Marcus

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Sebastian (Nephew)
Elias (Great-Nephew)
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Marcus is from Chronicle 2

Marcus is uncle to Sebastian and Andres. He never marries.

Marcus was born to Puerto-Rican parents in southern Arizona in 1941, three years after his brother, Matthias. He was the least favorite of the two boys, and his father frequently took his brother to outings and sports games without him, which embittered their relationship. Marcus used to shoot his father's gun in the backyard as a child, and became quite skilled with firearms. He spent much of his younger years shooting birds and small animals. He also took apart and reassembled the family appliances, much to his parents' annoyance.

Marcus and his brother did not get along, and Matthias bullied him incessantly, often provoking Marcus into bloody physical fights, usually lost by him due to his brother's bigger size. Their parents never intervened. Marcus was a delinquent at school, and he frequently got suspended for starting fights or yelling profanities at his teachers. He got terrible grades, and he often didn't show up to class, in favor of shooting at birds. His parents didn't care much about this, seeing it as confirmation of his inferiority. Marcus grew to hate them, and would eventually be the one to kill his father, who was almost as abusive as his older brother.

When he was in school, he joined a gang that peddled drugs around the neighborhood, and he bought stimulants off of his brother to resell, which improved their relationship somewhat. Still, the older he got, the more trouble he got into, and he spent time in juvenile detention for theft, vandalism, and other petty charges.

Then, in June 1955, when Marcus was 14, his father took the money he had made from his drug business to buy his older brother a car. Two weeks later, Marcus went into the store his family owned, shot his father, and stole back the money that he had taken. Matthias was there stocking shelves, but Marcus spared his brother, not before shooting past his ear to give him a scare. Later in life, he would also try to kill his mother, but he failed in that exploit.

Later that year, Marcus got an offer from one of the higher-ups in the syndicate, and he dropped out of school to move upstate and further his career in the drug trade. The timing was opportune, because in the wake of their father's death Matthias vowed to become a police officer, having no idea that his brother was the one to commit the act. For the next few years, he became more an more involved in the underground cocaine market, and gradually rose in the ranks of the syndicate. As soon as he was a legal adult, he changed his surname from Leon to Laurier, in order to distance himself from his family.

Marcus became the person to come to when people needed to disappear. His unique apathy to killing made him valuable, and his skill with firearms more so. No one expected a teenage assassin. Over the next several years, he killed a dozen people, and eventually developed a living good enough to buy an expensive house in Sedona, Arizona. He hired a live-in chef named Adriana, and they developed a sexual relationship. He continued to do hits until about 1974, when he was 33. That year, he took out one of the higher-ups in the organization, taking the man's place and ensuring a comfortable living for himself far into the future.

Before then, on November 13th, 1963, he attended the birth of his first nephew, Sebastian. He was beautiful, in Marcus's eyes, and even in the infant he saw potential. He saw a boy that could be a loyal soldier long into his life. So, he plotted to take him. This was not only because of his obsession with the young Sebastian. Marcus also wanted revenge for the way his brother treated him and continued to treat him. He planned to destroy Matthias's life.

He began with his brother's wife, Gemma. She was already distraught after the birth, but he spoke with her privately and often, convincing her that her child was a monster and that her husband caused it. He helped prepare Sebastian's meals during post-partum, and he spiked them with drugs to make the boy ill. He spent time with Sebastian and shared worries to Gemma about Matthias's mental state. Slowly, he drove them apart, convincing them that their child was ruining their lives.

Marcus having an affair with his brother's wife, convincing her it was the only way to escape the oppression of Matthias's absence. He slept with her while his brother was at work, and they had a child. Marcus told Gemma to convince her husband it was theirs, and she did. He threatened her with how angry her husband would be if he found out about the affair, and forced her silence. The brothers looked similar enough that Marcus knew Matthias would never know.

When the baby was born, he convinced her that this child was the perfect one. He convinced his brother of it. He got into Gemma's head. He told her that Matthias knew about the affair, and that he wanted to kill Andres like he almost killed Sebastian.

In early 1968, Marcus was arrested and pled not guilty to racketeering and money laundering charges related to his drug business. He was convicted and sentenced to eight years in a federal prison.

Terrified that Marcus would reveal the affair as a result of his arrest, one rainy March morning, Gemma got into the car with Andres and drove, with the intention of ending both of their lives. She succeeded. Marcus got word of this happening quickly, but was not angry. He was one step closer to acquiring his prize.

Despite his arrest, he kept in contact with Matthias during his sentence, and comforted the grieving man, who had no idea of his involvement in Gemma’s death. He had his connections send Matthias money, in hopes that the man would use his connections to get Marcus released early. He was treated well in prison, due to his many connections from within and outside of the syndicate.

Over time, Matthias revealed that he had been abusing his son as misplaced punishment for the deaths of his wife and younger son. This angered Marcus, as he wanted Sebastian for himself, and believed Matthias had no claim to him. Still, he was powerless if he wanted to keep Matthias’s trust, so he was forced to bide his time.

In August of 1973, a year after he first learned of Matthias’s abuse, he convinced his brother to send his son to boarding school, In December, Matthias petitioned his law enforcement and government connections to pardon his brother’s sentence due to lack of evidence and succeeded. Marcus was released in June of 1974 with a full pardon.

Over the next two years, Marcus regained his

Marcus gained custody of Sebastian in January, and pulled him out of boarding school. He had the boy's name changed to match his. They went to Matthias's funeral together. Marcus told his son about how much of an awful person his father was, and that he should be glad that he was safe now. Over the next several years, Sebastian was slowly groomed into being his uncle's protege. Marcus taught the boy how to use a gun. He taught him how to negotiate. He taught him how to kill. Marcus showed his nephew how to use drugs to obscure the pain in his head.

Before he was caught, Sebastian killed five people for his uncle. He sold cocaine and amphetamines to many more than that. He was young, not careful enough. He was caught because he killed a cop, undercover. Marcus made his nephew plead guilty to avoid a trial. He was sentenced to eighteen years, and he served all of them. It was 1981. When Sebastian was inside, his uncle gave him money and drugs. Sebastian had episodes in prison, manic frenzies and horrible suicidal hazes. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and forced to take medication so that he would stop hurting himself.

Marcus visited often to give his nephew heroin and and amphetamines to sell. He made decent money off of his nephew's imprisonment. But when Sebastian got out, in 1999, he was broken. He was an addict, hopeless. Marcus knew he had become useless. So he tried to fix Sebastian. He convinced his nephew to get treatment for his mind and the substances he was chained to. He introduced him to a girl, hoping she would fix him, as she had fixed men before. He broke her instead.

Marcus was frustrated by this development. Sebastian was never meant to be the one breaking people. And he wasn't meant to be having little children. Ultimately, there was nothing else he could do. He tried to convince his nephew to take back his old job, but Sebastian refused, citing his promise to his wife before she left him. In the end, Marcus was killed before he could manipulate his nephew again. He was shot in the head by a business partner at a dinner party, on June 3rd, 2006. His nephew would do one more hit for his uncle however. Later that year, Sebastian poisoned the man who killed his uncle.