MARK S(COUT).

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biography.

Mark grew up with his younger sister Devon. The two shared a close bond that continued into adulthood. While still a kid, Mark's dog died and he felt it was his fault because he'd left the gate open. While working at Ganz College, Mark met a woman named Gemma, when they were both donating blood. They started seeing each other and eventually married. Their marriage was happy, but was strained after a miscarriage and subsequent infertility. Then one night, Gemma left to go to a work event while Mark stayed behind to finish something for work. Cops came to Mark's house that night to tell him that Gemma had died in a car accident. He later confirmed the dead body was hers. As a way to cope with his grief, Mark decided to apply for a job at Lumon Industries, infamously known for their Severance procedure, in which a person's consciousness is severed, such that one consciousness (commonly referred to as the "outie") is active outside of work, and the other consciousness (commonly referred to as the "innie") is only active within the workspace, neither having any memories of the active period of the other consciousness.

Mark got the job and went through this procedure, creating an "innie"simply named "Mark S." Mark S. would awake within Lumon for the first time, not remembering anything about his personal life, only impersonal facts such as names of states in the US, among other things. He threatened to kill the ones who had done this to him while he was still new, however he quickly realized that there was no escape from his situation, as permanently leaving the workplace by whatever means (e.g. getting his outie to quit) would essentially be the same as killing himself. So he accepted the situation he was in, and became a mostly loyal employee, too scared to question things or try to fight for his freedom. Despite this, Mark S. would often take the blame for his coworkers mishaps or retaliations, thus receiving the punishment in the Break Room meant for them.

When innie-Mark's best friend suddenly stops showing up to work, and is replaced by a new innie worker named Helly R., who is surprisingly defiant and determined to get out by any means necessary, Mark S. and his co-workers are inspired anew to start working against Lumon to try to gain some semblance of freedom for themselves, and in their attempt to find a way out, they start to discover more about Lumon's shady workings.

Meanwhile, outie-Mark struggles with his grief, and added to it, the judgment he receives by anyone who finds out he has gone through the Severed procedure, as it is a highly controversial one.

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