Mickey Giles

Mickey Giles is an Avatar of the Lonely. He is unaffiliated with any faction, and was until recently on the run from the Web. He used to work as a studio musician in London. His current whereabouts are unknown.

Mickey is asocial, preferring to be alone and becomes agitated when bothered by others. He is prone to emotional outbursts and migraines, both occasionally causing the Lonely to open unintentionally. He had been experiencing problems with using his Lonely powers, as he has begun to seek more emotional connections, but due to a recent combination of emotional reprogramming and the Lonely exerting its will over him, Mickey has fully ascended into avatar status.

He used to be identifiable by his silver hair, rectangular glasses, galaxy print jacket, and NASA: "I need my space" shirt, which leads others to believe he is a Servant of the Vast. Since the beginning of Statement Begins Season 2, he has been seen in a black Walk the Moon hoodie and a navy blue beanie.

Mickey is associated with the Hermit Tarot Card. Mickey is a cis gay man.

## History

### Early Life

Mickey grew up a lonely child. The son of a single mother, Sandy Giles, Mickey was often left with uncaring relatives while his mother worked. Naturally shy, Mickey oftentimes had a hard time interacting with his classmates and would isolate himself from them. The few friendships that he did make were short-lived. In secondary school, he and his mother would move frequently for work, making it difficult to make lasting friendships. They eventually moved back to Manchester, but all of the connections Mickey had made as a child had long since moved on.

Mickey became enamored with space and music. For his tenth birthday, Sandy bought Mickey a telescope. They would go stargazing together when she wasn't resting from working three part time jobs. At the age of sixteen, Mickey purchased his first guitar. At the age of eighteen, he swapped his guitar for a bass.

In his first year of university, Mickey met and started dating Benjamin "Benji" Carter. It was the first real connection Mickey had been able to make outside of his mother. He suddenly found himself surrounded by friends, having connected with Benji's friends. After university, Mickey and Benji moved to London together for Benji's job. Mickey worked for several retail jobs while looking for work as a studio musician.

### Sandy's Death and Benji's Disappearance

Shortly after Mickey's 24th birthday, Sandy passed from a sudden heart attack. Mickey fell into a depressive episode, blaming himself for not being there to help her. He asked Benji to come with him back to Manchester with him for the funeral, but Benji refused, having never met Sandy. They had the first fight of their relationship, and Mickey made the trip alone.

When Mickey returned, Benji grew distant. They began to fight until their conversations were arguments more often than not. When Mickey found work as a studio musician, he threw himself into his work in order to avoid going home to Benji. Benji also began to spend less time at home, coming home later and later each night.

Six months after the death of Sandy Giles, Mickey came home to find Benji gone, along with half of the furniture in the apartment.

### Power Emergence and Meeting the Lukas Family

After Benji's disappearance, Mickey began to wander the streets at night. Part of his nighttime walks led him to watch people from a distance. Watching people interact with others reminded Mickey just how isolated he was, how isolated he felt moving away from the one family member he'd had in favor of someone who left him out of nowhere. He began to feel the tugging of the Lonely in his heart, but refused the call.

Three months after Benji's disappearance, Mickey found him. On one of his nighttime walks, Mickey passed a pub that the couple used to frequent. As he passed, Benji left the pub with another man. For the first time in months, Mickey felt anger. He wanted Benji to feel the exact type of loneliness Mickey had felt his whole life, that Benji had caused specifically by abandoning him when Mickey needed him the most. Mickey gave into the fog creeping into his heart. The powers of the Lonely manifested themselves with a wave of Mickey's hand, and in an instant, Benji and the man he was with vanished.

Two weeks later, Mickey was sent into the Lonely by a member of the Lukas family. Having trapped Mickey, the Lukas family member explained that they had found Benji's corpse in the fog of the Lonely and was impressed that someone other than a Lukas could use the Lonely like that. He offered Mickey training on how to control this ability in exchange for Mickey becoming an employee of the Lukas family. Mickey, disgusted, refused. The member of the Lukas family told Mickey that they could use someone like him, in case the Eye and the Magnus Institute became too cocky, but still, Mickey refused, eventually escaping from the Lonely. The Lukas family continued to proposition Mickey for a few months after, but eventually settled for keeping tabs on him instead.

### Post Lukas Family Introduction

Mickey threw himself into his work, desperate to keep his freedom from the Lukas family and to keep his distance from the leaders of the Magnus Institute. He made friends with several employees, including Diana Evans, Theo McLeod, Jade Heartfell and Bones Slater. Mickey eventually began to date Bones Slater along with the Stranger Micky, but the relationship was short lived. Mickey also developed some amount of feelings for Theo McLeod, but never acted on those feelings. Mickey developed an antagonistic relationship with Theo's partners Sam Baker and Jules Lukas, and with the now Head of Research, Ainsley McKinnon.

Despite his best efforts to stay off people's radars, he has been abducted three times, once by Bri Huxton as part of an experiment, once by a librarian for the Magnus Institute, and once by someone only known as the Collector. In the first two instances, Mickey escaped on his own. The third time he escaped with the help of the Stranger known as J4-KY or Jaky. The two kept in touch after the incident.

### On the Run and the Stranger Event

In March, the Moderator sent Discord but Evil's main chat a map pin revealing the location of Jaky's hiding spot in an abandoned shopping mall. Mickey stole his boss's car and drove to the mall to help Jaky escape. Mickey sent two hunters into the Lonely (Disa Ekison, the Head Chef of the Magnus Institute among them) before pulling Jaky into the Lonely. The two escaped using the cover of the Lonely and have been on the run ever since. While on the run, Mickey learned that the Web had made mental modifications to Jaky, stealing their words from them. Mickey vowed to help them get the words back, but as the months went on Mickey found himself missing his old life. This coincided with a diminishing of Mickey's control of his powers.

During this time, Mickey met a man named Batty Hanwell, an Avatar of the Vast. The two bonded over their mutual love of music, the vastness of the universe, the loneliness of everything, and their connections to an eldritch abomination. They played for one another and vowed to see each other again before Mickey disappeared into the Lonely. They met again a few weeks later at an open mic night at A Quiet Place coffee shop. While watching Batty perform, Mickey had an "Oh. Fuck." moment. Realizing his connection to Batty was bolstering his desire for friendship and acceptance, Mickey snuck into the Magnus Institute and left a note on Theo McLeod's desk explaining his situation.

Jaky brought Mickey to the Stranger Fashion Show hosted by the Stranger Avatar Frank N. Stein and his associate, Lizzy Baldwin. Frank threatened Mickey, but agreed to allow Mickey and Jaky to stay. Mickey was given new clothes to blend in (a navy blue dress) and asked Lizzy to send a picture to Batty and Theo. The Moderator intercepted the message and alerted her Mercs that Mickey and Jaky were at the event Mickey entered into a discussion with fellow Lonely avatar Marylee Carter about their connections to the Lonely and their general philosophies regarding their Entity. When all hell broke loose, Mickey and Marylee separated and Mickey was immediately attacked by Disa. Disa managed to subdue Mickey, but was ultimately foiled by a combination of the sudden arrival of Batty and intervention by Jaky and Frank. Frank's mannequins chased the hunters away, and Frank invited Mickey, Jaky and Batty back to his home for the night. Mickey suggested that the three of them split in the morning. Unbeknownst to Mickey and the others, Frank sold them out to the Moderator.

### Ascension

The day after the Stranger Event, Disa and Easton abducted Mickey and Jaky from the home of Frank N. Stein. Mickey attempted to pull himself, Batty and Easton into the Lonely, only to realize that his connection to the Lonely was blocked. Using Batty, Easton and Disa coerced Mickey and Jaky into cooperating. Mickey and Jaky were delivered to the Moderator in an abandoned warehouse, and Mickey verbally attacked the Moderator for her actions. The Moderator reprogrammed Mickey, more or less eliminating his ability to feel empathy. Sensing a power vacuum, the Lonely reinstated itself more forcefully within Mickey, fully ascending him to avatar status. Mickey weaponized his isolation aura and turned it on the Moderator. He vanished into the Lonely, and reappeared in London a few weeks later. His last known whereabouts were a park in Central London with plans to return to his flat.

## Spotify Playlists

The Lonely Man in the Corner

A Song for the Cosmos

A Song for the Cosmos Vol. 2

## Powers and Abilities

As a Servant of the Lonely, Mickey has a number of abilities that allow him to serve the entity.

* The Lonely
	+ Mickey can access the Lonely. He has the ability to jump in and out of the Lonely at will, and can banish people to it.
	+ Mickey has a hard time controlling the Lonely under emotional duress. He often banishes people into it by accident. He also has a hard time controlling his exits from the Lonely, reappearing in places he was not originally in.
	+ Due to Mickey's past resistance to using the Lonely directly, it was more painful for him when he did use it. A layer of frost would form on his skin and would harden into actual ice if he used it for too long. Pulling someone into the Lonely with him had this effect.
	+ Now that Mickey is a fully realized avatar, it is no longer painful for him to push or pull people into the Lonely.
* Passive Isolation Aura
	+ Mickey has the ability to passively radiate isolation. He is unsure how this power actually works, but assumes it becomes stronger around people who are suffering from the isolation of living in large cities. It allows for him to easily feed on the loneliness of others without actually sending them into the Lonely
* Weaponized Isolation Aura
	+ Upon his ascension, Mickey was able to actively project his aura outward. The aura blasts from him like a shockwave, leaving those in its path in a near catatonic state as they are left to grapple with the things that make them feel most Lonely. Mickey is unsure if this is a defense mechanism or a new power he can tap into at will.

* Pass Without a Trace
	+ Mickey can use the Lonely to camouflage himself from prying eyes. He does not go completely invisible, but he becomes harder to perceive in general.

* Cold Hands
	+ Mickey has very cold hands, resulting from spending time in the Lonely.

## Connections

**Friends:**

* Batty Hanwell, Busker and Avatar of the Vast.
* Jade Heartfell, Personal Assistant to the Curator
* Theo McLeod, Senior Fellow and Special Assistant to the Curator

**Enemies:**

* Bri Huxton, Radio DJ and Avatar of the Slaughter
* Disa Eksion, Head Chef of the Magnus Institute and Avatar of the Flesh
* Easton Wilde, Taxidermist and Avatar of the Hunt
* Frank N. Stein, Actor and Avatar of the Stranger
* Lane Marris, Intern at the Magnus Institute and Servant of the Slaughter
* The Lukas Family (With Some Exceptions)
* The Moderator, Avatar of the Web

**Pains in the Butt**

* Ainsley McKinnon, Head of Research at the Magnus Institute and Servant of the Slaughter
* Arlo Louis, Artifact Storage Assistant and Servant of the Eye
* Sam Baker, Cult Member and Avatar of the Desolation (Deceased)

## Event Participation

The Lukas Bonfire:

* Theo McLeod had contacted Mickey ahead of time to ask him to keep an eye on Magnus Institute interns during the proceedings. Mickey had agreed, but only to keep an eye on things, not "to babysit".
* Mickey nearly banished Sam Baker into the Lonely when Sam refused to leave him alone and disrupted his attempts at flirting with Bones.
* Mickey briefly interacted with Phoebe, an intern at the Institute before having a private conversation with Bones.
* Mickey left before the Killing Hours started.

The Magnus Institute Valentine's Party

* Mickey attended the Magnus Institute Valentine's Party as Bones's +1.
* They stayed for a bit and then left.

The Mannequin Hunt

* Mickey infiltrated the hunt for Jaky using a map pin sent to Discord but Evil by the Moderator.
* Mickey banished Disa and Bo to the Lonely before pulling Jaky into the Lonely with him, avoiding Lane Marris's attack.
* Mickey told both the Moderator and Easton Wilde to go fuck themselves, sent Bone a break up text, then vanished into the night with Jaky.

Open Mic Night

* Mickey participated in an open mic night at A Quiet Place coffee shop. He mostly hung out with Batty during the show.
* Mickey had an "Oh. Fuck." moment during Batty's performance.
* Mickey performed a cover of Naive Melody by Talking Heads.

Stranger Fashion Show

* Mickey snuck into the Stranger fashion show with Jaky, using the Lonely to sneak into a back room to avoid being confronted.
* Mickey got into a verbal, then physical altercation with Frank N. Stein who, after intervention by Lizzy Baldwin, allowed Mickey to stay. Mickey borrowed a dress and sent a picture to Theo and Batty.
* Mickey had a conversation with Marylee Carter about the nature of the Lonely.
* Disa drugged Mickey and attempted to leave the event with him during the chaos caused by feeding. In an attempt to get help, Mickey called for Batty Hanwell.

Miscellaneous Events:

* Mickey has been abducted four times since the tag began. Once by Bri Huxley, once by Anne, an Institute Librarian, once by an unknown NPC known only as the Collector, and once by Disa and Easton at the request of the Moderator.

## Tiktok Information

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