#Michael vey

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my favorite trio dynamic is "romantic couple who would do anything for each other and their Platonic Guy that they would also do anything for"

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My favorite works of fiction described as badly as possible, part 5:

Kids explore a Ghibli apocalypse. Sometimes evil seafood tries to eat them. Also, hell. (Sky: Children of the Light)

The Happening but with wizards and coherency. (Uprooted)

The worst fucking weather you can think of. (Stormlight Archive)

Living defibrillator runs from the cops and capitalism. (Michael Vey)

Average DND party fights dragons and causes problems. (Legend of Vox Machina)

Lady beats up white guys in feudal Japan. (Blue Eye Samurai)

Russian witch fights her shitty boyfriend to save her even shittier boyfriend. (Shadow & Bone)

Franz Kafka presents: The United States Air Force. (Catch-22)

The British starve to death in the Arctic again. (Frostpunk)

Prometheus starts matchmaking as a ploy to kill Zeus. (Kaos)

Depressed guy going through a terrible breakup becomes a nihilist after the worst acid trip imaginable. (Vide Noir)

Four hobos, a child, and this freaky dog they found break into a dungeon to fight pervert monsters and starve to death (alt: Finnish guy tests how much bullshit he can get away with putting in a game before Steam puts its foot down). (Fear & Hunger)

Scientific laboratory violates every law of workplace safety, reality, and basic common sense for shits and giggles. (Tales From the Loop)

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“When you become a mother-“

Excuse me. I’m already a mother of 400 little goblin sunshine babies from multiple books.

Yes they’re adopted, but 90% of them don’t know that, so keep quiet. And we’ll also ignore half of them being in their 30’s with mortgages and I’m younger than them. They need someone who will raise them right this time.

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OKAY GUYS LET ME YAP AGAIN I PROMISE I HAVE A POINT.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LIKE THE OUTSIDERS AND ARE DYING FOR A SIMILAR COMING-OF-AGE GUT-WRENCHING NICHE TEENAGE BOY NOVEL OHHHH BOY DO I HAVE THE BOOK FOR YOU.

MICHAEL VEY. It is a series, so not ENTIRELY like The Outsiders, but basically this painfully average teenage boy is born with electric super-powers, and he finds out that a bunch of other kids were as well, and those other kids are with a big organization trying to make a race of super-humans. CHAT LISTEN I KNOW IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT BUT LITERALLY

WRITTEN IN SUCH A SIMILAR STYLE TO THE OUTSIDERS IT'S CRAZY.

I'm also dying to yap ab it with someone please just give it a shot and trust, it is WORTH THE READ.

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kinda random but um here’s some Michael Vey fanart I made for my Pinterest account,,, uhhhhhhhhhhhggggdgg This is Jack I love this guy

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My goofy ahh really decided to get hyperfixted on MICHAEL VEY😭😭😭 Still currently mourning the loss of THR fact there is literally no fandom so y’all, if ur a Michael Vey fan PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEE say so bc oh my lord 😔

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⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

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You guys know how like, in the Percy Jackson fandom we love Percy because he's an overpowered main character who is relatable and funny as fuck?

Well, now I'm introducing you to!!! Michael Vey! He is a super overpowered character in the Michael Vey series and I'm here to expand the fandom!

He is a silly guy who's funny as fuck and he has cool friends who are also funny and it's a similar kind of kids beat older and more experienced power hungry people!

And from the start Michael is super overpowered and we love him.

He also has tourettes and it's a GOOD adaptation of tourettes which i love (as someone who has tourettes)

I'm currently rereading the series and it's been my favorite since I was 12 and I need people to read it! There are 8 books rn and a 9th one is coming out or is already out!

So please join me and let me make Michael Vey mutuals so I can post my silly oneshots/hcs/potential fics of the cuties.

I don't want to say too much bc this is just to tell people to read it and I don't want to say any spoilers for potential people who want to read it :)

Yours truly - Vey :)

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MV doodles I posted on Instagram so y’all can have them too I guess

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Prelims

Poll A8

9 contestants, 4 spots for the tournament

[geeky-nightphilosopher]

Why am I a sucker for found families?

[junpeijackflash]

Hey if anyone in the Michael Vey fandom is alive, do you wanna hear about my rewrite of book 1 where Michael is a trans man (among other things)?

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So guys I basically had to write this for school and to fill the word count I just went on a rant about the queer-coding in Michael Vey

Uhhhh full paper below the cut lol

1289 words, around 500 just about the queer stuff lol

For this Deep Read Badge, I read Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans. This story was a long one, even though it’s just the first book, and it challenged me to stay invested. While it was a good book, I don’t think I’ll read more from the series for badges unless I need to, as it took me a while to finish. 

In this book, we follow a young boy who seems normal at first; he has a crush on the head cheerleader at his school, he has a nerdy best friend, he gets okay grades, etc. But we find out he has a secret: he has superpowers. 

Michael was born with electric superpowers, and neither him nor his mom could ever figure out why. Not until he finds out his crush, Taylor, the head cheerleader, also has superpowers similar to his. They also find out that the two of them were born at the same hospital around the same time. 

This discovery leads Michael’s nerdy friend Austin to do more research into it, and he discovers that there was a machine in said hospital that was used on every single baby born there the same year. Only 13 of those babies survived, and the story was covered up by a corporation called the Elgen. Researching this corporation put them on the map to be discovered, and soon, Taylor is kidnapped by them. 

After a long, valiant rescue, they discover even more electric children, all under control from the main villain of the books: Dr. Hatch. 

Dr. Hatch is an interesting character to me, as he’s not an entirely flat villain like you’d expect. He’s not cartoonish or unrealistic, he’s smart and at times makes frighteningly good points. He explains to Michael around the middle of the book that he designed that machine to create superhumans. Invulnerable beings that were immune to all diseases, and were stronger than the average human. In a way, it worked, even if only 13 survived. His goal in the first book is to create an army of them. A civilization of superhumans, to fight the world’s wars. Only the machine malfunctioned, and instead of an army, he only had a handful. He also divulges to Michael that the electric children are more prone to cancer, and he’s lost almost half of them to it already. 

This revelation leads Michael to become more reckless throughout the book, taking bigger risks as his understanding is that this disease could take his life soon, and protecting his friends at all costs is the most important thing he can do with what time he has left. 

Michael’s love for his friends is a big recurring theme in this book, and I imagine the rest of the books to come. He shows much bravery throughout the story, alongside his selflessness, which makes him the perfect protagonist. We root for Michael even when he doesn’t root for himself. 

Another character that really stuck out to me was Austin, the ordinary boy alongside all these super-children. Austin, throughout the first book, is ripped from his calm, domestic life, where Michael is the only electric kid in his life, and thrown into a world of danger where he’s one of the only non-electric children in their group of nearly ten people. He does it all with a brave face for Michael, who’s been his best and only friend for years, but we see it trouble Austin more and more further throughout the book. He makes one-off comments about his parents, how they must be doing, or he’ll make jokes about what they’d be doing if they were in school at this very moment. It’s a subtle way to show that it really is something that’s gnawing at him, but he still wouldn’t go back to it even if he could choose to. That’s how much he cares about Michael. Personally, if it weren’t for him having a canonical crush on one of the girls in their group, I wouldn’t have been surprised if it was revealed that he had eyes for Michael. 

Speaking of queer representation in this book, there’s a line that Dr. Hatch says to Michael that really stuck with me. He calls Michael “Mr. Vey.” and Michael bravely corrects him, telling him to just call him Michael. This is where Dr. Hatch says “A glow by any other name is just as electric, but as you wish.” which, to me, seems subtly coded in a way that he may have dealt with a trans electric child in the past, or is open to having one. For a villain, I’m glad it seems, at least to me, that he isn’t transphobic. It’s also possible I’m looking too hard into it and the author wasn’t thinking about the queer community at all when he wrote that, but it stuck out to me. 

Now, I could go off on a whole 1,000 words alone about the queer-coding I found in this book, but instead, I’ll only talk about two more people; Jack and Wade. 

Jack and Wade are two best friends, and they start in the book as two of Michael’s main bullies. Jack and Wade do pretty much everything together, and are always at each other’s side. That’s not entirely enough to queer-code them, but I’m not finished. They have a change of heart toward bullying Michael when he shocks them with his electricity. Literally. He actually just zapped them. From then on, they are scared to step on Michael’s toes at all, and Jack less-than-eagerly agrees to drive Michael to Pasadena when he asks. Wade is fast to hop on board, without question, simply because Jack was going. Even after Wade finds out his least favorite person, Austin, will be on this road trip, he still is adamant about coming along. 

Now this next part is a spoiler I got for the next book, and did not happen in the first one, but later on in the story, Wade takes a bullet for Jack, which kills him. 

Now it is possible to write all this off as just brotherly platonic love, but from my perspective, they are two closed-minded queer boys with internalized homophobia and no way to express or even come to terms with their feelings for eachother. They deny their feelings up until the very end and by then it’s too late. 

Now a big opposing point to my argument is how many times Jack flirts with the girls in this story, but it is never explicitly stated that he has real, true romantic feelings for any of them, just that he flirted. That is actually common behavior for someone who is in the closet and in denial about their queer identity. In short, it is possible for Jack and Wade to have been romantically interested in each other, but it was never possible for them to actually become an item together. Especially considering the time the books takes place in, and the friend group they had before joining Michael and Austin, it would have been incredibly difficult and nearly impossible for either of them to come to terms with those feelings and come out. 

In conclusion, I think a big lesson I’ve learned from this story is that if there is something about you that sets you apart from everyone else, while it can be incredibly isolating, you aren’t actually alone. There are people out there (even if it’s only 12 people with the same superpower as you), who are going through it too and feel your pain and discomfort. Sort of a “embrace what makes you different” type of lesson. Though I think I’ve been finding that lesson in a lot of stories recently.