Mahl Stik

Mahl Stik is a minor character in ''How to Survive High School. ''He is one of the artsy non-conformists who dislikes the mainstream and likes to show off how different and special he is, and is usually seen hanging out with Peyton Brush and Tempera Uhcrylycs. His family is from India.

Personality
Mahl Stik likes painting, sculpting, and writing plays (although most of them are actually quite terrible, even by the standards of Tempera and Peyton). he tries too hard to be edgy, and comes off as grumpy, angsty, and obnoxious, even more so than his female counterparts.

Appearance
Like the other Bohemians, Mahl has a very strange and tacky appearance. He is an Indian, so he has dark skin with brown eyes. His natural hair color is black, but he dyes his hair green and keeps it long and shaggy, and has a bit of stubble on his chin and upper lip. He usually wears a tacky, multicolored checkered jacket over a pastel pink shirt and black tie with flip flops and a pair of multicolored yoga pants. His pants have spots and wavy line imprints on them.

Book 1: The New Kid
He is first mentioned in Kendall's notebook, and appears later on with Peyton and Tempera trying to show off his art, most of which is really bad (even worse than the girls'). Later, when Rosalia da Silva seeks people to recruit for her cause to protest the construction of the new football field, Mahl and the other Bohemians show enthusiasm for her plot, but he suggests he'd rather write a biting poem or paint a picture than actually do anything. Rosalia and Layla are disappointed in him and the girls, and leave. He is finally seen toward the end of the book, painting a picture of Leo titled "The Disgraced Pervert."

Trivia

 * His name, like the other Bohemians', is a pun. A mahl stick is a tool used by artists to rest their arms on while painting.
 * He is implied to be the worst artist of the three, yet also the most arrogant.