#mackenzie study.

aria straight up does not get people (especially non-mutants), hates them, wants their lives to include suffering.

(cate, though she is canon and this isnt rly my design originally, is most similar to aria at this point.)

margot thinks (though might not directly articulate aloud) her life, purpose, and needs are superior to others because she is so good at what she does; therefore, she can do whatever she needs to feel safe/comfortable. the fact that her future victims are preppy, privileged men who commit crimes against women is incidental to her origin.

mackenzie's killing is the most righteous. she kills without regard for herself or her own feelings at all, brutally aware of this. she thinks she is improving humankind as a whole.

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GLASS affects kieran (so by extension cullen), fernanda, and cain (so by extension gabriela).

far-left ecocult run by a malicious malignant narcissist.

on top of the blackmail, drugs, forced emotional catharsis, kieran was also doing some woowoo nature-loving bullshit out in upstate new york. borderline pagan worship of nature deities practice.

KNIGHT affects mackenzie, elijah, cass, and jm.

extremely evangelical southern baptist offshoot run by a pretty good candidate for an ancient times dictator.

occupied a large tract of land in south georgia.

formed when idris married rachel, the daughter of a well-respected preacher in a small town dominated by its baptist church. idris agreed with rachel's dad on a lot of things, such as the importance of jesus christ, but he wanted to take things a little further and live a more austere life in order to rebuke sin.

the murders perpetrated by shipley and idris are not part of idris' belief system. he incorporated shipley's violent tendencies into his religion to justify them so he didn't want to kill his son all the time. he convinced himself and shipley that these murders are noble by focusing on killing virgin girls/women so that they see heaven before being exposed to the sin of premarital sex.

CAMP GREEN PINE affects lottie.

frankly fairly similar to glass—ecocult, woowoo nature-loving bullshit. the similarities arent my fault i came up with glass forever ago and i didnt come up with lottie at all

run by an extreme charismatic and sincere schizophrenic woman

partially rooted in lottie holding onto what she experienced in the canadian wilderness, though she is more consistently medicated in adulthood and after receiving brutal electroshock treatment in switzerland.

also lots of blackmailing and forced emotional catharsis. how else do you think she makes any money

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When did they know they were lgbt?

DMITRI doesn't really realize consciously that he is not a cishet man.

JM as i said realized around 17-18, around when they left their father and ended up recruited by idris and elijah.

*coffee shop au: i think similarly, jm didnt explore their gender identity until leaving home.

MACKENZIE realized she liked more than men as soon as she met cass and developed a crush on them, which happened shortly after the funeral of mack's mother. she realized she was polyamorous a few years later; it was a combined journey of discovery with cass as they figured out jm's place in their lives.

*coffee shop au: i think meeting cass is a turning point in mackenzie's life still. idk how mack's mom dies in this verse but perhaps there's still some connection and a means of meeting cass that helps mack realize she isn't just ~christian guy's daughter.

What gender do they identify as?

DMITRI is a cis man.

JM is gender non-conforming and non-binary.

*coffee shop au: same.

MACKENZIE is a cis woman.

*coffee shop au: same.

What orientation do they identify as?

DMITRI identifies as straight when he is, in reality, a closeted bisexual.

JM is polyamorous and bisexual.

*coffee shop au: same.

MACKENZIE is polyamorous and bisexual.

*coffee shop au: same.

Do they enjoy Pride month , or think it's a bit much?

DMITRI doesn't fucking get any of that and has probably tried to figure out ways to do crime during pride month. he hates the forced capitalist aspects as well.

JM really enjoys pride month, especially after knight.

*coffee shop au: jm enjoys pride month just as much.

MACKENZIE thinks it's a bit much but is so happy for cass and jm and their experiences during pride month. she doesn't really get all the colorful displays and self-expression; it's part of being raised in knight from birth.

*coffee shop au: she is so into pride month. colorful makeup. glitter. pictures with her partners, etc.

What does Pride month mean to your muse?

DMITRI feels no association besides, again, a disdain for the post-capitalist atrocities.

JM loves pride month as a time for reflection, appreciation, and celebration.

*coffee shop au: same.

MACKENZIE likes pride month for what it means for her partners, but it's still a bit much for her.

What’s their favorite [insert anything] that they’ve never recommended to anyone before?

Her favorite song! It’s a hymn her father wrote that her mother used to sing while the church pianist played. It’s not really replicable anymore in the form Mackenzie favors so much, as both her mother (killed by Shipley) and the pianist (killed by Mackenzie herself) are dead. Moreover, she feels like a hypocrite enjoying literally anything that her father created. She just has fond memories of her mother looking happy, singing. 

If someone was impersonating them, what would friends / family ask or do to tell the difference?

Cass and JM @jupiter3 would be the best at this. No, I lied — Johnson, due to the nature of his ability to perceive, would be the best at this. He knows the exact hue of her eyes, the exact amount of times that she blinks. So an imposter would reveal themselves to Johnson first. 

I think Cass or JM would ask Mack’s true opinions on people who lived in Knight. She had two faces in Knight: the leader’s dutiful daughter, the rebel-murderer-polyamorist. Not many people know how she truly felt about other residents of Knight, how complicated and nuanced her understanding of their devotion was. She genuinely loved many of these people—but she knew, according to her, what she had to do for the greater good. 

What do they tell people they want? What do they actually want?

To soothe Cass, Mack claims to want peace and quiet. Her involvement in the documentary as well as her general temperament make it more than obvious that Mackenzie would never be okay with a peaceful, quiet life. She needs excitement, conflict, adventure. She needs people to fight with and clash against, or else she feels like she has nothing. 

What’s a secret they haven’t told serious romantic partners and don’t plan to tell?

Killing isn’t a necessary evil. Like Shipley, she enjoys the violence and the blood.