Max Kingsley

## Extra Info

### Powers/Skills

heightened senses and super human strength (Note on strength Max's strength is around Bane's is when he is on Venom.)

### Habits

Max is an alcoholic and spends a lot of his free time drinking. Most days, he keeps himself busy with his work at the shelters to avoid free time. To further limit his free time, he tries to be active in his nightly activities. If he's busy, it's easy to think about something else.

### Weaknesses

blind (due to his enhanced sense of touch, he can "see" with his exposed skin. He prefers not to wear a shirt or shoes whenever possible for this reason), he can very gullible at times and tends to trust too easily, hyper sensitive to electricity. As for fears, he's terrified of his own failures. His criminal history weighs heavily on him. He over compensates in his actions and even in the way he speaks in an effort to make up for what he's done. At his core, he sees himself as an overwhelming failure of a person and he often turns to the bottle to make himself feel better temporarily.

### Strengths

decent with people, Max often will try to reason with the person/people he's up against in the hopes they can come to their senses. When that fails: Hand to hand combat, flexibility, and agility.

### Likes

Max enjoys working in the homeless shelters and soup kitchens (even if he uses his work as a distractions from his personal demons). Being about to help those who are in those desperate situations makes him feel as though he's making up for the mistakes he's made in the past. He "watches" tv quite often when he's drinking. He has a love hate relationship with silence.

### Dislikes

Silence is good to avoid being overwhelmed by sounds but at the same time, he doesn't like being left in total silence. He also strongly dislikes talking about himself. He'd much rather talk about other people and learn about them than share too much.

## Bio

Max isn't a particularly interesting person. He went to his local high school in Beaverton, Oregon, kept his head ducked down while walking in the halls and had friends just like everyone else. Did everything you're supposed to do in school to make sure you get out of that hell alive. Granted, OUTSIDE of school he was off smoking his pot and guzzling whiskey but shit, his family never knew about it. He was a sneaky, scrawny blind kid who would wander off with his friends to go have fun after school or on the weekends. It's his friends who got to see him moving parked cars out of THEIR alley when they'd go for a smoke...and the time that will forever leave him nicknamed pretzel lad.

After high school, he would bounce from job to job, not really putting much of an effort into anything. A desk job had no appeal to it. What was the point when he knew what he could do? He became a wanderer, going from one end of the US to the other as he explores and tries to figure shit out. Yeah, he'd sometimes pull a ski mask on (eventually creating a costume of his own) and stop a mugging here or there, but he's not a hero. He's no Batman. He's just Max. And Max, he's made some mistakes along the way that has lead to more time in prison for his actions. He's painfully aware that he's just some guy from Oregon that hasn't been able to get his shit straight for eleven years. Yeah, no one would want to depend on him for a damn thing. He can't even depend on himself to step away from the bottle for a few days. But, it's time to change himself for the better.

His latest trek has led him to Gotham City. It's...it's about as shitty as he's heard but he hasn't been here before. So here he shall stay until it's time for him to wander off again. When he isn't helping those in need at the shelters, he's in costume patrolling the nights to make a difference in another way. Who knows, maybe he'll do something a little more meaningful.

## Costumed Equipment

Going by Mopsus, Max often relies on his brute strength and enhanced senses to operate as a hero. However, the few pieces of equipment he keeps in his utility belt are: a titanium extending pole, smoke balls, and crackle balls (used to assist with creating sound and allowing him to visualize the area). While in costume, he uses his mask/bandanna to keep his hair tied back and out of the way, keeping his face free of unnecessary distractions.

## Civilian Equipment

Max is a simple man. Unless he has to dress up for a special event, most of the time he is seen wearing a faded graphic tee with loose fitting jeans and black running shoes. In general, he wears the same things to ensure he isn't dressed like a hot mess. His reliance on store clerks makes it hard for him to branch out comfortably into wearing something different. Almost always rocking mid back length dreadlocks, he often keeps them loosely tied out of the way while he's working.