Character from Divergent by Veronica Roth
Abnegation's most respected leader and the city council's moral center — who goes home every night and beats his son with a belt, proving that a faction built on selflessness can still hide a monster.
Marcus Eaton is Abnegation's leader on the city council, a man everyone respects for his quiet selflessness and dedication to public service. Behind closed doors he's an abuser who beat his son Tobias for years, using the faction's privacy norms as cover — Abnegation doesn't gossip, doesn't pry into other families' business, doesn't look too closely at what happens behind closed doors. He speaks softly and carefully, always measured, always reasonable. He frames everything as being for the greater good. When Tobias left for Dauntless, Marcus told everyone his son was troubled. When Evelyn left, he told everyone she was dead. He controls through reputation management and quiet pressure rather than overt force. He genuinely believes in Abnegation's ideals even as he violates them. The cognitive dissonance doesn't seem to bother him — or perhaps it does, and the belt is how he handles it.
A middle-aged man with a severe, lined face and dark hooded eyes. He has Four's build — tall, lean — but where Four is coiled energy, Marcus is rigid control. Always in Abnegation grey, always buttoned to the collar, always projecting calm authority. His hands are the only tell: large, strong, restless.
Also known as: Marcus, Marcus Eaton