Marty Buchanan

Martin Colten Buchanan, simply known as Marty, is a renowned psychologist currently living in Vonkouver for his university education and born in Club Penguin on January 2nd, 1999. He is renowned for his contributions to psychology and seeks to pursue a doctorate in this subject in the decade yet to come. He becomes close friends with Penstubal in 2023 when Penstubal hears about him in the Shopper newspapers and decides to talk to him in effort to solve his issues related to his isolation, loneliness and his depression. That way, Buchanan became one of Penstubal's closest advisers and many started viewing him as a moderate, reasonable voice for Penstubal who helped pacify him during the years of his presidency.

Buchanan refused to get married in his life, seeing marriage as a complete waste of time. He becomes particularly disillusioned with love and himself seeks a psychologist he could talk to. Buchanan has the same views regarding politics and he believes it's nothing more than a competition between people who want to rule others - for this reason he refused to become part of Penstubal's government on his invitation in 2036.

Buchanan is praised by penguins such as Penquino for his quest to pacify Penstubal and act as a voice of reason for him. Indeed, he was relatively successful in doing so as during the years of his presidency Penstubal gradually softened his tone, so much so that by the 2050s the Penstubal Post wrote very few articles about Chill anymore. While Penstubal was never forgiven and forgotten for everything he had written and said, Buchanan was praised for getting him to "calm down" and making him seem like a more mature person, even though later on he showed he was still the person he was before.

Biography
Buchanan was hatched on January 2nd, 1999, on the second day of the New Year. Buchanan was hatched in a relatively wealthy household with 2 brothers and 6 sisters. Buchanan had a relatively comfortable childhood because of the wealth of his parents and his parents could afford him education anywhere he wanted: indeed, he traveled all over the world for education, from Club Penguin to Geneva and Vonkouver to Lagois City. Buchanan consistently had high grades in all subjects pertaining to social sciences, while he slightly lagged behind in mathematics, almost failing it in high school. Buchanan was also fascinated with history during his youth and later wrote works connecting penguin history to psychology and sociology in particular.

Having gone to private schools and universities where everybody went for the same reason, he was not bullied, although later in his life he developed a fear from bullies precisely because of the fact he was never bullied and because he had a very comfortable life as a young person. He was very reserved and shy and avoided social contact, even though most of his classmates genuinely liked him and he was pretty popular with girls as well, many of whom openly flirted with him. His rejection of social contact was not much so as a rejection but as it was being completely unaware of how social protocol works and he seemed to miss all clues somebody liked him or wanted to hang out with him during his youth, even when it was extremely explicit.

Buchanan became friends with Penstubal in 2023 as his psychologist. Buchanan later remarked that Penstubal was "the biggest pain in my butt during my entire career as a psychologist", although he acknowledged that Penstubal was a good person and fun to work and hang out with. Penstubal himself remarked that Buchanan was far more than just his psychologist, but also his friend, and this was reflected in the path that Buchanan joined Penstubal's small social group with penguins like his wife Scrubette and friends like Bobbie Wood and Jolly Timmy.

Because of the fact he came to be seen as a rational adviser for Penstubal, penguins who were deemed as scrubs came to detest him with penguins who were considered anti-scrubs came to think highly of him, although even then they were suspicious of his true intentions because he was friends of Penstubal despite being well versed in his shenanigans and his narcissistic personality. Buchanan never prided himself on any of these facts, however, and worked hard to not get involved in the scrubs versus anti-scrubs polemics.

Other than his contributions to pacifying Penstubal, he also made major contributions to his field and landed a permanent teaching position at the Moon Island Institute of Education. He became very popular with the academic elite all over Antarctica. He decided not to marry at a relatively young age, and he kept his decision firmly and steadily till the end of his life.

Personality
Buchanan is a shy and reversed person and with that reason he did not have many friends, despite his popularity and the facts that he seemed very quick to open up to other penguins and that he found it very easy to approach people. His main problem is complete lack of knowledge about social protocol, despite his long career as a psychologist. He prefers a rational approach to issues and likes to analyze all the facts before making his decision, although when he makes his decision he tends to be objective rather than impartial, and is flat out quick to denounce something as a "waste of time" or "very bad" upon analyzing facts and reaching his decision.

Hobbies
In his free time, he walks alone in the city or goes to the theater or cinema or reads books in the library. He is thought to have a rather boring life because of his social isolation, with many offers to hang out with him resulting in a flat-out refusal. Sometimes, when he takes walks around the city, he brings his two green puffles, Rose and Mary, who usually hang out together on his shoulders. Buchanan, despite having a few friends, calls his two puffles the only real friends he's ever had.

Appearance
He is a penguin of simple taste who does not really like shopping too much, and with that reason he does not wear any fancy clothes. Most of the time he wears a hat, shoes and that's it, although Penstubal gave him a box of propeller hats for his 25th birthday. He is a green penguin who does not change his clothes regularly, although people have noticed that when he's sad he gets an arctic white color in order to demonstrate his unhappiness and project it onto the world. When they see that, penguins know that that day is the day they avoid him so he does not bore them with his sad stories and how painful life is.

Faction
Marty detests factions and their rivalries and believe that uniting in support of a collective leads people to abandon everything they stand for and turns them evil. He prefers retaining his own individuality and he denounces people who are fiercely partisan and refuse to listen to somebody else "simply because they do not belong in the same group". This puts him in stark contrast to Penstubal, of course, who often demands strict loyalty (this in spite of promoting the notion that he himself is disloyal and rebellious towards established authority).

Friendly

 * Penstubal - He is one of his best friends and Buchanan acted as a great mentor throughout his life for him. Marty Buchanan heavily influenced Penstubal to become more moderate and more reasonable, successfully ceasing most attacks on his opponents by the 2050s, although at times Buchanan failed at his mission, such as when he tried to get Penstubal to stop writing the Penstubal Post and failed. Other than that, Buchanan often visits him in his Carmine House residence in Wizzint, where they talk about just whatever they possibly could. In 2036 and 2040, Buchanan voted for Penstubal in the Moon Island presidential elections.
 * Scrubette - Introduced to Buchanan by Penstubal, Scrubette is a good friend of his and the two often talk about history as that is Scrubette's topic of interest. Scrubette and Buchanan often fight, however, over which epoch is better, the Renaissance (Scrubette) or the Enlightenment (Buchanan).
 * Penquino - He has strongly praised Buchanan for his attempt to talk reason with Penstubal, and Buchanan often praises Penquino as a good man back (which at times angers Penstubal).
 * Bobbie Wood - The two have had friendly relations ever since they met each other and Bobbie Wood has often expressed admiration for Marty Buchanan's work.

Neutral

 * Jolly Timmy - The two haven't talked too much but have become friends thanks to the connection with Penstubal. Marty Buchanan, however, openly criticized Jolly Timmy for deciding to get involved in politics (something he did not do with Penstubal).

Unfriendly

 * Brant Esser - Marty Buchanan disapproves of Brant Esser and his role in eroding the freedoms of the Acadian population, and is wary of the very warm and friendly relationship between Penstubal and Brant and often tries to break-up the two and get them to rely less on each other, but to no avail. Buchanan met Brant on one occasion, and that was during Brant's personal visit to Wizzint sometime in 2020, and the two mostly avoided each other during that visit because of their mutual contempt.
 * Mironica - Just like everybody else but Miron, Marty Buchanan has terrible relations with Mironica and finds her a complete scrub.

Trivia

 * He has sometimes been criticized for his elitism as he likes pretending he is an intellectual and is above everybody else. However, sometimes, when he is mad at himself, he points that out to himself and calls himself dumb and simple-minded for thinking that.
 * Penstubal finds Marty Buchanan to be the person that he isn't, but always wishes he was. Penstubal is often jealous of Buchanan's calm approach to issues and is angry at himself for not being able to do the same.