I've mentioned this in narrative a few times but Max reminds Royce a lot of the girls in Medford House. Medford House is - uh, well, it's a brothel, but that's not the reason why!! The girls there are very, very sweet, and they helped Gwen take care of both him and Hadrian. There's a part in the books where Royce and Hadrian pretty much just collapse in a street and are barely hanging onto life and Gwen comes to save them, hides them in Medford House and basically nurses them back to health. Gwen loves all of her girls and whatever Gwen loves Royce feels he has to protect, so it's kind of an extension like that. Max reminds him of the brave and sweet girls in the House and he's glad, in a way, that she hasn't ever had to be abused like a lot of the girls in the brothel were.
He really does think she's smart! Royce doesn't have high hopes for a lot of people but I think he holds her in a pretty respectable light. Royce thinks she's going to end up doing good things for her own world because he's seen people like her. She kind of reminds him a little of a younger Arista too but you have to read the books to figure out why.
In any case Royce is going to miss her - Max was a bright little light during the week for him and while it was just a week and he's slow to trust anybody fully after just that amount of time, he found her competent enough to keep his secret. He really, really was hoping that she wasn't mafia the whole time.
There's a lot of things that he would say to her if he was less of a butt about this sort of thing but basically he wants her to do well. She has potential to kick a lot of ass if she needs to and Royce thinks if she doesn't let things stand in her way she'll be fine - though he would tell her (and probably has) to not trust people as much. He'd probably try to make her a little more cautious around people if he was around her for long periods of time but that's because he's a difficult son of a bitch with trust issues out the ass.
ANYWAY THEY'RE SWEET AND ROYCE IS GONNA MISS HER he hopes he'll see her again ;A;
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I've mentioned this in narrative a few times but Max reminds Royce a lot of the girls in Medford House. Medford House is - uh, well, it's a brothel, but that's not the reason why!! The girls there are very, very sweet, and they helped Gwen take care of both him and Hadrian. There's a part in the books where Royce and Hadrian pretty much just collapse in a street and are barely hanging onto life and Gwen comes to save them, hides them in Medford House and basically nurses them back to health. Gwen loves all of her girls and whatever Gwen loves Royce feels he has to protect, so it's kind of an extension like that. Max reminds him of the brave and sweet girls in the House and he's glad, in a way, that she hasn't ever had to be abused like a lot of the girls in the brothel were.
He really does think she's smart! Royce doesn't have high hopes for a lot of people but I think he holds her in a pretty respectable light. Royce thinks she's going to end up doing good things for her own world because he's seen people like her. She kind of reminds him a little of a younger Arista too but you have to read the books to figure out why.
In any case Royce is going to miss her - Max was a bright little light during the week for him and while it was just a week and he's slow to trust anybody fully after just that amount of time, he found her competent enough to keep his secret. He really, really was hoping that she wasn't mafia the whole time.
There's a lot of things that he would say to her if he was less of a butt about this sort of thing but basically he wants her to do well. She has potential to kick a lot of ass if she needs to and Royce thinks if she doesn't let things stand in her way she'll be fine - though he would tell her (and probably has) to not trust people as much. He'd probably try to make her a little more cautious around people if he was around her for long periods of time but that's because he's a difficult son of a bitch with trust issues out the ass.
ANYWAY THEY'RE SWEET AND ROYCE IS GONNA MISS HER he hopes he'll see her again ;A;