Mikkal Harldsen
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| Mick "Hugs" Harldsen | |
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| Played by | Wade Williams April 2009 To Present |
| Born | Mikkal Harldsen October 14, 1979 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Known Aliases | Hugs, Douglas Thatcher |
| Superpowers | Empathy |
| Skills | Enhanced Interrogations |
| Height | 6 Feet 1 Inches |
| Weight | 224 lbs. |
| Ethnicity | Nordic |
| Religious Beliefs | Lutheran |
Mikkal Harldsen is a superhuman in the Heroes: St. Louis game, played by Wade Williams. He is reputed to be somewhat of a masochist, and has been known to use his powers to torture those who he deemed evil. Despite this, he is more than willing to use his abilities to their full extent to aide those who deserve it.
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Early Years
Mikkal Harldsen has been surrounded and saturated by the emotions of others from birth. As a newborn in the maternity ward, Mikkal always cried when the other babies did. He would wake from a sound sleep screaming when his father, Lars Harldsen, came home from work after a stressful day. He relates the first incident he remembers of his own emotions being altered by others'.
| “ | It was my fourth birthday party. My parents had invited a bunch of my friends and other kids I didn't know from the neighborhood. Everyone was filled with excitement, especially me. I couldn't wait to eat my cake and open my presents. Then my parents told us they had a surprise for me, and a clown came into the room. I was overjoyed for about a second. I loved clowns; I'd seen them at the circus before and thought they were hilarious. But the other kids were terrified. I didn't know to close my mind. A wave of fear shook me and I started screaming. I think I peed my pants... | ” |
When Mikkal entered school, teachers and students had a difficult time reading his name. They often mispronounced, and soon everyone was simply calling the boy "Mick". Mick was greatly influenced by his grandmother, Ingrid. She was a devout Lutheran, and a pillar of the community. Ingrid endowed Mick with a strong sense of altruism, and gave him the foundation of his own faith. Mick's way of helping others was rather unorthodox, however. A strapping young lad of Norse heritage, he was a year older than most of his peers. Mick had a strong size advantage over the bullies who would pick on the weaker kids during recesses and after school. He only got in fights when it was to defend another child.
Ingrid also taught Mick a great deal about the nature of Hell and punishment. She explained to him that Hell was not a real place of fire and brimstone as many people believed. Instead, it was a spiritual place where those who were selfish and those who did bad things were cut off from God. Evil men spent eternity tortured not by fire, but by emotions: by Agony and Remorse for the sins they'd committed, and by Grief for the loss of God's presence and love.
Mick felt that sense of grief firsthand when Ingrid died. His grandmother had lived her entire adult life in St. Louis, and had given a great deal to her church and her community. The crowd that attended her funeral filled the pews of the St. Louis Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer. Mick's family, dressed in black, filed in last.
| “ | As they approached the building, Mick’s grief was his own. He followed his parents into the enormous chapel. Mick nearly made it to his seat at the front of the church before the wave of mourning and loss from the funeral goers hit him. The funeral bell tolled, reverberating throughout the church. Mick shook too. He felt like the damned must feel, cut off from the presence of the Holy Spirit. It was too much for him to contain. The lights seemed to dim. He let out a tortured wail as the darkness echoed inside him. | ” |
Mick awoke in an ambulance. The doctors could find nothing wrong.
Teenage Emotions
Adulthood
Life Post-Apocalypse
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