Mikkel is a complete sweetheart. Now donât be confused, this doesnât mean that he is a pushover, but more of the fact that he strongly believes that you should treat others the way you wish to be treated. He believes in the golden rule and still chooses to live by it. Now, this doesnât mean he is always welcomed with open arms but he tries really hard to be nice to others in hopes that they would be nice to him. He will help almost anyone out just out of the kindness of his heart. He used to buy lunch of a homeless guy on his walk from his apartment to his classes during college because it was better than nothing and he felt the man needed the warm sandwich more than he did. Sometimes he would even stop to eat lunch with him. He learned this man used to have a wife but she died during labor and he had lost his job after an accident that had taken almost all his mobility in his right hand away. It was probably the best lunch dates he had during his late high school years. He likes to give, whenever he can, even if it means he has to do without.
Despite not wishing to have his own children, besides his cats which he considers his babies, he really does enjoy their company. Being a pretty big child himself, he likes playing games and overall being silly. He has a really hard time saying no to children, especially if they beg and its probably this reason that he has caught himself spending an extra three hours at his uncles house with their children when he should be working. He is referred to as an easy target around his uncles kids because he falls for any trick they wish to pull especially the dumb âIâm innocentâ act. Its very easier for children or kinder individuals to pull the wool over his eyes since he seems to be quite naĂŻve to anyone that can pull off innocent quite easily. Still, he strongly feels that children deserve to have amazing childhoods and if he can help them be a bit more delightful, he would. This need to protect and mother children is probably part of the reason his sister easily got upset growing up. He constantly wished to protect her and keep every bad thing away from her that he could, especially other guys that want to hurt her. This same protective aspect involves to any children he becomes friends with or really, anyone younger than him that he cares about.
Mikkel happens to be silly. He doesnât quite like to take himself too seriously and will do anything if it provides someone else with a smile even if it makes him look like a complete fool. Making bad jokes are definitely his specialty and pretending to be cooler than he actual is is actually quite easier for him. Having been voted class clown in his school, he definitely lives up to his title. Some of the dumb jokes, in which his honestly feels are amazing, consist of plays on words or science jokes that sometimes go over peoples heads due to everyone being as big of a nerd as he is.
Despite being kind, nice, and sweet, he can be quite stubborn, especially when it involves his back disorder. He doesnât like getting help from others feeling they wont be there constantly and therefore he needs to learn to cope on his own. On days when his back is really in pain, he finds himself having a hard time openly admitting the pain or accepting someone elses help. When it comes to certain opinions of his own, he also doesnât seem to wish to discuss other peoples opinions in and nice and caring manner. Instead, he will state his, let them state theirs and then drop it because he cant bother himself to fight with people. If you do catch him in a bad mood, you will probably get an earful and a half about how you are wrong in every way possible and how you ideas are dumb or ignorant. Even if he finds out later that he is the wrong one in the situation, if he fought you in a heated battle of opinions or thoughts he will not apologize.
Growing up, Mikkel was always mothers little helper and daddies little rock star. Two loving parents had settled down in a city in Louisiana to begin a family that they had always wanted. Coming into the world with two loving parents, he was showered with love and devotion. It was everything that children parenting books talked about when discussing skills and how the child should grow. He developed at an average level, learning how to walk when expected, learning how to talk when expected. By all means, he was the perfectly average son that his parents always wanted and now had. He didnât win awards, well besides attendance but that just requires you to show up. He wasnât the captain of the sports teams, he wasnât the best artist, best musician, best speller. He tried hard but the fact that he didnât truly link to anything didnât seem to bother him while he was younger.
Around 4, his parents sat him down to tell him they were going to have another child and he eventually was greeted with a sister that he loved and wanted to take care of. As they grew, she was more advanced in growth than he was and when she was allowed into school, she was praised constantly for her hard work and abilities. It was now when he began to feel slightly upset. It wasnât that his parents showed her more attention but merely that he felt beneath her. It was this point that he began to work harder. He became captain of the baseball team, began to constantly be on honor roll, and tried harder in the school band bumping his chair up three places. It was at this time that he realized his knack for dance and how easy it was for him to create clean lines.
At 12 his parents divorced. It wasnât ugly, it wasnât angry or sad. It was a basic clean divorce, or at least thatâs what they said. Since they decided to continue to live together they both continued to parent the children like normal. When sitting down to explain it to their kids, it was basically brought down to them not knowing where they fit with one another. That they loved their family but didnât know if they still love one another and didnât feel the need to change anything besides the being devoted to one another. Mikkel was a bit more upset at this than his sister. He didnât get why they would still want to live together when they didnât want to be together. He still doesnât quite understand it and strongly feels it has changed his views on marriage as a whole leading to him strongly believing that marriage isnât for him and that he doesnât want to be with someone just to fall out of love with them years down the line. He figures he is saving himself all the trouble of being married by just vowing it off altogether.
Around 16 he came out of his parents as homosexual. He didnt know why he waited so long as they accepted him with open arms and when their church did a sermon about it, they left, finding some other church to attend that was more welcoming. His mother continues to have a coming out day for him where they all go out to dinner and celebrate him feeling comfortable enough to come out. It was around this time as well that he began having severe pains in his back as well as constantly getting light headed and having kidney infections. After like of month of it not going away, he finally went to the doctor for a series of test. His dance continued though he constantly had to take breaks because of his back and eventually applied to UAA for in dance.
He got into UAA last year and his mother and sister moved with him to live in New York worried about him being by himself with his, at the time, undiagnosed back pain. It wasnt until a few months ago over the summer that he was properly diagnosed with Anklosing Spondylitis after seeing seven different doctors and finally one listening when he talking about how his grandfather also had AS. This put a bit of a damper on his dance major, his mother worried about his movement and wanting him to take time off, which he refused to do. He is now on weekly physical therapy for his back, He is also on several medications. There is the basic pain medication that is usually advil but when those dont help he has to get a prescription for opioid analgesics, which usually makes him completely out of it but does take away the pain. He only takes those if it hurts too much to even get out of bed. He also takes methotrexate which reduces the activity in the immune system as well as golimumab which is a monthly shot that is used to help with the inflammatory effects of anklosing spondylitis. Every two months he goes for full analysis and x-rays of his heart, lungs, kidneys, eyes, and colon as well as checking his spine and his knees and hips for damage from pain and swelling.
