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Clyde and Archer had been inseparable ever since birth, so Archer's brain injury hit them pretty hard. What hit them even harder was that Clyde impulsively lied to Archer and to the authorities that there was absolutely nothing they could have done to prevent it, while in reality there was about a 50/50 chance they could have saved both themselves and their brother from the accident, but saved only themselves out of panicked cowardice. They've been keeping up the lie for 5 years now, which makes time with Archer especially exhausting, even though they love their brother with all of their stupid little heart.
Archer loves his twin deeply. He thinks they're a bit of a downer, but knows that they're a softie inside. When Archer had his brain injury, Clyde quickly became registered as a caretaker, which Archer took as a sign of loving familial devotion. This did put a strain on their relationship, adding a businesslike nature to it with Clyde's routine checkups on their brother, but ultimately it brought them closer as siblings as Clyde time and time again proved their devotion to taking care of their brother. Had Archer known that they did it out of guilt, however...
Clyde was put off by Lydia from the start. They were uneasy around off-planeters, having met so few in their life, and were overprotective of Archer when he started talking about how pretty she was. It didn't help that one of the first things she ever said to them was "What's wrong with your brother?"
They were forced to cooperate for sheer survival, but continued to butt heads. Clyde & Lydia were very similar people, in all the worst ways- gloomy, introverted, distrustful of strangers and easy to make grudges.
Lydia doesn't think very highly, or very often, of Clyde.
Clyde often held a position of leadership among those around them, which made Lydia all the more wary of them. She's not a fan of authority, especially when she feels that there's no reason Clyde's any better than her.
When Clyde thinks of Marcus, they're filled with deep pangs of guilt.
Clyde was the one who introduced Marcus to Archer. He'd attended one of Clyde's late-night drag shows, and stayed late to complement them. It came up in conversation that Marcus was trying to find a more permanent living situation, and Clyde and Archer had indeed been looking for a way to ease the burden of their rent.
This proved to be a near-fatal error. Marcus was never a good roommate, but one day something snapped, and he became far worse. Messy, rude, and spending all day and night locked in his room. It was only a few days after they confronted him about it that he attempted to kill the both of them by trapping them in a collapsing cave. Clyde escaped unscathed but was unable to rescue Archer, who suffered permanent brain damage. After this, Marcus was nowhere to be found.
Ah, the one that got away! Test subject, that is.
Marcus was so close to a breakthrough with his monogenerational evolution research, having found the perfect targets, identical twins who he shared an apartment with! This excitement made Marcus's fake nice-guy veneer slip, and suddenly the twins became much more suspicious and felt a lot more unsafe. Fearing that they'd found out what he'd been doing to them, Marcus attempting to kill the twins in a cave ceiling collapse. He fled immediately afterwards, leaving traces to fake his own death, but he still wonders what could have been if those twins hadn't gotten wise...