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|affiliation = | |affiliation = P.R.O.B.E. | ||
|origin = [[Gendar (planet)|Gendar]] | |origin = [[Gendar (planet)|Gendar]] | ||
|first mention | |first mention cs = Shadows of Doubt (webcast) | ||
|first | |first cs = The Door We Forgot (short story) | ||
|appearances = [[Maxie Masters | |appearances = [[Maxie Masters/Appearances|'''''see list''''']] | ||
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== On Gendar === | === On Gendar === | ||
According to one account, Maxiassa had both [[Maxie Masters's mothers|mothers]], [[Maxie Masters's fathers|fathers]], and [[Maxie Masters's siblings|siblings]]. She also had multiple friends. ([[PROSE]]: | According to one account, Maxiassa had both [[Maxie Masters's mothers|mothers]], [[Maxie Masters's fathers|fathers]], and [[Maxie Masters's siblings|siblings]]. She also had multiple friends. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|She Came From Another World! (short story)}}) According to another account, Maxiassa only had one set of parents, who were both fairly old, and did not intend to have any children. However, they took it well when Maxiassa was born after all. She was an only child, and they doted on her, but were careful not to spoil her. [[Maxie Masters's mother|Maxie's mother]] taught her to "always do her best" when she was [[3 (number)|three]], a lesson she took to heart throughout her life. She was fairly withdrawn and solitary at school, though she claimed not to mind. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Maxie (audio story)}}) | ||
Maxie grew up hearing tales about the [[Denaxian]] [[Denaxian death ships|death ships]] and their assassins as a bedtime story. ([[PROSE]]: | Maxie grew up hearing tales about the [[Denaxian]] [[Denaxian death ships|death ships]] and their assassins as a bedtime story. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|How To Appear Human In Several Uneasy Lessons (short story)}}) | ||
As a young adult, she worked as a [[tour guide]] alongside her friend [[Tiassia]], a job she assumed would be fun. She also never went to [[university]]. ([[PROSE]]: | As a young adult, she worked as a [[tour guide]] alongside her friend [[Tiassia]], a job she assumed would be fun. She also never went to [[university]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|She Came From Another World! (short story)}}) She gave tours of various extraordinary landmarks of Gendar to alien tourists, for example giving guided tours of [[Auteur]]'s [[Auteur's Babbling Bibliothèque|Babbling Bibliothèque]] to [[electromagnetic barnacle]]s. | ||
Although it was not her profession or area of expertise, she sometimes tinkered with electronics as a [[hobby]] even then. ([[PROSE]]: | Although it was not her profession or area of expertise, she sometimes tinkered with electronics as a [[hobby]] even then. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}}) One day, after Maxie and Tiassia accidentally stumbled into a meeting they weren't supposed to, Tiassia was [[kill]]ed and Maxiassa had to quickly flee Gendar, as the individuals in the meeting sought to kill her too; she was only able to grab a [[duffle bag]] with a small amount of her belongings, including a [[computer]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|She Came From Another World! (short story)|She Came From Another World!}}) According to one account, Maxiassa's fleeing from Gendar had been amidst chaotic, violent events, which would [[Post-traumatic stress|plague her in the form of uncontrollable flashbacks]] for some time afterwards. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Maxie (audio story)}}) | ||
=== Arrival on Earth === | === Arrival on Earth === | ||
[[Spaceship (She Came From Another World!)|Maxiassa's spaceship]] landed in [[England]]. [[Giles]], the director of the [[P.R.O.B.E.]], 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 [[mirror]]s in a nearby branch of [[Homestyle]]. | [[Spaceship (She Came From Another World!)|Maxiassa's spaceship]] landed in [[England]]. [[Giles]], the director of the [[P.R.O.B.E.]], 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 [[mirror]]s in a nearby branch of [[Homestyle]]. | ||
[[File:Maxie Masters.jpg|left|thumb|Maxie began disguising herself as a [[human]] using hair dye and a pair of sunglasses. ([[PROSE]]: | [[File:Maxie Masters.jpg|left|thumb|Maxie began disguising herself as a [[human]] using hair dye and a pair of sunglasses. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Door We Forgot (short story)}})]]Two months later, Giles had arranged a meeting with Sir [[Andrew Williams]] and Maxiassa, now going by the name of Maxine Masters and wearing [[make-up]] to appear more human, and the three of them agreed that Maxine could gain [[Asylum (politics)|asylum]] on [[Earth]] on the proviso she worked for P.R.O.B.E. as a [[technician]]. She was later met by Giles in [[Maxie Masters's apartment|her apartment]], and Giles got her to repair a [[trio-disregulator]]; happy with her natural ability to fix it, he gave Maxine his old job as [[technician]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|She Came From Another World! (short story)|She Came From Another World}}) According to another account, she spent the following night in a safe house outside central London, which she suspected Giles had previously offered to other alien refugees. She perfected a "human disguise", dyeing her purple hair a less remarkable brown and picking up a pair of [[sunglasses]] to disguise her inhuman eye colour. Giles picked her up in the morning to drive her to [[P.R.O.B.E. HQ]], where he showed her her new office. | ||
Two months later, Giles had arranged a meeting with Sir [[Andrew Williams]] and Maxiassa, now going by the name of Maxine Masters and wearing [[make-up]] to appear more human, and the three of them agreed that Maxine could gain [[Asylum (politics)|asylum]] on [[Earth]] on the proviso she worked for P.R.O.B.E. as a [[technician]]. She was later met by Giles in [[Maxie Masters's apartment|her apartment]], and Giles got her to repair a [[trio-disregulator]]; happy with her natural ability to fix it, he gave Maxine his old job as [[technician]]. ([[PROSE]]: | |||
However, he was called away to go on a mission with the rest of the team, without having finished explaining everything to Maxie. Feeling superfluous and unwanted, Maxie began digging into the computer's archives to see if she could make herself useful. After reading through a lot of past case files, she discovered the records of the case currently in progress, a case of aliens who had hacked into [[MI6|the Secret Services]]' systems with [[malware]] and were blackmailing them. She effortlessly bypassed the malicious software and programmed new protections for the systems, phoning Giles even as he was meeting the aliens to tell her what she had achieved. Realising that he felt as though he'd been patronising her, Giles invited her to an expensive [[restaurant]] in London to make her feel more respected as a coworker. In turn, she assured him that she realised not every case would be so easy. ([[AUDIO]]: | However, he was called away to go on a mission with the rest of the team, without having finished explaining everything to Maxie. Feeling superfluous and unwanted, Maxie began digging into the computer's archives to see if she could make herself useful. After reading through a lot of past case files, she discovered the records of the case currently in progress, a case of aliens who had hacked into [[MI6|the Secret Services]]' systems with [[malware]] and were blackmailing them. She effortlessly bypassed the malicious software and programmed new protections for the systems, phoning Giles even as he was meeting the aliens to tell her what she had achieved. Realising that he felt as though he'd been patronising her, Giles invited her to an expensive [[restaurant]] in London to make her feel more respected as a coworker. In turn, she assured him that she realised not every case would be so easy. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Maxie (audio story)}}) | ||
Eventually, she moved into a room at P.R.O.B.E. HQ ([[PROSE]]: | Eventually, she moved into a room at P.R.O.B.E. HQ ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}}) and began cataloguing alien artefacts in her office. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Door We Forgot (short story)}}) 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 (film)|Aladdin]]'' and [[The Wizard of Oz|another movie]] which ended with the [[Wicked Witch of the West]] melting. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}}) She liked playing video games like ''[[Super Mario Brothers 3}}. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Door We Forgot (short story)}}) | ||
After initial friction with [[Agamya Akhtar]], Giles also explained human [[religion]]s 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 [[Time Lord|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]]: | After initial friction with [[Agamya Akhtar]], Giles also explained human [[religion]]s 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 [[Time Lord|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]]: {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}}) | ||
=== As P.R.O.B.E. technician === | === As P.R.O.B.E. technician === | ||
{{Section stub}} | {{Section stub}}On [[23 April]] [[2018]], after [[Giles]] was alerted to the existence of a [[Facebook]] group where [[London]] area residents had uploaded videos and reports of several real supernatural events alongside the usual hoaxes, including several cases P.R.O.B.E. itself had worked on. When he noticed credible reports of a [[poltergeist]] haunting in [[Peckham]] which had not previously been on P.R.O.B.E.'s radar, Giles called on Maxie to find the address of [[Garry Nelson|the user]] who had made the report. After he and [[Archie MacTavish]] got back from dealing with the "[[Peckham Poltergeist]]", Giles had Maxie delete all footage of P.R.O.B.E. from the Facebook page, but also decided that they should keep an eye on it in case other useful reports surfaced on it. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Peckham Poltergeist (webcast)}}) | ||
After Archie died, Maxie and [[Tasha Williams|Tasha]] took it in turns to buy [[Giles]] breakfast because they were worried about him. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Manchester (webcast)}}) | |||
Shortly after [[Azacca Dixon|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]]: | On [[14 February]] [[2019]] Maxie was able to create a concoction to counteract the effect that [[Stacey Facade]] had on Giles. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Stacey Facade (webcast)|Stacey Facade}}) A few months later, Giles asked discreetly for Maxie's help finding out information on the daughter of [[Sandra King|Sandra]] and [[Harry King]]. Maxie dutifully told him about the basics of [[Harriet King|the girl]]'s identity, but made it clear that she had readily guessed that Sandra was Giles's estrange sister and Harriet was therefore his niece. The two also discovered that Harriet's boyfriend [[Jonathan (Broken Bonds)|Jonathan]] coincidentally had ties to [[Beltane (organisation)|Beltane]], an organisation that P.R.O.B.E. had been investigating. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Broken Bonds (audio story)}}) | ||
Shortly after [[Azacca Dixon|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]]: {{cs|A Honeycomb of Souls (short story)}}) | |||
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 (When to Die)|Box]], the portable supercomputer of the [[Liz Shaw|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. | 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 (When to Die)|Box]], the portable supercomputer of the [[Liz Shaw|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 (species)|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 [[Friendship|friends]] from now on. ([[PROSE]]: | [[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 (species)|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 [[Friendship|friends]] from now on. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}}) | ||
On [[3 March]] [[2021]], Giles had Maxie look over the footage anonymously sent to them as proof that [[Lauren Anderson]] was innocent of the slaughter of her colleagues and patients years prior. She found no evidence of the videos being doctored, and she and Giles met up with the source, Lor, who turned out to be none other than Lauren Anderson, who'd been living on the run since being framed. Maxie helped Lor and Giles defeat the love wraith [[Stacey Facade]], who had been feeding off of Lauren, once and for all. ([[HOMEVID]]: | On [[3 March]] [[2021]], Giles had Maxie look over the footage anonymously sent to them as proof that [[Lauren Anderson]] was innocent of the slaughter of her colleagues and patients years prior. She found no evidence of the videos being doctored, and she and Giles met up with the source, Lor, who turned out to be none other than Lauren Anderson, who'd been living on the run since being framed. Maxie helped Lor and Giles defeat the love wraith [[Stacey Facade]], who had been feeding off of Lauren, once and for all. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Lauren Anderson (home video)}}) Soon after, in the days leading up to [[10 March]], Maxie helped Giles dispose of a murderous interdimensional "[[Living Fiction]]" entity inhabiting a film reel, with the two of them trying various method before landing on the idea of simply exposing the film reel to direct sunlight — a weakness both of vintage film reels and of the classic movie [[vampire]]s that the entity was emulating. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Living Fiction (home video)}}) | ||
Maxie kept a [[time detector]] in her office. With it, she was able to detect [[Faction Paradox]] activity in [[London]] on [[28 March]]. 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]]: | Maxie kept a [[time detector]] in her office. With it, she was able to detect [[Faction Paradox]] activity in [[London]] on [[28 March]]. 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]]: {{cs|Daylight Savings (home video)}}) | ||
By [[4 April]], the whole team was aware of Maxie's nature as a non-human. That day, she was abruptly taken ill; it would later be discovered that this was due to an allergic reaction to pollen of some of the plants recovered by P.R.O.B.E. from [[Ogden Farm]]. Fearing the worst, and having no other way of curing her which he was sure would work on her Gendar biology, Giles took the drastic step of injecting Maxie with a dose of [[Cyberon (drug)|Cyberon]]. Although this did stop the fit and fever, the drug proved far more potent on a Gendar than a human with this single injection being enough for the Cyberon intelligence to completely take over Maxie's body. | By [[4 April]], the whole team was aware of Maxie's nature as a non-human. That day, she was abruptly taken ill; it would later be discovered that this was due to an allergic reaction to pollen of some of the plants recovered by P.R.O.B.E. from [[Ogden Farm]]. Fearing the worst, and having no other way of curing her which he was sure would work on her Gendar biology, Giles took the drastic step of injecting Maxie with a dose of [[Cyberon (drug)|Cyberon]]. Although this did stop the fit and fever, the drug proved far more potent on a Gendar than a human with this single injection being enough for the Cyberon intelligence to completely take over Maxie's body. | ||
[[File:Cyberon transfers out of Maxie.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Cyberon (drug)|Cyberon drug]] transfers itself from Maxie to the [[Cyberon (The Only Cure)|Cyberon pilot]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: | [[File:Cyberon transfers out of Maxie.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Cyberon (drug)|Cyberon drug]] transfers itself from Maxie to the [[Cyberon (The Only Cure)|Cyberon pilot]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|The Only Cure (home video)|The Only Cure}})]]Under the Cyberon's control, "Maxie" slipped out of her teammates' grasp and stole Giles's car to make her escape — this, even though the "real" Maxie didn't know how to drive. The Cyberon directed her to a sewer entrance near [[Clapham Junction]] and, from there, to the location of a crashed [[Cyberon pod (The Only Cure)|Cyberon pod]] which she began to repair. Meanwhile, the rest of the team tracked her down using [[CCTV]] footage and followed her to the cavern housing the spacecraft. The Cyberon fluid voluntarily released Maxie so that it could instead transfer itself to the hollow husk of the craft's [[Cyberon (The Only Cure)|original Cyberon pilot]]. Though nearly falling unconscious from the strain of possession and her earlier illness, Maxie was able to advise Giles on how to trigger the Cyberon craft's [[self-destruct]], and the entire team made their escape while the pod and its pilot were destroyed. | ||
After returning to HQ, Maxie was given a check-up by [[Lauren Anderson]], who confirmed she had no Cyberon left in her system and finally identified the original source of her illness. ([[HOMEVID]]: | After returning to HQ, Maxie was given a check-up by [[Lauren Anderson]], who confirmed she had no Cyberon left in her system and finally identified the original source of her illness. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|The Only Cure (home video)}}) | ||
== Appearance == | == Appearance == | ||
When she first came to Earth, Maxiassa had: vivid [[purple]] [[hair]] that was tied in a [[ponytail]]; purple [[iris]]es; pure [[white]] [[skin]], that was whiter than [[Caucasian]]; and she had odd [[bone]] structure. She had purple [[blood]], and her [[vein]]s were visible. To blend in better on Earth, she wore [[brown]] [[contact lens|contact]]s that covered her irises, [[dye]]d brown hair, and a layer of [[make-up]] over her visible skin. ([[PROSE]]: | When she first came to Earth, Maxiassa had: vivid [[purple]] [[hair]] that was tied in a [[ponytail]]; purple [[iris]]es; pure [[white]] [[skin]], that was whiter than [[Caucasian]]; and she had odd [[bone]] structure. She had purple [[blood]], and her [[vein]]s were visible. To blend in better on Earth, she wore [[brown]] [[contact lens|contact]]s that covered her irises, [[dye]]d brown hair, and a layer of [[make-up]] over her visible skin. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|She Came From Another World! (short story)}}) According to another account, she wore [[sunglasses]] to cover up her inhuman eyes. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Maxie (audio story)}}) | ||
Because [[Gendar (species)|Gendar]], although humanoid in appearance, had a somewhat different body language from humans', Maxie had some trouble learning how to [[smile]] in a way that humans found acceptable; her best attempts, even four years after coming to [[Earth]], were "irregular", "all teeth and no expression". ([[AUDIO]]: | Because [[Gendar (species)|Gendar]], although humanoid in appearance, had a somewhat different body language from humans', Maxie had some trouble learning how to [[smile]] in a way that humans found acceptable; her best attempts, even four years after coming to [[Earth]], were "irregular", "all teeth and no expression". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Broken Bonds (audio story)}}) | ||
=== Clothing === | === Clothing === | ||
On her final day on Gendar, she wore a [[grey]] [[poncho]] over a [[white]] [[blouse]] and [[trousers|pants]], with sturdy [[boot]]s, heavy-duty [[goggle]]s, and a big [[satchel]]. When she went to Sir [[Andrew Williams]] two [[month]]s later, to appear more human, she wore a long [[skirt]] and had a [[purse]], as otherwise should would've had no [[pocket]]s. ([[PROSE]]: | On her final day on Gendar, she wore a [[grey]] [[poncho]] over a [[white]] [[blouse]] and [[trousers|pants]], with sturdy [[boot]]s, heavy-duty [[goggle]]s, and a big [[satchel]]. When she went to Sir [[Andrew Williams]] two [[month]]s later, to appear more human, she wore a long [[skirt]] and had a [[purse]], as otherwise should would've had no [[pocket]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|She Came From Another World! (short story)}}) | ||
She usually wore a long coat. ([[PROSE]]: | She usually wore a long coat. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Out of the Box (short story)}}) | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
{{cs|The Gendar Conspiracy (short story)}}, released a year before Maxie's debut in {{cs|She Came From Another World! (short story)|She Came From Another World!}}, featured a brief appearance by a [[Tour guide (The Gendar Conspiracy)|nameless Gendar tour guide]]. Although the link has never been made explicit, this character may be interpreted as a younger version of Maxie. | |||
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