Mack Linden |
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Portrayed by Brit Sheridan |
Statistics |
Full Name |
Captain Mackenzie Linden |
Age |
30 |
Height |
5'5" |
Build |
Wiry |
Eyes |
Blue |
Hair |
Blonde |
Factions |
None |
Occupation |
Fishing Captain/Informant |
Alignment |
Neutral |
Claim to Fame
Captain of Quint's Folly
Reputation
A rough female fishing Captain with a knack for fixing boats.
Biography
Mackenzie Linden was born in 1984 to an accountant and his wife in Metropolis. They had wealth and advantage, but their daughter was not like them. She was much more like her grandfather. Frank Linden had been a SHIELD agent for 25 years when he retired and bought a fishing trawler, living his life as a fisherman and continuing on as a SHIELD informant. He married his wife Edith, and when he was nearly 50 Edith gave birth to their son, George. George hate the fishing life and went away to college in Metropolis to become an accountant. He never know what his father did before he became a fisherman, or that Frank was an informant for SHIELD. He met Delia at school, the daughter of the owner of an accounting firm there, and married her. Mack was their only child.
Mack was born with a gift. She had a sense of mechanics and how they worked. She was a kinesthetic learner because of it, and learning rote info in school just bored and frustrated her. She began acting out, hanging with the wrong kids, smoking, and drinking. After getting suspended for the umpteenth time at the age of 16, her parents sent her to Frank for the summer. They figured she would come running back to their cushy Metropolis life after a few months smelling like fish and working her fingers to the bone. They were wrong. Mack loved it, excelled at it, and proceeded to drop out of school and work with Frank full time. Her parents didn't have much choice but to acquiesce to their headstrong child's wishes.
Frank taught her everything he could about fishing, self-defense, boat repair, and a few of his spy skills from back in the day. When he passed away in 2010, he left Mack everything, including his trawler, the Quint's Folly, an inside joke about how Frank in his youth looked like Robert Shaw, the flinty boat captain in JAWS. He didn't die to a shark, but instead to old age.
One thing Mack was glad about, was that Frank had been able to meet his only great-grandchild before he died. In 2007, Mack had a fling with a restaurant chain owner, trying to get a better deal cemented between her business and theirs. Thomas Roth was in his 40s, married to a childless shrew, and Mack was his moment (or ten) of weakness. One of their encounters resulted in an accidental conception and in 2008 Maggie Lynn was born. Thomas' wife, Nancy, found out about the affair and the illegitimate child and all hell broke loose. Thomas sued for custody of the girl, and won. The Quint's Folly was no place for a child to be raised. Mack didn't fight very hard, she knew the Roth's could give Maggie everything, and she couldn't give her much of anything. She was reduces to minimal visits with the child spending a few weeks a year with her.
Not long after Frank passed, Maggie witnessed a human trafficking ring using shipping containers to move their merchandise into New York. She took up Frank's work as a SHIELD informant and let the organization know about the situation through one of his old dead drops. They continued to make payments to her for information since.
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Character Details
Mack is a rough-around the edges type, with some bad habits, but she's a good person at heart who tries to do the right thing. She gave up her daughter to a better life, and continued her grandfather's work, despite the risk it put her in. She is a good employer, honest with those she works with, and tries to do right by those she hires. She is a fair trader with those who buy her fish, and she tries to take steps to minimize the environmental impact her trawling has. As such, she's learned to live with less, and make what funds she has stretch.
Fishing |
Mack learned the ins and outs of bottom trawling from her grandfather, who was fantastic at it. She is an expert at catching mostly cod which she sells to local grocers and seafood restaurants. She understands the variety of mechanical equipment and electronics involved, as well as the spots the schools tend to frequent. |
Boats |
Mack knows her way around boats, from the smallest rowboat to a large yacht, she's capable of piloting them and employing the equipment on them. |
Mechanic |
Mack is a spacial mechanical wonder of sorts. Whereas rote schoolwork disinterested her and left her bored, she has always had a knack for understanding machines and how they work, what is wrong when they don't, and how to fix them. She learned a great deal from her grandfather and his deck hands over the course of a decade together and she can repair and maintain her own boat, except in the direst of circumstances. |
Perception |
Mack is incredibly perceptive. this is due in part to her ability to recognize anomalies in mechanics, which she can apply to people and situations. She knows when something doesn't fit, or is off, and her eye goes to it immediately. This was honed by her grandad when he was teaching her his spy craft as a SHIELD informant. |
BS Detector |
Mack's an expert at reading tells. She's been a gambler for a decade, and her grandad also taught her how to read people and tell if they're lying. She's very good at it, nearly spy level. |
Shotgun |
Mack has her grandad's shotgun on board the Folly, and she knows how to use it. She's not an expert shot by any means, but she can clean, load, aim, and fire the thing if she has to. When you live on the docks, it's necessary. |
Brawler |
Since she was a pre-teen, Mack has been a bit of a brawler. She's tiny, but she's strong, due to a decade of hard labor on a fishing vessel. Her former SHIELD agent grandfather taught her self defense knowing she'd be living among the rougher sort in the fishing business. |
Psychic Sensitivity |
Mack can sense and see supernatural and magical beings. She can see ghosts, and recognize demons and possessed beings for what they are. She senses the presence of ghosts by cold, and demonic beings and possessed people by heat flashes, but she needs her eyes to spot them visually, as transparent beings, or overlapping images. If blinded in any manner, she may sense a presence within 50 feet or so, but can't precisely locate it. |
The Compass Rose |
On Mack's back is a tattoo of an ornate compass rose, a symbol found on nautical charts. There are also faintly discernible map images and dotted lines leading to unreadable coordinates. Before a psychic/supernatural event is about to occur, one of the lines on her back becomes darker and legible, leading to latitude and longitude coordinates. The closer to the time of the event, the stronger is her urge to get to those coordinates and either intervene, or act as a witness. The compulsion directs her, she knows which way she has to go, and when she arrives there. If she tries to deny the urge, she will black out and wake up there at the onset of the event. Once the event has passed, that line vanishes from her back. Not every psychic or supernatural event is inked onto Mack's back, only ones the mystic tattoo artist wished for her to be present for. (Plot device). |
Licenses |
Mack has all the requisite licenses and certifications to run her business as a commercial fishing captain of a trawler. |
Quint's Folly |
Mack's grandad left her his 90 foot fishing trawler when he passed away a 4 years ago. It's a solid boat, if a bit cranky at times, and it provides her with a passable living, as well as acting as her home. It has room for a crew of 8, plus the captain, though Mack rarely can afford more than 2 hands to help her out at a time. |
Shield Contacts |
Mack's grandad, Frank Linden, was a SHIELD agent for 25 years before he retired to a comfortable life as a fisherman, and continuing informant. He shared this secret with his grandaughter, and when he passed, Mack carried on his work, getting information on illegal or dangerous situations on the waterfronts of New York, Gotham, and Metropolis to the organization. She gets paid for her information but it's not a stable source of income. |
Dead Drops |
Mack knows the location of multiple SHIELD dead drops for information exchange on the waterfront. This includes a few channel buoys, boxes at locked down warehouses, and other interesting places. They also maintain one of the last phone booths in New York on the docks, where she can make calls to them which can't be traced back to her. |
Merchant Contacts |
Mack sells to a few small grocery stores as well as a couple of family owned seafood restaurants. Nothing thats going to make her rich, but enough to keep going. |
Maggie |
Although Maggie isn't in her primary custody, her biological ties to her child have obliged Thomas Roth to ensure Maggie's mother isn't dead in a ditch. He's loaned her money during the lean times. |
Rufus |
Rufus is a 3 year old Leonberger, a 170 ball of loveable fluff who acts as the Quint's Folly's water rescue dog. He is definitely not a guard dog, despite being the size of a small pony. |
Snitch |
When you're an informant for SHIELD on the goings on of the New York, Gotham, and Metropolis docks, you run the risk of bad people and good alike finding out you're snitching on them. They usually don't take kindly to people telling the authorities their business. Mack has to be careful not to be found out. |
Maggie |
Maggie Roth is 6 years old, and Mack's daughter. She's being raised by Thomas Roth, her father, and the owner of a chain of seafood restaurants along the New England coast. He sued for primary custody for him and his barren wife, citing Mack's past indiscretions and lack of suitable living space for a child. She gets to see her kid a few weeks a year and every time they're together, it's like two strangers meeting and not having enough time to know each other. It breaks Mack's heart that she barely knows her own kid, but it breaks her heart more that she knows Maggie is better off with Thomas. |
Maggie's Father |
Thomas Roth was a wild fling six years back, a married, wealthy man who bought fish for his restaurants from Mack and took a fancy to her. Until he knocked her up. Then the only thing he took a fancy to was removing the child from her and having a family with his barren wife, Nancy. They are not on the best of terms. |
Parents |
Delia and George Linden aren't exactly model parents. George detested his father's way of life, fishing, and didn't know anything about what Frank did before he was a fisherman, as he came late in Frank and Edith Linden's life. He went away to college and became an accountant, married Delia, his boss' daughter, and moved to Metropolis. When Mack did poorly in school and began getting in trouble, they sent her off to live with Frank for a summer to try to scare her into good grades. It backfired, and she chose to drop out of high school and work with her grandfather. They never forgave her for rejecting their cushy life for Frank's blue collar one. |
Bad Habits |
She's a smoker. She's a drinker. She's not adverse to the occasional drug use and she isn't much for long term relationships. Not exactly someone a guy wants to bring home to his mom, or someone a corporation would look to hire for anything important. |
Uncouth |
Potty mouth. Manners are legendarily lacking. Nuff said. |
Debt |
Although the Folly is Mack's free and clear, she has employees to pay, docking fees to keep up with, fuel to buy, and all the myriad costs of upkeep on a 30 year old trawler. With a few lean years, she's had to take out some loans from Thomas Roth, to her great displeasure. He tends to hold those over her head as much as he does their daughter. |
I Can't Unsee That |
The things Mack can now see are enough to drive most people insane. Nightmares, paranoia, and fear are likely to drive her to a rest in a "hospital" now and then, or deeper into the clutches of drink and drugs, without help and guidance. |
Compulsion |
Mack has an intense compulsion to go to the coordinates that darknen on her back. She knows instinctively, the direction to travel and when she arrives, but if she refuses or tries to ignore the compulsion, she can black out and wake up again at the location. This puts her in a bad position if she needs to be alert and aware of her surroundings when the event happens. |
Relationships
Image |
Name |
Relation |
Information |
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The Compass Rose |
Tattoo |
Mack's tattoo has a mind of its own. It's mystical, and has made her psychically sensitive as well as leading her to witness or stop supernatural situations. |
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Rufus |
Dog |
Mack's best friend and the ship's water rescue, a 3 year old Leonberger. |
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Maggie Lynn Roth |
Daughter |
Mack's estranged six-year old daughter. Maggie lives with her father and his wife. |
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Thomas and Nancy Roth |
Daughter's Father |
Thomas is the father of Mack's kid. Maggie lives with him and his wife, Nancy. |
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Frank Linden |
Grandfather (deceased) |
Mack's grandfather was her real parent. He taught her everything she knows. |
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George and Delia Linden |
Parents |
Mack's estranged parents. They live in Metropolis where George is an accountant. |
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John Constantine |
The Coach |
The guy with the magic house who is trying to teach her how to stay alive. Good taste in booze. |
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Barry Allen |
New Friend |
Mack took pity on the nerdy guy that's new to the city. She's taken up as his pal. |
Character Gallery
Logs
The Compass Rose
November 24, 2014: Mack decides to get a tattoo. It changes everything.
(log: 20141124-the-compass-rose | tags: mack_linden | posted: 24 Nov 2014 21:16)
Fish and Ships
November 12, 2014: Barry checks in on Mack.
(log: 20141112-fish-and-ships | tags: flash mack_linden | posted: 13 Nov 2014 04:48)
Not Insured Against Demons
November 09, 2014: SHIELD pays a visit on Captain Mack in the hospital to debrief her.
(log: 20141109-not-insured-against-demons | tags: hawkeye mack_linden shield the_cavalry | posted: 10 Nov 2014 00:10)
Curse of the Drowned
November 08, 2014: An American, a Russian, and a Brit walk onto a boat. Sounds like a bad joke. Instead, it's a bad demonic entity trying to eat Captain Mack's soul.
(log: 20141108-curse-of-the-drowned | tags: constantine flash mack_linden rocket_red_iv | posted: 08 Nov 2014 23:50)
Breakfast for Dinner
November 06, 2014: Barry and Mack bond over breakfast foods.
(log: 20141106-breakfast-for-dinner | tags: flash mack_linden | posted: 07 Nov 2014 04:02)
Slap Me
November 05, 2014: Lance Hunter is on a stakeout in an unfamiliar bar. He meets Mack. Mack has a good afternoon.
(log: 20141105-slap-me | tags: hunter mack_linden | posted: 06 Nov 2014 01:23)
Had A Bad Day
November 04, 2014: John Constantine drowns his sorrows, and injuries, in a seedy dockside bar, and meets Captain Mack.
(log: 20141104-had-a-bad-day | tags: constantine mack_linden | posted: 05 Nov 2014 05:19)
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