iâm max (aka maxine aka zine) iâm 20 iâm genderqueer and full of⌠you know ;) đ¤Ťđ¤Ť
iâm a chronic selfshipper and unfortunately it is terminal :/ i made this blog so normal ppl do not need to bear witness to my illness. i have soooooo many f/oâs they change constantly so i have 6373838 boyfriends try not to be jealous liberals. iâm also generally selective/non-sharing (especially w those in red) so i am very sorry if i block u i am unfortunately incapable of thinking of these fake men in a normal way it is nothing personal i am sure u are wonderful and lovely and u obviously have excellent taste i am sending you all the Love and Prosperity in the world đŤśđŤś
my random assortment of f/oâs (and our ship names):
- 707 (404) - mystic messenger
- satoru gojo (maxtoru) - jujutsu kaisen
- sylvain jose gautier (maxvain) - fire emblem: three houses
- michael afton (loose screws) - fnaf
- lion kaminski (losing dogs) - jungleland
- james cook (cookmax) - skins
- L (fiftyfive) - death note
- charlie kelly (charmax) - itâs always sunny in philadelphia
- pierre bezukhov (love and ashes) - natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812 / war and peace
- 2D (twozine) - gorillaz
- disfigured firefighter (brains on fire) - no, iâm not a human
- robert robertson (mechzine) - dispatch
- reigen arataka (maxataka) - mob psycho 100
- remmick (remmax) - sinners
- sir lord jimmy crystal (jimmax) - 28 years later: the bone temple
- father paul (body and mind) - midnight mass
- benoit blanc (southern gothic) - knives out
- pale man (pale and paler) - no, iâm not a human
- mammon (greedlove) - obey me!
- sans (star-crossedbones) - undertale
[most of these ship names r tentative bc i am not creative and cannot think of good ones LOL]
+ i also have non-romantic f/oâs, but the only ones you need to know are mac mcdonald who is like a brother to me and papa emeritus ii heâs literally my father irl i love him so much đŤśđŤś
iâm gonna post abt my ships + just other general self-ship/yumeship stuff here !! i may also post some shifting stuff cuz i fw it heavy. donât be shy dm me abt my ships or urs i love hearing abt them !! thatâs all i think ok bye :]
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ââââ ââââââââ âââââDAILY BUGLE : âHERO? OR BAD LUCK?â
Issue #1
Lion Kaminski doesnât have it all figured out. He works a dead end job, a dead end career, and at this point, a dead end life. If anything else were to fall apart, perhaps he was just asking for it. Heâs accepted his fate already, being okay with just being okay. But the universe has plans for him, something that he finds worse than his shitty life already.
âââââ ââââââ ââââââââ ââââ ââââââââ âââââ ââââââââ ââââ ââââ ââââââââ ââââââââ Authors Note ⣠hey! I wanted to post this since Iâll be on vacation for a few days, This is based on this post! By @bluesycatharsis I tried to have fun with it so the format is truly all over the place. Youâre always dropping such creative au ideas. Never go bald đŤśđž thank you to my pookie @flixpii promising toe sucking. Open wide đ¤if you see any spelling mistakes, IGNORE IT
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Introducing đ
Walter âLionâ Kaminski ! (Also known as Spider-man)
ââââ ââââââââ âââââ ââââââ ââââââââ ââââ ââââââââ âââââ ââââââââ ââââ ââââ âââââââââMy name is Lionâ just Lion. The rest doesnât matter.â
Lion Kaminski finds that his life isnât much to be desired. He goes to work, practices at a run down gym, and when Stan calls him with a request on his tongue, he hopes that he wouldnât go home with a bloody nose again.
đ¸ď¸ His dream of being a professional boxer was never his, but his brother insisted that he was gifted enough to go for it. Out of love for the only family member he has left, he pursued a career of broken knuckles and black eyes.
đ¸ď¸ Has a bad habit of talking with his mouth full and licking his fingers after every meal.
đ¸ď¸ Has a dog that he loves like a son.
đ¸ď¸ Lives next to noisy neighbors that bring him a sort of comfort when heâs stuck with his thoughts. They are either arguing or fucking very loudly⌠heâs not going to say which one he prefers more.
đ¸ď¸ Thinks the so called âSpider-manâ is a good guy, heâs just trying his best. (To which you say heâs dumb for thinking so)
âHe isnât a bad guyâ if anything, heâs doing people a favor. How many people you know would fight crime to help the community?â
ââââ ââââââââ âââââ ââââââ ââââââââ ââââ âââââââââSomeone who was lonely and had a hard on for stupidity.â
âYouâre not funny.â
THEME SONG
001 : New Person, Same Old Mistakes
002 : Pray For Me
003 : Novacane
004 : Dark Red
005 : Fireworks
Lion Kaminski⌠who gets bitten by a radioactive spider at a run down gym he frequents after work. He was working through sets, sweat dripping down his face, fingers cramping up, adrenaline slowly running out. He takes a seat on a the floor, the rim of the water-bottle at his lips, chugging down lukewarm water to wash the dryness plunging his throat.
He heaves, the only one in the gym besides the owner who was an older man, greying all over, snoring at the front while he waited for Lion to finally leave.
He finishes the water, making sure he gets every last drop before he decides that itâs getting late and he should get home. He shouts that heâs leaving, startlingly the man at the front who jumps at his booming voice, complaining immediately after that he should hurry up and get outâ and then he feels a sharp sting on his leg, the feeling shooting up his nerves like electricity.
He sweeps at his calfâs, the evidence of a spider rushing around the floor to get away and he sighs. He was already down on his luck, he supposed a spider thinking he was food was all that was left of his life.
Lion Kaminski⌠who wakes up in a cold sweat, unable to go back to sleep. His whole body aches, his muscles and skin feeling tight. He didnât practice that hard to feel this soreâ in fact, even after heâs been beaten in a match, heâs never felt this fucked up before that he feels the need to rush to the store for pain relief. He snatches every pill known to man, a heating pad, a few cold medicines like heâs on the verge of imploding in on himself. He barely makes it back home and through the front door before hes collapsing to the floor, holding himself while his body crumbles. He feels cold and hot at the same time, head tight, fingers tingling like he held them in ice.
Hes gonna fucking die. He knows it. What would his brother think? Would he even care? Would he get a burial? No, he doesnât have enough money in his name for that. Cremation or leaving his body in the morgue sounds like a better scenarioâ
He blacks out.
He wakes up the next morning suddenly better. The events of last night no longer evident. He couldnât tell if he was dreaming, or maybe someone drugged the water at the gym. It is old, the pipes probably rusty, the same pipes that holds the water he kept refilling his water bottle with.
He goes to the bathroom, looking himself over. He touches his face. Nothing. He checks out anything that could be suspicious, running his hands down his body. He still has that month old bruise itched into his side, no longer purple but a lighter brown.
Weird.
The alarm on his stand rings, the sound loud enough that he hears it from the bathroom and Lion realizes heâs late for work. Again
Lion Kaminski⌠whoâs terrible at making himself small. He tries to hide in the shadows, acting as if heâs invisible so people wouldnât know that heâs hiding something.
Everyone hides something. Big, small, clean, dirtyâ doesnât matterâ but his secret isnât something he can share. He wonât share it even if his life depended on it. But he canât stop his mouth from running, drawing up illogical excuses that contradicts himself so badly, people wonder if heâs high on something 24/7. Itâs so bad, he draws suspension from his work partner who bunks desk right next to himâ one out of the three woman who works in the same station as him he notesâ who starts to take notice of everything he thought people didnât.
Lion Kaminski⌠who knows you know something is up with him. Itâs in the way you stare at him, like your trying to peer into his soul for answers to questions you havenât asked yet, or soon to be askingâ it was all in the matter of when.
There was only so many lies he could make up on the spot before theyâll start to cross over and become muddled highways of untruthful material in his catalogue.
Introducingđ
MJ! Reader ! (MJ variant)
ââââ ââââââââ ââââââââââââââOther people may not notice you, but I do. And one thing I noticed is that youâre a terrible liar.â
A sewing factory wasnât your dream job, but it payed well enough to live on your own. You moved fairly young, entirely dependent enough that your parents didnât know what to do with you. You did what you wanted, said what you felt, nobody could handle you and that was okay. Maybe you do go overboard but you only live once, might as well do what you wanted until the time ran out.
đ¸ď¸ Finds life dull sometimes so you find excitement by making them.
đ¸ď¸ People watcher
đ¸ď¸ Introverted/ Extroverted mess. Sometimes youâre the life of a party, sometimes you would rather be wrapped up in a blanket watching your favorite movie for the hundredth time. Depends on the day and if you had coffee in the morning.
đ¸ď¸ Has a knack for making PowerPoint presentations about useless topics
đ¸ď¸ Thinks the so called âSpider-Manâ is lazy and kind of a performative male. (To which Lion argues that he isnât⌠suspicious much?)
âI think youâre hiding something, but Iâm not sure what.. Either youâre a serial killer or worse.â
ââââ ââââââââ âââââ ââââââ ââââââââ ââââ âââââââ âDo you want me to be a serial killer?â
âI think you would be a terrible serial killer, but who knows.â
THEME SONG
001 : IM THAT GIRL
002 : Star Girl: Interlude
003 : Are You That Somebody?
004 : Heartbreaker
005 : Like Crazy
Your desk mate, Lion, often came in with wraps around his hand and black eyes that drew attention. People didnât comment on it, some type of understanding you were privy to, but as a woman, ignorance wasnât bliss.
Waiting for a ride home, shivering at the bus stop while you scrolled away at your phone, you stumbled upon him walking out of a shady building one night. You were never good with names, but faces were your secret weapon. He wore that same grey hoodie, the cuffs always wrinkled at his wrist, scrubbed with dirt and something you couldnât quite name. He was speeding out, checking behind his back, hands stuffed in his pockets like he had something to hide.
Perhaps he did, perhaps he didnât. But nothing like that should be ignored.
Reader who⌠tried to make it seem like you werenât side eyeing him during the first 4 hours he was struggling to cut through fabric at his desk. Wearing those bandages adorned his hand like a second skin.
You found him at an odd location, a place you wouldnât have expected someone like him to come out of. That spelled out a serial Killer waiting to strike.
Reader... who has a notebook , penciled in with every detail you managed to take about your odd co worker. A few weeks went by after that incident and you still couldnât shake the feeling off that he was hiding something truly crime time worthy. He did the same routine, the same work flow, the same messy breaks where he came back early or showed up an hour after he should have been back. He always looked tiredâ or was that the consecutive purplish haze under his eyes he gained from⌠boxing? He said. He did boxing at the expense of his older brother who feels he has a talent for using people like punching bags.
You could believe that part. You would know, you followed him to his supposed match he admitted to having one afternoon. You told him that was great, he tried to invite you, and, thinking that was a code for luring you to a dark alleyway to strangle you, you declined with an apologetic smile.
âSorry, Iâm sitting my sisterâs dog.â
You donât have a dog, or a sister.
You witnessed him fumbling in the ring that night, a man â who no doubt was his brother coach he revealedâ was at his corner, screaming at him to take charge.
He won, nothing too extraordinary but the crowd went wild anyways.
You noted which hand he used to punch. How fast he was dodging, how often he came up with plans to get out of his opponents grasps. You jotted down everything in case the day came where you had to face him in your search for his secret he most definitely had.
Reader whoâŚstarts to enjoy the small conversations held with Lion. Even though most of your questions pried into his life, he took that as your way of making the environment tame. He answered as honestly as he could, but you started to noticed how often he looked off to the side when you asked things that seemed too personal.
âDo you always fight every night?â You asked once.
âNot every night,â he answers, always in that same dry tone, clipping away at loose strings of the shirt heâs been working on.
âSo, why do you always have your hands bandaged? You donât ever take breaks? That doesn't sound healthy."
Once he his eyes found yours, his eyebrows straining together, heâll look away, trying to change the subject. âIâm a free lance⌠boxer? Yeah, that. Boxing can be every day, week or month, whatever suits me. Anyways, boss said toââ
He was a liar. A terrible one at that. You never heard of a âfree lance Boxerâ. He definitely was making up words and careers, but you were a smart cookie. Youâll figure it out.
âââââ ââââ ââââââââ PAIRED TOGETHER⌠A Product for disaster
Your quiet coworker has a knack for showing up late with suspicious bruising on his hands and faceâ something that you know isnât from all those boxing matches he claims he goes to every night. Nobody notices when heâs gone, probably because nobody really cares.
Except for you.
Heâs quick to change the subject. Eyes snapping somewhere else, a hand at the back of his neck; searching for an excuse that you never fall for. You knew men were easyâ he was easy. But a person can only lie for so long before the truth bleeds through.
âI thought you said you didnât have a match last night?â
âYeah⌠change of plans I guess? HahaâŚâ
As always, you note something down, a composition notebook filled to the brim. Life was boring anyways, and things are suddenly getting interesting.
Lion isnât sure what he should do about you. Youâre too observant, questions toeing the line of being very personal. Nobody else cared what he did behind the scenes, worried about their own lives outside of work, but you show interest like thereâs something deeper you want from him.
Maybe you like him⌠wait, do you like him?
Oh shit, how does flirting work again? Is that what youâre doing? Oh shit shit shitâ
âMissing one day is normal, everybody does it, but coming in late everyday is where I start to wonder if you need an alarm clock. Whatâs up with that?â
âIf the boss doesnât care, why do you? Iâm here right? Whatâs the issue.â
been super enthusiastic bc the concept of lifeguard!lion lately.. you can't just tell me (a new englander) that he's lived in portsmouth, nh and wears a water country sweatshirt and expect me to not think he's worked there as a lifeguard in the past..
ramblings under the Walter..
stan got them jobs there so lion could swim around and Stay Fit between matches. stan works at the fucking like. dip n dots stand or cleans up the vomit in the water slides idrgaf abt his goofy ass..
what i DO gaf abt is the concept of getting a summer job at a water park and lion is ur hot coworker that u have to act like u don't want to fuck him sloppy style in the employee changing rooms.. Yeah.. like what do you mean he walks around shirtless and dripping wet.. what do you mean his hair is always disheveled from toweling it off all the time.. or the fact he's always all sweaty from the sun like Careful white chocolate wouldn't want you to melt..
it would be so fun to mess w him like Heyyyy lion i can't reach my back to put on my sunblock can you help me ? angel face emoji ? he would help bc Sun Safety Is Important but he immediately gets Soooo embarrassed he has to pretend someone is drowning just so he can take a dip in the water and Cool the fuck Off. he blames his blush on a sunburn so naturally you go Oh ! let me help ! and smear sunblock or aloe on his face just to go omg lion are you allergic?? you're getting even redder..
you actually wouldn't have to do Anything to get a rise out of him cuz when men are Inevitably creepy to you bc well. men suck, especially around a Young person in a swimsuit. he would get all Mad and Protective on your behalf as if he doesn't also check you out when you aren't looking (he tells himself it's accidental but like. It gets to a point now doesn't it, Walter LOL) but he would brood up in the lifeguard tower for the rest of his shift like fucking batman on the rooftops of Gotham, if batman had a whistle he blew at children for running
speaking of children. the concept of seeing lion be sweet with little kids in water wings while he gives them swimming lessons FUCKKKK he would be so patient and gentle ohhhh sorry i just lowkey need to be the mother of his children that's such a side note..
and you KNOW the old women at the lazy river would flirt w him soooo heavy bc he's such a polite, handsome young man and he would get so flustered but like shit man i don't blame them.. i'd pretend to drown for some mouth to mouth from that hunk of a man any day of the week RARGHHHH
anyway that's All for now.. i will likely have More.
HAIIII this match up idea is so sweetums so i wanted to throw myself in!! :]
okay so ! iâm maxine (most everyone just calls me max though who gaf) !! hello nice to meet you :]
iâm goth !! i love the clothes i love the music i fear i feel naked without thick ass winged eyeliner huge stompy platforms itâs so sinister.. but in that vein ! my all time greatest love is Music.. iâve been in choirs for years i play bass and i love nothing more than a good concert So So So So fun but singing is just really my fave thing to do Evar
i actually just really love all forms of art ! iâm super duper into movies and am constantly at the movie theaters ! iâm big into cinematography and i especially love horror/psychological thrillers !! but i also love love love love drawing i rock up to the lectures i Pay to go to only to spend the whole time drawing whatever fictional man iâm into at the moment itâs so bad dude đđ
and speaking of lectures, i am like. an actual nerd i fear.. i study behavioral neuroscience and after college i hope to just like. work in a Lab looking at brains all day and helping as many people as i can !! also i love learning abt random shit so i can Accost those in my life with random facts they dgaf abt LOL
i would say personality wise i am more reserved in nature i am like. not Great with people but fuck it we ball ! i enjoy other peopleâs company iâm just not good at it but whateverrrr i am Pure Of Heart and have Weird Girl Charm and thatâs all that matters (i think)
iâve never done one of these before so if this was too much or not enough information iâm so sorry but again this is so Cute so thank you for doing this !!!! :]
i match you with⌠lion kaminski!
idk why but i feel it so deeply in my bones that lion would love a goth girl, like everyone talks about the stereotype where goths usually have a golden retriever-esque partner and i feel he fits that
stares at you like a deer in headlights at first, really heâs entranced but to any outsider heâs just standing there like đ§ââď¸
i canât really see you two running in the same type of circles at first so letâs say the first time you see each other is at some diner that him and his brother go to all the time, stan gets all pissed off because heâs trying to talk and the whole time lion canât quit staring at you
as they get ready to leave, he gets this gnawing feeling inside him and knows if he doesnât try and say anything to you heâs gonna regret it for the rest of his life, so with his heart pounding in his chest he comes up to you and goes âi like your uh⌠your uh⌠i like your boots and uh- you know, your umâŚâ he gestures in front of his own eyes to refer to your makeup before nodding with a sniff and turning to quickly follow his brother out the door
for the rest of the day heâs scolding himself in his head, calling himself a fucking idiot for barely being able to say a proper sentence to you, but then a couple days later when he goes back to the diner he sees you again and he canât decide if the universe is smiling down on him or playing some sick joke on his lack of social skills
your weird girl charm would definitely work magic on him, like you could tell him some random fact like the average human brain weighs about as much as a half gallon of milk and the whole time heâs beside you grinning like an idiot because not only is his girl pretty but sheâs so fucking smart too
would help you study in any way that he can, even if itâs just quizzing you with flash cards because he wants you to succeed. views it the same way he views his training sessions with stan in the gym, except with big technical terms that he fears heâs mispronouncing
if you were to come home from class one day with a drawing of him sketched into your notebook, he would look at you as if heâs already picking out the wedding ring he wants to buy you and imagining the house youâll grow old together in. in person he gets all blushy and is like âyou made me look way cooler than i am,â but in his head heâs actually planning your future together
money is always a little tight for him, but after he wins and gets paid from a fight he loves taking you to see whatever horror film is currently in theaters. if he canât afford it, he still wants to take you out and treat you nice so he ends up finding a hill that overlooks a local drive in theater. he tends to like those dates better because itâs just you and him (maybe ash if you like dogs), and if itâs a movie youâve never seen before the two of you make up your own plot as you go
he does however start saving up months beforehand for an important date (birthday, anniversary, etc.) and surprises you with concert tickets to a band heâs heard you mention before. heâll act like itâs no big deal, but seeing the smile on your face brings him an unfamiliar feeling of self pride
if heâs having a rough day, he lays his head on your thighs and asks you to sing. doesnât matter what song, he just loves your voice (bonus points if you rub his sore back while doing it)
unfortunately loving him means dealing with stan who will most likely make some teasing remark about you, but lion is so quick to defend you and tell him to knock if the fuck off, stan rolls his eyes but quiets down seeing how serious he is about you
lowkeyâŚ. he wants you to do your style of makeup on him, partially because he wants to know what it feels like but mainly because the thought of you on his lap and gently touching his face and calling him pretty makes his chest feel weird
honorable mentions/close picks: eric love, james cook, maybe even jimmy crystal
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What Do You Mean the movie my f/o is from was filmed about twenty minutes away from me. What Do You Mean he was twenty minutes away from me. What Do You Mean i know someone who was there at filming. What Do You Mean they basically met my f/o and i didnât. i need to go take a walk..
having a vampire f/o is so awesome i can just eat garlic bread in front of him or wear a silver necklace and now heâs gotta wrack his little idiot peabrain to think abt how he fucked up this time
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just finished midnight mass yesterday SO if father paul happens to join my f/o list do Not be shocked.. priests are my one true weakness in this life..
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was working w middle schoolers today and they asked me if i saw fnaf 2 and my thoughts on it which led to me teaching a group of 11 year olds the lore and why michael afton is the best character in the franchise instead of what a vacuole is my bad guys
my gripes w fnaf 2 (2025)'s portrayal of michael afton as a #CertifiedMikeHead..
(mild fnaf 2 movie spoilers below the cut!!)
ok so i have realized the reason fnaf 2 movie michael is such an egregious mischaracterization to me is because they made him so cruel and actually delight in causing people pain Which is just simply not correct.. and Yes yes i hear you "but max what abt the bite of '83??" and i will give you that michael wanted to torment his little brother, but he did not intend to actually Kill him and is absolutely horrified upon realizing what he has done. he was a shitty mean older brother but causing physical harm was never the end goal, he was lowk just a scared little kid who was trying to find a way to take control of his situation, and the only way he knew how to do that was by inflicting fear like his father. i'm not justifying his behavior by any means, i'm just saying it was a coping mechanism for him and not indicative of an actual desire to harm, meaning he most certainly wouldn't be laughing upon hearing people die Because of him as he did in the Filem..
i also do acknowledge that canonically, mike seems to have done his father's bidding for a while before finally going Oh Ok fuck this guy let me get his ass but i think it is far more likely he was a reluctant participant who simply wanted his father's love, not this overzealous partner in crime who appears to go above and beyond just for the Love Of The Game bro.. william is all michael has left, and he is still wracked with guilt from causing his brother's death. he is desperate to prove himself worthy of love, especially after how badly he fucked up, so it makes sense he would go along with william's plans. i find it extremely hard to believe he would be viewing his allegiance to william as anything more than an unfortunate necessity, whereas the film makes him almost giddy to be continuing the "family business" as it were.
i just find it disappointing bc michael is such a complex character that must constantly wrestle with his own Morality and his Need for some sense of familial love/approval.. having him just be enthusiastic to Hurt feels like such a cop out and removes so much of his depth which is LAMESAUCE !
also that fuckass greasy ass middle part they gave him is just appalling holy shit man #notmymichael
hi as a michael fan who actually kinda liked his movie iteration i have some (apparently really lengthy) thoughts (under the cut because spoilers)
FOR ONE:
i would say the reason michael seems to only have negative qualities as opposed to his game counterpart is because the way scottâs chosen to adapt michael to the big screen appears to be by splitting him into THREE different characters instead of one. as jesskab put on one of their posts: michael is all afton no guilt, vanessa is all afton all guilt, mike is all guilt no afton. movie michael doesnât have game michaelâs better qualities because mike and vanessa already do. mike struggles with guilt over his brotherâs death; vanessa is an unwilling accomplice to her fatherâs crimes. itâs redundant for movie michael to have either of those dilemmas when the two main characters already do.
all that said iâm not even gonna defend this writing decision because it is kind of annoying that scott apparently decided he wanted to tell michael aftonâs story, but instead of just adapting the game lore he decided to make things harder than they needed to be by creating a whole new universe lmao. itâs stupid but yknow, what can we do
and on the topic of michaelâs apparent genuine antagonism: have you heard of attribution theory, and by association, fundamental attribution error? in case you havenât:
- attribution theory states that we can explain someoneâs behavior by attributing it their disposition (personality) or their situation.
- fundamental attribution error is our tendency to overestimate the impact of disposition and underestimate the impact of situation on another personâs behavior. (e.g. if you see someone else drive badly on the road, youâll likely assume that itâs because theyâre an idiot and a bad driver, whereas if you make that same mistake, you would be like, âthat wasnât because iâm bad at driving, iâm just having a bad dayâ) (this was my psych teacherâs favorite example for some reason)
basically, fundamental attribution error exists because we forget that a given situation can easily override a personâs disposition or morality. the stanford prison experiment is a good example of that; the people who were assigned the guard role in that experiment very quickly settled into an abusive mindset (their immoral actions strengthened their immoral attitudes), where they didnât have that mindset outside of the prison environment.
now you might be asking what the hell any of that has to do with the 2025 movie five nights at freddyâs 2. basically iâm saying michaelâs âmischaracterizationâ is a result of a difference in his situation: instead of being the parentified eldest child who accidentally killed his brother, he seems to be the invisible younger child, considering vanessa is stated to be âthe favoriteâ and the fact his existence isnât remotely hinted at in the first movie
so obviously the absence of a younger brother means the bite of 83 didnât happenâor at least, michael didnât have anything to do with it if it DID happenâand so he never really got that reality check? we know game michael was an outright bully before the bite and that it was a big catalyst for his change, soâŚwhat if it was the only catalyst? and if it was the only catalyst, then movie michael didnât really have any âreasonâ to abruptly realize he was being a huge asshole.
that aside, you might think vanessa being the favorite child doesnât have anything to do with it because most people assume that game michael was the least favorite anyway (which. we donât really have any evidence for. i guess sending him down to die in the sister location bunker would suggest that, but its not like william didnât also totally let his other children die due to neglect. it honestly doesnât seem like he particularly loved/favored any of them), but like. there is just ZERO acknowledgement or clue of his existence in the first movie. the doylist explanation for that is definitely just âthey werenât planning on putting michael afton in the movie loreâ, but from a watsonian perspective it really just comes off as âwilliam afton doesnât give a singular fuck about his loser sonâ đ. vanessa was williamâs favorite and just look at what he did to her; do you think michael wouldâve had it any better? even if there wasnât any harsher abuse, sometimes outright indifference can do much more harm than hatred or disdain. michael KNOWS his father is dead, so i can only imagine heâs so hellbent on âcontinuing his legacyâ, so desperate for a dead manâs approval, is because he never had the âloveâ william gave to vanessa. he needs to prove to his father that heâs just as worthy as vanessa, so heâs resolved in the idea that he would do anything in order to prove it. if that means killing people to continue his legacy, then damn it, thatâs what heâs going to do. it sort of brings to mind this quote:
or maybe im totally wrong and this isnât at all what scott was intending. i sure hope iâm not wrong, because i really donât think michael is so cut and dry evil. i actually hope they end up releasing a novelization like they did for the first movie, because i feel like it could be a little more insightful to michaelâs character.
i guess the tldr is that i feel as though michaelâs antagonism is a result of abuse/grooming (because grooming isnât exclusively sexual, and if you donât believe anything i said above then surely you can see how it seems likely that william at least groomed michael to want to continue his legacy; he does act pretty similarly to williamâŚ) (see this is a point i shouldâve brought up earlier but i forgor)
also yeah that middle part is kind of atrocious i have no defense for that. at least it looks better toward the end of the film
i fuck w this take heavy!! i literally study behavioral neuroscience so i fw the more psychological approach youâve taken with this, and i agree with all of it from that perspective!!
my main issue is with the movies in general is including characters with well established and making them a whole other thing itâs like. at this point Make a new character.. and perhaps thatâs why i donât fuck w movie michael as much is because despite these characters having the same name and similar roles, theyâre Not the same character.. as you pointed out itâs entirely possible the bite of â83, an event that fundamentally alters michaelâs character, might not even have happened within the movie universe. i guess the lack of certainty around how much of the movieâs lore is derived from the games makes it a kind of grey area where maybe michaelâs story stays the same so his movie behavior doesnât quite make sense, or it could be completely different, making him completely different in a more logical way.
as an isolated character, movie michael is interesting and i like the way it explores just how deep williamâs grooming goes, and what could have happened to him if he never had that moment to wake up and go Oh Damb. Shitâs Fucked. Let Me Choose Peace. i suppose i take issue less with the character and more so with the fact that this is michael, and it sucks to see his character be changed so much to make him kind of unrecognizable. but again, these are two different universes and two different characters and perhaps itâs on me to adjust to that! idk! i do hope we get more to his story to flesh him out but as it stands now i just kind of canât see him as Michael is all.
but yes i agree his hair does get better as it gets disheveled but i still wish he had something Shaggy going on sigh..