I remember this joke headcanon I saw some years ago about Lind L. Tailor being Mikamis dad and while technically not impossible I doubt it's like, but I always liked to think about how Mikamis dad could've influnced his life and especially the reason he was not there in his childhood and thinking how it could've affected Mikami if his dad was a criminal is really interesting. Any thoughts on this (not Tailor in particular, but more the thought "Mikamis dad was absent because he was in prison")
Honestly, I have very little interest in assigning Mikami's father a large amount of headcanoned importance when Mikami's one of the few characters out there who has mother issues and not father issues, haha... Let people be fucked up by mom stuff for once!!
So this answer is probably not going to be what you're looking for and also pretty boring... but let's talk about Mikami's backstory and his absentee dad anyway!!
Mikami is the only character in Death Note who receives an elaborate backstory explaining why he is the way he is. It covers pretty much his entire life, so we can be certain that all the beats the story regards as important to his development are in there. To insert something that eclipses these beats in meaning feels like straying too much from the text to me. So my personal approach is basically "any headcanon I make can't be more emotionally relevant to Mikami than the details that are shown on panel."
The anime (not the manga) vaguely implies that Mikami's father is dead since his mother still wears her wedding ring - which she wouldn't do if there had been a divorce. Technically I suppose this would also apply if his father was in jail and they were still in a relationship, but I consider it unlikely for the reason above.
Wherever Mikami's father is, the personal details of that man are not relevant to Mikami's emotional development. He is merely a blank space. The way he contributes to Mikami's life is complete absence.
I've talked about it in my big Mikami analysis but single mothers have an extremely bad standing in Japan. Ms Mikami is no exception. They are implied to be pretty poor (see tiny Mikami's oversized clothing) and in my opinion this panel...
... implies that Mikami was somewhat 'raised by TV' as can often be the case with a child who's parent is largely absent because they are working long hours in order to financially support their child. Just look at the way 'his surroundings' are all media images in this!
Mikami's initial moral standard develops because of the amount of media he consumes - and the fact that he consumes this much media is precisely because he doesn't have a father, sending his mother to work a lot and leave him alone a lot.
I do think that if Mikami had any strong feelings about his father, we'd definitely have heard about them. So I tend to assume he died while Mikami's mother was pregnant or when Mikami was very young. He doesn't remember him and if anything feels nothing but vague irrational resentment for having left his mother alone to fend for herself and live such a difficult life.
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