Maxwell Franklin

Maxwell Franklin

Some people can’t get anything done because they don’t have enough ideas, others have the opposite problem. Max Franklin was one such person, whole ecologies sprawled in his head and on pieces of scrap paper and yet nothing ever seemed to work out. But then one day everything changed. Although many catalyzations are traumatic Max’s wasn’t. He had always had strange ideas and views on the world. The catalyzation itself was not particularly fast or unusually slow, it was just that he didn’t have all that far to go. That’s not to say that he comes from “Old Madness” as it were, all of his relatives are quite sane. Indeed the fact that he had always been the odd one in a normal family helped him to avoid becoming an Unmada, the understanding that he did not think like other people was well in place before his breakthrough.

Like many Hoffnungs max didn’t so much breakthrough as sort of vaguely saunter over. Like all Hoffnungs max had a vision of a better world, a world free of poverty, famine, Tonga, disease, war, and meter maids. Unlike most however Max is being realistic (ish). He realizes, even sense before his brake through, that one dose not simply change the world. Changing the world is a big under taking and he is willing to start small by changing his world instead. His vision, for the moment at least, is of a pocket world ruled by him and populated with maniacal animals and plants of his own design, a glorius self-sustaining biosphere of the strange!

Personality wise max is an individualist. He has always had difficulty with making friends and despises crowds (and the late king Tāufaʻahau Tupou IV of Tonga). His introversion (and if we are being honest fear of failure) mean that he is not prone to attempting to seep the world up in vision, just himself and his little corner of the world.

Max is collage educated with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Although heavily focused in biology Max has at least a moderate level of familiarity with most field of science, though his knowledge is a little sketchy and possibly out right wrong in some of the more esoteric fields. Even then he can usually find the information he doesn’t know quickly and he has a talent for rapidly understanding and assimilating new information.

In collaged Max had only a handful of friends and rarely participated in social events. For his entire 4 year collage career Max never got drunk, never went to a party and never got a grade below a B. He was never part of a fraternity and only rarely attended honor society meetings. His innate ability to absorb and comprehend science made him a valuable asset on group projects, but he always seemed to need to slow down for his group mates to catch up and the down time would fill with daydreams and flights of fancy, giving him a reputation as highly intelligent yet frustratingly unfocused.

Max has always been introspective and his vision for a new world order is not so much a world where everyone lives under his ruler ship, he is well aware of how ill equipped he is to lead, as a world apart, a world for himself. Max came to Atlanta not in spite of the devastation caused by the nameless genocide but because of it. He came looking for a place where he could get away and be left in peace. He has bought a cabin on the edge of the Chattahoochee forest, unaware of the dangers in the forest.

Max’s family comes from New Hampshire and it show in his accent and mannerisms. There was no great tragedy that be fell them, they are all still alive and he remains in limited contact with them. As far as his parents know he has just gotten a job at an Atlanta based bio tech company. In reality of course he has no job and intends to live off the grid.

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