MARX ★ 28 ★ CLOWN (HE/HIM) ★ NODDY/JACKAL NYIN ★ BI

Clowning Around

Marx is not a professional clown, and do not let him convince you otherwise. His opinions on clownery are not to be trusted, and he was expelled from clown school in his youth for bad behavior. Perhaps his rejection by the clownery community is the source of his fall into darkness, or maybe he just sort of did that.

Marx spent his childhood on Summertime Star, but had never really been able to get along with others much as he was often unintentionally mean and his idea of fun was somewhat... "stupidly over-the-top dangerous." Finite was one of his only friends back in elementary school, but afterwards he didn't have much of a proper social life. At some point along the line (not long before being expelled from Clown School), he ended up figuring that if he seemingly couldn't get along with people normally, he'd just be mean on purpose so if people disliked him, it was on his own terms. This was... not very conducive to fixing his problem with no one liking him.

Some time after high school, he just... snuck into a college as a joke, fully expecting to be kicked out. The college was so poorly-managed that they literally never did. Much to his surprise, he ended up reuniting with his elementary school friend Finite, there, who was plenty willing to rekindle the friendship. Through Finite, Marx also met Magolor (though Marx always saw Magolor more as a japery target than an actual friend,) and the three ended up getting into numerous hijinx (many of which ending with either Finite or Marx or both in the hospital.) Despite everything, Marx was genuinely really happy to have Finite around.

After graduation (though Marx didn't graduate because he wasn't actually enrolled in the first place,) however, Marx and Finite were on their way to a job interview at a local Haltdonalds when Finite suddenly vanished without a trace. Marx ended up getting the job somehow, but was confused and alarmed at Finite's disappearance and any attempts to contact him failed. However, he didn't look into getting help from anyone, and when over a week later Finite tried to call Marx on the phone (repeatedly), Marx refused to answer out of bitterness, having come to the conclusion that Finite intentionally ditched him.

Marx had a horrible time working at Haltdonalds, having had to work exaggeratedly long hours (...99-hour workdays with no breaks) and duel fast food beasts, but eventually quit out of frustation. With nothing better to do with his life anymore, he decided to try out being outright evil, and traveled to Pop Star to enact a certain plan involving Galactic Nova. And... well, sure, he got powers, but Kirby did end up killing him. He floated in space dead for a time, only reviving by chance when his corpse absorbed enough of Galactic Nova's leftover magic to revive him. Then, he began concocting a revenge plan to enact against Kirby, but ended up getting turned around on the way back to Pop Star and ended up freeing planet Fog Star from an underqualified alien tyrant and maybe learning a lesson in the process (but probably not.) Long story.

When he finally got back to Pop Star, his revenge plans were cut short as the planet was in the middle of a Jamba Heart-related crisis, and Marx to find that instead of Kirby attacking him, the little pink puffball actually invited him to come along and help. Confusedly, Marx accepted and came along on the adventure, which eventually culminated in killing a dark god. Afterwards, Marx found himself fully forgiven and unwilling to go through with his revenge plan, but... still didn't really feel comfortable being a part of Kirby's friend group. Feeling hopeless and resigned, he settled down in Dream Land and fell into a depressive rut. However... things began to change very quickly when Finite suddenly returned and Marx was forced to deal with both his five-year-long grudge and general emotional unhealthiness (...and a bunch of other, much, MUCH weirder problems.)

Marx is kind of a trainwreck of a person in every direction - even biologically. Due to how incompatible the physiology of a Nyin and a Noddy are, he probably shouldn't actually be physically alive, and growing up he dealt with a myriad of bizarre magical health problems stemming from the fact that he's somewhere between having actual organs and just being full of magic glitter glue. Fortunately(?), most of his bizarre health situation was nullified post-revival, due to the overflow of Clockwork Star magic kinda... chungling Marx a lil bit? At least he gets a myriad of bizarre powers out of it... though his wings don't entirely make up for his lack of arms.

As a person, Marx is difficult to interact with. He prefers to annoy, baffle, and infuriate people as much as possible, but he's not so great at rolling with the punches when he's on the receiving end of it. He also has serious problems with (badly) bottling up his emotions, as he'd prefer everyone think he's too "cool and evil clown" to actually feel anything - when in fact he is feeling a lot of things, all the time, constantly. Also, it's often very hard to tell the difference between Marx trying to mess with someone and him just being actually genuinely weird, especially since the two often overlap. He also tends to assume that everyone else has some kind of malicious ulterior motive, just because he figures that's the sort of thing he himself would do.