I know it doesn't match up with their canon ages at all but I really cannot stop obsessing about my AU idea where Michael Shelley and Mike Crew are roommates and they're besties (and maybe more) with Gerry Keay. Like I just think it fits so well! Michael and Mike can bond over and commiserate about their traumatic childhood experiences with The Spiral, and Gerry and Mike share info and tactics about how to handle and find Leitners, and Gerry and Michael hang out (and flirt) whenever Gerry comes by the Institute to talk to Gertude. Like do you see the vision?? I feel like those three are a perfect combo!
(I have so much and so many other details of this AU planned out, if anyone wants to hear more about it please let me know I wanna talk about this so bad)
Edit: Here's my longer post explaining the whole au, for anyone interested
