I ADORE the way you draw Michael and literally everything about the Michael survived au. Was there anything in particular that gave you the idea for it?

Thank you!!! Honestly, I’ve always drawn Michael all smiles and such. And that’s fine and dandy but I really like drawing expressions, so I was wondering “what would make Michael mad? Or sad?” Just to give a reason for drawing the expression.

And the only thing that came to my head was “he’d probably be those things if he escaped the spiral, and then was stuck at the institute. He’d be sassy about it for sure.” The train of thought just kind of took off from there. “How would he be sassy? Probably passive aggressive. How can you be passive aggressive at work? Malicious compliance- highlighters, glitter glue, sticky notes, lying to your boss, telling the truth to your boss but you lie so frequently that they need to second guess if you’re actually doing your job-“ and that’s not even considering all the ways being in the spiral has still messed up Michael but he still has a firm grasp on his humanity.

It’s just a lot of fun!! Thinking a bunch and making concept art!

Anyway- here’s MORE CONCEPT ART cause I’m having fun with all the squiggles-