Name: Michael Guerin Door: Door pass. Canon: Roswell: New Mexico Canon Point: Series 1 Episode 12, just after the Caulfield explosion. Age: 28 Appearance: Link! History: Here! Personality: Positive- Intelligent
Michael works as a mechanic, lives in a trailer, and doesn't at first glance appear to have a lot going for him. Most people know him as a troublemaker, someone known for getting into fights, for drinking, and for being a general bad influence. However, he's hiding a strong intellect and keen engineering skills, far beyond his training as a mechanic. At school, he was the only person to score higher than Liz Ortecho. Any consideration of what he might do with that intellect vanished after Isobel appeared to kill Rosa, with Michael and Max both promising to stay in Roswell with her. Now, ten years later, Michael uses his real talents to investigate, and work on rebuilding, the alien spacecraft that brought him to earth. His interest is in alien technology, not human science, and he shows his intelligence and capabilities when he needs to work with Liz on alien science.
- Selfless
Although he is a person who finds it hard to trust, Michael very much cares about the people around him. He wouldn't describe himself as heroic, and would say that he likes to keep to himself, to his own business, and not concern himself with other people's. However, when someone he cares about comes to him, he'll do everything in his power to help them. As a teenager, when Alex's dad attacked him with a hammer, Michael stepped in without any thought for himself, and came away from the situation with a shattered left hand that couldn't fully heal and still causes him pain. Even when his relationship with them was strained, Michael came to Max and Isobel's side every time any of them called for him. When he found Maria in tears at her bar, he stopped and comforted her, despite not knowing what was wrong, and despite not being all that close to her at the time. Although Michael has a tendency to push people away, and prevent them from getting too close to them, he's extremely caring and will always try to help the people he loves. The most prominent moment which displayed this trait was when he found Isobel apparently killing Rosa. He believed at the time that Isobel was behaving as she was due to trauma. Despite initially wanting to call the authorities, Michael agreed with Max that knowing she was a killer would further damage Isobel's psyche, and so to protect her, he told her that he had killed Rosa by accident. Later, when Liz had returned to town to investigate Rosa's death, Michael was entirely winning to admit to his guilt and go to prison for a crime he never committed, all to keep Isobel safe. Michael doesn't always make the right choices, especially when it comes to his relationships - but he'd do anything to help someone he loves, even at a cost to himself.
Negative- Untrusting
Michael is carrying a host of abandonment issues. His earliest memory is of waking up on a crash site on Earth, having lost his whole family and everyone he knew. Shortly afterwards, he was separated from Max and Isobel - the two aliens he'd found after waking - when the Evans family chose to adopt them and not him. What followed was years of moving through the adoption system, going from one family to the next. His upbringing was not only fragmented across different families, it was abusive. Michael learned early on that he couldn't trust anyone other than himself. As he reconnects with them, he does trust and feels a bond with Max and Isobel, and he is intensely loyal to them. However, this loyalty leads him to push himself away from them, when he helps Max to cover up the supposed murder of Rosa by Isobel, and takes the blame for it himself. This act isolates Michael from his only real friends. Unable to cope with the memory of what they had done, Michael pushes Isobel and, particularly Max, away. The trauma exacerbates his existing issues, making him more prone to outbursts of anger which also ends up pushing Alex away from him. Michael loses his most important relationships all at the same time, because of his overpowering instinct to close in on himself when he's in trouble. He keeps himself at an emotional distance from everyone for more than a decade, and struggles to let anyone else in. Michael believes that the people around him are fundamentally unreliable; even when they claim to care about him, they'll leave him some day. He continually 'tests' those who love him by hurting them and pulling away from them, trying to see if they'll leave - and, when inevitably they do, he's both devastated and vindicated at the same time. Years after Rosa's death, when he and Alex reconnect again, they're unable to pull towards each other without pushing each other away. Their shared history sits uncomfortably between them, and although Michael acknowledges that he will always love Alex, he becomes convinced that they're not good for each other. Michael is the victim of his own inability to trust people and let them in. He's the guy who leaves before the other person can leave him; he'll push them away and hurt them, even when he loves and needs them. This continues even after he acknowledges that he isn't good for Alex and wants to be good for someone, when he reacts to Max's death by sabotaging his relationship with Maria. No other trait more fiercely defines Michael as a character; his abandonment issues, and the untrusting nature that comes from them, have shaped his whole life.
- Angry
Michael has been angry at the world for as long as he can remember. He would say that being abandoned on an alien planet will do that to a person, but the truth is, he was dealing with more anger about it than Max and Isobel even before they were adopted without him. Because of this, his anger with the world can't be fully put down to what the world has done to him, though his experiences certainly haven't helped. Michael does not believe that people are inherently good, something that feeds into his distrustful nature. When questioned by Max about why he would never let him heal his broken hand, he explains that Alex had made him think that humans could be good, and the scars left by his father reminded him that they weren't. Michael also tends to channel most of his other feelings into his anger, using it as his dominant means of expression. He's gets into a lot of fights, and is regularly arrested for minor offences. He's someone who operates on the fringes of society, rejecting most natural authorities and living in a trailer which underlines his deeper desire for his residency to be temporary. When faced with adversity and upset, Michael will spoil for a fight. His emotional state is also connected to his powers; he recounts his telekinesis manifesting in destructiveness in his youth, which made him all the more difficult to live with, and further destabilised his home life. He also tends to hold grudges, finding it very difficult to forgive people who have wronged him; ten years after high school has finished, he still holds a grudge against Kyle, and can't understand how Alex can forgive him for all that happened there. He also struggles to give Alex a second chance, remembering always that Alex left to join the Air Force, and resenting that he chose to walk away from him. Michael does not easily forget or forgive. Beyond all of that, it's also worth noting that a considerable amount of his anger faces inwards. Michael dislikes many parts of himself; his propensity to ruin his own relationships, his secretiveness, his mistakes. He has expressed the desire to be better, to look to the future and not the past, and to find someone that he's good for. He puts a lot of blame on himself for what's gone wrong in his life, even when it was nothing he could have controlled. As with everything else, his feelings of self-loathing and guilt are expressed as outward anger, which makes it hard for him to get the support he needs.
- Secretive
It's unsurprising that due to the nature of his life, Michael has a tendency towards keeping secrets. He has always hidden his alien nature from the world, partly at the behest of his 'brother' Max, out of fear that he would be captured, experimented on or even killed by human authorities. It's worth noting his context, as a refugee alien on earth; he's grown up in a society whose pop-culture is fascinated with aliens. For every media that held a positive depiction, there was a negative one. Michael, Max and Isobel never thought they could take the risk to tell anyone, including their friends and family. However, Michael has gone further than either Max or Isobel in this regard; he has kept a considerable number of secrets from them, too, including the lab he created to study alien tech. In particular, he grew emotionally apart from Max after the incident between Isobel and Rosa, to the extent that he didn't tell Max he was bisexual, and didn't tell him how his hand was really broken. On his sexuality, Michael also spent ten years or more keeping secret his relationship with Alex Manes. Over the course of series 1, Michael's secrets are slowly revealed to his friends. Though he fights this development at first, he eventually becomes more open, and even eager to relieve the burden his secrets have put on him. He says openly that he's tired of secrets, and willingly answers all of Alex's questions about his past. Despite this, Michael continues to have a secretive nature, and he often acts alone without running his plans by his friends or alien family. At his current canon point, his recent trip to Caulfield saw him take off with Alex and Kyle in the search for aliens without so much as mentioning to Max and Isobel that he was going anywhere. Even though he has developed to the point where he dislikes his own secretiveness, it's still natural for Michael to be secretive.
Powers and Abilities: Michael is an alien. He doesn't know what species he is, but he knows he's not human. Due to this, he has the following powers and abilities: - Alien physiology: Michael may look human, but he's very different at a genetic level. His body contains proteins that look different from what's in the human body, and his organs look different too - they have a synthetic look, similar to the material used to build his space craft. On the inside, his body contains materials that look similar to the alien technology of the spacecraft he landed in. On a practical level, his temperature is higher than the average human's, and he can drink acetone which acts as a painkiller. His powers seem to come from a natural electromagnetic interaction; it's also noticed that he, like other alien things, smells like rain.
- Psychic communication: Michael can 'feel' other aliens of the same species. He's able to hear their mental distress and get a sense for where they are. He has also sensed that something was wrong with Isobel, even when she was not in control of her body due to being blacked out.
- Telekinesis: This is Michael's main ability. He's able to move things with his mind with considerable finesse. He has been shown moving large and heavy objects such as his trailer, and smaller more precise objects like kitchen knives. He can also use his mind to enhance the strength of his punches and kicks. He can use his powers with thought alone, or can channel it through his hands and feet.
- Alien pollen: Michael's alien abilities are rendered null when he's exposed to the pollen of a particular flower, which seems to grow only where there are alien remains.
- Serum and antidote: Michael is vulnerable to the serum created by Liz Ortecho. Intended to nullify alien powers, it does its job too well and will kill any alien injected with it. Michael helped Liz to develop the antidote which cures the effects of the serum, provided it is administered in time.
- Other: As well as his alien abilities, Michael is noted for his intellect. Liz claims that he is the only person whose scores exceeded hers in school, and questions why he never went to college or sought to do more than working as a mechanic. The science that interests him is alien, not human. He is a skilled mechanic, and is shown able to fix everything from cars, to electrical signs, to the broken pieces of the crashed ship's console.
Inventory: - A piece of the broken alien console;
- His vial of antidote to Liz's serum (he stole it);
- The guitar Alex gave him back in high school.
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Canon Update - end of Season 3
Date: 2021-10-15 07:35 pm (UTC)New Canon Point: End of Season 3, episode 13
Personality Changes: It's notable, first off, that there is a time jump of a year between the end of Season 2 and the start of Season 3. In the intervening year, Michael has grown much closer to Isobel and Max. He says that he has made a promise to himself to drink less tequila and spend more time looking after the people he loves. He recounts that in that year, Maria had dumped him, Alex had left town, there was a global pandemic and he was more broke than ever, and yet he had been happy because he had his family with the two other aliens. This positive development happens offscreen, but it informs Michael's mindset in Season 3; he has become highly protective of his friends and family, and takes more responsibility for taking care of them.
Season 3 is a significant one for Michael. He's spent his whole life not knowing where he and his people come from or what they were running from when they came to Earth. In this season, he gets those answers, but he struggles greatly with what's revealed. He discovers that his father was the Tyrant who had killed so many of his people, who his and Isobel's mother had been rebelling against and running away from when they came to Earth. Throughout the season, Michael struggles with the self-loathing that he's known all his life, which finds a focal point in the fear that deep inside, he's just like his father.
It is a fear that helps to bring him closer to Alex again, because it's to Alex he looks for support when those fears overwhelm him. This is a marked difference from how he has behaved with Alex in the past; a younger Michael would've pushed Alex away when he was struggling, but this model reaches for him instead, and Alex is finally in a place to reach back. The two of them end up facing the pain of their past together, and deciding to move past it. They get back together, and spend the latter part of the season fighting for each other. By the end, they're able to face Jesse Manes' statue hand in hand, and turn their backs on it. They're more solid than they've ever been, and both are determined to make things work this time. Alex and Michael are also shown to work well together as a team; Michael is prone to losing control of his emotions, whereas Alex is more restrained, making them a good balance for each other when working together. This is notable, since in Season 1 Michael felt that he and Alex were not good for each other. Now, both of them seem stronger when they're together.
While that relationship is strengthened, Michael also learns to become more accepting of himself. Sanders has now become a father-figure to Michael, and he encourages Michael to see himself not as a bad and monstrous person, but as a very good person, who could not be more different from his father. With Sanders' encouragement, Michael reveals an ability that he first discovered at age 18, but concealed from everyone because he was afraid of what it can do. Like his father, he's able to enter another person's mind and take complete control of them. Michael finally accepts this ability, and uses it to fight against his father in the end.
He is also shown to be making deliberate efforts to let go of the troubled person that he used to be. While cleaning racist graffiti off the Ortechos' wall, he apologises to Rosa for the events surrounding her death and admits that he had always carried guilt for how the community turned on her afterwards; he says none of them thought about what it would mean to put Rosa in the driver's seat of the crashed car. Rosa forgives him, and later he works to help her control her developing alien powers. He's grown closer to Kyle Valenti as well; where in Season 1 Michael still held a grudge against Kyle for bullying Alex in High School, he now helps him when Kyle asks, and he takes it upon himself to protect him when the gang thinks his life is in danger. When Kyle goes missing, Michael takes it personally and is determined to find him, feeling that Kyle disappeared on his watch.
During the course of the season, Michael also meets a new alien 'brother', called Dallas. He's initially uncomfortable with him, in part because he's a Priest, and in part because he has a history with the foster care system that is very similar to Michael's. With Alex's encouragement, Michael opens up to Dallas about his own history, and in so doing, he faces a lot of the pain that he's done his best to bury. This is part of Michael's road to becoming more accepting of himself during this season. He still has a long way to go, but his past is no longer the taboo that it was.
One relationship that has suffered across the two years is that with Maria. She and Michael no longer appear to be close, with Maria tending to go to Isobel rather than Michael when it comes to alien matters. Their interaction is largely restricted to when one of them is in danger. When that happens, they still rush to help each other, but that is the only indication they still have any feelings for each other. In normal time, Michael is distant and short with Maria, and neither of them display any jealousy regarding Michael's rekindled relationship with Alex, or Maria's new one with Gregory. The implication is that their split at the end of Season 2 prompted Michael to push Maria away; she's no longer his confidante. This seems to reinforce Michael's longstanding issues with abandonment. He doesn't do well when people leave him, and it's something he clearly still finds it difficult to move past. This will be somewhat offset in game, since in Duplicity Maria apologised for breaking up with him and they got back together here.
As a result of everything that Michael dealt with in Season 3, I would like to update his top negative trait to Anger, rather than Untrusting. It's been made clear that the issue he has most struggled with in this season is not his difficulty with trusting people or his abandonment issues (although those are still present), but his anger, his hot temper, and his own self-loathing. Michael's anger is his greatest challenge. His temper is always liable to get him in trouble. He's not the guy for whom a cooler head ever prevails; he struggles to control his emotions, and anything negative tends to be expressed as anger even if he's predominantly feeling something else, like sadness or guilt. At this moment in time, I think this is a greater issue for him than his difficulties with trust, particularly given that he has improved his relationships with almost everyone.
Power Changes: Michael was always the alien who trained the least with his powers, and showed little interest in developing them beyond his telekinesis. In Season 3, we discover that Michael has always had more power than what he revealed to anyone, and that he inherited these abilities from his father. The following additional powers are shown:
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Date: 2022-02-06 02:44 pm (UTC)Michael's been a naughty boy these last two months. With any luck, he's learned not to question the will of his betters. He's lucky he has such a tolerant Dominant who only bites when he's asked. Vampires are clearly Michael's cup of tea, but he really must stop pushing his luck with them. Next time, he might not be so lucky.
But still, at least he's making more of an effort to expand his circle. He's slow to trust, and these days that means he's slow to let people in - unlike in his younger years. What a shame we didn't bring him here then! He would have fit right in. Michael really needs the kinds of partners who'll bring out his more promiscuous side again. If you can get through that rough exterior, you'll find he's plenty experienced, and very willing to experiment. Oh, and if any of you are still feeling a chill, you should experience the touch of those warm Oasian hands. He'll charge you back up again.
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Date: 2022-02-06 02:56 pm (UTC)He's older, wiser, and (we're glad to see) a lot more confident. A lot of people complain about what Duplicity puts them through, but Gar's living proof that we're sometimes the better option. Now that he's back, it's time to lift all that stress off his shoulders. Of course, the best way to do that is by serving his betters.
BasicsThis one is very strong, very flexible, and he can take more punishment than you can imagine. Don't worry about making him bleed, he's definitely had worse, and he'll probably like it. Gar's always so sweet and accommodating. He'll put that skill to good use for even the most demanding Dominant - though you may need to check with his own, first. For those of you with a furry kink, ask about his "special" services.
Also, check out that upgraded muscle definition! Fighting crime clearly pays.
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Date: 2022-02-07 10:42 pm (UTC)It's a shame Nate fancies himself such a rebel, since really, he fits in well enough to be a local here. With two contracts under his belt already and more in the works, we think his dance card is full on that front - but he's proven there's plenty of room in his heart for more amorous interests.
Nate will top till he drops, unless there's pointy teeth involved. If you're looking for a Dominant who really will dominate you, look no further. There are few kinks he won't play, and he'll be all too eager to bring magic to the table to enhance your experience. Put yourself in his hands, and see what we mean. Just watch out for that big heart of his; he's been known to fall too hard, and we're not sure he can take another heartbreak. Especially not this close to Valentine's Day.
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