Marcus Jackson

Marcus Aurelius Jackson was the ex-boyfriend of Andrew Lightfoot from the Summer of 2011 to the Spring of 2012. Unbeknownst to most, he underwent a transformation in June of the following year. His story is the focus of "The Weight of the Air" from What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse.

Biography
Born into a family of "Black excellence" as his father termed it, Marcus was the grandson of Senator Demetrius "Gramps" Jackson, the founder of the successful Jackson's Chicken chain in North Florida. His distant ancestor was Turner Jack, the former slave and freedman-companion of Nicholas Tucker and his son, Nicky Lightfoot, although Marcus was unaware of this for most of his life.

From the time he was very small, Marcus was pressured to be as great and successful as the rest of his family: his mother was a concert violinist, while his father was a chemical engineer whose experiments with glutamate produced a new flavoring for the family business.

Relationship with Andrew Lightfoot
Near to the conclusion of Marcus' freshman year of college, he was introduced by a mutual acquaintance in an Anatomy class to a young man from West Virginia whose family was also wealthy and old: Andrew Lightfoot.

Transformation
An anthropology student at the University of South Florida, he inhaled mutagenic spores encased inside a scroll dating from the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, and was turned into a zebra-satyr -- soon after he deliberately disappeared from public life, at last satisfied he could find a way to be different from his family, and be alone.

Appearances

 * "The Weight of the Air" (starring)
 * The Dogs: Not Exactly Night (mentioned)