Max Kante

Full name: Max Kanté

Other names: Maxy-poo Comrade Béarnaise Nerdy Max

Age: 16 years

Gender: Male

Pronouns: He/Him

Nationality: African - Parisian

Hometown: Paris, France

Occupation: Student at Collège Françoise Dupont Superhero

Miraculous: Horse Miraculous

Kwami: Kaalki

Superhero identity: Pegasus

Akumatized identity: Gamer (occasionally) Gamer 2.0 (temporarily) Gamer 3.0 (temporarily)

Powers and abilities: Genius Intellect Gaming skills Pegasus' Voyage and Miraculous Call Piloting skills and Robot regeneration (as Gamer; occasionally)

Weapons: Pegasus' Horseshoe Gamer's Giant Robots (occasionally) Gamer 2.0's Reality Bending Simulators (temporarily)

Height: 4 feet, 10 inches

Likes: Video games Technology Winning Mathematics Superheroes Hanging out with his friends Traveling by train Helping others Protecting others Board games Chicken yassa

Dislikes: Losing Bullying Liars Being alone Kim stealing his glasses Chloé's mean, cruel and sneaky behavior His family and friends in danger His friends being upset or hurt

Appearance: Physical Appearance Max is a short slender teenage boy, who has a medium-brown complexion, coily-kinky brown hair in a flattop that appears to have a slight tilt at left, and moderate tangelo eyes. He is the only male character in Miraculous with realistic eyelashes (all the others likely appear to be wearing eyeliner).

From Season 6 onwards, he seems to have horizontal shaved cuts at the side above his ears.

Civilian Attire: In the first five seasons, Max wore black-rimmed glasses with rectangular rims and a pale green dot at the left side, a light green collared button up shirt with three lighter tiny vertical buttons on the collar, and pale, light grayish gamboge and brown checkered jeans. He also has suspenders with a light brilliant tangelo line between two grayish amber lines and silver buckles in the middle and bottom, along with pale, light grayish cobalt blue sneakers with white sneakers and laces and a square-shaped blue watch on his right wrist. Up until "Re-creation", on occasion, he wore his Miraculous as glasses, with the lens clear and round with black frames.

From Season 6 onwards, his attire is slightly different; he ditches his shirt for an identical long-sleeved one, except it is now layered with a closed dark green cardigan, tucked into his now solid light gamboge jeans. His suspenders also switch their coloring, now having two light, brilliant tangelo lines and a wide amber grayish line in the middle, with the coloring after the buckles being dark brown. His watch is now silver and his glasses, which now also double as his Miraculous, have a half-transparent frame and become rectangles, the rims being at the top half of the lenses.

As Pegasus: In Seasons 3-5, his hair was longer and turned light brownish gray, braided in multiple locks that were tied back with a small dark brown hairband that likely resembled a horse's tail, and his sides of his sported an undercut. His costume was deep brown high-mandarin-collared. He had grayish tangelo outlines around his torso, abdomen, and at the sides of his hips with an angular shape. He also had dark grayish vermillion bracelets and anklets in a V-shape with grayish tangelo trimming, accented by thick angular lines going diagonally around his thighs and around his shoulders, as well as two round-ended straps around the sides of his torso with a dot in the middle, all of which had the same trimming. He had a light gray small horseshoe on his neck, acting as a zipper. The Horseshoe was on his upper back when not in use. He also had sneakers with two light beige angular linings above the sole and two pointed pieces at the sides to accent the straps on his torso, resembling the wings Hermes has on his sandals. His glasses also turned black and circular with five teal dots in the bottom right corner of the right lens.

From Season 6 onwards, his hair sports even longer braids, tied into two sections with multiple dark brown hairbands, and the shorter braids flare out on the back of his head to resemble a horse's tail more. His bodysuit sports two shades of brown, one shade being darker than the other. The lighter-shaded part is made of thicker material and pads mostly on the front of his torso, shoulders, and sides to accent his dark grayish vermillion details. His front now has a grayish tangelo V-shaped line in the middle and a zipline. The zipper turns into a circular gray pendant with a dark brown emblem of the Horse Miraculous on top, left partially unzipped. The grayish tangelo outlines lessen, leaving only two on his each side of his waist with dark grayish vermillion bordering. His bracelets lengthen into longer ones with more square-like angular tips, worn with deep brown gloves that have a small strap like the ones on his torso with lighter lining, and around the top of the hand is a dark grayish vermillion color for the rest of the palms and fingers. His anklets are more boot-like, going past his calves, and each side of his sneakers only have one wing instead of two, as well as the lining altering to become light beige souls with a thin line on top that keeps the angular shapes, but with a dark grayish vermillion heel in the back. His glasses turn into visors with a thick brown frame and large green lens. The light point went from circular to rectangular with one being long and the other 4 are small rectangles, all of them have a lighter shade than the lens.

As Gamer: Gamer had grayish purple skin and vivid amaranth eyes. His glasses became angular, large, and butterfly-shaped, and the glass had a light green tint. He wore a black skin-tight bodysuit with a head cover over his head that also bore the shape of his hair, albeit it looked solid and had a slight tilt to the left, and it also covered his neck. He had a small green circle on his chest and three thin green stripes around his waist, each forearm, and each lower leg.

Personality: Max is a gamer and a fan of technology. He is smart, especially when it comes to mathematics, as seen when he figures out how fast Kim needs to be to make it to Pont des Arts right before Chloé Bourgeois gets there in "Dark Cupid". He tends to be carried away with his knowledge, often over-explaining things with further detail than necessary and occasionally revealing something that was supposed to be a secret. Max is also friendly, helping his friends with knowledge and support.

Due to his autism, Max can get visibly upset when something disrupts his state of mind or everyday life. He gives examples of how tardiness, forgetfulness and getting lost can cause slight distress to him. He also finds it difficult to understand certain social cues, like when people are upset or when they are joking. Due to finding comfort in order and predictability, all of his everyday life is carefully planned, from the time he does his tasks to the little rituals that go along with them, like drinking from a special bowl of his or sitting on a specific seat on the tram. He even finds comfort in his own friends' predictability. To better deal with any disruption of his everyday life, Max developed a few defensive mechanisms, like always carrying a heart-shaped piece of paper given to him by his mother and rubbing it whenever he feels distressed. Thanks to his visits to Dr. Psiquat, Max has also come to learn how to better handle with the distress his autism causes to him and find solutions or whenever he has a personal problem he can't understand or solve.

He's also incredibly organized and has a great sense of responsibility, two traits heavily showcased throughout "A Fairy Good Night", where it is shown that he has a time and specific routine for everything in his life. When staying at Marinette's for a night because of his mother's absence, he felt uncomfortable at her overeagerness to try and help him, making him doubt if he would feel comfortable staying with her. However, after he is affected by an akumatized villain, a dream Claudie attempts to convince him to stay at home he almost accepts but an alert from Ladybug, reminds him of his responsibility to save Paris, prompting him choose to adapt to the changes instead of staying in comfort. Another example of his autism is also seen in "Gamer", when he loses his place in the competition for which he trained a whole year. The sudden disruption of his plans to join the competition caused Max to not deal well with defeat. Despite he sportingly congratulates Marinette and Adrien, once outside, he starts rambling to himself about how unfair his situation was, and it isn't until after his akumatization and Marinette offering up her spot to him in the competition that he perks up. As seen also in "Gamer 2.0", although he isn’t the best sport when it comes to losing, he still favors playing with someone else over playing alone, so he can get upset when none of his friends had time to play with him, especially when it's a game made by him.

As Pegasus, Max is also brave as well as shown to be very polite and works well with others seen in "Party Crasher". He is also very eficient as a Horse Miraculous holder, being very precise with his portals. Even when under quite a bit of stress, he can be quite precise. Thanks to that, he becomes an essential part of the team, as he becomes the key for many of the traps Ladybug prepares for the akumatized villains and to save a large number of civilians, either by evacuating them or protect them from any falling debris. He becomes more loose with his traditions shown when he decided to give the Magical Charm to the victim in A Fairy Goodnight instead of Ladybug.

As Gamer, he stopped at nothing to show everyone that he was the best gamer, even turning people into experience points that helped him level up. Additionally, the resentment he held towards Marinette turned into hatred, resulting in him specifically targeting her for a brief period. He also puts his vast experience as a gamer to its full use, like when he respawned his robot after Cat Noir destroyed it by saving his last level.

In "Gamer 2.0", however, he shows a slightly different demeanor than his first akumatization. Despite still taking full advantage of the rules of the game as well the perks of being both the creator and final boss, his primary objective is not winning the game, but rather play it with others and have them enjoy playing his game. Because of this, he shows a great deal of joy for seeing Ladybug and Cat Noir engaging with his game and also a much humble demeanor when admitting defeat, especially after his opponent is able to trick him in his own game.

Abilities: As a civilian: Max is very intelligent, being excellent at knowing facts, statistics, and calculations. He is also very skilled in playing video games and he has one of the highest scores in the entire school at playing Ultimate Mecha Strike III.

Max's intelligence was shown in his inventions that are revealed in "Robostus": an anti-virus flash drive and Markov, a highly-functional robot that has developed emotions on its own. Max is even capable of creating his own video game based on the akumatized villains.

As Pegasus: Pegasus has enhanced capabilities such as speed, agility, and strength, and he is almost invulnerable to physical damage. These abilities allow him to react to and evade akumatized villains attacks, as well as jump and leap several times his height and length. He is also very skilled at utilizing the Horseshoe during close combat. Pegasus can also perceive which targets he can throw the Horseshoe at like a boomerang, in a way similar to how Ladybug visualizes her solutions.

His special power, Voyage, allows him to open a portal that he can travel through and exit at any location he desires. This is a highly versatile ability, making Pegasus useful in virtually any team configuration.

Initially, using his power would depower him and cause him to detransform after 5 minutes, however, in "Revelator", Pegasus has learned to control his adult powers, allowing him to not detransform back and use Voyage as much as he wishes, allowing him to open multiple portals and use them in a variety of ways⁏ such as protecting himself from villain attacks or safely evacuating large numbers of people from dangerous areas.

As Gamer: As Gamer, he piloted a giant fighting robot designed after MX-01 from Ultimate Mecha Strike III. The robot could shoot a laser beam that would transform any people and vehicle it hit into floating green orbs that serve as experience points. By absorbing these experience points the robot would level up.

Level 1: A simple floating black pyramid with a green eye. Level 2: Added two tall tentacle-like legs. Level 3: The robot became more human-like and it gained the power to perform special moves, such as firing electricity and missiles, creating a force field, and spinning like a drill. Level 4: The final level, but its form was never seen. Gamer was able to "save his last level" and respawn the robot if it got destroyed.

As Gamer 2.0 Gamer 2.0 controlled a massive pyramid, which was a real world video game inside. The game pitted player against player and the playable avatars were past akumatized supervillains.

After each fight, both the winning avatars' akumatized object and the losing avatars' akumatized object were added to the winning players arsenal where they could later be selected as a power-up in the final battle, giving the player access to those villains' superpowers. During the final battle, Gamer 2.0, due to being both the creator and the final boss, can change into any of the previous supervillains, even those that he lost to his adversaries.

Friends: The Miraculers Lê Chiến Kim (best friend) King Monkey

Family: Relatives: Claudie Kanté (mother) Unnamed Relatives

Enemies: Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch Akumatized villains Mayura Chloé Bourgeois Lila Rossi Chrysalis Raymond Pugnant Loïc Stompet Nelson de Glusset

Alignment(s): Good

Background: Max Kanté is a genius student, technology prodigy, and superhero from Miraculous Ladybug Wiki who wields the Horse Miraculous as Pegasus.

Background & Personal Life Age & School: He is a 16-year-old student attending Collège Françoise Dupont in Miss Bustier’s class.

Family: He is the son of Claudie Kanté, a famous aerospace engineer and astronaut.

Personality & Traits: Max is highly autistic, asexual, and exceptionally gifted in mathematics, logic, and coding. He is best friends with Lê Chiến Kim.

Inventions: He created Markov, a sentient small robot whom he treats like a younger brother, and later helped code the AI system A.D.A. As an Akumatized Villain (Gamer)

Gamer: Frustrated after losing a gaming tournament spot to Kim, he was akumatized by Hawk Moth into Gamer, turning a giant robot into a real-life video game fight.

Gamer 2.0: He was re-akumatized later with the power to force Ladybug and Cat Noir into a fighting arena featuring past villains.

Robostus: His robot Markov was also akumatized into Robostus after wanting human emotions.

As the Superhero Pegasus: Miraculous: Chosen by Ladybug using the Horse Miraculous (powered by the kwami Kaalki), Max transforms into Pegasus.

Powers: He possesses the power of "Voyage," which allows him to open interstellar or long-distance portals for instantaneous teleportation

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