Marcus Donovan

Registry of the Evolved Database

File #01 Oct 2009 07:04

Summary

Name Marcus Donovan Jr. Aliases Status Registered Evolved (Tier 0) Ability X-Ray Vision Gender Male Race/Eth. Caucasian Birthdate September 7th, 1954 Age 55 Height 5' 11" Build 210 lbs. Eyes Blue Hair Gray Residence Upper East Side, New York City Employment Parents Marcus Donovan Sr. (Father) Lisa Donovan (Mother) Siblings Kurt Donovan (Brother; Deceased) Marital Status Divorced Children Jackie Leeds-Donovan (Daughter) First Seen Seeing Through Last Seen Profile Marcus Donovan is a retired Chief of Department in the NYPD, formerly in the running for the position of Mayor of New York City in 2010 but lost the election to Sylvia Lockheart. Now he is a pro-evolved lobbyist in Washington trying to put forth proactive legislation striving for equal rights for Evolved humans.

portrayed by Bruce Willis

Background

Marcus Donovan has done little to hide his troubled youth from the public eye. In a way, his difficult youth has been a banner by which his political aspirations have rallied under. Born to a factory worker and a stay-at-home mother, Marcus' suffered not only his parents' loveless marraige and eventual divorce, but also the death of his older brother Kurt in 1967 in a tragic car accident involving a drunk driver. Marcus cites this influence in his youth as his inspiration to join the police academy when he turned 18.

Donovan entered the NYPD in August 1973 at 18 years old as a Police Trainee. In April 1976, he was appointed a Patrolman, and began his career on patrol in the 77th Precinct in Brooklyn. He was promoted to Detective in May 1988, Sergeant in September 1988, Lieutenant in February 1991, Captain in June 1994, Deputy Inspector in August 1998, Inspector in August 1999, Deputy Chief in September 2001, and Assistant Chief in December 2002. On August 25, 2005, he was promoted to the position of Chief of Department, making him the highest ranking uniformed member of the department.

In his career, Donovan had served in numerous commands of the department, including the 77th, 10th, 83rd, 109th, 34th, 66th, and 83rd Precincts, and in the Narcotics Division and the Detective Bureau. In his last assignment before becoming Chief of Department, Donovan was the Commanding Officer of the Strategic and Tactical Command (S.A.T.COM) Brooklyn North. As Chief of Department, Donovan directed and controlled the daily operations of the five major enforcement Bureaus (Patrol Services, Detectives, Transit, Housing, and Organized Crime Control) within the NYPD. He also coordinates the crime control strategy meetings at which commanders share tactical information and recommend plans of action for realizing crime reduction goals. During his career, he has earned some of the department's most honored and prestigious awards, including the Combat Cross, the Medal for Valor, and the Exceptional Merit award.

The vast majority of Donovan's commendations came following the tragic 2006 nuclear explosion in Midtown Manhattan. With a staggering loss to the NYPD, Donovan pulled himself out from behind his desk to join the other officers in rescue efforts of those trapped in the fallout zone. Spending nearly thirty man hours working the ruins, rescuing trapped citizens and bringing them to medical aid, Donovan unfortunately suffered from severe radiation sickness, and by the spring of 2006 was in such bad health that he was forced to retire from his newly appointed position of Chief of Department to recover. Lauded as one of the many heroes of New York City, Donovan was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 commemorating the one year anniversary of the tragedy in Midtown and the heroics of the Police, Fire and Rescue workers who put their lives on the line to save so many.

In the years following his retirement and the subsequent recovery of his good health, Donovan has been a public advocate for the survivors of the 2006 nuclear explosion within New York City, criticizing Mayor Bianco's handling of refugees from the ruins in trailer parks, as well as vocally opposing the Linderman Act and the association with the notorious mobster Daniel Linderman as a face of the United States policy on Evolved. Donovan believes that the Linderman Act, as is, does not suit the best interests of the American people and need to be drastically revised before further civil rights damages are done. Donovan works closely with the ACLU in all attempts to have the Linderman Act revised by Congress.

In February of 2009, Marcus announced his candidacy for the 2009 mayoral election in New York City as a registered Democrat. Months later, in July of 2009, Marcus publicly registered as an Evolved with the Linderman Act, despite his protests against it. Some suspicion surrounds Donovan's registration, along with uncorroborated claims that he took a blood test earlier in the year that came up with a negative result. The subsequent emergency of an X-Ray vision ability, however, surprised his supporters.

This emergence of an Evolved ability has put a strain on Donovan's political aspirations. Now publicly Evolved, he has lost strong support from New York City's non-evolved populace, support that has fallen to pro-registration candidate Sylvia Lockheart.

Psych Profile

Marcus Donovan is a strong-willed and motivated man, not seemingly motivated by greed or power, but by a strong desire to change the system around him. He sees corruption where often times there isn't any, and is a man who strives to pull apart the delicate balance of power that Daniel Linderman has put in place and find a way to prosecute him for the crimes he's comitted. Donovan is hard on crime, hard on corruption.

Evolved Ability

Although he can switch off his ability and see normally, Marcus has the basic equivalent of x-ray vision. Kind of like how people used to believe that the eyes produced the light they see by, his eyes emit radiation that they then translate into moving bluish-black and white images.

The degree to which he can see through things is controlled through the focus and intensity of the radiation he puts off. He can stop short at seeing through a person's clothes, or he can strip them down to walking sacks of organs or skeletons - something that he does with such regularity that he can often recognize people from their bones alone. He can see through walls with relative ease regardless of what they're made of, but the more that there is going on in a given area, the harder it is to focus on something specific. That is, while spying on activity the room next door is relatively simple for him, if he tried to look through two consecutive walls, the goings on behind them would too confused and obscured by the overlap for him to make out anything more than possible movement. Distance is also a factor. More often than not, the ability is active, and he frequently uses it to check people for weapons and other suspicious items on their person.

When in x-ray mode, he does not register visible light, or the absence of it. He can still see with perfect clarity when blindfolded or in pitch black darkness, and would not notice if someone were to shine a bright light in his eyes. His pupils expand and contract in tandem with his level of focus, rather than reacting to visible light (unless the ability is inactive, in which case they react normally) which has the potential to give the wrong impression, should someone be paying attention and notice that he looks completely drugged out or even blind because his pupils are dilated and apparently unfocused in a well-lit room.

As a side effect, when the ability is active, his irises put off a pale blue glow. In daylight it is difficult to detect save for the fact that it washes some of the natural color out of his eyes, but in dim or dark lighting conditions, it is much more notable.

In addition to enhanced vision, he has a mild natural resistance to ionizing radiation that would otherwise be a persistent threat to his health.

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Trivia

• Yes, Marcus Donovan somehow has Flint Deckard's X-Ray vision, and he isn't giving it back! >:(