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Appearance: Usually stuck-up in his house, Mack wears pajama pants and loose and overly-large shirts under his lab coat. When in public he wears a white dress-shirt tucked into comfortable black dress-pants with his lab coat over it all. He wears nice black shoes everywhere he goes. The hair on his skull is a mess, he doesn't bother to do anything with it even though he does do his facial hair. Mack isn't fat, but he is not built or toned at all. Somewhat fit from walking and lifting things. Macky comes in at six feet tall.

Skills/Powers:

• Mechanics/Mechanical Engineering: His skill with most anything mechanical is great. He can fix almost anything if he has the plans. Also builds his own things.
• Electrical Engineering: Usually can fix any electrical problem he has. Is a whiz with electricity.
• Computer Engineering: Computers, computer programs, he can do it all. Create them, fix them, understand them, hack them. Also, hacking.
• Psychology: Took multiple psychology courses because of his paranoia. Can understand and read people quite easily.
• Paranoia: He knows its a strength, a skill to be able to question everything and everyone.
• Memory: Can mostly remember most of the things he learns/hears/sees.
• Observational Skills: Due to having lots of free time when he was a child, Mack unknowingly trained his observational skills to something great.

Weaknesses/Flaws:

• Paranoia: He knows it is a weakness, but Mack can't help it. He's not able to trust anyone at all.
• Stutter: When highly emotional he gains a horrible stutter that leads him unable to talk.
• Physicality: Mack isn't very strong and his endurance is quite low.
• Reliance on Technology: Take away his tool, his technology, his projects and Mach is a genius without anything to work with. He becomes nothing.

History: Born as the third child of five, Mack has always been mostly ignored and left to his own thoughts, his parents punishing his older siblings the hardest while doting and spoiling his youngest the most. He was truly left to his own devices, and didn't rely on his parents for many things. He did rely on them for their money, though. Also born into a family of great wealth, Mack decided to go into the field of engineering and anything to do with said engineering. He has always loved building things.

When he was eight, Mack started memorising things clearer and much more efficiently. Intrigued as to what was causing this, Mack found that he had an eidetic memory. Mack understood that he had a gift, so he trained his memory with trying to remember how many hats are in a room, the features of a painting, et cetera. This, in turn, also boosted his observational skills. After he lost his ability to recall things perfectly, Mack had found that he could see mistakes easier and just see easier. Even though his memory is still amazing, he misses the ability to recall memories perfectly.

Watching anything horror and sci-fi is what caused Mack to become so paranoid. Just thinking that technology could control minds, that people could become...more completely terrified Mack to his core, and he became a shut-in. He studied longer, he stopped talking, the thoughts in his head getting wilder and wilder and then his parents died in a car accident and these habits and thoughts started getting worse. Then he became estranged. Then he started living off his inheritance. And now he is in Starkfield, a place where paranoia sky-rockets. He can't leave though, most of his projects rely on what the city has to offer. Like his AI or Fully Personalized Artificial Intelligence. Or Fiona. Mack's AI is rooted in Starkfield, and leaving would mean to disconnect her and restart everything.

Personality: Mack is a loner. He is truly a shut-in, barely leaving the confines of his house and never talking to anyone. Even when situations that permit that he has to talk, he doesn't. He is fearful of most anything, anyone and everything. Except himself of course, but even that solace is slipping. He finds comfort with his creations, his machines and his technology.

His mind is on fast-forward all the time. He thinks and thinks, and when talking to himself, he talks fast but normally. When in a very stressful situation, or when he is highly-emotional Mack stutters and usually has to take a moment to compose himself. When working, his mind is solely on the project, to finish it in record time. When he isn't working, he comes up with crack-pot theories that are sometimes actually right.

When on the Internet he hides behind firewalls, leaves traces of other people and just doesn't let the source be traced back to him. On the Internet, only known as "FindingTruth38" he is outspoken, he truly lets his mind have voice. But usually only people like him are drawn to Mack. When "normal" people come across Mack, they call him crazy and paranoid.

Overall, Mack is unapproachable. He will turn the other way if he catches you looking at him. Even thugs are frightened of him due to his sketchy nature.