Marius St. Croix

With a scowl, he rubbed at his temples. Headaches never seemed to go away these days, especially not when he was straight.

Details

Name: Marius St. Croix

First appearance: Carmen Animi Vermium

Family: St. Croix/Laverne Family: Cartier St. Croix (father), unnamed mother; Monet St. Croix (brother, disowned), Nicole and Claudette (younger twin sisters); Marius Laverne (half-brother); 'Grandfather' (maternal grandfather).

Biography

The eldest son of the media baron, Cartier St. Croix, Marius spent his childhood and adolescence in exclusive private schools, where he both good at sports and academically gifted.

All of this changed once his powers, a form of mal-adaptive telepathy characterised by psychic “worms” that were able to eat into any given psyche, including his own, manifested, requiring him to repeatedly empty the worms into other minds, to avoid doing too much damage to himself. He began hearing voices as a result of the telepathy and feeling the effects of worms, both of which combined to force him into a lifelong cycle of self medication with legal and illegal drugs.

Marius dropped out of school and was unable to hold down a job, even with Cartier’s influence. He eventually became involved in small scale drug dealing in Bali, owing largely to the availability of drugs on the island at the time. Cartier’s influence was able to save him from jail time and further consequences after he was arrested for dealing and other things whilst in Bali, the event prompting Cartier to disown him.

He spent most of the next fifteen years in and out of unskilled jobs and doing periodic stretches in jail as he would turn to minor dealing and petty crime whenever he was unable to find work.

His self medication and addiction problems eventually led to kidney failure, among other medical issues, including distorted thought patterns caused by his psychic worms. Faced with his own death, Marius attempted to use his psychic worms to erase his sister Monet’s mind in order to steal her body.

This failed and the consequent powers backlash caused significant brain damage.

Marius is now living in supported accommodation.

Powers/Abilities

Low-level maladaptive telepathy, characterised by psychic worms that are capable of eating into people’s minds. Unable to turn his powers off, the worms continually ate into Marius’ own mind if he didn’t periodically remove them by expelling them into others’ minds.

Plots

Carmen Animi Vermium

Meta

Socked by: Dex

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