So we all know Ruffin Prentiss is the official actor for Marcus Holloway, and that our man Marcus is the main protagonist of Watch Dogs 2. Does anyone remember, however...?

Back in May, we got ourselves a look at this concept art. It was @thekingcort talking about "a new video game franchise" with the hashtag #watchdogs2. The dude's outfit is exactly like Marcus's outfit, save for the mask and maybe the undershirt if you wanna split hairs on this one. However, compare this to...

...the official promo images we've gotten of Marcus Holloway, played by Ruffin Prentiss. Exactly the same, except for the whole black guy thing, obviously.

Also of note, Chase Straight, some guy related to Watch Dogs (community manager? I forget) actually commented on a YouTube comment thread  about this matter, and he had this to say:

Actually not true! Marcus has always been based on Ruffin Prentiss, the sole actor we've casted for the role.

Okay, so Ruffin Prentiss was the man for the main character and always has been. This COMPLETELY negates the leaked photo's previous claim that what we saw back in May was "the lead character."

Also, a few more observations I've made is that Cort King couldn't have been a mo-cap actor (at least not for Marcus), because I briefly researched him and found a bunch of stuff about acting and modeling and pretty much nothing about stunts, fight choreography, parkour, etc. Furthermore, "Proto-Marcus" (that's what I'm calling the leaked concept art) is clearly light-skinned, some have speculated he's either white or even asian, whereas Cort King is certainly black. Marcus Holloway and his actor Ruffin Prentiss are most certainly black; assuming Proto-Marcus is actually an early concept sketch of Marcus, that means they changed up a lot of things over the course of development.

So this finally boils down to the questions this raises. What was the Cort King leak all about? Is this leaked concept art an early version of Marcus or a separate character? Is Cort King even involved in the game at all, and if so what role does he play? Was this all some kind of Hideo Kojima-esque ruse just to get people talking and speculating about Watch Dogs 2?

Who knows, man...