Mika

**Mika** is one of the two friends Johnny has from Earth; he is shown to be selfish, compulsive and to make really bad choices despite having the best intention and always trying his best.

In the first season of the TV series, Mika and Luna are shown to have romantic feelings for each other as shown in episodes "Wolf Love" and "He Likes Me, He Likes Me Not". Despite this, their feelings are never referred in the second season of the show or in anything that came after, as if those feelings simply vanished.

## Development

When creating Johnny, Jamie-Leigh Gale also created Mika and Josie, who would be Johnny's two best friends from Earth. By creating the trio, Gale expected to create a smart friend to help Johnny out of trouble, and one to put Johnny in trouble. In the show, Mika usually makes all the wrong decisions, often bringing trouble to the Warriors.

Second to Marcus and Leana, the relationship between Mika and Luna was the first romantic relationship of the show. Since the episode "Wolf Love", they were shown to both have feelings towards each other, but none of them ever admitted it, and by the second season it was never brought up again. It was a choice made by Jamie-Leigh Gale:

> *"Working with Jennifer [Dodd] really changed how I looked at my female characters. [...] I noticed that Luna was just a love interest for Mika, and I realized how interesting she could become as a brave and strong sorceress with a dark past. I loved writing the Blackfur episodes, and I forgot how much of a better character Luna could be. [...] I didn't necessarily want to end Luna and Mika's relationship, but working on the character we all began to love her more and none of us really saw the potential into exploiting a relationship between Luna and Mika, let alone how these two could even be a thing."*
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Mika is also one of the only afro-american characters in the franchise, the other being Sergeant Cyborg. Many sees his relation with Luna a way to mirror his ethnicity with Luna's species: in the episode "The Odd One Out", Luna goes to Earth and she is laughed at and teased because of how she looks. The episode is one of the show's most serious episodes with bullying as its main subject, and since racism is never explored in the show, many considers this the best Jamie-Leigh Gale could write to talk about racism without talking about it explicitly. Jamie-Leigh Gale affirms that the episode was about bullying and not racism, but on the matter Zaid Campbell said:

> *"[...] Of course, if Jamie says it wasn't about racism, it wasn't about racism, but if people sees it as an episode on racism, we can't change that. [...] I think racism is a bit too harsh for a kid's cartoon, I trust Jamie wouldn't have gone that far. He wrote episodes about emotions and feelings more than anything else, and I think this feeling of being proud of what you are no matter what people do is really what he was going for. Still, if blacks kids could look up to the episode's lesson and get something out of it, something awfully relatable, I'm glad Jamie wrote it the way he wrote it."*
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Mika is one of the few characters who disappeared from the show: in the episode "Moving Out", Mika moves to another town but promises to come back visit Johnny once in a while. Thing is, Mika never re-appeared, to what Jamie-Leigh Gale explained:

> *"In "Moving Out", I tried to bring to light how hard it is to move to another town. It happened to me a lot as a kid and I believed it was a good idea to explore the matter in an episode. [...] Problem was, once Mika moved to another town, every time a writer would want to include Mika in an episode someone would remind him that he couldn't, since he moved out. Someone had to do a new episode centered around Mika to explain how he is able to come back to Chronos, but with Josie becoming a Fairy Witch, we were more interested in making episodes around Josie. [...] I suppose it's disappointing to see Mika never came back, but no one wanted the trouble to include him in an episode so we just forgot about him, and by the time we wrote the films, we had completely forgotten about him."*
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## History

In the first season of the series, most of Mika's appearances are limited to show his relation with Luna. Mika is shown to be in love with each other but none of them ever admit it. Contrarily to couples Robyn and Delphina and Marcus and Leana, Mika's relation with Luna was dropped off so Luna could have a more complex character than just a girl who's in love with a boy, especially since she became a Warrior of Chronos.

While having a lot of episodes centered around him in the second season of the show, Mika is featured in an episode called "Moving Out" where he is told by his parents that he is going to move to another town, and that he won't be able to see Johnny and his friends again. At the end of the episode, Mika realizes that moving out isn't that bad and that he will see his friends again even if it means a lot less. Ironically, Mika was never seen ever again in the rest of the season or the films.