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The thing with Scike is that I don’t even think Mike has like a secret evil side that only Scott can see, I don’t think Scott inherently makes Mike worse, I wouldn’t classify Mike as a liar or a huge asshole or even as really morally gray. I think that Mike is just so afraid to be human and be perceived in any negative way by like anyone he likes that he can only act genuinely normal around Scott. Around people he wants to impress or fit in with, he feels pressured to not show any flaws, or even any neutral traits to a degree; he wants to be the most perfect, most inoffensive, most normal-seeming guy of all time. But around Scott. he has no reason to act this way, because he (at least initially) doesn’t respect Scott or his opinion. He’s not afraid to be moody, crass, bitter, passive aggressive, or cold. Sure, he’s not relaxed around Scott, he can’t be scared or insecure around him, but in a way, being around Scott also removes the thing he’s most scared and insecure about— being perceived as bad or strange by someone he wants to impress. Mike isn’t 100% comfortable with Scott, he knows he can’t come to him about secrets like he can with Cameron or for gentle comfort like he can with Zoey, but he can be imperfect around him, and that’s also a form of vulnerability. You don’t have to be a villain to have a few aspects of yourself that you aren’t or shouldn’t be especially proud of— especially when you’re a mentally ill teenager on “sic mentally ill teenagers on each other for money” island. Mike doesn’t get to be his worst self around Scott, he just gets to be himself. I don’t think the real Mike is bad, I think he’s scared and avoidant, and while he’s definitely scared of Scott in some ways, in others, Scott’s company gives him some much-needed respite. Of course that respite wouldn’t be necessary if he was able to just feel free to be himself around everyone but, once again, Mike from “exploiting vulnerable teens for profit: the show”, the reasons that he acts the way he does and his unwillingness to change and the many flaws in his writing are their own cans of worms, and you’re still in the yaoi aisle of the bait and tackle shop. Anyways do you think Mike’s fear of being hated gave him crazy internalized homophobia or what

shed a tear reading this one. have a happy new scike

Anyways I think it’s really funny that so many people talk about the Mutant Maggots being a found family but never the Toxic Rats. Mutant Maggots wrestle and bicker like cousins who had to hang out every weekend as kids and now they’re immune to each other. Toxic Rats are like a team working on a semester-long group project where everyone wants each other genuinely dead by the end of it, and it’s mostly Scott’s fault

Thinking of Scike a lot recently. I was considering a vampire AU for them and couldn’t decide on who to pick to be a vampire, before realizing that it would kind of make sense if they were both vampires and had to feed with/from each other. Symbolic of the way they both feel separate from other people in their lives and recognize the insecurities in each other, how they can only be vulnerable with each other about certain things, how they thrive best when they work (feed) together even though they’re so reluctant to do so, etc. Also yaaaay they both get to have blood all over their mouths. Guys who ate too many fruit gushers. Ok whatever

I’m gonna start talking about TD characters and ships like how homophobic and transphobic fans on reddit do. Duncney wasn’t ever canonically dating, they were just friends, boyfriend and girlfriend are platonic terms. Harold didn’t have feelings for Leshawna, he just wrote her romantic poetry for fun, I don’t know why straight people need to force it down everyone’s throat. I respect straight people, I headcanon Carrie as straight, I just don’t think it’s realistic that more than like one or two characters would exclusively like the opposite gender. It’s unrealistic that any of the characters would be cis in 2010, maybe Amy could be but even that’s a stretch