MCKENZIE, MAVERICK ELIOT

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MAVERICK ELIOT MCKENZIE

NAME: Maverick Eliot McKenzie
NICKNAME:Mav, Mavy
AGE : 17
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
GRADE LEVEL: Junior

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Outgoing:
Maverick is rather outgoing. He generally doesn't care who you are, if you're within range he will start talking to you and it really doesn't have to be anything in particular. He likes being around people and regardless of who they are or what might have been said about them, if he doesn't have first hand experience with it, then you have a clean slate with him until he does. Pretty much you're all fair game to him.
Sarcastic:
Maverick tends to have a problem with sarcasm. Its like a second language to him and sometimes people don't catch on to the fact that he is being sarcastic at times. Maverick really can't help it. It's like he doesn't think about it until its out and even then unless someone has a problem with something he says, hes not going to realize if someones taken it the wrong way. He likes small banter as well. Nothing too out there and horrible, but fun and playful.
Charismatic
Maverick is a bit of a charmer. He likes to play around, have fun and part of that is flirting for him. Sometimes he can be over the top but really who doesn't get that way from time to time, but its not too over bearing. He likes to try and keep an open mind about people and anything really. He also likes to make people feel good about themselves, especially if they are down. If someone thinks they are worthless or something he will compliment them and give them attention to hopefully get them to see they are definitely not that.
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Maverick isnt perfect. Hes always been the strong one in the family and has never really been able to deal with anything. He usually tries to push everything to the back of his mind and not let it affect him. Of course that is never as easy as it sounds. He will go through times where he becomes withdrawn and not want to be around people. He'll joke around, maybe text but you can usually tell that hes not himself or the person he's put himself out to be on a usual basis. He will try to do enough to try and not be obvious but sometimes his thoughts get the better of him and he gets a little depressed.
Independent
Because hes so used to being the strong one in the family he always tries to do everything himself and never if ever rarely asks for help. He also tends not to because he doesnt like people knowing his business. He doesnt feel like the world should know their shit. He also isnt a big fan of drama so he tries to stay out of it as much as possible.
Jerk
Just like everyone, Maverick isnt perfect. Just because he is outgoing and usually friendly, there are times when he can be a jerk and sometimes callous. He does tend to feel bad afterwards, he likes to see the good in the world because theres so much hate and anger and blackness that he tries not to add to it, but what can you do. You're only human.
Laidback
He likes to just chill a lot of the times. He loves the ocean and anything to do with the outdoors. He isnt really high maintenance and really he just like simple things. He can be happy with barely anything as long as hes not alone. Hes not into drama either, so if you're into that dont expect a whole lot from him.


Maverick was the middle child of three kids. His parents were average parents. They had fairly decent jobs and they managed to be able to live comfortably, without any real money issues. Mavericks older brother, Benjamin, was the all American teen. He was into football, basketball. Benjamin was any fathers dream and he and their dad used to spend a lot of time together. Maverick had always been close to his older brother and looked up to him quite a bit. They were about three years apart. While their little sister, Remy who was five years younger then Maverick, liked to tattle on them about most anything. They weren't the perfect family, but they hadn't had much for problems either.

Unfortunately that didn't last very long. Maverick was ten when their father was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Treatments didn't seem to work and the cancer hit him hard. They watched, unable to do much as their father pretty much wasted away. It was devastating to the family and took its toll on each of them differently. Benny started hanging out with the wrong crowd, dropped out of sports and started getting into drugs bad. Remy decided she was going to stop talking and their mother had to see a therapist who put her on antidepressants. Their mother holed herself up in her room and no one seemed to be able to bring her out of her depression. It was barely two months after their father died when Benny O.D'd. Maverick practically was watching his family fall apart and nothing he did seemed to help. On top of that, he hadn't been able to deal with it for himself because he was practically taking care of his mom and sister now.

Maverick was sixteen when he lost both his dad and his brother in that same year. Instead of being able to deal with this, he just put himself into taking care of the rest of his family and his school work. The atmosphere was so bad he tried not to worsen it with his own depression and pushed it away faking smiles and pretending to bring more of an optimistic attitude into the house. Mavericks Aunt from his mothers side came shortly after to help Maverick out. After hearing that her sister was still suck in her room. It took almost six months before their mother had finally come out of her room and another two before she pushed herself to get a job. Remy still wasn't talking and no amount of therapy seemed to be helping. Shelly, his aunt thought maybe it was time to sell the house. She told them to come move in with her. It took some convincing but his mother finally agreed.

Selling the house had been hard. Going through their things was even worse. They almost risked a relapse with his mother, but Shelly really helped keep things moving forward rather then back. Maverick took the rest of the school year off to help with the whole ordeal. It set him back a year in school, but he didn't care.
Settling in at his aunts house has been definitely different, but already Maverick starting to see a small difference in his mother. Its not a big difference but its something. Remy still refuses to speak but hes hoping more time here will help. Well just time in general. He knows things arent going to happen fast, but at least it was a start.

Maverick slowly started to let himself enjoy himself by going out and meeting new people. His sexuality wasnt out yet really, not like he really had time to meet people and get a boyfriend or girlfriend. The first boy he ever saw, his aunt ended up catching them kissing on the front porch. Maverick hadnt even thought that it would have been a problem but his aunt clearly did not agree with it. Because of his mothers weakened self and the in ability to make decisions, his aunt decided it was best she dealt with it. They fought over it and in the end she figured it would be best that he be taken somewhere that, not only would it be out of sight and mind for her, but hopefully he would be able to change and still finish school.

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Ryder wasnt exactly sure why he was doing this. Hell she was probably going to punch him. Kick his ass out. Maybe that was good, he needed that. Whatever it was he felt the need to go through with this plan was, well it was just fucked up. He didnt do this kind of stuff, he didnt care enough to do this kind of stuff. So why was he doing this kind of stuff now? He didnt know. He blamed emery. Yes that sounded good. It was emery's fault. Emery was making him soft... and maybe the thought of having an actual friend outside of Emery.

Ryder had never thought of himself as the kind of person that could old down a friendship... or relationship. Right now he was doing a shit job at the relationship thing but Emery was working with him and he was working with Emery. They may still have some weird spots.. mostly because Ryder is a moron who tends to not realize the things that are appropriate or not appropriate now that he was a taken man. Good example was Valeria. But Ryder had learned his lesson. He hoped to god he could keep his head on straight from now on.

As for this friendship thing. He did kind of like stella. She seemed pretty chill and for some goddamn reason she liked him. He honestly didnt know why its not like he was really a nice guy because lets face it hes kind of a douche. Not to mention he cant stand any of her other friends and he really doesnt care for her boyfriend. He really did not see why she liked him or wanted him around.

Maybe he should ask her. Maybe.. he wasnt sure he'd decide later. Right now.. he had a mission in mind and he was going to do it. He didnt want stella to constantly be feeling like she sabotaged everything in her life. So ... maybe if he could help her.. things could get better and shed be more confident in herself. Or.. rather her relationships. Who knows.. maybe. Either way it was worth a shot.

Ryder looked up at the house that stella had told him was hers. It wasnt that Ryder was poor. In fact he was sitting on a shit ton of cash, but he didnt spend it unless he absolutely needed to. He lived in a decent but yet still crappy apartment that was probably a fourth of the size of one of her rooms. He hadnt been inside yet so really that could just be an exaggeration. Walking up the steps he ran the door bell and then waited. He hoped no one else was home.. especially her brother not that he would care if he got his ass kicked, but still. He didnt want to be interrupted.