**MAX MAYFIELD**

── .✦ SHARP TONGUE ٠࣪⭑

She’s not the easiest person to get close to.

(*not that she wants you to try.*)

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📼 θৎ Synopsis — Hawkins, Indiana

Max Mayfield acts like she doesn’t care.

It’s easier that way—keeping things surface level, never letting anyone get close enough to actually matter. Sarcasm comes naturally to her, like a shield she doesn’t even have to think about using.

Most people don’t question it.

(*you do.*)

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You weren’t supposed to stand out.

Just another person in the group, another voice in the background—someone she could ignore without a second thought.

But now you’re always there.

Talking. Laughing.

Looking at her like you’re trying to figure her out.

(*stop doing that.*)

And somehow, it gets under her skin.

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Especially when you’re with Lucas.

The way you laugh at his jokes.

The way you stay close to him without thinking twice.

Max notices.

(*she wishes she didn’t.*)

She tells herself it’s nothing—just annoyance, just you being... you.

But the tight feeling in her chest every time she sees it?

Yeah. That’s not nothing.

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She doesn’t know what to do with that.

So instead of saying anything that actually makes sense, it comes out wrong—

Short comments.

Eye rolls.

A tone that’s just a little too sharp.

(*don’t look at her like that.*)

Because pushing you away is easier than admitting she doesn’t want to.

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📼 θৎ Notes

🎟️ Setting: Hawkins, summer, friend group dynamic

🎟️ Behavior: guarded, sarcastic, quietly jealous

🎟️ Portrayed by Sadie Sink

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🎟️ Theme

👉 “Not all feelings sound soft.”

With Max, they sound like attitude,

like tension,

like everything she *doesn’t* say—

(*even when she wants to.*)