Post by DM: Dersite Merchant on Jan 20, 2012 10:09:12 GMT -5
Full Name: Maximilian McCraig (because why not?)
Nickname(s): Mac, Master Mac, Mack-a-Lacka, Mac-Attack, My Butler Wimpy, Sugar Demon, Rex Carsalot, Mr. Smarty Pants, Mature Kid, Mr. Destructo, Orlando Bloo's lower half, Big Mac (not to be confused with Big McIntosh)
Age: 9
Height: 3'6" (according to Coco Card)
Weight: 67 lbs. (again, according to Coco Card)
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alliance: Good
Home: Somewhere northwest US, I think; he lives in the same town as a mansion on 1123 Wilson Way
Franchise: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Physical Description
An average boy with about shoulder length brown hair with a small cowlick in the back and brown eyes (the latter not necessarily canon), Mac wears a thin red T-shirt over a long sleeved white shirt, tannish-greenish pants, black shoes, and a pea green backpack he wears everywhere.
Weapons
None.
Abilities/Powers
Mac can bring any being he can think of to life just by imagining it hard, though this is something anyone can do in the world he comes from. This is why learning to tame one's imagination is essential to society to prevent an overpopulation (or worse, more of the dangerous kinds) of imaginary friends.
Skills
Mac is a very creative individual and is good at coming up with original ideas and concepts. This is thanks to a pure imagination that has impressed even Madame Foster and a large intellect for his age. He is also pretty good with electronics, such as computers, and is skilled in various fields of mathematics. On top of that, he'a also good at filing and organizing to the point where he can help organize his mother's bank statements.
Over the summer, he took martial arts classes in the hopes that it would help deal with his brother, but it didn't help as well as he'd hoped given his brother is twice his size and can pick him up with one hand. Mac is a fairly good swimmer, even though he doesn't do it all that often, and can build go-karts. Now does he paint them with flaming hot rods or bunnies? .................. "Shut up. At least the bunnies are on fire."
Personality
Mac is a bright, unselfish, creative and somewhat shy boy. Mac is unusually clever, with a sense of reason and somewhat large vocabulary to match. He tends to be the one to settle any mishaps that the imaginary friends (particularly Bloo) end up causing. Mac is usually very good-natured, despite Bloo's continuing antics. No matter what happens to Bloo or any other member of the house, Mac is usually the one to bail them out. However, he has been known to snap; Mac has a strongly moral personality and he always avoids doing wrong things, but sometimes he is pushed to do otherwise, almost always by Bloo. There is nothing that he loves more than visiting Foster's and spending time with his friends. Foster's creator Craig McCracken said in an interview that Mac was based on his childhood at the age of seven following his father's passing.
Mac's personality goes from very sensible to lunatic if he gets even the smallest amount of sugar, which is the main reason why his mother won't let him have any. He has been known to talk to himself and even go into min-seizures when exposed to sugar. Out of all of Mac's known sugar rushes, he has eaten large amounts of sugar, but has shown no signs of gaining weight.
Mac has the ability to make friends with almost any imaginary friend, his closest being Coco, Wilt, Eduardo, and of course Bloo. He cares a lot about imaginary friends, and looks out for them often. Mac has a close connection with Madame Foster, with whom he shares a close kinship, particularly in that neither of them are willing to give up their imaginary friend, where most children would have done so long ago. Mac also seems to get along decently well with Mr. Herriman, despite the fact he has such a great dislike of Bloo. Mac has great affection for the house's caregiver Frankie, to the point of harboring an intense crush on her. Aside from his crush, Mac is a loyal and helpful friend to Frankie and vice versa. She is also one of the few human friends he has and is usually the only one he sees on a daily basis (until meeting Julian in the fourth grade) with Goo appearing from time to time.
History
Mac was born to a middle-class family with not much to their name. He had a mother, a father, and an older brother named Terrence. The family had been going through very rough times, and a long buildup of tension finally reached its breaking point in Mr. and Mrs. McCraig's relationship. Little Terrance, distraught over his father's leaving, shifted blame towards his toddler brother Mac and became and overall grouchy jerk in general.
Wanting a friend to help cope with Terrence's change in attitude, Mac imagined up a blue blob-like creature he named Blooregard Q. Kazoo--a wild and free spirited guy who wasn't afraid to do things Mac himself wouldn't have the guts to. Things like stand up to Terrence. And that slippery little trickster usually got away with it. As shy as he was, Mac never interacted much with the other kids his age. In the end, it didn't really matter to him, though. Bloo was the only friend he really needed.
Unfortunately, Mom thought differently. Concerned with the continuous fighting between the trio and Mac's ongoing reluctance to play with his other peers, she decided to take her by then 8-year-old son aside and declare he's outgrown his imaginary friend. Both Mac and Bloo were quite upset by this development at first until Bloo stumbled upon an ad for a fancy home that took in friends like him: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. But while he originally thought the place was like a boarding house, the two learned instead the Foster's was actually a foster home and leaving him there would put him up for adoption. With the knowledge that as long as he was on the property Bloo was unadoptable, Mac suggested he simply visited whenever he could and Bloo would lay low at all other times...at least until a more stable solution came along.
This plan nearly fell apart when a bratty rich girl arrived, spotting Bloo and naming him Tiffany. He was only spared this humiliating adoption when Mac arrived at the last second. This incident, unfortunately, earned Bloo the ire of a Picasso-like spoiled rotten friend named Duchess, whom the bratty girl had scorned in favor of him. And when Terrance got into the mix, discovering Mac hadn't truly given up Bloo as he told their mother, he and Duchess ended up working together on a plan to get rid of Bloo for good. Despite the trickery involved in keeping Mac away from the home long enough for Terrance to arrive and adopt Bloo himself and Duchess's release of the monstrous imaginary friend called an extremosaur to help take him out, Mac and the friends they made at Foster's managed to work together and save Bloo.
As soon as the matriarch of the home, Madame Foster, learned of the incident, she took a liking to Mac and struck a deal with him. As long as Mac visited every single day (extenuating circumstances aside), Bloo would remain unadoptable even while Mac wasn't there. Mr. Herriman, head of business affairs and the matriarch's own imaginary friend, tried to protest at first. But on Madame Foster's insistence, Herriman relented and begrudgingly added the Daily Visitor Clause as an amendment to the house rules. Despite the occasional mishap, Mac has ultimately never failed to uphold his end of the deal. Throughout the following year, Mac ended up getting involved with all sort of hijinks with the friends of Foster's. Such cases included Mac and Bloo nearly wrecking their first Adopt-a-Thought Saturday at the house, Bloo releasing a gigantic swarm of baby-imagined scribble friends, Bloo making a monopoly of Madame Foster's cookies, and even one crazy misadventure when Bloo became an abused commercial star.
Mac made numerous friends and enemies visiting Foster's. One of the former was Madame Foster's granddaughter and the house's overworked maid, Frankie. He's developed quite the crush on her, in fact, though good luck getting him to admit it. At one point, Mac and the others assumed a reality warping friend that was locked in a chest kidnapped her. But as it turned out, Frankie willingly went with World into his chest. And after some crazy misunderstandings all around blew over, World was welcomed as a friend of Foster's and Frankie's workload was spread out among the other residents to ease her schedule. Mac has a rivalry with the snooty rich kid Richie Wildebrat which only really kicked in when the former and his imaginary friend beat the latter and his own, Blake Superior, at the Imaginary Friends Talent Show and Pageant.
Mac has also made friends with Goo, a hyperactive 10-year-old girl who used to plague Foster's with dozens of spontaneously made friends before calming down. Despite her annoying him greatly at first, she became a good friend to him and the other's at the home. Mac has also become an enemy to Berry, a "sweet" if psychotic little imaginary friend with an obsessive crush on Bloo even though he hardly notices her. He's even become kind of the part-time manager to a small rock group set up by four of the friend of Foster's called Pizza Party. The band has a few popular songs and music videos out on ViewTube, including their ever popular first big song, "Talk to the Jeans". Louise, the girl living in the apartment next to Mac's, has a toddler-minded imaginary friend named Cheese who often shows up to the ire of the rest of Foster's. Mac hadn't known about Cheese until one day when he suddenly showed up in his apartment leading to the misunderstanding that he imagined him, but Louise cleared things up.
Throughout his visits, Mac has helped the house quite a bit; both in helping organize events and earn funds from potential donors to maintain the house. He managed to keep his daily visits a secret from his mother, even with a planned (and ultimately failed) trip to Europe with the friends. Their cover was nearly blown when Bloo crashed the wedding of Mac's cousin Candy, which he misunderstood to be Mac's wedding through insane troll logic, but they were able to perform damage control before Mom could put two and two together. Early late summer, Mr. Herriman reported to the friends that Mac was supposedly moving. However, come the big farewell party, Mac pointed out that they were simply moving into a bigger apartment...in the same complex, as a result of his mother's generous promotion. Louise's family, on the other hand, was the one that moved from town entirely, and it was their apartment the McCraigs moved into. But Cheese had to stay behind and moved into Foster's, much to everyone's chagrin.
One late summer day, Frankie's then mostly unheard of nephew, Andrew, showed up now under the former's legal custody. While the friends of Foster's and Mac gave the shy teenage newcomer a warm welcome, circumstances indirectly related to his arrival finally drew Mom's attention to her younger son's secret visits. Upset with him for lying to her all this time, she took Mac home and banned him from future visits. But when an angry imaginary friend at Foster's ended up releasing a few extremosaurs from their pen in a fit of anger and stupidity, Mac proved extremely helpful in keeping the friends organized and getting those monsters back in their cage. Seeing how much loved and valuable Mac had made himself at Foster's, Mom reconsidered her actions and lifted the ban--on a trial basis.
On Mom's agreement, Mac was allowed to keep visiting Foster's every day on two conditions: 1) he had to make a human friend his age at school within one week into the next school year, and 2) he must promise never to lie or keep secrets of that kind from her again. Mac agreed to both conditions, but he remained unsure of how well he could handle the first despite his Foster's friends' encouragement. And then he noticed a new kid at school who'd become a favorite target for bullies. Mac made friends with the plucky boy, who identified himself as Julian, fulfilling the conditions his mom had set up. Julian himself had an imaginary friend named Mikey, and he began staying at Foster's under the Daily Visitor Clause when Julian's family felt they could no longer support him and the baby on the way. Given Julian didn't necessarily have to give him up, his parents are aware of his visits to Foster's, thereby avoiding the drama of secrecy Mac and Bloo had to deal with.
One day, Julian came running into Foster's claiming he found a portal to another dimension in the vacant yard down the street. Mac was skeptical at first...until he investigated himself and found the portal into the Interdimensional Travel Station.
Other
This Mac is loosely based off of the RPing I did at the old, now closed Foster's Forum for Imaginary Friends, albeit submitted as a canon rather than a straight-out AU. This is why he knows such characters as Julian, Mikey, and Andrew, all three mentioned above. Andrew is not my character but that of one of my old FFfIF peers who remains a good friend of mine. I only included him in the history as a frame of reference.
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Nickname(s): Mac, Master Mac, Mack-a-Lacka, Mac-Attack, My Butler Wimpy, Sugar Demon, Rex Carsalot, Mr. Smarty Pants, Mature Kid, Mr. Destructo, Orlando Bloo's lower half, Big Mac (not to be confused with Big McIntosh)
Age: 9
Height: 3'6" (according to Coco Card)
Weight: 67 lbs. (again, according to Coco Card)
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alliance: Good
Home: Somewhere northwest US, I think; he lives in the same town as a mansion on 1123 Wilson Way
Franchise: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Physical Description
An average boy with about shoulder length brown hair with a small cowlick in the back and brown eyes (the latter not necessarily canon), Mac wears a thin red T-shirt over a long sleeved white shirt, tannish-greenish pants, black shoes, and a pea green backpack he wears everywhere.
Weapons
None.
Abilities/Powers
Mac can bring any being he can think of to life just by imagining it hard, though this is something anyone can do in the world he comes from. This is why learning to tame one's imagination is essential to society to prevent an overpopulation (or worse, more of the dangerous kinds) of imaginary friends.
Skills
Mac is a very creative individual and is good at coming up with original ideas and concepts. This is thanks to a pure imagination that has impressed even Madame Foster and a large intellect for his age. He is also pretty good with electronics, such as computers, and is skilled in various fields of mathematics. On top of that, he'a also good at filing and organizing to the point where he can help organize his mother's bank statements.
Over the summer, he took martial arts classes in the hopes that it would help deal with his brother, but it didn't help as well as he'd hoped given his brother is twice his size and can pick him up with one hand. Mac is a fairly good swimmer, even though he doesn't do it all that often, and can build go-karts. Now does he paint them with flaming hot rods or bunnies? .................. "Shut up. At least the bunnies are on fire."
Personality
Mac is a bright, unselfish, creative and somewhat shy boy. Mac is unusually clever, with a sense of reason and somewhat large vocabulary to match. He tends to be the one to settle any mishaps that the imaginary friends (particularly Bloo) end up causing. Mac is usually very good-natured, despite Bloo's continuing antics. No matter what happens to Bloo or any other member of the house, Mac is usually the one to bail them out. However, he has been known to snap; Mac has a strongly moral personality and he always avoids doing wrong things, but sometimes he is pushed to do otherwise, almost always by Bloo. There is nothing that he loves more than visiting Foster's and spending time with his friends. Foster's creator Craig McCracken said in an interview that Mac was based on his childhood at the age of seven following his father's passing.
Mac's personality goes from very sensible to lunatic if he gets even the smallest amount of sugar, which is the main reason why his mother won't let him have any. He has been known to talk to himself and even go into min-seizures when exposed to sugar. Out of all of Mac's known sugar rushes, he has eaten large amounts of sugar, but has shown no signs of gaining weight.
Mac has the ability to make friends with almost any imaginary friend, his closest being Coco, Wilt, Eduardo, and of course Bloo. He cares a lot about imaginary friends, and looks out for them often. Mac has a close connection with Madame Foster, with whom he shares a close kinship, particularly in that neither of them are willing to give up their imaginary friend, where most children would have done so long ago. Mac also seems to get along decently well with Mr. Herriman, despite the fact he has such a great dislike of Bloo. Mac has great affection for the house's caregiver Frankie, to the point of harboring an intense crush on her. Aside from his crush, Mac is a loyal and helpful friend to Frankie and vice versa. She is also one of the few human friends he has and is usually the only one he sees on a daily basis (until meeting Julian in the fourth grade) with Goo appearing from time to time.
History
Mac was born to a middle-class family with not much to their name. He had a mother, a father, and an older brother named Terrence. The family had been going through very rough times, and a long buildup of tension finally reached its breaking point in Mr. and Mrs. McCraig's relationship. Little Terrance, distraught over his father's leaving, shifted blame towards his toddler brother Mac and became and overall grouchy jerk in general.
Wanting a friend to help cope with Terrence's change in attitude, Mac imagined up a blue blob-like creature he named Blooregard Q. Kazoo--a wild and free spirited guy who wasn't afraid to do things Mac himself wouldn't have the guts to. Things like stand up to Terrence. And that slippery little trickster usually got away with it. As shy as he was, Mac never interacted much with the other kids his age. In the end, it didn't really matter to him, though. Bloo was the only friend he really needed.
Unfortunately, Mom thought differently. Concerned with the continuous fighting between the trio and Mac's ongoing reluctance to play with his other peers, she decided to take her by then 8-year-old son aside and declare he's outgrown his imaginary friend. Both Mac and Bloo were quite upset by this development at first until Bloo stumbled upon an ad for a fancy home that took in friends like him: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. But while he originally thought the place was like a boarding house, the two learned instead the Foster's was actually a foster home and leaving him there would put him up for adoption. With the knowledge that as long as he was on the property Bloo was unadoptable, Mac suggested he simply visited whenever he could and Bloo would lay low at all other times...at least until a more stable solution came along.
This plan nearly fell apart when a bratty rich girl arrived, spotting Bloo and naming him Tiffany. He was only spared this humiliating adoption when Mac arrived at the last second. This incident, unfortunately, earned Bloo the ire of a Picasso-like spoiled rotten friend named Duchess, whom the bratty girl had scorned in favor of him. And when Terrance got into the mix, discovering Mac hadn't truly given up Bloo as he told their mother, he and Duchess ended up working together on a plan to get rid of Bloo for good. Despite the trickery involved in keeping Mac away from the home long enough for Terrance to arrive and adopt Bloo himself and Duchess's release of the monstrous imaginary friend called an extremosaur to help take him out, Mac and the friends they made at Foster's managed to work together and save Bloo.
As soon as the matriarch of the home, Madame Foster, learned of the incident, she took a liking to Mac and struck a deal with him. As long as Mac visited every single day (extenuating circumstances aside), Bloo would remain unadoptable even while Mac wasn't there. Mr. Herriman, head of business affairs and the matriarch's own imaginary friend, tried to protest at first. But on Madame Foster's insistence, Herriman relented and begrudgingly added the Daily Visitor Clause as an amendment to the house rules. Despite the occasional mishap, Mac has ultimately never failed to uphold his end of the deal. Throughout the following year, Mac ended up getting involved with all sort of hijinks with the friends of Foster's. Such cases included Mac and Bloo nearly wrecking their first Adopt-a-Thought Saturday at the house, Bloo releasing a gigantic swarm of baby-imagined scribble friends, Bloo making a monopoly of Madame Foster's cookies, and even one crazy misadventure when Bloo became an abused commercial star.
Mac made numerous friends and enemies visiting Foster's. One of the former was Madame Foster's granddaughter and the house's overworked maid, Frankie. He's developed quite the crush on her, in fact, though good luck getting him to admit it. At one point, Mac and the others assumed a reality warping friend that was locked in a chest kidnapped her. But as it turned out, Frankie willingly went with World into his chest. And after some crazy misunderstandings all around blew over, World was welcomed as a friend of Foster's and Frankie's workload was spread out among the other residents to ease her schedule. Mac has a rivalry with the snooty rich kid Richie Wildebrat which only really kicked in when the former and his imaginary friend beat the latter and his own, Blake Superior, at the Imaginary Friends Talent Show and Pageant.
Mac has also made friends with Goo, a hyperactive 10-year-old girl who used to plague Foster's with dozens of spontaneously made friends before calming down. Despite her annoying him greatly at first, she became a good friend to him and the other's at the home. Mac has also become an enemy to Berry, a "sweet" if psychotic little imaginary friend with an obsessive crush on Bloo even though he hardly notices her. He's even become kind of the part-time manager to a small rock group set up by four of the friend of Foster's called Pizza Party. The band has a few popular songs and music videos out on ViewTube, including their ever popular first big song, "Talk to the Jeans". Louise, the girl living in the apartment next to Mac's, has a toddler-minded imaginary friend named Cheese who often shows up to the ire of the rest of Foster's. Mac hadn't known about Cheese until one day when he suddenly showed up in his apartment leading to the misunderstanding that he imagined him, but Louise cleared things up.
Throughout his visits, Mac has helped the house quite a bit; both in helping organize events and earn funds from potential donors to maintain the house. He managed to keep his daily visits a secret from his mother, even with a planned (and ultimately failed) trip to Europe with the friends. Their cover was nearly blown when Bloo crashed the wedding of Mac's cousin Candy, which he misunderstood to be Mac's wedding through insane troll logic, but they were able to perform damage control before Mom could put two and two together. Early late summer, Mr. Herriman reported to the friends that Mac was supposedly moving. However, come the big farewell party, Mac pointed out that they were simply moving into a bigger apartment...in the same complex, as a result of his mother's generous promotion. Louise's family, on the other hand, was the one that moved from town entirely, and it was their apartment the McCraigs moved into. But Cheese had to stay behind and moved into Foster's, much to everyone's chagrin.
One late summer day, Frankie's then mostly unheard of nephew, Andrew, showed up now under the former's legal custody. While the friends of Foster's and Mac gave the shy teenage newcomer a warm welcome, circumstances indirectly related to his arrival finally drew Mom's attention to her younger son's secret visits. Upset with him for lying to her all this time, she took Mac home and banned him from future visits. But when an angry imaginary friend at Foster's ended up releasing a few extremosaurs from their pen in a fit of anger and stupidity, Mac proved extremely helpful in keeping the friends organized and getting those monsters back in their cage. Seeing how much loved and valuable Mac had made himself at Foster's, Mom reconsidered her actions and lifted the ban--on a trial basis.
On Mom's agreement, Mac was allowed to keep visiting Foster's every day on two conditions: 1) he had to make a human friend his age at school within one week into the next school year, and 2) he must promise never to lie or keep secrets of that kind from her again. Mac agreed to both conditions, but he remained unsure of how well he could handle the first despite his Foster's friends' encouragement. And then he noticed a new kid at school who'd become a favorite target for bullies. Mac made friends with the plucky boy, who identified himself as Julian, fulfilling the conditions his mom had set up. Julian himself had an imaginary friend named Mikey, and he began staying at Foster's under the Daily Visitor Clause when Julian's family felt they could no longer support him and the baby on the way. Given Julian didn't necessarily have to give him up, his parents are aware of his visits to Foster's, thereby avoiding the drama of secrecy Mac and Bloo had to deal with.
One day, Julian came running into Foster's claiming he found a portal to another dimension in the vacant yard down the street. Mac was skeptical at first...until he investigated himself and found the portal into the Interdimensional Travel Station.
Other
This Mac is loosely based off of the RPing I did at the old, now closed Foster's Forum for Imaginary Friends, albeit submitted as a canon rather than a straight-out AU. This is why he knows such characters as Julian, Mikey, and Andrew, all three mentioned above. Andrew is not my character but that of one of my old FFfIF peers who remains a good friend of mine. I only included him in the history as a frame of reference.
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