"At least I'm trying to climb out of my cocoon." --Max Caulfield
BASICS
NAME: Maxine | Max (Nickname)
GENDER: Cis Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her/Hers
ORIENTATION: Demiromantic Demisexual
BIRTHDATE: Early Fall 2752
AGE: 28 as of Early Summer 2773
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: Dragonrider (Green)
WING: Marzuka Squad
APPEARANCE
EYES: Stormcloud Blue
HAIR: Auburn Brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 5'5" | Slender
PLAY-BY: Max Caulfield ( Life is Strange)
FULL APPEARANCE:
Maxine is an average height and slender young woman with short brown hair and blue eyes. Her face is rounded and her nose an average size and sat directly in the middle of her face. Her lips are on the fuller but narrower side and her cheeks are peppered in freckles. There is nothing really stand out about her physically, and she tends towards plain colors in her clothing, shades that do not easily reflect stains, as she is not so well off she can just replace things on a whim.
She owns maybe two dresses in her entire wardrobe and they are for special occasions only. She likes to dress practically in shirts and breeches, depending on the weather, she may be wearing a jacket of some variety. Her only constant of color in her wardrobe are a pair of bracelets made of woven yarn, one is green, one is brown and blue. Her mother gifted these to her when she became a candidate and she is rarely without them.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Maxine is a soft spoken young woman and often somewhat shy and socially awkward. She tries to comfort those around her and hates to see people around her suffer. She is a rather quick thinker when it comes to breaking down mysteries or anything that requires deductive reasoning and while no prodigy, she does doggedly pursue her answers.
However, her curiosity leads her to be invasive, nosey and very pushy when she wants to know something or just plain her curiosity overrides her reasoning and respect of the privacy of others and she will pry, she will steal into personal spaces to see what she can learn and its often put her into uncomfortable situations of confrontation, at which she crumbles under the pressure and backs away. Her desire to be popular and to belong often causes her to be a bit clingy to those she befriends as well, though she just wants to help them, truly!
Maxine also loves nature and all its natural beauty and its creatures and often likes to draw them whenever she has spare time. These drawings she rarely shares with others, though if one were to visit her personal living area, they would see them littering the walls. She also is passionate about dragons, in all aspects and often they are subject to her drawings.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
Ryan (51) - Father | Farmer
Vanessa (49) - Mother | Baker
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: Small cothold beholden to Telgar
HISTORY:
Maxine was the only child born to Ryan and Vanessa, a farmer and a baker respectfully that resided in a small cothold beholden to Telgar weyr. A sweet child if not a bit shy as she grew, the young girl often was found outside, exploring trees, digging in dirt, playing with flowers.. and butterflies.. she loved butterflies. As she grew older, this love shifted to dragons, as she seen a few coming and going through their small cothold.
Her steadfast friend since they were toddlers was a girl named Chloe and she and Max were an inseparable force, often pretending to be adventuring riders out fighting thread or pirates, fighting the bad to save the world. As someone with an active imagination, the pair never lacked for fun things to do. But as she aged, Max began to feel something was missing in her life.
Her heart longed to experience what it would be like to fly, to ride the clouds and bravely defend the realm against the threadfall. While she never thought herself worthy of becoming a candidate, she did apply herself to her daily tasks with determination and grit. Her enjoyment of drawing was a hobby she used to pass the time and sometimes she sold tiny sketches of dragons to the riders that would pass though. Farmwork was a daily, but it never really called out to her and she longed for something more.. something exciting.
But one day, this seemingly routine part of her life led to her being searched as when she was drawing the dragon, the green nudged her rider, she seen something in Maxine, whatever it was that dragons sensed that made them search someone. The rider, named Claudine offered Maxine the chance of a lifetime.. she could become a candidate.. her!
Shocked at first, she handed the drawing over and stated she needed to think this over. Agreeing to meet Claudine in an hour, she bolted home and told her parents. Her mother was apprehensive about her daughter doing something potentially dangerous but heeded to her child in the end, realizing this was something Max wanted badly. Ryan, on the other hand, was just as excited as Max that she had been searched and shoved her lightly to go pack her things. Chloe.. she was the one person Max loathed leaving the most.. but she knew this was her one chance to have her dream and Chloe agreed and nudged her onwards.
So she did and soon she was off to Telgar to become a candidate. She was a dutiful and good student, working hard to take everything in, and getting to know her fellow candidates. Her tendency for being overly curious led her into an altercation with her roommate Victoria over her poking through the other's things, curious what little things she was always drawing in her journal.
The spat actually got her and Victoria into trouble for it disrupting the others in the candidate quarters when Victoria began to scream at Maxine. Max, on the other hand, folded like a deck of cards and bolted from the room, tears falling down her face. From that day on, she had made an enemy. Luckily for her, the first clutch they all stood at, she would impress.
Still feeling a bit down as she stood on the sands, she was only half paying attention when a large and muscular green thundered out of her egg and marched across the sands with a purpose. Victoria thought it meant this was her dragon and stepped forward.. only to be pushed aside, the green scoffing at the teenager that dared to get in her way.
The dragonet knew what she wanted, who she needed and marched right up to Maxine and leapt upon her and toppled the young woman onto her back. Maxine yelped, terrified at first she was going to get attacked, then she noticed the swirl of color in the green's eyes... this was her dragon.
" Why are you hiding from your Rainieth? Maxine, I am here for you."
To say that Max was shocked was an understatement... she was literally and figuratively floored by both the fact she impressed and how beautiful her green was. As she stood and lifted her dragon into her arms, she passed Victoria as she walked to the feeding buckets, the other girl glaring daggers at her. But she was too wrapped up in looking to Rainieth's needs to really notice.
Maxine and Rainieth were not really the most stand out pair of the clutch but her green was a big girl and tough and did not let herself be pushed about or really try to stand out. The dragon, however, did share Max's love of nature and between lessons, both were often out, drinking in all the natural beauty around them. After graduation, Maxine pondered if she wanted to stay at Telgar, or go try to find her childhood best friend Chloe, whom had moved to Semaca.
Deciding that she missed her enough and wanting a fresh start, she wrote to her parents of her choice. Once her parents received her missive, they came to visit her and gift her with a graduation present.. a flit egg. This hatched into a protective little brown that was named Arcadia. But even though she was going to not see her parents as much if she left.. she knew this was her path... and she had to find Chloe.. she missed her so!
While they were sad to see her go, they respected her desire and bid her farewell. So off she was to Semaca and joined up into Marzuka Squad and does her very best to try to not land herself in trouble.. but you know what they say about curiosity, yes?
UPDATES
- Early Spring 2768 - Impressed to Green Rainieth!
- Late Summer 2773 (Threadfall) - Maxine and Rainieth are investigating an unfamiliar furry, six-limbed species with some other members of Mazurka Squad when the group is attacked by spotties. Two attack Maxine, one latching onto her left leg just above her knee; the spotty's powerful jaws and sharp teeth manage to shear through flesh and bone alike, while the other slashes at her left arm. Her arm will heal, but her leg is gone (Permanent). Quick thinking on Qa'rin's part manages to prevent her from bleeding to death.
