#latvia mike

[justjenah]

did you know dylan was planning this episode when you posted your latvia mike theory?

Haha! No, not at all! I can only speak to my own experience but from what I can tell Dylan mostly keeps his VAs in the dark. In my experience the only time I've received information that the audience doesn't have is

1. it was important I know something so I can properly portray Skinner and represent what they'd be feeling. and

2. when an ad-lib choice I made amused Dylan and he told me why he was amused by it.

So I was just as surprised as everyone else by this last episode! I’m on tenterhooks and can’t wait for the mid season finale this week!

[theshadeblindcolor]

Woe.begone fanart because I need them to happy.

[hyperfocusedcloneshipper]

WOE.BEGONE Iterationship Fic Recs

A while back I promised to throw together a rec list of my favorite iterationship fics so I am finally getting around to it!

There are so many good ones that I return to again and again. So let’s do this! There are some SPOILERS below up through the recent season so if you are not caught up proceed at your own risk.

I must begin with @solipsistful’s this heart of mine. For me it was the fic that launched a thousand (or, more accurately, 114+) fics. It centers on Mike and Michael in an established relationship? affair? something. Definitely something. And it deals with the fallout of being discovered. Needless to say if you read and enjoy my ongoing Mike/Michael series Love in the Time of Iterations and Retrocausal Pockets, you have ace from the solipsistful collective to thank. I also recommend Don't make this weird and Some Poor Decisions by them as well.

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The first annual Mike4Mike month was February of 2024 and it was, unsurprisingly, a boon for iterationship fics. When I read @felixcosm's it’s like you wanna get caught, I was positively delighted. It centers on a very bored Mikey having to sit through a meeting at Base while a bored (and horny) OverMike sits at home in Mikey's cabin. OverMike decides to entertain them both by texting Mikey and things get, uh, let's just say heated.

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Do yourself a favor and drop whatever you are doing and read Reflecting by @orchidbreezefc. The writing is lush and leaves you holding your breath. Set during season 5, it's a brilliant getting together fic that captures the self doubt and deep longing of Mike and Michael. If you enjoy that then go read Nostalgia, also written by @orchidbreezefc, to have your heart ripped out. It's set during 107 and I will leave it at that.

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If chaptered fics are your thing I highly suggest @felixcosm's what it means to claim my body. In this fic Mike is taken by the compound and then eventually returned to Sat Base. I don't want to spoil too much but Felix does such a great job of exploring the guilt and self loathing Mike feels after being held by and experimented on by Ty Betteridge and the guilt everyone around him feels for not realizing he'd been taken.

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@muppet-chaos gave us a DELIGHTFUL fic called Schemes and Consequences in which Edgar makes an offhand comment that implies that Michael is the hottest Mike Walters iteration. This of course sets Mikey out to prove Edgar wrong by trying to seduce Michael himself. It's equal parts hilarious and hot.

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If you haven't dipped your toes into WOE.BEGONE's tag on ao3 yet then you don't realize that probablynotsafeforwork is an expert at writing smut of all varieties. Tender? ✅ Silly? ✅ Angsty? ✅ Romanitc? ✅ Raunchy? ✅ They do it all. Getting Heated is an Omegaverse fic in which Mike discovers that he's suddenly switched from Alpha to Omega and it is positively scrumptious. Omegaverse not your thing? Don't you worry, probablynotsafeforwork's got you with fics like I Will Carry You Home in which Michael carries Mike home four different times only for Mike to be the one to eventually carry Michael home. It's sweet and sexy and I return it again and again.

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This next fic was written to me as a birthday present so MAYBE I am biased but I don't care. you haven’t relinquished as much as you want me to believe is sweet and tender and sexy. In this one @felixcosm writes Mike and Michael enjoying a rare moment when it's just the two of them at Sat Base and Mike wants to make the night last.

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@muppet-chaos broke my heart with The Best You've Ever Had (Is Just A Memory) in which Mike is called upon to help Mikey figure out who the Michael iteration is that's in compound storage. This fic is set after the fallout of the Showdown at the Shadow Dome. The story bounces between the present and a happy memory Mike has of Michael. This one's for the angst lovers.

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@falloutcoys made me a Mike/Mikey believer with almost like you never left. Set during episode 135, Mike and Mikey have reunited to solve Michael's ARG but they take a moment to catch up first. It's hot and sweet and does a wonderful job of capturing the character voices.

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@falloutcoys also gave us the utterly perfect Close Quarters. I'll go light on details so that I don't spoil the reveal but this fic is set during the period in which Mikey is crashing at Sat Base and Mike and Michael are trying to keep their relationship under wraps. But they also simply cannot keep their hands off one another. Hijinks ensue.

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One of the few iterationship fics that isn't about iterations of Mikes Walters is In Case of Emergency. This one focuses on Base Chris and Chris who is not from Base (not to be confused with CANNONBALL). It's a delicious and playful sexting fic in which Base Chris gets a text out of the blue from his iteration.

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A lot of people clocked the chemistry between XL and 47 right from the moment they were introduced. When Mike tried to do some recon and stood in for XL, a lot of NSFW ideas started getting tossed around and @solipsistful, genius that they are, gave us fucking around and finding out in which Mike attempts to impersonate XL and realizes he might be in over his head.

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You want something silly and adorable and less spicy? @ty-bayonet-betteridge has got you covered with A lover is someone to be silly with. Set during the period of time where Base is stuck in the Dome and most of the Mikes Walters (that we knew about at the time anyway) were staying with Tex, MW and MDawg do their best to irritate Mikey by pretending to be in a relationship. Looking for spice? Don't worry they've got you covered there with Proud of Yourself in which Mikey 🌶️ rewards his past self 🌶️ for helping him outsmart Ryan after delivering Ryan the files from inside Tier 2 during episode 31.

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[felixcosm]

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO OUR OTHER FAVORITE MILF, LATVIA MIKE WALTERS

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

plural mike AU teaser cause i like this chunk and idk if well actually manage to get the whole first chapter down b4 August

(spoilers up through ep. 52 of Woe.Begone)

“They found us standing in the middle of the road and brought us inside

Michael found us standing there and brought us inside

The road was in Rugby, North Dakota

It had been raining and the road was slick with mud

Mike found me lying there, bleeding to death

I found Mikey there and we saved him from dying

They are telling us that we are sick. I don’t feel sick

I don’t feel sick

Other than having been stabbed in Rugby, North Dakota, I am fine

Other than the consolidation, I am fine

Michael says we are at home, in Riga, Latvia, and I know he is wrong because that is not home

Michael says we are at home, in Riga, Latvia, and I trust him and I am going to be fine

I wasn’t who I was

We weren’t who we were

I was working myself to death. I almost worked myself to death, and Mike saved me

I’ve worked myself to death before and come back fine, and we’ll come back fine again this time

I am not myself, I am Mike Walters, age thirty-six, and I do not have my memories

I am not myself, I am Mikey Walters, age thirty-one, and I do not have my memories

Edgar is alive and back at base and he must be worried sick about me

Edgar is alive and back at base five years in the future, and he knows where I am and what happened to me

My other friends have to be worried too, Anne and Marissa and Hunter and Chance and Shadow and Charlie. I have to tell them I’m alright

My other friends know that I’m alright, but they know nothing more. The information does not need to propagate.

I hope they are taking care of Princess Daffodil

Princess Daffodil has been dead for four years

What have we told OVER about this? Will we have a job when we are healed?

I wish we already had the OVER Mike in this time period

I am in Rugby, North Dakota, and he is in Riga, Latvia

I am in Riga, Latvia, and he is in Rugby, North Dakota

There are 4500 miles between us, most of it taken up by the Atlantic Ocean

I am in the Atlantic Ocean and I am fine. I have been there for five years

I can feel the Atlantic Ocean at the edges of my mind and it terrifies me. It presses down on me with its enormity, threatening to crush me under the weight of five years I do not know and three hundred and ten million cubic kilometers of saltwater

I will cross the Atlantic Ocean and meet Mike in Riga, Latvia

I will cross the Atlantic Ocean and meet Mikey in Rugby, North Dakota

We will cross the Earth and meet in Oldbrush Valley, USA, and we will return to Base

Base needs us

Edgar needs us

Edgar needs us”

[rose-the-nerd]

If I had a nickel for every time a piece of media I consumed had a pair of men who are technically the same person but also very much not be in a very close relationship that the source material tried very hard to convey as brotherly but almost every single fanfiction makes it romantic, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[izukuer]

saw a 'mama bear' mug earlier when i was out shopping. thought about mike

[justjenah]

I recently finished the transcript for episode 139: The Perplexing Convergence Of The Texas Posse, and Mdawg’s description of how OI is essentially shortening his lifespan with asynchronous time travel got me thinking about how old the iterations are in relation to one another. So after digging around and double checking a few things here's where we stand.

[hyperfocusedcloneshipper]

I'm in love with this gorgeous commission of Mike and Michael from Woe.Begone and (inspired by my fanfic Mike/Michael series ) done by the amazingly talented noah dea. It's so perfect.

I can't get over how warm and tender they are 🥺💕

[felixcosm]

MIKE: I've got some news of my own that feels too good to be true. Unrelated to the broken nose, we'll get to that, I promise but uh…

[HE WIPES HIS BLOOD AWAY AND LAUGHS, SOFTLY AT FIRST, THEN MORE GLEEFUL]

MIKE: We're getting married!

[hyperfocusedcloneshipper]

Oh no I’ve been perceived!

i don't need to explain myself you all know what i'm talkin about

[justjenah]

Do you think Mike had no appetite because he’s not used to eating bear meat?

Or do you think he sounded like a sad little puppy dog because he was in the presence of two Michael iterations, neither of whom are his best friend?

Do you think as he looked at 47 and 38 he was thinking about what Michael would say if he could see him?

[hyperfocusedcloneshipper]

I can’t stop thinking about Mike saying “[Michael would] never kill us he’d rather die” to MW.

Like. I get why Mike says it about himself. The evidence all points to it. But uh. Well let’s check our notes, shall we?

Mike’s History with Michael:

- saved from drowning

- helped try to pull him out of a depressive spiral

- took literal bullet for

- would wait to have breakfast until 2pm in order to eat it with Mike

- actually considers his opinions and is willing to go along with his ideas even if he doesn’t fully agree (the over escapee consolidation plan)

- literally tells him that he loves him

MW’s History with Michael:

- says it would be kinder to kill him

- threatens to kill the iterations that are scared and about to be forced to consolidate

- tests him by telling him he’s going to have to kill a Mikey (something Michael has literally never asked Mike to do and has basically said he does it so that Mike and Mikey don’t have to)

- THREATENS TO KILL HIM

- ACTUALLY KILLS HIM

- leaves his dead body on the ground for an iteration of him to find

- once again threatens to kill him if he ever chooses his Edgar over his loyalty to Base

I’m not even saying Michael doesn’t care about MW, I think he does care. I just think it’s a much much muuuuuuuch different relationship than what Mike and Michael have. And I think when it comes to MW, Michael would absolutely kill him.

[lazy-toad]

Mike acting Like That, Edgar being missing and that not being Mike's priority At All, Mike doing compound-style medical experiments. It's not looking good for Latvia Edgar