Thinking about how Marcus depends on others approval and instructions to exist, only for him to be discarded by everyone he cared about…



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Thinking about how Marcus depends on others approval and instructions to exist, only for him to be discarded by everyone he cared about…
Anyway, inherent dehumanisation of Marcus who is desperate to be alive V Krane soldiers literally being Numbers
did they tell mateus to make that stupid fucking face as marcus every single scene or did he do that himself because. i cant take it
Marcus: (Smugly) Does it bother you that, even after all this time, I’m still taller?
Leo: Are you bothered by the fact that your dad left you in a pile of garbage for 3 years, or?
Marcus: (Pause) I hate you.
Douglas: No, Marcus, I'm not letting you off the island yet. I still have, y'know, a bunch of work to do on you?
Marcus: *Resisting the urge to say 'you killed me' as a rebuttal because they know it stopped working on Douglas months ago*
marcus doodle that i attempted to do today <3
i cropped their hands because they sucked sorry.
also more eye headcanons. wahey. marcus's eyes are a pale brown but have a very grey tone to them. when they are using their lasers their eyes go to a very bright brown. so like. grey brown eyes on marcus = safe. you can interact. bright brown eyes = RUN AWAY NOW
unfortunate beige baby marcus /j
Marcus, using Oliver as a head rest, completely platonically: why does kaz think we’re dating?
Oliver, eating muffins Marcus made him: i have no clue man.
Marcus, wiping crumbs off of Oliver’s face: Yeah, i honestly don’t understand it either.
the thought of Marcus. as a kid watching movies with Douglas (i.e Marcus was In The Room while Douglas was goofing off) and seeing how over emotional everyone gets in acting and Marcus watches a character sob heavily and asks:
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Marcus: Hey, dad? What is that lady doing?
Douglas: Uhh, crying. she’s sad.
Marcus: You said you were sad all the time, why aren’t you crying?
Douglas: (Whispering to himself) I’m crying on the inside. (Louder) Um, anyways, people only cry if they... get really sad. Or whatever.
Marcus: Can I cry?
Douglas: Well, I mean, um, do you want to cry?
Marcus: If I could cry, would that help my missions?
Douglas: Probably? I mean, it’d take you some practice since you don’t really... feel things.
Marcus: (Smiling) Okay, I’ll practice.
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And whenever Marcus “practices” Douglas can tell that they seem weirdly into it. Like ‘Having-Feelings’ into it. Douglas brushes it off, mostly. He just thinks that Marcus’s programming is exaggerating their actions and disregards it, ignoring Marcus’s clear love of the hobby.
Douglas slowly encourages Marcus to keep practicing, and Marcus starts performing shows for Douglas, who finds it hilarious and keeps on encouraging Marcus to continue, even when they should be focusing more on the mission of capturing Douglas’s kids, and at some point, Douglas starts to momentarily forget he didn’t program Marcus with feelings, unaware that Marcus has always been feeling things, they just didn’t understand it.