One of American Horror Story: Apocalypse’s
biggest mysteries so far has been focused
on Mallory, Bille Lourd's mysterious character.
And, so far, this is the one character who
has had the biggest jump in development and
overall importance in the narrative.
Mallory started out as just some random secretary
being overworked and abused left and right
by Coco in the beginning of the season.
But with each new episode, especially episode
3 Forbidden Fruit, it became clear there was
a lot more going on with Mallory and what
role she’ll play in the fight against Michael.
Now, midway through the season, there are
a few theories about the character, and they
all have to deal with Mallory being the key
to reversing the apocalypse that Michael caused,
reversing it somehow.
As we found in the last two episodes, Mallory
was actually studying at Cordelia's school
and apparently she displayed an incredible
amount of power being able to bring a deer
back to life.
As Myrtle said, this is magic she’s never
seen before.
Since she’s so powerful and valuable, Cordelia
hid her identity during the apocalypse.
Also, Mallory is the only one Michael seems
to fear the most, as he basically went calling
for his devil daddy after Mallory first displayed
her powers against him.
Michael, as he’s doing his creepy devil
ritual, says to his dad that he thought he
killed them all when discussing Mallory.
But what could he mean by this?
It might be obvious and straightforward to
point out that Mallory is just an extremely
powerful witch, one so powerful she could
be next in line to become the new supreme.
Even though everyone believed Michael was
the supreme, he’s something else entirely,
something the show hasn’t fully revealed
yet.
And with Myrtle saying she thinks Mallory
could be in the running to replace Cordelia
as well, that’s where her destiny is being
pointed towards.
Ok, we get all of that, but that still doesn’t
answer the question of who Mallory really
is?
The theory of her being just a witch doesn’t
line up with Michael’s comment saying he
thought he killed them all.
Since he spoken to Dinah who is a witch, Michael
does know witches still exist during the apocalypse.
That shouldn’t come as a surprise to him,
unless this new season has plenty of plot
holes, Mallory is something beyond a witch.
This brings me to my major theory, and that
is Mallory is some sort of an angel, or daughter
of god to directly counteract Michael.
The name Mallory itself translates to “the
unlucky one.”
This might suggest Mallory has to somehow
sacrifice herself to reverse the apocalypse
and bring world order and peace back.
Mallory is also always willing to serve others,
and is often portrayed as being kind, calm,
an incredible healer, and all of the characteristics
fit for an angel or daughter of god.
We also need to take a look at the underlying
themes of Apocalypse.
American Horror Story may be a creep supernatural
show on the surface, but like with any great
piece of television or movie, there are deeper
underlying messages underneath.
Apocalypse has been heavily focused on gender.
There’s the warlocks vs. witches storyline
we keep getting and all of the politics and
conflicts that go along with that.
Warlocks, the males, are the weaker ones in
the this world, the complete opposite of many
past and even current stories in shows and
movies often portray, which is the man being
stronger.
There has never been a male supreme as well,
which is what makes Michael’s desire to
be that that much more tumultuous and worrying
for the witches.
Heck, the leader of the warlocks, Ariel, was
even willing to kill one of his own, John
Henry, so Michael can be the next supreme.
Why?
Well, all for power, really.
Ariel wants the warlocks to rise and suppress
their female counterparts finally at any cost.
And the final battle this season is looking
likely to feature Michael vs. witches.
Understanding and seeing all of this symbolism
and themes, a final conflict of the son of
the devil and the daughter of god, Mallory,
battling and going at it makes plenty of sense.
With the gender politics and themes about
religion going on, the devil’s son being
taken down by god’s daughter sounds like
a more than fitting finale for the season.
Let me know what your theories are about Mallory,
and I’ll catch you beautiful people next
time.
