His birth is considered ‘a miracle’ in Lorraine's circle because her friends assumed she had gotten “too old” for a third kid.
He was in this weird “constant freaked out state” that he didn't really break out of til' he was eight.
His parents are more involved in his life than Twin Pine George & Lorraine but also, like, in a way they're not really involved enough?
Marty's kinda careless. He has a habit of losing his house keys that he doesn't plan on fixing because he knows George or Lorraine are gonna get him a new set tomorrow, the next day, the day after that, and if not that then someone's gotta let him in eventually.
He winds up not having many close friends except Suzy (Friend Since Elementary School, In Love With) and, despite what he thinks, Donaldson (Unrequited Rival, A Little In Love With.)
The Marty name was actually first given to him as a nickname from Suzy.
Lives "blissfully" unaware of the Twin Pine timeline until 2005.
Okay, so imagine how out of place and weird TP Marty would already feel in LP, then turn that up to 11.
Yes, compared to his peers he's uncool. Yes, he's getting bullied (it's slightly worse this time.)
Angsty as fuck and has to be mad about it #YouKnowIt #HellYeah
Weird Girl to Autistic Trans Man pipeline.
Frequently late to class and in detention more than Twin Pine Marty, somehow.
Stoner too, that's probably important to mention.
He's more “Spaced Out,” if you will.
One day when he's in detention, there's just this job advert for a part-time position that landed on his desk.
He doesn't see it on a corkboard in the hallway, no, he sees it on his desk, when he's in detention. It's suspicious, but it's for a video store.
The idea of taking the job so he'd have an excuse out of detention enters his mind, he gets so bored in there though. It's straight home afterwards.
Plus he already makes money as a bootlegger (Video Piracy Included) (Parents Not Involved Enough!)
October 1st is the next date he has with detention, planned.
At lunch he tells Suzy (& Donaldson) that he can't hang out with her after school (on her date.) They all seem pretty down about it.
Later, when he's walking to his “station,” he sees them walking down the steps outside together.
Seeing them together, and close, always causes Marty to get this “undescribable, sickening’ feeling.
Not the first time, nothing new. Not the first time it makes him spontaneously react, either. This time he dashes to the nearest fire alarm and pulls it. He's so normal.
Starts running right before he can hear doors opening and people shuffling around. He's got all that purple ink on his hand.
Makes it out of school and the job advert pops back up in his mind. He starts running in that store's direction.
What store was it? Clayton Home Video, of course!
Despite coming in covered in sweat and of breath, he's hired right after a small interview.
And… he's starting tomorrow, too?
His employer (name-tag just reads ‘Vern-o’) seems very laid-back, also seems to be the only person working there. Marty thinks something's off about him, he just can't articulate what exactly it is.
But, it seems like a nice job.
He's even able to take home a few videos of his favorite movies! He wasn't told he can, but there's nothing wrong if he brings them back tomorrow, right?
Tomorrow, October 2nd, 2005:
The job excuse works this time. He gets out of detention, beginner's luck.
He walks into his first day on the job with his Walkman Portable CD Player, he's listening to some Fall Out Boy.
The store is pretty much empty, even the vending machine is gone.
His boss is having an argument with some lanky guy who brought in a box of tapes by the counter.
He doesn't want to get involved, so he quietly returns the movies he “borrowed” and starts restocking the candy.
The argument doesn't catch his attention until he hears one of them say “Marty,” which is strange because no one’s ever really called him that outside of Suzy.
Thinking this might be about him stealing, he takes off his headphones and goes “what's everyone talkin’ about?”
They immediately go quiet and start looking at him with, like, the craziest bug eyes ever.
Marty's given the box and sent home early, being told to “study it” by, who he now knows as, his boss’ brother.
Oh great, he's already behind on his homework at school, the last thing he needs is all this on his first day at the new job!
Beyond 10/2/2005:
Well, fuck, I guess.
So, what's in that box is actually *everything* Twin Pine Marty had recorded.
Able to exist in this timeline thanks to the ‘Clara Brown Archival Retrieval System!’
And with the help of the ‘Clayton Video Convertor’ I'm sure they can get you some of those on a disc, Marty!
So yeah, safe to say he doesn't get much (any) sleep that night. He spends it glued to the screen, watching what seemed to be nothing at first, turn into something, well… Horrifying.
By the time he should be getting up for school, he's rushing to cut his hair in the bathroom then heading out the door, straight for the Video Store.
He gets introduced to an elderly widow named Dr. Clara Brown; the owner of Clayton Home Video, his boss' mother, and someone who lives right next door.
They're both shaken to their core by the stranger right in front of them.
He's in her living room until 4 P.M. asking her all these questions; about the tapes; about time travel; about this boy; about this old man he’s never met before; about these people who look too familiar; about what it all means.
Doc *tries* to answer them all, but she's especially quick to give the answer to his biggest, and possibly scariest, one:
“Yes, that boy behind the camera used to be you, but he faded out of existence.”
The Doc also shares that it's possible she will begin rebuilding her deceased husband's time machine and with a vending machine, the one that was in the video store only two days ago.
Heavy.
Marty ends up leaving with one question for himself, and one that just gives him even more questions:
“Should I go back and fix it?”
The Debate Begins!
Something good happens to Marty: “Haha, yeah, I think I'm good.”
Something bad happens to Marty: “Put me in that vending machine, baby!”
Sometimes it's like: “That boy sounds like he's a lot happier than me.”
Great, he's already questioning his sexuality, now he's GOTTA question his gender too?
Wait, I've been calling him Marty this entire time? I've been using he/him and nothing else? His dad gave him the middle name ‘Seamus?’ No way!
Now he's restless all the time, even taking small slips back into that 'freaked out' state.
To be honest, he was always depressed.
When asked if something's up he has to answer by going “no, I'm good,” “it's nothing,” “I'm alright, nothing's wrong,” or “would you mind calling me Marty? It's nothing, just trying something out.” It's really impacting his relationships.
Starts (poorly) cutting his own hair every 3-4 months.
Behavior is slightly less, or sometimes more, riskier than it was before
Some kind of weird version of survivor's guilt for Twin Pine.
Has always been passionate about music but now, he's like, suspiciously locked in on getting better at the guitar.
i have a great art request: what if somehow citizen Martin, 1985A Marty, and regular Marty all met? Can we have each of their opinions on the other two?
(idk how this’ll even happen, maybe doc was saving marty after the ending of the game or smth and screwed up HARDD leading to multiple Marties that he has to handle all at once lol)
THIS WAS SOO FUNNNNNN thank you for such an awesome ask!
*panting* Hope I'm not late to @bubbiegummie 's Martyverse / Martymania!
While these guys are gonna try and kill each other 90% of the time, they are all still Marty, and I think there's some good bonding opportunities for that other 10%
