MAXINE "MAX" SPARK
"If you want to be trusted, be honest."
Pixie RING LEADER
She tends to go by Max
Female
Demi-Sexual
Single
Currently, Max's age is unknown to herself, but she appears to be between 25-30 years of age.
Born on the 12th of March
In a city named Zirkuaren
She stands at 5'5 and has a rather curvy, sporty, and sprightly build.
Her mid-length hair is a dirty, fiery blonde, whilst the short, shaved sides are black.
With deep, playful and beautiful Jade Green eyes
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Max is a beautiful and curvy woman who is often seen leaning more to her left when she isn't standing tall, she has a tomboyish character to her. She has dirty blond hair with a rather red tint to the tips, giving her hair a fiery look to match the joyous grin often seen upon her lips. Wearing a harness around her chest, she uses it to carry her tools and 'Chems' around her home or as she prefers.. 'Base of operations'. When she's at home relaxing or working on her next big project, she often walks around in the bare minimum of clothing, showing off her pristine skin and intoxicating curves. She has no tattoos because her skin simply won't allow them however her scalp and part of her head has a black fade which is partial to her pixie blood's taint.
However, even though her skin will heal as will her body, she lost half of her right leg during her childhood. As it was caused by a rare metal called Ruthenium which she herself had been experimenting with. The metal is her main weakness and so, her regenerative powers simply can not restore the leg.
When Max is out of her home and 'Base', she prefers not to be seen as herself, wearing more womanly clothing and using her hair to hide the black tint her skin takes. Her harness will be hidden beneath once again with a small tool pack and defensive weapons if thing's turn sour.
PERSONALITY:
In simple words, most would no doubt describe Max as "Bat Shit Crazy". Whether they mean in a good or bad way is neither here nor there, she can't argue the words. She is tomboyish, full of chaos and mischief. Her heart soars when she is causing some kind of disaster for others to deal with and there isn't an ounce of regret to her actions. She will literately set fires or cause explosions just to bask in the chaos that surrounds her! Her body is always full of energy and half the time, she doesn't know what to do with that energy, she was never taught boundaries as a child, never taught how to behave or what was seen as wrong and right. She was taught nothing at all by others and only learned from experience. She doesn't do things out of malice or hatred but simply for the thrill. Max doesn't even realize how she can be affecting others with her actions, well, not always that is. Sometimes she will cause harm just to laugh at those who wronged her somehow.
Manners and the such had no place on the streets for a growing girl, she will fend for herself and let others do the same, she takes no personal pain when others had tried to take what she has worked for when others tried to overthrow her in thoughts that she would be weak. In her mind, that is simply life. What you want, need or simply find within reach is there to be taken!
This, however, does not mean that she is to be taken as dumb or foolish. She is incredibly clever actually, able to construct and build or create anything she needs with simple components. She is always full of backup plans and creative solutions, though they might seem crazy to some, dangerous and simply suicidal, everything she does is planned out almost flawlessly.
She grew up homeless and poor, nothing to her name but the rags on her back. Out of fear of being sold into the trafficking business, she would hide on the streets and took refuge in an old and abandoned junkyard. She made it her home, her safe retreat from the world as it was so out of the way from everyone else. Even now she still lives there, hidden deep beneath the large mountains of scrap metal and trashed appliances or machinery.
She doesn't take too much for granted and will only trust herself... Herself and the universe actually. She often feels a pull from the cosmic universe in life, it guided her in times of distress as she grew up.
ABILITIES:
- Condition Enhancement - Max is able to enhance her body whether making herself stronger or enhancing her senses, though how long she can enhance depends on what she is enhancing and how much she enhances it. This can allow her superior strength, speed, hearing, sight. Lung capacity, physically anything she can already do with her body.
- Cell Regeneration - Her body heals itself quickly, her cells refresh almost daily causing her aging process to slow dramatically. Her wounds heal unless they were caused by Ruthenium. If Liquid Silver is injected into her blood or heart, her cells will not be able to heal but instead, turn against her completely and destroy her.
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Cosmic Awareness - As a child, her mind once connected to the universe around her. This is a power that is associated with spiritual faeries and though it was only brief and very painful for her, her mind was opened to many aspects of the world. One that really stuck in her mind was the creativity to build and invent. Though she hasn't fully connected her mind to the universe since, both from not knowing how or why it happened, she sometimes will feel a pull from the universe around her, like the guidance of sorts.
- Telekinesis - Another effect of her experience at a young age was her telekinetic abilities. Though she cannot move people or living creatures with her mind, she can control inanimate objects at will.
SKILLS:
- Though usually sticking to blueprints or rough sketches of ideas and future plans, if Max took the time to sit and actually focus on her drawings or paintings she has a creative and wonderful skill.
- Being able to plan and build almost anything whether it is mechanical or not, she is a quick thinker and can utilize anything she finds in the junkyard she lives in.
- As crazy as she is, she often plans several steps ahead in every situation, always has backup plans and is prepared for the worst situations.
- Max has a way of telling when others are lying to her. Whether it is something simple or something serious, she just seems to read it from them with ease.
- The loss of her leg doesn't stop her maneuverability as much as most would expect. She is fast and agile, able to do things others would struggle with even.
- She can fight, not so much a formal style like swords and the such but she has her own kind of crazy, "throw everything at them" style. Her moves are unpredictable and even a little playful no matter how bad a situation she gets into, she always keeps.. well, what most think crazy, to her is a steady mind.
STRENGTHS:
- Her mind is complex but in the best of ways, she is creative and joyous and her fun seems to pass onto those around her. She can bring out the fun side of almost everybody she has ever met and is at her best when surrounded by chaos.
- Max can be persuasive and intoxicating. She is a natural leader in some senses and others always seem to crowd around her or follow her in life. She promotes loyalty and is loved by her followers. They give her strength even if she doesn't allow herself to grow close to them in return.
- She is quick thinking and yet full of surprises even when considered to be caught off guard or backed into a corner. She expects the unexpected and is always full of back up plans.
- Constantly full of energy and a daring spirit, she doesn't back down from a challenge and no matter how dangerous something might be, if there is a chance of fun to it, she will charge head first.
- Emotionally, she doesn't risk letting others close and though this can be seen as a weakness, it has kept her safe and alive more often than she'd like to admit. Even when followers had turned upon her, she was willing to do what was necessary to survive.
WEAKNESSES:
- F-W - Ruthenium. A rare metal that is scarcely found but to Max, it is severely deadly. Wounds caused by this rare metal won't heal if this metal is left within her body. It will turn toxic and cause illness which unless this is healed properly and removed, will lead to death too.
- F-W - Max can be killed by having liquid silver injected into her bloodstream or heart.
- She has abandonment issues and thus, doesn't allow others to grow close or personally involved. Often quite rude or cold to those she really likes, pushing them away because she's scared to want them close.
- The loss of her leg doesn't get her down or upset Max. If anything she feels stronger from it. However, the pain she often experiences can be described as a "Ghost pain" where the limb once was, causes her panic attacks when it kicks in though this rarely happens, it does seem to choose the most disastrous times to do so.
- Cold weather really gets to Max, she prefers the warmth and suffers in the cold, though it's not fatally dangerous.
- She has a weak immune system during the cold weathers too.
FEARS:
Unlike most people, she doesn't fear death or physical pain, not dying would be preferable but mostly, she fears emotional pain. The idea of letting people close, putting down her barriers and feeling anything for anybody.. Just to have them betray her, let her down or even for her to do the same for them. That is her biggest fear.
She also fears the thought of never seeing the sun high in the sky before she dies. Seeing it in pictures and old movies is one thing but to actually sit there, on a field with the sun shining down onto her.. This is her biggest aspiration in life and not having this feeling is one hell of a thing to fear.
LIKES
- Sweet foods and strong drinks
- Loud and disruptive music and noises
- Creating, planning creations, drawing blueprints and keeping her hands busy
- Loyalty, whether it is blind loyalty or not she enjoys having others follow her or aiding her.
- Rusted and tarnished looks.
- Though she won't admit it, she loves flowers. The smell, the look, everything about them, she loves.
DISLIKES
- Spicy and bitter foods. Coffee and caffeinated drinks
- Most classical pieces of music or street music and the likes
- Being bored or having nothing to do, she is constantly restless
- Being lied to or betrayed even by those she doesn't personally know or trust herself, it always leaves a very bitter taste in her mouth
- Not having a sun shining down at her
BACKSTORY:
Her parents like herself were of the fae kind. Her mother was a strong woman, often seen as the warrior by those she knew and Max's father. Well, he was something different. He came under the category of "spiritual" fairy, an intellectual fairy with a link to the world around him. He, like many of his kind, could willingly connect their minds to the universe, though it didn't always feed them knowledge, it was more of a drug to them. A high only they could achieve, a feeling of pure bliss that allowed them to feel superior and simply so far gone that they would die happily whilst in one of their highs.
As the two made things work as best they could, her parents never really loved one another, never really cared for each other like most happy families, it was simply a way of surviving in Zirkuaren.
They would pool their resources and simply push on through life, the physical contact was an added benefit however, it was also their downfall. When Maxine's mother found she had become impregnated, her father had for better words, Checked out. He knew a child was too much responsibility, knew it would ruin their chances of survival, god forbid they ever tried to leave this strange kingdom. He also knew that there was no chance of his survival without another to use for support.
So, instead of taking responsibility, he took the cowards way out, connected his mind to the universe with no barriers, destroyed his mind, his body... Became nothing but dust in the wind and died with a twisted, intoxicated smile upon his lips.
When Maxine was finally brought into the world though, her mother left her too. She took off for the mountains as far as anybody knew. Whether she ever made it out of Zirkuaren or not was unknown and uninteresting to Max. She was goaded, told stories of her parents by others who knew them and often mocked for her dead beat father's actions but she never cared, she never knew them, never had a connection with them and didn't even bother to defend their honor as she too, felt they had none.
She was 'luckily' taken in by some neighbors, perhaps in hopes of using her as a worker when she got older or even to sell her.. Again, she didn't find out too much what they had planned because when she hit the age of Seven, her "adoptive mother" was offered the chance of a cheap deal. Sell her off into the trafficking business for a small lump sum or hope she earned her keep when she was able to find work? It was painfully obvious to Max what the choice would be so she didn't stick around to find out, she had already seen so many of the older "adopted children" go to what they were told were New homes.
Living on the streets at such a young age wasn't much different than the household she had been kept captive, food was scarce and she had to fend for herself still, however now, she was in constant worry of being sold or taken into the trafficking business. She took shelter in an old abandoned junkyard and let none close.
Her hunger was what drove her forwards in life, her need and want to survive but after what felt a grueling week of no lucky finds, living on the scraps she could salvage in the streets before returning back to the junkyard. Something strange had happened to Max, thinking she was on her last few days, she tried to fight sleep, tried to keep from losing consciousness and pushed herself to her limits to find food. Perhaps it was this exact push that allowed her mind to open up? Either way, she experienced something she had never thought possible.
Much like her fathers, her mind connected to the universe around her!
The experience was intense, painful and eye-opening. An experience she would never be able to forget, however, unlike her father, the connection changed her mind. It brought to her knowledge and a new perspective on life... It filled her with energy, the energy she would never lose.
She began to see things differently from others, her mind was never the same again, she'd not feel hungry or exhaustion. She was suddenly able to build and create things she never had a clue about and the junkyard she took shelter in began a wonderful land of possibilities!
She would break down components, building more of a home within the piles of old machinery and if she came across something she didn't know, she'd learn it with ease. Her experiments took over and her life became nothing but fun and joyous from this point on. Even when she found herself rooting to the lower regions of old machines, finding what looked to be some very old solar panels that she learned were once used to transfer energy from the sun before it was taken from them, however, what she didn't expect was to find that these very solar panels used a rare metal component inside, Ruthenium.
Now, she had taken wounds since moving into the junkyard, sliced her hands on old metal or her legs even, tore the skin on her fingers to shreds as she pulled apart the machines but as soon as these wounds happened, she found them healing just as easily. Even when she lost a finger to a rather sharp piece of sheet metal but this Ruthenium was something different. The wounds caused by this metal didn't heal like the others.
As she got older, her experiments continued but so had her solitude. Out looking for food, she often avoided the areas where other homeless people would gather but stumbling onto a small group of men.. Her eyes fell onto one young boy who was being used as a guinea pig of sorts. The men were using him to test their drugs, seeing it as just another homeless piece of trash made for their bidding.
For some unknown reason, Max got a sudden urge to help this person. She fought off the men and took him back to her home. Helped him heal and with time. the two bonded. She grew closer to the boy, found out his history, his name was Alex and he like herself was alone. With him being a human however, it wasn't long before he was catching up to her age. He had learned so much from her and she from him in ways she didn't expect.
Alex was the chemistry nut, he used what he found on the streets to synthesize his own drugs and with Max's mind, the two began to sell dependently. The work they did grew more and more with every day and before long, she was running the largest drug industry in Zirkuaren.
Alex knew it was only temporary for him though, he had grown into a man and Maxine? she had barely aged since they met so he taught her what he could, taught others that they recruited some of the simple things, with her mind, Max had built a whole lab that could handle the manufacturing of their drugs.
What she hadn't expected however, was that Alex was tricked by another to reveal her biggest weakness. Ruthenium. Another who wanted to take overused this knowledge to their own benefit, constructing a blade from the rare metal before attacking Max during the night. She was able to defend herself but at the loss of her leg. What hurt more though, was the betrayal she felt from Alex and thus. His life was taken so the secret would never be told again.
From that day onwards, she continued her work on drugs and kept everybody at a safe distance. Never wanting to let herself grow weak to another's needs or wants once more in her life. She wanted to grow distant from everybody in Zirkuaren and one day.. one day she would make her escape past those damned mountains and feel the sun upon her skin finally!
