Lane Marris

Lane Marris is an intern at The Magnus Institute, in London, England. He works specifically in Artifact Storage

## About

* **General Information:**
	+ **Sexuality:**Bisexual
	+ **Tarot Card:** Reversed Magician
	+ **Zodiac:** Gemini
	+ **Pronouns:** He/they
	+ **Age:** 24
	+ **Fear:** Unaligned, Slaughter touched
	+ **Job:** Intern at The Magnus Institute
	+ **Character Tag:**lanemarris
	+ **Player:** Sydney

## Friends and Allies

* Diana Evans (boss)
* Theo McLeod
* Batty West
* Liam Strudwick
* Griffith J. Weaver
* Rho Kluft
* Mia (can be considered an enemy)
* Various interns

## Enemies, Mortal or Otherwise

* Mia (can be considered a friend)
* J4-K¥ (associated: Lane was paid by The Moderator to hunt J4-K¥ down, along with several other people)

## Notable Events

* Part of the mannequin hunt
* Participated in the Curtain Call Rave
	+ Lane drove both Liam and Rho to the rave, and eventually separated from them. Towards the beginning, Phoebe caught some of his more Slaughter aligned characteristics, but brushed it off as a probable trick of the light. Lane talked to Rho for a while, getting to know them better and comparing forms of art. Once he was on his own again, he made a minor connection with Nancy-J, chatting for a bit before leaving back into the fray.
	+ Lane had a conversation with Liam, which turned dark as Lane goaded Liam to fall further into the Spiral. Angela noticed the disturbance and told them to settle down, threatening Lane slightly. Liam looked shaken by the event, and Lane asked if he was okay, pretending that he had not been encouraging the behavior. This upset Liam enough that he left the rave, and Lane asked Phoebe if Liam was okay, further cementing his facade of concern.
	+ While talking to Phoebe, Lane met Flynn, and the two talked and danced together until the blackout occurred. When everyone started panicking, Lane led Flynn out of the crowd and met up with Phoebe. As Rho already had a ride, he drove Flynn and Phoebe away from the rave and to safety.
		- *It should be noted that, while escaping the crowd, Lane was experiencing slight flashbacks and memories of the last time he was in a violent crowd, both of which caused him to have to repress Slaughter tendencies. The reason for this is unknown.*
* Attack on the Block
	+ During the intern meeting before the institute was attacked, Lane purposely antagonized Liam, Griffith, and Rho, causing them to expose who he was as a liar and Slaughter-touched. Due to this, his demeanor changed drastically, dropping the anxious facade and becoming more snarky, cold, and outwardly mean.
	+ He implied a threat to Griffith when punched, and panicked slightly when Emmi erased part of his memory in order to stop him fighting.
		- This was the first of Lane's hints that he had memory issues.
	+ Batty interfered in the fight, and then later, after the attack, she Saw Lane, and promised to help him work through his issues with his past.
	+ After going through the halls and getting separated from the other interns, Lane and Rho faced off with Richard, one of the attackers.
		- Richard injured Lane with a quill, hitting an old injury and causing him to black out, embracing his parts of the Slaughter and stabbing Richard, before snapping out of the trance with no memory of what he had done.

## Important Interactions

* Once Lane and Rho become better friends, Rho offered to use their ties to the Web to help Lane with his control issues. During the interaction, however, things quickly went haywire as Rho got too caught up in the glee of the Web and began to threaten Lane. In retaliation, Lane ended up blacking out and threatening Rho back, his experience with the entities making it a terrifying experience. However, he snapped out of it before anyone got hurt, although he did not retain the memory of threatening Rho.
* Liam asked Lane to meet in a park, and brought Griffith and Rho as backup. The intention was to settle differences, but the two interns managed to get on each other's nerves quickly, and almost got into a physical fight before the others interfered. After taking a moment, they tried the conversation again, successfully this time. Lane and Liam had a surprisingly genuine talk, until at least Lane exerted himself too much by trying to talk about the Slaughter, and collapsed because of it.
	+ After this point, Lane and Liam were no longer enemies.

## Powers

* Easily starts arguments and fights with a few words
* Very strong and fast when he embraces the Slaughter, as well as his hands becoming more claw-like and able to slash.

## Backstory

When Lane was a sixteen, he had an intense brush with the Slaughter in which he and his classmates were influences into tearing each other apart in a bloody massacre at his school. This radically altered Lane's personality, changing him from a relatively mild person (who admittedly had an occasional cruel streak) to someone who lied and injured people without remorse, and he quickly let go of his humanity without much regret.

One year later he had another similar but different experience, however he rarely refers to this one. Neither of them he can remember clearly, and often the only time he remembers them at all in detail are during dreams, which he forgets as he wakes up. In addition to his memory, he has notable gaps in his mental processes, specifically concerning certain emotions. His experiences caused him to be deficient in certain feelings (fear, surprise, empathy, etc.) and feel others more strongly (rage (if provoked enough), semi sadistic glee, etc.)

Despite this, he attempts to maintain his facade, and helps people where he can, and takes favors very seriously. Because he is unaware if he has killed anyone or not, Lane has an incredibly flippant attitude towards death. This event also started a lifelong interest in the paranormal, which led to him working at The Magnus Institute.

## Trivia

* Lane is not afraid of spiders, but had an irrational fear of snakes
* Before his experience with the Slaughter, Lane planned to go into the arts as a career
	+ He still studied sculpture in college, and channeled some of his experiences into his work
* Lane always looks slightly sick; this is because he is tied to the Slaughter but is not an avatar, so it feds off of him if he neglects it.
	+ If he "starves" or tries to go against what he feels the Slaughter wants him to do, he experiences headaches and bloody noses, as well as (in severe cases) coughing up blood.
	+ One time, he has passed out when trying to explain to Liam his situation.
* Lane is *very* good at lying, and does so frequently, to basically everyone he meets.
* He can't dance very well but enjoys it anyways.