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Did Maximilian Loxlee have a mustache? If he did, was it a handlebar mustache?
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Did Maximilian Loxlee have a mustache? If he did, was it a handlebar mustache?
🔮: Yes and he also wore a top hat and a monocle and a tuxedo at all times
October daily art challenge, Day #21: Maximilian Loxlee
This is 100% canon. Source: just Trust me bro.
Who is your prime suspect for the explosion of Midst's moon?
Atticus Concord / Concord Family
Ex-Consector Costigan
Hieronymus Loxlee
Imelda Goldfinch
Imogen Loxlee
Kozma Laszlo
Lark / Lark's Mom
Maximilian Loxlee (Round 2!)
Milton Fleit Sr.
Moc Weepe
The Mothers
-Named resident of Midst (Patricia, Mr. Stex, Postmaster, Goe, Fuze, etc.)
I'm curious to see where the Midst community's heads are at regarding this overarching mystery!
We do not have all the pieces yet, but it's safe to assume that a significant amount of the clues were present in seasons 1 and 2. It goes without saying that this is the mystery at the heart of this storyline, and there are no shortage of suspects to choose from.
(Excluding the final entry, this list has been set in alphabetical order so as to avoid personal biases)
Found this in my drafts, and I maybe meant to do more with it, but:
Talking to my friend who's caught up to Midst now, and thinking about Lark's story of how and why she killed Maximilian Loxlee.
In S1 E13 "Loose Ends", when she kills Fuze:
Narrator 1: (Fuze) “Well…” he says to her, his voice going quieter, “I suppose… it’s nice of you, at least… not to bludgeon ME to death…” Narrator 2: (Lark) “I would never do that… to YOU.” Narrator 1: (Fuze) “You know, I always did used to think… you seemed like such a nice young kid…”
And then in S3 E4 "Foundation" when she's talking of the factory they worked at (trimmed):
..."[Loxlee] was a regular visitor to the manufacturing islet. He liked to strut around and watch the assembly lines, the fuse braiding stations, the glass blowers. He really liked to visit testing, though. My mom and I worked in testing" .... "Whenever Mr. Loxlee showed up, he’d send everyone else away except my mom. Sometimes I’d sneak up on the catwalk above the testing vats and watch them, but most of the time I was happy to get out of there. Mr. Loxlee… scared me. He scared most of us there. He loved talking to my mom though. That’s the real reason he came to visit testing so much: just to talk to her."
Then:
"At some point I realized there were people, a few people watching from the doorway. I don’t know exactly when they showed up, but… I knew they saw what I did. They were kind of frozen and seemed just as scared of me as I was of them. I knew who some of them were, there was this nice guy from the… fuse assembly department."
And:
"We just kind of stared at each other for a moment, and then they all ran off, and I knew I had to go. I ran out the back way to shipping, I grabbed some of my mom’s things, and I got inside one of the lightbulb crates that was about to ship out."
Everyone in the factory knew Maximilian. Everyone knew his temper. Everyone was scared of him. Everyone knew he spent time alone with Clara's mother.
Why did no one stop her from escaping? There was plenty of time and opportunity, if she went to get her mother's belongings first.
And when it was over, where was Mom during and after all this? What would make nice little Clara do such a thing? Oh no...
They absolutely knew Loxlee had done something terrible--and that none of them would be believed. Clara was probably terrifying in her rage and grief, sure--but still also a 13 year old girl who'd gotten the jump on Loxlee. Also: that's Lark's assumption of their reactions, filtered through 50 years of memory.
And those others perhaps feared what would happen to her, even if her reaction was justified. What would the Trust to do them, for not stopping her from killing the Most Valorous Mr. Loxlee, from standing there watching this kid kill the man they feared?
So what do you do? Let the terrifying child who just killed your terrifying boss escape. Play dumb. Pin it on the missing woman and/or her daughter, and pray they don't drown everyone in more Caenum--or worse.
50 years later, Fuze knew if it came down to it, Lark would kill him to survive--and he always understood why. In the end, his fear of the Trust was stronger, as it had been that day in their youths in the factory.