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i thought his plan was to sleep with ethan, then convince him that he could get laid as much as he wanted to, thus ensuring that Ethan wouldn’t ever get together with danny the vocally monogamous?
I would argue that being “very committed to being as big of an asshole as possible” is definitely bad guy behaviour.
Like, you can be anything! It’s actively terrible to decide that “asshole” is really the way to go.
This is incorrect. He has made knife-twisting statements before that have definitely caused emotional harm and he has done so on purpose. He isn’t a failed jokester type of asshole, he is a ‘literally pushes you on your weak points’ asshole.
I think it’s a mix of both. Sometimes he targets specific vulnerabilities, other times his insults are so generic to be idiotic and ironically amusing (such as the predictable mom jokes showcased here). The weird thing is how the cliche assholery fills in the gaps between the targeted assholery.
It was originally ‘sleep with one of them to make the other a jealous whimpering mess’. Ethan said Danny was off-limits. So that meant he had to bang Ethan. As he got closer to actually doing so, childhood feels came back so instead he gave Ethan an actual legitimate confidence boost, then had sex with him, knowing that Ethan would likely never opt to be with him willingly again and it finally opened the floodgates for Ethan to be himself and have some casual times without tripping into the insecure guilt pit his mother’s words kept pulling him into.
Danny may still be jealous, but it’s not Mike-patented purposely rubbing it in his face to twist up all his feelings jealous, as he didn’t go out of his way to tell him to ensure he would be.
I’m pretty sure his plan is “I’m in love with Ethan but too emotionally insecure to say it, so I’ll keep coming up with convoluted rationalizations to push him toward intimacy with me.”
Wait, did McConnell ALREADY push the thing through? I know it passed the House. Of course, it was NEVER going to pass the Senate, so this is no surprise, but at least now you know of 11 democrats that you need to primary ASAP.
Nah. Pelosi has declined to send it to the House until they guarantee a fair trial. Since they won’t, Trump will just be the only President ever to be impeached and not acquitted.
Unless I missed something, it’s officially not being sent until the rules for the trial are set, which is slightly different.
I suspect it will get there and it probably won’t take too long.
Meanwhile, investigations and revelations will continue.
No it hasn’t. The vote passed the house. Now they’re setting rules for the senate trial. Which is a GOOD thing. Those rules are gonna have to be ironclad to keep Trump’s party members from weaselling around it too much.
Problem is, McConnell has as much control over those rules as he can get 51 of Trump’s party members to agree with and McConnell’s already openly stated he’s acting as the President’s defense.
Impeachment certainly hasn’t failed – though it’s overwhelmingly likely not to remove Trump from office. 20 Republican Senators in favor is just not realistic.
The hope was always to use the high profile of impeachment to highlight his crimes and shift public opinion.
I’ve also heard that as long as you impeach in at least one of the organisms, it’s possible to prosecute after the term is over? It’s almost assuredly not relevant what with the “presidents don’t criticise former incumbents” utter bullshit (maaaaaaybe Warren would break the tradition?), but do you have any idea if it’s true?
It isn’t. Impeachment (which can only happen in the House) is roughly the equivalent of an indictment (with the House acting as a grand jury) for a legislative trial (in the Senate). It has nothing to do with the criminal justice system and doesn’t impact potential criminal proceedings later one way or the other. Nor does following presidents criticizing or not criticizing. (The “not criticizing” thing is largely a tradition of avoiding the appearance of political retaliation which is considered a fairly totalitarian sort of thing. Trump obviously never got the memo.)
What you might be thinking of is the Presidential pardon power which might be used to protect Trump from federal prosecution after he’s out of office. There’s a common misconception about impeachment and pardons – The Constitution limits the pardon power in cases of impeachment, but that means he can’t pardon the actual impeachment, not that related crimes can’t be pardoned.
Well, yeah, the odds are pretty much certain the senate will be kind to him, but officially this is still ongoing and I think Pelosi’s doing what she can with the rules.
The actual long term goal really needs to be widespread changes – of which, one useful one (and part of moving us towards a more healthy parliamentary democracy model, rather than the more unstable presidential democracy model) is making the mechanism of removing the president… well, a thing that could actually happen :V
And the primary step towards that isn’t necessarily a change of the rules, but reforming the Republican party (and its base voters) into something other than a fascist criminal enterprise.
Under the rules it could happen and would have to Nixon, except he recognized it and resigned first. That was the process working. The difference now isn’t the process, it’s the hyperpartisanship of the Republican party and the fact that they expect no or minimal political damage from it.
The thing is, unless you are an influential member of the Republican party, you have absolutely no leverage to change those things. Maybe you are, what do I know, but for those of us who aren’t we can only hope to make change in the areas we do have leverage.
And this is why you don’t conduct a lengthy campaign of douchebaggery for the sake of douchebaggery! By the time you realize you’re interested, he’s over his crush on you because he realizes you’re not worth it!
I’d be way more sympathetic to your plight if you didn’t do the website spoofing thing to make Walky cry, like, a week, week and a half ago.
Mike’s smile doesn’t mean “Wait – he still cares enough for Danny to notice that we spoke and then he left… His core Ethan-ness has not been consumed by his need to consummate as many flings as possible! This means we may still have a chance!” does it..? Coz if so, OH BOY does he have it bad…
I don’t think so. I think it is just supposed to show that he finds Ethan’s joke and reaction endearing and enjoyed the interaction though he is keeping his feels to himself.
There’s a difference, though, between “identifying as nonmonogamous” and “going through your exploratory phase”. Plenty of people who sleep around a lot when not in relationships go on to have monogamous relationships; we don’t have enough information on Ethan to suspect one way or the other yet. I’m not sure *Ethan* has enough information on Ethan one way or the other to know that yet.
True but it’s a nice change of pace that a character hasn’t been inclined to believe in one true love and a serious relationship as the goal of dating.
I don’t think Mike is perplexed, pretty vividly remember him telling Ethan he could get with pretty much any guy on their floor if he tried, just seems jealous because childhood feels came back to him and he knows they’ll never legit be together as an actual couple. And pretty sure Danny is just jealous that Ethan is getting with other people, not puzzled by it.
See, kids, this is why we don’t act like an asshole for years on end. Because when you’re possibly willing to change, people don’t believe you and believe the worst of you.
The only reason he agreed to die is that Luke Skywalker’s ghost asked nicely. He was 100% in it for selfish reasons. I mean, his entire goal was to create a blank, empty world and rule over it as an invincible tyrant.
Honestly my read on that scene was that Eraqus forgave him (for reasons I can’t understand, but maybe it was a ‘I’ll take this blow for the rest of you’ thing), and literally everyone else was smiling, nodding, and doing whatever else necessary for him to DIE ALREADY. Man clearly showed he could shrug off death and make ANOTHER new ridiculous form, so they needed him to accept it.
Depends what kind of reputation you earn. I mean Mr. Can Eat Three Cheeseburgers In One Sitting could change it to being able to eat four or lose it when some competitive eater turns up and eats 20. You can modify or lose neutral/positive ones easily enough.
Bad reputations are the most difficult to modify because liar stops lying sounds like something a liar would lie about. Just one bad thing can topple a good reputation, so it takes a heck of a lot of good things to rise above a lot of bad things.
I think equally lusty, hers is just locked up in layers of repression. As Ruth predicted, once that dam bursts she’s gonna ravish with the speed and rotational energy of a cartoon Tasmanian Devil.
So across universes, the only people Mike seems to have genuinely had feelings for are all giant fucking nerds.
Is that his type? If he wants to get over Ethan will he just need to go find a dnd group – or actually find someone who desperately wants to be in a dnd group and can’t get up the nervse to ask their way in.
Uh, Ethan? This is weird but… have you considered that, for the very first time, this is true? It’s a feeling that I got yesterday; Mike put too much detail into it as if this were a real problem he’s got right now.
Unless the problem is having a good enough memory to remember a one-off character from Episode 2, then I’m pretty sure it was on par with all the other jokes.
I think it probably is true, but if I was Ethan I sure as hell wouldn’t trust Mike.
And “too much detail” is certainly not a bar for it being a Mike thing – this is the person who fabricated an entire series of fake internet pages to record his roommate crying. Nothing is too much for him.
Even this whole case of the feels could be an elaborate scheme. That’s not beyond him. I don’t think it is. It’s aimed to much at the readers, not any character, but it’s not something he wouldn’t fake for a suitable target.
You know, when you think about it, actually a whole lot of the cast has been drunk or at least a little tipsy at one point or another (like at Joyce’s dorm party), so it’s kinda amazing that we haven’t seen Drunk Mike yet.
Mike’s jokes are getting old. He’s gotta find some new material if he wants to keep things fresh. Maybe stuff like he banged your dad! Or your grandma! I’m just workshopping here, the sky’s the limit on who he could bang for a nickel as a cheap insult gag!
Something else that just occurred to me: Is Mike happier in panel 6 because he’s angered/hurt Ethan in some way? A petty revenge for taking his own invitation to bed him and then dump him?
wow. wao. I don’t even disapprove, the comments section here is really good at making their hate disproportionate if there isn’t something more solid backing it. Mike’s still a dumb kid, same as the rest, in my book, so while he’s a dick, if he wants to course correct, he’s more than welcome to in my book.
…And honestly, yeah, kinda. Ethan’s nominally hot, but he’s also … kind of a pest? Nerds are afaict basically fine for dating in general, but he’s kinda monomaniacal, so idk if it applies to him. And he’s pretty oblivious…
Honestly, I love seeing Mike’s genuine feelings crack through the facade when he thinks no one’s looking. Is he happy for Ethan, but sad that they’re not together? Is he acknowledging to himself that he’s developing feelings for Danny? Is he just happy that he still has his friendship with Ethan? Is he remembering the time he banged Ethan’s mom for a nickel?
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WHAT IS THAT ON HIS FACE
oh no
[maybe he’s smiling about the impeachment]
What exactly was Mike’s plan with Danny and Ethan? It seems to have completely gone arry.
It was going to be ‘sleep with Ethan, making both Danny and Ethan twisted up’. Except uh, it only worked on Danny, and then Mike caught feelings.
i thought his plan was to sleep with ethan, then convince him that he could get laid as much as he wanted to, thus ensuring that Ethan wouldn’t ever get together with danny the vocally monogamous?
Mike’s motives are hard to gauge. I don’t think he’s a bad guy but he’s very committed to being as big of an asshole as possible
I would argue that being “very committed to being as big of an asshole as possible” is definitely bad guy behaviour.
Like, you can be anything! It’s actively terrible to decide that “asshole” is really the way to go.
But he’s not a harmful asshole, just an annoying one. He never goes out of his way to harm people just fuck with them
This is incorrect. He has made knife-twisting statements before that have definitely caused emotional harm and he has done so on purpose. He isn’t a failed jokester type of asshole, he is a ‘literally pushes you on your weak points’ asshole.
I think it’s a mix of both. Sometimes he targets specific vulnerabilities, other times his insults are so generic to be idiotic and ironically amusing (such as the predictable mom jokes showcased here). The weird thing is how the cliche assholery fills in the gaps between the targeted assholery.
It was originally ‘sleep with one of them to make the other a jealous whimpering mess’. Ethan said Danny was off-limits. So that meant he had to bang Ethan. As he got closer to actually doing so, childhood feels came back so instead he gave Ethan an actual legitimate confidence boost, then had sex with him, knowing that Ethan would likely never opt to be with him willingly again and it finally opened the floodgates for Ethan to be himself and have some casual times without tripping into the insecure guilt pit his mother’s words kept pulling him into.
Danny may still be jealous, but it’s not Mike-patented purposely rubbing it in his face to twist up all his feelings jealous, as he didn’t go out of his way to tell him to ensure he would be.
I’m pretty sure his plan is “I’m in love with Ethan but too emotionally insecure to say it, so I’ll keep coming up with convoluted rationalizations to push him toward intimacy with me.”
Which, ya know, has worked out stellar
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That’s Hank and… is that Mike’s dad?
…Joyce’s sister?
I remember Willis mentioning something about dad makeouts on Twitter a little while ago, so I think that’s it.
The impeachment failed.
What else is new? Eat at fucking Arby’s.
Wait, did McConnell ALREADY push the thing through? I know it passed the House. Of course, it was NEVER going to pass the Senate, so this is no surprise, but at least now you know of 11 democrats that you need to primary ASAP.
Nah. Pelosi has declined to send it to the House until they guarantee a fair trial. Since they won’t, Trump will just be the only President ever to be impeached and not acquitted.
Unless I missed something, it’s officially not being sent until the rules for the trial are set, which is slightly different.
I suspect it will get there and it probably won’t take too long.
Meanwhile, investigations and revelations will continue.
You are correct, thejeff.
???
No it hasn’t. The vote passed the house. Now they’re setting rules for the senate trial. Which is a GOOD thing. Those rules are gonna have to be ironclad to keep Trump’s party members from weaselling around it too much.
Problem is, McConnell has as much control over those rules as he can get 51 of Trump’s party members to agree with and McConnell’s already openly stated he’s acting as the President’s defense.
Impeachment certainly hasn’t failed – though it’s overwhelmingly likely not to remove Trump from office. 20 Republican Senators in favor is just not realistic.
The hope was always to use the high profile of impeachment to highlight his crimes and shift public opinion.
I’ve also heard that as long as you impeach in at least one of the organisms, it’s possible to prosecute after the term is over? It’s almost assuredly not relevant what with the “presidents don’t criticise former incumbents” utter bullshit (maaaaaaybe Warren would break the tradition?), but do you have any idea if it’s true?
It isn’t. Impeachment (which can only happen in the House) is roughly the equivalent of an indictment (with the House acting as a grand jury) for a legislative trial (in the Senate). It has nothing to do with the criminal justice system and doesn’t impact potential criminal proceedings later one way or the other. Nor does following presidents criticizing or not criticizing. (The “not criticizing” thing is largely a tradition of avoiding the appearance of political retaliation which is considered a fairly totalitarian sort of thing. Trump obviously never got the memo.)
What you might be thinking of is the Presidential pardon power which might be used to protect Trump from federal prosecution after he’s out of office. There’s a common misconception about impeachment and pardons – The Constitution limits the pardon power in cases of impeachment, but that means he can’t pardon the actual impeachment, not that related crimes can’t be pardoned.
Well, yeah, the odds are pretty much certain the senate will be kind to him, but officially this is still ongoing and I think Pelosi’s doing what she can with the rules.
The actual long term goal really needs to be widespread changes – of which, one useful one (and part of moving us towards a more healthy parliamentary democracy model, rather than the more unstable presidential democracy model) is making the mechanism of removing the president… well, a thing that could actually happen :V
And the primary step towards that isn’t necessarily a change of the rules, but reforming the Republican party (and its base voters) into something other than a fascist criminal enterprise.
Under the rules it could happen and would have to Nixon, except he recognized it and resigned first. That was the process working. The difference now isn’t the process, it’s the hyperpartisanship of the Republican party and the fact that they expect no or minimal political damage from it.
The thing is, unless you are an influential member of the Republican party, you have absolutely no leverage to change those things. Maybe you are, what do I know, but for those of us who aren’t we can only hope to make change in the areas we do have leverage.
Impeachment and removal are two different things. Trump is 100% impeached.
Head Canon: Mike secretly learned everything about Transformers so that he can mess with Ethan’s wiki edits as a form of being a Tsundere.
Honestly, I’m proud of Ethan’s joke too.
I know, right?
Until proven otherwise, I’m assuming that the last panel is just Mike being overwhelmed with pride that Ethan made that joke.
Mike cracks a smile, and all ofn reality cracks with it.
Mike really needs to work on conveying different emotions with his Piercing Stare
Staring contest!
Mike’s Piercing Stare vs Paddington’s Hard Stare.
It’ll just never end, like the contest between Mike and Roadblock over at Shortpacked.
And this is why you don’t conduct a lengthy campaign of douchebaggery for the sake of douchebaggery! By the time you realize you’re interested, he’s over his crush on you because he realizes you’re not worth it!
I’d be way more sympathetic to your plight if you didn’t do the website spoofing thing to make Walky cry, like, a week, week and a half ago.
I wonder if Mike was the one who revealed the Do list.
No, he would have revealed it to Joe by now and that women were right to hate him for it.
*plays Neil Diamond’s “Love On the Rocks” on the hacked Muzak*
Now Mike has to go fuck Ethan’s mom.
Mike’s smile doesn’t mean “Wait – he still cares enough for Danny to notice that we spoke and then he left… His core Ethan-ness has not been consumed by his need to consummate as many flings as possible! This means we may still have a chance!” does it..? Coz if so, OH BOY does he have it bad…
I don’t think so. I think it is just supposed to show that he finds Ethan’s joke and reaction endearing and enjoyed the interaction though he is keeping his feels to himself.
Panel 5 Mike: He GETS me! He REALLY gets me!
Mike got what he wanted, he made Ethan live it up, Just, looks like feelings were caught along the way.
Also, credit where it’s due, that was a really good one on Ethan’s part.
Danny and Mike both seemed to be perplexed at the possibility that maybe Ethan isn’t monogamous.
Like many people in RL.
There’s a difference, though, between “identifying as nonmonogamous” and “going through your exploratory phase”. Plenty of people who sleep around a lot when not in relationships go on to have monogamous relationships; we don’t have enough information on Ethan to suspect one way or the other yet. I’m not sure *Ethan* has enough information on Ethan one way or the other to know that yet.
True but it’s a nice change of pace that a character hasn’t been inclined to believe in one true love and a serious relationship as the goal of dating.
I don’t think Mike is perplexed, pretty vividly remember him telling Ethan he could get with pretty much any guy on their floor if he tried, just seems jealous because childhood feels came back to him and he knows they’ll never legit be together as an actual couple. And pretty sure Danny is just jealous that Ethan is getting with other people, not puzzled by it.
You can’t convince me Ethan didn’t say the words “exasperated sigh”
he actually did say that though
The blue outline text is for sound effects.
That smile is kinda precious ;_;
Are we sure Mike isn’t drunk right now? Normally he doesn’t smile when he’s not drunk, and if he does smile sober it’s creepy as hell.
There’s something about the eyes, too.
Cry me a river, binkyboy. Honestly, go home.
Is…is that an emotion? Can Mike make those?
He received Character Development Points for completing some side quests.
AAAAAAH IT’S A SOBER MIKE SMILE
THE WORLD IS CRUMBLING
It’s a college party. Someone snuck in booze, somehow.
The booze was hidden in Billie’s liver.
It’s a known fact that boozahol can be expelled at high speeds under party conditions.
DAWWWWW!!
See, kids, this is why we don’t act like an asshole for years on end. Because when you’re possibly willing to change, people don’t believe you and believe the worst of you.
Like Vriska Serket, or Sasuke Uchiha.
Okay, everybody forgave Sasuke too easily.
Can’t forget Xehanort, of course.
Well, Xehanort did prove his sincerity by dying, which is pretty strong evidence he wasn’t in it for himself.
The only reason he agreed to die is that Luke Skywalker’s ghost asked nicely. He was 100% in it for selfish reasons. I mean, his entire goal was to create a blank, empty world and rule over it as an invincible tyrant.
Honestly my read on that scene was that Eraqus forgave him (for reasons I can’t understand, but maybe it was a ‘I’ll take this blow for the rest of you’ thing), and literally everyone else was smiling, nodding, and doing whatever else necessary for him to DIE ALREADY. Man clearly showed he could shrug off death and make ANOTHER new ridiculous form, so they needed him to accept it.
It always gives me the worst whiplash when I see Homestuck mentioned in these comments
Also, I feel like post cannon Dirk Strider could be an examplw
Is there really a reputation you can earn that can be easily changed? I guess good reputations are easy to lose, buy that’s about it.
Depends what kind of reputation you earn. I mean Mr. Can Eat Three Cheeseburgers In One Sitting could change it to being able to eat four or lose it when some competitive eater turns up and eats 20. You can modify or lose neutral/positive ones easily enough.
Bad reputations are the most difficult to modify because liar stops lying sounds like something a liar would lie about. Just one bad thing can topple a good reputation, so it takes a heck of a lot of good things to rise above a lot of bad things.
I’m still paying for sarcastic comments I made in elementary school, so this checks out.
I genuinely like Mike and his depth of character. Always have.
Goddammit, Willis! You are making me feel empathy for Mike! Of course, Ethan is as dense as Joyce and 10 times as lusty as she.
I think equally lusty, hers is just locked up in layers of repression. As Ruth predicted, once that dam bursts she’s gonna ravish with the speed and rotational energy of a cartoon Tasmanian Devil.
I’m all for independent findings, but: Did Ruth say that first, or did Sarah (to Jacob)?
Jacob to Sarah actually: One day she’s going to snap and suck like a billion dicks.
Ruth was the Tasmanian Devil version though.
“You’re the only one that understands me” — last panel Mike
Just throw a toy at his head, Mike. It would be a step up in maturity.
Oh no
I love how Mike’s sincere faces are almost, but not quite, indistinguishable from his “i’m being an asshole” faces
So across universes, the only people Mike seems to have genuinely had feelings for are all giant fucking nerds.
Is that his type? If he wants to get over Ethan will he just need to go find a dnd group – or actually find someone who desperately wants to be in a dnd group and can’t get up the nervse to ask their way in.
Uh, Ethan? This is weird but… have you considered that, for the very first time, this is true? It’s a feeling that I got yesterday; Mike put too much detail into it as if this were a real problem he’s got right now.
Unless the problem is having a good enough memory to remember a one-off character from Episode 2, then I’m pretty sure it was on par with all the other jokes.
I think it probably is true, but if I was Ethan I sure as hell wouldn’t trust Mike.
And “too much detail” is certainly not a bar for it being a Mike thing – this is the person who fabricated an entire series of fake internet pages to record his roommate crying. Nothing is too much for him.
Even this whole case of the feels could be an elaborate scheme. That’s not beyond him. I don’t think it is. It’s aimed to much at the readers, not any character, but it’s not something he wouldn’t fake for a suitable target.
You know, when you think about it, actually a whole lot of the cast has been drunk or at least a little tipsy at one point or another (like at Joyce’s dorm party), so it’s kinda amazing that we haven’t seen Drunk Mike yet.
Mike’s jokes are getting old. He’s gotta find some new material if he wants to keep things fresh. Maybe stuff like he banged your dad! Or your grandma! I’m just workshopping here, the sky’s the limit on who he could bang for a nickel as a cheap insult gag!
Called it yesterday that Mike was indeed trying to connect with Danny (and failing miserably).
That is our Mike. And our nickels.
… and that is our Six Flags strip in the corner, eh?
Wait wait wait. Edgy subreddit with abs has actual feelings which can be hurt?!
Something else that just occurred to me: Is Mike happier in panel 6 because he’s angered/hurt Ethan in some way? A petty revenge for taking his own invitation to bed him and then dump him?
Tbh to me it reads more as a very teenage “when your crush talks to you”.
Oh boy
Mike Loves Ethan!!!!! hahahahahahaha
No Ethan.
Their common thing is that: You’ve been inside them both…
Not literally,
although they both want to do it literally.
Maybe it’s that Danny and Mike both have
FEEEEE-LIIIIIINGGGSS
for Ethan?
Nope, definitely the Mom thing. Definitely.
he has never been so proud.
Ethan, Ethan. They both have feelings for you. You just did the impossible and broke Mike’s heart.
Ethan knows Mike very well. But He don’t understand him.
No one understands Mike, not even this comment section.
Not even David Willis.
unpopular opinion
mike, you can do better, dude.
wow. wao. I don’t even disapprove, the comments section here is really good at making their hate disproportionate if there isn’t something more solid backing it. Mike’s still a dumb kid, same as the rest, in my book, so while he’s a dick, if he wants to course correct, he’s more than welcome to in my book.
…And honestly, yeah, kinda. Ethan’s nominally hot, but he’s also … kind of a pest? Nerds are afaict basically fine for dating in general, but he’s kinda monomaniacal, so idk if it applies to him. And he’s pretty oblivious…
Fair, he probably could, but feels can be selective.
Honestly, I love seeing Mike’s genuine feelings crack through the facade when he thinks no one’s looking. Is he happy for Ethan, but sad that they’re not together? Is he acknowledging to himself that he’s developing feelings for Danny? Is he just happy that he still has his friendship with Ethan? Is he remembering the time he banged Ethan’s mom for a nickel?
Danny and Mike are both in love with Ethan?!
Oh no Mike oh noooooooo
Uh oh… How long has Mike been in love with Ethan? I doubt it started just with them banging earlier. High school? Earlier?
What, you didn’t see the look Mike gave him in the middle school flashback?
Okay Willis you’re making Mike almost sympathetic here and I’m loving it but please don’t kill him off or something, okay
Like I don’t know why you would but also I kind of do
Also I’m pretty sure we all know something bad is gonna happen soon and Mike is objectively way more expendable in this story than Amber is
But just DON’T DO IT. Please. And thank you.
Mike looks like he’s trying to smile in a nonmalicious way and it is scaring me.
Yeah, they are killing him off
Looks like the face of someone who broke himself inside.
I don’t know if I like this New Ethan