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- mike never sleeping with anything on because he was taught from a young age that his body isn't his.
- mike always having to make his very few stuffies look away from him anytime his door opens just in case.
- mike never fully closing the bathroom door at night because his father always had a punishment if he couldn't get in.
- mike taking showers with the light off anywhere that isn't his house.
- mike knowing early on that he should never tell anyone about anything that happens to him.
- mike insisting on kissing el all the time because that's all he really knows about relationships: kissing and sex.
- mike hoping that kissing el so much would cure him of the itch in the back of his head and of wanting boys like will.
- mike offering eddie his body in exchange for weed or pills just so he can have a little bit of peace from his anxiety and trauma.
- mike taking weed and other various drugs up until eddie dies.
- mike pushing will into kissing all the time just as he did with el because will isn't ready for sex.
- mike jerking off so much that he sometimes can't even do it and has to suffer with the craving.
- when will is ready, mike dares will to go further and further so mike gets physical bruises he can look at to make him feel real.
- mike always in crop tops and tight jeans and short shorts with his hair in a ponytail or cut short.
- mike trying not to make it seem like he has a sex problem when he and will finally move in together. alone.
- mike having such an itch under his skin that never quits from almost 2 decades of abuse that it leads him to sneaking out to bars and cheating at glory holes because he doesn't have to look anyone in the face, just bend over.
- mike who finally gets caught when he's drugged and left for dead after being violently revictimized.
- mike who's forced into rehab for his alcoholism and then forced into therapy and onto mood stabilizers.
- mike who cries into his hands as will begs to know what he did wrong or how he could fix it or whatever he could do to help, just say something.
- mike finally admits his father abused him his whole life at home, likely before he could even remember it.
- mike admits it's why he did drugs in high school and why he drank so often now.
- mike having to testify against his father in court at just over a month sober.
- mike getting the justice he needed as a kid.
- mike willingly going to therapy and taking his meds and feeling the relief of not having an itch he needs to scratch as often.
- mike who relapses time and time again but still tries until he's suddenly almost thirty and he's five years sober.
- mike who gets baby fever and adopts a little girl with will and treats her way better than his parents ever treated him.