Maximus (Fallout)

Maximus is the deuteragonist of the 2024 post-apocalyptic sci-fi television series , based on the video game franchise of the same name. He is a wannabe soldier who grew up above ground but, like Lucy Maclean, was also raised in a cloistered "family" of sorts: the Brotherhood of Steel. However, unlike Lucy, he has a cynical sense of self-preservation and does not always act honorably.
He is portrayed by .
==Biography==
=== Early Life ===
Maximus was born in the New California Republic capital city of Shady Sands. When he was a small child, Shady Sands was nuked by Hank MacLean. Maximus survived the bombing and was rescued by a Brotherhood of Steel knight in full T-60 power armor. This incident caused the young Maximus to idolize Brotherhood knights, and sparked in him the aspiration to one day become one. 
Maximus would be taken in by the Brotherhood of Steel, where he would be made given an Aspirant. At some point, he was transferred to a Brotherhood base. There, he would frequently be beaten by other Aspirants due to the machinations of Aspirant Thaddeus, who deflected the bullying that was originally targeted at him towards Maximus in order to get the others to leave him alone. Due to being made an outcast, Maximus had no friends in the base aside from fellow Aspirant, Dane.
=== Becoming a Squire ===
==Personality==
Despite being a member of the Brotherhood of Steel, an organization that seeks to collect Pre-War technology Maximus shows little interest in said technology. He does however show a keen interest in power armor, stemming from his encounter with an armored Brotherhood Knight during his childhood. He displays more knowledge about power armor than other Aspirants. Upon first obtaining a suit of power armor, Maximus is shown enjoying himself while testing the suit's capabilities. 
Maximus is shown to have a vindictive streak, as when he is questioned by Elder Quintus on his motivations for wanting to be in the Brotherhood, he says he wants to "hurt the people who hurt [him]". Later, when Maximus, assuming the identity and taking the power armor of the late Knight Titus is given Thaddeus as a Squire, he uses the opportunity to get revenge on Thaddeus for being complicit in his hazing at the Brotherhood of Steel base. His initial thought is to kill Thaddeus on the spot, but he instead decides to mess with him, making him do degrading tasks such as polishing his armor's codpiece and making him climb a tree to look for apples, despite the tree clearly not having any. 
Despite his flaws, Maximus is ultimately shown to want to do good, such intervening during a physical altercation between two Wastelanders, though he ends up siding with the wrong person during the dispute, only realizing his mistake after the fact, saving Lucy from being killed by The Ghoul, and protecting Thaddeus from a Gulper, despite Thaddeus' treatment of him in the past. 
==Powers and Abilities==
* Marksmanship: Maximus has shown to be a skilled marksman, killing two Fiends with two well-placed shots from a 10mm pistol.
* Endurance: Maximus is shown to be quite resilient, enduring frequent beatings from fellow Brotherhood of Steel Aspirant as part of their hazing ritual and refusing to go down against a band of scavengers who were trying to steal his Power Armor, despite having taking several blows from them.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
* Maximus and all the other Brotherhood of Steel members in the TV series all have Roman names, with the only exception being Dane.
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