, zionistic, etc. behavior. This is absolutely non-negotiable, and I will additionally be extremely selective about following blogs with muses who display these beliefs within the bounds of fiction.

007 - FICTION VS REALITY

Although I have poured a lot of my life into developing this muse, he is not a reflection of my personal circumstances or beliefs. The views expressed by Mark do not always match my own views, and I don't have a perfect understanding of his circumstances based on my own life. Please treat Mark as an exercise in fiction rather than a commentary on real people.

008 - AFFILIATES

I am a very avid practicioner of mains, exclusives, and affiliates. I generally reserve the terms 'mains' and 'exclusives' for canon characters, and may have multiple mains of the same canon character, while I will only write with one version of a canon character who I am exclusive with. These terms fall under the umbrella of affiliates for me, and I will generally use this umbrella term when denoting bonds with other original characters.

009 - CROSSOVERS

I am open to interacting with characters from any fandom and source, with some minor exceptions. Though my experience with media is extremely limited, I will do my best to adapt my muses however works best to the setting and situation. I ask that both canon and original characters please have at least a rules and about page, otherwise I will not be inclined to follow or write with you.

010 - SPECIFYING MUSE

If you run a multimuse, I would greatly appreciate it if you would specify your own muse when you are sending things in or liking starter calls of mine. I will do the same in reverse. If you don't specify a muse and we've never interacted before, I will approach you to discuss or plot things.

011 - WRITING PREFERENCE

I do most of my writing in the third person, present tense. I generally do this regardless of what my partner uses, though if it is easier for my partners I am willing to match anyone else's formatting, or at least to try. Additionally, I use light formatting in the form of colored text and post dividers + icons. If you would prefer I change anything, please let me know!

012 - ETIQUETTE

I follow the tenets of basic roleplay etiquette and expect my partners to do the same. For those unfamiliar, this means I do not tolerate 'god-modding', which is the act of controlling my muse's actions or internal thoughts in a major way. I also expect my writing partners to provide something of substance in replies; I tend to write very long responses, so I don't necessarily expect my length to be exactly matched, but I would prefer it if I didn't receive a couple sentences in response to several paragraphs of writing.

013 - DRAMA

I'm trying to stay out of the way of major rpc drama, as someone who had a bad habit of stirring the pot when I was younger. Please don't approach me with callout posts or anonymous asks regarding my fellow roleplayers unless you believe them to be a legitimate harm to the safety and wellbeing of their mutuals and the community at large. I have no interest in witch-hunts over written content, and I believe in giving people second chances. There are people in the rpc I won't interact with, but I'm not going to list them here.

014 - TAGS

I don't need many things specifically tagged, but I would appreciate it if my writing partners would tag emetophobia/graphic descriptions or depictions of vomit. I additionally block the tag 'alba don't look'. If you need something tagged and it doesn't appear in your rules, please let me know and I will tag it.

015 - PASSWORDS & CHECKERS

I do send rules passwords and I do fill out interest checkers. I actually find it significantly easier to interact with blogs who have these systems in place. That said, if you would like to, you can send me the passphrase 'tell me a story' when you follow my blog. If I want to write with you, I'll use this as an invitation to write you a short starter. This doesn't guarantee that I'll follow back, but if I do follow back, it does guarantee an interaction.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hello! Thank you so much for taking the time to read my rules. If you're the sort of person who likes getting to know the writers behind the blogs you follow, then you're in luck. I have a more detailed page talking about myself and providing a helpful list of fandoms I'm familiar with located right HERE. If not... well, happy writing anyways!

ABOUT THE BLOG...

Hi! As you might have read previously on this blog, my name is Albatross. This blog is a huge passion project of mine, and chronicles all the lore and character I've put into my most beloved oc over the past six and a half years of my life as of writing this (Feb. 6, 2025).For those not in the know, Mark actually started out as a canon character! Keen-eyes fans might notice this in his stories and bios, but the initial character was actually taken directly from Bungou Stray Dogs, before being continuously rewritten and expanded on. My continous rewrites eventually gave way to Mark Langhorne. As such, you might see a lot of themes related to the real author Mark Twain in his profile, though I assure you this is not an attempt at rpf and I have only used his works and life as loose inspiration.

I really do mean it when I say that this muse is my pride and joy, and I believe him to showcase the best parts of my writing, both in terms of applied themes and characterization. I will absolutely never shy away from the chance to talk about him and his lore, and I wholeheartedly encourage people who are reading this to ask me questions if there's anything in their stories you're curious about.If you'd ever like to set an oc in the verse for this character, either as a person in Mark's main world or as one of the iterations of Finnegan the Storyteller/The Nameless Archivist, you're absolutely welcome to approach me about it! I'm extremely happy to share my work with the people I write with.Currently, myself and a friend of mine are working on a comic series with Mark as one of the two main characters. I'll link it here when it's done!In any case, here's some fun things about me!

ABOUT THE MUN...

NAME. Albatross! Just 'Alba' is fine if that's too much of a mouthful. In older times, you might have also known be as Paris.
BIRTHDAY. August 20th! That makes me a Leo. I'm currently exactly 21 years old.
FAVORITE GENRES. I always find this sort of question a little difficult because I don't know if there's a throughline with the things I enjoy. I like media with good and satisfying characterization first and foremost. I guess Action/Adventure is up there. On the other hand, I absolutely don't have the patience for Slice of Life.
FAVORITE MUSIC. Well, I really enjoy things like Showtunes the best. And I really, really love The Mountain Goats, and other similar-sounding artists. Oh, and The Amazing Devil as well...
FOOD PREFERENCES. I drink a lot of tea of all varieties, but I don't like ones with a fruity taste. I prefer savory things and love every form of seafood. My favorite cultural food overall is definitely Thai food, but I'm actually not that picky. Except that I really, really can't handle spice, hahaha.

PAST BLOGS. To be honest I've always been fairly notorious for blog-hopping, so I have a lot of things. Ah... My start on tumblr was a blog called vaudvillain, which was for the BNHA community. Then I moved on to hesnipe, which was actually Mark Twain from BSD. My first multimuse was 10dreamt, then storytell, then closedcoffins... More recently, I also had boundlss, drfeelgreed, passionfell, and antisatiric (which was another blog for Mark Twain from BSD, except closer to these rewrites). Circumstances pending, you can find me on recre8ed and abdicat3 with Saiyuki's Cho Hakkai and Koumyou Sanzo.PAST MUSES. In all honesty I wrote way too many characters. But here are some of the main ones you might recognize me for! The Gentle Criminal from My Hero Academia. Suehiro Tetcho from Bungou Stray Dogs. Shirogane Kei from Log Horizon. Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach from The Witcher novels. Claire Stanfield from Baccano!. Rui Kamishiro from Project Sekai. 'Rover' from Wuthering Waves. Kaedehara Kazuha from Genshin Impact. Snow Lily from Servamp. Roland Fortis from The Case Study of Vanitas. The Long Quiet from Slay the Princess. Riz Gukgak from Fantasy High. Striker and Vox from the Hellaverse. Brant from Wuthering Waves. Daniil Dankovsky from Pathologic.

FANDOMS...

Listed here are all of the fandoms I'm familiar with. I've separated them into four different categories; Favorites, familiar, passing grade, and secondhand.

FAVORITES

Refers to fandoms I am exceptionally knowledgeable about, and consider to be my current favorite properties. Things might be added to or removed from this list at my discretion.

FAMILIAR

Refers to fandoms I know a lot about, but don't actively keep up with as closely as my absolute favorites. I am familiar enough with these properties to seamlessly create crossovers.

PASSING GRADE

Refers to fandoms I have been part of, but have since stopped consuming content for and for which I am no longer familiar with their lore or current circumstances.

SECONDHAND

Refers to fandoms I have barely touched, or whose knowledge only comes to me through secondhand sources. I'll struggle the most making aus for these, as well as anything not listed here.

THE WORLD...

The universe is a creation of thought. Idle musings of everyday people have the capability of conjuring up the most fantastical worlds, which all weave together to create a sprawling and infinite tree of existence. Every world is a leaf on this tree, connected intrinsically to the rest of it but never touching another, near-impassable by the same ordinary people who created it.The world of origin from which all other worlds spawned was inhabited by a peculiar being known as Legend-Maker Finnegan. The Legend-Maker possessed the inherent power of creation by means of thought, and could conjure anything in the spaces between an inhale and an exhale. But Finnegan was the only being capable of making anything, with the inclusion of things like music and art.Frustrated, the people asked Finnegan if he might share their gift of creation with the rest of the world. Finnegan relented, though in the act of sharing their creative spark they fragmented the boundaries of the world of origin. Now, people possessed inspiration and drive to create, but their ideas and creations bled through the cracks of the world they lived in, taking life of their own in the form of other, parallel worlds.Being the origin of this creative spark, Finnegan was the only being with the capability of traversing the boundaries between these worlds, experiencing the thoughts and ideas of their friends and companions. They soon took to compiling the best of the things they'd seen to bring back and share with the inhabitants of their world.But time pressed on, and Finnegan was left behind by it. Soon all their friends had left them and their universe itself, short-lived as it was meant to be, began to decay. So Finnegan fled to another world, and begun searching for a successor; someone who cared enough about the worlds and stories being created to compile and relay them as they had. When they had found someone suitable enough, they bestowed their position and identity onto their successor, and their spirit left to reincarnate itself into a different life in a different world.

'Finnegan' became 'Finnegan the Second', which itself eventually became 'Finnegan the Third'. The disposition of each Finnegan varied greatly, though each was in some way connected to artistry or storytelling, and the traditions of the name Finnegan persisted for many generations. When one passed, their soul was allowed another chance at life away from the duties of Finnegan, within one of the infinite and random worlds beyond.It was the twenty-third Finnegan who changed things. She was not an artist but a historian, and decided there was a great need for a collection—a vast library of stories that existed outside the bounds of any one world, but used her world of origin as an 'anchor' for its own existence. She began to compile stories without telling them, amassing a sprawling space of historical records. When it was time for her own world to die off, she found a way to anchor her Archive to a new world.When it came time to choose her successor, Finnegan Twenty-Three imparted her number but not her name, considering the name Finnegan to be unnecessary to the goal of the position it inhabited. No. 24 inherited the vast archive of stories, and used his pre-existing magical ability to turn the place into a location of easy passage, through which one could more easily pass between worlds.Further successors iterated on this idea, turning away from the idea of storytelling to focus on archival and collection. Further improvements to the Archive meant that leaving it to collect stories and records of new worlds was no longer a necessity, and the job of the numbered archivists was gradually reduced to monitoring for multiversal threats and organizing the vast archive to their own preference.At present, the archivist is No. 44, and his successor a young man known as Mark Langhorne. The world the archive is anchored to is a special one indeed, as it possesses exceptionally thin boundaries between itself and the other universes. Additionally, though it has no magic of its own, beings who inhabit the world can sometimes be born close to a rift between different worlds, causing them to possess strange powers that come from different versions of themselves who inhabit the worlds beyond.The strange forty-fifth successor spends his time in dread, awaiting a day where he too will join the nameless archivists—though he's plagued with the odd feeling that this isn't how it was supposed to be.

MARK LANGHORNE, also known to some as Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens, is the forty-fifth successor of the Legend-Maker Finnegan, a line whose true purpose has been lost to time and individual desire. He inhabits a generally modern world, where a select unlucky few are born with or inherit their own powers and abilities. Mark struggles to navigate his purpose as the Archivist's chosen successor, often struggling to reconcile that position with his desire to live in the present. Though he himself has an innate love for hearing and telling stories, he regards his inherited duties with general contempt and despair, finding it the worst punishment of all to be confined to living a nameless life in the archive.Content warnings for familial abuse and religious trauma.

• ABOUT
• BIO
• VERSES
• BONDS
• RETURN

MARK LANGHORNE, also known to some as Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens, is the forty-fifth successor of the Legend-Maker Finnegan, a line whose true purpose has been lost to time and individual desire. He inhabits a generally modern world, where a select unlucky few are born with or inherit their own powers and abilities. Mark struggles to navigate his purpose as the Archivist's chosen successor, often struggling to reconcile that position with his desire to live in the present. Though he himself has an innate love for hearing and telling stories, he regards his inherited duties with general contempt and despair, finding it the worst punishment of all to be confined to living a nameless life in the archive.Content warnings for familial abuse and religious trauma.

• ABOUT
• BIO
• VERSES
• BONDS
• RETURN

BASICS.

FULL NAME. Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

AKA. Mark Langhorne is the name most people know him by. He goes by Mark Twain among his professional colleagues, and used to also answer by the name Mercury.

GENDER & PRONOUNS. Cis male. He/him pronouns.

ORIENTATION. Mark himself doesn't really care about labels, and has a complicated view on romance. For the sake of simplicity, I would label him as demi & biromantic, and extremely demisexual.

AGE. Verse-dependent, but I write him most at around the age of 26.

BIRTHDAY. November 30. Sagittarius sun, Sagittarius moon, Cancer rising.

OCCUPATION. Freelance hitman. Aspiring writer. 45th inheritor of the Archive.

HEIGHT. 5'11.

BUILD. Lean. Not overly muscular, but has the appearance of someone who is regularly active. Stronger legs than arms.

SKIN. Slightly suntanned and littered with freckles all over. On the left side of his face, scalp, and neck, his skin lacks any pigmentation and appears completely white.

HAIR. Shaggy and shoulder-length. Most of it is vibrant orange, though the parts of it that intersect with his non-pigmented skin appear the same unnatural white color.

EYES. Heterochromia. His right eye is a vibrant, light green color. His left is completely white, with his pupil and iris barely distinguishable from the sclera.

OTHER. Though none are immediately visible, under Mark's clothes are a littany of scars that were acquired in various different ways across the years. He also has his ears pierced, but doesn't often wear earrings more complicated or outstanding than simple studs.

ENNEAGRAM. 7w8 - The Opportunist.

PERSONALITY TYPE. ENFP - The Campaigner.

TEMPERAMENT. Sanguine.

MAJOR ARCANA. The Hermit, reversed. Someone onto whom solitude was forced. To him isolation is stifling, but he sees no other way to live his life.

TAROT SUIT. Wands. Despite everything, there is passion within him still.

MYTHOLOGICAL PARALLEL. Hermes, Greek God of travelers and boundaries.

ANIMAL SYMBOL. The Coyote - an American mountain-dwelling animal known mythologically for its nature as a trickster. Alternatively - Roadrunners, cats.

FLOWER SYMBOL. Cyclamen. A terrifying blend of earnest emotion and love and heartache, constantly underpinned by the necessity for a goodbye. Alternatively - Forget-me-Not. This is the flower shared between Mark and Finnegan.

Mark's disposition is that of a friendly but closed-off wanderer who inserts himself briefly into the lives and stories of the people around him. He's demonstrably cheerful and fun-loving, seeking out every thrill that crosses his path in an effort to hold onto the things he likes most about being alive. He's a surprisingly insightful individual, who has a lot to say about a lot of different topics, but he generally prefers to play the role of the fool, not liking the pressure that comes with intellectualism. Though he'd tout himself as a classic optimist, Mark is exceptionally cognizant of death and the grim reality of his fate, so his optimistic attitude comes more from nihilism than anything else.Above all else, Mark has a desire to be remembered, whether that is positive or negative. He'll take every opportunity available to ingratiate himself to those in need, but equally seeks out opportunities to make himself a nuisance and a bother if he thinks that will make more of an impact.Though he cares deeply about the wider world, he doesn't consciously consider himself a part of it, taking on the role of the 'narrator' who hears and relates the experiences of others without ever earning a story for himself. His dedication to filling this role on his own terms means that other people tend to see him as either very helpful with a tendency to intervene in situations at the right time, or very nosy with no sense of what is and isn't his business. Because of his nigh-immortal fate of remaining with this universe until its decay and end, he's reluctant to form any close connections, as he believes he won't be able to have any after taking the mantle of No. 45, and he has no way of knowing when the day he takes that name will come.

art by brbarou.

ADDITIONAL.

POSITIVE TRAITS. Easygoing, entertaining, witty, optimistic, friendly, vibrant, loyal, confident, open-minded, intelligent, kind.

NEGATIVE TRAITS. Easily distracted, selfish, overwhelming, reckless, impulsive, flighty, cagey, pushes feelings away, stubborn.

MENTAL. Shows symptoms of Severe ADHD, specifically relating to ease of distraction, time blindness, and jumping between topics of conversation. Also has some level of personal trauma that reflects in his current patterns of behavior relating to his self-worth. Evaluated for PTSD by the organization he was part of, but he scrubbed the results of the file.

PHYSICAL. In good health.

PHOBIAS. Dying alone, or at least remaining alone forever. Being forgotten. Drowning - he tends to avoid getting into large bodies of water if he can help it.

EYESIGHT. 20/20. He actually sees better than possible for a human out of his left eye.

DRUG USE. None. Despite his circumstances, Mark is generally known to be fairly clean.

ALCOHOLIC. He used to drink fairly regularly, but then there came a period of roughly 6 months where he basically spent every day emptying bottle after bottle. After being scared sober, he's been hesitant to drink ever since, and it's been around 4 years. Recently he's been considering whether he should start drinking again.

DIET. As healthy as his circumstances permit. He's not really a fan of sweets or snacks. He tends to lose track of time and forget to eat fairly often.

BIRTHPLACE. St. Petersburg, Missouri, USA.

ETHNICITY. American. As American as it gets, really.

RELIGION. Technically speaking, Irish Catholic. Of course, that was just what it started as—Mark's father founded a cult based around the 'divinely granted' abilities of his siblings. Mark tends to tell people he's an atheist, but he celebrates Christian holidays still. It goes without saying, but he doesn't really believe in God.

PARENTS. John Clemens - Father and abuser. Was killed after Mark left his home. Jane Clemens - Alive but comatose. She was hospitalized after failing to have more than 7 children.

SIBLINGS. Orion Clemens - The oldest brother who has the ability to 'vanish'. Henry Clemens - The second-oldest brother who has powers of persuasion. Benjamin Clemens - The third-oldest brother who has the power of disguise. Pleasant Clemens - The oldest sister who has enhanced regeneration, and can come back a single time after death. Pamela Clemens - The second-oldest sister who has the power to instantly kill anyone who fears her. Margaret Clemens - The youngest sister who has the power of bending luck.

PETS. Whipped Cream. A large, white, and fluffy Maine Coon cat. She's made out of a piece of Mark's soul, and her lifespan is tied to his.

CONNECTIONS. No. 44 - Benefactor and 'patron'; Mark resents him more and more with each day that passes, but he also can't help feeling sympathetic for the guy's situation.

EDUCATION. Poor. Mark didn't receive formal schooling past middle school and wasn't a great student anyway. He's taught himself almost everything he learned past that age.

LANGUAGES KNOWN. Thanks to the abilities 44 has granted him as an inheritor of the archive, Mark has an easier time memorizing and understanding languages. He currently knows English, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and ASL.

POWERS & ABILITIES.

As part of his 'bargain' with No. 44, Mark has been granted a small portion of 44's abilities to aid him in seeking out stories in preparation for his inheritance. He often refers to this power using the name 'Death of the Author'.To the untrained eye, this ability is able to bring fiction into reality. If he comes into contact using any of his senses with a story of any kind, he can activate his ability and manifest 'phantoms' from the plot of that story in the real world. The actual functions of his ability are somewhat complicated—they effectively reach through the boundary between worlds to create a perfect copy of a being from another world. Mark can also use this ability on beings from the current world he's inhabiting, so long as they are either deceased or not currently in that world, as no two versions of a being are meant to exist at the same time.The apparitions of fiction Mark summons are unable to be killed, and last for exactly as long as it takes to do the task they were summoned for. This task can be as detailed or as open-ended as Mark likes. These apparitions regard Mark as a close, personal friend, and generally treat others they'd come into contact with as indifferently as they'd treat a stranger.If Mark is faced with a story that has an 'original draft' and comes into contact with that draft or the person who conceptualized it, rather than summoning an apparition, he can bring real beings through the boundary between worlds. He tries not to use this facet of his ability, as it comes with the caveat that everyone in the 'fictional' world and the 'real' world will all completely forget about the existence of the summoned being.

MARK LANGHORNE, also known to some as Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens, is the forty-fifth successor of the Legend-Maker Finnegan, a line whose true purpose has been lost to time and individual desire. He inhabits a generally modern world, where a select unlucky few are born with or inherit their own powers and abilities. Mark struggles to navigate his purpose as the Archivist's chosen successor, often struggling to reconcile that position with his desire to live in the present. Though he himself has an innate love for hearing and telling stories, he regards his inherited duties with general contempt and despair, finding it the worst punishment of all to be confined to living a nameless life in the archive.Content warnings for familial abuse and religious trauma.

• ABOUT
• BIO
• VERSES
• BONDS
• RETURN

MARK LANGHORNE, also known to some as Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens, is the forty-fifth successor of the Legend-Maker Finnegan, a line whose true purpose has been lost to time and individual desire. He inhabits a generally modern world, where a select unlucky few are born with or inherit their own powers and abilities. Mark struggles to navigate his purpose as the Archivist's chosen successor, often struggling to reconcile that position with his desire to live in the present. Though he himself has an innate love for hearing and telling stories, he regards his inherited duties with general contempt and despair, finding it the worst punishment of all to be confined to living a nameless life in the archive.Content warnings for familial abuse and religious trauma.

• ABOUT
• BIO
• VERSES
• BONDS
• RETURN

I

STATUS: Main verse.
FANDOM: N/A.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

Set after the events outlined in the "bio" section of Mark's information. A wanderer who makes a brief appearance in the lives of the people he passes, collecting their stories to add to the vast archive of his mysterious benefactor, 44. He presents himself as a fun-loving sort of person who gets himself into all manner of danger for his own enjoyment, but the reality of the situation is somewhat bleak. Knowing he has only six more years to live as himself, Mark's travels are done in a desperate attempt to make sure people remember him, and with the contradictory desire to live set against his willingness to die rather than be forced to live without an identity & chained to the archive. A free bird who would trade his flight for the promise of a stable place to land, if only he were able.

Crosses over easily with... Most urban fantasy verses. It's also feasible for Mark to wander his way into any other universe by travelling to them via 44's archive.

II

STATUS: Past verse.
FANDOM: N/A.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

Set during the events outlined in the "bio" section of Mark's information. Takes place after Mark runs away from home, but before the collapse of the Guild. A large span of almost 13 years. Mark begins this verse as a runaway teenager who occassionally does odd jobs, street performance, and petty theft for spare change. After getting recruited by the Guild of the Sensational, he begins working with a team of misfits to protect ordinary people from the threat of rogue agents with powers. Eventually, he becomes one of the three people in the Guild who hold the most authority, keeping this position until the Guild falls apart and he chooses to leave it behind.

Crosses over easily with... Most urban fantasy verses. It's also feasible for Mark to wander his way into any other universe by travelling to them via 44's archive.

III

STATUS: Alternate canon verse.
FANDOM: N/A.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

Set after the events outlined in the "bio" section of Mark's information. In this version of events, Mark chooses to stay with Gatsby and Ishmael as they recoup and reforge the Guild into something newer and better. Taking advantage of his skills in business, Gatsby talks and cons his way back to the top of the social scene, keeping Ishmael and Mark close as his collaborators. Though they experience a rocky start as the three of them re-adjust to properly working together for the first real time since the coup, they eventually find their footing and infiltrate the world of tech enterprise, sights remaining dead-set on the first storybook.

Crosses over easily with... Most urban fantasy verses. Earth-based superhero AUs. It's also feasible for Mark to wander his way into any other universe by travelling to them via 44's archive.

IV

STATUS: Alternate canon verse.
FANDOM: N/A.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

Set after the events outlined in the "bio" section of Mark's information. Having never found a way out of the deal he made with 44, Mark inherits the role of the archivist. He loses his name and former life, becoming known only as No. 45, and taking up permanent residence in the archive. It doesn't make him happy, but he has no other choice than to wait out the destruction of his universe by surveying the other worlds for a suitable successor to become No. 46. That said, he's a generally disobedient soul who doesn't walways constrain himself to the bounds of the archive, indulging himself in some ventures in the outside world when he has the time.

Crosses over easily with... Anything. The Archive exists outside of time and space at a point in between every universe, so he can go anywhere at any time.

V

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: Baccano!
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

Set during the 1930's timeline in Baccano! canon. Mark Langhorne is a peculiar complete immortal who obtained his immortality from an elusive homunculus. Having been properly made immortal in 1876, Mark travels the country in search of something that will make him feel alive again, as he'd lost a certain spark of humanity a short while after becoming immortal. Alongside his cat, who seems to also be immortal, Mark boarded the Flying Pussyfoot from Chicago to New York at the tail end of 1931 as a freelance hitman and white-suited passenger in the entourage of Ladd Russo. After surviving an encounter with the Rail Tracer after he was correctly identified to only be travelling with the group because he desperately wanted to feel like he was in danger, Mark arrived in New York and found himself trying to make friends with the Gandor family's youngest head, Luck Gandor. He'd been carrying out his work as an anonymous hitman fairly well, but has recently been considering asking to join the Gandor family for protection after the threat of an identity leak.

Crosses over easily with... Historical settings (1870s-1940s), specifically involving organized crime in America.

VI

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: Saiyuki.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

A trainee to inherit the Uten Sutra. As a runaway teenager escaping a violent and abusive home, he was picked up by a travelling Sanzo priest who took him back to the monastery after sensing great spiritual potential within him. Though he excelled in matters of using spells and controlling his spiritual energy, Mark was a generally lazy student who had a tendency of tricking his classmates and colleagues into doing tedious jobs for him. His charisma and spiritual power kept him close to the top of the rankings to eventually inherit the Uten.When their master failed to return nearly three years after taking some time to travel to a nearby desert, Mark disobeyed the order from the more senior students to stay put and await him, having grown bored of the useless routine and becoming increasingly skeptical that their master was even still alive. He began to retrace the steps his teacher had taken, finding out he'd met his untimely end in the desert and the scripture had been stolen by the Youkai behind the mind-controlling Minus Wave.

Crosses over easily with... Nothing, really.

VII

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: Wuthering Waves.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

A mutant aero resonator from the New Federation who now works for the Black Shores. Although in theory he has the position of a consultant, in practice Mark's job is twofold, thanks to his unique resonance ability that allows him to manifest the frequencies of people who made stories and personal accounts. Because of this, Mark takes on the role of a travelling historian who collects specific accounts related to resonators and the Lament, focusing on the ordinary experiences of individual people who died in those life-altering events in a smaller-scale and slower but generally less unpredictable way than the Tethys System.

Crosses over easily with... Nothing, really.

VIII

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: The Witcher.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

A doppler who once made friends with a young boy called Samuel Clemens. Though mistreatment from his family eventually led to Samuel's death when he was a relatively young adult, the doppler took on his appearance in his memory, adopting the name Mark Langhorne and living his life as a human. After spending such a long time in Samuel's form, he's developed a complete aversion to shapeshifting, though a series of generally bothersome antics on his part for a bit of light fun had led some aggrieved officials to investigate him further, upon which his true nature was discovered. After leaving the place he'd settled in, Mark continued to stay in his chosen form, though took to traveling the less-traveled roads in a bid to stay out of trouble.

Crosses over easily with... Most high-fantasy settings.

IX

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: Log Horizon.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

A youtuber who entered the world of his favorite game. Mark Langhorne made his living from a popular Youtube channel focusing on the MMORPG Elder Tale. On the American servers, he was undoubtedly the most popular player, belonging to a Guild populated by high-level raid sweats who tended to fixate themselves on speedrunning every last bit of new content before anyone else could reach it. After the Catastrophe, Mark's guild "The Book Club" grew even further in reputation after they quelled the food riots and quashed the influence of the Guild who had incited them, "The Family". He and his guildmates then set their sights on the Japan Server, having heard tell that they were the only players in the world to have recieved the Novasphere Pioneers update for the game.Stats-wise, Mark is a level 90 Fox-tail Bard-Scribe.

Crosses over easily with... Other Isekai verses, maybe. Also general pro-gaming or online content creator verses, prior to the "isekai" element of the plot.

X

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: Homebrew D&D - Ethalda.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

Set in the homebrewed world of a friend's D&D campaign. A traveller whose past is shrouded in uncertainty and who once made a pact with an entity beyond the world he inhabited in a bid to escape an early death. He is now tasked with collecting stories to "feed" his otherworldly patron, and travels the world in search of lost and abandoned personal accounts. There's no place his journeys can't take him, or so he says. Currently, he's roaming the vast deserts of Peshykor.

Crosses over easily with... Most high-fantasy settings. D&D in general.

XI

STATUS: Alternate noncanon verse.
FANDOM: N/A.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

A verse set in a nondescript high-fantasy setting. Mark Langhorne is a travelling spellcaster who uses stories as a method for casting spells, and though he can play music and perform verse just fine he considers himself more of a strict storyteller than a bard. He tends to make an outsider of himself by never sticking to one place for very long, though the impressions he leaves are usually good in the eyes of the common people. His collection of stories seems to be at the behest of someone more powerful than him who demands it, but he does his best to avoid complaining about his circumstances. Often, he'll take jobs helping to escort traveling groups when he's not making enough money from his oral storytelling.

Crosses over easily with... Most high-fantasy settings.

XII

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: The Owl House.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

A strange witch who spends most of his time sequestered away in the Bonesborough Library. Due to the time he's spent in the place, he's an expert on the unique magic that occasionally causes its books to come to life, and as such can apply that property even outside of the regular time, and to any book he comes into contact with. His unique magic was eventually discovered to be a long-forgotten subset of bardic magic, and after recieving routine harassment for his status as a wild witch, he joined the Bard Coven, though he largely keeps himself out of any actual coven business.

Crosses over easily with... Nothing, really.

XIII

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: Rain World.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

An iterator by the name of Diverging Waymarkers [DW]. For an iterator, his position is fairly unique, as he was built inside the large skeleton of the first failed attempt at creating an iterator, prior to the incorporation of biological elements that eventually led iterators to 'live' and flourish. While DW himself is a new iterator who operates with high efficiency, the layout of his superstructure is unusually outdated for this reason. He was as dedicated as the rest of his kind to achieving a Triple Affirmative when the Ancients were alive, but this seems to have taken a backseat to his new pursuit of finding fun and meaning in a world where there is nobody left to benefit from that impossible answer.

Crosses over easily with... Sci-fi verses involving space travel, potentially.

XIV

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: Red vs. Blue.
AVAILABILITY: Open for all interactions.

A member of Project Freelancer. Mark Langhorne, otherwise known as Agent Missouri, was brought into the program after being taken into custody by local authority after being caught in an unlucky failed contract killing. He was told he could either join the program or be imprisoned for his crimes, so he relented to recieve Freelancer training on account of his high levels of skill and survivability. That said, he generally didn't play along with the hypercompetitive working environment, sticking consistently just below the Top 15 Freelancers in the rankings—effective enough to remain a worthwhile member, but lacking just enough prestige to recieve much special attention. During the project's collapse, he took advantage of the chaos to completely disappear, leaving behind that part of his life but keeping his old gear after he damaged the component that had the ability to track him.

Crosses over easily with... Sci-fi verses, especially if they're based around humanity.

XV

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: Moriarty the Patriot.
AVAILABILITY: Selectively written.

Someone who stowed away on a cargo ship to England as a child. Having escaped his family, Mark Langhorne began a career of petty thievery as a teenager. It ended rather abruptly after he attempted to pick the pocket of Mycroft Holmes, who ended up taking him in out of some strange mix of pity and interest. He spent the remainder of his teenage years learning combat and practical skills under Mycroft, and was eventually allowed to join MI6 after it was taken over by Louis James Moriarty.

Crosses over easily with... Historical verses in Victorian or Edwardian England.

XVI

STATUS: Crossover verse.
FANDOM: The Case Study of Vanitas.
AVAILABILITY: Selectively written.

The biggest disappointment of higher Vampiric society. As the second-youngest of seven in a well-known family in Altus, Sam Clemens constantly disappointed his siblings and parents with his general unsuitedness for high society, and was informally cast out of his family by the time he reached his teenage years. As a result of poor study, his World Formula Manipulation relating to light and darkness is generally not very powerful, but he seems content to freely wander the world rather than being trapped into the political machinations of his family.

Crosses over easily with... Nothing, really.

XVII

STATUS: Alternate noncanon verse.
FANDOM: N/A.
AVAILABILITY: Selectively written.

A world without the existence of magic, powers, or the supernatural. Mark ran away from his family as a preteen, living life on the run for a while before the authorities lost interest in him. He picked up street performance as a means of survival, teaching himself how to play the acoustic guitar for pocket change. During this time, he also picked up the hobby of freelance writing using the computers at his local libraries, eventually gaining a steady income by routinely writing articles for various local papers in the cities he stopped in. Eventually, he could afford the rent for a small, out-of-the-way apartment in a relatively large city, and managed to find himself a reliable job working for a local newspaper while trying to write his own books and perform music on the side.

Crosses over easily with... Any modern verse with very little or no magic. Urban fantasy verses work too, but he wouldn't be aware of the supernatural.

MARK LANGHORNE, also known to some as Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens, is the forty-fifth successor of the Legend-Maker Finnegan, a line whose true purpose has been lost to time and individual desire. He inhabits a generally modern world, where a select unlucky few are born with or inherit their own powers and abilities. Mark struggles to navigate his purpose as the Archivist's chosen successor, often struggling to reconcile that position with his desire to live in the present. Though he himself has an innate love for hearing and telling stories, he regards his inherited duties with general contempt and despair, finding it the worst punishment of all to be confined to living a nameless life in the archive.Content warnings for familial abuse and religious trauma.

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NAME: Tenma Tsukasa.
BLOG: starwonderz.
STATUS: Main.
An unfortunate soul that Mark ended up rescuing from being taken advantage of by people who were using his labor for their own ends. He sees a lot of himself in Tsukasa, but their differences tend to put them at odds more often than not.

NAME: Tba.
BLOG: Tba.
STATUS (BOND, AFFILIATE, MAIN, EXCLUSIVE): Tba.
Short blurb about relationship here.

NAME: Tba.
BLOG: Tba.
STATUS (BOND, AFFILIATE, MAIN, EXCLUSIVE): Tba.
Short blurb about relationship here.

NAME: Tba.
BLOG: Tba.
STATUS (BOND, AFFILIATE, MAIN, EXCLUSIVE): Tba.
Short blurb about relationship here.

NAME: Tba.
BLOG: Tba.
STATUS (BOND, AFFILIATE, MAIN, EXCLUSIVE): Tba.
Short blurb about relationship here.

NAME: Tba.
BLOG: Tba.
STATUS (BOND, AFFILIATE, MAIN, EXCLUSIVE): Tba.
Short blurb about relationship here.

NUMBER 44.

The current Archivist who brought Mark under his wing as his next inheritor. Though he's also from the line of the Legend-Maker Finnegan, he's one of many who doesn't remember the original purpose behind its existence. He and Mark share a complicated relationship. They have amicable conversations from time to time, but it's clear Mark feels a lot of lingering resentment from the way they met and the fact that he never got a choice to refuse the offer 44 gave him.

ORION CLEMENS.

Mark's oldest brother. He looked up to Orion the most out of anyone as a child for being so seemingly well-adjusted and well-liked by the rest of the town. That said, he never found out Orion saved him from his father's murder attempt and so grew to resent him for his inaction. After Mark ran away, Orion attempted to follow in his footsteps, but only caught up with him after the collapse of the Guild during a side-story set in Las Vegas. He's still not thrilled with Orion.

BEN CLEMENS.

Mark's third oldest brother. Benjamin often helped him out when most other siblings wouldn't, so he has positive feelings towards this particular brother. Benjamin ended up becoming part of a modern Mafia family operating out of Las Vegas, and the two of them share an amicable reunion during a side-story set there. Currently, Mark has his contact information, but he usually can't bring himself to reach out, since he knows he'll be gone soon.

PAMELA CLEMENS.

Mark's second oldest sister. He and Pamela tended to leave eachother alone out of mutual, misguided fear. Pamela's ability to kill things that feared her was always a point of deep anxiety for Mark due to the increasingly violent outbursts his father kept having directed at him. Unbeknownst to both of them, Pamela was part of the group that ended the Guild, a radical organization that wished for those with powers to use them freely. Mark doesn't think about her often, nowadays.

ISHMAEL.

The recruiter who brought Mark into the Guild of the Sensational. Though they were in two different halves, Ishmael kept in close contact with Mark, serving as something like a mentor to him. After the events of the coup against the nameless leader, Mark considered him the only real and viable choice for the leader's replacement, and the two of them got to work much more closely alongside eachother. Though he chose not to remain with the Guild, he cares very deeply about Ishmael.

SANTIAGO.

Mark's deceased former teammate, and the de facto leader of their motley crew. Mark considered him to be a very close friend, and he was one of the only people who could get Mark to behave and take things seriously. More than anyone else's, it was his death that really made Mark lose all hope, because he considered Santiago to be a beacon of strength and resilience in the face of his poor situation. He was the one to eventually make a grave for Santiago and the rest.

EMILY DICKINSON.

Mark's deceased former teammate. She had a reserved sort of personality that often served as a complement to Mark's outgoing natrure. The two of them got along very well and often paired up for solitary activities like hiking or camping when they had the time and allowance to do so. Mark considered her to be the best physical fighter in the team, and when she died he was the one to make a grave for her and the rest of the dead Guild members.

JOHN CLEMENS.

Mark's father. The man is long-dead by now, but his words and teachings still influence the way Mark sees and interacts with the wider world at large. The religious cult he started still has some significant activity in the southern united states, and Mark was unknowingly made a martyr by them after his presumed death. It goes without saying that he hates his father—but it's often difficult not to feel like his father was right about him being 'nothing'.

HENRY CLEMENS.

Mark's second oldest brother. Aside from his father, Henry was often his biggest tormentor. From a future perspective, he's come to realize Henry disliked the way he'd show weakness and how often he'd get everyone else into trouble with him, but his actions from back then remain inexcusable to Mark. Unbeknownst to Mark or his other siblings, Henry is currently a lone vigilante in the South who kills the remaining members of the Blessed Children's Church.

"SAINT" CLEMENS.

Mark's oldest sister Pleasant, often referred to jokingly as "Saint" or "Saint Pleasant" because of her personality. She was technically killed during an attack by John's cult, but her power brought her back to life several days after the rest of her siblings had left the area. She's part of a small group of misfits in Chicago now, and neither she nor Mark knows the other one is alive. Though she likes her life, she misses her siblings, and Mark misses her the most out of anyone.

MAGGIE CLEMENS.

Mark's only younger sister, Margaret. The two of them were generally very close as children. Maggie went on to become a somewhat famous gambler in Las Vegas who moonlights as a serial killer for her own enjoyment. The two of them reconnected during a side-story set in the city. Mark has her contact information, but hasn't reached out because of his unfortunate circumstances. She often tries to reach him, but he's not really the most responsive even though he misses her.

JAY GATSBY.

A man who's been his colleague for a very long time. The two of them rarely saw eye to eye and bickered constantly, but it was ultimately Gatsby who saved Mark from his own self-pity and got him on his feet again after the deaths of his friends. Mark ultimately chose to leave the Guild behind, but he remains in contact with Gatsby and only Gatsby, having promised that if there's ever a dire need of his services, he'll repay the debt he owes and come help.

RED DORAKEEN.

Mark's former teammate who could travel through time. Red was a shrewd and somewhat manipulative sort of person, who preferred the cowardly option nine times out of ten. The reason Mark continued to stay with the Guild after its major loss was because he didn't want to be like Red and run away from a group of people who needed his help. Mark wagers that he's probably still alive out there somewhere, but he has no interest in seeing Red again.

STEPHEN CRANE.

Mark's deceased former teammate. Stephen was a lively and fired-up sort of person who never backed down from competition. He was Mark's constant partner in karaoke and bar hopping, and the two of them were often grouped together during field work. They were the only people to recognize that the other wasn't stupid, and Mark wholly misses the way Stephen was able to see through his mask. Mark was the one who eventually made a grave for Stephen and the rest.

MARK LANGHORNE, also known to some as Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens, is the forty-fifth successor of the Legend-Maker Finnegan, a line whose true purpose has been lost to time and individual desire. He inhabits a generally modern world, where a select unlucky few are born with or inherit their own powers and abilities. Mark struggles to navigate his purpose as the Archivist's chosen successor, often struggling to reconcile that position with his desire to live in the present. Though he himself has an innate love for hearing and telling stories, he regards his inherited duties with general contempt and despair, finding it the worst punishment of all to be confined to living a nameless life in the archive.Content warnings for familial abuse and religious trauma.

• ABOUT
• BIO
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• BONDS
• RETURN

BASICS.

FULL NAME. Eli Lampton.

AKA. No. 44. The 44th Archivist with no name.

GENDER & PRONOUNS. Trans male. He/him pronouns.

ORIENTATION. Aromantic and asexual, though he's not above complex emotional connections. He has a very detached way of experiencing things like love and care in general, though.

AGE. Ageless. Appears to be an adult in his early 30's.

BIRTHDAY. Unknown. Along with his name, 44 sacrificed most of his personal identifying details to become the Archivist.

OCCUPATION. Caretaker of the interdimensional archive. He oversees its organization and function.

HEIGHT. 6'0.

BUILD. Lean. Thin, to the point of appearing gaunt and malnourished.

SKIN. Completely white, as though viewing an already pale person through a monochromatic lens. Under intense light it is possible to see the veins and bones beneath his skin clearly.

HAIR. Cut short and styled away from his face. It's the same white as his skin, so it blends in a little too well.

EYES. Completely white, with the outlines of his irises barely visible. He wears glasses, though he doesn't technically need them anymore - a remnant of past times before he was the Archivist.

OTHER. 44 bears almost no identifying features. Any tattoos or scars he might have had were erased with his Becoming - the traits of the Archivist overwrote his physical appearance quite fully. Just about every area of his person is smooth and completely lacking color.

ENNEAGRAM. 1 - The Reformer.

PERSONALITY TYPE. ISTJ - The Logistician.

TEMPERAMENT. Melancholic.

MAJOR ARCANA. The Hierophant. Tradition and rigidity. The rule of the law. A teacher who imparts his wisdom onto others, even when unasked.

TAROT SUIT. Pentacles. The material result matters more than the emotion tied to it.

MYTHOLOGICAL PARALLEL. Thoth, the Moon God tied to writing; the scribe of the Gods.

ANIMAL SYMBOL. The Owl - A bird of prey associated with wisdom and solitude.

FLOWER SYMBOL. Milkwort. The symbol of a hermitage. 44 is, after all, far more isolated than the hermit whose powers he supplied. Alternatively, Boxwood - firm, stoic, and consistent.