staring into open flames.

mike when anyone he loves is threatened

mike:

mike: “oh no, not the dickhead!”

         jessica hanlon was afro-latina. even though mike didn’t grow up in a spanish-speaking household ( will’s side of the family moved out to derry with them, while jessica’s dominican family stayed in florida; she had a rocky relationship with them up to her death ), it was important to jessica that mike learn spanish. will’s family didn’t really see the point, because maine is such a white folk’s state, but will himself encouraged it and tried to learn alongside his son.

         after she died, mike’s education of the language suffered with no one to teach it to him. in mike’s teenage years, he decided to take matters into his own hands, and he basically lived at the library until he was fluent. it’s the reason he became so familiar with the derry town library, and why he grew to be so fond of it.

mike gives the losers eskimo kisses. his mom used to give them to him all the time when he was scared or on the edge of a meltdown. it grounded him and always made him giggle, and everything seemed better afterwards.