Marcus walked into Gabon as one of the early power players — a confident ER doctor anchoring the Kota alliance and carrying himself like a man who had the game figured out. For a while he genuinely did; Kota's core looked like the group to beat heading toward the merge.
Then the merge hit, and the math he thought he controlled turned on him. In one of Gabon's signature blindsides, Marcus was sent home as the very first member of the jury, tenth place, never seeing it coming. A cautionary tale about mistaking early control for actual safety.
