Max Clark

Yep, I'm going for again.

I've gone and fixed up the character I tried to join with last time, I'm much more happy with the overall design and I feel the history is better written too.

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Name: Max Clark

Nicknames: None as of yet

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Pokemon: Sharpedo

Height: 5'6

Bodystyle: Average

Birthday: October 17th

Home Island: Rapture Retreat

Personality: Max like most men of the sea has a rather salty exterior, he's rude, short tempered, and above all else crass. Whilst these qualities mostly make him a rather unpleasant person to meet at first, Max tends to warm up to people rather quickly and will lose the sharp edge to his personality, however he can still most certainly crude in most aspects of social life. His sense of humour would be one of his strong points in personality which lets him laugh most things off, however he can get flustered easily when it comes to complex things and his temper can get the better of him when things get a little too taxing on his mind. In the end though, Max is an overly content guy and is happy being with friends or being on his own.

History: Max was born an only child with two loving parents in a fairly rough neighbourhood on the outskirts of Castelia City. Trevor and Lucy Clark loved their son to bits smothering him with the love and affection most parents gave their children, Trevor worked as a interior decorator whilst Lucy was an architect. As Max grew both his parents told him that one day he would be a dashing man and would live a wonderful life with a beautiful family as long as he worked hard and was always did the right thing, Max would often retort that he didn't want a family but that he wanted to be a superhero which always seemed to make his parents laugh as if they new something he didn't know. As Max grew he would often pick fights as he tried to stop a bully from picking on some of the weaker kids in the park, at least once a week he would come home with bruises and copped a scolding from his parents but it didn't deter him in the slightest from becoming the superhero he wanted to be. By the age of nine Max had finally seemed to gain some foothold and was able to handle himself in a scrape (as well as a nine year old can fight anyway) and was pretty confident in his abilities, this went on for a year until the accident happened. Max was running home after hearing that something bad had happened, upon arriving home Max was confronted by a member of the police. The women told max that there had be a car accident and that his parents had passed away at the scene.

After the accident, Max was put in a temporary room at an orphanage. After about a week preparations had been made and Max was shipped off to the Hoenn region to be raised by his grandfather. Max was dropped of by boat to a small floating shack on the ocean, a sight which led him to believe that this man he was to live with was a wizard, but over the next few days he came to realise that this wasn't the case and learned that whilst often kind and wise he was also a rather crabby old man. For the time that followed, Max learnt how to maintain the shack's deck and how to live off the ocean, he swam in the salty water and played on the deck in the sun like any kid in his situation and at night he would sit on the deck and watch the stars as his grandfather told him stories of how he got the various scars that covered his body.

Time went by and Max grew up living the life of a fisherman, but he felt that there was something more to life then just catching fish and then selling them to boats that passed by. Eventually he began to keep some off to the side and would try too cook it, serving the dishes to his grandfather whom ate them with little complaining despite their over all poor quality. Slowly he got better and better till he could grill a fish with relative ease, with his grandfather's help he was able to build a small booth on the edge of the deck. Business really wasn't that fast nor was it constant what with Max's attention span begin that of a child, how ever he did make sales and he was able to pocket some money for himself which he stored away until he had the chance to spend it on something.

As the years went by, Max grew to be a content young man. He had a life that was comfortable and the sea was his home and mistress, he was even able to cook a good meal with the proper ingredients. Max now maintained the shack and its deck by himself and allowed his grandfather to rest now that he was getting on, life was good and Max and his Grandfather couldn't be happier. This all changed when Max saw something he had never really noticed before, one day as a boat passed by he noticed one of the crew was quite different in appearance from the rest. Long flowing gold hair, a smaller more lithe frame, and a softer shout than the other men onboard, something stirred deep in Max's gut and caused his cheeks to turn a shade of red as he observed the crew member whom smiled and waved to him when they had seen him staring. Max told his grandfather of the strange man and was quickly chastised by his elder for being a "dolt" and not knowing what a woman his age looked like, the rest of the night Max compared the girl he had seen with the woman he remembered in his life before coming to the conclusion that there must be plenty more out there. The next morning he packed his bags and told his grandfather he was going off to find more girls his age, to which his grandfather laughed and told him that he did the same thing at his age and that it would be a good experience, but he was to write back often.

Before Max left, his grandfather told him one last thing. "Head to a place called Raccolto, its a place I think would start you off well since it worked for me, and get a job there!" He then handed Max a map and pointed the way for him to go.


Job: Business owner

Shop Name: The Shack.

Stock Type: Oceanic Cuisine.

Dog/Cat Race: Skitty.

Name: Daemon.

Talents:
- Like a sharpedo, Max can regrow his teeth when broken or pulled out. His teeth also come to a point and have a serrated edge.
- Possesses the ability to swim at higher speeds than the average person for brief periods of time, maxing out at 32.1kph/20mph but this only last for roughly 150 metres/164.04 yards.

Funfacts:
- He possesses four fully functioning gills located just under where his pectorals are, two on either side of his chest.
- A shark fin is located on the back of his neck.
- Max has a really bad habit of ramming surfboards from below.
- Max bears a crippling case of Ailurophobia, subjects both big and small have equal and highly negative effects.

Moveset:

Scary Face

Crunch

Aqua Jet

Theif (TM)