Post by Max Guevara on Dec 3, 2013 7:01:06 GMT
Max Guevara
Name/Designation: X5-452
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Race: X5 Series
Faction: Terminal City
Occupation: Transgenic Leader/Former Jam Pony Messenger/Cat Burglar/Former Manticore soldier
Face Claim: Jessica Alba
Other: Born to a surrogate mother some time around the 21st century, Max was raised and trained as a soldier from a very young age by military handlers, under the command of Colonel Donald Lydecker, at a secret government facility located in Gillette, Wyoming called Manticore. During this time, Max developed a very close bond to her unit-mates, and was considered the baby of their "family". Max, along with her siblings, were subject to training and tests that had them hone their abilities. To her it was torture, something a kid should never go through. In February 2009, Max and her siblings escaped Manticore only to be constantly hunted by Lydecker.
Separated from her "family", Max found herself a new family with the Barretts. But that only lead to a new problem and a choice that haunts Max to this day. She eventually joined up with Moody and the Chinese Clan, a group of thieves taking refuge in the remains of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. In 2019, Max left Los Angeles to search for one of her Manticore siblings in Seattle, Washington. While stopping in Eureka, California, Max met “Original Cindy” McEachin and the two of them traveled to Seattle together.
In Seattle, Max worked as a bike messenger for a delivery service called Jam Pony. She became friends with several other messengers, mainly Original Cindy, Herbal Thought, and Calvin "Sketchy" Theodore. For years, Max had wanted to find her missing brothers and sisters from Manticore, and so hired a private investigator in Seattle to help track them down. In order to fund the expensive search, Max supplemented her income with a secret life as a cat burglar, using her deliveries as opportunities to scout new targets.
During one of these burglaries, Max met Logan Cale, the underground cyber-journalist known as Eyes Only. Cale noticed his visitor's unusual abilities and, after investigating further, discovered her identity as an X5. He proposed a deal: he would help Max track down her siblings, and she would help him bring down criminals. Max at first refused, unwilling to expose herself to notice by Manticore, but eventually agreed after taking pity on one of the people Logan was helping.
Max eventually reunited with Zack, Brin, Ben, Syl, Krit, and Tinga only to end up in the hands of Dr. Elizabeth Renfro after being shot in the heart. In effort to save his baby sister, Zack shot himself in the head so the doctors at Manticore can use his heart to revive Max. Once again, Max was a prisoner of Manticore.
Upon recovering from her injuries, Max was subjected to re-indoctrination procedures by Manticore. For weeks, she was tortured and brainwashed as Renfro attempted to wipe out her defiance and independence. Eventually, Max stopped resisting and began acting like a loyal soldier. Renfro knew that she was only playing along, but could do nothing other than reintegrate her with the other X5's.
For the next few weeks, Max quietly endured training, drills, and hatred from the other X5's who considered her a traitor, all the while planning her escape. One night, a male X5 designated X5-494 arrived in her cell and informed her that they had been assigned as breeding partners, as part of Manticore's program to create more soldiers without the DNA profiles that had been stored at the Gillette facility. Max was revolted by the idea and refused to conceive a child with him. At first annoyed, 494 learned to back down and agreed not to tell his superiors. Max eventually named him Alec (as in "smart alec") after he caught her preparing for her escape. Max ropes him into helping her leave Manticore, but later finds out that he'd been ordered to follow her for a Search and Retrieval Operation, with her a.k.a. not like that 'boyfriend' as the target. After learning that Logan had been infected with a virus, Max incapacitated him and sent a broadcast Logan had prepared revealing Manticore's location. When she returned to Manticore, she demanded that Renfro hand over the antigen, and after receiving it, Renfro took a fatal bullet for her, and with her dying breath, told Max to find Sandeman.
Now with the destruction of Manticore and outed by the very people who are tracking them, Max needed to bring the transgenics together in order to survive the upcoming war between them and the ordinaries. Thus, Terminal City was born and Max was made leader of the transgenic order. With Alec, Logan, Joshua, Original Cindy, and Sketchy by her side, Max can help her brethren survive in a world that wants them destroyed. What the world doesn't know is that Max is the key to their survival against The Snake Cult. Max holds the cure to the Snake Cult's plague in her blood. The only way the world will get that cure is if they let the transgenics be. But at what price will Max go to in order to save her kind, the people she loves, and a world that wants nothing to do with her?