Editing Chance (Dark Champions - New Venice) (section)

=Background=

Born Marcus Shelby to a rather unremarkable couple in London's East End.  His parents simply were not particularly remarkable or note worthy in anyway, which made them some of the best thieves in London's history.  They managed a number of rather brilliant robberies that to this day have not been discovered and managed to retire without being caught despite it all.  They lived modestly but comfortably on a fraction of their stolen funds, and raised Marcus along with his five siblings well in their own way.   Their children took to these lessons like fish to water, though each with their own style to it.   Marcus was the youngest boy and his twin sister Kathryn were something special indeed, as both of them were quite good looking and charming from an early age.  And under their parents careful guidance they learned to cultivate that as a key to open so many doors.  

As both a family and a crew they operated like a well old machine, but when his parents retired in full the siblings all went their own ways in the world.  Marcus had always had a grand streak of the Robin Hood (from whom the Shelby's privately claimed ancestry) in him and that kept him working with a far higher profile than his siblings, which is one of the major reasons that he stays out of Britain to this day.