Marcus Kincaide

Marcus Kincaide (b. 10 October 2011) is a British musician and resistance fighter, and a founding member and the lead guitarist of underground metal band Connissus.

After Kincaide's birthplace of Leeds, England was targeted by an alien terror attack, he was separated from his family and forced to relocate to the safety of the countryside under two guardians. After the war against the aliens died down and the ADVENT Coalition was established, Kincaide and his guardians moved into the new city centre in London. A rebellious child, Kincaide often refused the commands and advice from his guardians, and always held a bitter distrust of the ADVENT regime even if only through teenage angst to begin with. Discovering metal music after his friend Ryan Weilings introduced it to him only exemplified this problem, and before long Kincaide bought himself a guitar with saved up money and did little other than practise his instrument.

On September 6, 2028, Kincaide and Weilings, alongside Ryan Ashwood and Michael Lee, formed Connissus. Over the next few years, the band performed in multiple underground venues across the British Isles, and although Lee was later replaced by Axel Bramston-Hope following Lee having a drunken argument with Ashwood, the band found considerable success and popularity, and released two albums - "Fortress of the Six Fires" and "The Galactic Scourge" - before Lee reported the band's existence to ADVENT out of revenge, leading to all of the active band members other than Kincaide being killed and the subsequent dissolution of the band.

After Connissus's dissolution, Kincaide joined the local resistance and remained for a short while before relocating to Couronne Haven in France in November 2034. At Couronne, he became much more active as a resistance fighter, earning a well-founded reputation across many French resistance cells for excellent marksmanship and quick thinking in combat - but also met his eventual lover, local radio host and former model Marie LeBrun. Kincaide often featured on LeBrun's broadcasts, originally as a musical guest, but eventually earning more of a permanent broadcasting position as their relationship developed.

More recently, Kincaide, as well as LeBrun, became a prominent target of EXALT's MOCK X Initiative, with both being forcibly kidnapped by EXALT operatives in May 2035 and subjected to a Process to become EXALT agents themselves against their will. Under the charge of Gabriel Vernon, Kincaide has been responsible for numerous attacks against the resistance and has directly engaged XCOM twice, during Operations Carbon Wreath and Mithril Chain - playing a prominent role in the capture of Anastasiya Volkova in the former. However, starting in October 2035, Kincaide has been able to regain partial mental control thanks to previously unnoticed latent psionic capability, and can use that psionic capability to temporarily free himself and others nearby using Solace, and uses it to either sabotage EXALT operations or spend unimpeded, 'real' time with LeBrun.

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