Martel Magnum

**Martel Magnum** is a former assassin who was originally hired by Jerry to kill Cooper. However, after Jake began fighting him, Cooper stops the fight and offers hospitality to him, who had defended Cooper from when Jake turned the blade on him. This makes Martel decide to not go through with the job. When he tries to leave out of guilt, Cooper gets jumped by Jake trying to look for him, and then saves Cooper from being killed by him.

He is now temporarily living in Cooper's house.

## Appearance

Martel has a unique phenomenon where he changes between a human and a monster without the aid of conventional shapeshifting.

As a skeleton monster, Martel is 6'4 with a rounder, oval skull, a heart-shaped nose, oval eyes with pupils, and is often seen with a poker face. He has a smaller, but somewhat "beefier" build. He wears a poncho, along with gloves, boots, brown denim pants, a long-sleeve shirt, and three blue-gray tattoos.

As a human, Martel is 6'4 or 5'10 with gold eyes, dark skin, and long black hair pulled into a manbun. He still has the tattoos.

The tattoos will change in appearance based on Martel's current emotions, with gold being the default/neutral. Red means anger, pink means embarrassment, blue means sad.

## Personality

Even while he was an assassin, Martel is a polite, stoic being who often comes off as a lone wolf who wished to be left alone. However, he would use his (genuine) polite, keep-to-self personality to fool people into trusting him so he can easily off anyone Jerry wished. Many would assume he was a tricky, heartless assassin. After meeting Cooper and him showing kindness to him, Martel realized he no longer wished to kill him, thus starting his change for the better. Afterwards, Martel warms up to the idea of leading a more domestic life and being genuine.

Despite being quite attentive, Martel seems to be romantically oblivious, completely missing obvious signs of Cooper's crush on him. However, after it being pointed out to him in Jake's redemption arc, he is now much more aware and is now able to better catch hints.

Over time, Martel is revealed to have a fatherly instinct, having a soft spot for anyone without a family, especially parents, regardless of how old they are.

## Abilities

Martel has all standard monster abilities and skeleton monster abilities.

### Unique Abilities

**Magnum Proficiency:** Martel owns at least two magnums ready to fire. He is shown to very skilled with magnums, being extremely precise with them and has a good aim.

**SOUL Mode MIRROR:** Martel has a SOUL mode presumably exclusive to him. It involves changing his target's SOUL mode/color to blue-gray in which their attack is mirrored as if they're facing a mirror, making it where they can accidentally attack theirselves.

## Relationships

### Cooper

It is presumed Cooper is the first friend Martel's ever made (or at least in his adulthood), and the two appears to have grown close, despite the circumstances of them meeting. He, for a while, was oblivious to Cooper's crush on him. This was until Jake's redemption arc, where after everything's settled, Martel begins to ask Tommy and Daniel about if Cooper likes him romantically. He then asked Gaster on his opinion on someone ha0ving romantic feelings for Cooper, as Martel had found himself to form a crush on Cooper. This leads to Tommy and Daniel teasing him, revealing Cooper's feelings had been definitely noticed. Martel is now much more aware of Cooper's crush and plans on eventually confessing.

## Trivia

* Martel is the first skeleton monster to not be in the skelefam.
	+ Martel is also the first character to have two forms that can be alternated between.
* Martel has a British accent.
* Like all the other skeleton monsters, Martel is named after real-life fonts; 'Martel' and 'Magnum' are both real-life fonts.
	+ His surname, Magnum, is a pun on the fact his weapon of choice is a magnum.
* Martel enjoys being kissed all over his face.