Fan Casting Max in John Carpenter's Fallout

Max is a wasteland survivalist living alone in the ruins of Vault 8. A former child slave who escaped Dekker's Hub, he now drives a mined ATV and sets lethal traps for trespassers. He offers the Hero a water chip in exchange for Vault 13's G.E.C.K., revealing a desperate dream to fulfill his dead father's vision of a new life. Charming, dangerous, and morally fluid, he betrays and saves the team in equal measure. He shares a vulnerable, electric chemistry with the Female Officer before being injected with FEV by the Master. In his final act, he begs the Hero to kill him before he turns, forcing the Hero to make the hard choice of a true leader. A tragic scoundrel.