Max (Rome)

**Max** was the Villain of the Season and 2nd Runner-Up of Mythvivor: Rome - Fans vs. Favorites. For record keeping purposes, he may be referred to as "Max (Rome)" or "Max (S7)" to differentiate him from Max from Mythvivor: Mount Song.

He has also been a host since Mythvivor: Tuvalu.

## Rome

Max started Mythvivor: Rome - Fans vs. Favorites on the Remus tribe, also known as the "Fans" tribe. With his social game, he developed a strong grip over the tribe. At the start, he bonded closely with Prophet and Dumb. They created an alliance with La Pinner. They then added Add as a fifth to get the majority of people on the tribe, and called themselves "Plamb." Max became more and more suspicious of Prophet due to Prophet's openness of the game. After the tribe voted out AnnaJoy, Max also began to trust Adelaide. Max felt that with so many people wanting Adelaide out of the game, Adelaide was much more reliant on him.

When the tribes swapped, Max ended up on the Remus 2 tribe, which had a 7-1 majority of former Fans to former Favorites. Max, along with Add and Dumb, still did not trust their alliance member, Prophet. However, they felt it was necessary to stay loyal to Prophet to maintain their alliance with La Pinner. Max's ally, Adelaide, had become a target due to his challenge performance. Others on the tribe looked to vote out the newcomer to the tribe, Shep. Max was able to turn these targets around and make the vote Red instead, as he saw Red as someone who was close with the two people he trusted the least on the tribe: Prophet and Shep.

At the following tribal council, Max, Add, and Dumb considered flipping the vote against Prophet over the two options: Shep and Adelaide. While they eventually decided to vote out Shep instead. They did use this time to turn La Pinner against Prophet, who they voted out after Shep. These two votes gave Max an even better position on the tribe: voting out people he did not trust while protecting his ally, Adelaide. Unfortunately when Remus 2 lost their fourth immunity challenge in a row, Max had no choice but to vote out Adelaide. However, he still had a very strong position on the tribe.

When the Foro Romano twist occured, Max was the only former Fan to win individual immunity, solidifying him as a threat in the eyes of people like Space. Aidan had offered to flip on his former "Favorites" tribemates. They voted out Ross. Following that, Max was skeptical of Aidan and Space's position in the middle, as well as their relationship with TJ. He got wind of the Favorites plan to vote TJ out with Add and Dumb. While Max encouraged this plan, he decided to vote for Marcus so that he could maintain relationships with Aidan and the other Fans despite knowing that TJ was going home.

In "Happy Birthday Buddy," many in the game were wary of Add for his most recent play and wanted either Add to go home or for him to play his immunity idol and idol out Aidan. However, Add and Max took this situation into their own hands. Add played his idol while Add and Max voted against Anna who went home with only 2 votes against her.

Following this idol play, many wanted another Fan to go. Max had become much closer with La Pinner. Max targeted Dumb with La Pinner, Joe, and Marcus. Meanwhile, Koopa, Space, Add, and Dumb targeted Max. Aidan decided to buy himself more time to decide by throwing his vote, causing a revote between Max and Dumb. Max was not afraid to expose his tribemates. This helped ensure Aidan voted out Dumb, as it made Max look like more of a shield for Aidan's own chaotic gameplay. These actions kept Max safe during this wild revote.

Max then had no problem voting out Add following Dumb. In "Call Me Caesar," Max strongly suspected that Koopa had an immunity idol. He voted for Aidan with Koopa, both due to Aidan's leaking as well as due to Koopa's likely idol play.

In "Easily Preventable," Joe won individual immunity. Max was ready to vote out Marcus, who he saw as the next biggest threat. He appeared to have the numbers with his partner-in-crime, La Pinner, as well as Space and Koopa. However, Joe and Marcus had gotten Koopa on board to flip against one of the Fans. Koopa and Marcus then convinced Space to help 3-2-1 Max out of the game. Space voted for Max while Koopa, Joe, and Marcus voted out Space. This left Max flabbergasted, as he was shocked that Space still saw him as that much of a threat. He also felt that he saw the person he could best beat at the end as well as the person who had the best odds of beating the perceived biggest threat, Joe, at a challenge leave the game. Still, Max was determined to make the best out of his situation.

When Joe won the Puzzle Tour challenge, Max decided to vote out Marcus. While he did consider Koopa's threat level, Marcus seemed to have surrendered and he felt that Marcus had played a stronger game. After Marcus was voted out, Joe lost the Final Immunity Challenge and he voted out Joe with Koopa and La Pinner.

At the reunion, Max won the Villain of the Season for his grip on his tribe pre-merge that was so strong, that on Rremus 2 they kept a weaker challenge performer who was more loyal to Max, despite their continuous return to tribal council episode after episode. He also won it for his ability to turn people against each other and for his chaotic gameplay, especially at the final 9 tribal council. Max's iconic video confessionals also won him the Best Confessionals Award. Max's entertaining gameplay and confessionals led to him winning the Host Favorite Award from Evan. Max also won the Best Duo Award with his ride-or-die, La Pinner, who he had made it all the way to Final Tribal Council with. While Final Tribal Council may not have gone the way Max may have wanted, he still had an undeniable impact on the season's narrative and truly held up his own against Mythvivor's returning Favorites.

### Voting History

1A 4-4 tie occured between Dumb and Max. Max was ineligible to vote on the revote.