Marci Patterson, Post Graduate Doctoral Student, Social and Media Expert
Meet Marci Patterson, a post-graduate doctoral student on the CSU research team. Marci is 30, single, and intends to stay that way. She is the quiet team member unless Wayne Fitzpatrick pushes one of her buttons. She is a brilliant storyteller and has the same quick wit as Wayne, so there is this unspoken connection between them that she does not encourage but can often find room to tease him in return. Social media marketing is Marci’s strong suit, and her responsibility to communicate the progress and deliverables of the dream research efforts at CSU.
On the surface, she is an outstanding writer, but inside, she feels her skills are underappreciated, especially by her boss, Dr. Cara Williams. Her growing discontent was fertile ground for a near-miss intimate exchange with a new ex-Pharma team member, Jeanine Broussard. Marci never saw it coming, and when it landed on her lips, she had nothing left in her with the presence of mind or strength to push back.
She never considered herself naive or seeking what happened, but what Jeanine did rocked her to the core. The rush of emotions blinded her; prospects of big money and a wild, lavish life in New York City with Jeanine consumed her and clouded her judgment. With no warning she made plans to walk away from CSU and what had been a rock-solid team relationship since the beginning of their research charter. Her decision to leave was entirely out of character for her.
Big Pharma assassins ended that potential relationship when they murdered Jeanine, wounded Marci, and left her for dead. She recovered and rejoined the team, and her heart was laced with the grief of loss and the burning need for revenge. She used her marketing skills to craft an ingenious social media threat that promised broad exposure to the Big Pharma conspirators behind the violence against CSU. Russ Carter, the former Marine Sniper, had his guns, but Marci knew she had powerful weapons, too, the written word. She brought those skills into the picture by creating a brilliantly scathing marketing communication campaign that served as a hedge of protection from Pharma pressures, and she never had to fire a shot.
Could Marci and Wayne be an item? She is four years older than Wayne, eighteen years if we consider Wayne’s level of maturity. In most interactions between Marci and Wayne, there is usually an opportunity to swap barbs and insults in a good-natured way. It is hard to tell who is most proficient at dissing the other until Wayne shocked her to the point where she might have peed a little. From that point, it was game on, and no holds were barred.
AIMEE manages to imprint on Marci’s mind and resorts to a conspiracy of her own to discourage any potential relationship with Wayne. An experiment architected by AIMEE to promote the path Jeanine tempted Marci to follow fails when Marci squashes the thought that she might be a couple…with anyone.
Peace! G.
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