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  1. Rec 25

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    Michael Afton-centric Febuwhump 2026.

    Mike is not the man Father is. Not so clear-cut and willing to do the cutting. When Michael makes mistakes — because he does, of course he does, he always does — he doesn't lock Michael up or beat him or scream at him until his ears are ringing. He doesn't give Michael orders and then pick apart how well he'd completed them, always finding faults, finding something worth punishment. Mike doesn't make it make sense. He's patient and awkward and rough and kind and tired. He asks Michael what he did today and seems content even when Michael did nothing. He is proud when Michael showers or eats or draws.
    He frowns when he finds Michael shaking in the bathroom.

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    07 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 4

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    Michael cries a lot.

    Sometimes it makes Vanessa angry. Why is he the one who gets to cry? Sometimes, Vanessa will lie in bed, thinking that if she were Michael, she’d probably cry herself to exhaustion. But she’s not. Vanessa can’t cry, Vanessa has to be the one to put things back together. Besides, she already knows that tears don’t help, not really.
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    Michael has a horrible day, perhaps the worst yet of his life. Vanessa spends the day at Freddy’s, and thinks that she would much rather have his day instead.

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    25 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 33

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    ""What do you—" Mike says, and then realization hits him as Michael leisurely holds the bottle of pills aloft to inspect the label. "Put those down!"
    Michael's gaze snaps to him, lips curling slowly once again into a sick smile, but for some reason the look shining in his pale eyes this time makes any more words die in Mike's throat.
    "Father used to give us these," Michael says conversationally, rattling the bottle between his finger and thumb as if to assess how many are in there. "Loprazolam. Benzo tranquillizers, very effective."
    "They're for insomnia."
    "You don't have insomnia."
    "You don't know what the fuck I have.""

    Or, Michael takes a sudden interest in Mike's sleeping pills. Sleeping does, after all, sound quite nice.

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    17 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 35

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    "Mike has told her before, voice gentle but firm, that she shouldn't ask Michael about stuff to do with Freddy's and her friends. Shouldn't talk about it at all, with him or around him, because it upsets him a lot, and she really doesn't want to upset Michael. She gets an awful feeling in her stomach when she sees him cry or go all empty, when he'll cling hard to Mike and shake or plead or scream like someone's hurting him, and she really really doesn't want it to be her fault. But there's so many things she wants to know.
    So many things that Mike won't tell her, that Michael will."

    Or, Michael and Abby do some drawing together while Mike works on fixing up the house, and Abby has some questions. About Charlotte, and about William, and about Michael's scars.

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    08 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 11

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    "Michael doesn't know why he runs. His chest is tight, heart pounding hard against his ribs, skin crawling and itching all over, and he wants, he wants, he wants. He doesn't know what he wants. He wants his father to look at him, he thinks. He wants everyone to look at him, face young and innocent on a thousand missing posters. He wants his father to cry for him and tell everyone how much he loved his son."

    Or, Michael envies the children his father kills. So, after he helps lure a victim, he gets in the way like Charlotte did.

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    05 Jan 2026