Malcolm Martin

Malcolm Martin was created by Palcomix user Sledge2071 upon the offer of inclusion by Red Dragon. His is also one of the Titular (and pretty much the main) characters in The Misadventures of Samantha and Malcolm.

Casting
Sledge2071 was surprised and somewhat honored when RedDragon extended an invitation to develop Samantha Martin's brother. His first proposal to RD was of a volunteras advocate for penal reform, but after RD laid down more ground work, the two came to create a mechanic whose back story matched up with the back story of the series.

Sledge will be the first to admit that to create Malcolm's backstory, he exaggerated his own childhood and that he has put a lot of himself into Malcolm. In the Palcomix Forums he has published (with RedDragon's approval) several side stories about Malcolm and his sister's home life.

Origin
Born Brandon Doohan to Jeffry and Mirina Doohan. His tendency to tattle (not out of spite but out of his inability to understand that not every school rule needs to be followed to the letter), exemplary grades, and comic failures in gym class alienated him from his classmates, ensuring that his childhood was a lonely one. His parents though, made sure his home life was supportive. Brandon escaped his social frustrations by throwing himself even harder into his studies, working as an assistant in his father's repair garage, and engrossing himself in the expansive fantasy series "Age of Legends." His father would often tell him stories of his old days working on the starships before the plague. Malcolm began to develop an ambition to leave his planet. He proved to be a prodigy of physics and engineering.

College and graduate school were a much better environment for Brandon. The students who abused him had flunked out by mid term and his professors were very supportive of him. The terms flew by and soon Brandon found himself presenting a thesis on a theoretical matter/anti-matter intake that would allow ships no larger than a fighter to achieve warp drive. The review board, however found his work to be too theoretical and impractical for life under Paradiso's isolationism. Brandon was devastated.

Then news reached town that a group of extra-planetary ships had been "detained". Brandon crossed the sector to see them as they were impounded and low and behold, their largest ship was half the size of what Paradiso thought was the minimum size for a warp capable ship.

Sentencing
Brandon was resolved to prove his professors wrong. He bought a black market copy of the designs for the building and gathered all of the gear he thought he would need for an infiltration. Unfortunately, since all of his experience in such matters had come from video games, he selected for his point of ingress an air duct two sizes too small for him. He got stuck with his body in the building and his legs dangling outside. Eventually the guards stoped laughing long enough to arrest him.

On the advisement of his advocate, he plea bargained from a quarantine violation.


 * Crime ; Tresspass, Destruction of Government Property
 * Sentence ; Two to Four cycles of childhood, from the ages 6 to 12

At his sentancing, Judge Moley told him: "Young man, when your sentence is through, I would advise you to return to your chosen profession of engineer, for you have absolutely no talent for crime."

Current Events
Brandon Doohan became Malcolm Martin, assigned to the care of Jet and Alison Martin. A counselor thought that their current charge, Samantha, would benefit from interacting with a brother. Unfortunately, Samantha reminded Malcolm too much of every classmate who mocked him in school, and they have been snapping at each other from day one. It took many punishments before the two could at least pretend to get along. Upon attending school he reclaimed his element, surpassing many expectations in Math and Science, but he remained somewhat withdrawn with other students. Malcolm soon developed a crush on Natalie Cummings. He was quite surprised when she returned his feelings in kind. The two have blossomed into a full romance with Natalie slowly coaxing Malcolm out of his shell. He no longer entertains fantasies of escaping Paradiso. Learning that Earth is not a paradise where the intellectual is treasured has helped him reconcile himself to life on his homeplanet.