On the topic of my last drawing I started thinking about how stressful and scary Mike's life must be considering he's a teenager dealing with being a system. This is coming from someone who's also the host of a teenage system, so I really feel for Mike and empathize with him. He's a kid, and from experience, no one really tells you how to cope with being a system. And being a closeted system is even harder, pretending to be a single person is extremely difficult, especially when you're so different like Mike's alters are
It's not easy to deal with, especially with amnesia, and as we can see in the show he really struggles with trying to handle it and stresses about the consequences of his alter's actions. He blames himself as the host for what they do, even though he can't really do much about it. His relationships are strained and even his interactions with his own alters turn aggressive, as both him and his alters feel like they aren't being treated fairly. Mike feels like his alters are ruining his life and messing eveything up, while his alters aren't allowed to be themselves and obviously hate pretending to be Mike. As Mike finally learns to cope and work with his system rather than against it, his alters decide only he can be the host, even outside of Mike being the "original" alter
On a similar note, Mike generally has no special qualities or quirks outside of his alters, and I feel like Mike knows this. All of his alters have something special about them that sets then apart from him, but Mike is just normal. Of course, his alters agree that he's the best out of them and the best choice for being the host, and I do agree with that. Mike being normal is a good thing when it comes to having to act "normal" around others. But I think this would really weigh on him before learning to cope, along with his amnesia and needing to mask.
When Mal kept everyone else from fronting, Mike panicked. Going from having multiple people to help you and keep you safe to having no one and being on your own is really scary, and I think that's something singlets really can't understand. Mike was left to handle everything on his own and absolutely would get overloaded with it. Losing Svetlana and Manitoba would probably be the hardest to deal with, considering Svetlana is physically the strongest of the system and Manitoba has a lot of skills and intuition. Along with that, Chester is sort of the backbone of the system and has his knowledge, and Vito has his confidence and fearlessness. Suddenly losing all of that, I don't think Mike would really know what to do or how to just be himself
Where am I going with this? Idk, I just think Mike and his system are interesting and have the potential for a lot of depth
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