Why does Rotate in PlotMarkers behave strangely?

One workaround is to use GeometricTransformation instead of Rotate. By specifying coordinates in the Offset form we can achieve consistent size of markers on the plot and in the legend. The cropping of the markers in the legend can be avoided by increasing their sizes as MinHsuan Peng suggests:

ListLinePlot[{Prime~Array~12, Fibonacci~Array~12}, 
 PlotMarkers -> 
  Graphics[{Brown, 
    GeometricTransformation[
     Rectangle[Offset[{-5, -5}], Offset[{5, 5}]], 
     RotationTransform[Pi/4]]}], 
 PlotLegends -> LineLegend[Automatic, LegendMarkerSize -> {40, 15}]]

plot

Comparison of the InputForms of the plot generated with Rotate and with GeometricTransformation reveals that another workaround is to specify explicitly the rotation point:

ListLinePlot[{Prime~Array~12, Fibonacci~Array~12}, 
 PlotMarkers -> Graphics[{Brown, Rotate[Rectangle[], (Pi/4), {0, 0}]}, ImageSize -> 13], 
 PlotLegends -> Automatic]

plot

This workaround proves that Rotate in PlotMarkers is supported but has a bug when used without explicit rotation point as the third argument. It is interesting that specifying Rectangle coordinates in the Offset form reveals even more strange bugs:

ListLinePlot[{Prime~Array~12, Fibonacci~Array~12}, 
 PlotMarkers -> 
  Graphics[{Brown, 
    Rectangle[Offset[{-5, -5}], Offset[{5, 5}]]~Rotate~(Pi/4)}, 
   ImageSize -> 10], PlotLegends -> Automatic]

plot2

But with explicit rotation point it is OK:

ListLinePlot[{Prime~Array~12, Fibonacci~Array~12}, 
 PlotMarkers -> 
  Graphics[{Brown, Rotate[Rectangle[Offset[{-5, -5}], Offset[{5, 5}]], (Pi/4), {0, 0}]}, 
   ImageSize -> 13], PlotLegends -> LineLegend[Automatic, LegendMarkerSize -> {40, 15}]]

plot


A workaround to question 2 is to increase legend marker size:

LineLegend[Automatic, LegendMarkerSize -> {40, 20}]