Born a @nais
Malcolm is the protagonist of The Last Generation. She is a native of the San Joaquin Exclusion Zone, and is driven out of it alongside her mother during a particularly active fire season.
Malcolm undergoes many changes throughout her story. From dealing with the worst aspects of Exclusion Sickness, to
As Within, so Without
Living isolated with an egalitarian commune in the wastes, Malcolm had little to no concept of gendered expectations. Interactions with other wasters, and eventually Aempians, cast certain expectations on her that she was unwilling to concede to. Instead, she became more involved and interested in the undercurrent of biohacking prescient in the Sonomans — the interest in reviving old-world gene-modding and implants.
Contributing to her desires to change her body is the strange mutations caused by her barely-understood Exclusion Sickness, which causes her skin to crack and peel, revealing scaley flesh and toxic ichor. With so much happening to her body against her will, she feels strengthened by the ability to change herself into that which she wishes.
Changes
- Exclusion Sickness: Malcolm walks with a limp from losing several toes
- Exclusion Sickness: Malcolm's thighs and underarms are pitted with burnlike scars from infected chafe marks
- Exclusion Sickness: Malcolm is colorblind in one eye
- Exclusion Sickness: Malcolm does not produce much melanin and is frequently sunburnt
- Biohack: Malcolm takes a cocktail of estrogen and testosterone
- Prosthetic: Malcolm has a prosthetic foot
- Malcolm has several gunshot wounds
Wastelander
Few wastelanders could scrape a living in the disaster-prone San Joaquin valley. Even Malcolm's tribe of nomadic survivalists barely made it fifteen years before monsoon overflow flooded toxins into their wells and turned the region into a lush tinderbox for the summer blazes to ignite. They, along with everyone else in the exclusion zone, were chased north by a wildfire that took them from Sacramento to Yuba
- Lives in the Exclusion Zone
- Driven from her home by wildfires
- Arrives in Yuba/Sutter
- Kidnapped (Why? Is the map that good) and Taken West to Lake County
- Gets caught up in a rising resistance to Aempis
- Ends up in lake county, chained inside the winnebago
- Mom comes and saves her
- Captured with refugees and sent to Sonoma
- Skills:Endurance, Precision, Engineering, Anthropology. Top Attribute: Acuity
Refugee
- Arrives outside of the wall
- Constantly misgendered, doesn't realize why it upsets her
- Works her ass off trying to get into the wall
- Learns about angel island and hides what she is
- With resources waning says fuck it and starts scoping out the barrier
Prisoner
- Detainment
- Scrappy Work
- Does a crime and is sent to Angel Island
- Studied and poked and prodded in the oubliette
- wkaes up in the night to screams and then a dead bleakheart
- One of the lepers convinces them to free her as she is not a menace
- She sees her face and it looked half burned away
- Helps the leper with something but eventually he dies
- She decides she'd rather drown than stay here, and jumps into the sea
- the cold embrace of the sea and all that water felt like balm to her 'burns'
- 'Finally'
Fisher
- Washes up and is found by a crew from sausalito
- At first terrified they'll figure out what she is
- tries to hide her face
- eventually realizes that her face has healed up. After lots of thinking she will associate this with her choice to leave
- Starts finding old tech and does a good job on the salvage from being a wastelander
- Starts building a hacking machine
Resistance
- Crashes the banking and communication by updating switchboards and routing all calls to Number 1: Osbourne
- People think it's a large scale attack and it causes panic
- During the noise, She frees her mom
- Mom tries to protect her, but isn't in the best of health, so she sends her mom with Morgan and Barron to go somewhere safe while she runs distraction
- Caught and brought in for questioning
- Gets to see the true might of Aempian interrogation — Tracey Jadey
- Wakes up in a fair and secluded face, gradually realizes its an illusion
- Malcolm begins lucid dreaming
Convict
- Forced to work for jadey showing them how to do tech
- grudgingly works out a deal with osborne to focus on the techn which makes the cities of the past work — in truth, he is studying this information to send home to help with transportation and population issues on earth
- Serving her sentence with Jadey doing tech work for them with a gun to her head.
- She hates osborne, he thinks she's cool, his enthusiasm for humanity eventually wears her down and charms her a bit. She realizes he's kinda just naive about what's really going on
- She learns more about his family and learns that he may be the face, but matriarch tracey is the mind
- Meets Digger and Nick at this time, travels with them to relays and shit to restore the power grid
- Make friends with Nick, gets naked with him
- Feels conflicted because she's helping Aempis but also helping humans
- Continues to work for Jadey reluctantly but with desires for helping humanity
- Ironclad started as part of a secret project
Warmind
- Rilaem attacks begin
- She is pulled into an incubator to solve the aethernet and workshop ideas for the new Engine Foster
- Learns Nick is dead
- Cracks the Aethernet problem during a critical point in the Rilaem war to warn Aempis of the incoming attack
- 19630: Akotan Assassinated
- 19632: Eiuka dies, the crimson thorn falls
- 19632: Clasnithra's coronation
- 19647: Tracey bestows the enclave totally to osborne
- 19649: Murder is killed
- 19649: Anthem is made????
Mother
- 19789 - The Harrowing Begins
- 19817 - Expansion Era Begins
- Driven from earth, many forces unite as the syndicate
Titan
- The Melancholic Lacuna happens and communication is knocked out
- With so many systems failing due to the fragmentation of the Engines, Malcolm spins up a fork of Warden and plugs her mantle into it.
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