Max Herrera
Name Max Herrera
Character Information
| Codename | Babel | |
| Gender | Male | |
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| Age | 14 | |
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Physical Appearance
| Height | 5’6” | |
| Weight | 130lbs | |
| Hair Color | Dark Brown | |
| Eye Color | Dark Brown | |
| Physical Description | Max has a thick shock of wavy brown hair and chocolate brown eyes that are almost always smiling. He has an easy smile that pretty much never stops. |
Family
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| Children | ||
| Father | Jose Herrera, age 38 | |
| Mother | Maria Herrera, age 38 | |
| Brother(s) | Israel Herrera, age 12 Urbana Herrera, age 12 Rico Herrera, age 8 Jesús Herrera, age 4 |
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| Sister(s) | Yolanda Herrera, age 11 Antonia Herrera, age 10 Helena Herrera, age 6 |
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Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Max is friendly and outgoing, often just randomly introducing himself to random people and striking up conversations with them whether they like it or not! He is enthusiastic about many things, including but not limited to: Dungeons and Dragons, ballet (watching, not dancing) just about every kind of music imaginable, Africa (the continent, not the song… okay, the song, too) motorcycles, computers, and Robin Williams. | |
| Mutant Power(s) | Auditory Linguistic Assimilation- proficiency level 2- Max can learn any language in a matter of hours simply by listening to it. He currently speaks English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Korean, and Japanese. Japanese took the longest to learn- a total of 46 hours over the course of two weeks. | |
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| Hobbies & Interests | Dungeons and Dragons Ballet (watching, not doing) Demolition derbies Crocheting Art Music- just all music Cooking Men’s fashion Africa Motorcycles Bicycles Cars Trains Musical Theater Computers Robin Williams movies AND SO MUCH MORE! |
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| Mutant Mastery | X-2 |
| Origin Story | Max was born in Texas, the eldest of eight children- so far. His parents being obsessed with farming bought twelve acres of land and a cow when he was only a year old and so began their adventure. (They now have several goats, a couple dozen chickens, three cows, five barn cats, and a couple of small tractors that help them plant and harvest all of the vegetables they could possibly want.) From a young age, Max has loved animals and would often talk to them and follow them around all day long. In school, he made friends easily and became popular for being nice to everyone. He grew up speaking both English and Spanish, so opted to take French when his school required a foreign language beginning in seventh grade. To his- and his teacher’s- surprise, he picked it up very quickly and was able to hold simple conversations within a week, complex conversations in a month. He didn’t really think much of it and theorized that since he had grown up speaking two languages, his brain just worked that way. His parents didn’t believe him at first, but after the family dog told him exactly where to find the cat that had been missing for two weeks and they actually found her there, they started to believe him. His father thought it was cool and immediately wanted to know what all the animals thought of him. That is, until his family took in a German foreign exchange student. Without any study whatsoever and after only listening to the student speaking to his family on the phone a handful of times, Max realized he could understand every word. He was able to hold conversations in German with the student without even thinking about it. As an experiment, he went to the nearest video rental store and asked if they had any Japanese language films. To his delight, they had a whole section. He took four of them home that day and listened intently to all of them over the course of the next two days. Then he returned them and rented four more. Repeat this process until he was absolutely sure he understood them without reading the subtitles. At first his parents did not believe him, so he told them to pick out one of the Japanese movies at the video rental store and he would translated it. After accurately translating two films, they finally believed him. His father found an audio book in Korean at a used book storer and brought it home for him. After attending several Operas, he had the hang of rudimentary Italian. Eventually, he came to the notice of Professor Xavier and was offered a place at his school. Believing this to be the best place for him to learn more about his abilities, his parents sent him along to New York. |
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