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. He is also a self-proclaimed Cryptid hunter (and also shows his liking to cryptids). He had also attended university in Eastshield for a small time where he met his four known friends.

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.

RealMax is known for wearing a PASCAR racing cap based on the late famous Dale Penghardt and favors wearing shirts of his favorite bands and cartoons/anime.

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 animation, then it went on to anime and other similar fandoms. He started to collect 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, college 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 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.

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. He met the three, firstly Jamie when he attended a semi-famous college in the state of Eastshield, for whom he packed up his bags and traveled there.

During this time after meeting his friends, 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. However, he dropped out in a timeset of only five and half months.

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.

The four friends form
RealMax first encountered Jamie around late 2015 when he moved away to attend college in Eastshield. For context, he was attending college to try and improve his grades from his past school years but later on he eventually failed, but at the price of meeting two new friends and then a fourth friend. While attending his first month of his mathematics and Spanish classes, he and Jamie Serkis did not know each other, just as fellow acquaintances but that was about it. However, around the second to third months, they were paired as partners for a project in their Spanish classes, and soon came around just awkward talks just about the project but later became friends. Jamie had already made friends with other fellow classmates but Max was basically solitary at this point. Whenever Max was brought to the conversation, Jamie's friend would joke how Max is her boyfriend, something Jamie scoffed at in embarrassment but Max just felt "known" and sometimes flattered. Max would later have Jamie introduced to a new friend named Gaben.

Gaben Fordsmen already had fame prior, therefore Max didn't really know who he was, but one thing was clear was that Gaben was much older than Max. Around the time after he and Jamie became friends, he and Gaben first encountered each other while at a local hang out center where a local game of Super Smash Mates was happening. Being a gamer, Max went and attended, with he and Gaben fighting other competitors and mostly beating the others in-game, but then it came to the grand finale: Max vs. Gaben. In the end, Max was defeated by Gaben, who later shook feathers with Gaben, and the event ended. After the event, when everyone went home, Max met with Gaben on the other side of the building, who later talked and mentioned his own hobbies, Jamie, and other things, whom Gaben told him the things he liked in return, such as his wife and their expected chick that they were about to welcome. They exchanged info, and soon met up with him and Jamie and hanged out.

They would initially be a trio, composing of the three having similar interests, before they started to do jam sessions. These jam sessions included jazz fusion & jazz funk, two genres Max likes amongst others, though they had their own interest, with Jamie being more into indie punk rock, and Gaben being more into general rock and metal, and so they all took their turns. When they realized that both singing and strumming a guitar was proving a challenge, they were looking for a drummer, but it didn't seem likely. However, they unexpectedly did get their drummer, resulting in the fourth friend they met.

Lamar Yaris already landed in Eastshield working as a local butcher and seller for fish meat at a local butcher shop for fish.

His troubles with the law
In 2019, he was 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, which resulted 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 said criticism, 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 it, yes, Max was set free, though the “real” Max was too let free though they were booed out of jail.

Personal 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. 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.

Personality and traits
Max is an individual who is mostly known for his "erratic" behavior but is actually more or less of an introverted individual who is somewhat shy or nervous around people whom he does not know or has little contact encounters with. Only is it with his closest friends--those being Gaben, Jamie Serkis, and Lamar Yaris, alongside his family, especially his father--that he is talkable and a friendly individual. Those who only know him for short times have noticed that he is somewhat willing to converse but keeps to himself, and on the few times he is, he talks about random subjects, raging from suggestive internet artists, his favorite fusion bands and webcore artists, his art and how he feels about his current internet personality-like status and what he should do going forward.

As mentioned, he is known for his art (alongside his animated webseries), story writing, musical talent, his enthusiasm for motorsports, and his alter ego.

He first became introduced to art (and subsequently his future animated webseries) when he used to watch the typical Saturday-morning cartoons, and would continue that habit even when he moved to Antarctica. However, when he grew up, he would still watch these cartoons, but eventually discovered "mature" cartoons which featured animated characters in "mature" situations which either involved them shouting "emalfs" or doing now-unfunny cutaway gags. These would later appear as elements in his mature animated webseries Average Life, a show that combines realism, slapstick and general messages between episodes, with each character being drawn in a different artstyle. The webseries is met with average and good reviews and spawning a small fanbase of it, with Max ocassionally making videos checking out the Classroddit (C/AverageLife) and reviews memes.

One thing noticeable about Max is his lack of laughing or general enjoyment when it comes to current memes. There are times where he laughs at some but for the most part he just sits there with a blank face, or arrogant hatred. This can be attributed for cartoons or video games that have a cartoony element to them become popular.

His story writing is one of comedic effect but also wrote several serious stories. Some of these stories involved fantasy elements meshing with sci-fi-like elements, a massive fan fiction involving good versus evil, and a comedic one about a rapper who goes on a journey for the legendary candy powder.

His musical talent is a special part for him, as music is what made him have "purpose." Music to him is a secret blessing in disguise, because without music, what can he do? Music lesson about Max aside, his music career started as his father was in an alternative rock band, and around his toddler years, started to bang and beat on drums, and eventually discovered how to play piano in average quality around his beginning teen years. As of now, his favorite genres include the likes of techno, any of the house genres (classic house, electro-house, acid house), jazz fusion (alongside jazz-funk, jazz rock and acid jazz), trip hop and downtempo-based music, hip-hop (the classic-styled type) and recently, internet/webcore and video game-like music. This would all come to a 2021 debut release known as Room 202, an electronic album with mostly webcore songs but also three hip hop songs of D.Y.I. quality. The album was mixed in reviews but listeners applauded Max for his attempt at making music. In 2022, he released the album "Do Something my man," a hip hop-oriented album. This album would be known for it's usual D.I.Y. style and almost "so bad it's good" sound to it.

In 2021, around the time of his debut release, he, alongside Gaben, Jamie and Lamar, would form a one-side music project known as Blue Johnson. The music project is a jazz band named after a local lolcat in the Cat Arch area before it's eventual sealing. The band only has one release, it's eponymous album debut. The album is known to feature some guest stars to perform as backup for song quality, as each tune has either a funky sound, a somber but jazzy tune, or a strong rock sound to it. Each of them had a respective role per each instrument: Jamie and Gaben would take the guitars, Max on keyboards and occasional percussion and Lamar is the sole drummer.

PASCAR is his favorite sport, alongside any form of motorsport. During his whole debacle with Ice Dragon, he competed in a podrace circuit for only four courses. For this, he piloted a simple beginner-type podracer, which almost got destroyed. He stil houses it in a warehouse he owns.

The alter ego of Jonas Quasar is one of much speculation.

"Jonas Quasar"
Jonas Quasar is a character whom Max created. The creation of Jonas was of a gimmick he and his then high school friends thought of. The character of Jonas Quasar is one of a gangsta-like penguin, who doesn't give one about other's opinions and feelings. This was evident when he posted several videos of his rants and responses to people on WaddleTube. Many, who were obviously trolled, did not find them funny or humorous, and made video responses to him in angry, emalf-filled responses. The original account soon seized activity around 2014, and from here, Max's actual channel career started. Only is it years later when he made his face reveal, people figured out Max was Jonas Quasar. Months later, Max made a humorous video where he basically confirmed that Jonas was just a character and troll and basically said that they were fooled and laughing hysterically. Some mixed reactions were given, but many laughed at who Jonas Quasar "really" was, some were even in denial. Aside from that, Max has later gone on to embrace the character, with him appearing in his WaddleTube videos as a running gag, alongside animations and even a full on series of novels and stories based upon Jonas Quasar.

Pets
At the moment, he currently owns two pets; a black pig known as Meat Loaf and a white puffle named Bryan, who was born with bat-wing-shaped brown patches around his eyes thanks to a genetic mutation in his fur pigment.

Bryan was the result of his parent's pet puffle delivery a litter, with Bryan being the smallest but the oldest, nearly dying due to struggling for air. After he was cleaned and healed, he was spotted with his pigment genetic mutation, but was kept. After a few months, he was able to go home with Max. Their relationship is nothing new; the typical pet-loves-owner and owner-loves-pet manner, such as feeding him berries and throwing frisbees around. Bryan is a small puffle but is somewhat fearless... in an intimidating way, and he is somewhat cowardly. Bryan often likes to roughhouse or play-fight, and Max often roughhouses with Bryan.

Meat Loaf is somewhat of a special pet. Meat Loaf came to be as a joke but somewhat became real on Max's 23rd birthday, when he had enough pocket change to buy a single piglet. He had heard from several local farmers around his town that there are several ranchers who were selling animals as pets or simple livestock, such as puffles, muskoxen, pigs or waterfowl; some selling at a surprisingly cheap price. Max didn't think of it too hard, but did know that his mother was a farmer back in the "olde Caltexican days" as he calls it, and without planning, went to go get a pig. After some searching, he came across a married couple of farmers who were selling their pigs. Pulling up, he was shown to the pig pen, and pointed out Meat Loaf, as the rest of his drift had neck waddles, whereas his waddles were shorter. He was soon picked up and quickly realized he would have to take care of him. He and Meat Loaf are similar to one another, but Meat Loaf is always happy with Max's presence around. Meat Loaf and Bryan are known to be somewhat playful with one another, with Bryan being intimidated at him via jumping or slightly growling to a resting Meat Loaf just basking in the current weather and slightly oinking, though it is somewhat "rare" when they chase each other around.