OOC: Application
PLAYER INFO
NAME: Josh
LJ: http://umbraltear.livejournal.com/
AGE: 21
CONTACT: AIM: ZanulaRasa
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: Iowa, USA. I believe this puts me at Central Standard Time, but I was never very good at pinning that one down.
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: None.
CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Max Evans
SERIES: Roswell
RESERVED: Y
WISHLIST: N
PERSONALITY: For most of the world, Max Evans is a shy, quiet and introverted teenager. This demeanor isn’t a fully accurate representation of the person within, but rather a defense mechanism he has honed to perfection over the years due to his alien heritage (or, as he jokingly likes to put it, being ‘not of this Earth’). It has evolved into a constant need to conceal almost every aspect of himself from the public, to fade into the background. The circumstances have had him wishing sometimes that he “didn’t have to be so invisible.” This need for anonymity and isolation from the mainstream of his peers often has Max feeling like an outsider that has no hope of ever merging with normality. As a student on the high charts of academia, one general truth that can be assessed about him is his relatively high intelligence, however.
Those close to Max know him to be passionate and protective when it comes to those he considers friends or family. This protective nature acts as both a virtue and a flaw. Although he would go to the edge of the universe and beyond to keep those people safe, it often also results in a constant stream of conservative decisions and outright inaction when action is needed most. Part of this also comes from his lack of confidence, at times, as the naturally appointed leader of his group. Despite this insecurity, however, Max is always willing to take charge when danger presents itself. It has led to him being labeled controlling by those he loves, an accusation that isn’t far from reality. It can be seen in deeper, darker parts of Max that have shown him willing to go as far as necessary to keep his friends from making what he views to be the wrong decisions (i.e. threatening to tell the high school that his sister is an addict that has cheated on every one of her tests since grade school when she insists on going to a college too far from Roswell). These aspects of himself in mind, he can certainly be selfish and self-indulgent. After transferring his essence into the body of a dying old man (note: to be explained in Background), though, Max has vastly grown as a person and lost a good chunk of that immaturity.
All in all, these shadier aspects of Max all stem from how vastly he cares about those nearest to his heart. In this respect, he is a dauntingly compassionate and completely unafraid of expressing his feelings when the situation calls for it. It can be seen in his deep appreciation and aptitude for romance in which, for the right girl (see: Liz Parker), he throws every fiber of who he is into it. Not one to take on a relationship lightly, Max only gets close to girls with which he has a serious, undeniable connection. Even then, the road to getting together with them is one riddled with obstacles of fears of hurting them because of what he is and the inherent dangers that come along with it.
When someone is in trouble, Max faces problem with a brave, noble heart and a willingness to go the distance. Any burdens of responsibility on his shoulders, often put there via his tendency to blame everything on himself, are taken with the utmost seriousness. He is loyal to those that rely on him and, in total, has a very strong and level head on his shoulders.
TIMELINE: Directly after he exits the church and drives off in the van at the end of the third and final season of the show.
BACKGROUND:
(Note: I’m deeply sorry for the length of the Background portion of my application. I did my best to keep each season’s summary to about three pages in Word. I found trying to minimize it any further lost scope of events in Max’s life I thought were important to who he was.)
The planet of Antar was immersed in a bloody war. The armies of the Royal Four (comprised of King Zan, his queen Ava, his sister Vilandra, and her husband and king’s second-in-command Rath) were clashing with the armies of Kivar, a man who sought the throne of Antar for himself. Unbeknownst to most of the legitimate kingdom, Vilandra was having an affair with Kivar that eventually led to the death of the Royal Four, herself included. With the war spreading and things becoming more desperate, two sets of clones for the Four mixed with the DNA of human beings were created. They were sent away in hopes that, once they grew up in safety and came home, stability could be returned to the planet and the war could finally be ended. The first batch, having been flawed, was sent with the successful second batch as a contingency plan. Both were flown to Earth in pods on a ship with two guardians, one for each, in a craft that malfunctioned above the planet. It came crashing down in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 and was found by the United States military. With the help of a sympathetic soldier, the two guardians got their pods away from the government. Each was capable of shapeshifting into any human being they desired and they used this power to get their charges to safety; one in Roswell, one all the way in New York City. For decades the clones gestated in their incubation pods, waiting to be born.
(Season 1) Finally, sometime in 1989, the Roswell clones of Zan, Vilandra and Rath pulled themselves from the goop of their pods at the rough physical age of six. A cautious Rath kept his distance from the hand-holding duo of Zan and Vilandra as they wandered away from their previously sealed cave and into the New Mexican desert, leading to his eventual pick up as a foster child while they were found by a passing vehicle belonging to Philip and Diane Evans. The trio would come to be named Max Evans (Zan), Isabel Evans (Vilandra), and Michael Guerin (Rath). Max and Isabel were raised in a loving, nurturing family while Michael lived with a man that only kept him around for the monthly check.
Flash forward to sophomore year at Roswell High School. Max had been eating lunch with Michael at the Crashdown Café. While Michael talked to him, his eyes followed the movements of Liz Parker, a waitress whose family owned and lived above the restaurant and whom he had secretly loved since childhood. Due to what he was, of course, he had never made a move. Liz was shot when two men, arguing about money, leapt up and struggled over a gun. When Max realized she had been hit, he ran over to her fallen body and kept her conscious while he used his healing abilities to fix and seal the wound. He broke a bottle of ketchup and poured it over the blood on her and her dress before running from the scene, asking her not to tell anyone what happened.
The next day in school, Liz took a scraping of his pencil eraser (one that had been in his cheek) and put it under the microscope. Finding blood cells that weren’t human, she pulled him aside and confronted him about it. He admitted to what he was and told her that his life was now in her hands. A silver handprint had formed over where Max had healed Liz, something that would come to the attention of the sheriff, Jim Valenti. Although it had faded by the time he called her into his office and asked to see her stomach, the sheriff showed her a picture of a similar mark on the body of a dead man from 1959 and let her know it had faded on the corpse, too. From that moment, with the help of a trail of eye witnesses to the shooting and, oddly, Tabasco sauce clues (a culinary quirk of the alien-human hybrids, preferably mixed with something excessively sweet), Jim Valenti was intent on doing his best to get to the heart of Max Evan’s secret.
After accidentally revealing that he had seen parts of her personal past when he healed her, Max reversed the connection and allowed Liz to see the most hidden parts of his psyche. She saw how strongly he felt for her and the lonely, hidden life he had had to live. She became drawn to him just as strongly, but Max didn’t believe that it was safe for them to be together. The three hybrids and two of Liz’s friends that came to know the secret, Maria DeLuca and Alex Whitman, became a family group.
Eventually, Max and Liz gave in to their affections for one another. Affections so powerful, in fact, that merely kissing would induce psychometric visions of the other’s past. Once in a relationship, they became almost inseparable. Which is, of course, when the world decided to test them. Having hopelessly pursued the alien who had left behind the dead body from the 1959 photo and come up with nothing, they gained progress in the form of a new girl at school named Tess Harding. Max found himself inexplicably drawn to her, his mind forced to go places he didn’t want it to. He kissed her with Liz watching on from across the street, heartbroken. When she went to him about it, he tried to explain that his attraction to her didn’t feel natural, that he couldn’t help himself. When she started leading on the others as well, however, leaving behind clues of a non-human nature, the group decided to investigate her and the man saying he was her father. After Liz placed a camera in her house, they watched as she put together a broken statue using psychokinesis. Max confronted Tess and called her by the name the shapeshifter had been given by a Native American tribe, Nasedo, but she insisted that wasn’t who she was. She used her mind warping powers to give him back his memory of seeing her still growing in her pod before the three had originally left the cave as children. That left the man posing as her father to be the guardian he had been searching for.
The shifter later assumed Max’s identity and kidnapped Liz to trap the government agent following them and leave a trail of bodies and warnings. Max and the rest of the group tracked them down to a carnival outside of town. The real Max got captured and hauled into a government facility by the Special Unit, a branch of government so secretive that even the president was on a strictly need-to-know basis with them. He woke up in a white room devoid of doors or windows. Agent Pierce, the head of the Special Unit, barraged him with questions about his home planet. Max endured the constant stream of mental and physical tortures that came with these questions. It wasn’t until Pierce made him watch virtual images of Liz’s fake death, promising that what he sees will come true if he doesn’t cooperate, that Max blurted in a panic that he didn’t know where he came from. Isabel, using an advanced version of her dreamwalking abilities, projected her mind into Max’s and got the building’s location.
Agent Pierce brought in two alien orbs next and asked Max to make them work. Not knowing how, however, he was again put under the torment of a knife. Isabel projected into him a second time and told him to stall the agent and tell him whatever he wanted. The agent was mind warped by Tess into seeing the orbs glow and was unaware of Max’s vanishing presence. With the help of Sheriff Valenti, a man that had slowly lost his persistent animosity for them over the last few months, the group escaped. During the escape, the hybrids were forced to use their powers in front of the sheriff, exposing themselves. They went to an abandoned building off the map, giving them a safe place to hide and recuperate. They ended up with the head of the Special Unit captured which allowed Max to take his turn at mentally assaulting the man for answers. When they went into the next room and discussed what they had learned, the sheriff’s son, Kyle Valenti, oblivious to what was really happening and believing Max and the group to be dangerous, found and untied Agent Pierce. Thanks to the agent’s cover story, Kyle believed him to be a Roswell deputy. Kyle hid after giving Pierce the gun he had brought with him and, when the others returned, he was caught in the ricocheting crossfire. Pierce was taken out with a radiation blast from Michael’s hand, but the sheriff discovered the dying body of his son. After Jim Valenti’s desperate pleas for one of them to do something, Max healed Kyle’s wound and was rewarded with the sheriff’s proclamation that he would always be on their side.
They left for the pod chamber to try and activate the orbs they had taken from the government. They were warned by Nasedo that he didn’t know who else they’d be contacting by doing so. With concentration from all of them, the orbs sent out a planetary signal of their location and projected the visage of Max and Isabel’s Antarian mother in the guise of a human being. The recording told them about the war on their planet and pasts as the Royal Four. Liz, faced with the truth of Max’s past marriage to Tess, stated that she couldn’t get in the way of something like that and left. Michael stopped Max from following her, saying that he had to let her go.
(Season 2) The summer passed, one that had seen Liz leave to be with family for a few months, Alex Whitman in Sweden, and Max avoiding anything with Tess due to the still overwhelming intensity of his feelings for Liz. During this time Nasedo had taken on the identity of Agent Pierce to make sure the Special Unit got closed once and for all. The night before school started up again, Nasedo pounded at Max’s window, wounded so extensively that not even Max’s special ability or the special healing stones from their planet would fix him. He told Max that the Skins were among them now. The group was left in the dark with no guardian to help them, afraid of any and everyone. Isabel discovered that the congresswoman stationed in Roswell, Whitaker, was a Skin. Not only that, but she was also Nasedo’s murderer. Before Isabel killed Whitaker in self-defense after saving a kidnapped Tess, she was told of her past as Vilandra and the horrible things she did to the Royal Four. Anguished over having murdered someone and the facts revealed to her, Isabel retreated to the pod chamber to vent. An idly tossed rock crashed through one of the pods, revealing a strange room behind it. The room contained the nigh-holy alien relic called the Granilith, an object sought by every planet in Antar’s solar system for its great power.
In a brief reprieve from the Skins and their dangers, Max found himself beset by Liz’s constant attempts to make him fall out of love with her. Unbeknownst to him, she was doing this because a Future Max that had used the Granilith as a time machine told her that everyone would die if he didn’t fall in love with Tess and keep the Royal Four together. Not only does she finally break Max’s heart by tricking him into seeing her in bed with Kyle, but she does so to drive him into Tess’ arms. Seeing her with Kyle shattered Max. When Tess went to comfort him he, for once, didn’t drive her away.
The group came to discover that the town of Copper Summit was a potential Skin hotspot. They found that not only were the Skins indeed located there, but that the entire town was comprised of them. Being that they were the army Kivar sent to Earth to track down and destroy the Royal Four, this was most certainly a grave development. Courtney, a waitress at the Crashdown Café and recently discovered Skin (one of a faction that worshipped Michael and his counterpart, Rath, as the a man who could have stopped the war if not for Zan’s passive ruling style) told the group that the Skins were actually alien beings living inside Husks, organic human shells, because they couldn’t survive in the planet’s atmosphere. The Husks last about fifty years and, though that would mean the Royal Four only would only have to wait them out, there was a ‘harvest’ coming up of new Husks. Max, Liz and Tess were cornered at Whitaker’s funeral, but were saved when Isabel destroyed the replacement husks and temporarily stunned the active Skins because of it. They fled back to Roswell. After the events in Copper Summit, Roswell was soon immersed in a field of energy that phased human beings into another reality and stranded the hybrids to single them out. Humans like Liz and Maria that weren’t in town when it happened took longer to phase, but eventually succumbed. The Royal Four were then bound in the high school, tied up by the head Skin Nicholas and interrogated for the location of the Granilith. Before they could get very far, however, Tess used a level of mind warp she hadn’t known was possible, actually manifesting a real wave of flame that killed all of the Skins except Nicholas who somehow managed to get to safety. Meanwhile, before Maria faded, she managed to deactivate the field by destroying the device projecting it; everyone returned, most none the wiser.
Thinking they were safe, everyone tried to go back to their routines with Max still struggling with the sight of Liz in bed with Kyle. In New York City, the duplicate Royal Four, namely Vilandra and Rath, killed Zan after he refused to attend an interstellar summit. They were the botched batch, too alien in their mindsets, and they looked exactly like Max and the others. They took Ava with them to Roswell to convince Max to go in his place, claiming that Zan had died in a sad, tragic accident. Vilandra (nicknamed Lonnie) told Max that she was glad him and Isabel were so close. She said she was happy that Isabel had the chance to tell Max about what their alien contributor, Vilandra, did to the royal family because it was a secret she always harbored from Zan. Lonnie did this knowing it would lead to a fight between Max and Isabel that, in a fit of immature anger, resulted in Max accepting the invitation to attend the summit in New York with Tess. Ava, despite heated objections from Rath and Lonnie, stayed behind. While at the summit, Nicholas presented the leaders of all five planets in the Antarian solar system with a proposition for peace. In Nicholas’ offer, The Royal Four would be able to return home and take their thrones, but only in name. All real power would go to Kivar and, to seal the deal, they’d have to turn over the Granilith. After going over Liz’s perplexing warning about the Granilith’s power in his head, he refused the offer. Max left the summit, only to narrowly escape Rath and Lonnie’s attempt at murdering him, too, in their rage at losing a way home. He was saved by a dreamwalking projection of Liz, with Isabel’s help, after Ava confessed to them what really happened to Zan. Rath and Lonnie are nowhere to be found and Ava, despite her new friends, left Roswell to find her own way.
During Christmas, Max held back from using his abilities to heal a man that had pushed his daughter out of the way of a car and got hit instead. The man died from his injuries and, haunted by his guilt and the man’s furious spirit, Max sought to restore the balance by going to the juvenile cancer ward of a hospital and healing a friend’s sick daughter. When he did so, however, he was unable to stop himself from healing almost all the others as well. Doing so completely drained him of his powers for a few days and ended with Liz giving him the soft warning that he wasn’t God, that he couldn’t go around doing that all the time. There was a plan to things and natural deaths couldn’t go around being averted just because he had the power to do so.
Sometime afterward, Isabel helped save the life of a girl who had been mysteriously buried alive in the woods. The group discovered that an alien parasite, the Gandarium, had been aboard their ship. They were used to help synthesize alien-human hybridization and had accidentally been released into the Earth’s ecosystem during the crash. The girl Isabel found, Laurie DuPree, had a rare genetic defect that would have allowed the Gandarium to infect her and use her as a universal host to spread them. The waterbed where she was buried contained the Gandarium. The parasites acted under a hive mind, with their Queen orchestrating their every move. Alex and Kyle become trapped in a cave of the blue Gandarium crystals and, while they waited to be rescued, they discovered that the parasites could be killed by depriving them of oxygen. When it was found that Isabel’s boyfriend was infected with the Queen, Michael used this knowledge to kill the queen when it ripped out of the man’s body. This, in turn, killed all Gandarium on the planet.
After junior Prom came and went, with Max and Tess finally coming together as a couple. They engaged in several memory retrieval sessions that allowed Max to remember a small handful of equally tiny memories of his former life. Later, Sheriff Valenti would arrive at the Crashdown Café to bring the gang the tragic news of Alex Whitman’s death. Max was unable to bring him back with his powers and the memory of his cold, dead body against his hand will forever haunt him. Investigations into Alex’s car accident painted it as a potential suicide and Liz was unable to cope with this. After finding a few of what she thought to be clues to alien involvement, she caused a rift between the humans and the hybrids with her heated announcement that Max didn’t want to believe her theories because it would mean he was responsible. Furious at her continued investigation, one that put him and the other aliens at risk, Max gave her the ultimatum of dropping it or losing him as a friend. She chose Alex. With the distance between him and Liz seemingly irreparable, Max finally gave into the true depth of his alien longings for Tess and made love to her. This one night of escapism resulted in Tess’ pregnancy and the revelation that the baby was dying in her womb because of the atmosphere. Max was consumed with panic and depression, completely lost on any idea that might remedy their problem. His inability to control the situation was crippling.
Liz would find that Alex never visited Sweden and that he had actually been at a university, deciphering the book Tess had come to the group with in the beginning, written in their alien tongue. Liz handed the translation and the crystal she had found with it off to the others. In it Max found instructions on how to use the Granilith’s emergency transport abilities to get the hybrids back to their home planet, something that would save his child. Max was frustrated at having to leave the loose end of Alex’s killer still up in the air, but could do nothing about it. Before he could leave, Liz finally admitted that she had never actually slept with Kyle and when she questioned him on whether or not he loved Tess, he quaintly responded, “Not like I love you.” With only minutes left, Michael backed out, telling them that he had finally found a place for himself on Earth, with Maria.
Liz realized that it was actually Tess who had caused Alex’s death and rushed with Maria and Kyle to the Granilith. Here Liz repeated her findings to Max. Tess admitted that she had mind warped Alex into using his intelligence and the advanced equipment at the university to decode the book. Months of doing this eroded his brain until, when he broke down before her about having nothing left, she had to mind warp him to forget again. His body, however, wasn’t able to take the strain once more and he died. Max demanded to know why she wanted to be delivered to Antar and their enemies so desperately, to which she revealed “they aren’t my enemies.” Nasedo had made a deal with Kivar forty years previous to deliver him the Royal Four and the heir to the throne. Enraged, Max almost killed her, but refrained when she pointed out that it would also mean the death of his baby. The group left the quickly-flooding chamber to watch the Granilith burst away from the planet. Max vowed to get his son back.
(Season 3) A summer of investigation and research found Max and Liz, back together, with another engine crystal they slickly stole from a public showing of a jewel gallery. It would be the start of hasty, ill-thought out plans that were very much unlike the man. The crystal belonged to the original ship that crashed in Roswell. Max found the reassembled ship in the sealed off basement of a convenience store. Before he could use it, however, the cops arrived amidst their pseudo-robbery and they were forced to flee the scene. The police captured them in a car chase and they were jailed. Max was released because of his good record and general failing of evidence against him, but Liz’s voice was matched to the scene and she was held for sentencing. Max returned to the store’s basement only to find that the ship was now missing. He also discovered a strange toxic powder and used this as potential evidence of the government’s presence that, through blackmail, got Liz off the hook as well. After this, Liz’s father’s insistence that they stop dating grew into a demand until she was no longer allowed to see him. It is also after the legal events that Max’s father began to suspect him of dangerous secrets, gathering Liz’s father together with him to investigate his son. It was an investigation that would come to Max’s attention, shaking his belief in the strength of his family’s bonds and eventually leading to his departure to live with Michael. He felt betrayed, yet again, by those he loved most.
Max left for Hollywood following a trail that he hoped would lead to the shapeshifting guardian of the New York City clones. Upon discovering that the guardian - Langley - had to follow his every order through his very genetics, Max forced him to help him find the ship. Langley used his contacts as a successful producer to find it at a local government base. Standing before it then, the shapeshifter begged Max not to make him do it. To pilot the ship, he’d have to become his true form which would undo all the years of work of staying human and the wonderful senses it had just started to grant him. Blind to anyone’s plight but his own, Max commanded him to try and fly it and, only a second after slipping inside and dropping the beam for Max to join him, the ship suddenly puttered to a stop and collapsed. Langley was forcefully ejected and, looking at Max with hateful eyes, he let him know that the ship was never going to fly again. For the umpteenth time, Max was left without hope.
Back at home, Max was hit with Isabel’s news that she was marrying her father’s fellow lawyer, Jesse Ramirez. Being that the man didn’t know her secret, and that Max never intended him to find out, he couldn’t have been more against the union. Max realized how important it was to his sister, however, and supported her by accepting Jesse’s offer to be his best man. On her honeymoon, Isabel was stalked by Kivar, her former Antarian lover, in the form of a local who’s mind he was occupying. Max became aware of this and, at her honeymoon, attempted to save her with Michael. Kivar offered her transport through a new form of portable, interstellar teleportation, and for a moment believed she would accept when she used her psychokinesis to knock out both Michael and Max. Instead, she turned to him and warned him to never come near here again, using her mind to shove his host body into his own device. It sealed the portal and left the innocent body behind, having severed Kivar’s connection with it.
It was not long afterward that Liz started to undergo subtle transformations, emitting energy from her hands capable of a range of things unsettling effects. Max attempted to use the healing stones to fix the mutation his healing powers had slowly caused in her. It induced excruciating pain, however, and despite the fact that Max claimed to feel it working, Liz’s screams for him to stop continued unheeded. The hasty experiment ends in Liz none the healthier and all of the healing stones destroyed. After this, unable to be around Max and needing to get distance from Roswell and the whole alien situation, Liz took up her father’s offer for boarding school and left for Vermont. Meanwhile, Michael enlisted Max, Isabel and the Sheriff’s help in discovering who had robbed the pharmaceutical company he worked for and killed his friend in the process. What they happen upon is the fact that it was a test to see if Michael was ‘the healer’ of the hybrids, a truth presented to them by the wife of the very informed, very rich, and very much dying owner of the company. Soon aware that it was Max she had been searching for, she demanded that he heal her husband. What he was drying from was old age and Max insisted that it didn’t work that way. Through threats to him and those that were with him, she forced him on. What followed was the ghastly sight of Max channeling his essence into the man, rapidly aging in the process until he fell to dust and flame; dead. He gave up his life to keep his family safe. Isabel, Michael and the sheriff had no choice but to run from the pursuit of the woman’s guards. They escaped, but not before Isabel got shot and badly wounded in the process. In the heat of the chaos, Jesse discovered that his wife was an alien and, even in his daze, called upon a doctor friend that stabilized her. All they were told they could do was wait. At her side, holding her hand, Michael bowed his head and pleaded for her to return to him. Although he was unaware of it, he used Max’s power to heal her in that moment. He had gained Max’s abilities and the seal of Antar on his chest upon Max’s death.
The man who Max had given his youth back to in exchange for his life, Clayton Wheeler, woke with a new face; Max’s. Although it was still Clayton, he found himself having daydreams about Liz that made him realize Max was still around in his head. He became determined to rid himself of the nuisance through the only logical means - killing Liz Parker. He hunted her down at her boarding school and, after a struggle, the two burst out from a high story window. With Liz’s life in immediate danger, Max wrestled complete and final control over Clayton, vanquishing him in time to launch a force shield big enough to catch her. His fall was mostly broken by the roof of a gazebo. He returned a new, wiser, darker man with Liz to Roswell. When everyone realized that Michael had Max’s abilities and Michael refused to give up his seat on the proverbial throne, the two ensued in a violent confrontation. By absorbing the seal and burning the skin away from where it had been on Michael, all things were restored to their natural order.
On the news, the group discovered that a military plane had crashed with something over the New Mexican desert. The occupant of the vessel found them with a human baby boy in hand; Tess. She told them that because the baby was completely human he had been rejected as the heir and she was forced to escape from Antar to save them both. The images Max had received when touching her belly about the atmosphere poisoning the child had been a mind warp. They held back from killing her for her past deeds because she claimed doing so will also result in the death of her son, whom she had named Zan after his father. It was then that Max’s dad’s investigation came to a head. He played for them a video tape of Isabel using her psychokinetic powers in her bedroom. They were forced to tell them the truth. With the FBI on their heels as well because of Tess, the Evans’ protected their children and allowed them time enough to try and escape. It was soon made clear, however, that if they didn’t find a way to kill every agent and destroy every ounce of evidence at the local compound that they would never again have peace. Tess, wanting to repent for all she had done, admitted that baby Zan’s life didn’t depend on her own. Going to the compound, she used her power to cause an explosion that destroyed both her and the government facility. Max realized that a fully human baby could never have the life it deserved with him and used his father’s legal prowess to, despite the emotional war within, put Zan up for quick adoption.
Though the group was unaware of it, parts of the Isabel tape retrieved by agents from her house had survived the detonation. With graduation rounding the corner and everyone just beginning to feel some semblance of safety, Liz’s powers evolved a new branch - visions. She revealed to the group that she had one of them being killed. While at graduation, they realized it was going to happen there and, with the help of Michael, everyone escaped from the ambush. They accepted the fact that Roswell was no longer safe. Max, Michael, Isabel, Liz, Maria, and Kyle left in a van, leaving the Sheriff to keep an eye out for things there and Jesse behind to try and live a real life before he was too deeply submerged in the chaos of their lives.
It all ended with the group bursting out of a church with Max and Liz just married. All of them piled into the van and drove off to live their nomadic new lives with, at last, a true chance of happiness on the horizon.
(P.S. Being that Max has lived another life before his human incarnation, he has memories from that one as well. However, so few are mentioned in the show and the hybrids are shown to generally lack them on whole, so I’d only ever involve those explicitly brought up and the details involved.)
ABILITIES:
(Note: All of Max’s powers come from the neurotransmitters in his cerebral cortex. Anything that slows or shuts these neurotransmitters down will rob him of his powers until it wears off.)
Passive
Leadership: Max is literally a natural-born leader. He is capable of rallying the troops if necessary, but finds particular skill in calming them in a crisis. His ability to generally keep a level head in dire circumstances only enforces it.
Intelligence: Having been an esteemed student amongst his peers, Max is capable of well-constructed critical thinking and pushing his thoughts ‘outside the box.’ Or, as it were in Edensphere, outside the fishbowl.
Athletic: Max is a very fit young man. With this comes all the usual perks of a healthy body.
Hybrid Biology: Max’s biological makeup is almost completely human. The outside, the organs, the skeletal structure; all human. His blood, however, shows green blood cells under a microscope despite being red en masse. Hybrids, as noted by Isabel, also never get sick.
Psychometry: When touching an object or, in rarer circumstances, a sentient being, Max is able to receive random flashes of their past. This power by itself, however, cannot be controlled and only occurs when he’s under the sway of a very intense emotion (i.e. terror, true love, etc.). This presents possible complications in Edensphere, so feel free to have it simply not function there or, perhaps, only give Edensphere pasts. I’m willing to go with whatever’s decided.
Psychotropic Enzymes: (Warning: This bit is likely PG-13 information.) Though it’s unlikely this particular factoid will be brought to light, making love with a hybrid results in a post-sex psychological effect that was compared to being high on mushrooms. It lasts for roughly thirty minutes.
Easy Inebriation: It takes but a single sip of alcohol for Max to get drunk and the effect lasts for hours and hours afterward. The quickest way to end it prematurely is for him to receive a vision, which sobers him up. Anything more than a sip will result in a hellish night of white eyes, wild senses, a fever to put all other fevers to shame, and a body full of agony that will make a hangover look like a hiccup.
Unlockable
Healing: Perhaps the most notable of his abilities, Max is able to heal the injuries and ailments of himself and others by touching them and focusing on it. He is limited by only the most irreversible of wounds, able to otherwise repair everything from superficial scrapes to gunshots and even cancer. When he engages in this, Max is hit with reflexive psychometric visions of the person he’s healing. Setting aside silly things like a skinned knee, using this is incredibly draining. If he does too much to too many, it results in unconsciousness and the complete loss of all of his powers for a few days. As a side effect of its more serious uses, a temporary silver handprint is left on the area where the healing was focused. The handprint fades after a day or two.
Force Shield: With a little bit of effort, Max can project a field of green force from his hand that prevents energy from passing through. It was mostly shown to halt kinetics such as bullets, but in a jumpy moment Max also used it when he thought a man with a welding torch was a Skin waiting to attack him. Mods are welcome to still interpret this as limited to kinetic energy, if that’s better for balance. Whatever the case, the larger the shield is and the more being thrown at it, the quicker it depletes him. Eventually, it’ll dissipate due to exhaustion.
Molecular Manipulation: All Antarian/Human hybrids are capable of issuing manipulations of the molecules of almost anything. They can use this to do everything from changing the color and shape of objects, to heating things up, and even shifting the physical state of something (solid to liquid, for example). It’s even been used to bypass secured doors and tamper with electrical devices. Essentially, this is probably the most open-ended of Max’s powers. This can’t be used for anything on too grand a scale, of course, as it has the potential to be just as physically taxing as the rest of his abilities. The molecules of depleted uranium are too dense to be altered.
Reverse Psychometry: With a little concentration and physical contact, Max can open up his mind to a person, flooding them with random memories and emotions of his history. Should the situation ever arise where it needs to be noted, this power happens outside of his control when he’s physically engaged with someone he holds powerful feelings towards in the throes of an equally powerful emotion. This was mostly shown in the show through passionate kissing. Like the previous psychometry entry, I’m willing to go with whatever stipulations the mods think are best, if any.
Psychokinesis: Max only uses this power in the most urgent of circumstances as, more often than not, it’s purely offensive. Though he lacks the mastered dexterous control over it that Isabel possesses and the practiced, martial prowess that Michael has with it, Max is nonetheless able to use it with moderate efficiency. He’s shown himself capable of pushing away a gun, levitating a body, and even launching a person across the room. Doing anything more precise or less brutish is likely to take months of conditioning. Yet, being the mostly passive man he is, it’s not likely to be at the top of his list.
GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Roswell
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes, please. =]
JOURNAL SAMPLE: I was told this is how people communicate. I suppose this is ‘hi.’
This…place, this tree, it feels impossible. My being here feels impossible. Worse than being trapped here, worse than the fact that all I have of my life is a badly compressed blurb, is this feeling I can’t shake. It’s like I’m not whole. Not the amnesia. Something bigger.
I can’t be the only one. How does everyone put up with it?
[Ink drips for a few seconds.]
Oh, and I guess my name’s Roswell. For now.
ASPIRATIONS: Although I know these are aspirations far, far away from being realized, I look forward to Max remembering details about his group; faces, names, relationships. This counts particularly, of course, for Liz Parker. As eagerly as I seek to make him try and discover who he is, I also plan on pushing him to learn the mysteries of his new home with his hopes of finding a way to his old one. Contradictory to that, I’m also curious to see if possibly working at the medical clinic (particularly when he realizes he has the power to heal an individual pretty extensively) or the Guard will adapt his aversion to Edensphere into something more comfortable and accepted. On top of all that, I’m excited to see if his calm leadership skills can benefit the citizens of the Fishbowl and build him into a person as respected here as he was back in Roswell. It’s all a babbling bunch of ambition, but I aspire to it just the same. =D