Daddy
Names: DaddyIan MacdonaldDadIanDee's fatherGT LeaderLeaderIntendant Associate Ian Macdonald
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 59 (13)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 59Daddy is afraid of Victor while also attracted to him, and will wait rather than act against him.
- Ch 59Daddy hopes the black Absolute is within his grasp; Shannon intends to strike when his hopes peak, years from now.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 4Ian Macdonald is the children's divorced father, living on the 'Scottish' ethnic planet and communicating only via birthday and Christmas presents.
- Ch 5Latent eldest son of Kyle and Masha; a Rebel sympathizer and airfarmer on Beinn Bhiorach who worshipped his wife Viola.
- Ch 5Ian first agreed to sell the struggling airfarm but, persuaded by his father Kyle, flatly refused to sell Glen Tuath.
- Ch 6Ian is Dee and Ken's father, a latent who lives on Caledonia; his wife Viola and Masha avoid speaking of him.
- Ch 7Dorothée's father and legal next of kin; he forbade the mind-probe and invited his children to live with him on Caledonia.
- Ch 9Ian is Dee and Ken's father, living on a farm on Caledonia; Gran thinks he is hopelessly unsuitable as a guardian.
- Ch 9Dee's father farms and harvests airplants on Caledonia.
- Ch 10Ian is latent, farms at Glen Tuath, and missed meeting his children because he was busy harvesting an extraordinary bloom of airplants.
- Ch 10Ian is Kyle's firstborn son and an airfarmer on Beinn Bhiorach; he has struggled in poverty for over five years and Kyle says he is in the conspiracy.
- Ch 10Ian flies the silver flitter, is exhausted, and has just saved his nearly bankrupt farm with a huge unexpected airplant harvest.
- Ch 10Ian is a latent child among three operants, rejected by his mother and by the woman he loved most; he grieves twice-lost Mummie.
- Ch 10Ian fostered three nonborn children after his wife left him and took Dee and Ken away.
- Ch 10Ian Macdonald wears a silver environmental suit; after Dee's redaction he is eased but not fully healed, and he lifts and embraces her.
- Ch 10Ian Macdonald calls Dee 'Little Dorrie', says it is time to go home, and smiles at last.
- Ch 15Ian Macdonald owns Glen Tuath Farm, leads the harvest team, and gave Dee the yellow flitter because she is the best pilot.
- Ch 15Ian Macdonald flies a black aerostat, led the harvest team, coached Ken through the emergency, and witnessed Dee's rescue.
- Ch 17Ian is Dee and Ken's father; he secretly asks Dee to investigate why his wife Viola was killed, then fears her power.
- Ch 23Dorothée's father, who recently married Janet Finlay; a farmer and Intendant Associate for Beinn Bhiorach, old-fashioned about marriage.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 7Ian is Dorothea's father, an Intendant Associate with Rebel-leaning sympathies who resented Remillard-paid wedding on Earth but agreed to give her away.
- Ch 10Ian Macdonald plays bagpipes in Highland dress to lead the wedding recessional.
- Ch 18Ian is Dorothea's father, a Rebel-sympathizing Intendant Associate on Caledonia, with a struggling farm; he is suspected of involvement in a bootleg CE helmet factory.
- Ch 33Ian is Dorothea's father, a nonoperant farmer, elected Intendant Associate of Beinn Bhiorach Subcontinent, and a Rebel; he suspected-but-unproven sponsored a clandestine laser-helmet factory.
- Ch 33Ian was delegated by a group in the Rebel Party to confidentially ask whether the war could be averted; he says Rebels remain open to negotiation.
- Ch 33After deducing that Jack and Dorothea will lead the counterassault against Marc, Ian forbids Janet to tell anyone, protecting his daughter.
Connections
- family ofShannonDaddy is her father
- enemy ofShannon
- family ofDiamond Maskfather
- partner ofViola Strachanmarried
- family ofViola Strachanmarried, then divorced
- family ofKyle Macdonaldfather
- family ofGrannymother
- inCaledonia
- family ofKenfather
- related toJanet Finlayworks for him at the farm
- related toGavin Boydfosterling
- family ofJanet Finlaysecond wife
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 59Shannon recruits Victor against her father
At the new millennium, Shannon and Victor light flares. Shannon telepathically asks Victor to help bring down Daddy at the peak of his hopes, years ahead. Victor agrees.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Ian marries Viola and moves to Caledonia
In 2054 Ian met Viola Strachan at his brother's degree ceremony in Edinburgh. Despite Masha's opposition they married and returned to Glen Tuath Farm on Caledonia.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Birth of Dorothea
Dorothea was born in 2057 on Caledonia, latent but healthy and with extraordinary potential; she needed to be taken to Earth for proper evaluation and treatment.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Viola leaves Ian
After Ian, swayed by his father Kyle, refuses to sell Glen Tuath, Viola decides she no longer loves him, announces a divorce and returns to Earth with Kenneth and Dorothea.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Dorothée refuses mind-probe
Dorothée refuses a drug-assisted memory probe; Paul seeks permission from her father Ian, who forbids it and agrees to take Dorothée and Kenneth to Caledonia.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Arrival on Caledonia
Dee, Ken and Masha land at the starport in a storm; Dee is overwhelmed by crowd telepathy, hears the angel, and learns Ian cannot meet them because of the airplant harvest.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Gaelic quarrel in the egg
Kyle and Masha argue in Gaelic over his drinking and seditious plotting against the Milieu; Dee translates and learns of Ian's alleged involvement and Masha's intent to stay.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Dee meets her father
Kyle helps Dee run to the harvesters. Dee senses Ian's exhaustion and deep sorrow, he descends from his flitter, and she looks into his emotions, wishing to heal him.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Dee heals her father's pain
Dee secretly uses her new redaction on Ian Macdonald, easing his suffering. He then lifts and embraces her, kisses her forehead, and tells her it is time to go home.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Dee's first harvest day
On her eleventh birthday Dee suits up, endures Gavin's taunts, and joins the team piloting The Big Cheese; Ian assigns her a block and pronounces her competent.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Torachan attack on GT-10
Torachan hidden in Ken's cargo shred his storage cells and gas envelope. His flitter spins and sinks, the pylon bolts fail, and the backup frees the fuselage, but the parafoil fouls.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Dee rescues Ken with psychokinesis
Prompted by the angel, Dee halts time, untangles the parafoil, and lands Ken softly on a grassy islet. Her father sees everything, and the flight recorder logged it, so she cannot hide her powers.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Ian's request
Ian asks Dee to find out why Viola was killed, then recoils when Dee mentally compels him to wait. She promises to investigate.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Departure for Earth
After goodbyes with Janet and Ian, Dee, Ken, Masha and Kyle leave in the egg flyer for Clyde and Earth.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Dorothea reveals her face to Ian
At the Intendant Assembly dining room, Dorothea persuades her sulking father to give her away at her wedding to Jack, showing him her old face and her scarred true face.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Jack tells Anne of the bootleg CE factory
Walking through Rive Gauche, Jack tells Anne about the Caledonian mental-laser helmet factory, suspicion of Ian Macdonald, and possible Rebel militancy; they also discuss Denis's vanishing.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Ian's secret appeal
Ian asks Dorothea and Jack, on behalf of a Rebel faction, whether war can be averted; they reveal the loyalist strategy and that they will confront Marc.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Ian conceals the counterassault leaders
Ian deduces Jack and Dorothea lead the counterassault; he forbids Janet from informing Calum Sorley, then is comforted by her.