Maxwell Murder

Name: Maxwell Murder

Description: When I first started writing him, I was picturing Eminem. But the more I wrote him, the more I started to picture Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. He is moving on that spectrum for young and arrogant to washed-up. He dresses in a sloppy urban style. He is covered head to toe in biker-style tattoos. There is little sense of overall, cohesive, design except that the imagery is all dark and negative. Lots of flames, demons, weapons, and chains. These tattoos are mystical and change and move. They glow when they are “active”. His most common use of this power is to fire “bullets” from his fingers. He has flames and bullets all over the backs of his hands, these bullet tattoos slide into the “chamber” behind his index finger when he is firing. He also has the word “MURDER” in gothic script as large as it will fit tatted across his neck.

Personality: Max is selfish and violent. He enjoys the powerful feeling of hurting and killing, but could just as easily do without it. Max kills because it is so easy for him.

Childhood trauma left him able to endure nightmarish torment with no complaint or comment. On some level be feels that he deserves pain and torture. His motivation is never wealth or glory, rather it is simply comfortable living. Unfortunately, the only way he knows to achieve this is through violence and murder.

Role: Max acts as a foil for Kinetic. Kinetic yearns to be doing something, but cannot get started. Max, on the other hand, would much rather be doing nothing, but is spurred into action by circumstances beyond his control.

He also represents the threat and existence of death in the world of Rapid City.

Notes:
Max takes his name from the Rancid song Maxwell Murder. Matt Freeman plays an amazing bass solo in that song. Plus he is a bigger guy who is covered in tattoos, so maybe that would be a good place to look for visual inspiration.

1/10
Max’s story is now much less self-motivated. He is not on a quest. He is simply trying to do one job. To get it done and get it right. This is much more frustrating to him than the more general motivation to get back in the game.

11/09
Max tries to get in touch with people who have hired him before, but they are all gone. Not available. this raises red flags with one of the very few who is left alive. This guy comes to see why Max is calling people. This guy has gone legit, and cleaned house be eliminating anyone who knew what he used to do. He left Max alive because Max was happily retired and not likely to cause any trouble.
So now Max is back and this guy is not sure what to do.
Maybe it is easiest to deal with him by throwing him a few leads.

This guy will be a good source for exposition. Max hasn’t really had anyone to talk to.

Maxwell Murder is a hitman who has gotten out of the game. Not because he has become more human or anything, just because he had enough money to live off of for a while, that money is suddenly gone and he finds that he no longer has a rep to live off of. No one remembers him.

He has to make a rep again, but he has no more contacts and no way to get back in…he doesn’t even know who to talk to.

I have him killing some banger kids, to get the word out.

But I am kind of stuck for what he should do next. I have been thinking that he might go after the new “top man”….but that makes the premise weaker, because he shouldn’t even know who that top man is.