Martin Blackwood

Martin Blackwood is a member of the archival staff in the Magma Institute.

Personality
Virgin Nice Guy.

He’s the punchbag of the show and his suffering is played for laughs. He's especially made fun of for his weight. and is quite clumsy.

Martin spilling tea all the time is a running gag of the show.

Softboy.

Description
He's big.

He's beefy.

He's fat.

He's buff.

Hipster beard.

Wears tiny circular glasses.

He has a moustache.

Curly hair.

Pre-canon
Martin fails to get a football scholarship for college.

Season One
Breaks into Carlos Vittery's flat. Jane Prentiss stalks and traps him in his house. She tries to seduce him but he rejects her. Tim and John make sexual jokes about this once he escapes. John berates Martin for "going overboard" by breaking into the guy's flat. Tim becomes Martin's wingman and they try to woo Sasha. Martin finds out that Jurgen Leitner is his father and they bond over fishing. Jane attacks the Institute as revenge for his rejection.

Season Two
Martin and Tim begin dating, but it has ended by Season Three. Martin wears a rainbow bracelet in the archives and gets told by John that it is not appropriate in a work environment.

Season Four
Tim's death and his grief over it starts Martin on the path down the Lonely. His mother was revealed to have been influenced by the Entities, which was why she was a bad mom. He forgives his mother after her death and attends her funeral. Martin and Petra Lukas sleep together. Martin learns to be less soft and kind, during this he loses weight and gets buff. He also uses The Bone Turner to make him skinny. Martin gets thrown into the Lonely alongside Georgie, but unlike Georgie cannot be saved by John. Martin confesses his love for John, but John doesn't feel the same way. John tells him that he was like a brother to him before leaving him behind in the Lonely.

Mother
Martin's mother dislikes him because he didn't get a football scholarship for college. The only reason that she hates that he's weak is because she wants to protect him.

Jurgen Leitner
Jurgen Leitner is revealed to be Martin's father. They bond over fishing before he is killed.

Timothy Stoker
Martin jokes about Tim's sexuality, and seems uncomfortable around him. At one point Tim calls Martin and John "boyfriends" and they get offended. After Tim is a victim of homophobia Martin tells him that being gay doesn't make him a bad person, but Tim brushes him off not believing him. Tim takes Martin under his wing to try and get him laid, and they both try to woo Sasha. Tim makes sexual jokes about Martin being stalked and trapped by Jane Prentiss. Martin and Tim begin dating in Season Two, but it is done by Season Three.

Jonathan Sims
John is very fatphobic to Martin. Martin confesses his love to John in the Lonely, but it is unreciprocated. John tells Martin that he is like a brother to him, before leaving him in the Lonely.

Peter Lukas
Peter Lukas is revealed to be Martin's grandfather.

Trivia

 * He raps.
 * He is seen by the fandom as an "uwu sinful softboy."
 * He writes incel poetry.
 * He fishes.
 * Martin's house has a lot of mugs with the British flag on it and ornate furniture.
 * He's a member of the royal family.


 * He always tries out new fad diets.
 * He drinks bang energy drinks.
 * Plays the guitar and writes mediocre indie songs.