#maximum ride series

[witch-trials69]

Happy new year, I drew the maximum ride kids (help)

Idk! I have art block and this was fun, I think the designs are definitely inspired by the comics but I added a lot of personal head cannons + a couple more bird features.

Just headshots but I assigned each of them a specific bird too. Some are basically canon and some I took more liberty with like Angel being a white heron. I think it’s neat! Still fits her pure white wings, but I think it fits all of Angel’s weird aquatic stuff nicely. Also; herons are predators and I enjoy making her uncanny. I considered owl too, more similar to Gazzy and possible more in line with all the mind stuff but I just think herons are cool and kinda spooky.

There’s my ramble goodnight <3

#art #maximum ride #max ride #drawing #digital aritst #illustration #digital illustration #angel #iggy #fang #gazzy #nudge #max #maximum ride series #headcanon

[omnihilo]

I always thought Angel would’ve become a really bad ass adult

(oh and those are cybernetic implants in her forehead to help her focus her telepathic/mind control powers—and whatever other psy abilities she developed into adulthood)

#omni #omnihilo #maximum ride #maximumridefanart #maximumrideangel #angel #maximumrideart #angel fanart #maxdanwiz #maximum ride series #digital sketch #procreate

[inlovewithquotes]

Fang felt a cold jolt, then dismissed it. Max wasn't dead. He would know, somehow. He would have felt it. The world still felt the same to him; therefore, Max was still in it.

-Saving The World And Other Extreme Sports

#quotes #book quotes #literature #books & libraries #life quotes #relationship quotes #love quotes #james patterson #maximum ride #maximum ride series #fang #faxness #saving the world and other exreme sports

[thebestbookrecommendations]

School’s Out—Forever - James Patterson

(Maximum Ride #2)

In this eagerly awaited follow-up, brave bird-kid Max and her flock are discovered by an FBI agent and forced to go to "school." There is no such thing as an ordinary day as Max deciphers how and when she's supposed to save the world, and she faces her greatest enemy--a clone of herself.

Read if You Like:

Young Adult Fiction

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Adventure

Ensemble Cast

Mysteries

Low Fantasy

Recommended if You Enjoy:

Pittacus Lore (I Am Number Four)

3/5

First Book in Series:

#school’s out—forever #the angel experiment #james patterson #maximum ride #maximum ride series #book recommendations #authors #books #what to read #what to read next #libraries #books & libraries #literature #book reading #good books to read #book list #book recs #young adult fiction #fantasy #science fiction #adventure #ensemble cast #mystery #low fantasy #Pittacus lore #i am number four #book lists

[ghoulishjessie]

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Flightgender- a gender of or related to Maximum Ride and her flock. Can also be used by fictives/fictionkin.

(The design was based on Max’s wing and hair colors, but if people want me to make other ones for different MR characters I would be happy to! )

#maximum ride #wingkin #xeno coining #is this anything #rb for looking at later (hopefully) #maximum ride series

[alsoanyways]

sorry james they're actually my characters now (legally this is a joke)

anyway here's a list of things that are true in my version of things:

Everyone is older, the oldest of them being in their early twenties.

Fang is named Friday. He primarily uses sign language to communicate, but he can talk if he has to.

Nudge is named Dorothy (Dora for short, asked to be called that when she found out it was her real name).

Gazzy is named Gizmo.

Maya names herself Em.

Ari lives and becomes part of the flock.

Em is offered to join the flock after her fight with Max. She declines, but she does join later on.

That weird Dylan and Max were genetically made for each other plot thing does not happen. Em finds him when she makes her escape from the labs and he becomes part of the flock when she does.

The weird preachy save the word max you're the chosen one also isn't a thing here.

please ask me about my other headcanons bc I would love to share them

#al:an own #al:an art #art: digital #maximum ride #al:an fan art #a cringe book series you read when you were ten is actually something that can be so personal

[fanghur]

fuck I really should reread the Max Ride Books I own and live-blog it or something because of how much off-the-wall craziness that just appears and never gets seen again

#maximum ride #max ride #mr #remembering and scrolling through the tag #brain goes 'remember plot point of Max seeing herself as an Eraser in mirrors?' #me: oh shit! Brain: the author sure didn't! me: oh shit #honestly a shame series wasn't more popular if only for all the fanfic fodder

[cluepoke-archive]

Don't underestimate the power of an aroace autistic ignoring whole pieces of plot and story in books as a kid

#i once read a whole book series thinking the main characters mentor was a woman when she was in fact a man. 5 books in and i realized and #went. well shes a gay old lady now #i just make shit up as a kid i would 100% lie and gaslight myself into beliveing things that were not true #and now when i go back to series i read or watched as a kid im like wym theirs romance in this #and you know what. good #i read the maximum ride series and didnt like somethong so i chose not to belive it. happy family. happy bird family o7 #everytime i watch ninjago i go hey wait. that didnt hapoen. im better than you #god wait i still do this #iread six of crows because the reveiws said 'veryr minor romance' and their were THREE whole romance subplots #and i said no actually. your wrong. and i keep forgetting o7

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

I think there's something genuinely interesting in the way Max conflates motherhood with womanhood. Especially in School's Out Forever.

When Anne starts "replacing" Max's role as the flock's primary caretaker, and Max gets defensive over Fang's insistence that she's not their mother, she doesn't respond with anything about their past in the E-shaped house, or how Fang and Iggy both defer to her as their leader, but instead with "oh, am I not girly enough to be a mom??". Which is very interesting, and I think cuts down to a core character conflict of hers, especially in the early series.

Max wants the title of Mother.

Max rejects femininity.

Max doesn't think that she can have one without the other.

And sure, from a Doylist perspective, that's a 50-year-old man puppeting around a teenage girl who really has no business wanting to be a mom, but from a Watsonian perspective, this conflict is fascinating, and can go in a lot of different ways, especially since Max is fourteen. She doesn't understand either of these concepts. She doesn't understand the breadth of either of these desires.

Max wants to be considered a mother because it gives her control over her family, because it's something that Jeb CAN'T be and thus frees her from repeating generational trauma, because she wants to have a mother and being one is the closest thing she has.

Max rejects femininity because she rejects her own humanity, because she equates womanhood with weakness, because to be a woman is to have even less autonomy than she already does.

And she can't have one without the other.

So where does that leave her?

#maximum ride on main #maximum ride #I have thoughts and none of them are eloquent #mostly of the opinion that early-series Max wanted motherhood but late-series Max should not have become a mother

[wundrousarts]

not me back on my bullshit au where the free state/republic were ground zero for a chemical bomb test, and knacks/wunnimals are the direct result of this. People were already scared, but when nine kids were born with the power to unravel reality, and living gods woke up in the ashes, they walled it off. The world outside continued as normal, always keeping an eye on the bomb zone. As for ground zero, they adapted, eventually forgetting about the falsehood of the sky.

This is kinda giving like..... Adventure Time or The Hunger Games. But part of that might be that I myself like to wonder if Wunimals were part of some magical evolution / side effect 😅

#nevermoor #asks #catalyst comet vibes #it's actually giving me something specific. but I am completely blanking on what rn lol. #i'd say perhaps maximum ride but......... idk lol #<- do kids these days even know the horrors of that series

[fly-with-the-flock]

I’ve been re reading hunger games and it reminded me of this fan theory I had way back in the day that the world of thg was the post-apocalyptic future of the Maximum Ride world. Originally the thing that made me come up with the theory was the mutts, but then in Mockingjay, there’s a line about weapons that the Capitol no longer had available to, and one of them was “biological weapons with expiration dates”, which made me think of the Flock, so I came up with this idea that Max & co failed in saving the world (which ended up being true? I think? I don’t remember Nevermore or Forever to well, and I came up with this theory before those book came out) and that Panem was what ended up developing out of the ashes.

#maximum ride #max ride #maximum ride fandom #hunger games #the hunger games #thg series

[ms-ninja-crab]

Wow, I suddenly remember the time when literally all YA books were written like THAT. Dark times.

Fun times too. But dark…

#Emily reads maximum ride #maximum ride #like remember the teenage spy book series????

[inlovewithquotes]

If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of grey.

-Fang

#quotes #book quotes #literature #books & libraries #relationship quotes #love quotes #james patterson #maximum ride #maximum ride series #fang(book)

[p1nk-pallas]

I'm realising how many of my favs could have this said to them (3 at least)

#jonathan sims #the archivist #luz noceda #maximum ride #the magnus archives #the owl house #uhh that one book series (it has the same name as the main character thats silly) #i could be talking out of my arse though #p1nk pallas

[wikipediafag]

does anybody remember Maximum Ride

#the book series #by james patterson #maximum ride #it altered my brain #it lesbianed me

[alsoanyways]

@transgender-scout @1ight wait fuck now i have to compile them okay okay okay i have a feeling this is gonna get long so I'm gonna put it under a cut haha but for real thank you for asking!!

First things first! This is how I imagine the flock is able to disguise themselves. There's no going undercover at an actual school for them, but I don't think anyone's looking twice at a bulky coat, especially if it's set in the future. Not too far in the future though, still in the 21st century. I have no ideas for a plot restructuring or anything, I never read past Nevermore and I barely remember anything past the fourth book, so most of my headcanons are character dynamics and such. I do have some that aren't focused on the flock but not many. Anyways.

(also idk if most of this can even be considered headcanon bc its basically fanfic at this point)

A couple things I should've added to the design post are Toto's Total’s nonexistence (I'm sorry if you like him but I do not lmao) and the fact that their hair is feathers. Like those very fine and very long feathers that roosters get. The flock also doesn't develop superpowers.

In my version of things, there's a small town close-ish to the E shaped house. Far enough that no one in town is gonna drop by for a visit, but close enough to fly down to for some groceries, which they'd do after Jeb left and until the money was gone. I think he would've taught them how to forage for things and that's how they get by since then.

Max (21) isn't The Leader TM either, I think leadership is shared more with Fang/Friday and Iggy. She likes volleyball and usually the one to go foraging. She's never thought about it but if she did, she'd probably consider herself agender.

Fang/Friday (22) gets his name from a Friday the 13th DVD cover, Jeb thinks he wants to be called Jason when he first points to it. He used to help Nudge/Dora and Angel with their hair when they were little and still does occasionally. He likes to draw and he's the go-to when someone needs to be comforted. There's no way in hell I would let him be anything less than bisexual.

Iggy (20) is the one that probably hears Friday's voice the most. He was also taught braille and Jeb got them a labeling machine. He's still the best cook and he's very protective over the vinyls/tapes/cds in the house. He mourns the loss of them when they have to flee the house, but he is excited to finally have access to new music. He's also gay. Because I said so.

Nudge/Dora (17) still wishes she could live a normal life, but has accepted that it's just not a possibility. She clings to "Dorothy" when she learns it. Being talkative and into fashion are still part of her character, but now she also loves bugs. She tags along when Max goes foraging so she can try and get pictures of any new bugs she hasn't seen before. Friday often gets to hear which bugs and what they were doing when they're sketching together.

Gazzy/Gizmo (14) gets his name when he watches the Gremlins movie for two months straight and starts mimicking the mogwai noises. He almost kills everyone when he mixes a couple cleaners from under the kitchen sink. He's quickly enamored with the chemistry books he's given afterwards. Like any other teenage boy, he likes video games and has too much energy for his own good. Max offers to race him when he's particularly amped.

Angel (11) is the only one out of the group that wasn't experimented on and she doesn't get the protectiveness or why they never go anywhere. She likes sitcoms and never refuses an offer to forage with Max. She also took a liking to helping Iggy cook things. She was very quick to tell people she wasn't a boy once she had the vocabulary.

Ari (15) has chronic pain. Being turned to goo and rebuilt into something different will do that to you. It doesn't get better the second time. Nor the third. He used to live in the E shaped house, before Jeb brought Gizmo, back when he was a regular kid. He's always liked animals, caring for them. He wanted to be a farmer or something when he grew up. After he joins the flock, he and Gizmo are fast friends. (Watching him and Gizmo dick around is what makes Friday realize that he really is just a kid.)

Maya/Em (21, kinda) my identity issues queen!! Cloning keeps the original memories intact and then they were further messed with to ensure her allegiance. She has a hard time coming to terms with that, with not being Max, not being who she thought she was. Her friends aren't her friends, she didn't watch Gizmo and Angel grow up, she didn't go to Friday after another nightmare, or call Dora to come catch a spider. That wasn't her. Having time away from them before she joins the flock helps. She renames herself Em during that time, distinct enough from Max but not removed from it completely. She learns that she likes cooking and she discovers cheerleading. She thinks she'd like that if she got the chance to participate. She's also aroace. She wants nothing to do with any of that.

Dylan (21) sticks closest to Em, but he eventually grows close to Iggy as well. They share a soaring/gliding wing shape and Iggy is grateful to have someone who can fly as long as he can (recreational flying is always cut short in his opinion, because the others have to work harder to stay airborne and get tired). Dylan likes to tinker around with motors and mechanisms, trying to get them to work again or building them from the ground up. Not that he has an abundance of opportunities to do that, but being able to fix a busted car comes in handy. He's one of them gays that can drive.

Lastly, I do have ideas on Erasers and different classes of them and their usages but jesus christ this did in fact get very long and I need to go eat something lmao so that'll have to be a separate post for another time.

#maximum ride #the last media i have consumed of this book series #was the manga #and like a quarter of a five hour recap video of the plot #and i would like to keep it that way lmao #i only want nostalgia brain maximum ride