Marco Mendoza

Marco Santiago Mendoza is the deuteragonist of the series, The Backrooms. He is the childhood best friend of Jack Werner.

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. In Part II, his hair is now almost down to his neck, completely covering his ears and is visibly growing a mustache.

Personality
According to Jack, Marco is athletic, assertive and sometimes have trouble empathizing with people stemming from his father's verbal abuse. After killing his father and transporting into The Backrooms, Marco developed some sort of murderous behavior after that mental barrier that kept his confidence away from the rest of his mind disappeared and has no problem killing anyone that poses a threat to him or his friends.

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.

Marco has suppressed his true thoughts and feelings about murdering his father and is ultimately unearthed when reaching Level 999 with Jack.

Jack Werner (Status: Best Friend)
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Abilities

 * Fear Negation: 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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