One of my favorite parts of Max is that it feels like she’s never once used an ounce of introspection towards herself while still having a moderate understanding of her own emotions.
She doesn’t question her bisexuality, she doesn’t really think about what outfits she wears , hell, she doesn’t even think about where her powers come from when she first gets them. You can’t tell me that Max truly has thought about her sexuality or gender expression. She probably has had the same favorite color since she was five because she hasn’t thought about it since.
But she does know herself to a moderate extent. She clearly thinks about how she’s currently feeling when she writes about it in her journals, but that’s the extent of it. I’d argue that even her journals are more accurately her ‘outer’ thoughts as I think there’s more than a little to her mind that remains unspoken simply because Max flat out refuses to think about any of it (either consciously or unconsciously)
There’s sooooo much to that subconscious level to her mind that no one, not even the player, gets to see 90% of the time. Max might have random comments about being insecure but things like how much men freak her out go almost completely unnoticed until her nightmare.
It makes her so interesting!!! Give me more characters that just don’t look under the hood of their mind, not because of trauma (that came later) but just because she doesn’t really care to.
