things immediately observable!! GERMAN - accent and features. The accent is very minute, as he's been speaking English since he was about 10 or 11 and it became his primary language at 14, he's now 29. He doesn't make much of an attempt to hide the accent but because he's so fluent in American English and so used to the correct way of saying things, it's very minute, but still present. As for his actual syntax, he's very conversationally the American dudebro, and nothing of German sentence structure ever sticks out when he speaks or writes, though he will be more direct and concise with things.its mostly just the features, the fact his last name is Kiesler, and the tiny bit of accent. If Sherlock is v v familiar with regional accents, his is more the northern German, Hamburg kind. TATTOOS - max has like five million of them, typically he has his sleeves rolled up and shirt unbuttoned a few spaces, so the forearm tattoos, the collar bone one, the two tiny ones behind his ears, the bambi on on his wrist and white ink ones on his hands would most often be visible. they're mostly very geometric? if he sees elliot richards or tristan clark around, max's tattoos are very similar in nature and theme to theirs. MUSCULAR BUILD - there's not much in the way of body fat on him, mostly muscle, and more in the sense of working muscle rather than body builder muscle, so he does something that burns a lot of calories and builds muscle (spoilers, his specific plane of magical energy converts into physical strength and muscle mass as a side effect, so lmao he cheats, but he's also basically Lara Croft by profession so he does a lot of combat and idk ancient rock climbing ) JEWELRY - he wears two obsidian necklaces (this and this) that are typically visible, outside of his shirts, and there's a locket that's usually tucked underneath his shirt, but the chain would be visible and the vague outline. CALLUSES/OUTDOORS DUDE - from rock climbing, weapon holding, short fingernails, dirt underneath nails here and there. he does a lot of outdoorsy working, there will be grass stains on clothes, rips in clothes on knees and things. that sort of stuff. uuuhhhh, phone case is hella? like otter on steroids? GREAT DANE? - there's dog hair on his clothes, if sherlock can tell from lmao single fibers here and there, it's from a merle colored great dane EXCESS ENERGY - max likes to move a lot, doesn't like being still, he fidgets and gets bored quickly, and in general has a lot of excess physical energy WARM?? - max, physically is like fever warm 24/7, or will be once the magic is turned on, but currently, he'll often be acting sort of like he's freezing. he's used to being buzzing with magic that has a side effect of making his body really warm, so with it missing, he feels too cold all the time. SMELLS LIKE CHRISTMAS - sob im sorry i have no idea what this would tell Sherlock other than that Max owns a lot of candles, but certain smells/tastes are sort of like demon drugs from kids from the Demonic Plane class of magic, and for Max, the smells are: cedar, balsam, juniper, and rainwater. for taste, just peppers. like hella hot ghost peppers. so, for the scents, he owns like 548958034532 candles back home in those fragrances and keeps a lot of cedar, balsam and juniper around him. there's probably some in his pockets, honestly. so he will weirdly smell a lot like christmas. or a lumberjack. plus, peppers? idk.
things he could pick up on after being around max a bit/seeing him interact with ppl ~~MAAAGIC~~ - if he can pick up on that? He uses it regularly and without real subtly, so once the magic turns back on, that'll be a thing PANSEXUAL/PEOPLE WATCHING? - checks out dudes and girls as they go by, not terribly subtly about it, just casual elevator eyes on occasion. he also tends to just look at people in general, as more of an observancy thing. he people watches. TINY BIT CLAUSTROPHOBIC - stands close to windows and doors unconsciously, gets just the littlest bit tense when they're closed, will start at any bars across windows for a longer period of time than is necessary, because he really doesn't like them. SEVERE CHILDHOOD TRAUMA?? - Idk what would be apparent on him that he could deduce that, other than Max tending to be very protective of children, but he also has a two year old daughter at home, so that's another reason for it. if there's anything you see that might suggest it in a tag, feel free to have Sherlock pick up on it PHYSICALLY PROTECTIVE - if sherlock sees him around tris clark, elliot richards, harper gray or adrien arbuckal, max's postures and mannerisms will come off very defensive and protective, especially of tris clark. also a bit domineering and possessive. MILD ADDICTION - max regularly smokes and drinks. nothing super hard, but more than just socially. he'd have a bit of cigarette smoke
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deducible things!! for sherlock!!
GERMAN - accent and features. The accent is very minute, as he's been speaking English since he was about 10 or 11 and it became his primary language at 14, he's now 29. He doesn't make much of an attempt to hide the accent but because he's so fluent in American English and so used to the correct way of saying things, it's very minute, but still present. As for his actual syntax, he's very conversationally the American dudebro, and nothing of German sentence structure ever sticks out when he speaks or writes, though he will be more direct and concise with things.its mostly just the features, the fact his last name is Kiesler, and the tiny bit of accent. If Sherlock is v v familiar with regional accents, his is more the northern German, Hamburg kind.
TATTOOS - max has like five million of them, typically he has his sleeves rolled up and shirt unbuttoned a few spaces, so the forearm tattoos, the collar bone one, the two tiny ones behind his ears, the bambi on on his wrist and white ink ones on his hands would most often be visible. they're mostly very geometric? if he sees elliot richards or tristan clark around, max's tattoos are very similar in nature and theme to theirs.
MUSCULAR BUILD - there's not much in the way of body fat on him, mostly muscle, and more in the sense of working muscle rather than body builder muscle, so he does something that burns a lot of calories and builds muscle (spoilers, his specific plane of magical energy converts into physical strength and muscle mass as a side effect, so lmao he cheats, but he's also basically Lara Croft by profession so he does a lot of combat and idk ancient rock climbing )
JEWELRY - he wears two obsidian necklaces (this and this) that are typically visible, outside of his shirts, and there's a locket that's usually tucked underneath his shirt, but the chain would be visible and the vague outline.
CALLUSES/OUTDOORS DUDE - from rock climbing, weapon holding, short fingernails, dirt underneath nails here and there. he does a lot of outdoorsy working, there will be grass stains on clothes, rips in clothes on knees and things. that sort of stuff. uuuhhhh, phone case is hella? like otter on steroids?
GREAT DANE? - there's dog hair on his clothes, if sherlock can tell from lmao single fibers here and there, it's from a merle colored great dane
EXCESS ENERGY - max likes to move a lot, doesn't like being still, he fidgets and gets bored quickly, and in general has a lot of excess physical energy
WARM?? - max, physically is like fever warm 24/7, or will be once the magic is turned on, but currently, he'll often be acting sort of like he's freezing. he's used to being buzzing with magic that has a side effect of making his body really warm, so with it missing, he feels too cold all the time.
SMELLS LIKE CHRISTMAS - sob im sorry i have no idea what this would tell Sherlock other than that Max owns a lot of candles, but certain smells/tastes are sort of like demon drugs from kids from the Demonic Plane class of magic, and for Max, the smells are: cedar, balsam, juniper, and rainwater. for taste, just peppers. like hella hot ghost peppers. so, for the scents, he owns like 548958034532 candles back home in those fragrances and keeps a lot of cedar, balsam and juniper around him. there's probably some in his pockets, honestly. so he will weirdly smell a lot like christmas. or a lumberjack. plus, peppers? idk.
things he could pick up on after being around max a bit/seeing him interact with ppl
~~MAAAGIC~~ - if he can pick up on that? He uses it regularly and without real subtly, so once the magic turns back on, that'll be a thing
PANSEXUAL/PEOPLE WATCHING? - checks out dudes and girls as they go by, not terribly subtly about it, just casual elevator eyes on occasion. he also tends to just look at people in general, as more of an observancy thing. he people watches.
TINY BIT CLAUSTROPHOBIC - stands close to windows and doors unconsciously, gets just the littlest bit tense when they're closed, will start at any bars across windows for a longer period of time than is necessary, because he really doesn't like them.
SEVERE CHILDHOOD TRAUMA?? - Idk what would be apparent on him that he could deduce that, other than Max tending to be very protective of children, but he also has a two year old daughter at home, so that's another reason for it. if there's anything you see that might suggest it in a tag, feel free to have Sherlock pick up on it
PHYSICALLY PROTECTIVE - if sherlock sees him around tris clark, elliot richards, harper gray or adrien arbuckal, max's postures and mannerisms will come off very defensive and protective, especially of tris clark. also a bit domineering and possessive.
MILD ADDICTION - max regularly smokes and drinks. nothing super hard, but more than just socially. he'd have a bit of cigarette smoke
iiiiiiii cant think of anything else rn and im hella sleepy, ILL ADD MORE IF I THINK OF MORE FFFFF