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Lumax
GENERAL
Stranger Things
Character	Lucas Sinclair
Character	Max Mayfield
Canonical?	Canon
Status of Relationship	Broken up/best friends, Mutual Feelings; Max is comatose
IN FANDOM
Type (?)	Het
Also Known As	Mucas, Lmax, Lucx, Lucax, Lucasx, Lucmax, Lucamax, Lucasax, Maxs, Mcas, Macas, Maxas, Maxcas, Mlucas, Malucas, Maxucas
Tropes	• Dating What Daddy Hates - Has a variant of this where Max's stepbrother is consistently racist towards Lucas and threatens Max to stay away from him. • Duet Bonding • First Love • Unbroken Vigil

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Lucas – “I've really missed that.”

Max – “Missed what?”

Lucas – “Your laugh.”

— The Nina Project

Lumax is the het ship between Lucas Sinclair and Max Mayfield from the Stranger Things fandom.

Canon

Season 2

MADMAX

While at the arcade, Dustin is frustrated that he lost his high score. Will is surprised that the new high score was 751,300, and Mike says it impossible for anyone to reach that. Dustin asks Keith who is 'MADMAX', and Keith responds that they are better than Dustin, resulting in him pulling a middle finger in response to what Keith had said. The next day, at school, Mr. Clarke introduces a new student, Maxine, but she corrects him and says to call her Max. After she makes her introduction, Dustin, Lucas, Mike and Will stare at her as she goes to sit in the back of the class. A while after that, Mike says that there is no possible way she is MADMAX. Will agrees to this, and says girls don't play video games, and Mike responds that even if they did they can't get 750,000 points on Dig Dug. Lucas disagrees on what Mike and Will previously said, saying in spite of that, her name is Max. Lucas then asks Mike how much Maxes he knows, and Mike responds with I don't know, and Lucas believes he knows zero. Dustin agrees, stating she showed up at school the day after someone broke his high score, and Lucas responds that she has got to be MADMAX. Dustin comments on how she skateboards, claiming she's pretty awesome because of that fact. Max walks out of their sight, and throws a paper ball in the trash. The boys start running to the trash can, and Dustin digs in deep to the trash, while the other three wave casually to a group of girls staring at them. Dustin straightens the paper, only for the group to find out Max knew the boys were spying on her. In the arcade parking lot, Dustin and Lucas hide behind a vehicle, and Lucas looks into the pair of binoculars and tries looking for Max. Dustin tells Lucas his mom is going to murder him, and Lucas tells him to go home and he will radio him if anything happens. Dustin replies that he just wants him out so Lucas can make his 'move'. While he shows Lucas his brand new front teeth, he notices Max, and signals Lucas. Lucas flips his binoculars, and sees Billy's car heading toward the entrance of the arcade, and Max comes out of the car, indistinctly arguing with her brother. Inside, Max plays Dig Dug, and Lucas and Dustin watch her from a distance, and Lucas says she is incredible. They sit down with smiling faces and find out she is actually MADMAX.

TRICK OR TREAT, FREAK

As Dustin and Lucas open their lockers, they see Max riding past the hallway on her skateboard. Dustin asks if they should do this, and Lucas disagrees, telling him they both look like morons. Dustin says she could possibly be interested in Ghostbusters, and Lucas agrees with this, but responds saying that was not his point, and the point he's talking about was that they were wearing costumes, and she was not. A few moments after Max walked off, Dustin suggested that they'd talk to her after class. After class ended, Max opens her locker, but suddenly Dustin and Lucas appear by her, and introduce themselves. She says she knows, and refers to both of them as 'the stalkers'. Dustin and Lucas look at eachother briefly before Lucas says no and tries to clear up the situation and the both of them make excuses, while stuttering and hesitating. Max asks if that is the reason why they are wearing proton packs, and Dustin replies they don't function, while simultaneously trying to show her he has a 'handy dandy' trap.

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Quotes

“And you? Who screams like that? You sound like a little girl.”

— Max to Lucas, Trick or Treat, Freak

Max – “I don't even know why I'm telling you this. It's just... I know that I can be a jerk like him sometimes, and I do not want to be like him. Ever. I guess I'm angry, too, and... I'm sorry. Jesus! What's wrong with me?”

Lucas – “Hey. You're nothing like your brother, okay? You're cool and different. And you're super smart. And you're, like, totally tubular.”

Max – “Nobody actually says that, you know.”

Lucas – “Well, I do now.”

Max – “And it makes you seem really cool.”

Lucas – “I like talking with you, Mad Max.”

Max – “And I like talking with you, stalker.”

— The Spy

Lucas – “You want to, like... You know? Like, just you and me?”

Max – “Are you trying to ask me to dance, stalker?”

Lucas – “No, of course not. Unless, you want to.”

Max – “So smooth. Come on.”

— The Gate

Lucas – “She's a genius and she's hotter than Phoebe Cates? No girl is that perfect.”

Max – “Is that so?”

Lucas – “I mean... you're perfect. I mean, like, per-- perfect in your own way. In your special-- your own special way.”

Max – “Relax, I was teasing.”

— Suzie, Do You Copy?

“Max has dumped me five times. But what have I done? Have I despaired? No. I've marched back into battle, and I've won her back every single freaking time.”

— Lucas, The Mall Rats

Lucas – “Max... you know you can talk to me. Right?”

Max – “Yeah, I know that.”

Lucas – “Okay, then why do you keep pushing me away? Okay, look, I don't need a letter. I don't want a letter. Just talk to me. To your friends. We're right here. I'm right here. Okay? I'm here.”

— Dear Billy

Lucas – “I thought we lost you.”

Max – “I'm still... I'm still here.”

— Dear Billy

Max – “I think there are bigger concerns. Like... What if, by listening to this over and over, I get sick of it, and suddenly it's not my favorite song anymore? Will it still work? Or will Kate Bush, like, lose her magic power or something?”

Lucas – “Kate Bush? Never.”

Max – “You're a Kate Bush fan?”

Lucas – “Uh, yeah. Now I am.”

Max – “Really?”

Lucas – “Yeah, mega-fan. She... She saved your life.”

— The Nina Project

Max – “You're such a dork. I thought you were, like, one of the cool kids now.”

Lucas – “I'm not cool?”

— The Nina Project

Lucas – “I've really missed that.”

Max – “Missed what?”

Lucas – “Your laugh.”

— The Nina Project

Lucas – “But I did know you. And I'm sorry I wasn't there.”

Max – “It's not your fault.”

Lucas – “No.”

Max – “I disappeared.”

Lucas – “No, no, you didn't. I just didn't look hard enough. Okay? But I see you now. I see you.”

— The Dive

Max – “But it's my mind. Not his, right? So I should be able to control where I am. I just need to... push him away. Find a happy memory and hide there. Hide in the light.”

Lucas – “You got a memory in mind?”

Max – “Yeah. It was a time when I was the happiest.”

Lucas – “Was I there?”

Max – “That's presumptuous of you. But yeah. You might've been there.”

— Papa

Max – “I'm glad you're here.”

Lucas – “Me too!”

— Max and Lucas talking through notepads, The Piggyback

Behind the Scenes

“Lucas beams. And so does Max. They are as happy as they have been in a long, long time, and for a moment, they forget about the impending battle...”

— The Piggyback (official script)

Fanon

While Lumax did begin in the second season, it did not have the strongest fanbase. The fanbase stayed pretty stagnant during the third season due to the couple not having much focus. However, they gained a larger following after the release of the fourth season where they were not only a major focus but also displayed a more mature side of their relationship. Despite having broken up between the third and fourth seasons, it was clear through their heartfelt interactions that they separated because they were dealing with their personal trauma and not because they did not love each other anymore. Following the fourth season, Lumax went on to become a beloved and fan-favorite couple.

The poly ship "Elumax" is a popular poly ship for fans of both Elmax and Lumax fans and even some Hopclair fans. The poly ship for Elumax mainly is portrayed as just both Eleven/Jane Hopper and Lucas dating Max, but it is also popular for fans to portray Elumax as Lucas, Max and Eleven/Jane Hopper all dating each other.

On AO3, Lumax is the most written ship for both Lucas and Max. It is also the seventh most written ship in the Stranger Things (TV 2016) tag.

Fandom

FAN FICTION

Lucas/Max tag on AO3

Lucas & Max tag on AO3

TUMBLR

Lumax tag on Tumblr

Mucas tag on Tumblr

Lists

Fandometrics

6th	JUL 11th 2022	AUG 15th 2022
7th	AUG 1st 2022	AUG 8th 2022
9th	JUN 6th 2022
10th	JUL 18th 2022
11th	AUG 29th 2022
13th	SEP 12th 2022
14th	JUN 20th 2022	AUG 22nd 2022	SEP 5th 2022
15th	JUN 13th 2022	JUL 25th 2022
32nd	2022

Variations

Elumax refers to the ship between Eleven, Max Mayfield and Lucas Sinclair