Maxi (Soul Character)

## Personal Info

Birthplace: Shuri, Ryukyu Kingdom (Okinawa, Japan)

Birthdate: May 1, 1563

Age: 24-45

Gender: Male

Height: 5’8 ½ (174)

Weight: 125 (57)-168 (76)

Blood Type: O

Weapon: Nunchaku

Weapon Name: Fatibal (SC), Soryuju

Style: Shissen Karihadi

Soul: Retribution

## Stages

Harbour of Souls (SC)

Pirate’s Alcove (2)

Indian Port (3)

Sailor’s Rest (4)

Sailor’s Rest: Twilight (BD)

Sinking Merchant Ship (5)

## Theme

Sail Over the Storm (SC, 3)

Eternal Struggle (2)

Halcyon Harbor (4-BD)

Let My Soul Burn (5)

During one of his father's travels, he met a man from Ming
known as Zhang Wu. The man carried a bladed nunchaku, which Maxi noticed. He,
full of pride, challenged the stranger to a fight. Not hearing Kyam (his sworn
brother)'s pleas, Maxi faced the man and was defeated. Recognizing the world
was wider than he thought, he asked the man to be his teacher for the remainder
of the travel. The man agreed and as time passed Maxi studied his style, and
despite being different from his, he was able to further improve his abilities.
Li Long left after reaching the port, but Maxi kept studying his work.

After his father's death, Maxi took his vessel and decided
to turn into a freelance pirate, to see the world his father couldn't because
of his ties to the country. He embarked with the crew, his "new
family", and Kyam and sailed towards the west. They docked on an Indian
Port town and, while Maxi was out, Kilik approached the ship searching a way to
go west. He argued with a pirate of the ship, who wanted Dvapara-Yuga as fee
for the trip, until Kyam stepped in. Kyam sympathized with Kilik and let him
stay until Maxi, the captain, would return.

But when Maxi returned, he found his ship under attack by a
hoard of golems and lizard-like creatures led by Astaroth. With Kilik, both
joined forces in the battle against the monsters. Eventually, they had repelled
the golems, but not before Astaroth had temporarily snatched the holy mirror
Dvapara-Yuga from Kilik, causing him to lose his sanity and savagely attack
Maxi. Maxi was able to suppress Kilik and return the Dvapara-Yuga to him, but
only after Maxi's sworn brother, Kyam, had been murdered and most of the other
members of the crew were dead or missing. With his dying words, Kyam told Maxi
of Kilik's quest and, having lost everything, Maxi decided to travel with him,
swearing an oath of revenge against Astaroth. Eventually, the two met Xianghua,
a member of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Guard, who also aided them in their
travels.

With Kilik and Xianghua's help, Maxi stormed MediaWiki:Badtitletext, where the creatures that had killed Maxi's crew were waiting for them.
After defeating the creatures, Astaroth presented himself and blocked the
entrance to the castle. As Kilik and Xianghua ran past Astaroth, Maxi stayed
behind to fight him to the death. He succeeded in killing Astaroth, but the god
of war Ares, in bitter rage, commanded the ground to open up and swallow Maxi.
When Maxi woke up, he was on a riverbed near an unfamiliar village, where an
old man rescued him. Due to the severity of his wounds, Maxi's traveling days
were over.

### Soul Calibur 2

Four peaceful years passed, until a rumor of a horrendous
creature wielding a large bearded axe reached the village. Maxi had a horrible
feeling that the creature was Astaroth. He wanted to chase after him, but his
body was too weak. Maxi went to see the village medicine man, who performed a
secret ritual using a strange metal fragment, which was actually a fragment of
Soul Edge, and several days later, Maxi left the village, promising to return
some day. He did not realize, however, that all memory of his traveling
companions had been lost as a result of the ritual...

### Soul Calibur 3

Maxi's search for Astaroth led him to the ruins of the
shrine where the golem had been created. While inspecting the ruins, he found a
man in tattered clothing there, clutching something and muttering incoherently.
This man was Kunpaetku—Astaroth's creator, who had managed to escape the
shrine's destruction at the last minute. Kunpaetku mostly ignored Maxi until he
asked him about Astaroth. Kunpaetku cursed Astaroth, calling him a failure. It
was then that Maxi realized that Kunpaetku created him.

A strange urge to kill Kunpaetku began rising within Maxi.
As he drew his weapon, the object in Kunpaetk's hand, a fragment of Soul Edge,
began to glow with a faint red light. Kunpaetku then looked at Maxi madly,
noticing that he had Soul Edge inside his body. Upon hearing this, Maxi killed
Kunpaetku and kicked the fragment of Soul Edge into the ruins below. He felt an
uneasy throbbing in his heart, born from his desire to kill Kunpaetku. Maxi
then suddenly remembered a man who became lost to evil after having lost
everything, and how he suffered after returning to his senses. But Maxi
couldn't remember who this person was, no matter how hard he tried. Despite this,
he decided to continue his search for Astaroth.

### Soul Calibur 4

Maxi had come to a trading port in India to pay his respects
to his friends who had been murdered by grotesque creatures, and renew his vow
to avenge them. There he reunited with Kilik and Xianghua, and long-forgotten memories
came flooding back. But while Maxi's body was a host to a fragment of the
cursed sword and Kilik held a piece of the Dvapara-Yuga, they could not journey
together. Thus, Maxi had to make a painful decision to turn his back to his
friends and their entreaties, and leave them behind.

Maxi went to the woods to take shelter from a squall, and as
he brooded there in the darkness, he was visited by a disciple of the cursed
sword. A girl who had fallen into darkness. "I know about him, you
know." she whispered eerly. "That mud muppet you're chasing."
The enemy against whom he had sworn revenge was growing stronger, she
continued. Maxi's current strength was no match for that monster; there was
only one way, Soul Edge. Only with the power of the cursed sword could he win.

Maxi continued to stare her down in silent malice, but she
had him now. In parting, she told him of Osthreinsburg, the cursed land. That
was where he could find bouth Soul Edge and his revenge. The rain had stopped,
but the menacing dark clouds lingered in the sky, blocking the rays of sun.
"It's so dark." Maxi noticed now that the path leading deep the
forest was covered by folded curtains of shadows. It was darker than anything
he had ever seen, but he would brave the darkness. Each step Maxi took was
heavy and slow, and his legs seemed to creak with pain, but he did not stop.

### Soul Calibur 5

Maxi drew power from the fragment of the cursed sword Soul
Edge still lodged in his body, but it came with a price. Even after defeating
Astaroth and avenging his crewmates, he remained consumed with an insatiable
lust for revenge.

Not wanting to drag his friends down with him, Maxi left Kilik
and Xianghua to walk a dark and lonely path. Living in the shadows, his
humanity gradually slipped away—until he found salvation at the hands of Edge
Master, Kilik's former teacher. The old man taught Maxi how to live with the
shard of the cursed sword he carried within him, and in time, Maxi managed to
suppress its foul influence.

Over the course of the next eight years, Maxi's jovial
temperament returned. He even started to joke about the unusually slow rate at
which his body was aging, and how easy it was to pass as a young man.

Perhaps sensing the time had come, Edge Master bade Maxi to
listen well. Kilik's life was in danger, he said, and there was only one way to
save him: Kilik must bequeath his weapon, the Kali-Yuga, to a boy named Xiba.
But alas, Xiba was still so young and innocent...

Realizing what his teacher was asking, Maxi volunteered to
mentor Xiba, and led his young disciple west, on a quest to save a dear
friend...

## Ending

### Soul Calibur

The price of defeating evil was high.

Maxi: Heh... what took you so long?

Kilik: No! This can't be!

Maxi: This is... the end of the line for me... and... Ki... lik...

Kilik: Maxi!!

Kilik was without words, and Xianghua looked on quietly. The winds blew and
the clouds moved on as if they were oblivious to their mortal plight.

"It's been fun..." The clouds seemed to whisper his voice.

### Soul Calibur 2

After sacrificing everything in the name of revenge, Maxi
paid his respect to his slain comrades at last. He then confronted the dark
dues within his soul, and felt the presence of his long-forgotten companions.
Regaining his lost memories, he saw who he had turned his back on. He would
return to his friends to share with them a joyous future.

### Soul Calibur 3

A confused Maxi questions what the
power inside his body is. As he grabs Soul Edge, the sword clings itself to
Maxi's hand. Kilik appears from behind Maxi, who is unable to take his hand off
of the sword. "Kilik, is that you?" Maxi manages to say through the
intense pain being caused by the sword. Kilik tells Maxi to let it go so that
he may destroy it, but the sword shocks Maxi and brings him to his knees.
"Take us both out!" Maxi yells. Kilik obeys Maxi's orders. He takes
his staff and stabs right through both Maxi and Soul Edge. The screen fades and
then shows Kilik at the Indian Port.

#### No Input

Kilik looks out into the horizon for a moment, then sadly
throws Maxi's nunchaku into the sea.

#### Input

As Kilik looks out into the sea, Maxi appears from behind
him. "Let's go" Maxi says. As they walk away, Kilik playfully grabs
Maxi. "Aww man... you messed up my hair." Maxi complains, as he
pushes Kilik off of him.

### Soul Calibur 4

Maxi has obtained Soul Edge and can
now finally destroy Astaroth. As Maxi steps forward to grab Soul Edge, an
injured Kilik flies by Maxi and lands on the ground with a loud thud. Maxi,
confused and in shock, turns around slowly to see Astaroth walking towards him
with Xianghua under his right arm. "Give me Soul Edge!" Astaroth commands
as he tosses Xianghua aside. "Man, you guys always need my help."
Maxi says to his two injured friends, " I mean really, who's going to stop
me after I defeat that monster with this evil sword?" Maxi picks up Soul
Edge and feels the power enter his body. "Let's go, you freak!" Maxi
yells as he charges towards Astaroth.

The words are described at the end
of the sequence: "He could never be strapped down like the clouds guided
by the winds and left like the clouds scattered by the winds."

## Critical Finish

**Rising Dragon of the Zodiac**: In Maxi's Critical Finish, Maxi throws a
few nunchaku blows to the opponent who is stunned and then thrown airborne by a
palm strike. Maxi then leaps in the air and cries out "Rising Dragon of
the Zodiac!" and delivers a fatal kick to the opponent's neck or ribs,
ending the fight.

## Critical Edge

**Rampaging Dragon**: Maxi punches his opponent twice, and finally blasts
them with an elbow finisher.