^ MAX BAKKALI || | {{ :characters:max:max.jpg?400&direct}} || | **PB:** Yoesry Detre || | **Gender:** | Male | | **Age:** | 22 | | **Birthday:** | July 2nd | | **Occupation:** | Intern | | **Pinterest:** | we all fall down | | **Playlist:** | head above water | | **Storyline:** | [[setting:rosethorn|]] | | **Affiliation:** | Amber Crescent Coven | | **Family:** | Parents | ======= Max Bakkali ======= ---- Tristan Marwan Bakkali, advanced elemental witch who is doing his best. ===== Appearance ===== ---- * Curly dark hair, worn longer * Big dark brown eyes * Full mouth * Light bronze complexion, of mixed Moroccan heritage * Tall (6'1'') * Pretty standard young adult wardrobe, jeans, hoodies, sneakers * Pretty good at fading into the background * Doesn't smile that often but uses his whole face to do it when he does * Slight buckteeth ===== Personality ===== ---- * Serious and quiet, very internal * Sometimes quite literal * Sort of a head in the clouds type, because his mind always seems to be somewhere else, vivid imagination * Spends what free time he has reading; never knows pop culture references * Terminally incapable of speaking up for himself with most people, the kind of person who will just eat the wrong food that was given to him * Extremely shy * Often anxious and prone to overthinking * Chronically lonely; often has trouble connecting to people, especially his peers * Once he does make a connection, however, he will hold on to it for dear life -- perhaps past the point where he should, reasonably, let go * Generally just incredibly stubborn once he's made his mind up about something, though he takes his time getting there * Non-tactile for the most part * Very sentimental, very loyal * An overachiever -- always wants to //do well// * Tends to be self-effacing despite that * Also mild-mannered to the point of occasionally being difficult to remember ===== Abilities ===== ---- * Elemental witch, achieved advanced status quite young * Serval familiar named Quioxte, also settled quite early * Generally magically precocious * Casting style is efficient, almost abbreviated * May eventually work his way to adept status, most likely with a second specialization in enchantment * Memory retention off the charts ===== History ===== ---- * Third generation American * An only child * Named after his maternal grandfather, thus goes by his middle name, Marwan, or nickname, Max * Parents marriage was sort of semi-arranged between a hereditary witch family and a mundane family who'd known about/worked with them for generations * His parents don't dislike each other but lead largely separate lives * Dad is an insurance company man who lives for the job and brings his work home * Mom is the leader of a coven, an adept witch with summoning and enchantment specializations * She was always very attentive to his magical education but didn't give him much attention as a person * Magically and academically precocious, always had his head in a book, didn't fit in well with his peers * Spent a lot of time at the local library when his parents were too busy for him * Often spent summers in Rosethorn, with his paternal grandparents * Once met a Fae as a child in Rosethorn and vacillates between vehemently believing it happened and that he imagined it * Was about 16 when the PWSA reveal happened * Chose to attend UOR for several reasons, including that it was one of the first and only schools to offer PWSA Studies * A good student but less handy socially; it isn't that he doesn't want or try to make friends, he simply has difficulty communicating his own needs and wants and either gets trampled by bolder personalities or passed over completely ===== Relationships ===== ---- * **Ibrahim Bakkali:** Father, mundane, rather distant, but still a firm guiding hand. Does want to make him proud but doesn't really know how to do that * **Mariyam Bakkali:** Mother, and the greatest single influence on Max. Never got much attention from her beyond magical matters, but became focused on becoming a top student both magically and academically to please her * **Bakkali Grandparents:** Mundane. They dote on him as a firstborn son, but don't really understand much about magic. Treat his Fae story as childish fancy. * **Lachlan:** Max's childhood best friend who lives in Rosethorn. Only saw him during the summers and missed him terribly when he left for home. ===== Gallery ===== ---- {{gallery>:characters:max?lightbox&~5&purge=true&random&random}} ~~NOTOC~~ {{tag> rosethorn characters}}