Maxwell Edwards

**Maxwell Edwards** is the late biological father of Lorie Bartholy. He was supposedly shown in a portrait in Drogo Bartholy's season 3 premiere trailer video and more information about him may be revealed in this route but turns out to be false as the portrait was revealed to be Isaac Bartholy, the son of Cleo Bartholomeus and Viktor Bartholy.

## Personality

Not much is known about him. But what is known is that he is Lorie's father, and apparently didn't like her (fans assumption) possibly because of her personality and problems. He was a busy businessman who didn't have time for his family. He was married to Annabelle Edwards, but it was probably a loveless or failing marriage as Annabelle was in love with Viktor Bartholy, or perhaps Maxwell was betrayed by his so called friend named Viktor or his wife cheated on him with Viktor, Maxwell also wasn't that close to both her and Lorie. Lorie seemed to be more fond of Viktor instead of her real biological father. Annabelle and Maxwell died in a fire at an asylum where they were with Lorie. Viktor was able to save Lorie but failed at saving Annabelle. Viktor decided to turn Lorie into a vampire and take her in as his own out of love for Annabelle and possible pity for Lorie.

Because Maxwell didn't like Lorie, it's may be possible that he was antagonistic or abusive towards Lorie and he was the one that put her in an asylum because of her problems.

## Season 1 (Viktor's Route)

In this series, Maxwell is mentioned in Viktor's journal and the records from Asylum where Lorie was kept. In chapter 3, it was revealed that he was Lorie's real father and was a business partner of Viktor's. This partnership proved to be a doom for Maxwell's life regarding about his business, marriage and even family life as Viktor ended up seducing and attracting his wife towards him and Lorie became fond of Viktor. If his marriage life was unloving then it's possible that his marriage with Anabelle was arranged by their respective parents, as during those times most Aristocrats married each other on their parents' preferences.

In Viktor's mini-series, it was revealed that he died in the fire at the Asylum caused by unknown factor (possibly could be Viktor or Maxwell himself) but it was never said by Viktor nor his journal that Maxwell hated him, he actually considered him as a friend. Assuming point to notice as Viktor was solely half responsible for taking away his wife and daughter from him, yet Maxwell never had any hatred for Viktor.

## Trivia

* It is possible that Maxwell might have caused the fire in Asylum to kill Viktor, his cheating wife and his sick kid for knowing of their forbidden relationship. This is a fan theory and nothing else. Another theory possible is that Viktor was the real cause of fire so he could have Anabelle to himself. Viktor was considered too had gone evil in Chad's mini-series after he turned into a vampire as stated by him to Cleo that he chose for himself to be vampire. Being powerful vampire was his goal and to have powers all to himself was his dream. So Viktor was evil before hitting psychosis. Viktor's inconsistent writing on his personality has made fans to come up with this theory.
* If he was abusive to Lorie then it is the same Lucifer-Judith situation that was addressed in Zac's mini-series where the father was abusive towards their daughter and the daughter eventually disliked them, rebelled against them and discredited them as their father. Lucifer however, was "cleaned" in his mini-series to be the real victim of Judith's foul plans and the writers removed the real motive of Judith in overthrowing her father from his throne.
* Maxwell is the only character that can be considered an ally to Viktor until his death.
* Maxwell can be considered as a sad and tragic character who got cheated in his friendship by Viktor who stole everything from him. The writer of Viktor in his mini-series has made Viktor such a confusing character that one can consider Viktor to be the real antagonist of Maxwell's life, or perhaps just a man who happen to irrecoverably fall in love with his wife and tend to keep away this truth from Maxwell and kept on pursuing his love with Anabelle.