Maxwell Fitzgarry

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Horrible Creature (by Anton)

Finley Faux (Fostered)

Liam Centauriths

Bethany Dryadiths

Lily Wyverniths

Anja Gorgoniths

Maxwell Fitzgarry, better known as The Creator, is a draconic puppeteer who developed a hugely feared reputation due to his contribution in the Vervanging War, which resulted in him becoming the most infamous puppeteer in the Fantoccinism world. He is greatly hated among the religion internationally, and lives under the supervision of Dmitri van Wyk.

He plays a role as one of the titular main characters in the sub-verse The Blind Lead the Blind.

## Appearance

Maxwell is a tall, lithe man standing at approximately 8 feet and weighing 113 kgs (additional weight being provided due to his broad wings). His haggard complexion is composed with serrated brown scales, bleeding eyes, and dirty-olive skin.

He wears a dark brown blazer with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and a red-cream waistcoat underneath. Three horizontal stripes decorate the aftarms of the suit and shafts of his knee-length boots.

His boots are the same colour as his blazer, with fur lining the collars. The tongue of the gusset is a crimson to dark maroon gradient with double-crossing lacework. His pants match the colouring of the blazer's lapel, sleeves, and stripes.

Around his neck is an amulet on a plush collar. A silvery gem with reddish triangular and trapezoid symbols adorning the smooth crystal. The gem attaches from two chains to the collar around a plush, red pillow.

Maxwell is not hygienic, sporting sharpenable yellow teeth, and dirty, torn bandages on his throat, arms, and chest which are used to cover up his hemorrhaging scales that follow in tandem under a majority of the bandages. However, some diamond-shaped and ovular scales can be seen framing his cheeks, throat, and wrists, along with rimming the tops of his ears.

His hair is tied into a long, bushy ponytail while his fringe parts into three different styles; a shaggy fringe across his brows, two thick locks trailing his shoulders, and bangs that flare on the outersides of his horns and behind his ears.

Upon his head are two crenelated horns which arch forward to align with his forehead, and from the back of the base of these horns juts out an additional spike which curves upwards. His horns are unidentifiable in comparison to any recognized species, but have a similar appearance to that of a ram's if crooked and inversely grown.

He possesses two massive bat-like wings that branch out into four slender spines, in which red to cream shredded membranes connect between. Curved, prehensile claws extend from apex to function as additional hands and contribute to his locomotion. His wings appear to be the same length as his height, with a wingspan width possibly double his length. Maxwell doesn't appear to use his ability of flight often unless he is in dragon form.

Maxwell's eyes, like many Poppenspeler's who have had their eyes removed during the initiation process, are black. White slitted pupils rimmed with thin rings substitute as his pupils and mimic the outline of his irises. This eye pattern is also noticeable on his other relatives: Bonafacious, Annabelle, and Henry.

## Personality

Maxwell is a reserved individual that typically appears to be withdrawn and cold, spending his time within his lair. Despite being solitary most of his time, he shares his underground labyrinth with Mordecai, Horatio, and Quentin, and travels to do business with puppeteers such as Jackson, Benedict, Claud, Martin and Sebastianos, among others. On occasion, Dmitri visits Maxwell's lair on the obligation of the suffrage they had signed to inspect Maxwell's behaviour.

He is heavily business-oriented, and dedicated to his work that involves crafting and designing Fantoccini parts, blueprints, and concepts which he proceeds to trade with to receive elixirs from the experienced alchemists, as his own skill with potion-making is unstable and poor.

His common temperament is serious and merciless in regards to how little he acknowledges the emotions of others, and how weak his attempts are when he does take note of them and tries to help. His own emotions, as well, are dull and inexpressive due to his tendency to repress any sense of feelings and focus on the "more important matters", such as his work. When Maxwell's emotions feel too extreme for him, he tends to retract from social interactions entirely until he can recover.

Maxwell's negativity stems from intense hatred, both for external causes and internal reasons. He appears to be bitter and dismissive towards things he doesn't agree with, and is filled with insufferable regret from his contribution towards the Vervanging War. From this war, Maxwell has established a mutual agreement with himself that he doesn't deserve luxuries, and may only focus on instincts and work. He had to teach himself to be on constant high alert, due to the fact that many puppeteers would eagerly bring about harm to him for his past doings.

He perceives life from a perception that he believes would be the most logical and devoid of personal opinion, which can make him stubborn towards subjective ideas that challenge his own. His perception of reality describes the world to be a pessimistic hierarchy in which empathy is an illusion and personal feelings hinder productivity. Maxwell has a tendency to indoctrinate others with believing that his word should always be the final one, and this makes him appear as controlling and manipulative, but also expresses his enthusiasm for taking charge.

Maxwell proves to be an expert at handling his Fantoccinis, and has developed them into his loyal henchmen while also providing them with their own free reign. There is an intense bond of trust and genuine care that is expressed from both Maxwell and his creations, where in which he respects his Fantoccinis as being more than just puppets, but views them as their own individuals. This level of passion is surprisingly unexpected, as it heavily contrasts how distant and apathetic he generally is.

He is very fixed and traditional in his ways, both towards his religions of Catholicism, and towards Fantoccinism. However, Maxwell expresses traits of homophobia and bigotry, but not as intensely as Henry does. While Maxwell can tolerate gay marriage and romance, he despises the idea of sexual intercourse in same-sex couples.

He is misogynistic, believing that women have a particular role within the household as being a housewife, and those who are defiant or coquettish are disgraceful. Additionally, he has a tendency to devalue women to being nothing but sexual objects to use that may satisfy his Xisen nature.

While Maxwell disregards emotions, he does have a fixation for tending to his instincts alongside his work. As a survivalist, he primarily focuses on fulfilling his needs as opposed to satisfying his wants - he chooses not to be greedy and only takes what he requires to live, such as hunting once a month, and having an annual three-month hibernation during the winter.

This involves satisfying his libido through sexual intercourse with women, however he does not always await for consent, since he focuses more on fulfilling his needs over caring for the other's well-being, not to mention that he promptly devours his partner, sometimes while they are still alive, when he has finished having sex - Maxwell believes it is the easiest option to perform both coition and feeding simultaneously.

Maxwell can be described as a creature of habit, since he is extremely dedicated to his routine, and any sort of disturbance or change can easily cause him discomfort and make him behave irrationally until he learns to either adapt to it or solve it.

While Maxwell has difficulty with understanding empathy, he still attempts to make room to look after his family and loved ones. He appears to be neglectful and emotionally absent, though can provide advice and offers closeness through subtle gestures of affection. However, it is rare for him to approach someone else to give them comfort first, as he considers that he may be causing more disruption.

## History

### (1618 – 1677) Early Life

Maxwell was born in 1618 to a surgeon and his housewife in Culemborg, Netherlands. He is the younger brother of Henry, being one year his junior. Due to the rivalry summoned between his mother and the Afremov family, Maxwell was introduced into the first fraction of his life with the identity "Jan van Riebeeck" in 1619. By 1626, Annabelle initiated her sons with Xisenoxis blood and officially assimilated them with Fantoccinism. Unfortunately, even with his name under wraps from the feud and with the upcoming pregnancy of his next sibling, his mother abandoned the family in 1627.

Within this time, Maxwell and Henry grew progressively closer with their father, Bonafacious, with Maxwell taking a particular interest towards his surgical practices even from an early age. He grew an intrigue towards anatomy, and started expressing a talent for sketching and showing a strong understanding towards the human form - one which was praised and encouraged by his father. The Fitzgarry brothers were raised under the bare minimum knowledge that Bonafacious could provide with his amateur definitions of their religion, what they were to become and their given agenda to expand Fantoccinism culture, whilst simultaneously teaching them how to live their lives under both their biological and feigned identities.

While their father could not teach them as much as their mother could have, he was still able to show them how to craft potions that could disguise their appearances, which definitely began to benefit the brothers when they started developing distinctive, draconic features that were going to make it increasingly difficult to camouflage within humanity. Bonafacious also achieved in introducing his sons to Dorothy van Velden, his wife's adopted half-sister, who would be able to offer them with assistance should they need it.

In 1638, Bonafacious was burnt alive and strangled to death by lawmakers under the suspicions that arose that he was wielding necromantic, dark magic after bringing a corpse to life during an autopsy. His death alarmed and devastated the Fitzgarry brothers, who made the decision that disguising themselves more adamantly with their human identities would protect them from similar fates.

Maxwell grew up to be a renowned colonial administrator, and married a woman named Maria in 1649. With her, he bore six children (a pair of triplets and three separate children), all of which he was able to personally assist her with childbirth, and all of whom - he secretly abducted and gave to Dorothy to nurture into the culture of Fantoccinism while convincing his wife that they were stillborn.

In 1652, him and his wife traveled on a voyage to South Africa, where Maria revealed that she was one more pregnant, and would have to birth a child at sea, yet they would pass away from the decrepit conditions.

At land, one final child which he was forced to keep named Abraham in 1653. He came to fake his own death in Jakarta when he had met the life expectancy that humans from that time frame were meant to achieve in 1677. He was honoured for contributing to the expansion of the Dutch Golden Age after his feat of founding Cape Town, South Africa, and was proudly acknowledged for his historical impact. In 1678, Maxwell discreetly boarded another ship that was voyaging back to the Netherlands before he settled in Amsterdam.

With the end of his feigned identity, he endured the first, violent revolution of his society: the Suicide Revolution. Not willing to take the risk of looking for Dorothy, Maxwell quickly went into hiding by traveling inland towards Twente. He reckoned he had to figure out a way to defend himself.

### (1710 – 1775) Becoming a Killer

In 1710, Maxwell assumed a new identity under the name "Klaas Annink", where he accepted a new lifestyle as a criminal - fabricating himself with a new past as a resident to Twente and beginning with his own reign of terror. He started off as a robber, and eventually befell the route of a serial killer. Once more, he had married and raised a son in this new life, with his new family contributing towards the avenue of crime with him. From his killings, Maxwell regained his fascination in the human body, yet also found himself craving to devour the flesh. Being so exposed to a murderous lifestyle resulted in him tapping into his Xisenoxis side, ultimately enabling his cannibalistic instincts and honing sadistic habits.

Maxwell especially started gaining a taste for hunting human women, recognizing them as weaker, soft-fleshed, and able to pleasure other draconic desires he was starting to unravel. From practicing this brutality for what would come to be the next five decades, he cemented himself into Casanova antics and became well-practiced in the art of murder.

Eventually Maxwell framed another man with his identity and left his family to be executed when he believed it was time to move on. From this incident, other Puppeteers that started to hear about Maxwell's progression through the Fitzgarry lineage claimed that he was wasteful in his killings due to not having reaped the souls of his victims, and was ridiculed in the community as a "runt". The impact which Maxwell had made on humanity, however, had given him the infamous title of "Huttenkloas" and left him as a controversial Dutch serial killer who's name would be remembered for generations.

### The Mörder

With more wars barreling both from the human world and his own, he went back into hiding upon the arrival of the second war in Poppenspeler society - or was rather, he was taken in by a fellow puppeteer known as The Mörder to hide in a complex, underground labyrinth known as Mannekinnom.

The puppeteers under the Mörder's care were safe, until he was slaughtered amidst one of his rescue missions. This forced majority of the puppeteers to disperse from the labyrinth, save for a handful who remained - including Maxwell.

Within the time frame between here and the third war, Maxwell found himself back in touch with Henry who had returned from America. With some exchanges and discussions, they helped one another in crafting Fantoccinis - seeing as Maxwell knew how to build them, and Henry had an ample supply of souls to provide. After having reunited for a while, Henry had to depart back to his responsibilities in America, and Maxwell to his own devices, both pleased with the creation of their henchmen to make things easier for themselves.

### The Vervanging War

Somewhere down the line - specifically by the dawn of the third war, Maxwell, among others, had grown bitterly possessive of Mannekinnom. A few internal conflicts later, Maxwell eventually found himself with the upper hand to dominate the other puppeteers and chase most of the remainder out due to how attentively he had honed his skills with soul manipulation alongside his Fantoccinis aiding him;

from the few puppeteers he caught, he reaped their souls and discovered how much they enhanced his powers. This heightened his self-confidence after being nicknamed as a runt for so long, and he gained an insurgence for revenge towards the belittlement he had faced after his failed identity as Klaas Annink.

The Vervanging War was a violent war that began in 1985 and ended in 2003 - it quickly became known as one of the darkest wars in Fantoccinism history due to the immense loss of life. The war was so devastating, that it almost caused the entirety of the Fantoccinism community to self-destruct; the economy has been overthrown with corruption and important resources and skills have almost been snuffed. The population of remaining puppeteers is now almost as low as it was in the mid-centuries of their existence with a few thousands left. In this war, Maxwell had arose to be one of the most dangerous warlords with a very malicious reputation, using strategies such as illegally reaping the souls of other puppeteers and harnessing them to amplify his powers. He farmed his opposition to take the benefits - reaching such power that it was speculated he would be a threat to Dmitri. Yet, Maxwell didn't ever seem to cause onslaught towards Parliament authorities, and often evacuated when Parliament Guards entered any conflicts. This strategy both kept Maxwell evasive of capture, and was mentioned on his trial in proposition to restorative justice because in some morbid way, he was still half-abiding to the rules this war had implemented; as a cleanse of the society to prevent Fantoccinism from being recognized by humanity too easily.

Nonetheless, Maxwell has since been in doubt about the Parliament's decision to spare him from an execution when he was eventually caught - not having been given solid reasons as to why Dmitri had made this choice.

### Aftermath

Primarily, he wonders if there is more punishment in keeping him alive rather than letting him die, or that him living is an example of how not to behave - further yet, Maxwell speculates that this may also be an attempt to be making living proof out of him for the community to learn that anyone can amend themselves from their sadism.

Maxwell, among a few other puppeteers, were mentored properly in how to practice their own culture and he found himself becoming interested in soul manipulation, sketching and crafts over alchemy. But alas, Maxwell is now in an idle, stagnant life of feeling inadequacy and regret; for whatever Dmitri's reason for sparing him may be.

### Returning to South Africa

He tried to escape his regrets in integrating among humanity one last time, marrying for a third time to Jade Du Plessis, and having a daughter named Mary who is still alive within this present day, though this promptly came to shambles when Jade, unlike his previous wives, discovered that he wasn't actually human. In turn, he forced himself to kill her and now raises Mary among his Fantoccinis.

### Present

His final family comes to be with Jackie Brackenridge and her daughter which he accepts as her own, as well.

* Family
* Trivia

Bonafacious Fitzgarry (Father - Deceased)

Annabelle Fitzgarry (Mother)

Henry Fitzgarry (Brother)

Maria van Riebeeck (Ex-Wife - Deceased)

Abraham van Riebeeck (Son - Deceased)

Johan Fitzgarry (Son - Deceased)

Alexandria Fitzgarry (Daughter - Deceased)

Ainsworth Fitzgarry (Son)

Thaxter Fitzgarry (Son)

Benjamin Fitzgarry (Son)

Bonafacious Fitzgarry (Son)

Aarne Spanjers/Annink (Ex-Wife - Deceased)

Jannes Spanjers/Annink (Son - Deceased)

Mary Du Plessis (Daughter)

Rocky Smith (Foster Daughter)

## Trivia

* Maxwell was created after Sylvester and Erin in mid 2016.
	+ Initially, he was going to be a persona; His design was intentionally made to resemble the creator of the Fantoccinism lore, hence his name being The Creator. The logical reasoning at the time being, "If I have made Erin and Sylvester, then I will make them again."
		- Maxwell has since developed to be extremely different since then, to the point he can not be labeled as an extension of myself.
* He was never given a name aside from The Creator until the end of 2016.
* Maxwell, Henry, Bonafacious, and Annabelle all have similar amulets: A plush collar with metal chains around a cushion from which the gem is suspended by chains.
* While Maxwell expresses symptoms of PTSD and Depression, but it is unknown if he is has these mental health issues or not.
	+ If he was properly diagnosed, he would be doubtful of having these mental disorders and behave with denial towards them.