Gamer Mike

### Affiliation

Miguel(Friend), Michael(former close friend), Saturn Samuel(love interest/Friend), Scott, Little M, Qwerty

## Biographical information

### Date of death

1994(the first time), 2014(the second time)

## Appearances

### Debut

November 26th, 2021

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Tutu Mike is a main character in Michaelverse, often referred to simply as “Gamer”. He is Highkey's interpretation of Michael Afton from Five Nights at Freddy's.

Content warning for substance abuse ahead.

## Appearance

Michael is a 28 year old man with shoulder-length brown hair kept in a wolf cut or mullet style depending on the circumstances. He has poor posture and often slouches slightly, making him seem shorter than he is. Michael’s resting face is a lethargic smile with glazed and bloodshot eyes. There are two slits in his right eyebrow, and he has dark circles under his eyes.

Michael wears an orange hoodie, colorful sneakers, and leather fingerless gloves with purple straps. While this is his default outfit, he's also been seen wearing colorful sweaters and crop tops. He has numerous scars on his hands and body.

## Personality

Michael is laid back and friendly, though he usually has a degree of caution and awkwardness to his interactions. Gamer is usually slow and sleepy, easily falling asleep just about anywhere and even during conversations.

Michael maintains a persona of casual silliness, with his immediate reaction to most scenarios being to brush it off with a joke. He has a love for video games, slasher movies, and practical effects, with a wide array of knowledge on each subject and possessing a large collection of handheld and home consoles. He’s known to go on passionate rambles about these topics when prompted, though he hasn’t in a while. Gamer is highly protective of his collection due to it being his main coping mechanism, only allowing trusted individuals to touch or play them.

Michael is severely depressed and copes through distracting himself with video games, movies, and the abuse of sleep medication. He will frequently have days where he cannot bring himself to leave his room, or even his bed, and spends much of his time asleep. Michael's self esteem is fairly low, believing that he just isn't very smart or reliable and that any poor opinion of him is deserved. Gamer also has a destructive temper, which he attempts to curb through self-soothing and medication as it renders him too drowsy and high to work up the energy for anger. He has trouble truly grasping that his friends are, in fact, his friends, and is pleasantly surprised whenever they express this to him. He prefers to run away from his problems or accept unjust treatment from others to the detriment of his loved ones, as the alternative is frightening and difficult.

## Backstory

Born in 1966 to William and Carol Afton, Michael (known better as Misha) lived in Russia with his parents and newborn sister for most of his childhood. Shortly before the move to America William began pressuring Misha to learn English, refusing to explain his reasoning until the family packed up and moved to America much to Misha's loathing. His youngest brother Kasya was born not long after, and the family was fairly average until Carol's death in 1979 leaving Misha (newly coined Michael) to raise his siblings for the most part as William was too preoccupied to do it himself. Being put in this position was stressful and irritating, leaving Michael to consider his younger siblings ungrateful when they continued to idolize William despite his neglect.

After causing the bite of '83 Michael enters a major depressive spiral and completely detaches himself from anything related to his old personality aside from his interest in games. Him and Sammy bonded over their mutual loss of siblings, though Sammy flees the state with his mother shortly before things really took a turn for the worst. William's begins drugging Michael regularly to test and torment him using the Funtime Animatronics and their illusion discs, and Elizabeth goes missing in 1985. Gamer barely registers her absence because he was so drugged out all the time.

Michael finds employment at the Grand Re-opening in 1987 under the name "Fritz Smith" where he works for around 2 years as a delivery boy/under-qualified mechanic. He forms a friendship with floor manager 'Mr.Guy', 17 year old coworker Jeremy Fitzgerald, and resident pizza chef Mott. Mott and Michael begin a relationship on the side, and it's smooth sailing for a while until the MCI87 incident causes the building to close down for a while. On the last day the place was meant to be open, a private party was held for a family that had made a reservation. Michael took a poorly times lunch break and returned to find the building empty and Jeremy already being hurried off to the hospital. Gamer was too afraid to visit Jeremy in the hospital due to previous hospital related trauma, and continues to consider himself a coward because of it. Needless to say Gamer is was now unemployed. William grows bored of experimenting on Michael in favor of killing more people, and he's suddenly cut off from drugs he didn't know he was taking sending him into severe withdrawal and leading to his abuse of Ambien.

Michael found employment again in 1994 at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and took the dayshift, though he covered the nightshift too on occasion. Prior to tutuverse adventure, he was about to be transferred to Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental.

## Michaelverse Lore

It’s unknown what Michael was doing prior to entering Michaelverse for the first time, but the first thing he did was show everyone Pokemon soul silver before dumping 105 gameboy cartridges onto the floor. He was later coined as “Gamer Mike” by an Elizabeth while he was teasing about her strong British accent.

Gamer Mike spent his earliest days doing his own thing, and thus didn’t participate in many early on lore related events. While around during the Insomverse adventure, Michael did not go along and to this day doesn’t really know what happened with that. He began participating in events after this point after bonding with more people. He regrets it. As of now he has participated in and promptly repressed the shit out of nearly every universe adventure since then.

Compounding events prior to Nexus left him in a bad place mentally, and his mask began to crack. However, due to the fact that a lot of things were happening, nobody was really able or willing to address it. His mental state continued to degrade and his stress increased until he finally cracked under the mental pressure, culminating in a violent meltdown where he attacked Ginger (who was only trying to help.) Though he showed immediate remorse, Gamer fell back on old habits and immediately fled the scene. He had a brief moment of redeemed friendship with Rus Mike before learning that she had attacked Samuel, causing him to lose trust in her.

To tell the truth, Gamer doesn't feel particularly close to any of the Mikes. He feels more like they're all closer to each other, and he is just kind of there.

## Relationships

#### Michael "Ginger" Afton

> Ginger was formally one of Michael's closest (human) friends. After their falling out he's hesitant to speak with her again, though he still cares for Rose deeply. Gamer considers them to be alike, and wishes that Rose didn't have to go through so much while being so young. Michael is very upset by Ginger's obvious decline in mental health, but has no idea how to talk to him about it. He regrets asking her for help the first time he attempted recovery. He regrets trying to apologize. He regrets attempting to be her friend in the first place, because he failed her so insanely bad. He is unsure where they stand.
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#### Miguel

> Seeing xem as the unofficial "head Mike", Gamer is especially willing to listen to them and is glad they're buddies. It's not lost on him that the two have quite a bit in common, (Sammikers, Adhders, same kind of rage in their hearts) and he wants to be closer with them but feels that he's never qualified to help with whatever it is Nori Mike tends to be going through. Most of his fondness has been expressed through gifts, like the DVD player he gave xem while he was in the hospital so that he wouldn't be bored. He realized how much he liked Miguel when they left, and was one of the only people to show visible happiness when he learned that he was back in Michaelverse.
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#### Samuel

> Ah.. you know. Samuel is.. his buddy! He respects the guy a lot! He always seems to have it together, or at least is a lot better at keeping a stoic face than all the rest of them, which is basically the same thing. He regards Samuel as genuinely cool in some aspects, but also thinks his suspenders are kinda goofy in a good way. Michael doesn't want to be annoying and seem like he's following Samuel around, so he tends not to seek him out but will always accept offered the chance to be around him. He very much considers Samuel "good company" even if they're just doing their own thing in the same room, but especially likes when they watch movies together. In a romantic sense, Gamer tends to feel like a clumsy lovestruck teenager every time they talk and is astounded things haven't resulted in disaster just yet. DO NOT tell anyone this, but he does have semi-frequent Samuel themed dreams.
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#### Scott

> They do not talk much, but Michael respects him and is wildly off-put by her tendency to know things she logically should not. If Scott knows what's happening all the way across Michaelverse, what does she know about him? Scary.
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#### Qwerty

> Michael and Qwerty have an odd bond. Although it seems mostly antagonistic, Qwerty does look out for him by not allowing him to languish in his room for too long, ensures he eats and sleeps enough, and generally tries to be helpful in his own backhanded way. In exchange Gamer takes Qwerty a bit more seriously than most people would, and shows distress when suddenly disconnected from him. If Qwerty died Michael would be quite sad. He is irritated with Qwerty's tendency to annoy Samuel, as he would hate to explain he has no control over the entity's actions.
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#### Little M

> He loves this spider dearly. He is very fond of the Music Man character, and finds Little Man especially endearing. He is often impressed with how helpful and observant they are, and takes his input as seriously as he would anyone else's. Gamer is delighted by their strange telepathy bond and that Little M chooses to hang out with him when there's probably cooler people. Michael doesn't necessarily think that Little M needs protection, but is nonetheless always ready to protect them and even kill for his sake (becoming extremely distressed when seeing Little M come to harm.) He sees a bit of Kasya in Little Man, which might have something to do with this. Gamer is trying extra hard to not neglect or leave Little M out of things.
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#### Comic "Blue" Gregory

> Gregory! Just a little guy who has it rough. Michael is glad that Elizabeth has friends, and Blue seems like a nice enough kid who's trying his best with what he knows. He has no idea why the entire comicverse seems to want this little guy DEAD, but it's horrifying and he assumes it will be deeply disturbing to put an end to. Gamer hopes that one day he can forget seeing fear in Gregory's eyes.
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#### Anabeth

> Anabeth! Fond of her as he is of all Elizabeths, he really just wants to be as pleasant to her as he can. It's almost heartbreaking to see how young she is, but it's good to know she seems to be in good care.
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#### Tutu Elizabeth

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## Adventures & Events

* Beach Episode
* Vic Mike's wedding (he was hit in the face with the bouquet)
* January 21st Incident
* Rusverse
* Grimverse
* Eleanor's death
* Pixelverse
* Pixelverse (Forbidden loop)
* Nexus
* Rusverse

## Trivia

* His favorite Pokemon game is Pokemon Channel, closely rivaled by Pokemon Snap.
* Michael suffers from untreated ADHD, generalized and social anxiety disorder, and major depressive disorder.
* He has a friendly relationship with the Sammy Emily from his universe, referring to him as “Sam the Man” when mistaking another Sammy for his own, and keeps contact with him via email.
* Michael using the portals results in a Minecraft sound effect.
* He has a tendency to call child characters buddy, inspired by his dialogue in the Fazbear Frights story "You're the Band"
* Previously owned a skateboard, but gave it away to another Michael.
* He has many stories of being injured in absurd ways.
* Michael had a period of his life between 1988 and 1993 where he would go to an adjacent town and hook up with locals under the pseudonym "Sasha," a diminutive form of the name Alexander. This wasn't a coping mechanism or anything it was genuinely a hobby on the same level of painting or playing video games. You would have to pry this information out of him kicking and screaming.

## Gallery

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