Into The Marat-iverse

Haha well typically ship weeks only last the week 😂 but I suppose I could host another one if ppl are interested!

Haha well typically ship weeks only last the week 😂 but I suppose I could host another one if ppl are interested!

Like, for example would they be in a band together if they could? What does the other person do when they are not around? Do they ever join clubs in high schools? What do they do for fun together? stuff like that I guess

OOOOOHHH ok ok ok. Ahem so.

First of all they are somewhat long distance. They're about 2 hours apart but Max can't drive until he's 18 bc his parents never bother to get him his temps or teach him how to drive, so until Neil gets his license at 16 they rarely see each other outside of camp. Max is the bad influence (he starts smoking weed and gets Neil to try edibles)

I don't think they'd be in a band together bc they have very different tastes in music. However once max turns 18 and he moves in w David and Gwen he starts learning to play the drums and he joins a queer punk band in college and Neil goes to as many of their shows as he can (altho they're still long distance, we never settled on a specific school but I think Neil goes to college out of state). They do see a couple concerts together as teenagers tho

Neither of them. Reaaaally have friends back home/outside of camp. So most of their socialization is texting each other and the other campers. Max becomes a stoner and he has a job working at a local Indian restaurant (it was his favorite since he was leaving the apartment to run around the city by himself and the girl running the food truck sort of grew attached to him). Neil focuses more on his studies (he skips a grade at some point and graduates high school a year early) but other than that he doesn't really go out and do much without Max and/or Nikki. Sometimes he'll do a D&D campaign with Nerris and Harrison and Preston thru discord

Max doesn't join any clubs in high school but I could see Neil joining like, chess and mathletes or smth. Anything to boost his college acceptance and make himself stand out. Colleges love extracurriculars yk. Max, however, gets put in a new afterschool activity by his parents every year until he turns 14 and gets a job. They just don't wanna see or deal with him yk? (:

When they do manage to get together, either outside of camp or during camp, they get up to their typical shenanigans yk but also ✨️date nights.✨️ At camp they'll pretty much do anything that gets them alone for a couple hours (like star gazing or going on walks in the woods) or sneaking out to Campbell's mansion on Spooky Island for... well, "private teenage activities." They'll watch movies or shows together (they both canonically have watched Game of Thrones already and I feel like they'd love Stranger Things) or sometimes just parallel play (both of them reading their own books or playing games separately). Neil does get Max into video gaming but they have a very small overlap of the type of games they both like

Trans Max specific stuff: Max doesn't tell Neil he's trans until they're 14/15ish when they start doing a little more than just making out bc Max sort of sees him being trans as on a "need to know" basis until he comes out to the rest of the campers at 16ish. Max getting his period during the summer and Neil sitting out of activities to take care of him and steal him extra snacks from the mess hall. Neil makes sure he doesn't wear his binder for too long