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quillsinkwell · 1 year

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do you ever think about how Michael probably hated being compared to his father, yet in both Watsonian and Doylist terms, that's all he ever was

like in watsonian ways, all the animatronics targeted him and attacked him because he looked so similar to his father that they were the same people to the children.

and in doylist ways, the only thing that defined him was his quest to defeat his father.

like, what in canon has clued us in about Mike's personality? That has nothing to do with his family or animatronics? it's that he likes a show called the immortal and the restless.

that's it.

everything else we have given him in fanon.

he spent his whole life trying to deal with his father to prove he wasn't him, yet he's entirely defined by his father.

and without him, he's barely a character.

it adds a sort of horror to his death in pizza sim. like when he attempted to lay his father to rest permanently, the universe laid him as well, because it had no purpose for him outside of his father.

it also kinda makes glammike a little fucked up if you think about it this way, even if he either moved on or his spirit lingered in the pizzeria. his father rose again and the universe either dragged him out of the afterlife or kept him in the basement because what else is he if not his father's watcher

do you ever think about that despite his best efforts to not be his father, he's entirely defined by the man

do you ever think about that

or are you normal.

#quill talks #fnaf #michael afton #glammike #everyday i go apeshit about characters who were unfulfilled by the narrative #like who were you!!#what could you have been if you weren't confined by your narrative!!#did you even have a chance to be anything!!#or were you doomed by the narrative from the start #this post was brought to you by #me going to barnes and noble and getting the character encyclopedia #and realizing mike was left out of it #and at first being like #'how could you forget him?!'#'he's literally one of the main characters!!'#before thinking #'what if there was a fucked up reason tho'

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