Host - Wife

Mike's life partner, wife, best friend, world. Mike could go on and on about his love for Host, with the two rarely to never being seen apart. Although one can safely assume that Mike is head over heels in love with Host, the opposite is just as true as Host is just as easily swooned by their tiny husband.

They compliment each other in various ways, and without either of them realizing, Mike's just the right amount of loud to drown out the static that plagues Host's mind, helping them stay grounded in reality and becoming more assertive.

Most might think that Host is the one protecting Mike, but more often than not, it's really the other way around.

Spamton - Former Pupil

Mike was Spamton's mysterious mentor, originally reaching out to him through an old rotary phone that Spamton found in his home. Despite their Lightner contact's plan to use the Addison, Mike still made it his personal mission to make sure that Spam would achieve all of his aspiring salesman dreams, and carrying his heart on his sleeve wherever he went, it didn't take Mike too long to become attached.

Although primarily starting as a boss-like figure, Mike and Spamton were quick to form a strong bond and friendship. Despite never having met him in person, Mike became almost as if a guardian figure to Spamton, helping him achieve his dreams and stay focused.

Despite Mike's insistence that Spamton kept their conversations a secret and that no one was to know of their interactions, there were little to no other demands that Mike had ever made of him. But their Lightner contact had other plans and Mike became forced to have to decide between Host and Spamton.

It was when things started going south that Mike asked Spamton for an urgent favour. The only favour he had ever asked. But it was something that Spamton could never give him. The NEO robot wasn't theirs to take.

With Mike refusing to elaborate as to why he needed Spamton to get NEO, and Spamton's refusal to get it and risk losing everything he had ever worked for, a growing resentment started between the two as their once friendly calls became replaced with shouting matches and arguments that never lead anywhere.

Their calls ended after one of the worst arguments, Spamton snapped, yelling at Mike to cut it with the NEO conversation and to leave him alone. And after a moment of silence, Mike hung up on him and Spamton sighed in relief at finally being left alone.

Surrounded and overwhelmed by his lack of power in the situation, seeing Host's state worsening everyday, in an impulsive decision, Mike decided to get rid of the rotary phone he had been been using, essentially severing his connection to Spamton.

Mike has felt wracked by guilt over this for years, with his only comfort being that at least Spamton would be able to get by with his success, as Mike was unaware of the descend to madness that his absence would cause in his pupil.

Tenna - Family Love

Mike's missing child. Mike loves Tenna like any parent would, it seems like it was just yesterday that Tenna was small enough to fit in his arms, and even though they've grown up into a fussy teenager, Mike still sees him as that tiny TV sometimes.

Being Dark World leaders, Mike and Host struggled to manage to be consistently present for Tenna, but still made sure that he'd grow up happy and surrounded by family.

After losing Spamton and Asgore, after Tenna's disappearance, Mike began to fear that he had been cursed.

Mittens - Close Friend

The Divide changed everything in the Cable, but at least Mike knew that he could still trust his old friend Mittens to keep a level head about the situation.

They've been close for many years, and while Mike is no stranger to the cat and mouse dynamic he and Mittens share, he always forgives her when her instincts get the better of her and she decides to pounce on him because he just looks like sucha tiny silver mouse with that ol' tail just swinggin' around.

The Cat Darkner keeps a peppy attitude, trying to make sure no Darkner around her strays too far into gloom, and while Mike appreciates her essentially taking after the Channels Trio with Rayne and Klieg, he knows that deep down, she is hurting just a much.

Rayne - Awkward Terms

Rayne was someone who became very distant after the Divide, actively avoiding their bosses. As much as Mike wishes he could comfort the Umbrella Darkner, Rayne actively shut down any attempts at him doing so, with Mike feeling just too filled with grief after the loss of Tenna to insist on continue talking to her.

He used to consider Rayne a close friend, but a wave of bitterness seems to have taken over their demeanour. She never outright said anything to him nor Host, but with the way the storm in her cloud darkners with rage when they're nearby, Mike can't help but feel that the Rayne he knew in the past is now gone.

Klieg Lights - Likes

Klieg was quite surprised when Mike specifically reached out to him to take over the Film Channels during the Divide, but Mike knows a passionate soul when he sees one.

Sure the Light Darkner is a bit odd, but despite Host's apprehention with the addition of Klieg to the Channels, Mike stands firm that he made the right call.

Mike won't pretend not to notice Klieg being more interested in impressing Host than him, but considering the position Klieg has to fill, Mike finds it hard to hold it against him.

Rouxls Kaard - Dislikes

This man tried to hit on Host while simultaneously not acknowledging that Mike was also there.

Host proceeded to punt him into the sun as a response.

Asgore - Former Owner / One-sided Friendship

It's not uncommon for Darkners to imprint on specific Lightners who cherished their Light World forms, and Asgore happens to be the one Mike was closest with.

From Mike's point of view, him and Asgore were always incredibly close, he doesn't recall there ever being a moment in his life where the goat Lightner wasn't present, sharing a love for singing and old music, Mike would do anything to help out his Lightner friend.

* When Asgore serenaded Tori, you can guess who was there supportin' him!

They slowly became distant as Asgore and Toriel got together, aligning with Mike meeting Host as well. And when the couple got separated, Mike became aware of Asgore's absence, an early sign of what was to come.

Mike feels bittersweet about his relationship with Asgore, he had never been aware of the one-sided nature of their friendship, only learning about this when Host told him of the knowledge they had acquired from their Lightner contact.

Mike was devastated about it for a long time, but with time, he grew to feel bittersweet about it, choosing to focus on the good memories he had with Asgore. Wherever Asgore is, Mike just hopes he's well.

Swatch - Neutral

When their Lightner contact became adamant that Mike had to get Spamton into Queen's mansion, the Microphone had a hard time understanding the purpose of this. Spamton's infatuation with one of Queen's servants Swatch proved to be a distraction, but when the two's growing friendship lead to Swatch revealing the Shadow Crystal to Spamton, Mike and Host understood why Spamton was here.

However, Mike's former distaste for their friendship rubbed off poorly on Spamton, who saw Mike's bickering to be smothering and overprotectiveness, with Mike not realizing that Spamton had much bigger aspirations now, and if those aspirations involved poorly trying to woo a bird Darkner, then Mike wasn't going to be the one who would stop him.

Mike did not actively dislike Swatch, but Spamton's attachment to them would prove to be the downfall of their relationship.

??? - Fear

Despite never having met Host's Lightner contact, Mike was made aware that there were scarier things out there beyond their dark world. Mike always had a strange gut feeling about the voice that Host would describe speaking in their mind, but he always shrugged it off as his own fidgety paranoia.

And although he couldn't communicate with the Lightner himself, Host's deteriorating state was enough of a tell that their involvement with this entity was actively negatively impacting them. And despite Host's desire to continue attempting to help this Lightner, Mike just didn't see their health and wellbeing to be a fair trade-off for this.

The entity left Host's mind when Mike got rid of the rotary phone that they had been given when first helping Spamton. Host recovered and things seemed to come back to some sense of normalcy, but Mike could never get over this fear that the entity would one day return to take over Host's mind again.

Silently, it's become a subject that neither of them like to discuss, being a source of very unpleasant memories.