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2/?
Teru Mikami arrived at the Manor on the 27th of December in an unspecified year and remained resident there for two years and 3 months, without going home even once.
Badfic Manor is a jamjar game set in a single mansion that is, in fact, the setting of a fanfiction. The realm is controlled by the 'Author', who the characters assume to be a teenage fangirl of somehow undefined power. Characters now have to deal with whatever this Author comes up with. Events vary greatly. Fanfiction stereotypes as genderbending and cat ears or AUs get explored, but there is also a variety of horror and survival events.
Upon arrival in a room completely foreign to him, Teru was immediately greeted by two very different people from his own world, who he had yet to meet in his canon timeline. The first being Mihael "Mello" Keehl who promptly used his knowledge about Mikami to try and pretend to be Kira and thereby get his devotion. Since he failed to provide proof, his scheme failed and Mikami has never forgiven him for the attempt, from then on refusing any contact to him no matter how often he left the Manor and returned.
The second person who greeted him was far more relevant for all of his stay at the Manor. It was Light Yagami, the true Kira. He came to Mikami as a member of the Welcome Committee to inform him about the environment he was now in. Their conversation was long and helpful. Mikami now knew he was in a single House controlled by a teenage generally referred to as 'the Author' at whim. The only was to contact her was talking to a speaking bunny, going by the term 'Plot Bunny' and it was generally assumed that the entire house and its happenings were part of a big story. Teru also learned about the concept of different worlds and timeline conflicts.
Finally, the conversation went to morals and when Teru talks about morals and justice he talks about Kira - highly interesting for Light who in fact was Kira after all. This talk and Mikami's understanding of Kira's ideals were the starting point for their later relation that would affect Mikami quite a bit.
In the following time, Teru tried to get used to the Manor while at the same time actively involved himself in the community that was going very strong at that time. He informed himself about the place, let himself be registered in a list of supporting people and began welcoming people as well.
In an event soon after, where he found himself with element bending powers like those in Avatar: The Last Airbender universe, Mikami first found himself confronted with changes made to his body. That was more difficult for him to accept than the new world in general and back then as well as for a lot of similar following events he chose to try and ignore everything about him that had been altered.
Relevant to mention for this time is also that Teru encountered more people from his world who freshly arrived there - FBI agent Naomi Misora with whom he'd have a business alliance and Light's girlfriend Misa Amane with whom he'd develop some sort of vague but friendly relation.
Around this time, Mikami began to suspect Light to be Kira and eventually confronted him on it, after being provoked to it by Light. Ever since learning that Light is his God, Mikami has deeply worshipped him and listened to his every command, though naturally they have kept this God-Believer relation a secret from everyone else.
Another few weeks later, certain events caused Mikami to become fully integrated in the system of detectives and police (a great number of those were present at that time). A serial killing, cased by Beyond "B" Birthday kept them on guard for two weeks. While they carefully investigated each murder, the killer was only caught after over 5 victims.
In the following time, Teru got to know that Misa is the 2nd Kira and therefore appreciated her some more - an awkward friendship-esque thing. Sometime then, he also took care of the Death Note for Light. No killings with it were done, he merely kept the book hidden. Further, he also got to meet Sayu, Light's little sister.
His first of many wildlife survival experiences was being transported to Jurassic Park. Teru never dealt well with being stuck out in the dirt, but he would get used to it over time. In further survival field trips, he would always try to organize the group and keep everyone together. Teru had a tendency to see it as his responsibility to keep everyone safe.
A while later, L arrived at the scene as well. Due to his similarity to the killer B, Mikami was able to recognize the great detective and can now say he's one of the few people who know what L looks like.
In the next months (and basically always), Mikami lived through tons of both crack and survival events, slowly getting used to the Manor. He was still trying to find ways to get out, however, and started keeping lots of detailed notes about the place.
As the Author can sometimes be generous, there was an option for characters to ask for extensions to the Manor. Mikami asked for a courthouse and received one. The tiny court would from then on be where he spent most of his days, despite no trials ever taking place.
In one of the events, he met a boy who would not change his life but at least get rather close to it.
The theme of that week was children. While Mikami had to take care of a child 'of his own' and read it a story, he found himself approached by a young Mukuro Rokudo from Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Mukuro told him how he wanted to make all the 'bad people go away' when he grew up, a thought which Mikami of course could relate to extremely well. Mukuro, as a child, sounded just like his own thoughts just like Kira's ideals. It filled Mikami with anger to know this child grew up in a laboratory as a human weapon.
Ironically, soon after this encounter Light left the Manor, leaving Mikami devastated. In that time of grief, he encountered Mukuro's older self. They had friendly contact as first, until in an event, Teru saw Mukuro kill someone - a scientist belonging to the lab that once held him hostage. The beginning of countless unsatisfying moral discussions, for Mukuro and Mikami technically agreed about the death of certain people, but then came to completely different conclusions from then on. While for Mukuro it seemed suitable to kill with his own hands, Mikami would never accept such direct and personally motivated action. To him there is a major difference between a murder, such as Mukuro is doing, and judgement, such as Kira passes onto people. He feels that Kira is justified in his killings for he does them in a clean, supernatural, even godly way and is, as far as Mikami knows, only driven by the desire to make the world a better place. Mukuro however, while he wanted to erase crime as well, did so partly because he personally wanted revenge. To Teru this made a big difference.
A little bit after Light disappeared, Misa chose to commit suicide, coincidentally before Mikami's eyes. Unlike usually, she did not wake up from the dead again and remained gone, which left Mikami with a lingering feeling of both guilt and disapproval. Guilt because he was unable to save her and disapproval of her action as Mikami felt it was their duty to remain strong for Light after he was gone - not to flee the scene as well.
Within the next months, Light returned to the Manor again, which gave Mikami back a lot of hope. Misa returned as well.
This 'happy reunion' did not stop Mukuro development from continuing however. In another de-aging event, Teru of age 15, a middle school bullying victim coming straight from the funeral of his mother, found himself faced with a very young Mukuro. Teru comforted and supported this child, who was lacking an eyeball. They were a good match. Mikami the protector who needed someone to rely on him and Mukuro who needed to experience protection.
This memory heavily influenced their later interactions. Technically they both recognized this memory of having felt connected as fake, but emotionally it was implanted into their memory completely. Age switch events in the Manor work kind of complicatedly. Afterwards it feels to the characters as though the events have actually happened in their earlier timeline, but at the same time they can remember having lived a life where these memories were never present. With a bit of deduction it is easy for the characters to make out the memories have been added to their lives later on, despite them feeling as real as any event from juniour high or whenever would feel to them. Unable to fully reject the fake memory, Teru and Mukuro felt more conflicted and frustrated about each other than ever.
Shortly after Mikami's one year anniversary at the Manor, Mukuro left. Mikami wanted to feel good to have him out of the way, but he never quite could.
Mukuro returned a few months later however and the two continued their uncertain contact. Eventually they stopped thinking about it too much and it could be said they were in a vague alliance. Mikami would never trust Mukuro, but he acknowledged their relation.
A while after, Mukuro left again and Mikami has buried the memories ever since.
In this following time, Mikami finally began feeling hopeless about the Manor. It had taken time. Teru had been stubborn and always trying to fight in his own way, but finally he now felt he was a plaything to the Author and lost enthusiasm about finding a way out of this hell. In this dark period, he rarely talked to anybody, as most of this significant contacts were already gone either way. Remaining was solely Saguru Hakuba, a detective who he knew from the serial killing back then. They became somewhat reluctant friends over the years.
It took Mikami about half a year to get over this feeling of trapped helplessness. Only slowly he began picking active thinking on his well-kept notes back up and interacted with other people again.
At his two year anniversary, the population of the manner had decreased considerably and Mikami felt like he was one of the last 'puppets' the Author was too fond of to let go. He'd seen lots of people come and go. By now, he's made his peace with that. Mikami never gave up on his wish of returning back home or seeing the Author punished for her evil actions, but he did not feel overly depressed about his situation anymore. Instead he was ready to actively support the community again and to try and figure the Author out once more. And that was when he left the Manor.
His time at Badfic has subtly changed Mikami. Mikami's behaviour to the outside has hardly changed at all - he's as stoic, distanced and down-to-business as he ever was, he merely sounds a little more bitter about the world now.
He still rarely builds friendly, private relations and mostly talks to people out of necessity, but something about the way he sees people changed. Before coming to Badfic, Teru cared for humanity and wanted to protect humanity, but it was more a concept than actual people. Badfic had him trapped with the same people for a very long time, however, so Teru finally learned to see individuals again. Addtionally, Mikami can now more easily appreciate people's talents as he has learned that about anything can become useful under specific circumstances.
His morals have never changed, but shifted ever-so-slightly from what they were like in canon. Mikami could never ever stop seeing the world as separated into black and white, good and bad. He will always categorize people into those still righteous and those who have fallen. The new development is the existence of a tiny grey-zone. Mikami finally acknowledges that people can be practically forced to become 'evil' - it does not change the outcome, unrighteous is unrighteous, but it makes him a little more understanding. Teru himself has yet to completely figure out how he feels about this new perspective so he mostly ignores it and acts by his old rules anyway.
Further than that, he is now more considerate of 'dirty' survival options that he would never have considered before - he is not tolerant of much, but he has figured that in certain situations the number of lives to be saved can be more relevant than keeping minor laws unbroken. Noted should be that such situations would always have to be direct life-or-death, otherwise Mikami would still never do anything less than 100 percent correct.
The way in which his previous in game history has affected him the most will be most apparent in his initial arrival at Haven. Mikami straight from canon would have taken quite a while to adjust to Haven and it wouldn't have gone without a slightly depressive streak. However, seeing he has spent 2 years in the Manor he is now past this period of doubt.
I can't say he's comfortable with new worlds or the paranormal, but he now has ways of dealing with it if he has to.
Of course, this doesn't make him unaffected by events. In the contrary, his canon fears and weaknesses mostly remain. It's just that they are not triggered by a strange setting alone yet.