This woman was one of many genetic experiments; she was engineered since before birth, and raised by the U.S. government in one of its many secret facilities.

 

Table of Contents:

  1. Spec’s
  2. Timeline Summary
  3. Details/History
  4. 2nd Profile
  5. Max & Auz
  6. 2022 Update
  7. 2023/+ Updates
  8. Before Auz/Inisfree (Images Begin)
  9. During Auz/Inisfree

 

Spec’s:

Max Guevara
Dark Angel character
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Jessica Alba as Max
First appearance Pilot
Last appearance Freak Nation
Created by James Cameron
Charles H. Eglee
Portrayed by Jessica Alba
Geneva Locke (child)
Information
Alias X5-452
Rachel Glasser
Species Genetically engineered super soldier, X5
Gender Female
Significant other Logan Cale

She stands 5’6″, is 122 lbs., and has perky C-cup breasts.

 

Timeline Summary:

  • 2000:  born
  • 2009:  escaped near the time of the U.S. economy tanking, blamed on an EMP attack
  • 2012:  tried to free others like her
  • 2013:  was among those on the American Exodus, ushered to the Leviathan ships in China
  • 2014-2018:  lived with a gang of thieves in rebuilt Los Angeles
  • 2019:  the events of most of the Dark Angel episodes

 

Details:

Max Guevara (X5-452) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the cyberpunk science fiction television program Dark Angel. During both seasons of the series, Max was portrayed by Jessica Alba; Geneva Locke played the character during flashbacks to her childhood. Over one thousand actresses were considered for the part of Max before Alba was given the role. Max also appears in three canonical novels based on the series as well as an apocryphal video game adaptation. Created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee, Max followed a long line of strong female characters in Cameron’s work, including Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley.

Max is a genetically enhanced transgenic super-soldier, created in a secret government lab known as Manticore. Along with 11 other children, Max escapes from the facility when she is 9 years old. Max attempts to live a normal life while eluding recapture by Manticore. She also searches for other escaped transgenics with the help of Logan Cale, a cyber-journalist also known as “Eyes Only”.

Creation and Appearances

Following his success with the film Titanic, director James Cameron teamed up with Charles H. Eglee. The two formed a production company, Cameron/Eglee Productions, and began working on ideas for a television series, eventually deciding on the idea of Dark Angel. Cameron said they began with the idea that Max would be a genetic construct who appeared normal but was different on a genetic level, saying “We explored what that could mean. Do her eyes look different? Were there things that manifest themselves? Were there negatives to it? We wanted her to have flaws, things that were built in – like Kryptonite.”[1] Max followed a long line of strong female characters in films directed Cameron, including Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley. Cameron believes such characters are well received all round as women respond favorably to strong female characters and male audiences “want to see girls kick ass”.[2]

More than one thousand young actresses were considered for the part of Max before Jessica Alba was chosen;[2]Cameron started reviewing audition tapes when it had been narrowed down to 20 or 30 applicants. Cameron said he was not overly impressed with Alba’s acting skill or appearance in her audition tape, though he kept coming back and watching it as there was something about her attitude that he liked, eventually deciding he needed to see her in person.[3] Alba was hired for the role before the scripts were written. Eglee said “We had the benefit of being able to write a script kind of backwards, we were writing for this actress, with her cadences and her rhythms and her sensibilities and her attitude and her slang.” In order to train for the role, Alba spent a year doing martial arts and gymnastics and riding motorcycles.[4]

Max is the lead character in both seasons of the TV series Dark Angel, where she is portrayed primarily by Alba but also by Geneva Locke as a child in flashbacks. She appears in three original novels based on the series,[5] two of which pick up directly where the series ended[6] and one that serves as a prequel novel, filling in the time between Max’s escape from Manticore and the beginning of the first season. Max is also the playable character in the video game adaptation, Dark Angel, where she is voiced by Alba.[7]

Attributes

Max was genetically engineered and carried to term by a woman who was not permitted to meet her.[8] She was created for a secret government super-soldier program called Manticore, then located in Gillette, Wyoming.[9][10] As with almost all Manticore’s soldiers, Max has a barcode on the nape of her neck, with her identifying number sequence (332960073452). She is an X5 model and is thus referred to as X5-452. Designed to be “the perfect soldier,”[7] Max is extremely strong, athletic and agile. She can see in the dark, can zoom in with her eyes to view distant objects, does not need to sleep and has a photographic memory.[11] She also has enhanced hearing, can leap up or down from great heights with ease, can hold her breath underwater for extended periods and can dodge bullets with her super speed.[10] Max lies, cheats and steals when she needs to and shows no remorse when doing so, though she is morally opposed to guns. Max rides a Kawasaki motorcycle[11] and enjoys riding at high speed.[12] When she wants to be alone she sits atop of the derelict Space Needle.[13] Max’s forms ‘family’ bonds with her best friend and flat-mate Original Cindy, her ally Logan Cale and her fellow X5 escapees.[14] Upon escaping from Manticore, Max chooses the last name “Guevara” for herself.[12]

Max has a genetic flaw that causes her to have seizures, and must take tryptophan to help control them.[11] The seizures played a subplot early in the first season though the issue was phased out without explanation as the series progressed.[1] As a side-effect of having cat DNA, Max goes into heat twice during the first season,[15] though as with the seizures the issue did not re-appear in the second season.[16] In the second season it is revealed that Max has no junk DNA; every one of her DNA sequences has a specific purpose.[13]

Storyline

In 2009 twelve of the X5s, including 9-year-old Max, escape from Manticore into a snowy forest. Max is found and given shelter by Hannah, a sympathetic Manticore nurse.[9] Several months later terrorists detonate an electromagnetic pulse weapon in the atmosphere over the US, destroying all electronic devices in the country and throwing it into chaos and poverty. In the prequel novel, Dark Angel: Before the Dawn, after escaping Manticore, Max makes her way to Casper, Wyoming, where she meets Lucy Barrett, a little girl who helps Max stow away in her mother’s SUV. Later, after arriving in Los Angeles, California, Lucy’s mother, Joann, agrees to let Max live with them. Max and Lucy endure physical and emotional abuse from Lucy’s alcoholic father, Jack. Max runs away from her foster home in 2013 and heads to Hollywood, where she joins the Chinese Clan, a group of thieves taking refuge in the remains of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. In 2019, Max leaves Los Angeles to search for one of her Manticore siblings in Seattle, Washington. While stopping in Eureka, California, Max meets “Original Cindy” McEachin when she comes to McEachin’s aid in a bar fight,[17] and the two of them travel to Seattle together. In Seattle, the duo meet Kendra Maibaum, a young woman who offers Max a place to stay after Max defends her from her boss who was sexually harassing her.[18] McEachin and Maibaum feature as regular characters in the TV series.[19][20]

The TV series begins with Max, now 19, living in a post-apocalyptic Seattle.[9] She lives in fear of Colonel Donald Lydecker, who had been assigned by Manticore to capture Max and the other escapees. Max holds a job as a bicycle messenger for the company “Jam Pony X – Press”, and also operates at night as a burglar,[21]explaining, “I steal things in order to sell them for money. It’s called commerce.” Max is caught by Logan Cale, a vigilante cyber journalist who uses the alias “Eyes Only”, while she is attempting to burglarize him. Cale notices and recognizes Max’s barcode, and offers to help her locate her Manticore brothers and sisters if she agrees to team up with him. Max initially refuses, but changes her mind after Cale is rendered a paraplegic after he attempts a mission without her assistance.[11] Max spends season one “jugg[ling] ‘Eyes Only’ missions” while searching for fellow Manticore escapees.[22] A complicated romantic interest develops between Max and Cale.[23]

Near the end of the season, Lydecker is betrayed by his superior, Elizabeth Renfro, and subsequently defects from Manticore. He aids Max in an assault on the Manticore headquarters, though Max is badly wounded and captured. In season two Cale exposes Manticore to the world, and Renfro torches the facility in an attempt to cover up the evidence, though she is killed in the process. Max escapes the facility and frees hundreds of other super soldiers and failed Manticore experiments. Lydecker disappears under mysterious circumstances. National Security Agency agent Ames White, who is also a member of a secretive cult that wishes to eliminate transgenics, is tasked with recapturing the Manticore escapees. Both the authorities and cult members pursue Max, though she escapes to Terminal City, an abandoned part of Seattle where hundreds of outcast transgenics have been hiding. When the police begin to surround Terminal City, Max convinces the other transgenics to stand their ground rather than run. The second and final season ends with the military surrounding and possibly preparing to invade Terminal City.

The novel Dark Angel: Skin Game picks up where season two ends. Reports of a transgenic serial killer in Seattle are exacerbating the stand-off at Terminal City. Max uncovers that the killer’s psychosis was caused by him unwillingly being given a psychoactive drug by White. A truce develops between transgenics and the authorities after Max publicly reveals the information, and White goes into hiding. The final novel, Dark Angel: After the Dark, picks up where the previous novel ends. Cale is kidnapped by the cult, who are trying to provoke Max into attacking them. Max eventually leads an assault on the cult’s headquarters, which frees Cale and results in White’s death and the compound being set on fire. As the headquarters burn Max finds Lydecker in a prison cell, and he promises to help her find her mother if she saves him, to which she agrees. The book ends with Cale and Max finally consummating their relationship.

 

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Spec’s Again:

Max Guevara
Max Guevara
Biographical Information
Real Name: Max Guevara
Designation: X5-452, 332960073452
Species: X5
Affiliations: Eyes Only Informant Net
Transgenics
Manticore
Jam Pony
Occupation: Bike Messenger
Soldier (former)
Status: Alive
born: circa 2000
Age: 20
Family: Lucy Barrett (adoptive sister)
Joann Barrett (adoptive mother)
Sam (twin)
Interests: Logan Cale (Ex-Boyfriend)
Rafer (One-Night Stand)
Darren (Ex)
Character Information
Gender: Female
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Brown
Height: 5’6″
Production Details
First appearance: Pilot
Portrayed by: Jessica Alba
Geneva Locke (child)

 

Max Guevara, designation X5-332960073452, is one of the twelve X5s who successfully escaped from Manticore in February 2009. Years later, she became the leader of a group of transgenics living in the dangerous Terminal City.

Born to a surrogate mother sometime around the turn of the twenty-first century, Max was raised and trained as a soldier from a very young age by military handlers, under the command of Colonel Donald Lydecker, at a facility located in Gillette, Wyoming called Manticore. During this time, Max developed a very close bond with her unit-mates, and was considered to be the baby of their “family”.

YoungMax

Max as a child at Manticore.

From the beginning, the X5’s training was harsh and rigorous, sometimes downright brutal. In addition, they were subjected to powerful psychological conditioning, as well as cruel medical experiments. As Max would later say, they didn’t think to escape because, after all, they didn’t know there was anything else to escape to. Throughout their lives, the X5’s were plagued by a design flaw: a neurological disorder that caused random and violent seizures. To temporarily suppress the seizures, they took Tryptophan, a neurotransmitter that replaced the serotonin that their brains were unable to produce. Max witnessed her brother Jack suffer from a seizure during a drill, and she and her other siblings watched as Jack was taken away. Later, she could not sleep and wandered out of their room, only to find Jack being autopsied by a team of doctors while Lydecker supervised them as he sipped calmly from a cup.

During this time, there was one incident that haunted the memories of the young soldiers: a training exercise requiring them to hunt down and kill a prisoner. They accomplished this with such ruthless effectiveness that even Lydecker was alarmed by their exhilaration and savagery. Years later, Max was greatly disturbed by what had happened and tried to forget about it, but never could.

= =  = = The Escape = =  = = 

Some time after Jack died, Max began to seize as well. Zack was particularly fond of her, and was terrified that she too would be taken away and would never come back. He declared that they would escape, though Max initially didn’t want to leave, not knowing what they would be escaping to.

Eventually, a guard found her seizing, and Zack attacked him, obtaining a weapon. Lydecker was nearby and the gun had skidded in front of Eva. She picked it up as Lydecker appeared, and he shot her, finding her a threat. Max and her “siblings” thought that they truly meant nothing to their CO, that they were just material to him. In February 2009, led by Zack, they broke out of Manticore and fled into the forest. After rendezvousing in a clearing a safe distance from the building, Zack split the group up and sent them in different directions. Max didn’t think separating was wise, but complied, and, as Zack stayed behind to hold up their pursuers, climbed the fence and disappeared into the night.

While trying to decide what to do, Max was discovered by Hannah Sukova, a Manticore nurse who offered her help. Max, somewhat suspicious, accepted, and stayed at the nurse’s cabin for several hours before continuing.

= =  = = The Pulse = =  = = 
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Max and Lucy hide from Lucy’s father.

After leaving Hannah’s cabin, Max stowed aboard a supply truck and got off in Casper, Wyoming, where she met Lucy Barrett, a young girl who was making a snowman outside her aunt’s house. After Max tells Lucy that she ran away from a bad place and that people would hurt her if they found her, Lucy lets Max stow away in her mother’s SUV when they return home to Los Angeles, California. After arriving, Lucy’s mother, Joann, said that Max could stay with them by saying that she was the daughter of Joann’s late cousin. During the next three months, Max and Lucy had to put up with Lucy’s sexually abusive, alcoholic father, Jack

While Max attended school with Lucy, she suffered from seizures due to her genetic breeding. The school nurse prescribed tryptophan, a dietary supplement, that controlled them. On June 1, 2009, disaster struck on a global scale: terrorists detonated a nuclear weapon in the sky high above the United States, producing a powerful electromagnetic pulse which destroyed virtually every electronic device within thousands of miles, immediately plunging the country into total anarchy.

On the same day, after defending herself from Jack, she ran away from the Barrett’s home. Afterwards, Max turned to petty theft to survive and camped out in Griffith Park. Three years later, in April 2012, she returned to the Barrett house to rescue Lucy but found it abandoned. Guilt over the tactical decision to refrain from defending and eventually leave Lucy, as her training bade, plagued Max into adulthood. In May 2009, a huge earthquake hit California leaving millions homeless. A year later, since foraging for supplies was becoming more difficult, Max migrated to Hollywood, California.

In California, Max eventually joined up with Moody and the Chinese Clan, a group of thieves taking refuge in the remains of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. In 2019, Max left Los Angeles to search for one of her Manticore siblings in Seattle, Washington. While stopping in Eureka, California, Max met “Original Cindy” McEachin and the two of them traveled to Seattle together.

= =  = Early Adulthood = =  = 
= =  = = Hiding = =  = = 

In Seattle, Max worked as a bike messenger for a delivery service called Jam Pony. She became friends with several other messengers, mainly Cynthia “Original Cindy” McEachin, Herbal Thought, and Calvin “Sketchy” Theodore. For years, Max had wanted to find her missing brothers and sisters from Manticore, and so hired a private investigator in Seattle to help track them down. In order to fund the expensive search, Max supplemented her income with a secret life as a cat burglar, using her deliveries as opportunities to scout new targets.

During one of these burglaries, Max met Logan Cale, the underground cyber-journalist known as Eyes Only. Cale noticed his visitor’s unusual abilities and, after investigating further, discovered her identity as an X5. He proposed a deal: he would help Max track down her siblings, and she would help him bring down criminals. Max at first refused, unwilling to expose herself to notice by Manticore, but eventually agreed after taking pity on one of the people Logan was helping.

Not long after this, Logan located the nurse from Manticore, named Hannah, who had helped Max years ago. Max went to see her and ended up saving her from Lydecker, who had discovered Hannah’s connection to Max. Max also learned from Hannah about her surrogate mother, whom she had wondered about for years.

= =  = = Reuniting = =  = = 

Throughout this time, Logan had also been following leads on Zack, who was living in Seattle temporarily. Max was then finally reunited with her long-lost brother, only to discover that he wasn’t what she had expected. He still considered himself a soldier, and to maintain secrecy he refused to tell Max where the other X5’s were.

Over the course of several months, Max and Zack would find themselves working together to help the others. Once, they were left no choice but to turn in their sister, Brin, to Manticore lest she die from a deadly syndrome that plagued many transgenics.

But Lydecker was not their only enemy. Several foreign countries were attempting to get a hold of Manticore technology, among them South Africa. Hoping to capture Max, a team of South African super-soldiers, called the Red Series, was sent to Seattle. Although Max was able to escape from them initially, she learned the hard way that they were stronger and tougher than even X5’s, and alone, she could not hope to withstand them. Eventually, she managed to kill one of them and, after learning more about them from Logan’s friend Sebastian, enhanced herself with one of the Red Series’ neural implants, and fought them equally. Although she managed to kill them, she nearly died as well from the strain the implant caused on her nervous system. Thankfully, Logan and Original Cindy were able to deactivate the implant in time, and with his last breath, one of the Red Series killed his handler after learning that he had lied to them, and that they never had any chance of surviving either.

At one point, Lydecker enlisted the help of the Seattle Police Department to capture Max, claiming that she was wanted for murder. When she was taken into custody by the police, Zack turned himself in to save Max, and was taken back to Manticore.

Later, in order to try to get information from Zack, Manticore let him escape and link up with Max, hoping that he would tell her where the other X5’s were, and, in turn, unwittingly tell Lydecker as well, as he was eavesdropping with a transmitter implanted in Zack’s head. Zack did, indeed, tell Max where several other escapees were, however, they then realized they had been set up and were able to warn the others via an Eyes Only broadcast, giving them time to evade the subsequent search.

Some time later, Max encountered an X5, named Jace, who had not escaped when the others did and was in Seattle on a mission to assassinate a former employee of Manticore, Dr. Adriana Vertes. Max stopped Jace from killing Vertes (even though she despised anyone who had worked for Manticore), however, the situation became more complicated when it was learned that Jace was pregnant. Max eventually convinced her to stop serving Manticore and, despite Vertes’ betrayal of them to Lydecker, the two evaded their pursuers and Max helped Jace escape to Mexico.

Perhaps the most trying moment for Max came when she discovered that her brother, Ben, was going from city to city murdering people, and was now in Seattle. When Max saw the bodies of his victims, she noted a disturbing similarity between Ben’s M.O. and their killing of the prisoner at Manticore years earlier. She tracked Ben down in a nearby church, and found that he was leaving his victims’ teeth there as an offering

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Max and Ben, shortly before his death.

to the “Blue Lady”, an incarnation of the Virgin Mary that Ben had worshiped for years. Ben escaped, but Max again located him, atop the Space Needle. There, she caught him and tried to convince him to stop killing, and he eventually agreed to take her to his most recent prisoner so she could release him. By this time, Lydecker, who had been searching for Ben, was closing in on him and Max, although he did not know Max was with Ben. Upon reaching the factory he used as a base, Ben managed to free himself from Max again and pursued his prisoner through the forest. Max followed him, and caught up with him just in time to stop him from killing his target. The two then began to fight, and Ben’s victim was able to flee the area. Max eventually broke Ben’s leg, rendering him unable to fight, but also unable to escape from Lydecker’s troops, who were now scouring the forest. Knowing this, and knowing that if Max tried to carry him to safety, they would both be captured, Ben asked her to kill him. She at first refused, but could not deny the fact that returning to Manticore would be worse than death, and complied by distracting him with the request for one of their old childhood stories, and quickly snapping his neck before he could finish.

Some time afterwards, Max discovered that Tinga, an X5 that she and Zack had helped to escape from Lydecker’s forces in Portland, was in trouble because her husband, who didn’t know she was transgenic, put the word out that she was missing. Now, he and their young son were in danger from Lydecker, so Max and Tinga joined forces to rescue them. During the operation, they were joined by Zack, who, despite having told Tinga that returning was foolish, had come back to help. During the rescue, as Manticore troops stormed the building, Max made a disturbing discovery: Brin, the X5 they had been forced to turn in months ago, had been brainwashed and was leading the soldiers from Manticore. After a fight with her, Max escaped and headed back to regroup with the others. Unfortunately, it looked as though the rescue might have been in vain; Lydecker had infected Tinga’s son with microscopic robots that began to make him sick. In the end, Tinga was forced to surrender herself to save her son. As her husband took his son away to safety, Max vowed that she would free Tinga eventually.

= =  = = Capture = =  = = 

Not long afterwards, Zack, who had been watching Lydecker and Dr. Elizabeth Renfro, located Tinga and told Max. By this time, Max and Logan had fallen in love, and Lydecker was losing his influence in Manticore and its parent organization, the Committee. Max and Zack set out to rescue Tinga, only to discover that she had been killed by Renfro. In addition, Manticore had located Max by tracking the Red Series implant in her brain with the help of the South Africans. Lydecker and his soldiers intercepted the X5’s at the silo where they had found Tinga, and Max was captured. Thankfully, Zack had escaped, and Renfro had betrayed Lydecker and tried to have him assassinated, forcing him to go rogue with just two loyal soldiers. After telling Max what had happened, he agreed to help the X5’s attack Manticore. Along with Lydecker, Max, Zack and two of their siblings, Syl and Krit, devised a plan to infiltrate Manticore’s facility in Gillette and destroy the DNA database. They carried out the operation successfully, however, due to incorrect information regarding the facility’s security forces, were attacked as they made their escape by a contingent of X7’s. Syl and Krit got away, but Max and Zack were captured. Max, who had been shot in the heart, was in critical condition, and, in order to save her, Zack shot himself in the head so that the doctors at Manticore could transplant his heart. Max survived, but now had to face the harsh reality that she was once again a prisoner of Manticore.

= =  = Destruction of Manticore = =  = 

Upon recovering from her injuries, Max was subjected to re-indoctrination procedures by Manticore. For weeks, she was tortured and brainwashed as Renfro attempted to wipe out her defiance and independence. Eventually, Max stopped resisting and began acting like a loyal soldier. Renfro knew that she was only playing along, but could do nothing other than reintegrate her with the other X5’s.

For the next few weeks, Max quietly endured training, drills, and hatred from the other X5’s who considered her a traitor, all the while planning her escape. One night, a male X5 designated X5-494 arrived in her cell and informed her that they had been assigned as breeding partners, as part of Manticore’s program to create more soldiers without the DNA profiles that had been stored at the Gillette facility. Max was understandably horrified by the idea and refused to conceive a child. At first annoyed, 494 acquiesced and agreed not to tell his superiors. Max eventually named him Alec (as in “smart alec”) after he caught her preparing for her escape. Max ropes him into helping her leave Manticore, but later finds out that he’d been ordered to follow her for a Search and Retrieval Operation and ensure she killed Eyes-Only with the virus. After learning that Logan had been infected with a virus, Max incapacitated him and sent a broadcast Logan had prepared revealing Manticore’s location. When she returned to Manticore, she demanded that Renfro hand over the antigen, and after receiving it, Renfro took a fatal bullet for her, and with her dying breath, told Max to find Sandeman.

 

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Max & Auz:

As excellent an example of successful genetic engineering and child-soldier training as she was, Max was still very low on the list of priorities for the man entrusted with cleaning up the entire Earth of human pollution.  It wasn’t until seven years after the Rapture, and the start of human civilization being rebuilt, that they ever had a chance to meet.  He’d been keeping a protective eye on her the whole time since discovering her, though, and they were bound to cross paths eventually.

 

2022 Update:

As her first year visiting Inisfree wraps up, she is already very interested in marrying its High King –and will in 2023.  He always treats her like a normal person, not a superweapon to be controlled and exploited, and even sees her as wonderful, exceptional, trustworthy, a godsend.  To him, she is not an experiment or soldier; she is a beautiful, sexy, worthy, lovable woman, and this has really won her over, wow-ing her many times.

She is still in awe at how their polar community fits so perfectly with her, too, …even –and especially– when she goes into heat.  Everything there completely understands and caters to her.  She has never had to hide or feel bad about a thing.

In the decades ahead, Max will become the liaison between the Inisfreeans and all others like her; those genetically engineered by the corporation which made and trained her.

 

2023/+ Updates:

When she goes into heat, she texts her husband, Auz, “Honey… I’m heat.  Can you help me?”  Auz always smiles and responds, “Absolutely, baby. Come on over.”  They fuck like wild animals until she feels satisfied and fine again.  She pants while blushing, collapsed over his chest in their afterglow, purring, “Thaaank you.”  He hugs her close and kisses her forehead, “No; thank you.”  That always makes her happily exhale and smile.

September:

She trains at the Training Tower, and practices her motorcycle skills on the GAH and at the racetrack-carrier. Soon, she’ll even complete the entire 19th grade, including wingsuiting from a Rooftop Carrier to a rotating skyscraper downtown.

Max became one of our black ops operatives, and got her first briefing in the Map Room.

Outside of Inisfree, I (her husband, Auz), am helping hook her up with the house of her dreams; she shall no longer be limited to living in an apartment with plumbing issues and an annoying security guard / anti-squatter cop on patrol.

2024 October:  Her first name was too borderline-gender-unclear, so she is called Maxine.

 

Before Auz/Inisfree:

During Auz/Inisfree: