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tastyplasma) wrote2017-07-28 12:28 am
tastyplasma) wrote2017-07-28 12:28 am
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Name: Kiyuu
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Other Characters: Elsa (defyingfrigidity)
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Maxine "Max" Caulfield
Age: 18
Canon: Life is Strange
Canon Point: post-"Polarized"
Character Information: Max @ LIS Wiki.
It should also be noted that Life is Strange is a very player-tailored game, where player choices can affect many outcomes. There are a variety of major and minor choices that can be made that affects relationships with other characters, minor changes to the surroundings or dialogues with others, or when certain characters live or die. To cut down on clutter in the app, I've made a separate post here listing all the major choices made!
Personality: At first glance, Max seems like your typical millennial teenager. She's awkward, nerdy, a self-proclaimed hipster, and she doesn't show any shame at all over those last two. In fact, she seems to take great pride in her nerdiness, and is insulted when Warren tries to "revoke her nerd cred" because she hasn't seen a few movies. On the other hand, the awkwardness bothers her a little, especially when it comes to interacting with others, but it's not something she feels like she needs to change about herself. She can be kind of hard on herself, and doesn't have much confidence in the beginning of the story, not even in the photography she's most passionate about, even when she has so many people praising her "gift". She's a bit of a pushover in the beginning too, barely standing up for herself as Victoria and her friends bully her, and awkwardly skirting around Warren's poorly-hidden attempts to hit on her without putting her foot down. She has a lot to say on the inside, but doesn't always voice it on the outside.
So yeah, just your normal kid, more or less. Too bad she gets thrown into too many situations that are far from normal.
The thing about Max is that she's content to just let things move past her. Max feels more comfortable behind the lens of a camera, observing the world instead of interacting with it. She has friends, sure, and she's happy to spend time with them, but she also has trouble interacting with other classmates and teachers to the point where it's become a problem in school. It also, unfortunately, becomes a problem in her personal life as well; for as much as Max fiercely cares about her friends, she also has some problems communicating with them when they need her. Case in point: losing contact with Chloe after moving to Seattle, even though Chloe was struggling badly with the death of her father. She cares, of course, but at the same time she doesn't show it, and tries to drum up excuses as to why she can't help with this or that that usually just fall flat.
This isn't to say Max is a bad friend, oh no! She may think she is sometimes, especially when faced with just how badly her lack of communication affected Chloe, but as mentioned above, Max is a fiercely loyal friend, and will go to hell and back for the people she cares about. Even if it means mastering a mysterious power and trying to prevent a deadly natural disaster from destroying Arcadia Bay, Max will fight with a passion that she has a hard time expressing in other areas of her life outside of her art. She'll butt heads with teachers, security guards, even drug dealers if it means she can help her friends, and pushes herself to the absolute limit ten times over.
Helping Chloe (and Kate) is what gives Max strength and confidence in herself, and it brings out a stubbornness that she doesn't normally express in her everyday life. When Max is fed up, she is fed up; when dealing with snarky assholes normally, Max will gripe or snark back in her head, rarely ever voicing her thoughts to avoid confrontation. But when pushed to the absolute brink of everything by the culprit behind the Dark Room kidnappings, she just lets it all out, refusing to give into his gloating, to the point where one set of responses to him are "eat shit and die" or simply "fuck you". When dealing with said mastermind, she's also shown a bit of a crafty side, using his desire to see her helpless and pleading to trick him into doing several things for her (giving her the journal where she can use pictures to timeline-hop, giving her water from a cart which she uses to startle him later on) that give her an edge in escaping. When the chips are down, Max is a fighter.
But as far as it's able to carry her, this confidence and stubbornness can only go so far.
By the end of the chaotic week the story spans, Max breaks. She was forced to witness the death of her best friend, possibly several times depending on certain choices, and has had to jump through a hoop of nightmares to even make it to where she was at the end. She was drugged, kidnapped, used as some sick artist's unwilling "muse" during moments of incredible vulnerability, and was forced to take the weight of impossible choices on her shoulders. We even see a glimpse of Max's mind at the end of all this strife, where she imagines the shadowy voices of her friends and teachers blaming her for everything, putting down her every little attempt at doing good. Even Max herself thinks that she was just a selfish bitch in the end, using her powers just so people would like her. Adding on the guilt of being forced to kill her best friend, and... yeah. Max is more than a little broken now.
Chloe's belief in her was one of the few things that gave Max confidence. Without her, now... well. Who knows how Max will be able to heal.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Loyal
Artistic
Protective
Self-doubting
Disconnected
Awkward
Stubborn
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Fits!
Opt-Outs: Faerie, Arachne, Naga, Slime, Goblin, Troll (+Nymph)
Roleplay Sample: TDM Thread!
Name: Kiyuu
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Other Characters: Elsa (
defyingfrigidity)CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Maxine "Max" Caulfield
Age: 18
Canon: Life is Strange
Canon Point: post-"Polarized"
Character Information: Max @ LIS Wiki.
It should also be noted that Life is Strange is a very player-tailored game, where player choices can affect many outcomes. There are a variety of major and minor choices that can be made that affects relationships with other characters, minor changes to the surroundings or dialogues with others, or when certain characters live or die. To cut down on clutter in the app, I've made a separate post here listing all the major choices made!
Personality: At first glance, Max seems like your typical millennial teenager. She's awkward, nerdy, a self-proclaimed hipster, and she doesn't show any shame at all over those last two. In fact, she seems to take great pride in her nerdiness, and is insulted when Warren tries to "revoke her nerd cred" because she hasn't seen a few movies. On the other hand, the awkwardness bothers her a little, especially when it comes to interacting with others, but it's not something she feels like she needs to change about herself. She can be kind of hard on herself, and doesn't have much confidence in the beginning of the story, not even in the photography she's most passionate about, even when she has so many people praising her "gift". She's a bit of a pushover in the beginning too, barely standing up for herself as Victoria and her friends bully her, and awkwardly skirting around Warren's poorly-hidden attempts to hit on her without putting her foot down. She has a lot to say on the inside, but doesn't always voice it on the outside.
So yeah, just your normal kid, more or less. Too bad she gets thrown into too many situations that are far from normal.
The thing about Max is that she's content to just let things move past her. Max feels more comfortable behind the lens of a camera, observing the world instead of interacting with it. She has friends, sure, and she's happy to spend time with them, but she also has trouble interacting with other classmates and teachers to the point where it's become a problem in school. It also, unfortunately, becomes a problem in her personal life as well; for as much as Max fiercely cares about her friends, she also has some problems communicating with them when they need her. Case in point: losing contact with Chloe after moving to Seattle, even though Chloe was struggling badly with the death of her father. She cares, of course, but at the same time she doesn't show it, and tries to drum up excuses as to why she can't help with this or that that usually just fall flat.
This isn't to say Max is a bad friend, oh no! She may think she is sometimes, especially when faced with just how badly her lack of communication affected Chloe, but as mentioned above, Max is a fiercely loyal friend, and will go to hell and back for the people she cares about. Even if it means mastering a mysterious power and trying to prevent a deadly natural disaster from destroying Arcadia Bay, Max will fight with a passion that she has a hard time expressing in other areas of her life outside of her art. She'll butt heads with teachers, security guards, even drug dealers if it means she can help her friends, and pushes herself to the absolute limit ten times over.
Helping Chloe (and Kate) is what gives Max strength and confidence in herself, and it brings out a stubbornness that she doesn't normally express in her everyday life. When Max is fed up, she is fed up; when dealing with snarky assholes normally, Max will gripe or snark back in her head, rarely ever voicing her thoughts to avoid confrontation. But when pushed to the absolute brink of everything by the culprit behind the Dark Room kidnappings, she just lets it all out, refusing to give into his gloating, to the point where one set of responses to him are "eat shit and die" or simply "fuck you". When dealing with said mastermind, she's also shown a bit of a crafty side, using his desire to see her helpless and pleading to trick him into doing several things for her (giving her the journal where she can use pictures to timeline-hop, giving her water from a cart which she uses to startle him later on) that give her an edge in escaping. When the chips are down, Max is a fighter.
But as far as it's able to carry her, this confidence and stubbornness can only go so far.
By the end of the chaotic week the story spans, Max breaks. She was forced to witness the death of her best friend, possibly several times depending on certain choices, and has had to jump through a hoop of nightmares to even make it to where she was at the end. She was drugged, kidnapped, used as some sick artist's unwilling "muse" during moments of incredible vulnerability, and was forced to take the weight of impossible choices on her shoulders. We even see a glimpse of Max's mind at the end of all this strife, where she imagines the shadowy voices of her friends and teachers blaming her for everything, putting down her every little attempt at doing good. Even Max herself thinks that she was just a selfish bitch in the end, using her powers just so people would like her. Adding on the guilt of being forced to kill her best friend, and... yeah. Max is more than a little broken now.
Chloe's belief in her was one of the few things that gave Max confidence. Without her, now... well. Who knows how Max will be able to heal.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Loyal
Artistic
Protective
Self-doubting
Disconnected
Awkward
Stubborn
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Fits!
Opt-Outs: Faerie, Arachne, Naga, Slime, Goblin, Troll (+Nymph)
Roleplay Sample: TDM Thread!