[hider=Max Bedlam][center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/220123/1b38f8de859248bcdace103fb5ae4e3e.png[/img] [img]https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55655cb9e4b0605469514b06/1530985746600-4YNW1706IIPF1IYPHS8L/sc6.jpg[/img] Darren Criss| [color=ff94e2]ff94e2[/color][/center] [color=ff94e2]Name[/color] [indent]Maxwell James Bedlam [indent][sub]Max Maxi MJ[/sub][/indent][/indent] [color=ff94e2]Age[/color] [indent]29[/indent] [color=ff94e2]Gender | Pronouns | Sexuality[/color] [indent]Male | He/Him |Pansexual[/indent] [color=ff94e2]Relationship Status[/color] [indent]Single[/indent] [color=ff94e2]Occupation[/color] [indent]Broadway Actor/Composer/Director[/indent] [color=ff94e2]Current Address[/color] [indent]Soho, New York City, NY.[/indent] [color=ff94e2]Appearance[/color] [img]https://c.tenor.com/-5zVETTlYVkAAAAC/darren-criss-laugh.gif[/img] [indent][list][*]Height: 5’10 [*]Weight: 190lbs [*]Hair: Black | Curly [*]Eyes: Hazel [*]Style: MJ likes to consider himself a stylish man with an eye for fashion. He likes to dress in lots of loud colours and ensembles for the most part with a particular penchant for a floral shirt and coloured suit but when knee-deep in work, he can be found slumming it in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt.[/list][/indent] [color=ff94e2]Personality[/color] [indent]Flamboyant | Driven | Charismatic | Tightly Wound | Addictive | Insecure Max has more than once been described as a storm in a teacup. He oozes charisma from every pore. He knows who he is, accepts who he is and doesn’t give a damn whether you like it or not. He is a little out there but he is charming and totally reeks of awesomeness. A goofball and a self anointed sleazebag, he loves to laugh, make you laugh and then steal your lover while you’re bent over giggling. Max is a performer born and the entire world is his stage. He loves to party hard and whatever the limit is, he will most definitely try and go past it. On the flip side, MJ is also an extremely dedicated and hard working individual. He will put everything of himself into whatever it is that he is doing and will not accept failure as any kind of option. For sure one could consider him a control freak. When things don’t go his way, Max tends to fall into a bad mental space which he struggles to come back from. He sees the world around him as being in a constant state of chaos and claims to the high heavens that he thrives on the pressure and the stress. [/indent] [color=ff94e2]Backstory[/color] [img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnrcib7mLP1qki5wso1_500.gif[/img] [indent]Maxwell James Bedlam was brought into this world as the first and only son of James Bedlam and his wife Celina. Right from the word go, there were issues for Max. Due to some complications in the pregnancy, the little boy was born with severely reduced hearing. This of course left a lot to be desired when it came to his maturation. To compensate, Max was taught American Sign Language and developed the skill of reading lips. Although he could still hear, much of his childhood was spent in silence. The Bedlam’s were a well known family in the Miami area; with James owning and operating a string of some of the most popular nightclubs on the south beach and Celina fronting them as a hostess. With his parents' busy night life jobs, Max was left in the care of a series of babysitters and nannies. In contrast to what many might believe, the absence of his parents didn’t give the boy a feeling of abandonment, instead it gave him a drive to work hard, to provide and to do something with his life. Through this avenue and a desire to not let his disability affect his life, Max discovered a love for performing and in his spare time began acting in stage shows. When he got his first hearing aid and he heard everything clearly for the first time in his life, he began to dance and he kept on dancing until he found himself in competitions and on his way to King’s Academy. Max continued his love affair with performing and was a part of the AV club, he was often in charge of the school's theatre productions and he was part of the school council. Working hard and playing hard very much became MJ’s entire identity and what he was known for. If something in one of his productions wasn’t up to his high standard, he would just do it himself; be it singing vocals for a song, holding a light in a specific place or just getting the coffees for his crew. Upon graduation, Max went off to try and make a name for himself on Broadway. There were a few pit stops along the way of course. There was a detour into the world of adult entertainment, a brief sojourn into the nightclub business with his father before finally settling down in NYC and plying his craft on the stage. After years of grafting, MJ was offered several really high value roles, including as Evan Hansen (he wasn’t too old) and Aaron Burr. It was during this portion of his life that Max took the first steps towards a new dream, writing his own production. Suffering from some writer's block, an encroaching deadline and a lack of something that he couldn’t explain, Max was in a bad way when he received an invitation to a King's Academy reunion. Was it worth the break from his work to go and get fucked up with a bunch of people he hadn’t seen in ten years? Probably not but then again, maybe there was some inspiration to be found in some faces from the past. [/indent] [color=ff94e2]Extras[/color] [indent] [list][*]Font | Neon Light [*]Max wears a hearing aid to combat the effects of his degenerative hearing problem. [*]Uses American Sign Language sometimes even when speaking. [*]MJ can read lips. [*]He is a cousin of up-and-coming musician Rico Nunez. [*]He has taken part in drag shows under the name “Mistress Xola Valentina” [*]MJ has directed some adult films. [*][url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EX1LnLb6mbw]Good in Red - The Midnight[/url][/list] [/indent][/hider]