CIVILIAN . LEXINGTON IV, MAXIMILIAN

Maximilian Lexington IV

FLIRTATIOUS. IMPASSIVE. ALTRUISTIC.

Max. Generally speaking, Max likes to be called by his first name and is only willing to accept his nickname from those he's close with. A stranger or a mere acquaintance calling him Max is unacceptable to him. However, the only nickname he cannot stand is Maxi. For the love of all that is good, he is not a feminine product!

TWENTY-NINE YEARS-OLD

March 7th of 1983

MALE

Heteroflexible

CIVILIAN

Absinthe Maker. Max once wanted to be a sommelier, or a wine steward, in his college years. He was even preparing to go to train to be one after his college years, but because of a dear friend, his career took a different direction. While Max may not grow the plants to make the alcoholic drink, he is the one who helps making it and handling the business side. Through this business of absinthe making, he makes quite a pretty penny.

RESIDENCE

While he technically still has a house in the Anaheim area of California, Maximilian owns a pretty spacious condominium in the Bel Air community. It has too many rooms that he keeps empty for various purposes to the additional four rooms, but it's what he calls home. The interior of the condo mainly consists of white and black furniture with splashes of color here and there to make it pop.

APPEARANCE

HEIGHT & WEIGHT

5'11 and 169 lbs.

EYE COLOR

Azure blue. Granted blue eyes like his father, Maximilian has a slight hate for his eyes. Why? Well, also like his father, his eyesight isn't the greatest in the world, so he has to wear contacts or glasses a lot of the time. He has a great preference for the contacts though.

HAIR COLOR

Light ash blonde. Slightly wavy and cut into layers, Max's blonde hair reaches about his shoulders and his typically worn down. There are very rare occasions where he'll wear his hair up, but if ever does, it's in a ponytail fashion as he doesn't like dealing too much with his hair.

CLOTHING

It is very typical to find Maximilian wearing clothes that look like they belong in a men's fashion magazine. Because of his income along with the pretty penny he receives from his stingey bastard of a father, he can afford to spend quite a bit of money on nice clothing. Nice slacks and blazer tend to be a part of his typical outfit, but he does wear jeans and a t-shirt on some occasions when he feels like being casual.

OTHER

There is only one thing that probably sticks out about Maximilian, and that would be this gold chain he wears around his neck. He has a tendency to avoid telling others why he always has it with him as it relates to something that happened and he'd rather not talk about it. But let it be known he never takes it off his person.

Personality

COQUETTISH • A shameless flirt to the core, Maximilian is a bit of a ladies' (and men's) man and he isn't ashamed to admit that to anyone. He finds flirting to be fun and has made it a habit to flirt with people with feisty attitudes. It's quite thrilling for him, but he doesn't exactly go overboard. He's fairly aware that there are boundaries that should not be crossed, so he never goes too far with his flirting. Well, unless he knows them well enough or they respond in a more flirtatious matter.

CAPRICIOUS • He's not going to lie; Max has some issues with being moody and such. In fact, he resembles a petulant child when he's in one of his moods; hell, he's even thrown tantrums before. Despite the fact that such behavior is unfitting for someone like him (according to his rich father), he's makes for damn sure that people know to watch out when he's not in a pleasant mood for their own sake. Of course... his tantrums are few and far in between, but he does have a habit of being snappish at others if he's feeling unpleasant.

REASONABLE • Max can be a real cold-hearted bastard when in the mood for it, but deep down inside, he's actually quite understanding. He's well aware that stuff happens in life that no one can predict, so he's hardly ever angry at someone if an important matter arises and they have to go do that instead. To add to that, Maximilian is level-headed about situations and likes to think things through as best he can. He's really not as impulsive as he seems.

KINDHEARTED • Although Maximilian can be one of the biggest assholes around, he actually has a very big heart. Being kind to others is one of things he was taught as a young child, and he's seen what a little kindness can do. If being a little kind towards a person brightens up their day, he's willing to be nice. He just has a roundabout way of showing his kindness sometimes; just depends on the situation and such.

CHARITABLE • Yes, Max is a fairly wealthy man. However, he keeps only a small percentage of his earnings and gives the rest away. To him, there is no point in keeping an obscene amount of money for himself when there are others who could actually use that money for something good. It's not rare at all of him to send a large amount of money to various organizations that help people.

CALLOUS • No joke, Maximilian can be a cold asshole towards someone and not even feel the slightest bit of remorse over it. For all the times that he's kind to others and gentle, he can be equally emotionless and brutal. Does he do it all the time to people? No. Actually, he only acts like a brutal bastard around those that deserve his harsh behavior or if he's trying to keep others away from him.

POLITE • Manners are necessary in the world of high society... well, they used to be anyways. From what he's observed, some of the wealthy are a bit insincere and rude towards others; particularly towards those that are "beneath them." However, that's not how Max sees it. He is polite to everyone unless they give him reason not to. It's called common courtesy.

RESERVED • As much as Maximilian can be a flirt, he actually likes keeping to himself a lot of the time. It's not that he's unsociable or anything of that sort; he just likes having some time to think and relax in his own way. To add to that, Max is a man of few words and only speaks when he finds it necessary to. This behavior, of course, doesn't apply when he's flirting around with someone or talking to someone who's close to him. He's just a bit of a quiet person is all.

PERCEPTIVE • His ability to notice things kind of started out as simply a habit when he was younger; whenever he was by himself or didn't exactly feel like doing things, he would just sit there and watch his surroundings. The ability to see things that most people would typically overlook has become nearly second nature to him. However, that doesn't mean Max has this godly ability to see everything. It just means he's good at noticing things.

INDUSTRIOUS • Maximilian was taught to be a hard worker by his mother and his aunt at a very young age. According to them, if one worked hard enough at something, the rewards they reaped from it would be all the better than if someone didn't do much work at all. He typically applies this to his work seeing as he likes to keep himself busy with his job and he wants things done right. But no, he's not anywhere near a perfectionist like his father; sometimes your best effort is all you can give.

COMMITTED • Even though Max can be an incredible flirt at times, his flirty side subsides for the most part whenever he is an relationship. He believes it is unfair to the other person's sentiments if he were to mess around when he has someone by his side (figuratively and literally speaking). Once he is in a relationship, he is devoted solely to that person. And this also applies to promises and deals; once he makes a promise or a deal, he is committed to fulfilling it.

History

Whenever Maximilian Lexington IV is asked about his past, he would very much like to say that he grew up a happy child with a wealthy family and that all was well in the world. But then he would be lying and he'd be destroying his mother's memory.

Max was born to Johanna Thiessen and Maximilian Lexington III. Before the time of his birth, his mother Johanna had unknowingly become Maximilian's mistress which resulted in her being pregnant three months after knowing Maximilian. The man was a rich modern-day Casanova, so it wasn't at all surprising that Johanna fell for his charms. The couple was happy... that is until Johanna got pregnant and Maximilian pretty much deserted her when his wife, Mrs. Caroline Lexington, found out he was having an affair.

The time before his birth was filled with scandal and hell for Max's mother, but when he was finally born, life became somewhat quiet again. Initially, Max's father wanted nothing to do with him or his mother, but when it was mentioned that Johanna gave birth to a boy, Maximilian made sure that the family lived on through his son.

Did that mean that Maximilian helped out his son and Johanna? Nope, not really. He pretty much left them to fend for themselves. Besides, he had to spend time with his wife and keep his business going.

For the first seven years of his life, Max depended solely on his mother Johanna. She was the one who was always there for him and took care of him. She worked herself ragged to provide for the both of them, taking up to three jobs just to make sure the two of them had enough money to survive. Although this meant that Max didn't get to spend as much time with his mother as he wanted when he was a little kid, he was still happy to know that she loved him and would do anything to make sure he was happy. That was pretty much his life until his maternal aunt Eileen and his father joined the picture.

Eileen showed up in Max's life to help out her nephew and her sister. She was a bubbly hard-working woman and helped raise Max when his mother could not. The beautiful woman taught him manners and gave him important lessons in life that he always remembered. To add to the manner, he slowly began thinking of her as his second mother after he saw his mother less and less as time went on.

It was around that time that Maximilian started showing his face around again. Max knew barely anything about his father save for what his aunt told him, so the most he knew about the man was that he had gotten his mother pregnant and left her on her own to go back to his family. So really, his father was a complete stranger to him. But the fact that the man seemed to want to spend time with him excited young Max. His father would start taking him to parties with a lot of rich folks and even allowed him to meet Caroline and his two younger half-sisters, Sophia and Olivia. It was sort of surreal.

However, Max wasn't aware that Maximilian was trying to take him away from his mother and aunt. Though, it didn't happen thanks to Eileen's stubbornness and a few lawsuits thrown in Maximilian's way. And despite that it was cause for celebration, there would be no happiness.

When Max was eleven, his mother had an unfortunate care accident that resulted in her death. Evidently, his mother had developed a drinking problem and on her way home from a bar, she had drunk one too many and ended up in a horrible accident. The truth of the matter hit young Max rather hard. It hit him harder still when his father managed to claim rights over him and he was forced to travel between his father's house and his aunt's.

Max's life in the high-society Lexington household was... Well, cold and hellish. Every other week, he was dragged around to luxurious gatherings with other rich families and was shown off like a prized dog. To add to that, his father named him the future heir to his company and such. To Max, this was odd but upon realizing that many of the people in "high society" had boys as the future heirs to companies, it didn't surprise him so much. That didn't keep his half-sisters from hating him though.

As Max grew older, his father and Caroline began grooming him to become a ruthless business man. However, that didn't last for too long once Max turned eighteen and moved out of the Lexington household. Wanting to leave that part of his life behind, he moved to Anaheim to live closer to his aunt Eileen.

Through minimal help from his aunt, Maximilian Lexington IV went off to college to study business and biology. In four quick years, he managed to obtain a bachelor's degree and was ready to head off to become a sommelier. However, through unforeseen events, Max ended up helping a friend with absinthe making. Ever since then, the duo created a steadily growing business from it.

EXTRAS

• Max has a four year-old Siberian Husky-German Shepherd mix named D'artagnan that was given to him by his aunt Eileen when he first moved to the Anaheim area. He considers D'artagnan his very best friend and he considers the dog his pride and joy. He'd protect that dog with his life.

• Although he doesn't seem like it, Maximilian is very much a bookworm and is absolutely fascinated by classical literature. He can sit in a library for hours on end, enjoying himself by reading a new or old piece of work. His favorite piece of literature would be a tie between Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

• It's a very big secret, but Maximilian was actually a danseur (male ballerina) up until his last year of high school. And no, he's not joking. He could perform a fouetté en tournant as well as any ballerina can. Despite what he says, he enjoyed dancing.

• Despite the fact that Maximilian now wants nothing to do with his father or his father's family, he does have the decency to visit them every once in a blue moon. However, he spends a very limited amount of time with them during those visits.

Roleplayer Information

SKYLOFT/PLUM/ELLIE

Shin'ya Ankoku, Nemesis Arkwood, Viktor Krupin & Belinda Salvatierra.

AFFINITES

Fate pick.

FACE CLAIM

Uta No☆Prince-sama ─ Camus