Marcel

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**Marcel** was a French soldier who fought alongside his best friend Sebastien Valet in the army during the Seven Years' War; he was also a good friend to Marie-Jeanne Valet given her warm welcome towards him after he and Sebastien returned from what is now Montreal, Canada. Despite his appearance of being a noble soldier fighting for his country, Marcel was an accomplice in Sebastien's murder spree, helping his friend cover his tracks with no moral qualms about the innocent lives that were lost. Sebastien was, in fact, the infamous Beast of Gevaudan, a monstrous nigh-unstoppable Werewolf. When Marie-Jeanne accepted the request to lead the hunting party pursuing the Beast, she maintained her skepticism about the Beast being supernatural, reminding them that she had hunted everything under the sun. However, Marcel ominously retorted, "But not the moon," which was a subtle hint as to what the Beast truly was—a demonic Werewolf.

After finally discovering for herself that the creature she was hunting was a Werewolf and learning their weaknesses from Henri Argent, Marie-Jeanne hoped to expose the Beast's human form by spiking their drinks with mistletoe berries, an herb known to be toxic to lycanthropes. Unfortunately, Marcel quickly figured out what she was up to and shattered his glass in his hand as a distraction so that no one was paying attention to Sebastien, who was beginning to involuntarily transform, while also warning him of the scheme. Marie-Jeanne took Marcel outside to tend to his cut hand, and realizing Sebastien was about to be made, Marcel informed her that she could "find what she was looking for" in his cellar when she asked if he had any bandages for his hand.

Using the key Marcel gave her, Marie-Jeanne went into the cellar and was horrified to find dozens of bodies of townspeople who had been slaughtered by the Beast and hidden there to downplay the number of deaths he had caused. When she returned, she aimed her crossbow at Marcel's throat, but was surprised when Marcel begged her to fire the arrow and release him, suggesting he may have had some regret about the murders in which he was complicit. Just then, Marie-Jeanne noticed that his hand was still bleeding, and, knowing that a Werewolf would have healed by now, Marie-Jeanne came to the realization that Marcel wasn't the Beast—he was covering for him, and the only person Marcel would do that for is her brother, Sebastien Valet.

It is unknown what Marcel did after Sebastien fled Gévaudan, France, as to whether he followed after Sebastien or stayed behind. What is known, however, is what happened after the Beast was defeated in 1767.

## Creation of the Dread Doctors

After Sebastien's death at the hands of his sister, Marcel somehow managed to get the Pike that was used to kill his friend and had it melted down into a cane. At some point and through years of studying and experimentations with the electromagnetic forces, Marcel had transformed himself into something inhuman and unnatural, becoming an aberration of nature and super-humanly powerful. Marcel had created items with unusual abilities and recruited two more to his cause, which was to resurrect who he considered the greatest killer in history, The Beast of Gevaudan.

The Dread Doctors had been created and they become a mysterious force that seemingly appeared in and out of reality due to their unnatural abilities. To keep themselves alive, Marcel and his subordinates used some sort of green serum, made even more potent after it was exposed to the blood of a captured Alpha Löwenmensch known as *Der Soldat.*

After years of trial and error, Marcel, now known only as "The Surgeon" created more unnatural hybrid creatures known as Chimeras, the first candidate being Theo Raeken who he initially saw as a promising subject due to the latter's sociopathic tendencies. Theo however, was a failure but was still useful enough to be kept around by the doctors. Marcel sought to use a genetic chimera as a physical template and a host for the spirit of his old friend.

Marcel was eventually successful in resurrecting Sebastien out of Mason Hewitt but his friend struggled to remember himself. When Mason transformed into the Beast for the last time, now being taken over by Sebastien who now remembers who he is and slaughters two of the Dread Doctors and mortally wounds the Surgeon, not realizing it was his friend. The wounded Marcel is taken to Alan Deaton's clinic but regains consciousness and escapes when he hears Sebastien nearby.

Sebastien removed his helmet and was shocked to see his old friend. He seemed somewhat touched by the lengths Marcel had gone to resurrect him; however, he told Marcel that his form of immortality was not desirable due to the latter's deformity and his body barely been held together. Marcel told Sebastien where the pike was before succumbing to his wounds and dying.

## Personality

Marcel was a bit of an enigmatic character who mainly worked behind-the-scenes and who did not attract too much attention, instead content to act more as a mentor than a prodigy. Above all else, however, Marcel was a very loyal comrade who was already best friends with Sebastien Valet even before he inadvertently drank rainwater from a wolf's pawprint and became what he called the "Demon Wolf."

His true feelings about Sebastien and his actions seemed to be conflicted; on the one hand, he was seen urging Sebastien to show restraint when it came to killing Colette in her home while they were at war, and when Marie-Jeanne figured out that Marcel was involved with the Beast, he begged her to shoot him and "release him," suggesting he at least felt some remorse for his complicity in the Beast's killings.

On the other hand, Marcel and the other Dread Doctors believed the Beast to be the world's greatest killer and spent centuries trying to resurrect him by creating potential Chimera hosts for his spirit, and he did not seem to have any problem with turning teenagers into hybrid creatures against their will and killing the Chimeras when they were proven to be failures. Marcel's main goal was to see Sebastien reborn, and he died happily knowing that his mission was ultimately successful, though the Beast's return was only for a short time before he was defeated once again.

## Appearances

* *Creatures of the Night*
* *Parasomnia*
* *Dreamcatchers*
* *Condition Terminal*
* *A Novel Approach*
* *Required Reading*
* *Strange Frequencies*
* *Ouroboros*
* *Lies of Omission*
* *Status Asthmaticus*
* *The Last Chimera*
* *Codominance*
* *The Sword and the Spirit*
* *Maid of Gévaudan* (flashback)
* *The Beast of Beacon Hills*
* *Apotheosis*

## Trivia

* Marcel is the first known person to attain extraordinary power by unnatural means as well being able create many more aberrations known as the Chimeras.
* Marcel is the third antagonist not defeated by any of the protagonists; the first was Kate Argent, who was seemingly killed by Peter Hale in Season 1's *Code Breaker*, and the second was Kali, who was killed by Jennifer Blake in Season 3's *Lunar Ellipse*.
* Marcel is one of several LGBT+ characters in the Teen Wolf series, including Sebastien Valet, Danny Mahealani, Caitlin, Emily, Mason Hewitt, Corey and Brett Talbot.

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