These are getting done a lot faster than i thought they would. They just seem to flow whenever i sit long enough to work on them.
This one was a little harder by the fact that it was hard to arrange. I don't know if all of the things seem to flow in order.
The analogies were also a little harder to come up with. But i think they work.
Leo's POV
He's like the sun
There's this thing about Mikey. With all of his attitudes and actions, it's hard to come up with a way to describe him. If I were to introduce him to someone, I wouldn't really know what to say. Except one thing. After thinking about it a while, I found a word that really fits him. Mike? He's our sun.
That's exactly what he is. He is our sun. It's what drives him to joke around with us even in the middle of trouble, though that's not always a good thing. It's what keeps him happy and us… entertained. But it's not just inside of him. It is him. And it fits him. Because it keeps him happy too.
You can't look at the sun. But if you did, it'd blind you if you look at it long enough. Mike does that. He makes you blind to all bad things. So that you can only see the light side of what's going on. You sometimes can't see the bad when he's around. And he makes you wonder why there are so many bad things in the world. Because they aren't needed. He shows you that.
Just like the sun, he chases away the shadows all around us. Because he knows that's what we need. To escape sometimes. And it's what he does best. It's sometimes impossible to feel like the clouds are closing in when he's around. Because he shines through it. Sometimes I wonder how he does it. But it doesn't phase him. Doesn't cover him almost at all. He still drives away the darkness of the ever-present war.
On a day with clouds in the sky, when one covers the sun, what happens? The sun shines around it. What does this create? A golden lining. Much better than a silver lining, our golden lining is what keeps us up to the challenges from all of our enemies. He gives us the respite after a fight we need to keep going the next day. Because if we didn't have our golden lining, we wouldn't have a reason to fight.
Now lay on the ground for a while. Soak up the sun. How do you feel? Warm. Why? Because the light is heat. But with Mike, his happiness makes us warm and fuzzy. Same concept. Without the sun, the world would be cold. Without Mikey, our lives would be cold and unwelcoming. It wouldn't have that energy to it that he provides. Even at early hours of the morning. Unfortunately.
Okay, there's this too. Have you ever heard of that trick with a magnifying glass? How you focus the sunlight with the magnifying glass to a small point, and it burns something? That's how it is with Mike. Sometimes he needs help focusing. He needs to be kept on track. But when he is, he can burn up anyone in his way. He's the speed of light when he needs to be, and he's a great asset in a fight.
When you take the magnifying glass away, the light isn't focused anymore. Whatever you were burning, isn't burning anymore. Correct? That's Mike after a fight. He stops, just like that. As fast as you take away a magnifying glass, is how fast Mike can rebound from a fight. Because he's young at heart, if not that much younger than us by age.
He doesn't hold a grudge. That's the thing about Mike. Just like the sun always rises and sets the same way, almost every morning, Mike treats us as if nothing happened the day before. If he goes to bed mad at us, he's usually forgiving by morning. But like the sun eventually sets and rises at different times, he sometimes stays angry at us longer than he usually would. But that only happens as much as daylight savings times.
There's this too. Have you ever noticed how the sun affects people's moods? When the sun isn't out, and it's cold and rainy, how do people act? Angry, depressed, bored. When the sun is out and it's a perfect day how are people? They're outside playing, having fun, and are happy. And when it's too hot, how are they? Sluggish, tired, unsociable.
Those are Mikey's moods. And how that connects with the sun, is that they both affect people. When Mike's mad, bored, or depressed, so are we. He isn't there to keep our hopes or attitudes up. When he's happy and energetic, so are we. We're just sucked into playing with him or hanging out with each other. And when he's tired or unsociable, so are we. Tensions are higher.
But even though he effects us, he seems to be unaffected by us. What about the way the sun rises and sets? When the sun rises, the sky turns different colors, right? What colors are usually there? Purple, red, blue, orange. That's Mikey interacting with us. He's never with each one of us long. Because he travels. He goes from person to person all day. Just like the sun changes the color of the sky. But it's not just that.
With all of our personalities around him, he's still… him. He's the most unique out of all of us. The way he can always see a good side to things. He's always up for everything. He puts up with all of us. Even when we tell him to grow up. But he stays the same. Just like the sun. The sky may change colors, but the sun is always orange. It always shines. Just like Mikey.
So if you think about it, his color fits him. Orange is an energetic, adventurous color. That pretty much sums up his attitude. But it's also a happy color. It's bright and playful. Like the sun, orange is a color you associate with summer and outside sports. Mikey skateboards. He is all around orange. So it fits him.
He may not always act like it, but he's also bright. Like the sun. I know this is a bad analogy, way over used, but you always see light bulbs go off over someone's head in cartoons. A sun goes off over Mike's whenever he thinks of something. Because he doesn't always take the time to think that much. Though when he does, it's always something brilliant. He's saved our butts a few times.
He doesn't use plans when he fights. And he doesn't always use strength or skill. He uses creativity. He has a new move all the time. He uses whatever he finds to his advantage. And though it's not always the right time to do this, he always has a new insult to say to our enemies.
He's also able to get into or out of situations easily. Good or bad, he always gets into or out of them. Kinda like light. Light gets into many little holes. It's hard to keep all sources of light out of something that has holes or is even slightly transparent. This is how Mike is. How he finds his way in and out of things isn't always easy to see. The more holes you patch up, the more that seem to show up. Like we try to do to keep him away from things.
Now think of this. Last thing here. The sun is the big focal point of our solar system right? It seems small in the sky, but it's really huge and holds all of our planets in balance. A constant circle around it. And if you took the sun away, what would happen? Everything would go out of whack. Right? The planets would probably crash into each other or go spinning out into orbit. Not to mention that we'd freeze.
So basically we'd be doomed right? That represents our life without Mike. We would crash. We'd always be at each other's throats, always angry, always depressed, always cold. Though it doesn't seem like Mike is a very big part, just like the sun, he holds us in balance. Without him, we'd all go spinning off in our own direction until we finally crashed.
He's our focal point. Our happiness. Our weapon in war that burns down everyone in our path when he's focused. He's a huge part of our love. Part of our team. Our light. Our sun. And without the sun, there won't be any light in the darkness.