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okay because i'm excited, i'm going to give you the coles notes version. the langfords are san fransisco natives. max is 32 (the eldest) and gabe is 26 (the youngest) so if your guy could be somewhere in the middle of that, that would be awesome. their dad (graeme) is a hr manager and mom was a teacher before she had the kids, then became a stay-at-home-mom. i'd say they're middle class? they're catholic, though not strictly devout or anything (they did attend sunday mass as kids though), and mom is an on/off alcoholic. max moved to nyc in 2013 to do his masters in integrated marketing and that's where he's lived up until august of this year.
personality wise, max is a big dreamer. he's ambitious and not one to settle for what he has - he always likes to look ahead and figure out how he could do better/be better. he's confident (read: cocky) and new york made him a bit too big for his britches. he was living the high life with his gorgeous girlfriend, fancy apartment, excellent job, but was recently fired due to a narcotic addiction that's still an issue for him and on top of that, his girlfriend broke up with him because she caught him cheating (oops). he crashed with their parents for a couple of months and now has been living with ~leiden for the last few weeks.
though they were close once, his relationship with gabe is strained at the moment because when max left, he kind of left with the attitude that his old life wasn't good enough for him (he didn't use that phrasing exactly!) but they're civil for now. i'm down for any sort if dynamic between max and henry.