Touji Shidou

**Max Trueblood** is the missing older brother of Maryse Lightwood and the former heir of the Trueblood family of shadowhunters, who is known for leaving the Clave to marry a mundane girl.

Later on, it was revealed the mundane woman he married was the exorcist Tsubaki Shidou and he later took on the identity of **Touji Shidou** (紫藤 トウしどう トウジ, *Shidō Tōji*), an archbishop-ranked exorcist of the Church of England and a high-ranked member of the Protestant Church.

## Appearance

Max is a tall, burly man with black hair slicked back with two strands loose on the front and a neatly trimmed beard. He has piercing golden eyes, which he wears a black-rimmed spectacles with gold handles to further complement them.

His regular attire could only be described as dandy, with a black shirt, gray vest, and a matching black suit with gray stripes, as well as black-and-blue leather dress shoes. He also wears a white-and-blue tie with a tie bar, and on the left side of his suit, he wears a fleur-de-lis brooch and a blue handkerchief tucked in the pocket. To complete his dandy attire, he also accessorized himself with a gold diamond-encrusted watch, several rings, and a light-gray fedora hat.

Similar to other exorcists of the Christian Faction, his battle uniform consists of a black, skin-tight, short sleeve leotard with pauldrons, matching fingerless gloves that extend to his biceps, and thigh-high boots, all of which are adorned with straps. This attire is worn under a blue hooded cloak with gold accents and cross-shaped designs.

When he first appeared, he wore standard priest's clothing with a golden cross dangling from his neck on a silver chain. Before leaving the shadowhunter world to marry Tsubaki, his body was covered in black angelic runes, which were stripped away when he made his decision.

## Personality

Max is a gentle, calm, and kind-hearted gentleman who cares a lot about his companions. Because of his kindness, many exorcists within the Church of England grew close to him and began to see him as an older brother figure and developed their loyalty toward him.

He has a strange habit of having his mind enter a world of its own, mumbling his thoughts out loud whenever something catches his interest and creeping out people near him - a trait that Issei remarks has been passed down to his daughter.

Although he is an famous exorcist of the Protestant Church, he is known for his open-mindedness when it comes to innocent monsters and daemon, even putting a stop to unnecessary raids of monster territories and punishing those who abused their exorcist status and training to terrorize the supernatural community.

While he is a responsible man, it isn't until he had his first child that he became truly mature. Before that, he was an irrational person who tended to judge things based on his emotions more than logic and rationalized thinking, which had resulted in many of his great mistakes, the largest being incapable of taking care of his sister Maryse and having to abandon her by herself in Idris.

He is a natural flirt and, according to Maryse, all young shadowhunters back then all had a crush on him at some point, male and female alike. Irina also stated that many church-goers only came there to meet and admire him from afar, to the point where he received confessions from dozens of admirers on a near daily basis. It's also implied that, despite being a priest, he is quite lecherous and has shared many lovers with his wife when she was still alive.

## History

### Early Life

Max was born as the first and only son of Adam Trueblood and Marisa Trueblood née Castel on September 18, 1970. He was raised in Idris alongside his younger sister, Maryse. He was close to the Lightwoods, close friends of his family, and would often babysit for their son Robert alongside Maryse whenever their parents were out on missions.

When Max was 8 years old, his parents decided that it was time for him to learn how to "actually fight" and began to bring him with them to hunt "demons" on their missions, leaving Maryse back home with a close relative as they feared she'd be frightened if she went with them. They also increased his already stuffed schedules with additional training, leaving him little to no free time for himself.

On one occasion, he caught Maryse trying to train herself with a broadsword but failed and asked their parents to let him help her in her training, which they accepted as they believed it would help both of them: Maryse with her weapon skills and Max with his mentorship skill. However, unbeknown to them, while they did train with a large variety of weapons, they spent most of their time among the streets of Idris, having fun like regular children their age.

### Tsubaki Shidou

In 1983, when he was 13 years old, his parents were killed on a mission by a "demon never recorded before”, leaving him the head of the Trueblood family and the caretaker of his younger sister, which took a heavy toll on his mentality. He began to become more and more obsessed with avenging his parents' death by finding and killing the unknown creature to the point where he neglected Maryse entirely, leaving her in the care of a distant relative while he spent his time training and gathering all information he could get his hands upon.

During a secret investigation trip in the mundane world, he encountered a similar creature to the one who killed his parents fighting against who he originally thought as a mundane, due to their lack of angelic runes and heavenly weapons, and thought they were a wannabe hero and rushed into rescue them. However, the table was quickly turned and he was rescued from his death by Tsubaki Shidou, an exorcist of the Protestant Church.

Eventually, with her help, he was able to track down and kill the creature responsible for his parents' death, a stray devil who escaped from the Netherworld. During their time together, they became close and hid their friendship from others' views. After 3 years together, the two madly fell in love and Max decided to elope to be with her after the pressure of being the Trueblood family's patriarch became far too much for him to bear. According to him, he originally wanted to take Maryse away with them, away from the manipulations and politics of the Clave, but ultimately decided not to because he believed the life on the run wasn't suitable for her.

Because of his decisions to be with a "mundane" woman, the Clave decided to strip him of his angelic runes on his body and forbid him from ever making contact with his sister again. He was then taken in by the Shidou family and eventually joined the Protestant exorcists when he was 18 years old, before rising up the ranks and became one of the youngest people to achieve the rank of Archbishop by the age of 24. He married Tsubaki a year later and took the Japanese name "Touji Shidou".

### Kuoh City

When he was 26 years old, he and Tsubaki moved from their former church to Kuoh city in Japan to replace the old priest there who had recently died due to natural causes. A year later, they would have their first child, Irina Shidou, and decided to temporarily retire from their exorcist life to focus on raising their daughter, only taking on the duty of training young recruits or field missions if absolutely necessary.

Due to Cleria Belial's slow descent into madness due to *yin fen* poisoning, he was forced to kill both her and her lover and his apprentice, Masaomi Yaegaki, in order to protect the peace within the Three Factions. However, the guilt of having to kill a man who he considered a little brother was too much for him to bear, so that he and Tsubaki decided to move to England and returned to their exorcist duties, as well as to begin Irina's training to become a future exorcist of the Church of England.

### Recent Events

Around six years after the family moved to England, Tsubaki gave birth to their son Mamoru Shidou (or **Darren Trueblood**, as he wrote in his journal), but unfortunately passed away due to birth complications. Because of this, he became even more protective of his children than before as he is now their only parental figure to his teenage daughter and newly-born son.

After Irina became a reincarnated angel and went back to Kuoh city, he received a similar offer to become a Brave Saint but declined, wanting Mamoru to be at least 10 years old before he made any decision.

## Equipment

**Hauteclere** (オートクレール, *Ōtokurēru*): A legendary holy sword owned by one of Charlemagne's twelve paladins, Olivier de Vienne, who is the ancestor of the Trueblood family line of shadowhunters. It possesses the ability to generate an immense holy aura that purifies anything it touches and causes immense pain and damage onto any monster, daimon, or devil attacked by it, and is capable of even killing Middle-class devils with a single slash. It used to be in Max's possession before he passed it down to Irina as a gift for her 16th birthday.

## Trivia

* He is bisexual, with a preference in women.
* He wears his silver wedding ring on his left hand.
* His favorite food is pistachios, especially pistachios pudding.
* He is a skilled mixologist and tends to practice his mixing skills whenever he's stressed.
* His nephew, Max Lightwood, is named by his sister after him.
* He used to sing shadowhunter lullabies and nursery rhymes to Irina when she was a kid, but stopped after one of his fellow exorcists asked where he heard about these songs.
* Despite being a priest, he isn't particularly religious and considered himself a non-Christian.
* He is voted the "Sexiest Male Exorcist of the Protestant Church" 6 years in a row.
* He has been asked by the seraphim Raziel, Raguel, Zadkiel, and Phanuel to be a part of their respective deck.
* He has an Instagram account with nothing but family pictures and shirtless pictures he takes after every workout session with over 4-millions followers.