⌠ lorde, 22, nonbinary, they/them ⌡ welcome back to gallagher academy, maxime st. clair! according to their records, they’re a third year, specializing in advanced encryption + lingustics, culture & assimilation; and they did go to a spy prep high school. when i see them walking around in the halls, i usually see a flash of ( a mess of curls disappearing into a freezing pool, a burnt birthday cake sitting untouched in the ashes of what used to be a home, whispered promises that are never kept safe ). when it’s the ( leo )’s birthday on august 15, they always request their chocolate cake from the school’s chefs. looks like they’re well on their way to graduation.
⌠ lorde, 22, nonbinary, they/them ⌡ welcome back to gallagher academy, maxime st. clair! according to their records, they’re a third year, specializing in advanced encryption + lingustics, culture & assimilation; and they did go to a spy prep high school. when i see them walking around in the halls, i usually see a flash of ( a mess of curls disappearing into a freezing pool, a burnt birthday cake sitting untouched in the ashes of what used to be a home, whispered promises that are never kept safe ). when it’s the ( leo )’s birthday on august 15, they always request their chocolate cake from the school’s chefs. looks like they’re well on their way to graduation.
hello guys! i’m ferb and i’m a bigass mess but! here’s my intro for max. they’re a big mess also so we match! if you guys want any plots w them let me know!!! i’m super open to anything and the only thing i’m really looking for is their best friend/original roommate in prep school that i’ll mention later!!! anyways here we GOOOO
maxime was never meant to be a spy. their father was, sure, but that was never a part of their life. his legacy wasn’t something he wanted to continue, instead it was something that he’d decided to end.
max was normal. they were meant to stay that way. they were going to be normal, and live a normal life with a perfect suburban household just like people do on tv. maybe max would be a teacher, or a lawyer or anything they wanted to be. it would be a great life.
and that’s how they grew up. from the moment they existed, they were just... max from down the block. they were never set up for spy adventures or things like that, unless it was a part of childhood games.
that was, until the day everything changed. max’s fourteenth birthday, a day that usually aws happy and spent with family and friends was the day everything went wrong.
the police would say it was a gas leak. the fbi would whisper of foreign intelligence involvement. the cia would know the truth: it was an assassination of one of their very best agents.
the explosion changed everything. one second, max was innocent, allowed normalcy. the next: max was left without any doubt that something in their life was a lie, and without a family to give them answers.
max’s loss wasn’t just both of their parents: it was also a whole sense. their hearing was taken in the explosion and they spent several years without hearing at all. sign language is something they found a passion in, and so was reading lips.
this skill came in handy when an offer was made by their uncle. not truly related to them, but instead an old “family friend” who their father worked with. he was a spy, and a good one apparently. with connections everywhere, he hooked max up with a spot at a spy preparatory school.
they’re the ones who got max a functioning set of hearing aids. the research and development was ahead of it’s time, and suddenly max felt they had to pay them back in some way, so they continued on to gallagher academy because they wanted to succeed when so much had been done for them.
even if they hated a lot of the aspects of spy work.
even if they were miserable when they had to learn hand-to-hand combat.
they were always more of a behind-the-scenes person, which led them to hacking. they were good with computers, a byproduct of their “normal” upbringing, they’d been drawn to tech like it was an extension of their own skin.
the other choice was easy: linguistics. once, sign language was their only passion. now, any language is. it’s easy for them to just push through and learn as many languages as possible. and how to read people, how to relate to them in ways that weren’t just the usual ones.
basically, they’re a strange mix of both a normal kid who never learned their place and a weird spy who doesn’t quite fit in with the other kids.
WANTED CONNECTION:
the adventurer - this would be their first roommate at the spy prep school they attended. basically, they’d be the one who kept max sane in the first years of becoming a spy and they’d be into like, speaking sign language with them and stuff!!! basically a bestie that max has known since they were young who’d also be at gallagher!!
