Marty
Sebastien "Marty" St. Martin,[1] #33 on the Providence Falconers, is one of the team's veterans[2] and alternate captain alongside Thirdy and Jack Zimmermann.[1] He is also Jack's friend and seemingly his mentor on the team.
Background[]
Marty probably gave Tater his nickname in 2010 and he speaks Quebecois French.[3][4]
Marty always eats breakfast with the other veterans on the team, Thirdy and Guy, in the nook. While Tater is doing a Falcs TV segment, Tater wonders when they will retire and Marty jokes that his hip might give out by the All-Star break. Thirdy tells Marty that he has to do it like Kobe with a poem and a victory tour, but Tater tells Thirdy that no one is reading his poetry. Jack later tells Bitty that Guy told Marty and Thirdy that he'd never read any of their retirement poems and the two then lost it.[2]
When the Samwell Men's Hockey Team attends the Falconers' home openers, Marty notices the racket that they're making cheering for Jack and asks Jack if they're his family. Jack corrects Marty, admitting that they're his old teammates.[3]
After Jack takes a puck to the chin during a game, Marty helps to escort him to the trainer's room for treatment.[5]
When Kent Parson rushes the goal and almost injures Snowy in a pile-up, Marty and Thirdy are visibly furious when Kent's goal is declared to stand by the refs.[6]
By the spring semester of Bitty's junior year, Jack is made alternate captain alongside Marty and Thirdy. While on a walk, Bitty tells his boyfriend that his mother has been watching all of the Falconers Faceoffs that Marty and Thirdy are in and she keeps going on about them. Suzanne has been encouraging Bitty to meet Marty and Thirdy and he finds the idea of possibly setting up a coffee date with them to be ludicrous. Jack then suggests that Bitty could meet some of his teammates, having been encouraged by his father to tell some of the Falcs about Bitty if he trusts them. Bitty admits that he wouldn't decline if he was given the chance to have coffee with Marty and Thirdy, but he makes sure that Jack is truly alright with the idea.[1]
After Jack comes out to her and reveals his intention to come out to the rest of the team, George comments that Marty told her that he's been trying to get Jack to come to dinner for weeks and she's sure that Bitty will be invited if he's comfortable enough.[7]
As Jack sands his stick, Marty enters and they briefly banter about making a mess and how everyone blames everything on Poots. As Marty works and whistles, Jack brings up dinner, but Marty interrupts him, thinking that Jack is trying to get out of it again and refusing to hear it. Instead, Jack asks if he can bring his boyfriend. Taken by surprise, Marty asks if that was supposed to be a joke, but Jack confirms that he really does have a boyfriend. Marty explains that he was asking because if it was a joke, it is a bad thing to say in a locker room and goes into a nervous ramble trying to explain himself before Jack interrupts him. Marty is happy to have Jack bring Bitty along, stating that Jack didn't even have to ask and Marty can't wait to meet Bitty and for Bitty to meet the team. As they leave, Marty discusses how much his wife loves Bitty's Baking and calls Jack's partner a real keeper. Jack later tells Bitty that Marty seemed really cool with everything and kept slapping him on the back after skate.[8]
After Jack comes out to the entire team and brings Bitty to Family Skate, he approaches Marty and Thirdy who are taking a break and chirps them on how hauling their kids around wore them both out. Thirdy tells Jack that they're old and to give them a break while Marty comments that one day he'll be a rook and the next he'll be hauling kids around. Jack thanks the two for talking with the team and standing up for him since a few of the guys still think that it's weird and made at least one inappropriate joke. Thirdy reassures Jack that he's a leader on the team and that it's Jack's team too and states that teams that go far like them do so because everyone's on the same page together. When Tater asks Bitty to lift him in a figure skating move, an alarmed Jack goes to stop them, but Marty laughs and tells Jack to just let them skate.[9]
When the team is loudly trying to place orders for Bitty's Baking, Marty is on the phone with his wife getting her requests.[10]
When Bitty is made captain of the Samwell Men's Hockey Team for his senior year, Marty offers his congratulations after Jack shares the news with Snowy, Thirdy and Tater.[11]
When the Falcs secure a spot in the Stanley Cup finals, Marty loudly cheers. He later attends a viewing party at Jack's apartment with several of the Falcs and the Samwell team to watch a Schooners' game.[12]
During Game 2, Marty stands with Jack as he comforts a dejected Snowy.[13] After the Falcs win the Stanley Cup, an elated Marty is giving an interview to a reporter when Bitty rushes on-ice to congratulate Jack.[14]
Marty joins the rest of the Falcs and the Samwell team in spending the night celebrating the team's Stanley Cup win.[15]
At 6:55am the morning after the Cup win and Jack and Bitty's on-ice kiss, Marty and Thirdy wait with George for Jack to show up for the morning press conference. Marty chirps George about not getting any sleep the night before and is surprised that Tom has her running PR. Marty suggests that Jack can just say nothing about the kiss and focus on the game instead, but Thirdy points out that Jack is still gonna get pummeled with questions about it by the reporters. Marty thinks that maybe Jack shouldn't have to take part in that case, but Thirdy knows that as the MVP who got the game winning goal, Jack has to be up there, before agreeing with Marty and asking George if she's sure that she wants Jack to talk now.[16]
After Jack finally shows up, Marty and Thirdy are shocked by the number of reporters present which is enough to make Marty nervous. Marty is annoyed by how fast the reporters jump on Jack with questions during the presser and, along with Tater and Thirdy, has Jack's back when the questions get to be too much for him, helping to deflect the reporters' attention away from Jack and Bitty's kiss.[17]
Other Facts[]
Suzanne Bittle has a crush on Marty and Thirdy, something that her son finds to be highly embarrassing. According to Bitty, Suzanne told him that "Dicky, I'm married but I'm not dead!!"[1]
Marty invited Jack over to dinner for weeks before he finally accepted.[7][8]
According to Ngozi "Growing up, Marty never really understood why gay jokes were funny. Like the running around naked or the attempts to mess with other guys’ junk in the locker room—the stuff guys’ll do every once in a while when you’re younger. All those weird dick pranks in juniors? Like he got it “ha ha” but he didn’t get it. Anyway, he’s a professional, an adult, and a human being. They all know there are dummies in the league. They all went through the inclusion panel. Joking about certain stuff and phrases like “dur you skate like a girl”? (When Boss happens to be a girl? And has more Olympic appearances than you???) Don’t be a dummy. Grow up! Come on, Zimmermann, a boyfriend joke?"[18]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Year 3, Comic 13
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Year 3, Comic 3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Year 3, Comic 4
- ↑ http://omgcheckplease.tumblr.com/post/146383556602
- ↑ Year 3, Comic 6
- ↑ Year 3, Comic 8
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Year 3, Comic 14
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Year 3, Comic 15
- ↑ Year 3, Comic 18
- ↑ Year 3, Comic 19
- ↑ https://omgcheckplease.tumblr.com/post/163846651667
- ↑ Year 3, Comic 23
- ↑ Year 3, Comic 24
- ↑ Year 3, Comic 25
- ↑ Year 4, Comic 2
- ↑ Year 3, Comic 26
- ↑ Year 4, Comic 3
- ↑ https://omgcheckplease.tumblr.com/post/155649306182