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Tales Of MU
List Steff theories here.
These theories have since been Jossed, but are kept here for posterity.
Mack's love of pain comes from her demonic heritage
Kiersta isn't actually entirely human, but doesn't want people to know what she actually is.
Alternately, she is physically human but was raised in some other society, and doesn't not think if herself entirely as human.
While Celia got upset at having a human RA, assuming that it was because the school authorities didn't trust non-human students, Kiersta only replied that she was a 'full-blooded human'. However, at least three others (Raquel, and Leighton twins) on the same floor could say the same while still having attributes that would cause them to be seen as non-human. Furthermore, she has never given a surname, something which is distinctly atypical for IRM human society but common for several of the demi-human species.
It is possible that she is a human by birth, but under some enchantment or curse which, while not readily visible, would make her unwelcome elsewhere when it was revealed, especially if it was something that occurred recently. An obvious possibility is some form of thieranthropy, which (as far as this troper knows so far) has not been mentioned in the series to date; it is noteworthy that she has not (again, AFAIK) been seen around during a full moon, though the same could be said of several other characters. Any number of other magical conditions or maladies are possible, however, especially in a school of magic. She may not be completely at ease with whatever has altered her, and in any case probably still thinks of herself as human, at least technically.
Another possibility is that she is of a magically-altered subspecies that is nominally human, but unusual or undesirable in some way (e.g., some versions of doppelgangers are human, but sexless, and need to replace a normal human in order to breed, a sort of hominid cuckoo). In this case, she may not have been aware of her own unusual nature until recently, and discreetly arranged to be transferred to Harlowe after she found out.
Puddy deliberately plays up her dwarven ancestry to distract from the much more recent - and significant - Draconic and/or Giant ancestry, or perhaps some other non-human ancestor which she hasn't mentioned.
Puddy's strength is a match for Mackenzie's or nearly so, something that doesn't seem likely even for a fullblooded dwarf (Mack has beaten Belinda and Rocky, and tore through ghouls like they were cheap tinfoil). She is able to live on a diet of wine and pudding pops, and has occasionally shown some surprising abilities. She hoards her things like she lives on them, but beyond that ignores them. Yet she rarely mentioned anything but a distant Dwarven ancestor, and occasionally a nymph ancestor (which she mostly uses to excuse her sexual habits, and specifically the times she's had sex with men - though that was only just mentioned once in passing AFAIK). She is an extraordinarily effective manipulator and reader of human motives, when she wants to be, so it would be in character for her intentionally distract attention from some of family past if she thought it would serve as a ace in the hole (so to speak). What is her real game?
Puddie's wine isn't just wine, she had some other drug mixed in. This occurred to me after I noticed that everyone who drinks it not only gets drunk but behaves in a very specific way (trying to rape Mack).
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.
This would be especially disturbing if the third male was Aiden. Chances are Mack knows nothing about her older brother, and Mer-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 force Mack to mate with her brother and then tell them how they are related after she has the child.
Mack's mother had a way to keep control of Mack, which is why Mack didn't begin to manifest her Infernal powers until after she died.
While it is unlikely that she had formal training in the Subtle Arts given Martha's opposition to it, we know that Laurel Anne was able to use them, and may have been using them to suppress Mackenzie's Demonic side.
Mackenzie was somehow involved in her mother's death.
The obvious possibility is that Mackenzie started a fire in their home when her powers began emerging, and that Laurel Anne had been caught in it. A more sinister possibility is that young Mack had had some sort of frenzy, and killed her while out of control. Either of these would be traumatic enough to explain why she doesn't remember what happened.
A potentially more tragic possibility is that Laurel Anne had died from trying to use the Subtle Arts on Mack, possible as in the WMG above. We know that Infernal minds can have horrible effects on mentalists, but it may be that, when Mack was younger, her 'corruption' was less prevalent, and Laurel Anne could use her powers on Mack safely. Or so she thought: because it was less obvious, the effects were less dramatic, slowly eating away at her mind until it destroyed her.
Mackenzie's father is an Incubus.
Assuming the the Strange Man in the 'As I Went By The River' stories is Mack's father, it would appear that he is more the corrupter type of demon rather the sort who rends humans indiscriminately. He most likely was feeding of of Laurel Anne's innocence as he was corrupting/seducing her, which certainly is more in line with the succubus/incubus legends than the other sorts of demons described so far. It would explain both Mackenzie's specific feeding needs, and her rather tumultuous sex life (affecting both her own behavior and that of those around her).
The series is in fact coded racist propaganda
The only non-human races who apparently don't want to eat/rape-and-enslave humans? Drow, who make no attempt at mass immigration and stay where they belong -hundreds of miles underground
Mermaids are secretly part demon
Think about it for a moment. Whenever Mackenzie's demon side is played up her eyes change, and the rest of her catches fire and is altered. Similarly, mermaids eyes turn completely black and their forms change. Additionally it has been stated that nearly all sentient races can breed true, and that whales, dolphins, and some types of fish are sentient. All it takes is a few fish and a few demons. This explains in a way their desire to eat human flesh as a necessity, as Feejee seems to have a hard time going long without it. I'd imagine this would have happened so long ago that it would have been nearly or completely forgotten(and wouldn't exactly be spread around).
Magic is secretly Magic From Technology
Way I see it, mechans are among the more accurately portrayed magical scientists(what that says about the genre is another topic entirely), factoring in the fact that no one knows where magic came from or can describe it in any terms that seem consistent I'd guess that, as the Arkanites believe gods are Sufficently Advanced creatures are at least type four.
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 Powered Evil Side is from her mother's flesh-rending, "grar rar" demon side, and the "nice" mack is a combination of her half-demon mother's human side, her incubus father's "sleep with me, I'm charming" blood, and her crazy grandmother messung her up.
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 Superpowered Evil Side drained some kid of a lethal volume of blood, and a lot of stuff Mac remembers is a twisted version of her simply trying to survive Mack's evil side getting loose. She did make sure to feed her all those years, even at the inconvenience of the other humans in their family, and in the flashback with the mask (the only flashback to that time period this troper recalls that had a different source of displeasure), she seemed genuinely caring even through Mack's narration. It's possible that she was merely borderline Lawful Stupid, or even partly Stupid Good looked at through demon-powered Unreliable Narration.
The La Belle family has significant amounts of sidhe ancestry.
Moeli was fairly certain that Cerridwen, as in the name of the settlement, was a Fae word. Of the three La Belle girls at MU:
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