Marcus/Abilities

Marcus is a very defective Queen, by Vex standards. He was made as an experiment by the Mother Vex and was never really meant to actually start his own hive.

Physically he is an abysmally weak Hive Queen. Most Vex Queens are huge for the purpose of better laying eggs, and wouldn't even blink after laying an oversize Destroyer egg that basically makes Marcus beg for the sweet release of Death. Mentally though, Marcus *is* exceptional, even for a Hive Queen. His will is strong enough to impress even his Mother.

## Vex Abilities

* Low Light Vision - things appears in black and white in such conditions  **Ch 2**
* Regeneration - he not only regenerated the damaged chitin on his leg after a Nightwolf bit him he also recovers quickly from birthing his drones **Ch 10**
	+ this regeneration is strong enough to regrow a lost limb but this would take a few weeks.
* Poison immunity/resistance - he has no issue consuming poisonous substances namely poisonous creatures **Ch 12**
* Genetic Analysis - he is able to understand the genetic makeup of any creatures he consumes including consuming blood samples and use that information to create new drones **Ch 5**
* Drone production - after overeating he can create Drones by laying eggs that hatch whatever drone he has designed **Ch 12**
* Expanded Awareness - he can sense the things his drones are experiencing although pain is muted. **Ch 17**
* Parallel Thought - he can think of multiples things at once exemplified mostly in his control of various different drones simultaneously **Ch 60**
* Prehensile tail **Ch 66**
* Despite an average build, his muscles are a tad stronger than human ones allowing him to perform better than would be expected of someone of his size demonstrated so far in greater endurance during Hoggs drills. **Ch 80**
* Can hold his breath underwater for a surprisingly long time. **Ch 81**
* Potentially as a result of his mental powers Marcus seems to be able to listen in on Twinstone communications. **Ch 40**

## Aura

### Strength

Marcus' aura is incredibly strong comparable to a Rok Tyrant or even a Dragon (**Ch 56**). As his Hive grows his own presence became so overwhelming that just getting near Bretthollz spooked all the animals in the city and made most people uncomfortable (**Ch 78**). Blueskin described Marcus' aura being able to be felt clearly despite being very far away from him but so strong that he could easily perceive it nonetheless. Not even the dragon's aura had been quite as powerful, and the Oni wondered what manner of creature it could belong to (**Ch 113**).

It'd take the lost of a great part of the hive for any Aura loss to occur (at least half of the overall hive, Mold-Wax included) and even then his own personal aura (indipendant from his drones) permanently increases with the size of his Hive. Currently if he was to lose all of his Hive, he'd still have a much, much stronger Aura compared to when he started.

### Range

After about some distance the drone signal gets progressively weaker, until Marcus can hardly feel it at all (**Ch 14**). After that, the drones will just keep doing what he had last ordered them to do.

As the Hive has grown the range has increased to

* 10 kilometres **Ch 14**
* 30 kilometres **Ch 78**
* 35 kilometres **Ch 134**

The range of his control seems to be directly related to the power of his telepathy (**Ch 123**).

### Telepathy

His aura is linked to the size of his Hive and it is likely how he controls them similar to telepathic spells but of a higher magnitude. It is so strong it is complete dominance, and something more akin to possession. His telepathic powers are not limited to just his minions. He makes a telepathic link with anyone in his vicinity. Though this link is far weaker than the ones he has with his minions, it's still clearly present. For now he seems to create it unconsciously and appears to be using it to better communicate with others as his understanding of Hoggs was compromised when he blocked off Marcus' aura. **Ch 56**

He has become unable, despite his training from Hoggs, to silence the presence of people around him (**Ch 78**) but has also picked up some of their surface thoughts as well as having gained the ability to transmit his feelings to others although he has so far done this unconsciously.

Marcus used his aura to mentally dominate Tiny (**Ch 116**). He remained connected to his drones, and in fact he drew power from them and used it to free her from Blue's influence and ever trying to kill him and others again. This is why the ogress (and Blue's parasite controlling) were so helpless: they weren't technically attacked by just Marcus, they were attacked by the *whole hive*. And this is also why the drones froze: when Marcus drew power from the hivemind, they received the order to help their Queen through their processing power, and the priority of that order was so high they dropped everything else they were doing.

Before he could only sense emotions and the occasional surface thought, now he actually *heard* people thinking as clearly as if they were talking out loud, which made being near a crowd something akin to torture for him. Worse still, his own thoughts and emotions were also broadcasted louder than ever before. **Ch 123**

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