Max Carmichael ✤ Supercut
The first time that one of Diego’s knives went missing he was eight and had figured that Klaus had gotten bored and stolen it. Until he found a yellow sticky note with a red cat face drawn on, stuck to his knife holster. Then a week later, Reginald came down to breakfast demanding to know who’d been in his office, waving an identical yellow sticky note in his hand. This went on for the next ten years, and not a single person in the mansion was left out. He had always figured that it was one of his siblings; after all, there was no way anyone could be getting in and out of the house unnoticed to pull it off. But then he moves out and starts at the police academy, and within a day his handbook was gone and replaced with yet another sticky note.
Max Carmichael would say that she didn’t know why she had started targeting the Umbrella Academy mansion in the first place, but that would be a lie. It was for the same reason that she’d started stealing at all; for attention, for recognition. And, admittedly, to see how well her own superhuman powers held up against a team of real life superheroes. The answer was too well, truth be told. None of them didn’t even notice their stuff was missing in the first place — none except Diego Hargreeves. Over the years, Max found herself more and more attached to the knife wielder, luring him into a game of cat-and-mouse that lasted for more than two decades. She branched out eventually, museum heists and bank robberies keeping her plenty busy, but she always went back to Diego eventually.
But when Reginald Hargreeves dies, Max finds herself looking through all of the items she’d accumulated from the mansion over the years to see if there was anything that she could profit off of. There were lots of knickknacks that would serve her well, but one particular find turns her path away from her favourite consignment shop and instead brings her face to face with Diego Hargreeves for the first time in their long, long chase.
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