#maximus posts

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Tagging this with the individual member tags I'm aware of

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Craig - He/Him

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Maximus - He/It

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Sammeth and maximus if telltale wasn't fucking around

[91-aquarii]

has this been done yet. is this anything

inspired by this fanart lol

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Now That's What I Call Fallout Textposts: Maximus Special Edition

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FALLOUT (2024 - ) 1.07: The Radio dirs. Frederick E.O. Toye and Clare Kilner

[perryabbott]

AARON MOTEN as Maximus FALLOUT — 1.01 "The End"

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*final pam voice* vaultknight nation, how we feeling?

[ghouly-boiiiii]

Does Max give anyone else major twist villain vibes???

Okay I haven't talked about Max much yet, but I think it's kinda wild to see people talking about him like he's just this sweet innocent cinnamon roll when my read on his character was the COMPLETE opposite.

I mean yes, he does seem very sweet. He's very soft spoken. Naive in a way like Lucy, but not as much. Kinda vulnerable. Got a killer smile. And some of the moments with him and Lucy are super cute and adorable. But damn if he doesn't have a DARK side!

Like I've heard people say that Max is stupid or that Aaron Moten's acting is bad, but hell no. Aaron Moten sold me on his acting during the interrogation scene. Max was scared shitless and I FELT that. I think Max was meant to be played as a character who lacks understanding about certain things and seems disconnected from people due to both being brought up in basically a cult and having an inherent lack of empathy.

You think about the fact that he admitted he wanted Dane to get hurt, someone who's supposed to be his best friend. How he coldly sat there and watched Titus die. And before that stood there and watched him get mauled by a bear, almost like he was fascinated by it and wanted to see what was gonna happen. The fact that he tried to kill Thaddeus the moment he became a threat, even though the two of them had appeared to have bonded and developed a genuine friendship. And let's not forget he was willing to let all of Vault 4 get plunged into darkness just so he could keep playing with his power armor.

Max wants to be a knight, he wants to be a hero. And I think he tells himself he wants it for the right reasons, but I think what he REALLY wants is power and recognition. Which is really what every (okay maybe not every, but a lot) good villain wants, right? Because at the end of the day Max wants what Max wants. He's selfish, even though he doesn't think he is.

And sure, he's nice to Lucy. And he went balls to the wall to save her when he thought Vault 4 was gonna execute her. But she's a pretty girl who helped him and offered him a safe home. When she gave him the proposition that if she helped him bring back the head, he would have the Brotherhood lend her some knights to save her dad, he KNEW he couldn't make that promise. But he made the deal anyway. So he doesn't REALLY care about her or what she wants.

And that blank stare he gets when he gets mad? ACTUALLY terrifying. The guy's got serious psychopath vibes. Literal anti-social personality disorder, if you ask me. In fact the first thing I thought about when Max let Titus die is this kids going to end up going to the dark side lol.

And I think that would work really well thematically if they plan on giving The Ghoul a redemption arc beside it. There are so many parallels between Lucy and The Ghoul, and they have such a strong connection to the beginning when the bombs dropped. I get that Max is there to represent the Brotherhood and he's from Shady Sands, the town Hank destroyed, but it felt weird that he didn't seem to be AS important in the grand scheme of things compared to Cooper and Lucy.

But if Max turned out to be a badass twist villain to thematically contrast Cooper's redemption arc, while Lucy remains steadfast to her commitment to goodness and the golden rule I feel like that would really round it out. It would make sense if you consider a lot of people have pointed out that Lucy, Cooper and Max all seem to represent different play styles and different moral alignments. And I think it'd be pretty crazy if the writers of the show set out to make it seem like Ghoul is a bad guy and Max is a good guy, but then it ended up being the opposite.

I mean, there are definitely hints all over the show that The Ghoul isn't as bad as he may seem. And Max has already done some pretty messed up stuff, so I'd say the possibility is totally there, and I'd be here for it!

Who's with me???

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My contribution to the debate

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QSMP MEMBERS REACT TO YOU GETTING A TAPEWORM

foolish: man thats crazzzyyyyyyy hahehah

roier: *sniff* fucking unfair!!!!!! i thought i could be in your culo!!!!!!!

slimecicle: *slurps up tapeworm out of your mouth into his stomach* *traumadumps*

bagehera: oh ok!! i thought they werent real

cellbit: interesting... *adds tapeworm to google doc*

etoiles: did you know tape worm is litterally weakest worm to this enchantment "bane of worms 5" and you can only get thsi enchantment if youre dumb and go into this specific dungeon that has cobblestone and i am dumb so i beat it in three seconds and also-

pac: woah!

maximus: oh sorry that one is mine

badboy: *halo* O-O

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You guys know that we have a third main character, right?

[royalarchivist]

Maximus: Hey, Slime!

Slimecicle: Hey! How are you doing, man?

Maximus: Bad.

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Now That's What I Call Fallout Textposts Volume 15

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[ambafaerie]

The reveal that Maximus lived in Shady Sands gives a very real possibility that he and Lucy already met as children and spent time together before Hank had to go and ruin it all. Their memories of Shady Sands are spotty, affected by outside forces, but in time they will remember.

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AARON MOTEN as Maximus Fallout — 1.03 "The Head"