RealMax

Maxwell Garlatraz Reyes, known by his online handle of RealMax or just Max, is an Antarctican-Caltexican king penguin who is known for his otherwise leftfield ideas and hot takes, sometimes known for being somewhat of a jerk, but doesn’t have a god complex. Despite his hot takes and bizarre statements, he is one who is a fan of the arts of webseries animation, movies using stop-motion animation, and writing stories, particularly those of science fiction and fantasy, alongside several fanfiction stories, but he has yet to release most of them at this current time. Max is known for his liking to almost all forms of music (yes even polka) and has a somewhat medium-to-large collection of various vinyl records and CD’s, and a small amount of cassette tapes. He is a fan of many topics, such as cartoons, Japalandese giant monster movies, and is a fan of PASCAR.

Max’s personality is one of skepticism; some think he is a normal penguin with superb acting that is acting in-character, while others think he is some lunatic or crazy person whose hot takes are often one that draws in many penguins, therefore making him a walking, living piece of reaction bait. His origins are somewhat unknown but there is some information about him that is known: he was born in Caltexico but was raised in Eastshield in the States. His early recollections include watching cartoons, drawing things in poor fashion of typical young drawers, and eventually around a year old or so, was first exposed to the internet via his father. All of these things combined resulted in him having a somewhat infamous online career, but is known for his animated webseries that happen on his accounts, and often gets into beef with other niche to somewhat known internet users or “celebrities” of similar genres he does over dumb things.

Outside of his whole career full of dumb charades, in his own personal life, he is known to be an introvert and only has three real friends, and often seeks shelter in his own home and or the library and internet cafe. He is somewhat known to be a sloth at times, sometimes flunking or having difficulty or just genuine engagement to continue his series in general but has made efforts to continue his series. As a result, merchandise was made based on his shows and after getting money from his merchandise, he considers himself a “micro-millionnaire,” and has embarked on a journey of what he calls “outsider-like music of pure boredom and creativity.” He currently has two albums in storage; ‘‘Room 202’’ released in 2021, and ‘‘Do something my man’’, released in 2022, all to mixed reviews, with the album consisting of weird low-quality cloud rap–that some have considered quite enjoyable in a “so bad it’s good” sense–and webcore/internetcore-like songs, that is known as the only “good” music on his albums.

Due to his amount of money, he has gone on “expeditions as a free-maker,” making an indie fighting kaiju game available for the good price of five coins, which currently has normal positive ratings, with reviews stating how such a “...moron can make a good fighting game. Only good thing from him and perhaps his music too,” amongst other reviews. He created an animated movie, which has gone on to become a cult classic thanks to its bizarre webcore-like aesthetics to it and along with old arcade game-early 3D video game-like looks to it. Because of his online antics, he has become somewhat of an online “mythical” character, a real one at best, who is immediately chased down when spotted or “sighted” at conventions regarding things like anime, animation and movies, specifically K-Fest, an annual convention dedicated to the genre that is kaiju, with their many movies alongside other kaiju franchises and general movies. He is also a self-proclaimed Cryptid hunter (and also shows his liking to cryptids).

However, he hasn’t been scott-free for some of his antics; he has once been arrested for “attempting” to start a riot after a convention with a now disgraced online figure was being held–with fans denying the allegations of this said online figure–with Max standing on a stage across the building and was yelling for the “proof and evidence” to be shown as it all occurred on Chitter, and after a mob got angry and tried to storm the place, the police tracked down Max and was arrested and was sent for a month-long sentence of community service picking up trash and all. He once tried to attack a former idol of his who turned down his artwork in a rude sense, which again resulted in him being arrested, this time being sentenced for one and a half months in jail, and most recently (and unjustifiably) was false arrested for being a rude individual at a birthday party which “witnesses” said he was attacking someone.

Outside of his own run-ins and accomplishments, some prominent figures have had noticed him, for example Wikipenguino45, and RealMax has stated that despite making sketches of landscapes of various environments both real and fictional, Wikipenguino’s art of landscapes and scenes made him to actually paint both traditional and digitally scenes of landscapes and general scenes of different topics and events. He is currently a Division Beta (International) agent for the Elite Penguin Force and is a member of The Fanon Character Gang, and also works for the Bureau of Fiction as a level five average worker, but has been somewhat “outspoken” (in quotations) but in a “secretive” or “whispery” sense, as he has gone to say small hints or usually classified information regarding the Bureau, but for some reason despite his current level and outspoken sayings–which were recorded with his consent–has not been suspended from his position, and is known to occasionally travel to different dimensions by some unknown means and methods, one to a kingdom of a chicken amongst others.

Again, outside of his current life, he is known for, despite having success, still works at his normal job, a stocking and unloading associate and lives in a normal igloo, but also his “I don’t care” attitude but says he still has decency, which is true. He is also known for embarking on a small set of adventures regarding his escapades with the villainous Ice Dragon, who chose Max as his guest of “honor of battling,” and Max, despite being somewhat of a jerk, won and redeemed himself in a way. At the moment, his only known friends include Jamie Serkis, Gaben Fordsmen and Lamar Yaris.

Early life
Maxwell was laid and hatched at the local hospital in Caltexico City circa 1997, and was raised for his first three years in the town of Puerta del Hielo, a rather large and prosperous town near Caltexico City. As per an average chick’s life, he accomplished the usual, babbling and speaking his first words, waddled, and during his infancy was when he was first introduced to two things: cartoons and the internet via his father’s computer. He lived in a rather unique apartment; instead of a typical igloo-like apartment made with snow and parts of plywood and such, it was a clay-molded apartment reminiscent of the early penguin inhabitants who lived in Caltexico’s ancient history, sort of an homage to the tribes. During that time, he watched the beginning of the 2000’s age of animation alongside the internet. His early internet life was surrounded by early animated gifs and nonsensical typing, but later on, his nonsensical typing eventually led him to understand story writing at an early age and wrote short stories with illustrations of poor quality, typical of young chicks, to accompany the writings.

Around 2006, when he was nine, he was exposed to WaddleTube, a free-sharing website of different videos, and like everyone at the time, he catched on and became an early fan. He usually rewatched clips of his favorite TV shows and cartoons, but around the internet, he encountered some fandoms which he later become a part of, obviously starting with animating, then it went on the Gadera, a famous Japalandese giant monster or kaiju and the series that followed, an anime series named “Go-Go Robot Defender Go!” and some other fandoms. He started to collect figures of the Gadera series and his monster enemies and allies, and other figures of various media–popular or lesser known–in his shelves and elsewhere. Other things that occurred in his young life included his first attempt at animation using an art program on his computer, witness the birth of edited YouTube videos of movies, animation or general cartoons in a comedic and somewhat offensive manner, and other things that despite somewhat being forgotten by most internet users, Max would remember.

Around 2013, when he was a teenager, some things had started to happen, which would become the basis of his online escapades.

Teenage life and his online escapades
Around the age of sixteen, when he had some experience, Max would start to post online animations in a usual evolved style, no longer where they were not comprehensive squibbles but now actual drawings of a high schooler interested in art and animation. Posting to a famous online web-hosting site of animation, art, video games and music, and surprisingly, one of his videos, a Super Smash Mates fan animation would gain over forty-two thousand views, a big accomplishment for his other animations, lesser known, as they usually had five thousand to just eleven thousand views. However, around this time, he would make another WaddleTube channel where he would play the persona of Jonas Quasar, a character who would act “gangsta” and say emalfs at anyone and video game fandoms at the time. This would spark a lot of negative reaction, but at the same time, they did not know that Jonas Quasar was the person behind the animation channel that Max hosted his own animations. In fact no one knew for the fact it was him until two months later when he did a face reveal and afterwards, some mixed reactions were given, up until someone commented on the face reveal video if he was Jonas Quasar, and Max responded that he was a trollbait character for jokes and everyone bit the bait. Aside from that, Max has later gone on to embrace the character, with him appearing in his WaddleTube videos as a running gag.

Later on, his animations were reviewed and noticed by some known-to-rarely high figures in the animation community at the time. After some time, he became one of the biggest animators on the site, but only by a few thousand subscribers no less. He was invited to many animation conventions where he spoke his mind and the current state of his animations. As far as he can know, he did make friends online, and rarely in person. This led up to him meeting friends Jamie Serkis and Gaben Fordsmen, and meeting his fourth friend in real life, Lamar Yaris. And from these friendships, came him and his only known friends he is known to publicly hang out with, as he does not like the intrusion of his fans invading his personal space. During this time, his persona was that of an artist who was introverted for sure, but was willing enough to befriend anyone and was self-aware of what he did and his attempts at advice. However, after being noticed (and ultimately confirming) if he was Jonas Quasar, it was at this certain period when he started to somewhat change in personality by the slightest. Essentially, while he was still nice, he became slightly more pessimistic and slightly jerkish, but did have constructive criticism on others and even redrew most of his past animations years later.

Amongst his damaging acts, is when he drew suggestive art of characters, that sure, they didn’t go too far, brought a ton of jokes of him being “that” kind of artist now, amongst other things. Over the years, he certainly got a reputation as being an artist who got himself into trouble, but was (and still is) known for his bizarre personality and his favorite hobbies and topics. And sure enough, he got in trouble.

His troubles with the law
In 2019, he attending a local online-based convention, but around this time, a certain online creator was outed for being a horrible person, who, despite having a large amount of evidence put up against them, their rabid fans–or “stans”--defended this individual, sending Max into an outrage. After sending his fans to attack these stans, the local police were called, forcing the creator to be escorted out, and Max to be arrested, where upon his arrest, his mugshot was taken and was posted online, to online laughter and turned into a small meme. He was arrested on a count of attempting to start a riot. After a small court settlement, he was surprisingly let go, albeit at the cost of spending one month of community service without no payment, which Max accepted the deal. After his community service, he was criticized for his actions, which Max accepted the criticism but did not say sorry, as the others were not involved aside those fans on that day, whom he confirmed he privately texted his apologies to, and nothing else.

In late 2020, he was arrested for the second time following the assault of a former idol he viewed who rejected his art, resulting in Max assaulting the artist, resulting in a month and a half sentence at the local jail. After his release, he came to the conclusion that any criticism is welcomed, and that though he will read, to not bother him with it, as it was his own personal troubles and not theirs. In early 2021, he was falsely accused as the perpetrator of a local birthday party where he was presented as a rude individual who came to ruin the party. Obviously, he responded to the allegations that he was not the individual in question, and was a big coincidence, alluding to the fact that he was at his parent’s home at the time of the fraudulent claim. For some odd reason, another court case was settled alongside the “true” Max who was a jerk at the party and if no one expected, yes, Max was set free though the “real” Max was too let free though they were booed out of jail.

Current life
Max is doing somewhat well for himself after he relocated to a town in the Eastshieldian small city-town side, where he is currently living in the town of Broken Shield. Despite his arrest, he was still honored to work at the Bureau of Fiction or BoF for short, who he employed there in the middle of 2020. In 2021, he released an album of Room 202, a webcore-based album, but has three hip-hop-based songs in said albums, being produced in the style of olde rappers of Colonial Antarctica times and later. His second album in 2022, Do something my man, was released with a more hip-hop focus though some webcore songs were included in the production of the album. He is also a member of The Fanon Character Gang. Before joining these two groups, he partook in various seacraft and aircraft training classes, where after some time, managed to have a small sense of experience in them. Additionally, he joined the Elite Penguin Force not too long after his fraudulent accusation, which he wasn’t allowed to join at first thanks to his current arrest history, but was given a chance to join. After completing several tasks in the span of months, he graduated to the International beta Division of the agency.