#( with like whole ass pinterest boards and playlists and moodboards for her characters )

[landofequestria]

  if the ancient game of ogres and oubliettes survives to the modern day of g5 i have no doubt in my mind that sunny would play it

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OUT OF CHARACTER

Name/Alias: Ang

Age: 21

Preferred Pronouns: She/Her or They/Them

Timezone: PST

IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Maxine Rosemarie Bautista

Age: 19

Gender: Cisfemale

Pronouns: She/Her

Character’s Occupation: (younger) Cashier at a Museum Gift Shop / (Older) Animator and Freelance Comic Artist

Younger Face Claim: Jane De Leon

Older Face Claim: Anne Curtis Smith

Positive Personality Traits: Outgoing, Free Spirited, Loyal

Negative Personality Traits: Unemotional, Apathetic, Anxious

DIGGING DEEP

• Their Involvement: How do you believe your character assisted in the murder? Were they absent, engaged, or numb to it?

Maxine probably involved herself whether or was helping cover it up or making alibis, and on some way maybe assisting in the murder. She’s loyal to a fault, and the fact she’s emotionless makes her a great person to hide the secret. I imagine the entire time she was very calm, too calm. Not shakiness to her voice or a beat skip when asked what happened that night. Her mouth always a straight lime and her face blank. Her only tell would probably be how dead her gaze would’ve been.

• How It Affected Them: Did your character cope well? If yes/no, how did they?  

She’s totally numb outward. To her this is some shit that happened, and being upset isn’t going to fix or change it. But I also see her struggle with that. She already has conflicts over her lack of emotion, so she probably is overwhelmed that literally killing someone and covering it up she doesn’t even flinch. She fears she’s hollowed her heart completely and questions if she has empathy. Which, if she doesn’t, makes her fear what she’s capable of and what she’s not capable of.

• Headcanons: Treat these as an exercise to get to know your character better. Explore their interests, what they were like as a student at Augustus, or merely how they dress. Just write as it comes, and forget the rest.

Omg so Maxine is definitely an art hoe aesthetic. She’s a mix of her signs (Leo/Taurus/Scorpio) - lots of golden yellows, faint blues, and green earthy tones. I somewhat imagine she dresses like @bestdressed but also like a skater. She loves vintage clothes, owns too many vintage windbreakers, shorts, and bomber jackets. Also she only has clothes that make sense in LA weather, she’s always freezing her ass off. Oh she’s also definitely a Vans and Birkenstock’s with socks person. I feel like when she’s older she’s toned it down to a more minimalist look with a splash of color.

Maxine is an artist primarily, she’s loved art since she was a kid. Her mother is a fashion designer (think Anna Wintour) and her father is a former competitive runner now museum curator and art history professor. She’s grown up with it, loves the power it has. As a kid she dreamt about being in LA Union Station and seeing her art somewhere. Tbh I was inspired by @ashlukadraws whose art is on like every bus in LA

She dabbles in photography, sketch, painting, digital art, and sculpture. She’s trying to get into performative art. She’s always sketching people and things.

She’s definitely a skater but also she is? The worst driver. LA she didn’t have to drive much, she barely got her license.

Maxine loves animated movies and anime. They’re the only things that can possibly make her cry easily. Her favorite films are Princess Mononoke, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Only Yesterday, and recently Spider-Man Into the Spidey Verse

Maxine has a not so good relationship with her parents. Her father was quiet, conservative and her mother is a stone cold disciplinarian. However, she was close to her father. He got Maxine into art, supported her in endeavors. But when Maxine was 14, they caught her kissing a girl from her from art class. Her mother for upset, yelled at her she’d go to hell, etc, the whole spiel. But her father didn’t react, just stared at her with his lips pursed together and eyes watching her, never breaking contact. He stopped talking to her and it ruined her.

She wanted a reaction and her parents wouldn’t give it to her. She tried to be the perfect person, did everything she could to get the gay away. Got into bad relationships, ones she didn’t want to get into and did things she didn’t want. Eventually Maxine got to the point of not caring, and started to act out and be the total opposite of what her parents wanted.

( tw sexual assault, abuse) During this time of exploration and rebellion, Maxine got involved in a lot of ad situations – ones she didn’t know how to get out of. She was young and naïve, and the people she was around were older and knew she wouldn’t know any better. She got involved with people who really fucked her up. The trauma was enough to leave her jaded and apathetic, with a distaste and general distrust of people. Sometimes she looks in the mirror and sees how she’s her father’s daughter, where her mother’s blood runs through her. It scares her.

Oh! She identifies as pansexual panromantic. Like Maxine is super gay. But I also think she’s more in love with people and their souls rather than gender.

Her drink of choice is vodka raspberry. She smokes cigarettes like it’s no one’s business.

Maxine is however, despite her anger, a very huge beam of light. She smiles bright and she’s touchy as hell, and she’s blunt and honest but she means every (especially the kind things) genuinely. She loves to have fun, work on art, and see people talk about their passions. I think she wants to be happy, but the past is what’s holding her back.

Ok so older Maxine though? A hot ass mess. I think she’s like in the cycle of her destruction where she hooks up with older people who wreck her or gets into healthy relationships that literally NEVER LAST because Maxine destroys them. But she loves it and hates it – she mostly does it to feel something. I literally do not think she’s cried since she was like in college.

( tw suicide/drug abuse) I think the smoking turned into heavier drug habits. Again she just wants to feel something. I think Tessa’s death will really hit her because she has been close to ending her life and the fact Tessa did? It’s terrifying

Maxine previously was an art director for a fashion magazine her mom worked for. I feel like she did it to do the whole perfect daughter thing – but when she realized she’d never be enough she quit. I imagine her breaking point was an engagement to some guy her mother set up. She didn’t to try and be a storyboard artist for animation, which she enjoys a lot. She does a lot of art on the side, draws a lot of comics about her trauma (I imagine her sending them to magazines like The Lily). I think she’s just trying to get out of this cycle of trauma by her 30s

If have any ideas or questions regarding the universe, include them here. If you have any graphics, playlists, moodboards, or aesthetics for your character, feel free to link those here as well. I have a pinterest board for her! https://www.pinterest.com/angdidthat/characters-who-need-homes/m-bautista/

But like some general songs that inspired Maxine – Paul – Big Thief // Liability (Reprise) – Lorde // Pure Handjob – Japanese Breakfast // Road Head – Japanese Breakfast // feelings are fatal - mxmtoon