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| “ | Let your life be a dream Integrity, honesty It's too late for me Don't look back 'Til you're free to chase the morning |
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| ~ Blind Mag telling Shilo to live her life to the fullest. |
Magdalene "Blind Mag" Defoe is a protagonist in the 2008 musical film Repo! The Genetic Opera.
She is the spokeswoman of GeneCo, an organ replacement company that came to be after an epidemic of organ failures devastated the future world.
She was portrayed by Sarah Brightman, who originated the role of Christine Daaé in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera.
Appearance[]
Mag is a beautiful woman with long, wavy dark hair. Her eyes are large with digital corneas that are bright blue and have a pinwheel pattern. Usually she is seen wearing dramatic stage makeup and costumes.
Personality[]
Mag has a regal bearing and a calm demeanor, often appearing gloomy and contemplative. She accepts the consequences of her choice to leave GeneCo with dignity.
History[]
Mag was born blind and possessed a phenomenal singing voice. She became best friends with Marni Wallace, who was at the time dating the founder of GeneCo, Rotti Largo. Impressed by Mag's talent, he offered her a deal. In exchange for new corneas that would give her sight, Mag would become the spokeswoman of GeneCo and a famous opera singer. For a time, Mag was fine with this arrangement, but over the years it became apparent to her what a corrupt company GeneCo was. The guilt of encouraging people to go into debt for organs that would be brutally repossessed was too much for Mag. In spite of knowing that leaving GeneCo meant her own eyes would be taken from her, she announced her retirement. Mag's final performance would be at GeneCo's much-anticipated Genetic Opera.
While at the Italian Renaissance Fair in the Sanitarium Square, Mag was introduced by Rotti to Shilo Wallace, whom he'd invited as a guest. She was shocked to see her friend Marni's daughter who she believed had died as a baby with her mother. Mag made a secret trip to the Wallace residence to have a talk with Shilo, revealing herself to be the girl's godmother. She warned Shilo not to make the same mistakes she did by signing her life away to GeneCo. Mag used the projection capabilities of her corneas to produce a hologram of Marni to help encourage Shilo to pursue her dreams.
Shilo's father Nathan came home unexpectedly and was furious to see that his daughter had let someone in without his permission. Mag confronted him about how locking Shilo away from the world was harmful and not at all what Marni would have wanted. Ultimately, Nathan threw Mag out of the house in spite of Shilo's protests. She begged her father to let Mag stay as she knew a Repo Man would be repossessing Mag's eyes soon. Shilo was unaware that Nathan was the Repo Man and wracked with guilt for what he had to do to his late wife's best friend.
That evening Mag performed her last song, Chromaggia, at the Genetic Opera. During the finale, she publicly announced that she would rather be blind than be under GeneCo's control any longer, and gouged out her own eyes with the metal nail guards on her fingers. After only a moment to savor her newly won freedom, Rotti cut the rope suspending Mag in the air, and she fell to her death onto a spiked prop fence which impaled her. The audience was shocked but Rotti falsely reassured them it was all part of the show.