#fits into the cliques and the popular kids and the hot people but doesn't really know what about him makes him that other than being hot

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mikes generally a strange character to me because hes clearly supposed to be sole survivor man like nathan drake-esque horror protag but he lacks almost all the personality and machoisms that characters like that tend to share. he's kind of self depreciative and seems to view himself as just sort of an unlikeable person, but seems okay with this fact or at least has no drive to change it or "hate" that part of him. he's kind of always got this dough faced naive and anxious expression. he curses but none of it sounds natural. his manner of speech is generally kind of weird, like hge struggles with it in some way. he's not really whiney or petty like a lot of horror protagonists tend to be as well. mikes a weird character because he clearly cares a lot about what hes doing but he has sort of this strange apathy that coats everything he does, but it's not like he doesnt CARE whats happening he just kind of seems like he. lives in a different world.

#okay the more i consider mikes personality and work on learning how tyo write him for my rewrite im realizing #he definitely does ALSO seem autistic. but in a very #almost... 'i was a random farm kid who was just really really hot and rich and that made me popular' kind of autistic where he knows he #fits into the cliques and the popular kids and the hot people but doesn't really know what about him makes him that other than being hot #hes kind of exactly what jess is MADE to seem like #he doesnt really have anything going on in his head past. yknow. being hot #so being forced into this macho manly survivor role must be really jarring for him #mike monroe #txt