<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/LJXQL.jpg)</div><a name="user_TYMA"><strong>Character Name:</strong> Tyler Maxon</a><br/><br/><strong>Player ID:</strong>Black Howling<br/><br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Detective Sergeant<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>38<br/><br/><strong>Role:</strong>The "collar at any price" slightly bent cop<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Detective Maxon is a man of medium stature, standing at only about 5'10" (178CM) tall. His build is stocky, hinting at an impressive musculature beneath, a remnant of his service days from years prior. His has dark brown hair and eyes to match, along with what appears to be constant five O'clock shadow. His casual dress typically consists of plan solid colors, jackets and jeans. If he had his way this would also be his attire for work, purely for comforts sake. Alas, there is a dress code that needs maintained. His suits are well made, though somewhat plain in nature and often lacking a tie when he can get by with it.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Detective Maxon is best described as rough around the edges. His time as an MP has colored much of his persona, lending him to keep things a little close to the chest except around people he trusts. The things he's seen overseas has lent to at-least minor PTSD, though when applying his symptoms were completely under control. A lot has happened since his hire date, however and he worries he may not pass another psyche exam should he be subjected to one. That is a gateway to one of his biggest fears because a failed one would have him stripped of his badge, and he's uncertain how he'd adjust to civilian life. Especially after so many years in police work, outside the military and in.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Detective Maxon's foray into Police work started when he was a fresh faced undergrad out of community college. He'd just completed his first steps with an associates in criminal justice. His family, however, had a proud history of military service, a fact that prompted Tyler to join the ranks of the US Army. Due to his studies, he was placed in the auxiliary units as an MP. He was convinced he'd never see much in the way of action. A few years later proved him wrong.<br/><br/>With the destruction of the Twin Towers and the US's subsequent invasion into Afghanistan, many of the auxiliary were being deployed. MP's in particular due to the nature of the war. This started what would become a long tour overseas for the man, each year spent in some of the worst places he could imagine. His patriotic zeal only went so far, so when it became time to re-up, he instead chose to leave his service days behind. Luckily for him he'd finished his graduate degree online while serving, and so he returned home in hopes of joining the academy.<br/><br/>Tyler's previous experience and education seen him passing the exams and making his way into the ranks of his hometown's police force after being discharged. For a while, things were good. He spent the next several years doing his best and without many complications. That changed when he made detective. His first case involved a suspected drug dealer by the of Edward Dixon, a man he was certain was not only cooking large amounts of meth, but a murderer. He had little proof of the drugs, and none about the murders aside from a gut hunch and the look in his eyes.<br/><br/>Maxon tried to do things by the book, he really did, but after a month of struggling to find so much as a slip, he became fed up with it all. Dixon was good, so he had to take matters into his own hands. On that hunch he planted an unregistered .38 in Dixons car and ensured he was there when the man was pulled over for forgetting to use his turn signal. With the gun as evidence, he had enough for a search warrant, which later confirmed all his suspicions about the man.<br/><br/>They found loads of meth being cooked in his house along with another gun, an unregistered M9 with three bodies on it. Luckily his hunch was right, and he netted a promotion along with a transfer to homicide. He said it'd be the last time, just like he said the whiskey binge afterward would only happen once. He lied to himself. So far it's happened three other occasions, each with a worse binge following it then the last. He worries eventually he'll mess up, that eventually he'll be wrong and send someone to prison who doesn't belong there. It eats at him nightly, keeping him from sleep, which has prompted his addiction.<br/><br/>So far Maxon has managed to keep his habit away from the prying eyes of his partners, though he also worries how long he can keep this up. He knows sometimes he's barely holding it together, but he's convinced himself the department needs someone like him.<br/><br/><strong>Other:</strong>Maxon's Hometown is Ubiquitous. He's had a failed marriage not mentioned in the background, and it is a trigger for his temper when brought up. Face Claim is Colin Farrell<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>What cop shows do <span class="bbc_u">you</span> watch regularly:</strong><em>Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Suspect intent, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: SVU and occasionally NCIS.</em>