| This page is similar in name or subject to other pages.
See also Mallory for a complete list of references to clarify differences between these closely named or closely related articles. |
 | |
| Mallory | |
| Aliases: | Mallory |
| Continuity: | American Horror Story |
| Notability: | Main character |
| Type: | Witch; Personal assistant |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Outpost Three |
| Associations: | Miss Robichaux's Academy |
| Status: | Formerly deceased |
| First: | "The End" |
| Actor: | Billie Lourd |
Mallory is a fictional personal assistant & witch and a central character featured on the FX Network television series American Horror Story. Played by actress Billie Lourd, she appeared in the season eight storyline, "Apocalypse".
Biography[]
Mallory was a young woman who was a witch. She became a student at Miss Robichaux's Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana in the years following Cordelia Goode's ascendancy to the position of Supreme.
Along with Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt and Dinah Stevens, Mallory underwent an identity spell wherein her consciousness was submerged and a new identity took its place; an identity that was unaware of her knowledge of witchcraft. [1]
By 2019, Mallory was living in Los Angeles, California, where she worked as the personal assistant to Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt, who was an obnoxious self-absorbed social media celebrity. Around the month of May or June an emergency text alert went out, warning Los Angelinos of a pending nuclear attack. Coco's parents arranged for a private plane at Santa Monica Airport that could help them evacuate the city. Coco and Mallory took the plane, along with Coco's hairstylist, Mister Gallant, and his grandmother, the aging starlet Evie Gallant.
The group ended up at Outpost Three, which was a fallout shelter designed by a group known as The Cooperative. The administration running the outpost employed a caste system between the elite (The Purples) and the worker class (The Greys). Mallory became a Grey and continued to service Coco, who was a Purple. [2]
Eighteen months into their exile, an official from the Cooperative named Michael Langdon came to Outpost Three to inform everyone that this was the last remaining outpost that has not yet fallen prey to marauding mutants and monsters, but it was only a matter of time, before it too would be compromised. A select few were going to be chosen to accompany him to a secret Sanctuary, which he said was impregnable and stocked with enough food and resources to last a decade. Mallory knew that she was not going to be one of the chosen. For those being left behind, Langdon offered them suicide pills as an alternative to being ravaged by marauding radioactive cannibals. [3]
A short time later, Michael conducted a personal interview with Mallory. He was attempting to suss out the dark nature of her character, which she claimed didn't exist. He didn't believe her though, and continued to poke and prod at her psychologically, putting Mallory on edge. She resisted him, and instinctively called upon her repressed magical abilities and threw Langdon against a wall.
On October 30th, 2021, the site leader of Outpost Three, Wilhemina Venable, hosted a Halloween party, which included a masquerade ball and a game of bobbing for apples. All of the survivors, Purple and Grey alike, participated in the affair. What they didn't know was that Venable and her trusted lieutenant Miriam Mead had poisoned all of the apples. Their plan was to kill everyone at the outpost, including Langdon, and then make their way to the secret sanctuary on their own. Every person who took a bite of an apple, including Mallory, began going into convulsions and ultimately died.
At the moment of their deaths, the witches Cordelia Goode, Myrtle Snow, and Madison Montgomery arrived at Outpost Three. Cordelia cast a spell that brought Coco, Mallory, and another witch named Dinah Stevens back from the dead. [4]
Powers and Abilities[]
Mallory is an immensely powerful natural witch with a lineage that goes straight back to Salem. She has mastered all seven of the Seven Wonders, as well as other rare magical abilities, and is destined to surpass Cordelia as the next Supreme. Her raw power is so strong that the Antichrist showed fear of her and had to ask her father for help. She is without a doubt the most powerful witch in the American Horror Story universe, next to Scathach.
- Telekinesis: One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. While being interviewed by Michael Langdon, she experienced a moment of fear and anger as he grabbed her arm and pushed her across the room with his mind.
- Levitation: The magical ability to propel oneself or objects into the air. Mallory mentioned that she was caught by her parents floating in her sleep.
- Telekinetic Incision: Mallory's telekinesis is so advanced that when Coco faces death because she was choked on an eighty-calorie piece of cake, Mallory uses telekinesis to slit Coco's throat without causing any bleeding, to remove the snowball piece. (biscuit) from her throat and closing the cut without scarring.
- Pyrokinesis: One of the Seven Wonders, magical ability to create, control and manipulate fire with the power of the mind. After pushing Michael Langdon to the ground with Telekinesis, he altered his face in anger, revealing a pale white face with black eyes, scaring Mallory and causing her to light the fireplace with her mind, creating a large fireball that momentarily filled the room.
- Transmutation: One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to instantly move from one place to another. This power is more commonly known as Teleportation. Mallory was shown using this power to escape along with Cordelia and Myrtle, before Michael could find them.
- Vitalum Vitalis: One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to balance the balance between life and death. In the new timeline, she was able to blow into a dead butterfly and revive it while waiting for Cordelia Goode in her office.
- Descensum: One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to descend into the underworld and the afterlife. As an Supreme, Mallory has this ability.
- Concilium: One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to bend another individual's will and force them to do what the user desires. This power is commonly known as Mind Control. As an Supreme, Mallory has this ability.
- Divination: One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to gain knowledge by indirect means. As an Supreme, Mallory has this ability.
- Tempus Infinituum: A rare gift, the magical ability to change past events and alter history.
- Timeline creation: Mallory used Tempus Infinitum on such a massive scale that she was able to create a new timeline from 2015 onwards.
- Injury Reversal: A unique gift, the magical ability to reverse injuries, even those that resulted in death. This is similar to, but not the same as, the power of resurgence, which is the ability to raise the dead by returning the soul to the body, while Mallory's gift reverses the physical cause of death.
- Age Reversal: Mallory not only brought a deer back to life and undid the damage done to it, but also turned it into a deer.
- Death Reversal: Mallory manifested this power by bringing John Henry Moore back to life after he was reduced to ashes. She recreated his body from nothing but his ashes, seemingly reversing his death by lighting a fire from which he emerged.
- Sorcery: Mallory has proven to be very skilled at casting spells and performing rituals.
- Anastasia's Protection Spell: When she traveled to the past to try to save Anastasia Romanov and her family, Mallory joined the Russian witch in her protective spell that raised a purple mist that served as a shield to the soldiers' gunfire.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Mallory was created by franchise showrunners Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk and director Bradley Buecker.
- Actress Billie Lourd also played Winter Anderson in the season seven storyline, "Cult".
- Actress Billie Lourd is the daughter of late Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher. Lourd appeared with her mother in the films Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens and Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi.
Appearances[]
- American Horror Story: The End
- American Horror Story: The Morning After
- American Horror Story: Forbidden Fruit (Dies, but is resurrected)
- American Horror Story: Could It Be... Satan? (Revealed to be a witch)
See also[]
External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ American Horror Story: Apocalypse, "Could It Be... Satan?" (10-3-18). Directed by Sheree Folkson. Written by Tim Minear.
- ↑ American Horror Story: Apocalypse, "The End" (9-12-18). Directed by Bradley Buecker. Written by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.
- ↑ American Horror Story: Apocalypse, "The Morning After" (9-19-18). Directed by Jennifer Lynch. Written by James Wong.
- ↑ American Horror Story: Apocalypse, "Forbidden Fruit" (9-26-18). Directed by Loni Peristere. Written by Manny Coto.