MAXWELL WHITLAM

[attr="class","ajbdsfl"]► MAXWELL WHITLAM

[attr="class","ajbdbst"]PERSONALITY

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Provide at least 3-5 sentences of your character's personality, showcasing both positive and negative aspects of it. To space between paragraphs be sure to use [*break] with the * taken out.

[attr="class","ajbdbst"]HISTORY

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Their motto.[break][break]
Family, duty , honor. [break][break]

His father drills it into him. [break][break]
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Family, duty, honor. [break][break]

Everything what a pureblooded wizarding family is about and Maxwell should know all of this. He was meant to do greatness, or so his father believed. Being a family disappointment is always easy. It begins with something small until it snowballs into something much worse. [break]
The eight year old boy, oldest of the siblings was to set an example for his younger sibling; how to disappoint your parents and Max did a magnificent job with that.

" Do you know what it means to be a Whitlam?" His father would ask the little eight year old boy. [break][break]

He did not know the answer nor he would quite ever understand what it meant to be a Whitlam [break][break]

His whole family had been pure, his whole family had been loyal supporters of magic and been working for the Magical Congress of the United States of America but in the way that they never would interfere. His father wanted Maxwell, who in turn was named after his grandfather, to take over the family business, to one day rule their family fortune. [break][break]

They also wanted him to get sorted into Horned Serpents but the strong willed boy ended up in Wampus. [break][break]

Family, duty, honor was no more. [break][break]

i. two ravens in the old oak tree, one for you and one for me

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He meets another boy with a strange name and it immediately dawns to Maxwell that perhaps he isn't the only one after all. They met during detention and they were both sorted into Wampus. House of the soul they tell him.[break]
Maxwell isn't sure if he's in the correct house because his father stopped talking to him. His mother sent a few lettered owl to him after she heard. It said: Do not disappoint us more. [break][break]

It's the middle of the night when they suddenly feel hunger creeping up on them. Everyone knows you can't sleep with an empty stomach. Or so Pegasus tells Maxwell and he can't argue with that logic. [break][break]

It isn't the first time they sneak in the kitchens after hours. Most likely it won't be the last time either. Growing boys needed all the energy they could get. [break]
" We should go." There's a hasty glance towards the door. " Now." [break]
" Don't be such a wuss." Tells the other boy, a bit taller than Maxwell, mouth full of cream puffs. " We're cute first years so they won't punish us." [break][break]

They did get punished when the professor found them in the kitchens that night. [break]
Maxwell decides he never listens to his new friend ever again. [break][break]

Expect the other boy becomes his best friend and they set the new record for detention hours ever spent. [break][break]

Thick as thieves, brothers and two so similar people often told them they were twins. [break]
Maxwell wishes he had a twin but the sad fact was that Max had siblings but they were never as close as Pegasus was. He had never felt such connection with anyone and certainly not with his own family. They were a completely different breed as he was. [break][break]

" You wanna come to our house for Christmas?" Asks Pegasus, his best friend for 4 years one day right before the holidays. [break]
" Why?" [break]
Peg shrugs. " Ma was just wondering." He trails off and Max knows there's something else on Pegs mind. [break]
" Spit it out." He demands. [break]
A silence falls between the two boys and Max punches Peg on the shoulder. [break]
" Ouch! Fine! " He rubs the spot with a glare. " I hate to see you so alone." [break]
Max shrugs this time. " It's just the way it's always been, Max." Pause. " I'll come only if you promise not be an arse." [break]

Max is invited back for next Christmas and he doesn't hesitate.[break][break]

He does hesitate when he is asked about his future a year before his last year at Ilvermorny. It's the exact opposite his parents wants him to do and it would mean them not speaking with him. It would mean his family turning their back to him. It would mean his younger sibling would pretend he was dead. It hurt but this was what Max wants to do with his life. [break] His track record has some bleak predictions but his grades tell another story. Max had always been a fighter and he's told that he should harness that fire within him to something more, more productive. Max is told that his the MACUSA would need his talents as an auror but he tells them that he wants to dive in the action. So, he chooses to aim for hit wizard. It's closer to danger. [break][break]


Peg announces that he doesn't want to let Max have all the fun and they decide to apply together. Because in the end, they're a team. They're brothers.[break][break]

They graduate on time and take a year off before starting their careers to go travel around the world. [break][break]

Because it's the right thing to do and his parents cannot force him into the mould his family has so long been stuck. [break][break]

ii. bluebells in the late december, i see signs now all the time

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" Oh no." [break][break]

" Oh yes. " [break][break]

The grin on his best friends face was a clear sign that there was no changing his mind. Max watches when the crazy gleam on Peg's blue eyes [ those goddamn baby blue eyes that even rivaled Max's ] and Max tries desperately tell him that this is a bad idea. Expect that when Peg's mind is made, it's made. One of the traits of his best friends that Maxwell doesn't quite appreciate but then again, he's exactly the same so what is he whining about this? [break][break]

Max was the one who and i quote wanted to do more exciting stuff than just sit in their dingy hotel room and go through all the things they could be doing on this trip. Because seeing the world just with his best friend, with his brother from another mother was the exactly the thing he wanted to do. Even if it got them into potential hazardous situations but that was just part of the fun wasn't it? [break][break]

Expect that going out and about to look for dragons was probably a bad idea. [break][break]

Not that the two idiots would ever back down from an adventure or the possibility of finding something they've only read from a book. It's not the same when you read it from a book in comparison to actually findings dragons and prove that their shit is the size of a sofa. [break][break]

When they end up getting lost in the rainforest in Bali, they decide that maybe the dragons live somewhere else because the angry, huge animal that looks like a hairy pig didn't appreciate them rummaging through his cave. [break][break]

" I hate this!" Peg bellows to his brother but can't stop grinning when they run through the thick forest. [break][break]

" I know you do!" [break][break]

And they run for their lives.
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iii. It was so like you to visit me, always worrying about someone else

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" You ready?" Peg asks as they hunch behind the boulder. There's an edge that Max recognizes from before; daring, ready to dive into the action. [break]
Flashes of red and yellow whizzing on top of their heads, fireflies that could ruin it all. [break]
" This reminds me of Japan." Max says, trying to evaluate the situation but failing. One jinx hits close to them and Max hisses. " Don't fuck this up." [break]
" Ha." Peg laughs mockingly and reminds Max that he was the one who wanted to go inside the seaside cavern in the first place and taking into account that it was inhabited by warlocks. [break][break]

Max counted to three and they were off. [break][break]
one, [break][break]
it was all the years of friendship that made them move in tandem. It was the strong brotherly bond that brought them through the training and this was the last stretch before the real shit. They were one organism, one person. In balance knowing each others strengths and weaknesses. <p>
two bodies, one heart. [break]
two minds, one soul.[break][break]

two[break]
two very stubborn heads working as one was the key. When Max moved, so did Peg. Throughout the training they had heard the same question - are you using legilimens to talk to each other and the answer was always a firm no. Max knows he doesn't have to worry about Peg not having his back and vice versa. Even now, they both protect each other even when the adrenalin pumps through their veins. Max sees another target pop up from out of nowhere and quickly reacts. He and Peg dodge, together, almost simultaneously. [break][break]

three [break][break]
three years in training to how to be a hit wizard at MACUSA. Three years of people telling him how reckless his behavior is and that how he could endanger himself and the rest of the team with this shit. Max knows that. He also knows that he's going to pass this. [break]
Another target pops up from his left. Max isn't fast enough and his friend beats him to it. He curses but continues. Continues to the end. [break]
" Goddamn it." Max exhales and gets high fived by Peg. " Did you see our time? I think we just beat Holloway's record." [break]
" You think we passed?" Peg asks and surprises Max with his worried tone. [break][break]

They passed. [break][break]

iv. you never wanted to alarm me but i'm the one that's drowning now

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" What'd you mean a solo-mission?" The tone of his voice is edging on hurt. He keeps staring at the guy who he calls his best friend and who's avoiding looking back pretending to be interested in his papers. Max knows better, hell he knows this man better than anyone. He knows something is going on and Peg is being an idiot for not telling Max. [break][break]

" Bullshit." [break][break]

" Max" Peg starts, clear signs of frustration creeping on him. " It's classified." [break][break]
" Classified my ass, we're a team." A scoff escapes his mouth and he feels the tightness in his chest. It's the same feeling when they were assigned with some of the senior agents back in training. Pegasus had been assigned with some tight ass grumpy man and Maxwell with some old man who was half blind. It's the feeling Max gets when Peg is about to do something stupid and Max's need to protect kicks in. [break][break]

" This ' solo-mission ' – " He decides he hates that word from now on. " – is draining you. You look like shit. Have you slept at all? " [break][break]

There's no answer for a minute and his idiot friend pretends to frown at the papers. " Oi!" To let him know that he's pissed, Max smacks the back of Peg's head but only gets a glare out of him. [break][break]
" Hit me again and I will kick your sorry arse. " [break][break]

Max doesn't hesitate. He smacks him again. This time a bit more harder.[break][break]

Afterwards they both sit on the floor, one holding his nose and one his jaw. [break][break]

They stay silent for a long while because there's a good chance they'll start a fist fight again. [break][break]

" When are you coming back? " [break][break]

His brother doesn't answer but when he does his voice comes out as a bit hollow because his nose is still bleeding. " I don't know." [break][break]

It hurts to realise that Peg isn't lying about it and Max sighs. " C'mere. " He takes out his wand fixes the broken nose. " You're an ass, Peg." Max tells and they both crack into a laugh. Max has to hold his jaw while laughing because Peggy's punches are tough as fuck. [break][break]
That's the last conversation Maxwellhas with his friend.

v. i believe in anything that brings you back home to me

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When they tell Peg has gone MIA, he goes out and tries to find him.[break][break]

When they tell him he's officially declared KIA, he doesn't stop his searches. [break][break]

When they tell him he failed his evaluation, he tells them to stick that up to their asses. [break][break]

When they tell him they're not going to do anything to find Pegasus, Max trashes someone's office. [break][break]

He refuses to go into his bedroom because Peg would want everything to be in place when he comes back.

The nightmares start right away and so does the guilt. Every single night he sees his friend being blown away by some jackass and Max can't even lift a finger to help him. He tells himself it's his fault that Pegasus is dead because the one time he let's him do something without Max, he gets killed. [break][break]

" It's not your fault." says the grief councillor. [break][break]

Max knows better.[break][break]


Peg's parents hold a funeral with an empty coffin. Max watches the ebony coffin is being lowered into the ground and he can feel the anger rising up inside of him. [break][break]
They're wrong, he tells them, but nobody listens to him. Pegasus isn't dead but nobody refuses to believe him. They tell him it's denial and that it's just part of the seven stages of grief. [break][break]

Bullshit[break][break]

There are days when he doesn't get up from his bed and then there are days when he simply doesn't want to sleep. He busies himself with work, pretends his okay and fakes a smile. No suspension is going to stop Maxwell Whitlam from working. He is taken back after his superiors realized they can't stop the man coming to work every day. It isn't going to stop him from taking in the most dangerous missions because he doesn't want to fall asleep. [break][break]

Even his best friends tiptoes around him. They talk in hushed tone whenever they think he can't hear them. They're careful not to bring up Pegasus or ask Max the dreaded question 'How are you feeling?'. Max can't even face Peg's parents even if they send him owls asking how he is. At least not yet. So he avoids them and he's not proud of it. [break][break]

He was alone.[break][break]

His family stopped sending birthday presents when they heard Max's graduation. His sibling refuses to answer his letters. [break][break]
He is alone now. [break]

He's feeling just peachy, he declares one night after going through his friends file again. He pretends his world isn't in pieces after the only safety net he ever had was now gone. He pretends he isn't angry at Pegasus for leaving his best friend in the whole world like that without a word. <p>

Just one more miracle for me, Peg. Don't be dead.

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