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Max

a companion piece to Benny's portrait

happy pride! remember that being a transgender is everything but fiction. there are so many real historical figures from every century about whose transgenderism we aren't even aware of

That the I.A.O. hasn't been able to link human deaths to Max could mean so many things. It could mean Max is fasting or that his preferred prey isn't humans. Because if a human death had been even tangentially related to Max, the I.A.O. would have blamed him for it.

Due to their Blood Potency, low-Gen Kindred have to drink from humans or from other Kindred; in general, animal blood and blood bags do very little for them.

I just think mentioning no human deaths have been linked to Max feels deliberate and oddly specific, but of course, I might be reading too much into the underwritten character.

Benny talking gently, trying to keep this man alive? I think the man who died in Benny's arms on the night of Benny's Embrace could've been Benny's lover.

We know very little about what happened that night. Max just mentions that Benny's "buddy" was injured and that Benny spoke gently to him as he died; Max doesn't say anything about who or what injured him or even why Max was there in the first place.

Max, did you... did you kill Benny's boyfriend? I could see Max accidentally injuring him during a Frenzy.

I did wonder if the person Max saw could have been Bennys lover, I didn’t consider that Max could have accidentally been the reason he died in the first place, that is JUICY. TBH Max downplays the whole embrace and because he meant well fundamentally misunderstands it from Bennys perspective

Its probably one of the worst night of his life already, someone he cares about dies in his arms; then he gets murdered and turned into a monster – and the person that killed him thinks he was HELPING?! Tells him to be better, preaches at him about self control, when he’s directly responsible for making him this thing even less well equipped to restrain his worst impluses. As far as Bennys concerned any vestigial hope of being a better person died on that pavement.

The most important questions here are "what was Max doing there" and "why was the buddy injured" and the fact that Max skirts around those two very important questions is suspicious. If Benny and his buddy were victims of a hate crime or rival mobsters attacked them, and the fatal injuries had nothing to do with Max, why not say so? The way Max tells the story, it makes it sound as if he'd been stalking Benny, imo.

I don't doubt Max meant well, but I think the main reason behind Benny's Embrace was simple: loneliness. Max was lonely and he wanted Benny as his companion. Accidental murder or not, Max has to know he fucked up. He has to know he damned Benny out of selfishness, just because Max wanted him as a companion.

The thing is, on some level, Benny did forgive him. Even after Max turned him into a monster, Benny took care of Max for years. There was genuine affection there. Reading into what the Gardener says to recruit Benny, reading into what Phyre and Fabien say to/about Max and Benny, I think Benny did care about Max.

Gilbert Baker added a 9th stripe shortly before his death, with the new stripe representing diversity. He added this stripe in reaction to the 2016 US election. It’s unfortunately not as well known as the 8 and 6 striped versions.

Here’s an image of him sewing together the 9 striped rainbow flag.

another Problematic Fave with a drastically low screen time that I'm obsessing over, huh?

When I reloaded my save to pick the nicer options I got thrown all the way back to Weaver Tower with 11/20 Thinbloods collected 🫩

Okay, I give up, it seems with every stroke it only gets worse, I don't know what else I can do here. I had a plan, a plot, but my drawing skills made their own corrections. -_- And I'm going to learn to draw hands in foreshortening and mirrors.

[grunt]

I can't recall a single peck on the lips between two male characters. I can't recall any meaningful on-screen romantic relationship between two male characters. Queer male characters are either vaguely hinted to be queer in a way that's easy to miss or ignore, oddly desexualized, and/or never engage in same-gender intimacy on screen.

As a queer man, I'm disappointed. I expected more from a ttrpg with a queer friendly reputation. I get that queer male characters and queer male intimacy can make straight male players uncomfortable and that's why they avoid them, but I hope at least other splats are better than this.