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Characters Played Here: Charles Xavier, Allison Argent, The Horde, The Shade, Bill Denbrough, Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: Mike Wheeler
Series/Canon: Stranger Things
From When? Four years after the events of Season One. Mike comes from an AU world where Eleven survived the battle with the Demogorgon and stayed, going on to be adopted by Joyce Byers, and follows AU continuity with S2, and arrives back in Boomtown from S3, at the end of 3x2 when Elle dumps him outside the mall.
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World Description: N/A
History: Pre-canon departure info.
More specific information on Mike.
After the final battle with the Demogorgon, Eleven sent the beast back to the Upside Down, and returned to tell the tale. Taken in by Joyce Byers, she was tended by the entire group that stood against it: Lucas, Dustin, Johnathan, Nancy, Hopper, and Mike. After a lengthy recovery, she was informally adopted by the family, going by the name Ellie Byers and posing as a distant cousin.
For the next four years, she lived as normal a life as possible alongside Mike and the others. While the adults handled things like her education, daily care, and teaching her "practical" things about the world around her, the Party took the more serious aspects of her education upon themselves.
Lucas taught her how to use a slingshot. Dustin taught her how to ride a bike. Will taught her about music, Mike taught her about Star Wars, and as a group they taught her the most important skill of all: how to play D&D.
As the years wore on, and El began living and learning like a normal girl, the bond between her and Mike continued to grow. Thanks to the difficulties surrounding her recovery and settling her into life in Hawkins, their relationship plateaued, but the pair remained close as they danced around their shared attraction and affection without ever acting on it.
Mike first appeared in New Dodge during a camping trip with the Byers family, looking for El before worrying about his own state.
Midway through his stay in New Dodge, where he and Elle become a couple and Mike acquires the ability to travel through and trap people in mirrors after a brush with death during a local epidemic, he fluxed home for a time. Returning to his arrival point, simultaneously with Elle, the camping trip ended, and the pair officially became a couple with little revelation to their loved ones...save for how it happened so fast.
Within days of returning home, Mike displayed his new powers to his friends, gleefully excited to make use of them for the benefit of the party. Shortly after, Elle was abducted again...and things went sharply downhill.
In the aftermath, government representatives visited the Byers home, with the rest of the party present, and claimed that Elle was picked up as part of an ongoing investigation: her birth parents were discovered, and were allegedly Russian spies. Horrified and disgusted, Mike swiftly descended into a helpless rage that consumed the next year of his life.
From here, some of the events of Season 2 of Stranger Things unfolded, with additions to Mike's behavior: while his grades and attendance in school didn't suffer, he found himself in trouble constantly for fighting. What time he didn't devote to his friends and to their D&D campaigns, he spent taking karate classes at a dojo that opened not far from the arcade. His behavioral problems made his parents a hard sell, but they allowed it: his grades were good, and he agreed to having his allowance cut in half to help chip in for the lessons. He even agreed to get a summer job and pay his own way when school wasn't in session.
This lasted for roughly six months, give or take. Mike's new hobby resulted in fewer phone calls from the principal around the time Elle began living with Hopper in secret, so his parents were encouraged. Truthfully, the classes did help settle Mike's temper some, but while his fighting subsided, he soon developed more behavioral problems by speaking out against his teachers at school--in one especially nasty case, Mike ended up suspended for three days for cursing out his science teacher. Tension even built between Mike and Hopper, not because Mike was aware of what Hopper is doing, but simply because Mike no longer trusted anyone in a position of authority: they are all potentially working for the enemy--namely, those that took Elle away from him.
In the interim Mike was also abusing his powers, often ditching school at lunch and returning unseen through mirrors. With his improved focus, thanks to the discipline of his martial arts classes, he also discovered that he could trap people inside of mirrors, an ability he was tempted to, but did not use maliciously.
The rest of Stranger Things S2 played out going forward, with Will being attacked by the Mindflayer. The only differences were that Mike was flat out aggressive in trying to ostracize Mad Max from the group, and the face off in the gym turned into a shouting match. After his reunion with Elle, when he learned that Hopper kept her hidden, Mike flat out punched Hopper in the face.
Not long after this, Mike returned to New Dodge, as did Elle. His stay was brief, the biggest event of note being his first marriage to Elle Byers-Feynman-Hopper.
Roughly a couple of weeks after returning to Hawkins, Mike made plans to propose again--with some needling from the rest of the Party, especially Max. He did so with plenty of witnesses and a lot of celebration.
And things are good...at least for another couple of months until a chance encounter with Elle at the new mall that opened up gets him in hot water for lying about his Nana and avoiding a cake tasting. He will be returning to New Dodge by fluxing in just as he's caught and Elle calls off the wedding.
Does your character have any close ties to existing canon characters? Yes! Elle, Max, Billy, and Hopper. All muns have been consulted.
Why do you think your character would work in this setting? Mike absolutely fluxed in. He'd never willingly leave his friends, or Elle, and it will be Elle who he first looks for. Once he realizes she's there, his primary focus will be on groveling, not realizing she's from later in the timeline, and will focus on settling back into his second home once that's done.
Also, it's still the wild west. In space. It will never not be cool.
How do you plan to expand their CR? Simple: Mike will want to know everyone Elle knows. It's strictly in the interests of her safety, as far as he's concerned, given her past. He wants her to be safe and feel safe. He's a little socially awkward, but time has helped that, and in the process of looking after the girl he loves, I believe he'll forge a lot of very real friendships.
What will your character do for work? Likely, Mike will work odd jobs, but he'll try to help Elle with her own business ventures. Mike also has a greater comfort level with violence, thanks to his time spent with anger issues and few outlets in previous years, so he may try to go into law enforcement or something a little more physical.
Does your character have special powers or abilities? Yes! Thanks to being cocooned by Savitar during a previous New Dodge epidemic, Mike now has the ability to travel through reflective surfaces like mirrors. He's also developed the ability to trap people within them as well, but also has the ability to release them as well.
Inventory:
- the clothes on his back
- about $15 in his wallet along with ID and the like
Samples:
Were you in the game previously with this same character? If so, you may choose to link a post from the game as ONE of your samples, but not both.
Third-Person Sample:
Taking a deep breath, Mike adjusted one of the vases full of roses that he'd bought to fill El's room. He'd bought—more roses than was humanly necessary, and he was hoping that they'd make an impression.
He got the idea from some of the other people in New Dodge, something called a “prom-posal.” It was like proposing marriage, only you asked them to go to the prom or a dance or something and you did it like a marriage proposal. It was kind of a crazy idea...until he thought about the way El might react if he bough her twelve dozen roses to ask her out on a date.
And he'd been fidgeting over arranging them for the last half hour, because years later, he was still a gigantic chicken. Lucas never let him forget it, Dustin teased him about it every single day (mostly justified, considering how four years brought Dustin things that hadn't come to Lucas and Mike...things like teeth, height, and abs), and at this point he absolutely deserved all of it.
It took the risk of death for him to get up the guts to kiss her, and now they had to travel to an alien world for him to have the nerve to ask her on a date. Going big like this was his way of making up for that, by asking her out in a really huge, really brave way.
He picked up another vase, then set it right back down. Scrubbing his hands through his hair, he turned and walked out of her room.
When she got in, she'd see them. She'd say yes, they'd go out, and El would finally, finally be his girlfriend.
He was halfway back to his room before he froze, then turned and ran back as fast as he could.
After all, she couldn't very well know that Mike was asking her out if he didn't leave the damn card for her to find...
First-Person Sample: Mike's campaign speech.
Characters Played Here: Charles Xavier, Allison Argent, The Horde, The Shade, Bill Denbrough, Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: Mike Wheeler
Series/Canon: Stranger Things
From When? Four years after the events of Season One. Mike comes from an AU world where Eleven survived the battle with the Demogorgon and stayed, going on to be adopted by Joyce Byers, and follows AU continuity with S2, and arrives back in Boomtown from S3, at the end of 3x2 when Elle dumps him outside the mall.
Previous Game(s):
boomtownWorld Description: N/A
History: Pre-canon departure info.
More specific information on Mike.
After the final battle with the Demogorgon, Eleven sent the beast back to the Upside Down, and returned to tell the tale. Taken in by Joyce Byers, she was tended by the entire group that stood against it: Lucas, Dustin, Johnathan, Nancy, Hopper, and Mike. After a lengthy recovery, she was informally adopted by the family, going by the name Ellie Byers and posing as a distant cousin.
For the next four years, she lived as normal a life as possible alongside Mike and the others. While the adults handled things like her education, daily care, and teaching her "practical" things about the world around her, the Party took the more serious aspects of her education upon themselves.
Lucas taught her how to use a slingshot. Dustin taught her how to ride a bike. Will taught her about music, Mike taught her about Star Wars, and as a group they taught her the most important skill of all: how to play D&D.
As the years wore on, and El began living and learning like a normal girl, the bond between her and Mike continued to grow. Thanks to the difficulties surrounding her recovery and settling her into life in Hawkins, their relationship plateaued, but the pair remained close as they danced around their shared attraction and affection without ever acting on it.
Mike first appeared in New Dodge during a camping trip with the Byers family, looking for El before worrying about his own state.
Midway through his stay in New Dodge, where he and Elle become a couple and Mike acquires the ability to travel through and trap people in mirrors after a brush with death during a local epidemic, he fluxed home for a time. Returning to his arrival point, simultaneously with Elle, the camping trip ended, and the pair officially became a couple with little revelation to their loved ones...save for how it happened so fast.
Within days of returning home, Mike displayed his new powers to his friends, gleefully excited to make use of them for the benefit of the party. Shortly after, Elle was abducted again...and things went sharply downhill.
In the aftermath, government representatives visited the Byers home, with the rest of the party present, and claimed that Elle was picked up as part of an ongoing investigation: her birth parents were discovered, and were allegedly Russian spies. Horrified and disgusted, Mike swiftly descended into a helpless rage that consumed the next year of his life.
From here, some of the events of Season 2 of Stranger Things unfolded, with additions to Mike's behavior: while his grades and attendance in school didn't suffer, he found himself in trouble constantly for fighting. What time he didn't devote to his friends and to their D&D campaigns, he spent taking karate classes at a dojo that opened not far from the arcade. His behavioral problems made his parents a hard sell, but they allowed it: his grades were good, and he agreed to having his allowance cut in half to help chip in for the lessons. He even agreed to get a summer job and pay his own way when school wasn't in session.
This lasted for roughly six months, give or take. Mike's new hobby resulted in fewer phone calls from the principal around the time Elle began living with Hopper in secret, so his parents were encouraged. Truthfully, the classes did help settle Mike's temper some, but while his fighting subsided, he soon developed more behavioral problems by speaking out against his teachers at school--in one especially nasty case, Mike ended up suspended for three days for cursing out his science teacher. Tension even built between Mike and Hopper, not because Mike was aware of what Hopper is doing, but simply because Mike no longer trusted anyone in a position of authority: they are all potentially working for the enemy--namely, those that took Elle away from him.
In the interim Mike was also abusing his powers, often ditching school at lunch and returning unseen through mirrors. With his improved focus, thanks to the discipline of his martial arts classes, he also discovered that he could trap people inside of mirrors, an ability he was tempted to, but did not use maliciously.
The rest of Stranger Things S2 played out going forward, with Will being attacked by the Mindflayer. The only differences were that Mike was flat out aggressive in trying to ostracize Mad Max from the group, and the face off in the gym turned into a shouting match. After his reunion with Elle, when he learned that Hopper kept her hidden, Mike flat out punched Hopper in the face.
Not long after this, Mike returned to New Dodge, as did Elle. His stay was brief, the biggest event of note being his first marriage to Elle Byers-Feynman-Hopper.
Roughly a couple of weeks after returning to Hawkins, Mike made plans to propose again--with some needling from the rest of the Party, especially Max. He did so with plenty of witnesses and a lot of celebration.
And things are good...at least for another couple of months until a chance encounter with Elle at the new mall that opened up gets him in hot water for lying about his Nana and avoiding a cake tasting. He will be returning to New Dodge by fluxing in just as he's caught and Elle calls off the wedding.
Does your character have any close ties to existing canon characters? Yes! Elle, Max, Billy, and Hopper. All muns have been consulted.
Why do you think your character would work in this setting? Mike absolutely fluxed in. He'd never willingly leave his friends, or Elle, and it will be Elle who he first looks for. Once he realizes she's there, his primary focus will be on groveling, not realizing she's from later in the timeline, and will focus on settling back into his second home once that's done.
Also, it's still the wild west. In space. It will never not be cool.
How do you plan to expand their CR? Simple: Mike will want to know everyone Elle knows. It's strictly in the interests of her safety, as far as he's concerned, given her past. He wants her to be safe and feel safe. He's a little socially awkward, but time has helped that, and in the process of looking after the girl he loves, I believe he'll forge a lot of very real friendships.
What will your character do for work? Likely, Mike will work odd jobs, but he'll try to help Elle with her own business ventures. Mike also has a greater comfort level with violence, thanks to his time spent with anger issues and few outlets in previous years, so he may try to go into law enforcement or something a little more physical.
Does your character have special powers or abilities? Yes! Thanks to being cocooned by Savitar during a previous New Dodge epidemic, Mike now has the ability to travel through reflective surfaces like mirrors. He's also developed the ability to trap people within them as well, but also has the ability to release them as well.
Inventory:
- the clothes on his back
- about $15 in his wallet along with ID and the like
Samples:
Were you in the game previously with this same character? If so, you may choose to link a post from the game as ONE of your samples, but not both.
Third-Person Sample:
Taking a deep breath, Mike adjusted one of the vases full of roses that he'd bought to fill El's room. He'd bought—more roses than was humanly necessary, and he was hoping that they'd make an impression.
He got the idea from some of the other people in New Dodge, something called a “prom-posal.” It was like proposing marriage, only you asked them to go to the prom or a dance or something and you did it like a marriage proposal. It was kind of a crazy idea...until he thought about the way El might react if he bough her twelve dozen roses to ask her out on a date.
And he'd been fidgeting over arranging them for the last half hour, because years later, he was still a gigantic chicken. Lucas never let him forget it, Dustin teased him about it every single day (mostly justified, considering how four years brought Dustin things that hadn't come to Lucas and Mike...things like teeth, height, and abs), and at this point he absolutely deserved all of it.
It took the risk of death for him to get up the guts to kiss her, and now they had to travel to an alien world for him to have the nerve to ask her on a date. Going big like this was his way of making up for that, by asking her out in a really huge, really brave way.
He picked up another vase, then set it right back down. Scrubbing his hands through his hair, he turned and walked out of her room.
When she got in, she'd see them. She'd say yes, they'd go out, and El would finally, finally be his girlfriend.
He was halfway back to his room before he froze, then turned and ran back as fast as he could.
After all, she couldn't very well know that Mike was asking her out if he didn't leave the damn card for her to find...
First-Person Sample: Mike's campaign speech.
