Marcus
The Trickster · "Chaos personified"
Marcus is the trickster of the five friends in Overlayed Echoes — chaos personified, the one his oldest friends say is what an energy drink would be if it were human. Loud, reckless, and hilarious, he once got the group banned from their game shop over a dice-tossing mishap involving a light fixture and a twelve-sided die.
He learned early that if you laugh loud enough and long enough, nobody asks you the next question — so the laugh is partly armor, and the people who've watched him for twenty years can see the care underneath it. In the group's quiet arrangement, Marcus keeps everyone laughing so they never get scared.
- Theo — the guardian; Marcus stayed on his couch through a hard stretch.
- Kael, Angela, Lena — the rest of the five.
Marcus and Theo share an unspoken arrangement: Marcus keeps everyone laughing so they never get scared; Theo keeps them safe so they never have to be.
Stage One · The Calm Before — Marcus in the hour before the first session, 2045. His story continues as the world of Overlayed Echoes unfolds.
