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==Personality==
Mike is control-obsessed, in a vein similar to his older sister.<ref>And for the record, I’d say my Uncle Mike is a control freak, strict lines and rules, family disappoints, betrays, or seems problematic?  He cuts contact.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/08/sundown-17-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.3]]</ref>

He softened a bit in the later years.
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“I resented them for it, you know,” he said.  “Because two of our parents’ three children had an issue, all three of us were sent away.  Our family does that a lot, I think.”
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“Overreaches when it comes to closing doors or making judgments.  Your mother closed off her heart, you know.  As if she was so guarded against the idea of showing mercy to the evildoers that she couldn’t afford any for family.”
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“Our parents did the exaggerated defensive maneuver when they sent us away.  They never really took us back.  Because that’s something else we’re bad at.”
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“…Your mother closed her heart off.  She had room in her heart for her sister alone, back when we attended the school.  Then for Mark.  Then for you and I presume Amelia.  I never quite figured in.  Your Aunt Sarah, my heart jumps every time I try to think if I should speak of her in the past tense or be horrified that I can’t… she threw herself into her role as Lady Photon.  She found someone who could keep up with her.”
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“Or I could keep a safe distance.  My life for the past few years has been warm and calm, and I’ve stopped being the angry teenage boy I was after I got sent away to school.  I go to your mother’s house for a barbecue, and I lose my cool.”

I nodded, frowning.  “What did she tell you?”

“That you and your sister were estranged.  That your sister put you in the hospital, she went to prison, she was out after two years, and she was looking to make amends.  I reacted badly to the way the situation was being manipulated, like she used to try to direct the Brigade.  Telling my kids what to do, dancing around something that sounded serious.  It made it abundantly clear that my worst fears came true.  No divides where we needed them.”
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