Maximilian Robert Bost.
full name: Maximilian Robert Bost.
goes by: Max.
played by: Richard Madden.
D.O.B., age: 23 NOV '83, 28.
premade: The Prodigal Son.
occupation: Civil Engineer, DMJM Harris.
residence: LES, NY.
status: Cecilia Baez.
journal: ~mrbost.
contact: model bost & contact post.
coding: whore.
Maximilian Robert Bost, or just plain Max, was born on November 23, 1983 to Stephen and Vera Bost of Irvington, New York. His father, Stephen, is an acclaimed architect with a multi-million dollar firm rivaling Williawn Rawn. His mother, now Vera Cleary, is an interior designer who owns and operates a small successful firm in Boston.
The Bost family can trace its roots back to the late 1700s, when the newly minted American "government" sold off large parcels of farmland to colonial patriots or Tory-hates. Having snapped up large tracts of prime real estate, the Bosts have been an institution in upstate New York since. They are a respected part of their wealthy community and most family members have served as public officials at one point or another. One great great uncle even managed to reach the governor's office in the early 1900s and this is a particular point of pride. As a result of being such notable personalities to New York blue bloods, the Bosts traditionally and generously donate to local government institutions every year and still control a large amount of land in the area. With a legion of financial advisers and good luck, too, the family also owns several high-paying properties in New York City and large shares of multimedia corporations like NBC. Suffice it to say, Max has never and will never worry about money as he'll inherit his father's share (or half) of the Bost wealth some day.
Max's parents divorced when he was fourteen, and the fall-out was hardly civil. His father, a man with a severe weakness for pretty women, left his mother for a younger model and co-worker. The legal process took well over a year and Max was shuffled off to private school at his mother's request. She didn't want him troubled, apparently, by the open warfare at home. Max has never discussed the business with anyone and resents the whole affair, because the divorce resulted in an unspoken disavowal from the other side of the family. The other Bosts found the distasteful event an unspeakable offense to the family name.
Either way, Max's relationship with his father was never easy. Since childhood, he'd been aware of (and sometimes guilty accessory) to his father's numerous affairs. After the divorce, things became exceedingly hostile. He has neither forgiven nor forgotten the hellish two years his mother went through as a result of the affair. Stephen's hasty second marriage was only another slap in the face as Vera was demoted from loving Stepford wife to some classless woman the family no longer recognized. Max has never cooperated or respected his stepmothers because of the resentment he feels toward his father. That feeling is only intensified by Stephen's insistence that Max follow in his glorious architectural footsteps and take over the firm one day. Max genuinely has no interest.
Max has one half-brother, Evan (now 8), from his father's second marriage to Janet Shapiro. They divorced when Max was 21. He has another two half-siblings, the twins Alex and Alice (now 3), from his father's third and current marrige to Lisa Garnett. Lisa is all of four years older than Max and, as a result, has the least amount of his respect. His running caricatures of her as a gold-digging whore after the wedding resulted in six months of silence between him and his father and have only continued to make things tense. Though Max openly hates Lisa, his affection for his half siblings (all three since Evan was dumped in the second divorce) keeps him visiting the estate in Irvington and attending all the arduous family get-togethers.
His mother remarried when he was nineteen to Don Cleary, the successful self-made businessman who owns a string of car dealerships in the tri-state area. The two have no children but Max's relationship with Don is actually quite friendly. Max finds his stepfather's uncouth and new-money ways oddly charming, especially when Don tries to unsuccessfully impart some advice to him about a man's priorities. As long as his mother is happy, Max allows Don an active role in his life.
history.
Max's childhood before the divorce was happy, privileged, and mostly uneventful. Despite being raised by a nanny (Ms. Willa), he never felt he lacked attention from his parents. His mother took a rabid interest in his schooling and, as a boy, he frequently visited the city with his father and sat in the office absorbing the comings and goings of the firm. As he got older, his talent for trouble-making began to manifest but his parents lacked a strong disciplinary hand and allowed him to get away with all sorts of hell-raising as long as he kept his grades up and saw to his extracirricular obligations, nothing difficult for a boy with his smarts.
He attended public schools through elementary and middle school, but only spent his freshman year at the local high before being shipped off to Claremont Prep. His middle school years were unexciting. His talent in math and science made it all too obvious how intelligent he was and he was outcasted for being a nerd, typical schoolchildren behavior. Being excluded from the parties and the games, Max reinvented himself in his freshman year of high school and capitalized on his smarts by acting out. He earned himself a reputation for talking back to teachers and interrupting class, questioning revisionist history and lackluster teaching methods. He was a thorn in every figure of authority's side to prove to his peers he wasn't a loser. He earned the respect he wanted for being a smart ass, but a string of detentions and threatened expulsions as well. His sudden disobendience played a large factor in his mother's decision to send him to a city private school.
He lived in Manhattan with his uncle on his mother's side while attending Claremont but behaved no better. He was briefly expelled during the middle of his senior year for, reportedly, accosting a teacher. After a month at home, his father "settled" the matter and Max was allowed to take term exams and graduated with the rest of his class in 2003. He was voted Most Likely To Succeed and the "incident," as his parents dubbed it, was struck off his record.
College was more forgiving on Max as it afforded him the opportunity to be independent without the irritating labels that accompanied him through high school. He did his four years of time as an undergrad, studied accordingly, and graduted Columbia with two degrees, Civil Engineering and Architecture. After a gap year spent fucking around from Europe to Eurasia, he attended his father's alma mater, MIT, for the graduate program in Civil & Environmental Engineering. He deferred his final year and sacrificed his diploma to "gain hands-on work experience." Whether this is another stunt meant to piss off his father or done out of genuine interest is unknown. This latest offense, however, has resulted in another bitter stand-off between father and son. Max has been working for DMJM Harris on the Second Ave Subway Project for the past eighteen months.
romance.
Max is, by nature, not a romantic boy. As someone who values fact over fiction, science over religion, and hormones over invisible heart strings, he's never given too much thought to serious relationships. If anything, the rough years that haunted his mother through the divorce taught him that sometimes people aren't meant to have anyone. It doesn't make him sad or depressed or bitter; it doesn't make him feel anything at all. It's a fact to him like the Earth revolves around the Sun is a fact. Some people can have happy, long-term relationships and some people can't. Because of his indifference to this, he's never taken his girlfriends seriously and it's resulted in a long string of short fuses and flings.
His first girlfriend was Marisol Baez, a hometown girl and family friend he'd had feelings for since boyhood. They dated for a year starting when he was 15, but it quickly burned out when he was sent off to private school. Without his parents' supervision, an entire city for a playground, and a bunch of trust fund babies to play with, it was easy to forget he had obligations to anyone else. Life moved at the speed of light in New York and so did the girls. A month after relocating to Manhattan, he broke it off with Mari, telling her bluntly that he didn't intend on remaining monogamous when he could be having fun instead. The split was no more dramatic than a high-school break-up usually is and Mari was too well-bred and well-mannered to make a scene. It was the only time he felt regret, but then the whirlwind of parties started and it was gone.
The Domino Rally of girlfriends that followed Mari was insignificant to him. He dated two more girls in high school, and one on-and-off in college between the partying and sleazing but none of them broke his heart. He was usually the one calling the spade a spade and leaving. He still sees no reason to commit himself to anything he doesn't think is all that important and he likes women, but he rarely likes one enough to make an effort. The few times he's ever been wrangled into being anyone's boyfriend were when he'd been caught in an ambivalent enough mood to say yes. He broke it off with his last girlfriend because she of an unintended pregnancy and it's been a year since he's heard from or seen her.
trivia.
♕ Max is ambidextrous and an accomplished artist. Though no one has seen him draw much more than skylines and blueprints, his still lifes and portraits were featured twice in Columbia Magazine. His political cartoons also ran a stint in the Spectator under the pseudonym Bobby Boss. He adopts this alter ego whenever he's feeling particularly dissatisfied with current affairs and has written a handful of editorials as well.
♕ Max is an alumnus of Beta Theta Pi. Like most things involving college, he'd pledged less out of social interest and more out of standard obligation, i.e. pledging was another basic component of life that would have to be dealt with. His father was a Beta so it only sense. Interestingly enough, he took to the Greek life and he still sees a lot of his fraternity brothers as most of his close friends are also Beta alumni.
♕ He's played the piano since he was seven years old because his mother insisted on his lessons. He placed second in several state competitions before quitting in high school. Though classically trained, he never loved Schumann or Bach but his piano teacher scoffed at him when he asked if he could learn jazz. These days he only plays for his younger siblings and, occasionally, when he's drunk, very drunk.
♕ His mother put him through a series of therapists when he was younger. To date, he has a healthy disdain for anyone in a psychology/psychiatric field. He developed a hobby early on of fucking with his doctors by faking symptoms to acquire the appropriate prescription for whatever drug he was curious about at the time. He has slept with two of his former therapists.