Max Trueblood

* Brave Saint
* Jack of Hearts ♥

**Maxwell "Max" Trueblood** is the missing older brother of Maryse Lightwood and the former heir of the Trueblood Family of highborn shadowhunters.

Later on, it is revealed that he left Idris was to be with Tsubaki Shidou who he loved and later married, eventually taking on the identity of **Touji Shidou** (紫藤 トウジしどう トウジ, *Shidō Tōji*), a pastor and former exorcist of the Protestant Church, as well as the Jack of Hearts of Jophiel's Deck.

## Appearance

Max is a tall, burly man with slicked back curly black hair 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.

Following his Angelization, his already alluring appearance was further enhanced to the point of divinely beautiful, as noted by Artemis to be "Adonis reborn". The angelic runes that were stripped from him reappeared on his body in glistering gold. In addition, he also received a cursive capital J in bright crimson on his right hand to symbolize his position as the Jack of Hearts.

Like other angels, he possesses four pairs of large and feathered wings, each with a wingspan of 3-meters in length, and resembles that of a raptor. Numerous and ever shifting angelic runes scattered across his wings, brightly glowing a crimson light that make them look like they are bleeding wounds.

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.

### True Appearance

Like other reincarnated angels, Max possesses a true appearance unlike the uniformed form most pure angels possess. While his true appearance is never shown, several people have described it to be a giant dragon-like beast with three heads, each head with hundreds of bleeding, and is formed of hundreds of "burning swords, fluttering wings, and glowing runes".

## Personality

Max is a gentle, calm, and kind-hearted gentleman who cares a lot about his family, friends, and companions. Because of his friendliness, many exorcists within the Protestant Church grew close to him and began to see him as a father/brother figure, though those who develop romantic feelings for him simply triple the amount of those who have platonic feelings for him.

He is a natural flirt who can easily make people fall for him in mere minutes, though for the most part, it is accidentally for him. Following his retirement from his exorcist career to better care for his children, he becomes a part-time swimsuit model which only makes the situation worse as people begin to thirst over him publicly and openly. However, he himself admits that he "doesn't mind", implying a lecherous side to him which horrified his children.

Despite being a high-ranked exorcist and a highborn shadowhunter, he is known for his own open-mindedness when it comes to innocent monsters and daemon, even putting a stop to the unneccessary raids of downworlders' territories and punishing those who abuse their powers, authority, and training to terrorize the supernatural world.

He has a strange habit of losing himself to daydreams at random moments through the day, even in the middle of missions, and mumbles his thoughts out loud whenever something catches his interest, which unintentionally creeps out people near him - A trait that Issei remarks to have passed down to Irina.

While he is - arguably - a responsible person, it isn't until he had Irina and became a parent that he truly matured. Before than, he was an irrational person who tended to judge things based on his emotions more than logic and rationalized thinking, and often ignored the consequences of his actions until it was far too late, which inevitably resulted in many great mistakes, the largest of which being abandoned his sister Maryse in Idris while he left to be with Tsubaki.

## History

### Early Years

Max was born as the first and only son of Adam and Marisa Trueblood, the heads of the prestigious Trueblood Family of highborn shadowhunters who could trace their lineage back to many European noble houses. He was raised in Idris alongside his younger sister, Maryse, and he was trained from a very early age to one day take over the family and further advance the family's name.

When he was 10 years old, he finished his official training and had his rune ceremony, though in reality, his mother had been training him since he was 6 years old in both combat and "courtly" subjects, something he later described to be "borderline abusive" later on as he would often be bed-ridden and covered in bruises for days because of his mother's training regime. Because of this, he tried his best to hide this from Maryse so that she could have a childhood as normal as possible.

When he was about 7 years old, his parents decided that it was time for him to learn how to experience the "real world" and his mother began to take him with her to kill monsters and daemon in secret while leaving Maryse back home with their maids per Max's requests. These missions would later prove to be dangerous to him, both physically and mentally, and would leave devastating consequences to his mental health for years to come.

Despite this, he still tried his best to be there for Maryse whenever he could. On one occasion, he caught her trying to train with a broadsword but failed due to its weight, and asked his parents to let him train her which they agreed as they believed it would be beneficial for both of them. However, unbeknown to them, while he did train Maryse in weaponry, they spent most of their time playing on the streets of Idris, having fun like regular children their age.

### Lord Trueblood

In 19XX, after his parents died on a mission, Max became the new head of the Trueblood family which put a great deal of mental stress onto him as a teenager. He became overworked and stressed and began to neglect everything else, including his younger sister who he had set an engagement to Robert Lightwood much to her protest - A decision that eventually created a great rift between their relationship.

In late 19XX, he found his father's journals and discovered the Khaos Brigade's plans to infiltrate the Clave and, while he didn't know *who* the Khaos Brigade was, he realized that his parents didn't die in an accident but were rather killed and he set on a personal mission to discover the truth behind their death and avenge them.

#### Tsubaki Shidou

In 19XX, during an investigating trip to Belgium, Max encountered a woman without runes fighting against a wild Drakyrn and, believing that she was a mundane, decided to save her and became her prince charming. However, in an embarrassing twist of events, he was outclassed by the daimon and was saved by the mundane girl who introduced herself as Tsubaki Shidou, an exorcist of the Protestant Church.

After a long screaming match and an all-out brawl, the two started an unlikely friendship and when he discovered Tsubaki's duty to slay the devil Alystair Satanachia, he realized he was the one responsible for his parents' death. Knowing that neither of them would be able to defeat their target alone, they decided to team up and infiltrate his base. After a grueling battle that was three-days and three-nights, Max was able to kill the devil with a seraph blade and they burned the secret base down alongside all the documents and artifacts inside.

As they departed, Max felt a feeling of longing inside of him whenever he thought about Tsubaki but didn't realize his feelings for her was more than just friendship and began to dream of a life as anything but shadowhunter. It was then when he realized that the shadowhunter life was not for him and wanted to leave Idris with Maryse and lived a semi-normal life, fearing and hating the responsibilities he now had to bear as the head of the Trueblood family.

#### Leaving Idris

Despite his discreteness, news of his plans to leave Idris soon reached the Clave who were adamant against his decision. They began to spread rumors across the city about how he had felt in love with a mundane woman and would depart alone while leaving his younger sister behind, though in reality, they had him captured and forcefully stripped him of his runes - A painful process that had him limped and weakened for years to come - while assigning Maryse to a family loyal to the Clave.

## 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. 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 instantly 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 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.
* 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 before joining Jophiel's.
	+ It's widely believed that Jophiel might have seduced him into joining her 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.