Maximilien was walking down the quiet morning road as he had just left his house. He lived in a peaceful neighborhood, the sort where the only crime is drug addicted housewives or tax evasion. The streets were filled with greenery from tall trees in the backs of people's gardens or the grass on the banking next to the pavement with the occasional flower bed.
Maximilien took the same route each day he was a man who did things at his own pace in life he would saunter rather then walk, he was never in a rush to go to school as he was self aware he wasn't too bright and of course he was never interested in things he couldn't understand. His school was an average secondary school no different from any other they wore black trousers or skirts and had to wear a white shirt and navy tie along side a navy jumper emblazoned with a school logo.
Although he didn't enjoy it he was always on time for class and always tried his hardest to pay attention because he felt he needed to do so. Unbeknownst to him deep within his core sat small pint sized teenage girl with blue hair and blue eyes and looked an awful lot like a female Maximilien, she was a truly beautiful girl and had no doubt that in years to come she could be a world renowned heaven sent beauty. She of course with the nameless soul companion who unlike Maximilien paid attention to everything and constantly absorbed knowledge of this world and what had transpired since their past life to fill in the blanks.
Maximilien mind began to wander and soon the day had passed he was a boy that always kept to himself and had no real friends and no one to really speak to. He was a lonely boy but as to expected of a man with only half a soul it didn't get to him. The girl inside him of course thought otherwise and pitied the fact she has to reside in such a man who never questioned anything and just did what he felt was best which was to follow the status quo.
Zeus had considered Maxy as mediocre in his looks which of course for divinity is true, for a mortal however he was one of the most beautiful and handsome man to live on earth. In his school it was often said if he grew out his hair he would look a lot like Howl (from Howls Moving Castle) which of course brought him to the attention of women and men alike. Due to his nature of sticking to routine he was an easy target for the bullies to find and these people being boyfriends of the girls who they couldn't satisfy and unfortunately they had to fantasize about Maximilien to please themselves which was unfortunate for their boyfriends as they often heard the name Maximilien being moaned.
As Maximilien was surrounded he placed down his bag and rolled up his sleeves. It was a common occurrence for him on his walk home to be ganged up on like this and so he has gotten used to it. Most people would take a different route but not Maximilien that was absurd. Now his father had often told him that you shouldn't take things lying down so Maximilien knew how to protect his honour even if he got the shit beat out of him at least he could stand tall and that's exactly what happened. One thug with black hair and and ugly grin with a few pimpils around his face threw a wide and uncoordinated punch that was easily deflected by Maximilien and he retaliated by throwing a weak punch back at the ugly thug which hit him square on the nose and aside from giving him a nosebleed and teary eyes caused no real discomfort. The rest of the thugs then did what thugs do and attacked him from behind all it took was the fattest one of the bunch to rugby tackle Max to the ground and the rest of the ugly bastards kicked the shit out of Max. They almost took it too far as the leader was about to kick his face with one last final kick on his unprotected unconscious face when a voice could he heard nearing the gang.
"Oi what do you think you're doing? Piss off all of you, you've taken this too far"
The leader of the thugs started quivering when he saw a 6ft 4 man with broad shoulders and arms as thick as tree trunks standing tall and staring them square in the eye.
Authors Note
Although his name is Maximilien I am gonna shorten it to Max when I type cos it's much easier however there will be instances where he uses his full name and it will be a badass moment