#sorry for the implied frankmarc but like u can just ignore frank in that hc it works with any other person yadda yadda

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actually the whole plot of marc having a daughter is deeply disturbing if u think about it and bemis absolutely didnt know how to handle it. i knew it was coming bc of the covers and those short synopsis-es of upcoming comics

hold up i fucken logged on skype for that

[26.10.2017 09:27:43] coyote: CALLING IT NOW, JAKE HAS A CHILD, HAS SOME FAMILY AND MARC WAS UNAWARE OF IT ALL.............

AND THIS IS HOW I HOPED THIS WOULD GET HANDLED:

[26.10.2017 13:34:49] coyote: okay so anyways listen to this shit, i imagine its gonna be like this (assuming my prediction is correct i kinda hope its not) - turns out jake hooked up with some girl has been visiting her from time to time idk they had a baby together and like.. lockley doesnt get that hes not a real person that hes just an identity so he didnt see anything wrong with that (tho i bet the kid was an accident) and then marc finds out about it, gets so emotional. at first hes mostly angry, angry at jake for putting him in this situation. but ok whatever he gets back to his place, calls frank and tells frank that hes a father??? can u imagine.

marc sitting on the couch, face in hands, bent so low and breathing so hard, telling the details to frank and saying stuff like ‘--im not THE father i dont know that woman i dont know that child, jake is the father but technically its me?? because this is my body but i- i dont even know them? i dont know these people but its me who needs to be responsible for this, because im real, jake is just my fucking sickness--’ and frank is just listening to marc break down even more, then marc is saying shit like ‘and im angry im fucking angry at myself for letting this happen i should have stayed hospitalized or at least doped up, or maybe give myself over to khonshu i dont know-- lockley never understood that we’re sick, all four of us and what i have, what we have, the psychotic disorders-- thats genetic, frank. that’s all heritable. so this means that because of me, because of what i did or didnt do, somebody else is going to live through the same shit i did. that baby is going to hear voices, see shit that’s not there, will have to live on meds that will make her sick to her bones just because im the father.’ and he gets from like... angry for making this happen to just straight up feeling so fucking guilty??? LIKE?? POSSIBLY CRYING? LIKE I COULD SEE THAT. ‘sure maybe they wont have it as bad as i do, but maybe they’ll have it worse. and even just a tiny bit-- its bad enough, especially when youre a kid, i know ive been sick for so long i didnt have a childhood, frank, i was hospitalized, i never did what i wanted to, i couldnt have dreams i thought i was going to stay there forever and now i think i should have--’ and he goes on for so long, just frantically spitting out words, either having a panic attack or a straight up breakdown

BECAUSE U CANNOT TELL ME MARC WOULD BE HAPPY TO HAVE A KID. HE KNOWS. HE KNOWS HE’S NOT FIT TO BE A FATHER, NOR DID HE CHOSE TO BE ONE !!!!!!!! HE HAS A LOT OF SCHIZOPHRENIC SYMPTOMS and schizophrenia/schizophrenic personality disorders are HIGHLY heritable. he didn’t choose this and if bemis handled it properly it would have been a very powerful plot device but he didnt, he just wrote marc being so fucking happy to be a father, despite the fact that he should be fucking TERRIFIED of condemning another person to at least slightly similar fate. it could have been a good plot, something addressing being a parent with a mental disorder, but it was just a quick plot twist and we moved right on. in reality, marc has every reason to avoid his “””daughter”””, avoid marlene, think that it’s better for both of them if he stays away, be wrecked with guilt. but no, bemis really doesnt know how to handle deep plots and he is really out there ruining the mk story, i cannot wait for all of his shit to get retconned