Maxwell

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Maxwell is an elderly member of the wider Belanger family.

Personality

He rans the family council, is head of any meetings and takes all the time sensitive decisions. He is the oldest practising member of the family.<ref name=":0">He was the one who ran the family council.  He was head of the meetings, the oldest practicing family member, the one who made the big decisions that were too time sensitive or awkward to hold meetings over.  He made the call about who got a shot at apprenticeships and trial runs in the circle.  He’d decided that it would be inappropriate and problematic, politically, to have every Belanger child attend the school that Belangers had helped found and, after the coup to take things from Bristow, managed.

He’d decided she was one of the children who, despite her Sight and talents,  wasn’t worth a shot.  He’d decided Gillian wasn’t worth an apprenticeship, and Alexander had agreed.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

Relationships

Jen Ross despises Maxwell believing that he exemplifies everything that's wrong with the Belanger family.<ref name=":1">Senior in the family.  He’d been teacher for those in the family, but as he’d gotten older, he’d taken on more of a role as the examiner, only really seeing the kids when they’d reached a certain stage in their training and warranted a check about how much those lessons had really taken hold.  Usually he’d put pressure on the kids, while asking them to do a variation on a practice they knew, show they knew the nuts and bolts of it, and why each piece was what it was.

He was a good teacher, really.  He had produced Alexander and Wye, and they were, for all their many failings as human beings, very good augurs.  That was just about where her praise for him ended.  In other ways, Maxwell was so much of what she hated. - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

It was Maxwell that decided not to allow Jen and Gillian to attend the Blue Heron Institute.<ref name=":0" />

Abilities

He never turns off his sight, most of the time his eyes appear normal but in darkness, smoke or under strong emotions they gain an intensity.<ref>He’d started using Sight a long time ago and he’d never turned it off.  In normal light and everyday situations, his eyes appeared normal, but when emotion flared or in shadow and smoke, they took on an intensity.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

Chronology

He was employed as a teacher and examiner for the families children.<ref name=":1" /> When the Belanger family was attacked he helped Jen and Owen set a trap for the invaders. He ended up getting injured by Joshua during the fighting.<ref>Maxwell was lying there, bleeding.  Alive. - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.d</ref>

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