Max Caufield

Maxine Caulfield, better known as Max, is a supporting character of A New Frontier. She is an 18-year-old aspiring photographer and senior at Blackwell Academy. She left her mom and dad in Seattle for the seaside town of Arcadia Bay, Oregon, where she grew up. Then, after the events of Life is Strange, she would move to Seattle, Washington to live with friends Chloe Price, Rachel Amber, and Sean Diaz along with his little brother, Daniel Diaz.

Appearance
Max is the quintessential hipster, preferring an understated style that consists of simple T-shirts bearing logos and generic jeans. She has auburn brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles. She appears to wear eye shadow and eyeliner, although this is also quite understated. She has no tattoos or piercings that we know of. She wears a set of three colored bangles on her right wrist that appear to be silicone wristbands.

Personality
Max is geeky, quite introverted and slightly self-conscious, particularly when it comes to her photography. According to Max, she prefers to observe the world around over participating in it. Because of this, several others, including Alvin Junior and Jane, think she doesn't care much about others, due to her involvement with the New Frontier But on the contrary, she makes a genuine effort to show kindness to all of most around her. She's a clear, deductive thinker, smart and sneaky, while also practical, reasonable and mature, in some aspects, for her age, especially compared to her best friend, Chloe. She is also brave, placing herself in harm's way to protect those she cares about.

She has great affection and interest in photography, always taking pictures of her surroundings, since she considers it a way to be part of the world at a safe distance and aspires to make it into a career one day. She especially has an affinity for old analog cameras and instant camera selfies. She also seems to like obscure cult movies and anime, much like her friend Sean Diaz. She has always dreamed of traveling and exploring the world, as well as going on "adventures" together with her childhood friend Chloe.

Max becomes more confident and decisive as her adventure continues, probably due to Chloe's influence combined with her time-altering powers. This newfound strength and self-confidence reaches its apex in Brave New World and has to save Chloe and Rachel. Right from the beginning, Max feels deeply responsible for her actions and does not take her rewind power lightly, and she doesn't yet realize the full consequences of her power. In the end, Max appears deeply troubled with the consequences of her decisions and the responsibility she has to bear, as represented by her talk with Sean Diaz in Amid The Ruins.

Some people regard Max as "nosy" - There are several instances throughout the series where Max is called that by other characters, including admitting to being nosy herself. It's obvious that Max is pretty interested in other people's stuff, but it's up to the player how far her curiosity goes, such as to what extent she goes to nose around in other people's room, such as Lucoa Quetzacoatl and Shouta Magatsuchi's shared room during a house party in Night Club.

She is shown as extremely introverted, preferring to stay in her room, likes to isolate herself with music and excuse herself to go to the bathroom to have a "meltdown" after being called on in class, is reluctant to submit her photo, despite strong encouragement from her favorite teacher, and has trouble during social interactions with people, even her dorm-mates, until her powers allow her to "cheat". She also comes across as aloof to her peers (a common experience for people on the autistic spectrum or with anxiety disorders) and apparently fluctuates between being too quiet or too chatty.

Abilities
Rewind- Max's most frequently used power is the ability to reverse the flow of time; she can comfortably rewind time several seconds to a few minutes. Max herself is unaffected by the time alteration, remaining in a fixed position while time flows backwards around her, and she retains all recollection of what happened afterwards. As a side effect of this, Max may seem to suddenly disappear and/or appear out of nowhere to those under the effects of her powers (i.e. by moving to a different location and then rewinding time, this allows her to be in a different location than where she was standing originally). Any item(s) on her person before time traveling are also kept with her after the fact. As a focus for her powers, Max normally extends her hand out to rewind time. It is unknown if this short-burst method of time travel entails any paradoxes as even her small changes may contribute to a butterfly effect.

Teleporting- Max can use also use her rewind ability to erase the physical position of her old self by walking to a new location, rewinding, and then resuming time. To bystanders, it would probably seem that Max has teleported unless it is done cleverly with nobody around or vigilant enough, such as when Max teleports to behind Tomura Shigaraki's office door when she knows nobody would be inside, and any surprise from those present could perhaps be passed off as a drunken hallucination.

Future Vision- Max can see the future to some extent. Through lucid visions, Max was able to witness the New Frontier taking over New Seattle During these visions, Max seemed to be experiencing the future event first-hand; thus it's possible that they aren't just visions but rather 'time jumps'. Her experiencing these specific visions may stem from having saved Chloe from dying and in turn causing a butterfly effect.

Freeze- Max has the power to freeze time while also being able to move normally. Max discovered this ability during her attempt to stop Tomura Shigaraki from releasing poison gas in Jericho, but the amount of concentration to maintain it was extremely harsh on her body, as seen by her being rendered too weak to use her rewind power (her nose also bleeds a little). Similar to when she is reversing time, Max held her hand out during the duration of time being frozen.

Pause- Max can also pause time without being able to move. This ability comes in handy when she faces a difficult decision, mainly in dialogues. It is also essential during more serious situations, such as when she attempts to prevent something bad from happening; it assures she will not pass the time frame of her rewind ability or have to witness the consequence of her (in)action. It is unknown whether Max's nose bleeds are the result of an accumulative use of pausing or whether a pause can be sustained indefinitely.

Focus- By focusing on a photograph, Max can transfer her consciousness back to the time period when the photo was taken in order to change the past. However, once there, she is unable to pass the 'photographic bounds' (i.e. the areas of her environment that seem "out of focus") while the ability is in use. The ability also appears to be limited to photographs in which Max herself is visibly present, whether as a reflection in her own photography or a subject of someone else's. Max is also confined to exist within the physical form she was in when the photo was taken, so if she were to use a photo of when she was two, her mind would be placed in her two-year-old body. This ability is used several times throughout the series, most notably when Max goes back to her first appearance, Arcadia Outbound to retry the timeline and liberate New Seattle.