#Mark is really just a wayward soul that I stuck into the submas fandom

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Woah, Them. ♡

It's just the Subway Bosses and their weird nephew that happens to be a pokemon.

Finally getting around to context for this lil Oc based au:

Mark was a kid who died at a young age due to an accident. This being Unova, he came back as a Yamask, and he stumbled across one of those kid-sized mannequins. Promptly possessed it and wandered about, dodging the local authorities and doing his best to just be a kid still.

Then he got into the subway somehow. His possessed body was in bad shape, and he ended up getting found by the subway twins as they were closing up. Obviously they called the proper authorities, but they got wind that Mark was a pokemon, and offered him to stay with them.

They "adopted" Mark as though he was a normal human kid and with a little more effort put into his disguise, they worked it out so he was a regular kid. (Regular as he could be raised by Emmet and Ingo anyways-) He was mute and always wore his mask, leading people to assume he'd just had a bad accident growing up so he had a lil trauma.

Fast forward, Mark's actually growing up pretty decently by human standards, and there's a big ol accident. Mark started working at the Depot with his Uncles, and it'd been a few months. He was recognizable as all get out thanks to his new uniform and his mask, and all his other quirks. Someone was screaming by the platform as a train was due to pull in that their kid had gotten onto the tracks. Ingo and Emmet had tried to keep the people on the edge calm and were going to find a way to get the kid when Mark just rushed off the tracks and chuckled the kid back up to his Uncles at the last second.

His fake body was smashed to pieces by the oncoming train, and Ingo and Emmet had to shut down the station and re-route all the trains. Even though they knew Nark probably wasn't dead-dead, the public had just witnessed the boy supposedly get hit by the subway train, so they couldn't exactly continue servicing the tracks. Later on, after everything happened, they couldn't find Mark as a Yamask, and found his mask had been split in half during the impact.

It took like, two years, but Mark did show back up. He just hadn't been able to reform himself before then. At the miraculous reappearance of their nephew, two stories circulated. 1) Mark had come back as a Yamask after being struck by the train to continue serving the station. 2) Mark had survived the initial incident, running away rather than getting hit. He only returned a few years later out of guilt and longing for his home. The second one was more widely believed, the first was a little more accurate.

Mark doesn't try to actively hide the fact he's a Yamask, but he also doesn't show it off. Sometimes, on rare occasions, he'll appear like above, communicating to Ingo and Emmet through the parts of his mask rather than appear in both body and spirit.

I feel like Mark and my Zoroark ocs N and Danny would all get along swimmingly. All raised in Unova and identify as humans/trainers, but are actually just pokemon having an identity crisis. 🙏

Gear Station seems to be a refuge for all these strange pokemon that think they're people. Honestly, it's definitely not the weirdest thing ever seen on the subway lmao-