Maxie Masters

Maxie Masters
Main aliases:	Maxiassa, Maxine Masters
Species:	Gendar
Job:	Tour guide, technician
Affiliated with:	P.R.O.B.E.
Place of origin:	Gendar
First mentioned in:	Shadows of Doubt
First appearance:	The Door We Forgot
Appearances:	see list

Maxine Masters, born Maxiassaa and better-known as Maxie Masters, was a Gendar. Forced to leave her planet, she took refuge on Earth. Confiding in Giles, the director of P.R.O.B.E., she ended up becoming P.R.O.B.E.'s technician, residing in a room at P.R.O.B.E. HQ and putting her knowledge of advanced alien technology to use as the team's tech support.

Biography

On Gendar

Maxiassa was originally a tour guide on the planet Gendar, as was her friend Tiassia. (PROSE: She Came From Another World!) She gave tours of various extraordinary landmarks of Gendar to alien tourists, for example giving guided tours of Auteur's Babbling Bibliothèque to electromagnetic barnacles.

Although it was not her profession or area of expertise, she sometimes tinkered with electronics as a hobby even then. (PROSE: Out of the Box) One day, after Maxie and Tiassia accidentally stumbled into a meeting they weren't supposed to, Tiassia was killed and Maxiassa had to quickly flee Gendar. (PROSE: She Came From Another World!)

Arrival on Earth

Maxiassa's spaceship landed in England. Giles, the director of the Preternatural Research Bureau, happened to be on holiday in the area, and went to investigate. When she climbed out of her spaceship, Maxiassa and Giles were attacked by Mar'tuth, and she and Giles defeated the humanoid being with mirrors.

Two months later, Giles had arranged a meeting with Sir Andrew Williams and Maxiassa, now going by the name of Maxine Masters, and the three of them agreed that Maxine could gain asylum on Earth on the proviso she worked for P.R.O.B.E. as a technician. (PROSE: She Came From Another World) She moved into a room at P.R.O.B.E. HQ (PROSE: Out of the Box) and had an office where she catalogued alien artefacts. (PROSE: The Door We Forgot)

Shortly after arriving on Earth, Maxie spent some time browsing the human Internet. Giles also took it upon himself to introduce her to various Earth media, including the movie Aladdin and another movie which ended with the Wicked Witch of the West melting. (PROSE: Out of the Box) She liked playing video games like Super Mario Brothers 3. (PROSE: The Door We Forgot)

After initial friction with Agamya Akhtar, Giles also explained human religions to Maxie, who was left rather confused by humans' worship of various contradictory deities whose existence was not a physically-proven fact, in contrast to Gendar's "gods", the Sun Builders, whose existence was a historical certainty whether one wanted to worship them or not. However, she slowly came around to better understanding human spirituality. (PROSE: Out of the Box)

As P.R.O.B.E. technician

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After Archie MacTavish died, Maxie and Tasha took it in turns to buy Giles breakfast because they were worried about him. (WC: Manchester)

On 14 February 2019 Maxie was able to create a concoction to counteract the effect that Stacey Facade had on Giles. (WC: Stacey Facade)

Shortly after Az joined the team, the full P.R.O.B.E. team defeated Morch'aliach with the help of Origin Zero and of the time-travelling Ganeida. (PROSE: A Honeycomb of Souls)

In November 2019, Maxie spotted one of the items on the high-security "Dr Smith shelf" giving off a flash of green light. After she spoke about it with Giles, he explained that the device was Box, the portable supercomputer of the old director, which had been damaged a few years prior. He allowed her to take Box off the shelf and try to repair her. After she stayed up all night working on the matter, he brought her a cup of cocoa. After she spilled the cocoa on Box, reversing much of her progress, she spent a few days doing field work with Giles and the rest of the team, but soon sank back into the work, which consumed most of her attention.

Agamya Akhtar, with whom Maxie had been having trouble getting along, spoke to her and Giles about her fear that the Box A.I. was malevolent and should not be awakened; although she continued her work, Maxie was rattled by these concerns and ended up procrastinating, working slowly and avoiding any real breakthroughs to delay the possible catastrophe. Eventually, Giles forced her to come along on a mission to Bildbriain Dairies to get her out of H.Q. and help her clear her head. She took Box along, and, after the team found themselves captured by the Greth, Box, now able to communicate through text messages on her screen, convinced Agamya to vouch for her and let Maxie take the risk of fully "freeing" Box, if she thought the possibility of Box saving them was worth the risk. Maxie agreed, bluffing the Greth by playing on her Gendar heritage and getting it to let her connect Box to the internet — though not before ensuring the rest of the team would not overhear her confessing to her nonhuman parentage, which she was still unwilling to share. After Box indeed saved the day, Maxie and Agamya had a talk, agreeing they were friends from now on. (PROSE: Out of the Box)

She kept a time detector in her office. With it, she was able to detect Faction Paradox activity in London on 28 March 2021. However, after P.R.O.B.E. came close to cracking the Faction's scheme, the Faction went back in time and stole the time detector from Maxie, preventing her from ever having found out about their presence. Due to her species' sensitivity to time anomalies, however, she got a headache from the temporal manipulation to which she had fallen victim. (HOMEVID: Daylight Savings)

Appearance

Maxie originally appeared humanoid, but with purple hair, eyes, and blood. Her skin was completely white.

However, after her arrival on Earth, she was given contacts to make her eyes brown. Her hair was also dyed brown and she was given a layer of makeup. (PROSE: She Came From Another World) She usually wore a long coat. (PROSE: Out of the Box)