Bryce Marcus

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**Bryce Justin Marcus** is one of the main characters in the *Impaired Judgment (and Other Excuses)* series within the You Could Make a Life verse, together with Jared Matheson.

## Personal life

He's from Richmond, in the Vancouver metropolitan area. His father died in a car accident when he was four and he was raised by his mother, who spoiled him. They are very close.

He started dating Jared Matheson in the summer of 2015 and they moved in together in the summer of 2016. They got engaged in mid-March 2017 and got married in July 2018. Eventually, they will have four kids: Ben, Blythe, James (Jamie) and Emma (Emmy).

He has a history of poor off-ice behaviour, including punching an Oilers fan and DUI.

After he retires from hockey, he has a couple hockey-related jobs and then is a stay-at-home dad for a while.

## Playing career

He played for the Spokane Chiefs in the WHL.

He was drafted in 2012 and played with the Calgary Flames on his first year (2012/2013 season), but he was sent back to the WHL before the first year of his entry-level contract kicked in. The next year, he stayed with the Flames and he was nominated for the Calder in 2014.

During the 2015-2016 he led the team in points. He re-signed with the team for six more years in 2016, even though he actually hates playing for them. He has been the Flames' points leader several times, including the 2018 season.

In the summer of 2020, he requested a trade. Thanks to his no-move clause kicking in on Free Agency Day, he was able to pick three teams we was willing to go to: Edmonton Oilers, Vancouver Canucks and Tampa Bay Lightning. He was then traded to Tampa for Schlitz, Barbieri, and a second, just for Tampa to send him to Vancouver for a first, a third, and a goalie prospect.

He played in the ASG in 2018 and 2019.

He's a terrific player, pure scoring, but he's only solid at faceoffs. He's fast, *great*at stickhandling. He’s also got an *excellent*hockey IQ when it comes to finding scoring opportunities, and some of the goals he gets are insane as a result. He has two key faults: he’s not particularly defensively responsible and he has a complete lack of discipline: it’s extremely easy to rile him through chirps and illegal hits/slashes/trips etc., and he takes a lot of really stupid penalties as a result.

### Milestones

He had his fiftieth goal against the Canucks and his hundredth point against the Kings.

## Physical appearance and personality

He's an ESFP. He reacts viscerally to situations and he's very self-conscious about being bad at anything, including sex. He is usually not well-liked in locker rooms, due to his performative cockiness and assholery. He believes ignoring his problems means they do not exist (with the exception of when he gets so deep in them he can’t ignore them, then the self-sabotage comes into play. He's shy and hockey smart. His love language is Giving/Receiving Gifts.

He used to have tantrums as a kid and his mother was never hard on him.

He's a combination of David Chapman and Jake Lourdes.

He has blue eyes and blond hair. He dresses often in what some people [Jared] would call, douchebag chic, but he is well groomed, knows what fits him and has good eye for colour and generally spends a lot of time and effort on his appearance. In the thicc scale, he is **Medium!**.

## Trivia

* He would be a Gryffindor.
* He was a Canucks fan growing up.
* In the money scale, he's in the "Hey, he wants to do it and we can afford it" category.
* He punched an Oilers fan on April 5th.
* He would totally fuck his own clone to know whether he's good in bed.
* He owns four cars. His cars are called Gordie, Stanley and Rocket.  His Vancouver car is an Audi.
* He was OBSESSED with Winnie the Pooh as a tiny one.
* His agent is Dave Summers.
* He likes Sparta.
* He's ok with all Gatorade, but for purple.
* He plays Bowser in Mario Kart.
* In the reaction to cold scale, he's "All I need is a coat, if that, if I’m shivering that just makes me STRONGER."
* Autocorrect is off on his phone because it got on his nerves and capitalisation is uncool.
* He has a serious clothes problem and he owns the CLINGIEST TIGHTEST underwear that costs more per inch of material than should be legal.
* He handles spiders calmly, taking them out of the house.
* He likes cherry lollipops.
* He likes expressionist painters.
* Cries at weddings and would cry at his own.
* He genuinely loves the city of Calgary because he met Jared there, even when he wants to hate it.
* He watches Ozark.
* He has his father's name tattoed. He'll later add Jared's (his signature) for his birthday and their kids'.
* He has ADHD.

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