Mackenzie August

Mac is one of the principle characters from Roachie's Mutant WIP and has branching lore.

**!! CW: This page includes description of emotional abuse !!**

## Mackenzie "Mac" August / Williams

### Relatives

Adoptive father: Damian AugustBio mother: Liberty Williams

Bio father: Oscar "Ace" Wolff

Wife: Nissa August

Son: Castor August

Daughter: Catalina August

## Appearances

### Appears in

Heroes RPMutant WIP

Extended Universe

## History

Born to single mother Liberty Williams in 1994, Mackenzie Guin Williams had a normal beginning to life. At the age of ten, he and his mother were targeted by Cronus to become experiments in the second wave. When Liberty put up too much of a fight, she was killed, and Mac was taken in alone.

As he was mutated, he grew large black-feathered wings and developed osteokinesis. He spent two years captive, and was a favorite for inhumane experimentation, seeing as his mutation was physical and the effects of different stimuli could more easily be observed.

There were small panes of glass set into the cell doors, and Mac's cell was right across the hall from the cell of Damian. Damian watched Mac, and decided that he could use the boy's powers. So when Damian set his escape plan into action, he took Mac with him - more for the purpose of using him as a weapon than to free a fellow captive.

### Post Cronus

After escaping Cronus, Damian adopted Mac as his son. Rather than Mac returning to public school, Damian tutored him privately in the basics, and had him practice his abilities. It did not take long before he could perform aerial stunts, and mold bone to his whim without much thought to it. He was disciplined harshly, and was not allowed to socialize with others his age - because he had been "turned into a monster," said Damian. Mac only had books for leisure, and he read the ones he had so often he memorized them. He did leave the house without permission once, in an attempt to play with other children in the park, but they were frightened by his wings and ran him off. When Mac returned home, Damian was furious and threatened to burn away his happiness if he ever ran away again.

Damian set about finding each and every executive of the Cronus company, and taught Mac how to dig up information as well. He brought Mac with on missions and used him as a scare tactic in interrogations. Many times, he was made to follow through on his father's threats. He hated doing this, and finally screwed up the courage to leave for good. He had found evidence of other mutants working for liberation from Cronus, so his plan was to join them. However, Damian found the errant Mac before Mac found the Mutant Freedom Fighters. As Damian was never one to go back on his word, Mac's happiness was burned away. Over time Mac learned to stamp down his emotions around torturing and killing at his father's command, and eventually, he would do anything at Damian's oft repeated phrase: "Mac, would you kindly..."

Eventually, Damian began dealing with the Freedom Fighters in a loose alliance against their common enemy. Most of this interaction was through the mutants James Read and Sara Zhu. When needed, Mac accompanied the fighters on missions, and developed a friendship with Sara. When Damian suggested tactical actions that crossed the line for the fighters and James refused, Damian attempted to coerce him by threatening Sara's happiness. Mac could not stand by and let his father harm his only friend in the world, and so defied Damian. This confrontation ended in Damian's death, and Mac joined Sara and the freedom fighters for the remainder of the war.

## Divergent Lore

After the war against Cronus, Mac's lore branches. In main canon, Mac earns his GED and studies to become a nurse, in order to use his osteokinesis to help people. He rejects Damian's brainwashing and strives to better the world with his powers. In this verse, he takes his original last name Williams, and he and Sara open the mutant halfway house as in Roachie's Mutant WIP.

In alternate lore commonly referred to as Mac's "dark verse," Mac succumbs to his father's opinions of him and accepts that he is a monster. He continues with Damian's connections in the criminal underworld and gets by doing mercenary work. It is in this verse, in the extended universe, that he meets Anti's Nissa and falls in love. They eventually get married and have two children, Castor and Catalina August.