Name: Laura (Lyra)
Gender: Female (she/her)
Country: The Netherlands
Language: Dutch, English


These are just a few of the games ive really enjoyed playing:

Dota 2
Overwatch
Dead By Daylight
Apex Legends
Stardew Valley
Minecraft
Fall Guys
Valorant
Phasmophobia
Marvel Rivals


Stranger Things
Harry Potter
Wednesday
Game of Thrones
The Walking Dead
The Hobbit
Jurassic World
The Godfather
Prison Break
The Hunger Games
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Legend of Korra

Maxine "Max" Mayfield, portrayed by Sadie Sink, is a main character in Stranger Things, being introduced in the second season. She is also the protagonist of the novel Stranger Things: Runaway Max. A newcomer to the Party, and the stepsister of Billy Hargrove, she is best friends with Jane "Eleven" Hopper, Mike Wheeler, Will Byers, Dustin Henderson, and Lucas Sinclair. She also has an on-and-off romantic relationship with Lucas, but is seen dating him in the finale.

Max was originally from California, and had a keen interest in skateboarding from a young age. Following her mother's divorce and remarriage to Neil Hargrove in 1984, Max and her erratic stepbrother Billy moved to Hawkins, Indiana. Max quickly gained a reputation at the Palace Arcade for topping the game leader boards, her high scores submitted under the player name "MADMAX". Max's high scores captured the attention of arcade regulars Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Will, who mistakenly assumed her to be a boy. After Maxine joined the boys' class at Hawkins Middle School, they realised the new girl and the mysterious MADMAX were one and the same. On Halloween, Max crossed paths with the boys while trick-or-treating, and despite being weirded-out by their earlier behaviour, had a change of heart, and sought to befriend them. Dustin and Lucas, each secretly pining for her affection, wanted to make Max an official member of the Party, but Mike pushed back against the idea.

When Will started experiencing strange 'episodes', Max took notice, and became even more curious after learning of Will's disappearance the previous year. Though her new friends were initially reluctant to explain what had happened to Will, Lucas eventually divulged the whole history of events involving Will, Eleven, the Demogorgon and the Upside Down. Though sceptical at first, Max's convictions would shift after encountering a pack of faceless humanoid predators alongside Lucas, Dustin and their friend Steve Harrington. Max and her friends soon realized Will was possessed by the "Mind Flayer", a malevolent entity serving as the mind and heart of the Upside Down, whose influence in Hawkins was expanding in the form of gigantic, vine-like tunnels burrowing deep beneath the city.

Max grew romantically attached to Lucas, but had an awkward first meeting with Eleven upon her return to Hawkins. After standing up to an erratic and violent Billy after his assault on Steve at the Byers house, Max further proved her worth, stealing Billy's car and transporting the group to the underground tunnels. There, they assisted in the fight against the Mind Flayer by attacking the Upside Down's shared hive mind. After defeating the Mind Flayer, Max attended the Snow Ball with her new group of friends, and after sharing her first kiss with Lucas, would begin a relationship with him.

By the summer of 1985, Max had befriended Eleven, while going through cycles of dating Lucas, breaking up with him and getting back together again. However, to Max's discomfort, the Party's attention shifted to Billy after he was noted to be acting unusually. The group would later discover that Billy had become possessed by the Mind Flayer, prompting the Party and their allies to band together to defeat them. While the group battled the Spider Monster with fireworks at Starcourt Mall, Eleven reminded Billy of his humanity, her words prompted Billy to sacrifice his life to save Eleven's, which horrified and traumatized Max. Despite her rocky relationship with Billy, Max was deeply affected by her stepbrother's loss and experienced a profound sense of grief, survivor's guilt, and depression. Three months later, Max, along with the rest of the Party, tearfully said goodbye to the Byers and Eleven, who had been relocated to California by Dr. Owens.

Months later, Max still struggled with Billy's loss, suffering from frequent nightmares in which she would relive the moment of his death. She isolated herself from her friends, breaking up for good with Lucas. However, in March 1986, she decided to help her old friends investigate the murder of Chrissy Cunningham. After learning she was experiencing the same disturbing hallucinations and symptoms that Chrissy had, Max and her friends came to the conclusion that she had been "cursed" by a mysterious Upside Down entity dubbed "Vecna", and that she didn't have much time to live. However, when the time came, Max was able to survive Vecna's attacks when her friends played her favorite song, Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush, over her headphones, giving her the emotional strength to defy Vecna and return to reality.

After discovering Vecna's plan to use the murders to open four gates, the group came up with a plan of attack, Max would act as bait to distract Vecna, while Nancy, Steve and Robin would attack his real body in the Upside Down. At the abandoned Creel House, Max let herself become possessed again, but to her surprise, Eleven appeared in her visions, via her power of psychic projection. However, Vecna overpowered Eleven, and began killing Max. Due to the actions of Eleven, Nancy, Steve, and Robin, Max initially survived the attack, though she was blinded and her limbs were broken, but she eventually succumbed to her injures. Her death triggered the opening of the fourth and final curse gate, wreaking havoc across Hawkins. However, Eleven used her abilities to restart Max's heart. She was brought back to life, but remained comatose, teetering on the boundary between life and death.

A year later, while her body had fully healed, Max remained comatose, but when Vecna launches his plan to abduct children across Hawkins, and targeted Holly Wheeler, Max revealed herself when her mind was taken. It is then revealed after she died, Vecna was able to claim her mind. But after she was revived, she rematerialized in Vecna's memories. Despite being trapped in Vecna's mind, Max still maintained a connection to the physical world, being able to hear Kate Bush being played by Lucas. Eventually, Max made her way to Henry's house, and hid in a certain cave he was afraid to go in. Eventually, through Will, they discover that Max is still alive, and her body is still in a trance. Working together, Max and Holly were eventually able to escape and wake up. Max woke up in the laundry room of Hawkins Memorial Hospital, and has a tearful reunion with Lucas, finally back to the material world with her best friends, she was bound to a wheelchair, however, due to the lack of muscular activity in her body. Max played an integral role in the final battle, guiding El and Kali through Henry’s mind and helping the children navigate to safety, before she was subdued by the military. She would then watch with depression as she witnessed Eleven remain in the Upside Down during its collapse.

Eventually, Max would regain feeling in her body and recover fully, being able to skateboard again. She resumed her relationship with Lucas and graduated from high school with the rest of her friends. And after a game of D&D, wondered if Eleven did die with Mike theorizing she survived but was uncertain and told her and the others that no one knew, and they could never know. As Karen called them all up for dinner, Max and the group left the basement emotional, putting their binders away as symbolism for moving on from The Abyss’s bind on their lives, finally moving on.