Markham Connor

[Tythanin*]

Name: Markham Connor
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Grade: 12th
School: Bayview Secondary School
Hobbies and Interests: Psychology, hiking, bowling, and music.

Appearance: Markham Connor was raised with the principle of looking good and holding yourself with dignity. As such, he usually never wears loose T-shirts and ragged, baggy jeans or anything of the sort. Instead, he's seen with a collared polo shirt and beige pants. His basic outfit doesn't change all that much, even in colors. He has corn-colored blond hair that's combed well and he wears a pair of thin-rimmed glasses over his deep, chocolate brown eyes.

He's fairly fit for his age and while he doesn't show much in the way of muscle, by no means does he look overweight or flabby. He has a roundish face that's usually set in a set, calm expression and he doesn't expression emotion all that much except for a curving of the lips or a little twinkling in his eyes. When on his free time, you can see him holding a book on psychology and listening to some music in a nice, secluded spot.

Biography: Markham was born in a family of fairly famous psychologists. His grandfather had been a professor at UCLA and did heavy research in the areas of adolescent psychology. His father is currently a psychology professor at Macalester College while his mother is currently researching native tribes in Africa. It was at the age of six when his mother left for Africa to begin her research and while she still says there are more things she needs to do, she visits the family once every month if she's able. Because of this, while his parents are separated by a huge distance, Markham was able to live his life without missing too much of the typical parental activities. His father was an excellent parent and spent much time with young Markham on all sorts of activities. Whether it was hiking in the weekend or a bowling trip after his father's classes had finished, the two of them spent as much time as possible and formed an unbreakable bond.

Unsurprisingly, as he grew up, Markham became interested in the workings of the human mind. During his first year of high school, he took a beginner's psychology course and aced it with flying colors (thanks to some help from his father on some of the harder parts). He continued in this fashion and even joined the Debate Club in order to get other people's views on various subjects. He considers a person's reaction to be the most revealing about a person and isn't afraid to state his own opinions about various controversial issues.

He has various other interests besides psychology and debate. While it started with his father, he's grown to enjoy going out hiking and often takes his bike to a nearby trail to spend an hour or two. He's also a fairly good bowler although he attributes that more to luck than any actual skill. He enjoys rock music as well.

He's not a particularly social person and does not wear his emotions on his sleeves. He does have a few friends that he enjoys hanging out with but beyond that, he doesn't try to make an effort to make more. What he's mostly interested in is getting into a good college (most likely Macalester) so that he can get his psychology degree. His favorite areas have to be in the areas of criminology and personality theory.

In other categories he shuffles between good and above average. While he's smart enough to understand the materials and work on the problems and do the quizzes and tests, he doesn't put nearly as much effort into them as he does in his main interests, which causes his grades to dip in the other subjects. As to how other students see him, he could be considered stuck up or just stand-offish since he doesn't talk to others all that often and pays attention to his own business instead of prying in others.

Advantages: Markham, while not genius smart or super smart, is smart. He's very analytical and thanks to his psychology studies, he believes he has a good insight onto the human mind. Whether or not the theories he reads in books will be good when put into practice has yet to be seen, however. Also, thanks to his hiking and other physical activities, he's fairly athletic.

Disadvantages: He isn't much of a talker and won't actively search out people to ally with. He's also overconfident in his abilities to analyze the human mind and usually won't change his mind about his initial assumptions about a person until proven wrong.