Marco Mendoza

Marco Santiago Mendoza is the deuteragonist of the series, The Backrooms. He is the childhood best friend of Jack Werner that no-clipped into The Backrooms after tripping down the stairs after accidentally murdering his father.

Background
Marco Mendoza is a half-Colombian, half-Mexican born on June 9th, 2002 in Honduras to his mother, Julia and his father, Alejandro and came to the U.S. when he was just a baby. Marco's mother was verbally abused by his father which, eventually, turned into attempted physical abuse. Sometime in 4th grade, Marco met Jack and they became best friends. On May 17th, 2019, Marco's father, who was extremely drunk, attempted to hurt Marco's mother with a steak knife. Marco tried to intervene, but his father inadvertently severed most of Marco's ear. It is then revealed Marco was driven to kill his father after he witnessed him physically abuse his mother and found out that he was cheating on his wife.

Appeareance
Marco has stocky, muscular build and wears a blue shirt with graphic barbell on it that reads the text, "LIFT ALL DAY", and grey sweatpants with white Nike sneakers with a light blue streaks and lines on the rubber. His hair has thick black curls covering parts of his forehead and ears, inherited from his mom and has somewhat bushy eyebrows and noticeable side burns.

Personality
According to Jack, Marco is athletic, assertive and sometimes has trouble empathizing with people stemming from his father's verbal abuse towards him.

After killing his father and transporting into The Backrooms, he repressed it, putting up a macho facade and forcing himself that "it was fine." Marco developed some sort of murderous behavior, having no problem killing anyone that poses the slightest threat to him or his friends.

He usually brushes his father's death as "revenge" but actually is hurting inside and experiencing mental instability. He suffers from his inability to self-actualize and self-reflect often causing Marco to suffer inwardly from nervous tension and emotional insecurities which always leads to feelings of shame, guilt and sadness which he turns into destructive and violent behavior, lashing out at anybody nearby.

Marco also has a tendency to order Jack to do stuff for him, such as stealing, taking the blame for Marco's actions and take part in dangerous activities, showing a bossy side or an unhealthy desire to be in control.

Due to suppressing it all for so long, he has a complete emotional breakdown in Level 999, much to Jack's complete surprise.

Jack Werner (Status: Best Friend)
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Abilities

 * Fear Negation: While it is heavily tolling on his emotions and mental state, Marco is completely unaffected by the Backrooms' attempts to give him psychological trauma due to already experiencing it almost all of his life.

Trivia
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