Matthias McQuoid

**Matthias** is a character in *It Lives Within* and a potential Love interest option for Your Character.

## Appearance

Matthias has medium-length gray hair with black strands, blue eyes, and light skin. He has a gray beard, and he wears a gray sweater and a gray long coat with a gray scarf.

## Personality

Matthias is a very jealous and deceiving person. He has no regard for human life except his own and the people he loves, and he's willing to do anything to achieve his goals, including murdering his own brother. While he appears friendly and trusting, beneath his nice facade he's a master manipulator and the person behind a lot of things Power-wise, such as convincing Douglas Redfield to become an "anchor", or working with Astrid and Vincent Wescott. He's also very pretentious, as he pretends to care about Westchester and its people, but in reality the only reason he does is because if things deteriorate, he will lose his immortality and power, and become nothing more than a mere human.

## Abilities

Matthias can perform magic using the Power and change his appearance at will, alternating between his younger and older self. As it is revealed in Chapter 20, he can perform illusory magic and control vine monsters, which is how he hid Jessica's body after her murder. It is also revealed that his younger appearance is how his brother LJ looked like. This is because when Matthias killed LJ, the latter's remaining life force was merged with Matthias's, giving him two different looks. He is also immortal, nearing his 250th birthday.

## Chapters

It Lives Within

* Chapter 4: Into the Earth (brief appearance)
* Chapter 7: Dead in the Water
* Chapter 8: Conflicting Interests
* Chapter 11: Dance With the Devil
* Chapter 12: Chasing Phantoms
* Chapter 13: A Thousand Lies (determinant)
* Chapter 15: Mirror to the Past
* Chapter 17: To Be Human (determinant)
* Chapter 20: No Way Home
* Chapter 21: Vertigo Cave
* Chapter 22: Home At Last
* Chapter 23: It Lives (determinant)

## Relationships

### Lincoln McQuoid

Lincoln is Matthias's son. They did not have a good relationship during Lincoln's youth and that relationship has deteriorated basically into estrangement. Most conversations between them end in arguments, and Lincoln does not trust his father in the slightest. He gets upset if Your Character agrees or sides with Matthias.

### Main Character

Your Character can decide how to respond to Matthias. You can trust him, be distrustful, or even flirt and make out with him (in chapter 13) and hook up with him (in chapter 17). He is always kind and charming to Your Character and shows concern for your well-being after the dinner party attack in chapter 12. As the game progresses, it turns out that Matthias has been manipulating you from the beginning, with the end goal of turning you into his new anchor. If you romance him, he actually does end up developing true feelings for you, however, and will invite you to join his side and sacrifice Noah/ILITW MC (Devon) in your place. You can either accept or reject his offer.

Matthias was revealed to be a full LI and not just a hookup in chapter 22, when you have the option to complete the Blood Moon ritual and defeat your former allies, and you leave Westchester with him, hand-in-hand.

### Silvia McQuoid

Silvia McQuoid was Matthias's wife. Despite the fact that she died before the game starts, it's clear that he loved his wife very much and misses her dearly.

### Abel Flint

Matthias has much respect for Abel and helped Abel out during a difficult time in his life. He bailed Abel out of jail when he was arrested as a teenager for going along with something Lincoln started, he paid for Abel's hospital bills after his car crash, and he made sure that Abel retained custody of his siblings after his parents died. For this, Abel feels indebted to him and has a great deal of respect for him.

## Gallery

### Other Looks

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## Trivia

* Matthias is Scottish, and though he has mostly mastered an American accent, his Scottish accent sometimes slips through when he is impassioned.
* In the Bible, Matthias was the name of the disciple chosen to replace Judas Iscariot after his betrayal. Ironically, joining Matthias unlocks the *Judas Kiss* route, in which MC betrays all of their friends.
* Matthias has several fates, depending on the route you chose:
	+ Blood/Mixed: MC leaves Matthias' fate up to the Power, and the Power turns him into its own anchor.
	+ Shadow: Matthias loses his immortality and ages to dust.
	+ MC Dead: Matthias succeeds in making MC his new anchor and gets away with everything.
	+ The Flame: Matthias and ILW MC successfully make Noah/ILITW MC the new anchor and walk away together (this is the only scenario where ILW MC and Matthias both live)
	+ The Crown: Matthias and ILW MC successfully make Noah/ILITW MC the new anchor, ILW MC kills Matthias and takes his power so they can have it all to themself.