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**Marcus Norgaard** (born 311) is an individual of the C9 universe, one of those who formed the House of Confidence on Aerogaea 347n.
## Life
Marcus Norgaard was born in year 311.
He was 19 years old in 330, the year the Klak Grove was destroyed.
The manuscript records him across 11 passages, beginning in Chapter 1 — The Klak Grove.
## Mind
Standard / Reactive. He does not see slow motion, but his hyperthymesia lets him instantly reference every fight he has ever had, predicting enemy movements from pattern.
He reads micro-expressions and tension instantly. His pain reception is manually severed — trauma response. He feels pressure and temperature but not pain. He operates on instrument flight rules: intellectually calculating damage he cannot feel.
Because he has no pain signal, he runs a conscious visual check after every fight. Looking for blood, shivering (shock), pallor. He treats his own survival as a logistical problem.
When treating a patient, his hyperthymesia retrieves his own matching injury from memory. He doesn't feel their pain; he relives his own. This makes him a fast, precise surgeon who fixes quickly to end the flashback.
Perfect autobiographical record. Every sensory input filed and never deleted. He does not use vague terms like "it hurts" — he uses structural terms like tensile failure or fluid loss. He cross-references symptoms against a memory database of thousands of injuries.
When the threat to Sienna or Celestine exceeds a threshold, the sociable persona dissolves. He becomes non-verbal.
## Body
Newtonian. Under sudden stress, the tissue hardens; under slow stress, it stretches. He is a human shock absorber.
His body does not fatigue in the traditional sense. It converts combat stress into increased muscle density. The longer the fight, the stronger he becomes.
His sheer surface area functions as a physical shield for smaller allies. His geometry lets him wield axechucks — momentum-based weapons that would dislocate a normal person's shoulder.
## Appearances
[[pages/glass-house-chapter-1-the-klak-grove|Chapter 1 — The Klak Grove]], [[pages/glass-house-chapter-12-the-new-normal|Chapter 12 — The New Normal]], [[pages/glass-house-chapter-13-the-ally-and-the-ghost-op|Chapter 13 — The Ally and the Ghost Op]], [[pages/glass-house-chapter-17-the-explosion|Chapter 17 — The Explosion]], [[pages/glass-house-chapter-2-the-glitch|Chapter 2 — The Glitch]], [[pages/glass-house-chapter-3-the-lab-and-the-threat|Chapter 3 — The Lab and the Threat]], [[pages/glass-house-chapter-4-rise-and-shine|Chapter 4 — Rise and Shine]], [[pages/glass-house-chapter-5-the-first-of-senetis|Chapter 5 — The First of Senetis]], [[pages/glass-house-chapter-6-the-arena|Chapter 6 — The Arena]], [[pages/glass-house-chapter-7-the-generator|Chapter 7 — The Generator]], [[pages/glass-house-chapter-8-the-cave-and-the-guide|Chapter 8 — The Cave and the Guide]].