OOC INFORMATION Player: Michi Age: 22 Personal Journal:limitedwings Contact Info: aim: resonatenoise; plurk: michiichi Other Characters: Marie Parfacy | Gundam 00 | dualized
IC INFORMATION Characters Name: Maximum Ride Age: 16 Canon: Maximum Ride Canon Point: Nevermore Epilogue; post-series Species: Human (Avian-American) Gender: Female Orientation: Heterosexual. Both of her canon interests were male. And while one of her love interests was based mostly on feelings and history, her brief interest in Dylan was less emotion-based, and had physical-related aspects. Max shows a physical attraction to males, where she only ever shows (jealous) admiration of pretty girls.
History: Max has been through a lot, with a story that spans seven books; with a lot of it having to do with saving the world and all. Why? Because Max and her flock are special. Always have been. They are Avian-Americans, as they like to call themselves. What it means is that she and her flock are products of science – humans spliced with avian DNA. All of them have full-sized wings that allow them to soar effortlessly through the air like birds. The whole flock has them, give or take a few other special traits and powers they developed due to their days in the scientific institute known as the School.
Unlike the rest of the flock, Max knows who her parents are – Jeb Batchelder and Valencia Martinez; although that proves to be as painful as it is wonderful for her at times. She also has a half-sister Ella Martinez and a half-brother named Ari. Jeb Batchelder was a white coat (a scientist) who had been involved in their tests at the school. He was also the one who said he took pity on them and helped them escape. For a time he had even taken care of all of them like a father. But he disappeared two years before the start of the series and they had thought him dead until proven very wrong.
Jeb played a part in a lot of their adventures; sometimes helpful but usually anything but. His final stance in trying to kill Fang labeled him as an enemy and earned himself a square kick in the ribs and a loss of trust. Valencia Martinez was also a part of many of the flock’s later adventures, although she played a far more positive part. She had her secrets, but her actions had always been taken with the flock’s best interests in mind.
But the people that Max really knows as her ‘family’ is her flock. Good or bad, she can do without adults. It would hurt to lose her mom or her half-sister, but losing a member of the flock would be an entirely different pain; nearly unbearable. Through almost every horror, they have stuck together – they’ve been together since the beginning, and have a bond that really can’t be broken. As much as they fight, they come together again because they love each other.
And in their family, Max has always been the mom. After Jeb left, she became leader and mom all in one. Angel especially, she calls he baby, but she often says how much they’re like a family – how they’re all like her brothers and sisters.
Except. You know. Fang. That changes over the course of the series from like-brother to crush to the love of her life. It isn’t an easy transition though. Their relationship is complicated and has plenty of bumps including your average beginning relationship drama, Dylan, Fang leaving the flock at one point, jealousy, and Fang’s return and all the emotional fighting that came with that. But in the end Max chooses Fang. She chooses him over Dylan who was ‘made’ to be her perfect other half, and their ending is a happy one.
But what they go through to get there as a group is no walk in the park. What began as a life of solitude – living the fight or flight lifestyle; just trying to stay away from the whitecoats turns into an adventure to save the kidnapped Angel, which turns into a convoluted adventure to save the world. Unfortunately for them, that includes fighting the School’s other experiments. It didn’t end with them. No. There are many generations and alterations – with so many failures, but also plenty of “successes”, most of which were used against Max and her flock at one point or another.
They have their successes and their failures, but despite their sacrifices, in the end they are fairly powerless. They all survive, protected by the safe haven made for them. But they’re powerless to stop the threat against humanity. And while they didn’t see what happened outside of their haven, Max and Fang had chose to try, and got caught up in some of the dangers.
Personality: Of the flock, Max is the oldest. As such, she always pushes herself the hardest. She tries to act the part of mother, sister, friend, and leader, all kind of rolled up into one. And it’s hard on her, trying to be more than one at one time. Because as leader, she often has to make decisions that the flock may not like in their best interest. Max sees herself as needing to be the strong, invincible one – in control and powerful; the one who always has a plan. Which is why it frustrates her when she has to make those decisions; and why she hates losing control of situations. Most of her life, she was the one in control of her life; she isn’t used to taking orders from others. It’s hard for her just taking suggestions, although she’s gotten a lot better about taking a moment and thinking it through – and even taking suggestions when she has to admit (hesitantly) that it would be the right thing to do.
While Max tries to be the most responsible of the group, she fails in a few areas – namely cooking. Her cooking is atrocious, and not even close to looking edible. People like to tease her about it, although she can deal. She can be loud and head-strong, but she does enjoy dishing out the sarcasm and teasing the others right back whenever someone else throws such comments at her.
She trusts kids her age over adults. In fact, it’s really difficult for her to trust adults. They’ve been betrayed so many times that her default is to distrust. And while she isn’t impossible to win her over, it’s not easy, or fast. Though Max has chilled out a lot since the beginning of the series, and would even call herself happy, she still has a lot of her old instincts. In closed spaces, her first instinct will always be to map out routes of escape.
Max’s first instinct for those younger than her is to protect them. Her first instinct for scientists is to panic. Regular adults are difficult to trust but scientists are near impossible. The scent of chemicals or the visual of white lab jackets or cages freaks her out. And in a dangerous situation, her first though is ‘fight or flight’. In the first few seconds she thinks about the situation, about the options she has and what the best choice is.
Her social skills need some work. The idea of ‘normalcy’ still gets on her nerves a little, considering her inability to fit in or ever be normal. As much as she tries to act like she doesn’t want it, she does wish she could be normal – that they didn’t have to always fight for their lives, watch their backs and generally distrust anyone. She wished she had someone she could rely on and trust; that she didn’t have to be strong all the time, but because she’s ruled that out as an impossibility for so long, the idea, and talk of it, irritates her. Around other kids, she can get along with them, but she’s not a big socializer. She’s not popular, but she’s not the type people pick on either. She used to keep to herself a lot in school, not being very feminine or interested in the other things girls liked talking about. Max tended to get along better with boys in school.
She isn’t very picky about her appearance. She started at least trying to keep her hair brushed, but after years of being on the run and fighting and trying to save the world – her appearance is one of the last things on her mind. That’s why she’s lucky that her soul mate Fang likes her just the way she is.
Max is also known to have a strong sense of justice. With those younger or weaker than her, she likes to protect them. If she sees someone in trouble, she’s going to interfere and do whatever she can to help them out, even if it’s a bit risky on her part.
Abilites: Max can appear perfectly normal, though she’s abnormally developed for her age due to her recombinant DNA. There’s an indentation between her shoulder blades that can hide her wings neatly. But with her wings extended, she’s perfectly capable of flying, and flying much faster than the other flock members; her flying speeds can reach 240-260 MPH. It’s one of her unique abilities.
Like the rest, she also has great raptor vision, far surpassing that of humans. Max is also the only one who is capable of hearing the Voice that speaks inside her head, though it may or may not be considered an ability. The Voice often gives her direction, though she is hesitant to listen to it, as none of them know exactly who or what it is. Max can also breathe underwater. Her natural fighting skills surpass those of humans. Her bones are physically built to sustain a higher level of force, despite being light-weight and hollow. Max is used to fighting, and is rather good at it. She has sharp reflexes and can fight with the best of them.
However, her abilities are mostly human, other than the ability to fly, they’re just kicked up a notch to be slightly stronger than humans. However, she also comes to realize that she has the ability to go into a state of suspended animation, which means she can make her body function as if it’s dead and quite literally play dead. As each of the flock began to uncover their own abilities, they came to the conclusion that they were all mutating independently; each gaining their own unique skills and abilities.
Other: Physically, Max looks older than she is. Due to the enhancements and changes made to her body and DNA, her body developed faster than it would have should she have just been a normal girl. It’s said that the difference is noticeable; as noticeable as the various differences to her body’s organ systems made to support the Avian part of her.
SAMPLES First Person: Uh, so… does anyone else find all of this a little hard to believe?
[She waves around the papers about her new ‘home’.]
Yeah? Because I’m not buying it. Where’s the fine print? What’s the catch? Because a lot of people have tried to give me a ‘normal’ life. And you know what? It usually ends up blowing up in my face. Not pretty. I just want to go back to my flock, okay? I don’t want whatever kind of ‘happy, normal family life’ you think you can just… give me. I’m tired of it. I’m… well I was happy there, okay.
Maybe some of you are happy with this, but there has to be at least a few of you who are with me on this one.
Third Person: She wakes up; no trees and no elaborate tree house in sight. Instead, her eyes gaze up at the open sky. Now, location is pretty important to Max. After all, when you’ve spent most of your life laying low, where you are at any point in time is pretty important. Especially when you don’t remember… leaving your house.
But then again, Max is used to weird things happening. That doesn’t mean she likes it. Fang’s nowhere to be seen… None of the other kids are. Not her flock, and not any of the other genetically enhanced kids that had been living in the village with them. This place looks like so many of the bland places they’d been taken more times then she’d like to admit to pretend to live ‘normal’ lives. That’s what worries her.
Just moments ago, she’d been about as happy as she’d ever been. She’d had Fang, her flock… a life. Now she had her butt planted on some plastic lawn chair, with a pair of keys clutched in her hands like they were something important. While the last thing she wanted to do was check out the house, it was also the most logical thing to do. The number on the keys matched the number on the mailbox and on the front of the house. Frowning, she turned them over in her hand and, lifting her head again, came face to face with an envelope with her name on it.
Leafing through the pages, her irritation became more prominent on her face. “…No.” Instead of entering the house then, she looked at it with a furious gaze and turned on her heel, stomping off back to the yard, teeth clenched tight. “I can’t believe this…”
She wanted to throw them down – scream. Something. She’d had about enough of this scenario. Reaching into her pocket roughly, she pulled out… a cell phone.
“Great. Let’s see what this thing can do.”
OTHER Housing Request?: I have no specific requests. Did you read the rules and FAQ?: Yep. Would you like your application to be unscreened?: sure c:
ACCEPTED Congrats, your application has been accepted! Your character is now living at 1439 in Holly Heights, with a child slot. In order to get the ball rolling, here's what you need to do:
Comment back with the journal you'll be using for your character so that they can be accepted into the communities.
Create an IC Mailbox post on your characters journal that is not friends only. You are also free to treat this as an information holding post with your character's family and address listed if you wish.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Maximum Ride | Maximum Ride | Reserved
Player: Michi
Age: 22
Personal Journal:
Contact Info: aim: resonatenoise; plurk: michiichi
Other Characters: Marie Parfacy | Gundam 00 |
IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Maximum Ride
Age: 16
Canon: Maximum Ride
Canon Point: Nevermore Epilogue; post-series
Species: Human (Avian-American)
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual. Both of her canon interests were male. And while one of her love interests was based mostly on feelings and history, her brief interest in Dylan was less emotion-based, and had physical-related aspects. Max shows a physical attraction to males, where she only ever shows (jealous) admiration of pretty girls.
History: Max has been through a lot, with a story that spans seven books; with a lot of it having to do with saving the world and all. Why? Because Max and her flock are special. Always have been. They are Avian-Americans, as they like to call themselves. What it means is that she and her flock are products of science – humans spliced with avian DNA. All of them have full-sized wings that allow them to soar effortlessly through the air like birds. The whole flock has them, give or take a few other special traits and powers they developed due to their days in the scientific institute known as the School.
Unlike the rest of the flock, Max knows who her parents are – Jeb Batchelder and Valencia Martinez; although that proves to be as painful as it is wonderful for her at times. She also has a half-sister Ella Martinez and a half-brother named Ari. Jeb Batchelder was a white coat (a scientist) who had been involved in their tests at the school. He was also the one who said he took pity on them and helped them escape. For a time he had even taken care of all of them like a father. But he disappeared two years before the start of the series and they had thought him dead until proven very wrong.
Jeb played a part in a lot of their adventures; sometimes helpful but usually anything but. His final stance in trying to kill Fang labeled him as an enemy and earned himself a square kick in the ribs and a loss of trust. Valencia Martinez was also a part of many of the flock’s later adventures, although she played a far more positive part. She had her secrets, but her actions had always been taken with the flock’s best interests in mind.
But the people that Max really knows as her ‘family’ is her flock. Good or bad, she can do without adults. It would hurt to lose her mom or her half-sister, but losing a member of the flock would be an entirely different pain; nearly unbearable. Through almost every horror, they have stuck together – they’ve been together since the beginning, and have a bond that really can’t be broken. As much as they fight, they come together again because they love each other.
And in their family, Max has always been the mom. After Jeb left, she became leader and mom all in one. Angel especially, she calls he baby, but she often says how much they’re like a family – how they’re all like her brothers and sisters.
Except. You know. Fang. That changes over the course of the series from like-brother to crush to the love of her life. It isn’t an easy transition though. Their relationship is complicated and has plenty of bumps including your average beginning relationship drama, Dylan, Fang leaving the flock at one point, jealousy, and Fang’s return and all the emotional fighting that came with that. But in the end Max chooses Fang. She chooses him over Dylan who was ‘made’ to be her perfect other half, and their ending is a happy one.
But what they go through to get there as a group is no walk in the park. What began as a life of solitude – living the fight or flight lifestyle; just trying to stay away from the whitecoats turns into an adventure to save the kidnapped Angel, which turns into a convoluted adventure to save the world. Unfortunately for them, that includes fighting the School’s other experiments. It didn’t end with them. No. There are many generations and alterations – with so many failures, but also plenty of “successes”, most of which were used against Max and her flock at one point or another.
They have their successes and their failures, but despite their sacrifices, in the end they are fairly powerless. They all survive, protected by the safe haven made for them. But they’re powerless to stop the threat against humanity. And while they didn’t see what happened outside of their haven, Max and Fang had chose to try, and got caught up in some of the dangers.
Appearance: http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/18993/502240-max3_0copy_large.jpg
Personality: Of the flock, Max is the oldest. As such, she always pushes herself the hardest. She tries to act the part of mother, sister, friend, and leader, all kind of rolled up into one. And it’s hard on her, trying to be more than one at one time. Because as leader, she often has to make decisions that the flock may not like in their best interest. Max sees herself as needing to be the strong, invincible one – in control and powerful; the one who always has a plan. Which is why it frustrates her when she has to make those decisions; and why she hates losing control of situations. Most of her life, she was the one in control of her life; she isn’t used to taking orders from others. It’s hard for her just taking suggestions, although she’s gotten a lot better about taking a moment and thinking it through – and even taking suggestions when she has to admit (hesitantly) that it would be the right thing to do.
While Max tries to be the most responsible of the group, she fails in a few areas – namely cooking. Her cooking is atrocious, and not even close to looking edible. People like to tease her about it, although she can deal. She can be loud and head-strong, but she does enjoy dishing out the sarcasm and teasing the others right back whenever someone else throws such comments at her.
She trusts kids her age over adults. In fact, it’s really difficult for her to trust adults. They’ve been betrayed so many times that her default is to distrust. And while she isn’t impossible to win her over, it’s not easy, or fast. Though Max has chilled out a lot since the beginning of the series, and would even call herself happy, she still has a lot of her old instincts. In closed spaces, her first instinct will always be to map out routes of escape.
Max’s first instinct for those younger than her is to protect them. Her first instinct for scientists is to panic. Regular adults are difficult to trust but scientists are near impossible. The scent of chemicals or the visual of white lab jackets or cages freaks her out. And in a dangerous situation, her first though is ‘fight or flight’. In the first few seconds she thinks about the situation, about the options she has and what the best choice is.
Her social skills need some work. The idea of ‘normalcy’ still gets on her nerves a little, considering her inability to fit in or ever be normal. As much as she tries to act like she doesn’t want it, she does wish she could be normal – that they didn’t have to always fight for their lives, watch their backs and generally distrust anyone. She wished she had someone she could rely on and trust; that she didn’t have to be strong all the time, but because she’s ruled that out as an impossibility for so long, the idea, and talk of it, irritates her. Around other kids, she can get along with them, but she’s not a big socializer. She’s not popular, but she’s not the type people pick on either. She used to keep to herself a lot in school, not being very feminine or interested in the other things girls liked talking about. Max tended to get along better with boys in school.
She isn’t very picky about her appearance. She started at least trying to keep her hair brushed, but after years of being on the run and fighting and trying to save the world – her appearance is one of the last things on her mind. That’s why she’s lucky that her soul mate Fang likes her just the way she is.
Max is also known to have a strong sense of justice. With those younger or weaker than her, she likes to protect them. If she sees someone in trouble, she’s going to interfere and do whatever she can to help them out, even if it’s a bit risky on her part.
Abilites: Max can appear perfectly normal, though she’s abnormally developed for her age due to her recombinant DNA. There’s an indentation between her shoulder blades that can hide her wings neatly. But with her wings extended, she’s perfectly capable of flying, and flying much faster than the other flock members; her flying speeds can reach 240-260 MPH. It’s one of her unique abilities.
Like the rest, she also has great raptor vision, far surpassing that of humans. Max is also the only one who is capable of hearing the Voice that speaks inside her head, though it may or may not be considered an ability. The Voice often gives her direction, though she is hesitant to listen to it, as none of them know exactly who or what it is. Max can also breathe underwater. Her natural fighting skills surpass those of humans. Her bones are physically built to sustain a higher level of force, despite being light-weight and hollow. Max is used to fighting, and is rather good at it. She has sharp reflexes and can fight with the best of them.
However, her abilities are mostly human, other than the ability to fly, they’re just kicked up a notch to be slightly stronger than humans. However, she also comes to realize that she has the ability to go into a state of suspended animation, which means she can make her body function as if it’s dead and quite literally play dead. As each of the flock began to uncover their own abilities, they came to the conclusion that they were all mutating independently; each gaining their own unique skills and abilities.
Other: Physically, Max looks older than she is. Due to the enhancements and changes made to her body and DNA, her body developed faster than it would have should she have just been a normal girl. It’s said that the difference is noticeable; as noticeable as the various differences to her body’s organ systems made to support the Avian part of her.
SAMPLES
First Person: Uh, so… does anyone else find all of this a little hard to believe?
[She waves around the papers about her new ‘home’.]
Yeah? Because I’m not buying it. Where’s the fine print? What’s the catch? Because a lot of people have tried to give me a ‘normal’ life. And you know what? It usually ends up blowing up in my face. Not pretty.
I just want to go back to my flock, okay? I don’t want whatever kind of ‘happy, normal family life’ you think you can just… give me. I’m tired of it. I’m… well I was happy there, okay.
Maybe some of you are happy with this, but there has to be at least a few of you who are with me on this one.
Third Person: She wakes up; no trees and no elaborate tree house in sight. Instead, her eyes gaze up at the open sky. Now, location is pretty important to Max. After all, when you’ve spent most of your life laying low, where you are at any point in time is pretty important. Especially when you don’t remember… leaving your house.
But then again, Max is used to weird things happening. That doesn’t mean she likes it. Fang’s nowhere to be seen… None of the other kids are. Not her flock, and not any of the other genetically enhanced kids that had been living in the village with them. This place looks like so many of the bland places they’d been taken more times then she’d like to admit to pretend to live ‘normal’ lives. That’s what worries her.
Just moments ago, she’d been about as happy as she’d ever been. She’d had Fang, her flock… a life. Now she had her butt planted on some plastic lawn chair, with a pair of keys clutched in her hands like they were something important. While the last thing she wanted to do was check out the house, it was also the most logical thing to do. The number on the keys matched the number on the mailbox and on the front of the house. Frowning, she turned them over in her hand and, lifting her head again, came face to face with an envelope with her name on it.
Leafing through the pages, her irritation became more prominent on her face. “…No.” Instead of entering the house then, she looked at it with a furious gaze and turned on her heel, stomping off back to the yard, teeth clenched tight. “I can’t believe this…”
She wanted to throw them down – scream. Something. She’d had about enough of this scenario. Reaching into her pocket roughly, she pulled out… a cell phone.
“Great. Let’s see what this thing can do.”
OTHER
Housing Request?: I have no specific requests.
Did you read the rules and FAQ?: Yep.
Would you like your application to be unscreened?: sure c:
Accepted
Congrats, your application has been accepted! Your character is now living at 1439 in Holly Heights, with a child slot. In order to get the ball rolling, here's what you need to do:
I hope you enjoy your stay here!
Re: Accepted