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ANNNND ANOTHER WEIRD ONE

Name: Max Garett

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Occupation: Lunchroom staff, makes special lunch days for students (Mondays- Subs // Wedsdays- Homemade pizzas // Fridays- Random dessert days) 

Type of Infected: Boomer/Witch hybrid

How they interact with other students/teach/work: Max tries to bend over backwards for as many of the infected children and adults as he can, oftentimes even if it can hurt himself or his personal time alone in the process. He has a very strong belief that infected could easily be as organized and intellegent a group as humans could be, and really tries his best to help the infected feel just as happy and important they were as people.

Personality: Max has a rather prominent hero complex. He feels like no infected should have to deal with any life-threatening stress, and tries his best to keep fights from happening whenever he can. He's a very optimistic fellow, setting himself to believe that if the best could happen, then it can happen if he works hard to earn it. His optimistic outlook has another side to it though, as the witch end of his infection made it very hard to behave, and frequently lashed out whenever he let his personal fears or sadness take control of his thoughts. He had to make himself believe in the world more positively after his infection because if he didn't, he could have stooped to mindless madness for the rest of his life.  Every so often the 'lesser' side of himself can show, usually by his crybaby tendencies when he feels bad about someone else, or the more frightening panic attacks when he feels backed into a corner.

Family & Background: Max grew up a fairly regular family life, moving out of his home to attend a college when he was just around 19 years old. He tried his best to work a job and take college courses at the same time, but eventually ran out of the money to afford both his classes and home, having to drop out and earn enough money once again to continue his culinary classes. Max ended up going through a ton of jobs at this point, frequently involving himself in the food service industry so he could learn more about his culinary arts outside of school, until he was eventually down to just one job after being layed off.

It was around this time that he got to know his neighbors much better in his spare time, eventually feeling like the Lewis family was just an extended family of his own. The neighbors eventually trusted him so much that they let him babysit their son Samuel whenever they had to travel, a small side job that Max certainly never minded 

Max's peaceful life didn't last very long, though. He had gotten word during the infected outbreak that his father didn't make it, making Max spiral into a slow state of depression from his death. He seeked a lot of time to walk outside, breathe and examine nature over this negative period, which was one of the biggest mistakes he ended up making. Max ended up trying to coax a crying witch by the lake one evening, leading to him getting maimed by the stronger infected. He spent the next few days in a fair bit of suffering while his body seemed to turn against him, suddenly finding himself lashing out at other people and infected who got near him, and a strangely high number of people there were..

He only managed to find his concious coming back when he realized that the neighbor's kid was probably in danger himself, and went to check on him. Max had ended up attacking the poor child after Sam yelled at him, but managed to return to his senses fast enough to stop. He felt terrible about infecting Samuel from then on, and tried to make it up by helping the teen from place to place, cooking him dinner, whatever he could do to make the other's life easier. Max had even gradually come to realize that helping Samuel made his mood swings almost never come up again, finding that just helping him and other people in general kept his frightening side in check. Max then set out to help the school Samuel was attending from then on, making the children and staff's lives easier, and making his own look much brighter in the process (even if his stomach was just sporadically upset at points).

Likes- Good food, helpful people, beaches, flowers, sunlight, hiking trails, new clothes, animals, vidyagames (plays those with Sam and the other neighbors)

Dislikes- Violent people, leftovers, confrontations, his own claws and boomer bile

Other:

-His boomer coworkers at his old job consider Max a lucky stiff, since he didn't get any boils on his face from hybridization. He does have some on his back and shoulders though

-He's Samuel's caretaker until Sam's parents 'return home' as he wants to believe

-Max will frequently mention or call out "palms" whenever asked about how he goes about his work with claws, or whenever he sees another witch struggling.

-Max's special lunches on Monday, Wedesnday and Friday are offered on meal tickets given in advance. The subs and pizzas are surprisingly cheap, while the desserts are usually the more expensive meals to get by a margin.

-The tickets are given in advance so students and staff can custom-order what toppings/sub fillers they'd want

-Max started to implement the special meal system because he figured it could help him use his culinary skills he picked up from his college and job life, and give the school something a little better than the usual reheated foods offered
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