Marcus Carter

### Tattoos

Four tattoos; one on each shoulder, one on his right breast, and one across his entire back

## OOC Info

### Status

Active

**Marcus Carter** is a former GUARDIAN operative, former Eclipse mercenary and a member of the Council Recovery Corps. He is known for founding Prodigal Dynamics and also serves as a field sergeant in the Knifehawks.

## Biography

Marcus’ mother was a victim in a shuttle crash a few months after he had been conceived, and the eezo core of the shuttle overloaded, which caused Element Zero to flood the area the his mother was in. His mother died shortly after his birth. When Marcus was born, he began to show biotic abilities. Marcus was born on Illium to a wealthy family that traded in information and technology, and spent his first six years on there, until his father, Anthony Carter, decided to move to Eden Prime because they felt as though the city was becoming dangerous. Anthony continued his business on Eden Prime, though he scaled it down considerably.

Marcus lived the remainder of his childhood on Eden Prime, dreaming of seeing Council worlds and hopefully even visiting the Citadel. He also dreamed that he might join the Alliance and possibly even become an N7 trooper, though really he simply fell in love with the idea that joining the Alliance would be an adventure, rather than a job. Any military force would do, truly. He had very few true friends, choosing instead to bury himself in tech. Other children generally liked him, however, because of his kind and accepting demeanor. As he got older, Marcus found that he loved gathering together tech and making interesting items out of them, such as a slingshot using the mass effect driver from an unused gun. Marcus once set up a group of targets in an area a little ways away from the colony and used them as target practice for his makeshift slingshot. When his father discovered it, they took his slingshot and went to great lengths to ensure he didn’t get a hold of another gun.

Marcus had received his biotic implant through a private company when he was twelve, and his father paid for a biotic tutor to come and train his son. The two of them trained three times a week for the remainder of Marcus’ time on Eden Prime.

Throughout his childhood, he begged his father to let him see the Council worlds, and to let him join the Alliance. At the age of sixteen, he granted Marcus’ wish, partially. Although Marcus was too young to join the System’s Alliance, or any other military force, they had saved up enough money and decided to see a number of Council worlds, even managing to make a trip to Thessia. Eventually though, they had to return to the Eden Prime. However, before they did, they decided to make a trip to Sur’Kesh, the salarian homeworld.

While their shuttle was coming in for a landing, an automated transit shuttle flew across their path suddenly, and collided with their landing shuttle. Luckily, no one died in the crash, however, Marcus’ left arm was broken and he received a few minor cuts along his chest. While the arm injury eventually healed, his left arm has been a little more fragile than his right ever since. Marcus was, at first, a little rattled by the pain and the sheer fear of dying in a shuttle crash, however he told himself to ‘be a man’ and has worked since to mitigate that fear.

As he approached his eighteenth birthday, Anthony, figuring that if his son were to go into the military he’d need a firearm, bought him a gun: an M-6 Carnifex. Marcus began training with it, and eventually he decided to go out and see some more of the galaxy, with his own money. Marcus, while he never truly gave up on joining the Alliance, he decided to settle for a more casual adventure lifestyle. He didn’t stay in most places long, but he managed to buy or scavenge enough pieces to make a suit of armor for himself. He’s only missing most of the left arm, not that he particularly needs it. Marcus ended up on Omega and decided to bunk with the Eclipse Mercenaries for a while, who accepted him because of his technical ability, as well as the added plus of being a human biotic, which was uncommon in Eclipse ranks. He wanted a bit of adventure without sacrificing any technological benefits. It was here that he bought the M-55 Argus, training extensively with it in preparation for his work as a mercenary., and used that, as well as his technical skill, to enhance his combat capabilities. Then ensued three firefights, on Omega, that are the extent of Marcus’ live combat experience.

Marcus was caught up in his first firefight three months after he joined the Eclipse Mercenaries, when he was nineteen. It was a planned operation; an assault against some Blood Pack vorcha in one of the slum wards. He, in a squad of six others, opted for a direct approach. They engaged the vorcha in a frontal assault in a conflict lasting about thirty minutes. The squad chewed through the vorcha with ease, using Tech Armor to mitigate damage and Assault Turrets to deal more damage. They also relied on Marcus’ biotic abilities, given that the Eclipse Mercenaries have few human biotics within their ranks. By the time the fighting stopped, Marcus had gotten three kills out of twenty-one. He didn’t receive any major injuries that day, just a few minor scrapes owing to his armor absorbing the enemies bullets.

The second firefight Marcus Carter ever participated in was in defense of an Eclipse warehouse, from Blood Pack mercs looking for revenge. This happened just after his twentieth birthday. An extremely large force of Blood Pack troops launched an hour long assault on the warehouse, which was manned by a meager twenty Eclipse. Among them were two biotics, Marcus and a man named Thomas Marxen. The two of them put up a biotic barrier and kept their comrades safe while reinforcements were on the way. Their reinforcements eventually arrived, and after a short rest during a lull in the fighting, they joined the fray, killing almost seven of the Blood Pack between the two of them. Marcus and Thomas gained recognition for that feat, but they were only famous locally.

A few months after the battle in the warehouse, Marcus was thrust into combat once more. This time, though, was far more deadly. The Blood Pack had become very displeased with Marcus and Thomas’ work against them. They sent five troops to ambush and kill the two Eclipse mercenaries. Thomas and Marcus only barely escaped with their lives. As it stood, they still came out of that encounter worse for wear. The Blood Pack had backed the two against a wall, and slowly pushed in. Marcus and Thomas called for backup, then took turns keeping up a barrier, while the other fired at the enemy. Eventually, they couldn’t keep that up; the enemy had come too close. They then engaged the Blood Pack with biotic Shockwave and Warp, slowly thinning the crowd. Still, they couldn’t handle those troops forever. They managed to survive long enough for reinforcements to finish the job, though Thomas once had to fling Marcus with his biotics out of the way of a charging krogan, which almost broke Marcus’ ribs.

After surviving the ambush, Marcus and Thomas both decided to take a back seat for a while. They decided to not go on any combat missions and opted instead to take on odd jobs, usually fixing technical issues, or lifting heavy crates with their biotics. The two of them eventually drifted apart, having been assigned different jobs by Eclipse: Marcus was sent as a guard on an Eclipse frigate that hauled cargo, while Thomas was made to be a guard elsewhere The two of them haven’t contacted one another recently. When the Coffee-Shop Massacre occurred on the Citadel, Marcus individually decided to join G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N., in an effort to keep the Dominion and the Insurrection in check. After recent events, however, Marcus has decided to join for a new reason: to make his mark on the galaxy, and decide the fate of this war through G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N.

Marcus’ tenure with GUARDIAN was largely uneventful. He went on few missions, his most notable accomplishments being saving Brathe Sap’Korah from a Batarian Slave Camp and assaulting a Cerberus base. During the final battle with the Reapers he was given a suit of Arkangel armor and tasked with taking down the Hades Cannon ravaging the fleet. After the battle, he tried to distinguish himself by setting up the FOB at the crash site and getting things organized, though he didn’t honestly expect anyone to care.

After reintegrating into society, Marcus used his wealth to start up an indie manufacturing corporation, based mostly around the production of weapons and armor, but also branching into civilian technologies, and personal vehicles. Part of the profit this company made was allocated to relief efforts and securing resources to feed and house refugees. Marcus also opted to join Grey’s mercenary company, serving under the older man as a Field Sergeant and using his power armor (which he refused to relinquish) to serve as a strong center for battle formations.

## Personality

Marcus has grown cynical in his years after the dissolution of GUARDIAN. One could argue that it was the personality of Grey rubbing off on him, but nowadays the redhead makes sarcastic comments regularly and wonders how he ever managed to survive thus far. He’s sort of an optimistic cynic; he’ll say things like, “Oh, it’s not so bad, when I was fighting the Reapers we were ass deep in Collectors, at least now we won’t get ripped limb from limb.” It’s half sarcasm, half genuine gratitude towards the universe for offering him a death less painful than *that*.

He still retains his general kindness towards strangers, though Marcus is a big fan of doing, rather than speaking. If he sees someone struggling he’ll go over and help them, and then leave without saying a word. In conversation, Marcus tends to stay cool. Not necessarily collected, but always cool. He isn’t usually prone to anger, and if he ever gets visibly angry you know something is seriously wrong. If nothing else, he gets annoyed.

The merc likes to think pragmatically, however he will never pass up the opportunity to look cool whilst being practical. Marcus has grown up a bit, and thusly he doesn’t argue with others quite as much as he used to. However, he remains petty, and competitive. If he has a grudge against you, he’ll be sure to remind you of it readily, and if you challenge him, he will not hesitate to meet the challenge. Marcus also still isn’t really disciplined, and doesn’t mind arguing with people up the chain of command, though he’ll follow his orders whilst arguing.

It should be noted that Marcus has a notion of dying a “noble death”, something that developed during the Reaper War. After Iyokyo died, he had developed a sort of death wish, which, as he began to come to terms with her passing, his perception of an acceptable death changed. He would gladly give his life, so long as he did it doing something that was vastly important. He wants the galaxy to remember him, one day, for his heroics. Otherwise, however, Marcus fights ferociously for his life; he offers no mercy to the enemy, and enjoys preying upon them like a predator would their prey. To those who would threaten his friends, he is particularly ruthless towards. On the flip side, Marcus hates being helpless, or otherwise being toyed with in combat, and will quickly become annoyed in such a situation.

### Exceptional Skills

Marcus has the nickname Prodigy because he picks up knowledge easily, and he works hard towards developing mastery with it. He has nothing but a high school diploma, but he has developed an understanding of complex engineering systems through practical experience during his tenure as a Mercenary, and later as an engineer aboard the GSV Gandiva and Osiris. Marcus also trains daily with his biotics, and has made himself rather good with them over the years. He shies away from the protection and area denial aspects of biotics, instead focusing on being able to deal damage through objects or armor.

Less an exceptional skill and more a simple fact, Marcus is wealthy; he comes from a wealthy family. He used a lot of his wealth to secure assets for the final battle against the Reapers, and after the battle he used his remaining funds to startup his own manufacturing corporation, with some help from his father and some acquaintances. It’s a small company, and half of it’s profits in turn go towards a fund designed to provide direly needed resources to refugees.

## Physical Description

Around 5’8”, 156 lbs. Marcus has fuzzy red hair and an almost asian complexion. He is heterochromatic, but his eyes are only slightly different colors, the left one being a natural bright blue and the right one being a sort of cyan/teal color. He’s got a lean figure, muscled from training, and recently he has acquired a few tattoos; on his left shoulder is the insignia of the Knifehawks, on his right is the symbol of the Eclipse. On his right breast he has the symbol of GUARDIAN tattooed, and on his back is a pair of stylized angelic wings, with the name of a lost comrade on each feather. A number of feathers remain clear, awaiting the names of further fallen friends.

Marcus wears a yellow sleeveless hoodie and black cargo pants most of the time. The hoodie and pants both have double black stripes going down either side, and the Eclipse symbol upon the right breast. He usually has black goggles resting atop his head, or around his neck. He also has brown leather gloves to go with the ensemble. Marcus has an Eclipse armor set; the color scheme is inverted, so where it was yellow it is now black, and where it was black it is now yellow, except for the lights, which remain yellow. One of the eyes on his helmets is colored blue instead of yellow. Marcus also owns a set of Arkangel armor, painted primarily black with silver accents, a pair of angels wings painted across the back, and a stylized human skull over the helmet. It was painted that way during the final battle with the Reapers, and has not seen a new paint job since. Marcus’ variant comes with an Omni-Shield, two Omni-Blades, and a shoulder mounted minigun. Both sets of Marcus’ armor has the Knifehawks insignia engraved on the left armor plate.

### Armament

* M-55 Argus Assault Rifle
* M-6 Carnifex

### Abilities

* Shockwave
* Nova
* Reave
* Warp
* Tech Armor
* Assault Turret