Mikey Way

Mikey Way is best known as the bassist of American alternative rock band My Chemical Romance, one of the core three bands constituting the Bandom canon. He is the brother of Gerard Way. 
See Wikipedia for more detail. 
== Ships == 
As of Sept 12, 2014, there are 3639 works tagged 'Mikey Way' on AO3.Mikey Way AO3 tag Ships in order of popularity, according to AO3 pairing tag use:
*Pete/Mikey, where Mikey is shipped with Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz after an intense friendship made when touring in the 2005 Vans Warped Tour, now dubbed The Summer of Like: 530 usesAO3 Pete/Mikey tag
*Waycest (sibling incest pairing with Gerard Way): 356 usesGerard/Mikey AO3 tag
*Frank/Mikey with MCR guitarist Frank Iero: 354 usesFrank/Mikey AO3 tag
*Ray/Mikey with MCR guitarist Ray Toro: 280 usesAO3 Ray/Mikey tag
*Canon het pairing with ex-wife Alicia Simmons: 220 usesMikey/Alicia AO3 tag
*Bob/Mikey with former MCR drummer Bob Bryar: 70 usesBob/Mikey AO3 tag
*Mikey/Gabe Saporta of Cobra Starship, due to their canon acquaintance and some pictures of them hanging out: 50 usesAO3 Gabe/Mikey tag
*Heypetekey (Chris Gutierrez (Arma Angelus), Pete Wentz (Fallout Boy) and Mikey Way)
Various OT3 pairings such as Pete/Mikey/Alicia and Frank/Mikey/Gerard, and MCR GSF also exist.
== Depiction in Fanon ==
===Mental health issues===
Mikey has talked in interviews and on social media about his struggles with substance abuse, depression, suicidal thoughts and being eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder.See for example his 2008 Kerrang interview, transcribed on Tumblr by mychemquotes It follows that a number of fanworks mention or even center on his struggles. See for example stories set at the Paramour.
===Facial expression===
From early days fans noted that Mikey never seemed to smile in photographs. As a result, Mikey is often depicted in fanfic as being very self-contained to the point where he never makes any observable facial expression and other characters have trouble determining his mood.
In This Never Happened by Bexless, a not!fic, this fanon has been translated into one particular emoticon:
In the podfic of the fic, klb translated this emoticon into a long, low-volume unhappy guttural sound that a very undemonstrative person might make with their mouth closed.
===Mikey and technology===
In a 2004 interview the band was asked who was most likely to stick a fork in the toaster, and everyone answered Mikey. Gerard also mentioned Mikey taking a heater into the shower.Three Cheers For Warped's Little Darlings! interview transcript at troublebunchmusic.com. reposted to chemicalromance 3 November 2004 by arizonagal: hahah mcr <3. This interview is probably responsible for all the fanart on Deviantart of Mikey with toasters and forksMikey Way by xXThornesXx; Mikey: stuckFORKinTOASTER
by Chocoreaper; Mikey Way by teabean; Mikey May by rhymeswithway, plus the frequent mention in fanfic that Mikey has an odd relationship with technology. From Heart Wrapped in Clover by Sena:
===Mikey and unicorns===
Due to a number of unicorn references, (he used to wear a unicorn pin, once made a unicorn-related joke, was pictured with a toy resembling a rainbow-maned unicorn etc) there is a lot of fanart of Mikey with unicorns and fanfic in which he liked unicorns.Mikey Loves Unicorns digital drawing by KwalalaFalconwing, posted to DeviantArt in 2010
For example: In the Unholyverse: 
In Nightswimming: 
In Ten Rules For Looking After Mikey Way by turps33: 
The fandom ran with it so much that Mikey and the whole band started actively discouraging/hating the association.My Chemical Romance - Gerard talking about unicorns posted to YouTube by DariinkkT on March 5, 2011: Gerard announcing on stage on 26-02-2011: "You guys know what we do with unicorns, right? [crowd cheers] We cut off their heads, bathe in the blood, and urinate on the body."June 5 2013 Tweet by @mikeyway: @klljoysnevrdie I hate unicorns To no avail: as of September 2015, fans are still posting Mikey/unicorn art on deviantart.Unicorn And Mikey by Lizlemay. Posted to deviantart September 19, 2015. archived
== Example Fanworks ==
===Fic===
* Everyday Mysteries In The Summertime by waxjism (Part 1 of the Nightswimming verse.) Mikey Way/Pete Wentz, posted to AO3 2007-07-17. 
* Staring Through the Demons by Bexless (Part 2 of the Unholyverse, Mikey POV.) Frank/Gerard, Ray/Mikey, posted to AO3 2011-07-30. 
* My Way Home is Through You by 7iris (Mikey/Frank/Jamia), posted to Livejournal in 2008: Frank and Jamia take care of Mikey in the aftermath of his departure. 
* Be Your Own Spotlight (Like Bowie in the Morning Sun), by jedusaur, Mikey Way/Edward Cullen, posted to AO3 2011-03-07.
===Podfic=== 
* Before and After, read by sylvaine, Waycest. 
* You Can Find Out Firsthand, Mikey/Alicia bodyswap, ready by onomatopaeiaish. 
===Art===
*mikey way by ptitehooligan, digital portrait posted to Deviantart May 16, 2005.
*Mikey Way by xXThornesXx, digital art of Mikey about to destroy a toaster, posted to Deviantart June 30, 2007.
*mikeymikeymikey by 021, digital art of three versions of Mikey, each from a different tour. Posted to Deviantart March 4, 2011 (also on tumblr)
* Kobra Kid by ihni, traditional portrait in crayons posted to DeviantArt April 25, 2011.
* MIKEY by nezumi-zumi, digital art posted to DeviantArt September 9, 2012. 
* So Fluffy! by tigerli-ly, digital art of Revenge-Era Mikey holding the giant stuffed unicorn from Despicable Me, posted to DeviantArt August 7, 2014.
*Happy Birthday Mikey Fuckin Way! by tcustodisart, posted to tumblr September 10, 2015
*Mikey by HimmoDuk, sketch of Mikey in unicorn pajamas, posted to DeviantArt May 15, 2016
*happy birthday mikeyway🌟🎉 by anothersuperstition, posted to Tumblr Sep 10, 2018
===Crafts===
*Mikey plush doll by strawberryxlove (Mary), posted to livejournal September 2004photos posted to chemicalromance 8 September 2004, with show anecdote. archived. Mary later created a Gerard plushie and gave it to him at the Helena shoot.
== Resources ==
*Mikeyway-daily LJ community, created on 10 February 2009
*Mikeyway picspam by cmorgana-bu, posted to livejournal 16 May 2009
*Mikeyway picspam by turps, posted to livejournal 8 April 2010 (archived)
*Mikeyway: A Comprehensive Visual Timeline (2001-2007) picspam by andwristintact, posted to livejournal 20 October 2007 (archived)
== References ==
Category:My Chemical Romance People & Characters Category:Bandom