Marcus Ryan

## Marcus

> Sometimes in the face of danger lies the answers to unexplained questions we desire to have answered.
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**Marcus Ryan** is a character who appears in Dying Light 2 Stay Human's post lore DLC; Bloody Deception. He is a high-ranking member of the Global Relief Effort, serving as a security force leader alongside Demitery Maximoff. It is speculated that Marcus is also a high-ranking agent of the Central Intelligence Agency, who was assigned to the GRE's security division during the events of The Fall.

## Biography

Before the events of The Fall, Marcus was (speculated to be a high-ranking CIA agent) who had been assigned the Global Relief Effort to protect the secrets of their operations. After the Fall started he was given a promotion on being a head of the GRE's GRE Security Division. At some point Marcus was present in Villedor alongside his wife, Veronika Ryan, and his son, Paul. He was moved however to a larger GRE facility headed by Callus Sullivan, leaving his family in Villedor.

During his time at Sullivan's complex, Marcus was given orders to defend the facility at all costs, extreme force was authorized to be used against anything that attempted entry on the facility grounds. Eventually Marcus' defenses were overpowered by a swarm of Volatiles, and the complex was overrun, however, Sullivan, Marcus and a few other vital GRE personnel managed to bug out in a GRE Chopper before being killed. A file was then created by Sullivan confirming Marcus' false death at the complex, along with his own false one, to cover up his secret operations at the newly re-instituted GRE National Laboratory.

## Personality

Marcus is a very enigmatic man, one who doesn't easily trusts most individuals and willing to take to extreme measures to get what he wants. Marcus is shown to be very devoted to any task he given, in that, he shows extreme loyalty to the Global Relief Effort. He is shown to have friendships with the other GRE soldiers having conversations with them on humourus terms.

When with his wife and child, he is more soft and kinder, tending and caring for them, being a devoted husband and father, in that he is extremely emotionally attached to both Veronika and Paul, shown in his search for them during Bloody Deception.

## History

### *Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Bloody Deception*

#### Introduction

After being found to be the husband of Veronika Ryan, Aiden Caldwell will attempt to track down, Marcus, first finding him heading towards a GRE chopper LZ, the player can choose a violent or passive approach when interacting with Marcus. However, either way, Aiden will get caught the GRE soldiers and be taken prisoner back to the GRE National Laboratory.

Aiden is then questioned by GRE agents and Marcus on why infiltrated the LZ, also asking them does he know about their operations, the player can choose to be aggressive or passive in response, either way, Marcus will order one of the agents to taze him, but if the player says "Veronika", Marcus will call off the order, and ask him what he knows of Veronika. Aiden will tell him that she was in Villedor and lie to him that she is still alive. Marcus will then set Aiden free and tell him about the GRE fragment that is currently operating.

After sharing said information, Marcus gives Aiden a GRE Radio, which he can use to contact him asking him if he'll help him find Veronika, Aiden will agree either way and Marcus praises Aiden for his help. The conversation is quickly interrupted by Callus Sullivan, the head of the GRE fragment. He speaks of their recent project, and Marcus recommends Aiden to help them, Callus agrees and gives Aiden a sample trapper, which will be used to take samples from an Infected.

#### Where Is She? (Story Mission)

Marcus contacts Aiden, via the GRE Radio given to him. He informs him they are ready to search for Veronika, and recalls him back to base. After he returns, he, Marcus, and a squad of GRE soldiers depart in a GRE Helicopter, Marcus asks where she is, and Aiden tells him she's in Villedor, and that they should start with searching The Bazaar. Marcus agrees, but one of the soldiers questions if the Bazaarians will be so fond of active GRE personnel, Marcus asks Aiden if he can negotiate with them, and he says he can attempt to.

After they land, Marcus, Aiden, and the soldiers begin their walk towards The Bazaar, the player can choose to either tell Marcus about the Bazaarians and the events of what happened in Villedor. When Aiden mentions Waltz, Marcus tells him that he had worked security for him once. After the group arrives at the Bazaar, Barney and a few other bazaarians greet Aiden, but become quickly hostile on the site Marcus and his soldiers. However, Aiden prevents a fight from breaking out, and asks Barney to stall Marcus, since he is there looking for Veronika. After a while Aiden returns to Marcus and the soldiers, telling him he couldn't find her. Shortly after they depart back to the GRE National Laboratory.

#### The Reckoning (Story Mission)

Marcus isn't seen or heard from much, he asks Aiden to meet him at his office. After Aiden returns to the GRE National Laboratory, strangely there are no soldiers or personnel in the hallways of the lab, but Aiden continues to Marcus' office. When he enters Marcus' office, he's nowhere to be found. Suddenly Marcus' comes into the room and shuts the door behind him, he asks Aiden if he knew anything more about Veronika. He can either lie or say yes. Either way Marcus will ask him why he lied, he tells him because he didn't want him to know the awful truth about what really happened. Marcus asks what really happened, he asks where she is. At this point Aiden can't lie, so he tells him the truth and the accident that happened. He explains he has these episodes were he turns for a brief moment then wakes up after returning to his conciseness, he scolds him for not telling him the truth about Veronika, but then Marcus comes up with a plan that may work to bring Veronika 'back'. If the correct choices are made in this situation, Marcus will give Aiden a booster shot to decrease the chance of him having episodes, but it will not fully cure him.

#### “The Ritual” (Story Mission)

Marcus informs Aiden about his plan to somehow bring Veronika back. But he will require multiple samples, and other things for his plan to work. He first sends Aiden to a nearby by GRE medical facility with special types of drugs to help heal open wounds and make them avoid infection. He then sends him to retrieve a special type of pain reliever from an old GRE medical lab.

After Aiden retrieves the drugs and medications, Marcus then sends him to retrieve a sample from a Volatile and tells him there is a Volatile Colony near the lab he can go to, to get the sample he needs. Marcus then asks Aiden where Veronika's body is, at first he questions why he needs to know, Marcus brushes off his question, in then Aiden tells him where her body is.

After Aiden retrieves the sample and returns to the laboratory, it is then shown Marcus went and recovered Veronika's body, which was the major thing he needed for his operation, Aiden asks him why he did what he did, and he tells him that he is going to attempt to bring her back using the Volatile sample Aiden retrieved, and attempt to balance it enough to match a humans standard healing system, he explains how skin would heal, but instead of skin, he is doing so for limbs, organs, and veins. Aiden tells him it could be impossible for what he is attempting, but Marcus' tells him it's still worth a shot, especially for someone he'd deeply care about.

Marcus, then asks Aiden to get a sample cleanser and prepper from the lab's science room, so he can stabilize the sample enough so that it doesn't overwhelm Veronika's cells and kill her or fail again in the process. After he retrieves the cleanser and prepper Marcus cleanses the sample first and then preps it via the prepper. Before he injects into the pipe connected to Veronika's vein, Aiden asks him how he knew how to cleanse the sample. Marcus reveals he was once a scientist, but then changed to a soldier since he showed more proficiency as a soldier.

After the conversation, Marcus injects the sample into Veronika's bloodstream, depending on the sample type Aiden got, it will either work or fail. If it fails, Veronika will only be alive for a few moments and then die, but if it was the correct sample, it will result in a long wait for Veronika to heal and wake up from a coma.

## Possibly Outcomes

***Marcus Ryan*** has a total of four possibly outcomes in Dying Light 2 Stay Human.

* Canon / Best Ending
* Bad Ending
* Worst Ending

### Canon / Best Ending

Marcus survives, along with his wife, Veronika. Callus Sullivan has died during the final mission and the GRE remnant commanding officer was changed to Veronika.

**Requirements (Related To Marcus)**

* Marcus to be alive.

### Bad Ending

Marcus dies, but his wife, Veronika survives. Callus Sullivan is still alive and is still the GRE remnant commanding officer, his plans for mass-world control continue.

Marcus was killed by Sullivan's evolved Volatile experiment when it escaped at the GRE National Laboratory. Which result in his death

**Requirements (Related To Marcus)**

* Marcus has to die.

### Worst Ending

Marcus dies, along with his wife, Veronika. Callus Sullivan is still alive and is still the GRE remnant commanding officer, his plans for mass-world control continue.

Marcus was made to be an antagonist due to the players ill choices which resulted in a final fight between him and Aiden Caldwell at the GRE's secret tech manufacturing complex. Multiple GRE soldiers assisted Marcus, but were also all killed.

**Requirements (Related To Marcus)**

* Marcus has to die.

## Quotes

* Quotes
* In-game Quotes

*"There's nothing better than seeing a nice sunset. Even in this hell, we call the world now."*

*"You can say I'm insane to think this will work, but when it works, you'll say I was right.*"

*"Sometimes I question the very existence of the human race still. Sometimes I ask myself how the hell does one survive in a hell of a world like this? Ha ha, you've come to the uh ... right guy? I don't know. I'm just recording this out of me losing sanity. "*

***During Final Fight***

*"Watch your six, don't let em' get behind you!"*

*"Why are you all you assholes still out here and that enemy is still alive, kill him damn it!"*

*"Your dead, Aiden."*
## Known Relations

Veronika Ryan (Wife)

Paul Ryan (Son)

Callus Sullivan (Employer)

Katsumi Kobayashi (Former Employer/Friend)

Aiden Caldwell Friend(Optional)/Enemy(Optional))

## Conversations

**Katsumi Kobayashi:** *"Captain Ryan. Report in immediately."*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"Dr. Kobayashi? Ma'am, what can I do for you?"*
**Katsumi Kobayashi:** *"I need you and your forces to leave The Bridge, now."*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"Hold on.. why? I didn't get the memo."*
**Katsumi Kobayashi:** *"Jesus, Marcus. Just get all you soldiers and personnel and retreat."*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"I need to know why? I apologize for questioning orders but, Why?"*
**Katsumi Kobayashi:** *"\*Sighing\* There's a horde, heading towards your location, you need to leave NOW."*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"Katsumi... we got refugees here, women and... children!"*
**Katsumi Kobayashi:** *"Look, we can't save everyone.. the GRE... can't go on without you... I need you to evacuate immediately."*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"But doc.. what.. we.."*
**Katsumi Kobayashi:** *"Marcus, just get the hell out of there. This isn't only for the GRE's sake, but for your wife's sake, Veronika. If she learns you died.. not even her.. but your kid..? We need you here... alive."*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"Uh- I.. fine.. we'll evacuate.."*
**Katsumi Kobayashi:** *"Thankyou Captain.. you have the green light to go through with the order."*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"Yeah.. understood chief... over and out."*

**Marcus Ryan:** *"Aiden?"*
**Aiden Caldwell:** *"Worth a note. Seems there was another Marcus Ryan here. Director."*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"I was going to tell you."*
**Aiden Caldwell:** *"Tell me? Tell me what?! - You left hundreds of people here to die!"*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"Why do I think I'm here, Aiden? I can't forget what I did. So many people dead and not even a cure to put an end to this."*
**Aiden Caldwell:** *"Cure? You should've been protecting the people. Those civilians!"*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"Aiden, there was no time, no room to take anyone, by the time they found out, they had all turned on each other. We could only take personnel, people with federal clearance, stuff like that-"*
**Aiden Caldwell:** *"Personnel and Federals yeah? You mean those guys with the guns, the ones who should've been protecting the people. You could've saved a few lives, a few."*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"I didn't have a choice Aiden... I'm sorry.."*
**Aiden Caldwell:** *"A choice? There's always a choice when it comes to the lives of others, sometimes you have to be willing to put your own down for others"*
**Marcus Ryan:** *"And yet you think I hold remorse for my actions of what I did? I do, I remember it all. The way those things came in numbers, like an angry mob, driven mad for the hunger of human flesh."*

## Gallery

Marcus Ryan's Certificate of Appreciation given by the GRE.One of Marcus' University Certificates.
## Navigation

1. ↑ Marcus' File
2. ↑ Marcus' File
3. ↑ Marcus' File