Marco

Marco is a beautifully energetic and friendly electromagnetic denizen. His friendlyness and charm is so powerful that he couldn't be contained within solely one chapter of The Great Electromagnetic. He's managed to worm his shrimpy little way into every chapter, along with his gentle loving sibling Rodger.

### Personality

marco is a very high energy shrimp to be around. He speaks very fast and interrupts himself often, jumping from topic to topic with seemingly no link in-between. He always seems to be thinking about something very intensely, planning and revising his current "project" which he always seemingly has on the go. He has been described as "being in his own world", sometimes even distant when you try to talk to him- and for the most part this is true, but he is also a very misunderstood character. When he was a young boy, hed spend all of his time alone or with Rodger in their tiny room. He'd be sitting all day staring at the TV, completely entranced. He was very inspired by whatever he was seeing, and was instantly charmed. He pretended to be the characters he was seeing on TV all to Rodger. Rodger had to learn to deal with Marco from a very young age.

Although he is very high energy most of the time, Marco usually spends a significant amount of time alone. He rarely lonely in these periods as he is working hard on his "project". however, occasionally Marco will fall into a depression and he will fall into a very emotional and mopey state. When this first started happening as a young shrimp, he would often simply not talk at all, and sit in front of the tv but not taking anything in, he would be glassy eyed and vacant. things could happen around him and he wouldn't notice or care, it's like when he falls into a depression he becomes catatonic.

Marco never has many bad feelings towards anyone at all. He never holds grudges, even towards those who are overtly mean to him. Rodger was initially worried he was letting people walk all over him, and some people still think this like fargo and jeuce (jeuce has learned more about marco and starts to share rodger's opinion on it now) but fargo still thinks a little bit that marco is just some gullible fool who doesn't know what he's dealiing with. Fargo is in for the ride though so he sticks around with the quartet regardless. eventually they do all learn that Marco isn't as oblivious and foolish as they'd originally thought, because he really doesn't show much of his internal thought processes. It all just comes out in manic rambles in bursts and dances of joy and singing, which outwardly looks a little strange or idiotic so Marco usually isn't taken seriously. Little do they know it's all brewing in Marco's head... he never stops... it's like hes got some kind of motor inside of him, or some kind of special rare material with powerful electromagnetic qualities.......

### Trivia

marco owns a super rare Maximilian plushie. he experiences hallucinations in which the plushie tells him that he is max's secret sidekick called the pretty prawn and that Max needs his help.

marco has a high pitched quivering kind of voice. his voice tends to break often no matter what

marco, along with rodger, has a naturally very quiet voice. when he tries to shout and be loud, his voice usually breaks first and he has to really try to recover from it and push to be heard. marco tries really hard with this where rodger doesn't at all.

marco has periods of psychotic mania and also periods of intensely low energy. when he is in these low energy states, he tends to clutch on to familiar things and create his own worlds and imagine things about them which soon becomes real to him. For example he created the delusion of the maximilian plushie in his head when he was extremely low energy and hopeless and when he is psychotic those delusions are realised.