mikey at his lowest during the tbp era is so yum dot com
ignoring that this was sent to me ages ago, eeeyikes!
mentions of drug abuse, strangulation, self-harm, mentions of violence and violent sex, possibly some other stuff i am missing without realizing! minors do not interact, please.
i feel like this is very messy and short, so i'm sorry uhgain! :( slowly trying to get back into things! </3
growing up, all mikey ever knew was just being gerard's little brother. he grew up on the edges of his own life. the string of words that always aligned to "take your brother with you!" and "can you bring mikey?" was a marker of teenage embarrassment caused by isolation and a lack of friends.
everything he liked had some attachment to somebody else's identity or interests. he didn't feel like he had even a semblance of a self-built identity, not once in his entire life.
he was too shy to talk to people, and too hesitant to pursue interests that would require others to perceive him, the more major reasons why mikey didn't think he'd last very long when gerard asked him to be bass in his band.















