Quick Fox (Max Casey)

Created by Tony Bark, Max Casey is a blue fennec with spiky brown hair, pink highlights and heterochromia eyes. He can be seen wearing a letterman jacket and a pleated skirt. Unless he is sleeping, Max always has his goggles perched on his forehead. He always carries around a handheld game console with a portable music player.

Personality

Max exudes restless energy and is optimistic, spirited, and relentlessly upbeat. He is known for being a guitarist with a preference for handheld music players and game consoles.

Power and Abilities

• Peak to Enhanced Speed
• Extra stamina
• Enhanced strength

Limitions

• Momentum-dependent
• Low maneuverability
• Gravity-sensitive

Background

Created in 2024, Max is Tony Bark’s fursona that doubles as a supporting character or protagonist in his stories. Although a relatively new addition to the Caseyverse canon, he is directly derived from modern incarnations of Zack Casey based on Bark’s Second Life avatar. The decision to split the two was made in order to streamline both, allowing Zack to resume his original role as a DJ.

During Max’s development, he was originally named JD, though this was changed as it didn’t flow off the tongue as well as he thought, and Bark wanted to avoid his fursona being associated with that year’s political events. He had always given Zack hats, and Max was originally intended to inherit that, but it was decided to give him goggles based on a friend’s version of Zack that had them. Following the change, he went a step further and gave the goggles Max’s appearance that have become his signature look.

In late 2024, Bark reworked Max to double as a speedster superhero, Quick Fox, in an effort to address the criticisms of live-action portrayals of The Flash, mainly the CW and DCEU. He is critical of those versions Flash due to how overpowered he is, as well as the poor executions of the Flashpoint Paradox. Bark is overly critical of CW version, as he masters the Speed Force by episode 2 of season 1. He decided that, since he can't change the Flash, he could at least do the character justice with Quick Fox by giving him clearly defined limits. This doubled as an effort to satisfy his boyfriend, who first suggested the idea of a superhero character a long time ago. While Bark gladly agreed upon it, he had it all backwards in the beginning.