“[Genius] was something that had been sitting on the hard drive for a while, the idea of someone who had the brains and the motivation to galvanize untrained-but-battle-hardened troops into a fighting force. I caught a Discovery Channel doc one weekend a few years ago about those middle-of-the-country militias that are always hoarding guns and training in the nestle of nowhere. When asked why they’re training, one bloke said something like ‘You know what we’re afraid of? Those people out there, those gangsters in LA. They’ve been under fire. They know what it’s like to get shot at. And they know what it’s like to kill. They’re not afraid. When the big race war comes, we need to be not afraid, too.’ And I thought to myself, ‘What if you could marshal that power, direct its sharp edge? Who could do that, and why?’ And Destiny popped into my head, because she’s the last person you’d expect to be able to do that. So it made perfect sense.”

Marc Bernardin