Absolutely obsessed with your AU of Michael Shelley making it out of the Distortion relatively unscathed, but rightfully PISSED.

Does he take on any more Spiral-y qualities when he’s especially mad (or other occasions)?

Yeah!! I imagine he came back a little taller than he was before, his hair gets twistier when he’s frustrated, and he’ll swap between lying and telling truths just to keep Gertrude on her toes.

And Elias doesn’t fire him and keeps him at the institute purely to watch all of the nonsense Michael pulls off. It’s all dinner and a show for him until Michael tries writing reports in glitter glue and that’s the only thing that makes him intervene because glitter is terrible and will get everywhere.