Post by maxwell on Jan 2, 2012 2:48:57 GMT
'you're runnin' wild, runnin' wild, it's true'
MAXWELL BARTOLMEU MENDES
max. 22. male.gay straight. hybrid. neutral. kel.
MAXWELL BARTOLMEU MENDES
max. 22. male.
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Max has always been quite a kid. He was a handful from day one, causing issues the moment he was born. Always with a charming smile, though. Yes, Maxwell has always been quite the charmer, having charisma that couldn't be denied. Owner of a silver tongue, Max is able to talk himself out of just about anything. That tongue can get him in trouble though, considering that sometimes he is full of himself every so often and can sometimes overestimate his ability to get out of things. Max also has a charming, devilish smile that he's prone to flash right before he does something stupid or reckless.
Unfortunately, under that suave exterior, Maxwell has a temper. It doesn't take much to set him off, especially if things aren't going his way. You could definitely say he's a bit touchy about certain things, his sexuality being one of them. See, Max is gay. He refuses to admit it to himself and thinks that if he throws himself at enough girls, he'll eventually make himself straight. If you say anything else, the kid will go off like no one's business.
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LIVING JUST TO KEEP GOING;
"Let's get two things straight, right off the bat. One, the name is Maxwell. Not Max or Maxy or any other variation you can come up with. It's too cutesy and you must have permission to call me that. Two, I'm straight as a fucking arrow. That is all that is important. But of course you want to know more. Stupid fuckers.
"I am the spawn of a hunter and a shapeshifter. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am the product of a hunter gone soft. Which causes all sorts of issues, let me tell you. Guess I should start from the very beginning. Otherwise I might confuse your small minds. Donovan Palmer was your typical, strapping hunter: handsome, built, clever, and scary as hell when he wanted to be. From what I understand, he had quite a wonderful life in the good old US of A. But apparently some monster he was hunting dragged his ass to Brazil and I guess that's where our story begins."
GOING JUST TO KEEP SANE;
"While in Brazil. he happened to stumble upon Adelaida Catarina Mendes. Now Adelaida, she belonged to a rather prestigious family of shifters in Brazil and had been trained from a young age to be able to spot hunters like Donovan, so she knew the moment she started talking to him what she was getting into. But Donovan, either blinded by her beauty (my mom was a babe, so I've been told) or by the fact that he was falling quickly for her, but he completely missed the fact that she was a shifter.
"He ended up staying in Brazil so he could be with my mom. After almost a year and a half of dating, she finally told him what she was. Though my father was angry and slightly disgusted with himself, he gradually began to accept the fact that she was a shifter and that maybe not all monsters were bad. Hell, maybe they weren't all monsters. Or at least, that had been his mindset until I was born.
"It was about another year after my mom had revealed her big secret that she got pregnant with me. It had been a mistake. While my father apparently loved my mother, he didn't want to bring any more monsters into this world and my mother knew her family wouldn't accept a half-ling. As soon as she found out she was pregnant, my mom decided she'd keep it a secret from my father and give me up for adoption the moment I was born."
ALL THE WHILE I KNOW;
"That changed, so she told me, when she first laid eyes on me. She said she had never felt a love as intense as she had then and she knew instantly that she couldn't give me up. Daddy dearest, however, had a different idea. Even though he was the one who killed things for a living, even though he was the one who went against mother nature and fell in love with someone that wasn't even the same species as him, I was the monster. Me. A day old baby. He wanted to kill me, right then and there. "Deal with the problem while it was still young," he said.
"Mom, having none of that, took me into hiding. Brazil is a rather good place to disappear, mind you. We hid just about anywhere and everywhere. Giant cities with too many people, remote villages that you've never heard of unless you live there, in the middle of the fucking rainforest. Everywhere. But no matter where we went, he always seemed to find us.
"This went on for ten long years. We'd spend a couple of months - if we were lucky - in a place before we moved onto the next. My mom taught me all about her family history, about shapeshifters and how to shift. Anything she could possibly say. But she was growing tired of running and hiding. Eventually, my mom got in contact with some relatives that lived in a little place called Manuka and somehow arranged for me to live there."
IT'S SUCH A SHAME;
"It's not some fucking sob story though, so stop looking at me with those pitying eyes. The people I moved in with - they were some distant cousin of my mom's - they were expecting this sad case that would need constant babying. Not what happened. Yeah, I missed my mom. But I heard from her every so often, so it was okay. And all that moving around had made it quite easy to adjust to a new life in another place with different people. I'd been doing it since I could remember after all.
"So I grew up as happy as a child who had lived with both of their parents, if not happier. And why not? Yeah, said distant cousin took care of me, but she also wasn't one of those natural born parent types. She figured she was doing her job as long as I stayed alive, so she let me get away with anything I wanted.
"With that loose of reins, well, I got myself into a good amount of trouble. No need to go into any detail - mostly because I can't remember a majority of it - but long story short, nothing was too big or too small for me to find trouble with. My guardian had to bail me out once or twice when things got too sticky, but it was quite rare that I was caught. And such behavior got me into the notorious group of people that seems to be in every typical school. Whatever."
I DON'T NEED TO GET STEADY;
"Once I turned 18, I was out on my own. By choice, mind you, and not because I got kicked out. Though I'm sure my guardian was happy to have me out of her hair for so long. There was a time when I contemplated moving back to Brazil, figuring the threat of Donovan would be gone by now. Decided against it however, since I already had my little niche in Manuka and I thought my mother probably wouldn't be too pleased with the person I had become.
"And I don't know what else to tell you about myself. Haven't done too much with myself in the past few years. Never went to college, so can't exactly add that to my list of achievements. I do make a living through bar tending and acting as a mechanic on the side though. That would be about it as far as that goes. And if you don't mind, I'd like to be on my merry way,"
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