Maxwell Gotch is Brian Murphy’s character in Cloudward, Ho!
Description[]
Maxwell gets out of the car, is wearing a full three-piece burgundy suit. Still has the perfect center part and has the swirling, or twirling rather, like, old-timey mustache. Very broad-shouldered. Clearly some type of athlete under all of that suit.
Maxwell wears a three-piece suit. He parts his hair perfectly in the center and sports a twirled mustache. He is quite muscular. He wears gloves to cover his bruised hands, and he compulsively removes them using his teeth when he's about to engage in fisticuffs. Maxwell carries body oil at all times so he can oil himself down when it's time to get rowdy.
Family[]
Maxwell is the grandson of Cadswitch Gotch, who bankrolled Comfrey MacLeod's adventures and other boondoggle projects, setting his family up for eventual financial ruin. His father is the severe and stern Longspot Gotch. He has six older brothers; in order from eldest to youngest, they are Samwell, Blanewell, Roywell, Hatwell, Wealwell and Johnwell.
History[]
Maxwell is first introduced as a young child in the 1363 newsreel, accompanying his grandfather to the Zephyr. Vanellope Chapman invites him on board, but he has been instructed to not leave the ground, so he remains by his grandfather’s side.
In 1382, the Gotch family is in what Orobouros Codswallop calls a “fiduciary apocalypse,” among other things. Maxwell is sent to repossess the MacLeod family farm in Pilby, and his brother Wealwell, weakened from a barfing episode and therefore unable to take on his original mission to the South Pole, joins him. Wealwell is able to convince Captain Miryam Dawderdale to take the Zephyr instead of a Karakamachi blimp.
In the MacLeod farm, after a somewhat tense standoff with Hutch and Artemisia, Maxwell is invited inside, and Olethra takes him to investigate her mech suit and put in the radio frequency he found on the documents at the family meeting. They hear a message from Comfrey MacLeod, who has found the continent of Zood. Max immediately believes it is up to them to find Comfrey. He and Olethra leave the farm together to board the Zephyr again.
During their first encounter with Lord Mordecestershire, Max threateningly reveals himself as a gentleman fister. He offers to exchange information with Mordecestershire, but after offering up the House of Fehujar and Ramansu, it seems the minister doesn’t know anything. He is outraged when Mordecestershire uses a jetpack to escape being thrown off the Zephyr, because he sees it as cheating. He proceeds to throw multiple people off the ship. When Kocka brings him the healing aioli from Bert, he pretends to not drink it. When given the chance to use the rotator cannon, Maxwell scoffs at the thought of using weapons and instead leaps onto a nearby wasp and throws the pilot out of it before jumping back on the Zephyr.
When observing the rest of the party bond over the sketchbook Olethra took from among Comfrey’s things, Maxwell doesn’t feel he’s creative enough to add anything to it, but finds excitement in the possibility that the continent could be just about anything.
While in the South Pole station, Max takes Van aside to ask about her nervousness. Van only offers up that she is cursed (much like Max, the seventh Gotch son, is said to be), and says she considers killing him to keep the secret. Wealwell immediately offers to carry out the killing and accuses Max of not taking Goldbeard’s cave seriously. When Marya runs deeper into the station for one final run-through, Max goes in after her. After Marya dives into the hole she found, Maxwell sees the fugue state brought on by her dive, and when another torpedo rocks the station, he begins to slide in, too. At the last moment, Wealwell comes to their escape. Unlike Marya, who saw light at the bottom of the hole, Max sees a piece of ceramic machinery, and with the carabiner the Gotch brothers are attached to each other by, Max dives in to bring it with them. Wealwell stands solidly to help him out.
Back on the Zephyr, Max shares her insights of Marya and Van with Monty. Monty promises to discuss this with Van.
Trivia[]
- The surname Gotch may have been inspired the American professional wrestler Simon Gotch, who wrestled in the WWE from 2013 to 2017 with a “Gilded Age ne’er-do-well” gimmick (Simon Gotch was inspired in turn by Frank Gotch, the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion from 1908 to 1913, who has been argued to be the best North American wrestler of the 20th century).
- The Pugilist class was created by Benjamin Huffman, that can be described as a mix of monk and barbarian.
- Maxwell thinks Monty’s books fell off after the first few, and calls them “good beach read”.
- Maxwell attends the very expensive private university of Revington.
- Maxwell, like all Gotch brothers, wears very tight undies specially made and molded to his body.
- Before the season started, each player wrote rumors about their characters. Brennan shared some of these true rumors and his own false ones with the others. Rumors about Maxwell include:
- As the seventh Gotch son, Maxwell is cursed. (Many, including his own brother)
- He has an alter-ego when he fights. (Marya Junková)
| Cloudward, Ho! Characters | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player Characters |
Daisuke Bucklesby | Marya Junková | Maxwell Gotch | Montgomery LaMontgommery | Olethra MacLeod | Vanellope Chapman | ||
| NPCs | PC Families & Pets |
Comfrey MacLeod | Hutch MacLeod | Artemisia MacLeod | Cadswitch Gotch | Longspot Gotch | Samwell Gotch | Blanewell Gotch | Roywell Gotch | Hatwell Gotch | Wealwell Gotch | Johnwell Gotch | Bert Chapman | Zuzana Junková | Kočka the Rat | Ghost Dog | |
| Antagonists | Lord Kensington Cosgrove Mordecestershire | ||
| Misc. | Akabana DiMarco | Beckers Polaxmius | Harry Ergh | Haruki Norwich | Haunch Saxon | Jackway St. Niles | Lady Greypace | Ludmila Ryczanek | Ouroboros Codswallop | Ramona Diaz | ||