Application for Maxim (Girl Genius)

[nize_hat]

((Maxim has a very thick Eastern European derived accent- I apologize if it gets confusing. Maxim is a 'Jägermonster' - they doesn't really have any special 'powers' persay, but have superhuman strength and resiliency as well as highly enhanced senses of smell (and hearing in Maxim's case). His right arm is mechanical, but, doesn't appear to be '

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[codex_of_good]

Yeah, so this was like something straight out of the game. Outfit and all. She was pretty sure she'd seen like the shirt or something in upcoming patch notes. (And oh god she'd been here so long without access to the game that there'd probably been a whole expansion since she'd last played, and new levels, and her fingers twitched thinking about it.)

Also, there was a metal hand. This was the second guy with a metal hand she'd seen here. Maybe this place needed a quota of metal-hand-guys.

She was about to open with You have a metal hand, but it hadn't gone well last time she tried that, so instead she started with, "The what huh?"

[nize_hat]

Perhaps he'd been kidnapped by some unknown agency, but, at least there seemed to be a decent amount of ladies at this funny castle. . .

Maxim flashed a bright smile at Codex- as seemed the case at Hogwarts, she was rather oddly dressed, and he expected she'd have some strange questions to ask him. Of course, he had questions too, and, playing questions and answers with a girl as pretty as Codex wasn't so bad.

But, when the question came, he found himself stumped. One about his metal hand would have been much easier- Maxim liked his metal hand, knowing that it looked pretty awesome. Perhaps a more intelligent individual would have recognized babbling when they heard it, but, Maxim just thought it was an extra challenging question. "De. . .vy mebbe vat for?" was his eventual and equally cryptic response.

[codex_of_good]

Not only did this guy look weird, which some people did at Hogwarts and she was getting better at accepting that sort of, but he talked funny, too. Like that time a gold farmer had gotten into the Knights of Good's Vent server and berated her for ten minutes before someone else got on and chased him out. Or... kind of like that. Either way, he was hard to understand. Except not yelling at her to GO HERE AND BUY GOLD NOW, LOWEST PRICES, WE ACCEPT PAYPAL.

Gah.

"Huh who the what now?" she asked, more confused than ever.

[nize_hat]

Maxim grinned hopefully, not sure that he'd made any sense. Codex's question had been confusing. Maybe the next one would be nice and easy? His grin fell slightly when it wasn't, but Maxim fortunately wasn't about to launch into announcing gold-selling spam. In fact, he'd have been baffled by the whole concept of fake pillaging for fake gold, when it was possible to go really pillage, for really real gold. Although, once some time had passed at Hogwarts, chances were that Maxim would welcome some virtual pillaging, given the lack of the real sort to be found.

Again, Maxim stood there looking confused a moment, before venturing a reply, based mainly upon the words 'who' and 'what', and upon the presumption that Codex was possibly foreign. "Hy's Maxim," he said, pointing at himself with his metal hand, which indeed functioned just like a usual hand, and saying his name as slowly and clearly as possible. He also spoke rather louder than necessary, and paused a bit between each word, as if this would somehow help with communication. "Hy

[codex_of_good]

...gah, those teeth creeped her out.

"CODEX," she said loudly, pointing to herself, since he had just introduced himself. She was pretty sure he had just introduced himself. What was it about weird accents that made people start talking really loud and slow? She shook her head. "I mean, I'm Codex. Hi. I'm a, uh, person."

[nize_hat]

"Yah, Hy can see dis. Und schmell it too!" Maxim smiled brightly, not realizing that commenting on a person's smell might be uncomfortable. But, he could smell that she was indeed a person, and not a piece of machinery that looked like a person, or something of the sort. "So did de talkink hat-guy keednap hyu too? Pipple keep sayink dat ve vere keednapped by a hat dat talks."

[codex_of_good]

"I smell?!" Codex squeaked, horrified. She tried to sniff discreetly at herself, wondering if she'd forgotten to put on deodorant or something that morning. It was entirely possible.

"The wh-yeah, the Hat. Uh, yeah, I think so. I didn't mean to come here, or anything. It just kind of... happened. I don't know if it was kidnapping? There weren't any vans or blindfolds or anything like that involved, I was just going to leave my apartment and..." She trailed off, motioning to the Sorting Room.

[nize_hat]

"Yah, everyting does. Hyu gots a real nize schmell, ektually." Maxim didn't miss Codex's horror at the statement, and, hoped to be reassuring. To Maxim's Jäger-sense, everything had a scent, some of them good, some of them bad. Which meant that all people had a rather strong fragrance- Heterodynes had the best one, according to all Jägers, but, all pretty girls tended to smell nice in Maxim's opinion.

"Dat sounds a lot like how hy got here. Hy vas just in de audience mit de Jägergenerals, und den hy vas here. Dere vasn't any blindfolds or any sparky-schtuffs. Dere vasn't even a fonny sound or a vierd flash of light or anyting at all. Hy vas just dere vun minute, den here anotter."