Marco Caldeira

**Marco Caldeira** is one of the main protagonists of Project Melody. He is a mage with the power of Aerokinesis. He is one of the five main playable protagonists and is the third person Tomoya, Vivian, and Miles meet in the main story.

## Summary

Marco is an Aerokinetic mage. He wields the ability to control, shape, create, and manipulate air and wind. He can use the earth's air and the force of wind as his own control for various reasons such as for combat, defensive tactics, and leisurely purposes. Marco is a Brazilian-American man at only 22 years old, he currently resides at his own home in Leiria, nearby a section of the Mora Mountain Range. His home resembles one of the many ordinary homes in his neighborhood and area, but he has a wide backyard dedicated to the farm he has cultivated, along with a greenhouse under construction. He lives a quiet life, and had gone on frequent episodes of isolation before, but he would always be available to come into contact with those he is close to, such as his one exception being his family as he often visits his old home. Marco had initially lived a much more different life than the one that is focused on upon during the events of the game's story, while for a couple of months to almost a year, he was living a reclusive relaxing lifestyle, but before then he was living a life full of publicity and emotions of ecstacy run amok.

His connections to multiple noticeable figures who are involved within the underbellies of society, which led him to getting to know Robin Florenino, the White Hornets, and Derek Yoon. His recommendation to become a part of the White Hornets was a personal recommendation from Damien Alameda, who had previous history with Marco during the years where his former self had flourished. He becomes the fifth and final person to join Tomoya's main friend group, he willingly decides to take upon the position and become involved within the organization. As he partakes in numerous missions ranging from small scale to large scale, he starts to form a true friendship with the other four in the group, a major moment for Marco as for the first time in years, he is a part of a group consisting of genuine friends again. One of the personalized homes dedicated for Marco is a small home in Tenshi Valley, nearby the forest.

## Appearance

Rachel has red hair and brown eyes. He has front-brushed hair that is swept to the left. His hair seems messy at first, but it's actually well kept and brushed, he just has thick hair.

His favorite casual outfit consists of a t-shirt, blue jeans, and a pair of white and black Nike Cortez sneakers. His swimwear consists of brown swim trunks and a pair of Nike slides when he's somewhere such as the beach, or just as loungewear. His formalwear is a usual tuxedo that any man of any age would wear. His sleepwear consists of dark green pajama pants, and is mostly the clothes he wears when alone at home or with company he is very comfortable with such as his best friends.

## Trivia

* He can speak and understand a good amount of Portuguese. He mostly speaks the language when at a Brazilian/Portuguese marketplace, shop, or restaurant, and with his grandparents as his parents are the first generation immigrant American children so they naturally know English.
* His experience with psychedelics such as psilocybin mushrooms came after he had become burnt out and exited the life he was living before. He had known about what the substance offers to the user, as well as the experiences of users such as their ideas on existence, the universe, and consciousness itself. It is revealed later that he grows his own psilocybin mushrooms in his backyard.
* He has relatives who currently live in São Alfonso, Brazil.