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== Mercy is eventually going to find another male half-demon, and having ''three'' males, will start bringing more pressure on Mack, possibly by arranging 'accidents' that are likely to make her lose control. ==
{{spoiler|This would be especially disturbing if the third male was Aiden. Chances are Mack knows nothing about her older brother, and Mur-Si probably wouldn't know unless she ran tests on them. Even if she ''did'' know, she seems like someone who would find it amusing to [[Mate or Die|force Mack]] to [[Brother
* {{spoiler|Unlikely, Aiden is apparently an airship mechanic and [[Happily Married]].}}
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== Mack is 3/4 demon. ==
Her grandmother hates demons so much because she made a mistake and slept with/was raped by one of her targets. Her mother's powers consumed her, which was both why she died young and how she could control Mack. Mack's [[Super
== Mack's grandmother isn;t as evil as the series makes her out to be. ==
Mack is shown to be an unreliable narrator, both in the series and in narrating the series. It's possible that her demon side sees hunters as [[Always Chaotic Evil]], she was kept away from others on request of their parents after the [[Super
* Of course, [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on whether Mack's grandmother is really made out to be ''evil'' so much as a battle-traumatized, hard-core religious fanatic who, despite showing genuine love and kindness, was simply a poor parent. The "three buckets of water" flashback exemplifies this - she threatens Mack with a holy-water dousing, but she makes Mack take the threat seriously by ''sticking her own arm in boiling oil'', with no proof that the decorated third bucket had anything but normal water in it. Traumalicious and emotionally abusive, but still, horribly, something that could be motivated by genuine good intentions crossed with a poor ability to relate to people.
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The cited cases of half-demons who commit violence, lead uprisings, etc. might well be balanced by an unknown number of half-demons keeping their heads down, safely feeding their hungers, and staying out of trouble.
== Mack's weakness to Kherstian and faith-based objects is (at least out of her [[Super
The reason Kherstian symbols, objects, and prayers harm her more than the others is not because Khersis is particularly strong or has [[Gods Need Prayer Badly|a lot of worshippers]], but rather because she was raised in a society of prominently Kherstian faith. When someone starts praying in fear, or waving around an un-blessed holy symbol, it triggers a reflex to stop messing with the mortals before someone gets hurt. Full demons actually do have to deal with the gods themselves, and other half-demons (if they've been shown in-story at all to be harmed by faith and the symbols thereof, rather than straight divine magic) are harmed because they messed with the natural order of things, and killed too many beings under the protection of a more powerful demi- or full-deity. If divine magic is present every time other half-demons were harmed, then this theory holds for Mack's [[Super
:: Mack isn't weak to faith-based objects, but divinity, which is in direct opposition to the nature of demonhood (as AE stated on her Formspring when asked if there was such a thing as a "demon god"). Mechans don't invoke the divine, which is why she's safe there. Khersis is a particularly anti-demon god, which is why he causes her particular discomfort.
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== Callahan is a [[Death Seeker]] ==
Her greatest fear is [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|living forever]]. One reason for her omnicidal mass-murdering tendencies is that she finds pleasure in ending immortal life. Another one may be an urge to die in battle - but she has not yet found a being in the world who could defeat her.
She might be teaching combat classes simply to groom students as possible worthy opponents - and particularly Mack.
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