#camp camp max headcanons

[bitchliteraria1906]

Teenage Max headcanons!

-Has back acne.

-Punk, 100%. Just search "Punk cc Max", a lot of people who know way more about punk culture than me have explained it already.

-That one kid who is considered a troublemaker and a nuisance but also gets good grades without trying, which annoys the hell out of the teachers. His favorite subject is history and he dumps dark political and historical facts in conversations to see people's reactions.

-Besides continuing gymnastics and tap dancing, he also reads a lot (mostly mystery books) and plays a lot of videogames (he claims he enjoys shooting games but he actually prefers stuff like Animal crossing).

-His parents don't alllow him to have a dog, so he feeds strays and plays with them and basically treats them as if they were his own dogs.

-Still has Mr. Honeynuts, obviously.

-Doesn't become a counselor, but helps around the camp whenever he can, especially with the younger campers. David makes a big deal out of it and gets all emotional about it, much to Max's irritation.

-Unlabaled, but on the ace spectrum. I could see aroaceflux and bi too. Idk, I don’t really have a firm headcanon for him when it comes to sexuality.

-Has scars from camp adventures and school fights. Nothing too bad, but it's there and he isn't ashamed at all, he thinks he looks cool.

-Mostly listens to subgenres of rock (mostly punk rock and indie rock), emo-ish things and rap. But he also gets the cheesy pop and country songs David listens to stuck in his head, and he absolutely hates it.

-Doesn't care that much about his looks but will paint his nails black.

[toziertoes]

guys quick doodle to make a point but neil totally walks into the tent and just finds max asleep like this

or like on the floor or some shit

[isogenderskitty]

just realised how well the lyrics of axe man could also relate to max, especially the “watching nerds run for their lives” & “you may have brought a gun but it’s hatchetfield” & referring to him as a demon/devil & “he’s got you sweating through the night” (grace’s dream)

i’m not saying it means something but i’m not NOT saying that

anyway unrelated what if i formed an insane headcanon that lumber axe was somehow an alt timeline version of max & max was the son of the jerries. listen. all i’m saying is i could absolutely believe that boy jerry would call his son a little cuck. and it would sure explain where max got the whole dirty girl thing from wouldn’t it

[harringroveera]

Harringrove summer camp counselors AU?

[theghostbunnie]

I've hc Max as heavily double jointed/flexible for yrs bc of how he fits in Gwen's literal desk drawer and the fact he loves hiding behind people too just getting into tight spaces doesn't seem like something he'd want to give up as he gets older so the gymnastics hobbie is a W!!!

Hiding in spaces/behind people I feel like could be used symbolicly in a fic for his tendency to purposely self isolate

Also the fact he cannonically does tapdancing and I also HC he was taught how to twirl a cane to go along with that talent and that's how he knew how to do those spear tricks (his weapon of choice like twice throughout the show has been something stick/staff agent love that for him)

His repetitive interest in detective work/mystery solving all I'm saying is everything put together he wants to be Robin so bad/jjj

Lil joke aside definitely applying shit to my take on teenage Max as a spear welding mystery solver who does backflips and can stick to people's shadows goes hard

[mangostarslurpii]

I think when Max is older he starts wearing bandannas around his neck or just in general added to his outfits. He starts doing it in a “cool punk rock badass way” till someone mentions the parallel to David’s bandanna and he puts 2 and 2 together. Brain betraying his outfit choices cuz he looks up to David subconsciously even if he swears up and down David’s a loser.

[aeshxma]

NEW CAMP CAMP EP

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

OH MY GOD???? DADVID??????? DADVID IS REEEEAAALLL AND I WILL KEEP SAYING IT THE WAY HE TALKED TO MAX AND THE WAY MAX WAS ABSOLUTELY UPSET ABOUT LEAVING CAMP AND DAVID. they care for each other so bad it shows now, especially with max’s point of view it’s so sad and cute at the same time.

[embraceyourdestiny]

Oh thank fuck I finally found what all the counselor’s jobs are so here’s the list of anyone needs it for fics / aus!

Ryan: sailing instructor

Laura: nurse

Nick: cook / kitchen supervisor (this is so cute, I wish they showed he liked food, or made it clear if he simply got assigned this job)

Jacob: sports instructor

Emma: theater/drama instructor

Abi: art teacher

Kaitlyn & Max: activities coordinator

Dylan: daily announcements/schedule

Max and Kaitlyn would’ve been such great activity leads, they would’ve been great partners and I bet max would’ve been so good with the kids 🥺 all of the other ones besides nick are pretty obvious but it’s better to have it in one place so here y’all go!

[parentsday]

max camp camp the inventor of transgenderism (2016)

[veryartsyfish]

Art for a back and forth I had with @kittykatrattie

Basically Max has a pin making phase and David is his over enthusiastic self.

(Also thought it’d be funny if it turned into this huge pin empire and canon typical hijinks ensue)

[amarylhis]

what if Camp Camp was a Mystery series?

I CANT GET THEM OUT OF MY HEAD THIS SHOW IS SO INCREDIBLE I NEED ANOTHER SEASON PLEASE ROOSTER TEETH IM BEGGING YOU

[bitchliteraria1906]

My headcanon that Gwen can knife throw goes so well with the fact that David knows archery and that Max can use a spear. Found family that kills people together/j

[quartermoonconvergence]

since i lowk dgaf abt what people in this fandom think of me for having basic media literacy and logical reasoning atp

i think quite a few of you pretend to be better people by making max's parents "good people" so you can fight off against early fandom's potrayal of white saviour esque dadvid [which isnt even the dynamic in canon, but i digress] but because people doing this were drawing an eye during literature class they just fight racism with more racism.

because tell me why i have seen "max's parents are poor people who cannot speak english" more than once. Why is it so impossible for people to see that max is a neglected child who acts out because he is neglected at home and his parents dont care about him.

Why do you need the writers and artists to establish something which is basically screamed at you by the narrative?

Literally why are you all insanely dense about a child acting mean to others due to the fact that they are neglected at home.

Like just say it dude is it because max is an indian immigrant child who doesnt act like a soft pure victim like you all want him to act like and thus just casual denial of max's canonical neglect is justified. I literally hate some of you people

[chettyspagetti]

Behold!! Women!! What should her name be? @undeadghosty For using your design

[kittykatrattie]

Seriously tho no one ever talks about this. Like that SOUNDS like a horror title MAX READS HORROR NOVELS!! He reads as a hobby n no one ever mentions it :( lil nerd

[theghostbunnie]

How do you feel about Max’s whole situation with his parents? Are you the ones that feel like “they don’t care” in the show or the ones that feel like it’s complicated or Max just REALLY overreacts when it comes to his family?

I was actually talking about this exact conversation with my friend yesterday!

And although I have A LOT of HCs about his parents and the intricacies about them as people, (Lacey & Arjun) their relationship with eachother, and to Max, in absolutely no way do I believe everything I HC would be cannon lmao.

It is heavily implied and inferred his parents do not emotionally care about him. Multiple general comments from Max, as well as explicitly saying "they do not care." There's room for a TWIST, yes, because these are characters who have never been showcased. We only have one action known from them directly we can gather n guess things about: his sign up sheet but so many arguments could vaildly be made why they didn't give him one AND many vaild arguments why it's proof they don't care. That's why there's still room for a twist there.

And that's just the absolute soild stuff, next we get into Max as a character and the "it's all a misunderstanding/exaggeration" theory. ((Again differences between HCs and theorys, I'll respect your HC all day but a theory can be debunked imo)) It would honestly be such a mischaracterization of him. Before I get into why I would just like to get meta for a second and I don't believe parents day as an episode would have been written as heavy as it was if the core problem was just a kid's misunderstanding. Cameron went to SUPER GUANTANAMO and swore VENGEANCE on David for not being able to prove his camp was legit, because David left choosing to comfort Max, over covering Cameron's ass.

But onto it being out of character, Max as we've seen can be emotionally immature but he is still MENTALLY mature. When Nikki thinks she's dying Max struggles to see past the /logic/ of it at first to see her /emotions./ So he'd be the MOST understanding /LOGICALLY/ if his parents have to work alot. Especiiiaaaally how we've seen him talk about politics and interact with money. BRO WOULD UNDERSTAND SO WELL THEY HAVE TO WORK 😭..

In abusive or just generally not good households it can be normal for a child to believe what is happening to them is normal bc they lack a different perspective. I'm not even saying this is Max's situation this is just to preference my next point.

It is rare for the opposite assumption to out last age 5. Where a child is in a completely fine household, but believes their parents don't care based on them working so much and them having to go to school/camp. It would be out of character so much for Max specifically because he is written to be incredibly observant compared to his peers.

I believe around the start of season 5 he compares home/school/family to a train wreck? Dumpster fire? I don't remember the exact wording but if I character is telling you to your face he thinks home and school is rough it boils down to:

Do we think this character is a reliable narrator? Have we been given reason to believe they've been confused, or lying? Or can we take what they've said as a reliable source of their experience? And I think in this case Max has only shown confusion on so little things of this caliber if at all, he's a reliable source about his experience.

Like he thought David was going to kill him but that was more a burst of paranoia/David genuinely acting suspicious depending on how you analyze it.

So in short TLDR: It's heavily implied instead of canonically shown from the characters themselves so there's room for a twist, but that said twist would have to be incredibly out of character for Max. That, and the gravity it was originally written in with, is why I don't think they were going to write that route.