<strong>Character Name</strong>: Maximillian Guntherstadt<br/><br/><strong>Played by</strong>: Starlequin<br/><br/><strong>Character Age</strong>: 68 (appears to be in his late twenties)<br/><br/><strong>Character Role in game</strong>: General Maintenance / Tinkerer / Occasional Test Subject<br/><br/><strong>Sexual Orientation</strong>: Straight<br/><br/><strong>Interested Fetish or Kinks</strong>: Technophile (Rumored to prefer machines to humans)<br/><br/><strong>Description</strong>: Picture (http://www.ghostofaflea.com/archives/EveninGentsbyVladislausDantes.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Character Personality </strong>: In most passing encounters, Maximillian has a tendency to come across as snarky, sarcastic, and generally unpleasant. Those who get to know him better, however, quickly come to realize something: he's much worse than that. Always quick with a sharp insult or a deconstructive piece of advice, Max is a cranky, cantankerous old bastard trapped in a young man's body. He's not precisely thrilled about it, and he won't hesitate to let others know it. Given the conditions of his tenure at the Pleasure Dome, however, it's not too hard to see why he's so grouchy all the time.<br/><br/><strong>Background Information</strong>: Maximillian was born to a moderately wealthy family, and displayed a distinct talent for inventing and tinkering from a young age. His parents were often horrified to return home from an evening out to find half the house's appliances methodically disassembled, strewn about the floors, or, um, 'imaginatively' repaired. His burning thirst to understand 'how it works' got him into (and speaking fairly, out of) quite a few predicaments during his youth.<br/><br/>After graduating from University, Max signed on as an apprentice with a prominent engineering company, where he was introduced to a young woman named Barbara, who he promptly fell in love with and at whose hands he suffered a cruelly broken heart. His faith in love and humanity in general shattered, Maximillian grew into a bitter, cynical old fart with little regard for personal safety, either his own or that of others'. It was partly because of this recklessness that one of his more volatile inventions accidentally injured a man who turned out to be an associate of one Lee Chang, proprietor of the infamous Pleasure Dome (among other, more sordid interests).<br/><br/>Max was offered a choice: face criminal charges for negligence, assault, and whatever else Chang could manage to trump up against him, or work for Chang as an engineer and general handyman, as well as submit to the occasional science experiment for some of his other hired minds, until his 'debt' was considered paid. In particular, Doctors Bloom and Vanderholt have made extensive use of him for their research; he's already lost (and regained) an arm and part of a leg on Bloom's operating tables, and Vanderholt's last serum has drastically reversed his aging process. Maximillian hardly views that as a gift, however, since it only prolongs the time he'll have to spend under Chang's thumb.