Mike

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Mike
Characteristics
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Age	Teen
Fur Color	No Fur Blonde Hair
Information
Home	Rapoville (Formerly) Turtle Rock (Formerly) Belleview
Story Role	Protagonist
Occupation	N/A
Status	Alive
Game(s)

“Why does everyone look so weird?”

–Mike

Mike is a human that got trapped in the Raposa world.

Mike's personality isn't deeply looked into in the first two games. It is explained that he is nice, according to what the Raposa have said. He is shown to have a lot of faith in people, seeing as he is the only character on Turtle Rock who didn't go straight to giving up when Wilfre threw Heather's Pendant away into the ocean. He is shown to be caring and capable of understanding different perspectives, as he did consider Wilfre's intentions in Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter to be decent.

In Drawn to Life: Two Realms, Mike is shown to be compassionate to those in his community, specifically Aly. He is the main interest of Aldark and due to the crash, he shows resentment towards Deputy Snyder, the driver of the other vehicle. Throughout the game, he is the only character besides the Hero known to be able to travel between realms.

Appearance

Mike is a young human boy with spiky blonde hair. He wears a grey jacket, a white t-shirt, blue pants and sneakers. He has blue eyes.

Story

Drawn to Life

Mike gets trapped in Rapocity with two Raposa children. They are soon saved by The Hero who takes him to the village. The Mayor allows him to stay, and he stays with Dr. Cure for the rest of the game.

Raposa often ask him what happened to his ears due to the fact that they are unaware that he is a human. Mike often replies back in a confused and indignant manner.

Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter

At the end of the game, it is revealed that Mike was originally a normal boy living in Real Life with his sister Heather and his mother and father. One day they headed to the carnival and won dolls of Jowee and Mari. On their way home they crashed into a truck resulting in the debatable death of Mike's parents and Mike falling into a coma.

Heather prays to God to save Mike from his coma. He dreamed of The Raposa World which came into existence while he slept.

In the Drawn to Life: Collection and in later versions of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, the ending is modified due to a ratings complaint. Instead of getting in a car accident, Mike is hunting for fireflies with Heather during a camping trip. He climbs a tree in pursuit of one of the fireflies, and falls out of the tree, resulting in unconsciousness, after the branch he is standing on breaks.

Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii)

In the Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii), Mike becomes the technician of the village and is in charge of maintaining the Lighthouse.

During the first half of the game, Mike is away on unknown business. When the Hero and Jowee are exploring The Baldy Slopes, however, Mike returns to Rapoville. Mari explains the things that have happened thus far, and tells him that Jowee and the Hero are searching for the Eternal Furnace. After this, Mike runs off into the Icy Wastes, and the Hero must rescue him.

When Jowee and the Hero find him using the Frozenini, he seems to be unaffected by the cold. He tells the two that he had a dream that he would find the Furnace if he sought it out. The three return to the village and Mike marks the location of the Furnace on their map.

After this, Mike will stand outside the lighthouse on the far left side of the village. He does not offer any sort of challenges for the player. He can be talked to and will typically make programming jokes or tell the Hero about how welcoming the Raposa were to him. He typically ends his talks with "You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?"

Quotes

“What's wrong with my ears?” –Mike Upon meeting the Mayor. “This must be a dream!” –Mike Upon meeting Mari. “Maybe I'll wake up soon...” –Mike “What the heck is a Raposa anyway?” –Mike Upon completing the first game.

“When I thought this place couldn't get any weirder...” –Mike When talking to Mike very early in the game.

“I had a dream I would find the furnace if I sought it. I know where it is.” –Mike Mike searching for the Eternal Furnace in the level Frozenini. “Sometimes I have strange dreams of other places.” –Mike “Mari, I have discovered the location of the Eternal Furnace. Give me your map and I will show you the way.” –Mike “These floating islands sound like a level in a computer game.” –Mike Mike commenting on the Eastern Winds. “I don't know why the electricity isn't reaching the lighthouse. This could cause real danger for ships.” –Mike “Lightning in a bottle! Like a lightbulb!” –Mike Upon hearing Circi suggesting to use fireflies to light the lighthouse.

Trivia

• According to Joseph Tringali, Mike's full name is Michael Robert Row.
• When Mike is first rescued the message that pops up says: "Congrats! You found Mike?" this is the first time the game highlights that he is different.
  • However, a similar message pops up when you rescue Unagi.
    • The question mark on Unagi's message may or may not be intentional.
• According to Joseph Tringali, Mike was originally designed as a human as a gag, not for any story-related reason.
  • This was because the plot of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, including Mike's coma, wasn't conceived until after the original Drawn to Life was released.
• There are several unused sprites found in Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter where different (usually Lavasteam) characters are seen wearing Mike's clothes.
  • One of these sprites can be seen in normal gameplay.
  • This may mean that Mike's sprites were used as a template by the developers.
• Despite Heather being Mike’s sister in real life, Mike doesn't seem to be aware of this and seldom interact within the game’s story.
• In Lock's Quest there is a Raposa named Mike who complains that there is no wifi. The fact that he is the only Raposa in the game may be a reference to how Mike is the only human in Drawn to Life.
• In promotional artwork, Mike's jacket is green instead of grey.
• At one point Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii), Jowee refers to Mike as a "gear head".
• According to Heather in Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii), Mike builds robots.
• In the canon ending of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, Mike is not wearing the same clothes as he is in his sprites.
  • This is fixed in the non-canon ending, where his character is re-drawn to match the style of the in-game sprites.
• After finishing the story of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, Mike can be seen sleeping in the "Delete Save" bed in the Main Menu.
• Jeremiah Slaczka says whether or not Mike's parents survived the crash was left ambiguous for the players to theorize.
  • This was changed in Drawn to Life: Two Realms, where we see their funeral.
• Mike likely wasn’t in a coma for very long, supported by the fact that Heather remained in the same clothes as she was in before the crash, she was still being questioned by a police officer, and that Mike wasn’t attached to any life-support machines.
  • As confirmed in Drawn to Life: Two Realms, this means that the Raposa world still exists in Mike’s imagination and dreams, even after waking from his coma.
• In Drawn to Life: Two Realms, Mike has an entire set of unused sprites that are done in a different style than any other sprites in the game.
  • According to Chern Fai, this is because Mike was originally planned to be a playable character.
• Mike is implied to be an adult in the Raposa realm, as Mari wonders if he is a father who cut his ears off because his kids were annoying him.

Media

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  Mike after being brought back to Rapoville and talking to Mari.

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  Mari greeting Mike.

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  Mike surrounded by Shadow creatures in Belleview.

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  Mike returning to the Raposa realm.

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  Full body art of Mike.

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  Mike as he appears in the Wii game.

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  Render of Mike from the Wii game.

Mari welcoming Mike to the Village (Option 1)
Mari welcoming Mike to the Village (Option 2)