Post by Danny Miller on May 20, 2011 15:02:58 GMT -5
Maxine Miller
Full Name: Maxine Miller
Age: Thirty
Civilian or Special: Special
Currently Located: New York
Affiliated with: Hero
Celebrity Claim: Jacobs, Gillian
Relation to You: Danny’s younger sister
PERSONALITY
Unique - This is by far the best chance of explaining Maxine that your ever gonna hope to achieve because she is such an intrequit character with all these little bits and bobs she does. Maxine would hardly be regarded as the perfect example to the normal because she is in fact the exact opposite of what everyone expects her to act like. Perhaps it is a complete disregard for social standards or maybe the fact that she just doesn't want to live up to anyone's expectations.
Distanced - One of the thing's that makes Maxine who she is, is the fact that she does have a hard time trying to connect with individuals on an emotional level and instead prefers to keep her own distance in regards to social situations simply because she doesn't know how to normally react. If given the option of filing paperwork or being forced to interact with people, Maxine would always take the paperwork option because she knows that paperwork can't judge her really.
Dizzy - Maxine would be regarded as one of these people who is easy to trick simply because they can't keep up and often get sidetracked. She doesn't get jokes sometimes and when she does she tends to poke all of the fun out of them. It's like instead of having the mind of a great scientist but having the soul of a child as well often misleading people to think she can be a little bit silly sometime's, even though that's not really who she is
Self-Destructive - Maxine is scared of letting people getting to close to her or hearing that she was right which is why she always sees the minor flaws in whatever she's doing and totally blows them all out of proportion making her feel bad about herself. It isn't her fault really, but more of a side effect of the controlled environment she was brought up around.
Spontaneous - From Maxine's inner child has come this side of her which is prone to coming up with ideas on the spot and then following them out regardless of who is watching her. This has lead her to come out with topics which are really irrelevant to what she is actually working on though it does tend to show that fun loving side of her which she rarely get's to see in herself.
Driven - Maxine can be a really hard working individual when she want's to be and given the right circumstances, Maxine can transform herself into a strictly work dedicated foot soldier. It is these moment's of presented hard work that really show out the best in her sometimesAPPEARANCE
Maxine, being the bubbly and upbeat person that she is, will almost always be seen with a snicker on her face or in some circumstances a grin. Thanks' to her addiction to sugar and caffeine her teeth are no longer perfectly white, but still white enough to be proud of. Her Smokey eyes which are more often than not covered with some sort of enhancing makeup shine a bright green into anyone she lays eyes upon and often conjure up an infectious smile wherever she goes. When it comes to her hair, it twirls all around her face almost hypnotically but delicately showing a sort of sweet innocence about her as her hair parts on both sides to show the most of her face. To top it all of Maxine is a very petite woman who comes in at 5'1'' whilst not wearing heels and weighing in at round about 121 lbs.
As for her clothes, Maxine isn't very picky rather choosing comfort over fashion any day. That does not mean to say that the girl doesn't know how to pick something that looks good, just that most of her outfit's are based around her own familiarity with them. This often includes wearing jeans to work, and wearing her work clothes at home because she has grown so accustomed to it over the years.
Hive Mind; This is the ability which is more commonly than not relative to Replicators. With this ability one can channel the minds of those around them as if they existed within a network allowing for a transfer of knowledge and emotions across the mental network via the hub, which in this case is Maxine. Using this network of minds, Maxine is capable of projecting her own thoughts across the network as well as receive messages through mental contact. Having had this ability for quite a while now, Maxine is now relatively capable of projecting her own senses to anyone connected to the mental network as well as tap in to one of the minds on the network and see through their eyes or hear what they hear. Within using this ability Maxine is capable of transferring information from one mind to another and back again, relatively becoming a router in her own kind of way.
Whilst Hive mind might seem like a useful ability to have it does have many downfall's in regards to not only it's range but how it needs to be activated. You see Hive Mind generally works when there is a crowd of people rather than one or two individuals. Generally when it comes down to hive mind the best reception you can get is with a small crowd which would probably be in the region to five to twenty people. This is to say that she is able to get the best results whilst working within those limit's though she is able to push herself to twenty five but once she tries to do that she will find herself becoming more drained of energy and more prone to fatigue.
Sometimes in larger crowds it is hard to define who thought what and what came from where, one of the major downfalls of her own ability being that she is able to transfer the knowledge but unless she is working with small numbers the chances of knowing who it came from will be minimal at best.
Now when talking about her range, everyone she is trying to link together must be within her range of vision in that she has to be able to see them. With that she can see far but they might not be in range which to her is 50 feet, which means to say the instance someone out steps those boundaries her ability just picks up on some sort of fuzzy static which she can't understand.
Superhuman Memory; Due to the fact that she link’s all of these mind’s through herself she has been given a secondary ability which helps her try and cope with the workload. Essentially Maxine can download what a person is thinking at that exact time and retain it for a later date is she so needs it. How this works is that her brain is always storing information in a way like a computer would, bundling up all the relevant information together to make most use of the wasted room and then try to condense that information so that it is able to be stored more sufficiently whilst allowing her for more expansion on her ever growing list of thought’s.
Okay so her memory is good but sooner or later she is gonna run out of room which means she need's to get rid of information that might still be of relevance. What's wrong with this is that she doesn't get to decide because her power decides for her, deleting those memories and thoughts which it feels are no longer needed in her own current situation meaning bit's of her past are a bit patchy here and there.
Another thing to note about this ability is that because Max has all this information in her head it often tries to push it's way out in any shape or form meaning if something related to what she remembers comes into conversation her mind will often run with these thought's and come out with either absurd fact's which are true or the biggest piece of nonsense you will have ever heard
Maxine always had life a bit rougher than her brother from the word go thanks to her being the second child in the family, often regarded to as the baby from a young age. It seemed that every time she tried to get some attention it was swiped away from her and at an age that young, Max wasn't sure how to take it. She just put her head down and decided not to bother anyone, fitting in with the norm in hopes of not sticking out like a sore thumb thinking that it was for the best. But that was all to change for the girl once she realised how big the world out there was.
Going into high school, Maxine had always kept herself out of the radar despite being exceptionally bright. She didn't want her smarts to make her a huge blip on the social map for everyone to point and stare at and so at first that's how she started out, being discrete about everything effectively becoming a ghost, though by this point she was now the middle child in the family and she just didn't care anymore. That was until one day she saw the cheerleaders after staying behind school for a bit to finish something off. All their skills and talent's and stunts that they did just fascinated her to no end.
It took quite a lot of self motivation but after a while she managed to pluck up the courage to try out for the squad in hopes she would go far, and she did. Being the petite size that she was she managed to find herself a spot on the team and eventually became thrusted in the world of popularity where everything was not as it seemed. She soon found out the one rule that every cheerleader at her school held close, do everything you can to stay on top and don't attract attention to yourself. It honestly seemed easy enough but she couldn't do it, something must have cracked inside of her, having all that free expression in cheerleading.
It was then that her grades started to rapidly shoot through the roof, showing the concealed daughter that the Miller's had been raising was in fact a smarty pant's. She made the decision a few months after her shooting grades to carry onto NYU where she began to study in Genetic Engineering thinking it would be a good career prospect to her. It was a few months into her first year when she discovered her own unique ability where she accidentally linked the mind's of half the class and could feel every thought and emotion passing through them before sending it to someone else by mistake. Questions were asked that day but thankfully no one found out the truth.
Since then Maxine has becoming more knowledgeable of her abilities but still feels that using them in something like university would be cheating so she carried on, unaware of her expanded memory which was slowly draining out every piece of information it could find. After finishing her first Masters Degree she went onto doing another feeling there must have been a reason why she found it so easy and entertaining. After a few more years of completing her second, Max is now looking for job opportunities taking up a local job as a pharmaceutical drug rep
