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Finished commission of Jeb for @soulproof! 💖✨💕

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Welp, I Guess I’ll Talk About My Maximum Ride Rewrite Now

I promised I’d post about my rewrite soon, totally not expecting to do it for at least a few weeks. Then I opened up my doc after like a month and wrote two chapters in two days.

So, now equipped with a stronger drive to write (at least for now) I’ll share some details on my rewrite project. I’ll be putting this under a cut because holy fuck I did not expect to write this much:

The full title for the series is going to be Fly On, Maximum Ride. The individual book rewrites are going to be from song lyrics (or song titles? haven’t decided). Incidentally, the “Fly On” part of the title also comes from song lyrics.

Why, you may ask, am I doing the cliché AO3 “song lyrics as the title” thing? Because music ended up having a larger impact on this series than intended. What started out as me listing each flock members’ favorite bands and songs somehow wove so deeply into them that I cannot remove it.

(I’m aware kisses4butterflies on AO3 also has a music thing going in their rewrite. I came up with my version independently, and I do think it’s cool we had similar ideas)

Now to what people actually care about: the story and characters 👀

First off: Jeb never died/faked his death. He is still living with the flock as we speak, leaving the house every so often to get groceries or supplies for the flock. Sometimes he’s gone for a few days, sometimes weeks, sometimes a bit longer. But he’s still a part of the flock’s life. He trains them, teaches them, makes sure they’re healthy, rewards them when they do good, etc.

Ari sadly does not exist. I could’ve tried to come up with something for him, but I removed him from the plot so early on there’s no way to squeeze him back in. Maybe he could’ve been living with the flock as a normal human kid, but I feel like that would’ve just made him Gazzy Without Wings so :/

The house is…different. I don’t want to say much on that now, but just know the flock isn’t waking up with the sun or going on daily flights around the Sangre De Cristo Mountains. They go outside to train and occasionally play, but only when Jeb lets them.

Max, Fang, and Nudge are probably the only real physical fighters of the bunch. Iggy’s extremely good at assembling traps and weapons he can use, but he doesn’t have the same training as his siblings. Gazzy is training to be a good fighter, and training with Iggy on building things (he’s much more eager about the bombs than Iggy is), but he’s still a kid and he’s still learning. Angel is a six year old, and she’s also slightly lagging behind on her motor skills, so safe to say she is not good in a fight.

The flock still looks somewhat human-like, but not enough that they pass 100%. Their wings are massive, for one, and they can’t just fold them up into their backs. They need bulky jackets and pants to squish their wings inside if they want to hide them. They also have feathers along the backs of their arms and legs. Their pectoral muscles are larger and they have broader shoulders, all to help support the wings. They have smaller and rounder bird eyes with raptor vision, and they’ve got hollow bones and air sacs just like birds do.

In terms of what birds the flock’s wings are based on: Max = golden eagle, Fang = peregrine falcon, Iggy = osprey, Nudge = american kestrel, Gazzy = red tailed hawk, Angel = ferruginous hawk. Their eyes also match the birds they’re based on.

Everyone in the flock has pretty noticeable scars. Max has a large one on her cheek. Fang has several long ones across his chest. Iggy’s eyes are basically a scar on their own. Nudge has scars on her hands that flare up in pain. Both Max and Gazzy have scars around their neck in the same places. Angel doesn’t have scars yet, but she’s going to get some soon.

The kids fully believe they’re freaks of nature who cannot live outside of their home or else they’ll be hunted down or taken back to The School.

The flock all consider themselves siblings. This does in fact mean no Max-Fang romance. Honestly I wouldn’t know what to do with it even if they weren’t siblings. I have 1 (one) planned romance in book 2, and it doesn’t involve either of them.

There’s not de facto leader, since Jeb is still there. Max, Fang, and Iggy all take up different roles when he’s gone to help around the house.

Max and Fang do have a really close bond, though. They were cage neighbors at The School for as long as they can remember, and they developed a very close friendship, always looking out for one another, always ready to do anything to save each other. Even now, four years after leaving The School, they’re constantly there for each other, helping deal with trauma the only ways they know how.

Of course, when Max and Fang aren’t physically or mentally able to help, Iggy’s there to be the emotional support for his siblings. He’s one of the oldest kids, so he’s treated as such, James. Admittedly, there is A Lot to Iggy that won’t get unpacked until after book 1. But he’s still very blind. Still very skilled. Still very gay.

Nudge, being one of the younger three, got to have a slightly happier childhood, free to play with dolls and be a kid. She still struggles with nightmares and flashbacks, but not to the degree that her older siblings do. Now that she’s getting older, she has to train more, something she hates. Just like in canon, she really just wants to be a normal girl. She’s scared of people, but also fascinated by them and wishing she could live like they do.

Gazzy barely remembers anything from The School. It definitely had an impact on him, but the few memories he has are implicit childhood ones that are more sensory than anything. He’s the most innocent of the kids, but he’s also very aware of his siblings’ struggles and tries to help when he can. He’s willing to fight, despite his total lack of experience.

Angel, unfortunately, absorbed plenty of bad memories as a baby, when she couldn’t control her powers very well and overheard everyone’s nightmares. She’s aware of what happened at The School, but she tries not to bring it up because it makes her siblings sad. She still has nightmares about it, still remembers things she shouldn’t. However, memories don’t quite compare to experiencing the real thing... 

Gazzy and Angel are indeed biologically related instead of just found family. I’ve put a bit of emphasis on that being different. Not in a way that invalidates found family, don’t worry. It’s just that I personally believe if you already have a found family dynamic and are now including blood siblings, there should be some significance to it, because otherwise why do they need to be related if everyone is already family? Basically: Gazzy and Angel are very very close. They love each other, they play together, they barely ever argue or fight. They’re babies, and I will protect them (I say as I put them through several back-to-back traumatic events)

Speaking of biological families…uh, most of the flock doesn’t have any. Max isn’t Jeb and Dr. Martinez’ kid, the flock doesn’t go on a hunt for their parents that goes nowhere. In this world, a good chunk of the test subjects made through donor eggs and sperm that’s been genetically altered in advance and raised in artificial wombs. Yeah, sure, they’ve got donor parents out there somewhere, but it’s not top priority for most of the flock. They’ve got guardians looking out for them, and when they don’t they’re just fighting on their own.

Despite not being related to Dr. Martinez, Max is still Latina. I didn’t change any of the races - Fang is Asian, Nudge is black, Iggy and Gazzy and Angel are white - except for adding some clarification on Fang, since Asian is a very broad term (he’s got DNA from Southeast Asia and East Asia, more specifically The Philippines and South Korea). Again, stuff that will be more relevant after book 1.

Some kids are donated by real people, though, usually altered in very, very early stages of development and monitored heavily until they’re born. Families sign a waiver promising a nice paycheck to cover all medical expenses, and a disclaimer of possible permanent damage to the body or death. There is one member of the flock who was donated to The School this way. I’m not telling who yet.

Ohhh boy the Erasers. I have so much to say about Erasers, but I’ll have to keep it short. 

When I started this rewrite, I had the question: “Why do we never see newly made Erasers? They can’t just start out as full-grown adults.” So, in this rewrite, we have child Erasers, which the flock refers to as “dogs”. They age quickly, so they do look like full grown adults when they’re three or four, however it doesn’t last long, since rapid aging doesn’t exactly stop. They live for roughly seven years max, but most of them outlive their fighting use before that. 

Full-grown Erasers are stronger, tougher, and are experts at following orders since it’s all they know. Dogs, on the other hand, are wild and violent. They’ll tear into anything they get their hands on and they’re harder to control, since they’re still learning. Itex utilizes them both.

Also of note on Erasers: they’re officially just Lupine hybrids, and the Eraser nickname was made up by the various children at The School, because they only ever came to the cage room to take away the unfortunate kids who didn’t live long enough, or the kids who were too sick to keep on living, effectively “erasing” them.

The School is a nickname that Gazzy came up with after they left. He still didn’t really understand the bad place they came from and how it was affecting his siblings, but kids on TV always talked about school like it was the worst thing in the world, so he figured that must be where they came from. He used it a lot, and it stuck with the rest of the flock too. 

Did I mention there’s more mutant kids? Because there’s more mutant kids. A LOT of mutant kids. 296 of them at The School alone, with over half of those being Erasers/dogs. They have to make a lot, since you never know which ones will succeed, which ones will be used for non mutation-related testing, and which ones will fail.

Where do they get the money for so many research babies? The flock doesn’t know any of this, but Itex is massive. Governments are willing to pay outrageous prices to fill their military with Erasers, and the research Itex provides from studying their mutants have cured diseases and provided better medical treatment for ordinary people around the world. The human experimentation is an open secret (though granted most people don’t know the entire process). Most of them can’t do much, however. Itex is very, very old, and it’s far too powerful for your average Joe to stop on their own.

Also there’s no “save the world” plotline. There’s some saving the world in there eventually (not now, but eventually), but it’s not a predestined thing that Jeb tells Max. Max wasn’t created to save the world. She and her siblings were created for something else...

...Anyways, that’s about all I have time for right now. I might post more details later, but feel free to hit me with a DM or an ask if you have any thoughts. Currently the rewrite is sitting at 23 chapters, which means I’m juuust over halfway done with the first draft lol. I don’t know when it’ll be out. I work on and off and I’m not super consistent. But hopefully I’ll have something done within the next twenty years. :P

[maxtothemax]

new headcanon for why max sucks at cooking: because she learned from jeb

jeb strikes me as the type of guy who would happily live on ramen and takeout and probably wouldn't attempt anything more complicated than boiling pasta. given that, i have no idea how he managed to feed 6 bird kids who canonically require like 4,000 calories per day. i'm sure iggy is a self-taught cook, though.

[totalsupremacy]

what if jeb was just a cool and chill guy who didn’t commit atrocities

[homenecromancer]

he ran out of space because he’s bad at writing signs (happy bday!!!)

AHHHH

thanks!!! ^^

[vampirefurbymom]

hey max ride fans new will wood recommendation: …well better than the alternative is very max and jeb. please listen to it it’s so underrated 

[machoeggsalad]

hey egg how about you just get over this character from a million years ago he isnt relevant anymore

“no”

[blossyossyossy]

Jeb to Max and the flock

[prpfs]

that ask promoted me to make a list of stuff I'm currently looking for/would be interested in writing at this time! (it'll have all the usual hard as fuck to find suspects dsfjkdlaj) the character that I write will have a little * next to them! really feeling cheating plots rn but that wouldn't work for all of these! (dealers choice just means we can do some fucky shit with the universes if we decide to write characters from two different ones! I think that's really fun!!)

Comics: Star Boy (Thom Kallor)*/Dream Girl (Nura Nal) 616 Clint Barton*/Bobbi Morse (!!) 616 Clint Barton*/Barney Barton (!!) (Agent Carter!!) MCU Howard Stark*/Tony Stark (dealers choice) (Agent Carter!!) MCU Howard Stark*/Steve rogers (!!) (dealers choice) (MCU) Brock Rumlow*/Bucky Barnes (peacemaker) Vigilante*/Peacemaker Jimmy Olsen*/Julian Olsen 616 Deadpool*/Movie Deadpool 616 Weasel*/Deadpool (dealers choice) Android!Dum-E* & Tony Stark Cyber*husbands

Doctor Who 9/10* 10*/11 10*/Rose 10*/Jack

House MD Wilson*/House

Five Nights At Freddys Willry (can write either.) William*/Michael

I Was A Teenage Exocolonist Dys*/Vace Rex*/Vace (!!) Dys*/Sol Dys*/Nomi-Nomi (!) Dys*/Sym Dys*/Tang

Crossovers (Peacemaker) Vigilante*/ (The Boys TV) Black Noir (Peacemaker) Vigilante*/Deadpool (dealers choice) (Maximum Ride) Jeb Batchelder*/ (Gravity Falls) Ford Pines (yeah this ones weird djfklasj)

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ride!rise au facts, concepts, & textposts

Some pasted from discord.

Mikey is April's bio sibling. Carol takes the role of Valencia Martinez but she was tricked into the project bc tbh i don't think Mrs. O'Neil would vibe with unethical genetic human experimentationnnn

Raph takes the role of Max, and hence he's the one who meets Mrs. O'Neil and meets his first kind human being(outside of Baron who. Oh no i'm going to have to give an actual first name).

Baron Draxum takes the role of Jeb Batchelder.

Idk if i'm gonna incorporate the Voice or just give Donnie crazy hacking skills that move the plot in the same way.

ride!rise au name concepts What would Raph name himself? Red? Angel? ….Raph bc of the acronym from his superhero alias? Boss?? Canine?? Spike?, Crimson, Scarlet Leo could be Neon, Leon, Prime?? Glow, Burst?, Peacock??, Faceman, Charisma, Azul Mikey could be Tangerine, Firework, Sparkler, Doctor?, Razzmatazz, Pumpkin, Amber Donnie could be Tinkerer, Inventor, Indigo, Engineer(sentry goin' up), Backbone??, Shatterer wait no his nickname would be Shat kjfhlksdjhf, Peacock???, Missile Launcher, Nuclear, Uranium?? Tito could be Grenade?, Mischief?, Fire, Explosion? idk askin u for ideas :thumbsup: Fran could be Fairy, Faerie, Carnation, Bloom..Scratch, Scuff, Bramble.. Spike, Slider, Shell, Spots, Stars, Stripes? (Raph, Leo, Donnie, Mikey, Tito, Fran)

Okay so how about instead of the weird post-apocalypse thing for ride!rise au there's just a huge blow stuck to the world's population--smth that forces hybrids & humans to work together, ultimately ending in their equality & friendship & political balance n shit--and instead of Phoenix (bc none of the beeturtles/ride!rise kids r going to be anything but platonic siblings w each other) the gang adopts the mutant mayhem kids(omg if i go this route, mm donnie has to name himself after an anime character), who r also beetles? Or they work at like a foster & help/guidance center for hybrids, & we get to see them build relationships w the other younger hybrids encountered earlier in the series?

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anonymous said : mw ‘villains’?

members have requested richie kirsch, quinn bailey, and ethan landry from scream; rodulphus lestrange, travers, barty crouch jr, peter pettigrew, and the carrow twins from harry potter; anna ripley, silas briarwood, and delilah briarwood from critical role; hela or magneto from marvel; camille belcourt from shadowhunters; jeb and ari batchelder from maximum ride; uther and mordred from bbc merlin; and the master from doctor who!

[maxtothemax]

are you still doing the maximum ride takes? jeb should’ve been angel’s + gazzy’s dad. makes the whole ‘how can he do the whole voice thing’ make a tiny bit more sense. or just scrap the whole idea of the voice being another character XD

now THATS a take i haven't heard before, but it would make it make more sense that angel and gazzy are genetically siblings, too! plus it would make the stuff in TAE with angel and jeb at the school a lot more meaningful, too.

[randombookposts]

Maximum Ride Rewrite Ideas

So here are my thought if I had written Maximum Ride

General Setting:

As for when the story takes place, I don't know if it should stay in the early 2000s for the nostalgia or it could be like a dark cyberpunk future where society collapsed and is replaced with corporation overlords.

Either way Itex is the big baddie of the series and is this huge conglomerate that has been secretly funneling money into a project to create mutated humans to infiltrate society and topple governments.

So they start snatching children all over the globe and mutating them. Unlike the main series they aren't kept in cages and are given some schooling/regular accommodations but are brainwashed and abused to the point that they believe what Itex is doing is right. Max and the flock agree too until Jeb puts them on a special mission and relocates them outside Itex where they get a taste of normal life and defect and go on the run. Now I can't decide if Angel is kidnapped still or if the first book is just them on the run.

As for the structure of the School/Itex itself, there's a whole hierarchy of mutants with different tasks, i.e. brute force, stealth, etc. Erasers are wolf mutants that age normally and can be any gender instead of just ambiguous evil looking dudes.

The Flock

All the names that the flock uses are nicknames, they have real names that were picked for them by Itex but they rarely use for safety reasons. Also Maximum Ride is also just a nickname because it sounds like innuendo to me and I refuse to let that be her real name.

So real names here are

Max- Maxima, hates using her real name, prefers Max, Mexican

Fang- Farah, Indonesian

Iggy- Ingi, Icelandic

Nudge- Njeri, Kenyan

Angel- Aerona, Welsh

Gazzy- Glynn, also Welsh

They start using their real names once they feel more safe.

Also they're all gay, Max is lesbian n she/he, Fang is bi and idk their gender yet, but I like the idea of they/she Fang, girl Fang girl Fang, woohoo, Nudge is sapphic/ace/trans n she/her, Angel is pan n she/her, Iggy is trans n gay, and Gazzy is a big ol question mark atm.

They're all older in this version too, Max and Fang are 18, Iggy's 16, Nudge is 15, Gazzy is 12, and Angel is 10.

None of the flock get into romantic relationships, cause that's weird, they meet people outside the flock and fall in love with them.

Also Ari is normal aged, maybe a year older than Max and is a lot more humanized in this au. He has his own flock that serves as foils to Max and co except it would they're not evil, they're just abused kids being manipulated by Itex. Also Jeb's their dad but he's a bastard. Ari and some of his gang get sick of doing Itex's bidding and join the flock. Also they use their real names btw.

Ari's Gang

Ari- Armenian

Markus- African American, because I refuse to use that racist ass name R*tchet

Kate- Korean-American

Diana- Polish, ends up betraying Ari's gang when they defect but make it up to them by sacrificing herself to save them.

And so basically the whole series is the flock being gay and doing crime and eating the rich basically.

[homenecromancer]

I don’t have any like actual content to offer but I did just experience a vision of early-90s Jeb and Valencia -

she’s like “uh maybe listen to some music and you’ll calm down, put a record on”

and he’s like “yeah ok”, goes through the whole process of selecting a record + setting up the player, drops the needle aaaaaand immediately dissociates for like an hour

[boogieboba]

the flock nominates jeb for queer eye

[anakinskywalkerisfave]

Maximum Ride + The Onion Headlines

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