#shane micklesen

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“And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.”

       - The Chaos of Stars, Kiersten White

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Day in the Snapchat of Shane Micklesen

Public Snaps

 A series of video puns

Dramatic zoom ins of pets with commentary

Selfies wearing Thomas's shirts "do I remind you of someone"

Kylee snaps

Bad pickup lines

Occasional drunk snaps just complimenting her

Karen snaps

Videos of Thomas doing something really boring with caption "this is what your sister looks for in a mate???"

Thomas snaps

Pictures of incredibly boring book titles with the caption “your next read??”

Drunk videos

Kevin snaps

Pictures of any suspicious rashes asking what they are

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Character moodboard         → Shane Micklesen

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NGEN Survery

1) What is your biggest fear? Shane: That someday I’ll be unable to go adventuring and be stuck in a nursing home or confined to bed rest. Zane: That I’ll end up being a burden somehow to my mum. She’s had so much to deal with and so I’m worried that maybe someday I’ll get into an accident and she’ll need to be a caregiver to me. Matthew: That somehow, someday I’ll force a girl into a situation that she’s not comfortable with by accident and she won’t tell me but that she’ll feel the same way I felt. I don’t ever want to be that person. Christopher: Dying young. I’ve got so much so much yet to do and not being able to do it is terrifying. Kelsey: That Isabella will die way before me. I don’t want to die second cause I don’t want her to do have go through that sort of hurt without me able to comfort her, but I don’t want to live more than a few weeks without her either. Natalie: Failure. The thought of being someone that my parents can be proud of, or that people use as a cautionary tale is horrifying. Karen: Becoming ugly. I know that sounds terrible, but I couldn’t imagine being like deformed or something and I don’t know how I’d survive if I was. Tamara: Not being remembered by anyone. I’m pretty scared of just like dying having no one around to care about me being gone. 

2) Do you have any special objects from your childhood? Shane: I’ve got a whole twin brother from my childhood. Crazy, right?  Zane: Not really. I kind of left the one special thing I had in England. It was a program from a play I’d gone to with my dad, but I didn’t want to be reminded of him. Matthew: I got a toy car that could be worked on when I was around ten for my birthday and it was really when I started looking into being a mechanic, even if it wasn’t serious. I keep it still though, since it was my start in the industry. Christopher: I have a signed jersey that I got from a football game I went to with my dad for my 8th birthday and he arranged for me to be able to meet a few of the players. Or maybe my Mom did, either way, it was really great. Kelsey: I’ve got a friendship bracelet that Isabella made me. It’s too small to wear now, but I still keep it in my jewelry box. Natalie: I have the first book I ever learned to read all the way through. It’s also what I made my first film on too, so it’s kind of important for me.  Karen: I have a stuffed doll that stays on my bed at home, when I was really little I brought her everywhere and used to make her sit at the table and stuff with me.  Tamara: I have this little pinky sparkly microphone that my older brother gave me when I said I wanted to be a singer at like age 4. I keep it on a shelf to remind me of my dreams.

3) What is your idea of perfect happiness? Shane: Out adventuring with Thomas and Kylee, making videos of our antics and getting paid to do it. Thomas admits me stole Emily from me, we get matching tattoos and bond over it. Kylee wears my shirts and looks cute, we have a happy an active sex life. I have all the money to travel whenever I want. Zane: Perfect happiness is a flawed concept that is unrealistic. There will always be something wrong in some capacity. I suppose perfect happiness is then just ignoring those things and focusing on the good things happening. In my case, I’d like to have a steady job where I save people’s lives and have a home life that makes my job’s difficulties much more bearable. Matthew: I live close to my family, I have my own garage and a loving relationship. I mean, probably, ideally with Mia, if things continue as they are. Christopher: Being able to take photos for a living. really, that’s all I’d need. Kelsey: Shopping out and about with Isabella, knowing I’ll be able to see my boyfriend later and having the money to buy what I want. Natalie: Making a film and having everything come together perfectly in the exact way I imagined it. It lets me know that my vision was a great one and that it translates how I was wanting it to. Karen: Dancing for an audience and having them enjoy it. That feeling of being lost in art and bringing everyone with you, it’s perfect. Tamara: Spending time with my friends at the mall or the beach and not having any responsibilities.

4) Give an unpopular opinion that you believe. Shane: There’s a thing as being too much in shape. Zane: There isn’t any such thing as soulmates. Matthew: Siblings make the best friends. Christopher: It’s better to be an only child than to have siblings. Kelsey: Star Wars is completely overrated. Natalie: Video games are a waste of time. Karen: Small boobs are way hotter than bigger boobs. Tamara: Redheaded girls aren’t that attractive.

5) On what occasions do you lie? Shane: To get out of trouble. Zane: I try not to lie that much, but I do lie to patients from time to time as part of the job. If they ask for test results or if there has been a diagnosis and the doctor hasn’t discussed it, I actually can’t tell them. Matthew: Sometimes to make people feel better. Sometimes when I don’t feel like talking about something. Christopher: I lie to keep my ass out of a situation I don’t want to be in. Kelsey: To my parents, mostly when I know they won’t approve of what I’m doing. Natalie: I mean everyone lies to keep things from being too awkward. So, that’s where I try to contain my lies Karen: I lie to my parents when I know they won’t like my choice in activities. Well, mostly my mom because my dad is pretty cool about most things I do. Tamara: Sometimes I lie about my feelings to people. I don’t like looking weak, so if I’m going to I try and avoid it at any costs.

6) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Shane: I'm not going to change anything, I’m awesome. Zane: I'd like to have a better memory, it’d make things easier for both school and just on the job in general. I do have charts that I can look at, but sometimes I waste time having to look up a medication that I’ve seen before but just can’t remember. Matthew: Being a bit taller would be nice. It doesn’t even have to be a lot taller, but a couple of extra inches wouldn’t hurt. Christopher: I'd like to be able to grow facial hair a bit better. Maybe time will fix that one. Kelsey: Uh, there’s like nothing because Isabella is perfect and that means I am too. Oh, like not physically? Nah, still not going to change anything. I like who I am. Natalie: I’d like to have a bit more curves. I’ve got an okay amount right now, but it all depends on angling and what I’m wearing. I’d like to have enough that it wouldn’t so drastically depend on those factors. Karen: If I was taller then I’d have a better shot at being a dancer. Well and if I had less boobs. Basically. I just need my mother’s figure. Tamara: I’d have bigger boobs. Not like huge, but just a nice C cup to fill out everything I wear better.

7) What is the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to you? Shane: I’m not easily embarrassed, but I guess the most embarrassing thing is that I once got drunk and started having a conversation with my reflection, thinking it was Thomas. A friend took a video and sent it to me and everyone else later. Zane: I spilled my lunch all over myself my first day at school in the United States. There was a weird step up and I started to trip, but I managed to right myself. In doing so though, I tipped my tray toward me and my whole lunch went on me. Part of it was soup and it just looked like a pissed myself. Of course my mum was too busy working to come bring me a change of clothes, so I had to go around in those clothes all day. Matthew: Like most teenage guys, at one point I’d gotten an erection randomly but it was during gym and there was really no hiding it. Of course someone had to go and point it out to everyone. Christopher: I cried on my first day of kindergarten so hard that they had to call my dad to come and get me. For the rest of the year, I was known as the class crybaby and some unoriginal kids even continued that trend all the way through third grade. Kelsey: I was in the third grade and I really had to go to the bathroom, but the line was too long and I did not make it. All the other kids saw and called me Kelsey Tinklepants for months. Natalie: When I was around 13, I went to tell a guy that I liked him and he asked if I was joking. When I said he wasn’t, he laughed and called all his friends over to tell them what happened.  Karen: I tripped down the stairs and fell with my skirt up in front of a bunch of people. And I was like probably 10 at the time, so my underwear were a ten year old’s and they had princesses but apparently that was uncool, so I got double teased. Tamara: Once I got sick on my teacher in front of the whole class. I was probably around eight and I just wasn’t feeling good,  so I went up to tell my teacher that I had to go to the bathroom during silent reading and halfway through my explanation I just puked all over her. She was not pleased and I cried.

8) Who is the most important person in your life, and why?

Shane: Thomas. I don’t think it really needs an explanation. Zane: I guess at this point it’s my mum still. We’ve gotten so close after everything that we’ve been through together and I’d do anything for her. Maybe with more time that’ll change though. Matthew: I don’t know if there is a single most important person. I think right now it’s a tie between Noah and Mia. Though Mia is pulling ahead slightly in that race but if it ever came down to both of them needing me at the same time for something, I’d have a really hard time choosing. Christopher: I can’t try and pretend it isn’t to the point where it’s Eloise. I picked my school because of her. Juan is hanging in a close second though. Kelsey: There has never been a more obvious answer to a question in the history of the universe.  Natalie: Lydia. I know I can go to her with anything and I have come to depend on that, on her being around. Karen: Me. I’m a person and I’m the most important one. I don’t do things for other people, I do them for myself. Tamara: Camilla. I’d be lost without her, I wouldn’t even really know how to function even.

9) If you could choose, how would you want to die?

Shane: I’d want to be doing something awesome. I don’t want to be wasting away of disease or whatever, I want to be living life. Zane: With dignity. People say that a lot, but it’s something I understand a lot better after being in the hospital. I want to die with my mental facilities about me, making my own choices until the end without everyone telling me how tragic my death is. Matthew: I guess I’d just want a death that isn’t too painful. Partly because I’m not big on pain and partly because I don’t want my family to have to watch me suffer. I’d want a death everyone can be at peace with. Christopher: Just give me something quick. I don’t want drawn out nonsense where everyone has to gather around for days just waiting for the moment. Get to the point, death. Kelsey: Everyone always says in their sleep, right? But like, then I’d be in my bedclothes and people would find me like that? I want to be looking damn good, so people will be like, oh no, double tragedy. She’s dead and she looked fabulous right before she died and no one got to enjoy it properly. Natalie: I’d like to die while I still understand the world around me. I never want to get to a point where I’m not sure of who I am or where I am. If I don’t have my mental faculties about me, I don’t want to keep going. Karen: I want to still be attractive looking. You know those old people where you’re like, wow she’s really put together? Yeah, if I get to the point where I can’t be put together it’d be horrible. So, I want to die while I’m still able to be put together. Tamara: Definitely in my sleep. I don’t want to be aware and in pain. Just take me while I’m dreaming about something and make sure I’m not suffering.

10) What was the wildest thing you've ever done, sexually?

Shane: So this girl I was with was like, you’re great with a camera right and I was like, yeah that’s what I do. So she was all, let’s make our own pron movie and I was like, okay yeah let’s do it. But she brought some props and costumes. She was very prepared for this.. Like, it ended up being hot to make, but not hot to watch back. Definitely not hot to watch back, it was really strange to watch back. Zane: I haven't been that wild of a sex partner. I guess once we left the curtains open and there was an apartment building not too far away with a window at the same level so they could have seen. Matthew: Once Mia and I had sex in my truck when it was in a parking lot at night. That was kinda wild. Christopher: I had a girlfriend who liked to have people watch, so like once we just invited someone in to watch us have sex. That was pretty wild, and a little awkward when I’d sometimes forgot we were being watched and then suddenly remember. Kelsey: I had sex in a classroom last year really close to when classes were about to start, so that was a rush. We definitely could have gotten caught. Natalie: I’m a virgin and I’m pretty tame when it comes to masturbation. Karen: I'd say that a threesome is definitely the wildest thing. Tamara: Nothing. I'm still a virgin.

11) When was the last time you cried?

Shane: I got drunk and saw this really cute video of a cat that was best friends with a tiger and I couldn’t help it. Zane: I made a mistake in the clinical setting and it left a patient in a lot of pain. It was fixable but it would take an hour and she was in extreme pain the whole time. Matthew: I hit my head on the bottom of a car the other day while working on it and it hurt like hell. Christopher: I don’t actually remember the last time I cried. Kelsey: I was watching a really sad movie and it just hit me really hard. Natalie: The last time I got sick, I was just feeling really terrible and I cried. Karen: I was having a really rough week at school and then I messed up some dance  steps and got told off by my teacher. It was too much, I couldn’t help but cry. Tamara: I shed a few tears when I heard Victoria was going to go to prom with someone else.

12) Do you have any vices?

Shane: I can’t resist a joke, even if it isn’t the best of timing. Zane: None that I can think of. Maybe I can be a bit insensitive. Matthew: I don’t think so. I try not to have moral weaknesses. Christopher: I smoke from time to time. Kelsey: I am a gossip. Can’t help it, gossip is great. Natalie: I can’t think of any. Maybe I’m a bit prideful at times. Karen: I'm a vain person. So, yeah, my vice is vanity.   Tamara: I might be a tad vain and prideful. 

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The Chickenpox

Elsie was not thrilled as she sat in the car on the way to her Aunt Addie and Uncle Connor's house. In fact, she'd thrown a fit when her parents told her that she had to leave the house because Chloe had the chicken pox and she was not allowed to stay with her. She'd screamed and cried and tried to cling to things until her dad had to physically carry her out of the house and down to the car with her crying the entire way. Originally, she'd heard that she was supposed to go and stay with Aunt Ayla and Uncle Jared but apparently tonight they'd already planned a date night and her parents weren't going to cancel that. Instead, she was to spend one night with the Micklesen family before moving over to her aunt and uncle's for the rest of her time away.

She was refusing to talk to her dad who didn't seem inclined to speak with her right now either.  Once they arrived she refused to greet her uncle who was the one meeting them at the door, her dad sighing and thanking Uncle Connor for letting her stay the night. She huffed and ran away once she was inside, hiding in the hallway that she knew very well. Of course, the hallway wasn't a good hiding place at all and soon she was being approached by Shane.

"I've never seen you without Chloe before," he commented, as if it was something special.

"Go away Shane. I don't want to see you," she said, crossing her arms tighter around herself.

"My daddy says that Chloe has the chicken pox," Shane continued, clearly unbothered by the fact that Elsie didn't want him around. "Is she covered with chickens?"

"What?" she looked at him and shook her head. "No! She just has itchy dots. I don't mind having itchy dots if I can stay with Chloe."

"How big are the dots? Like... are they pepperoni sized?"

"Go away, Shane!" she was done talking to him about this.

Luckily, Uncle Connor seemed to take pity on her and came to get Shane away. He offered to put on a movie for her but she stubbornly shook her head and said she wanted to stay where she was. She was committed to her sulking too, staying in the hallway until it was dinner time. Of course, it helped that both the dog and the cat came to visit her during the time before dinner.

After dinner her aunt and uncle did manage to get her to watch some cartoons with them until it was bed time. "I'll make up your bed on the couch," Uncle Connor said.

"No!" she exclaimed, sniffling. "I can't sleep in the living room by myself. I've never slept in a living room by myself. I've never slept by myself ever. I always have Chloe." She started to tear up all over again about the absence of her sister. "I want Chloe!"

Her uncle sighed and exchanged a look with her aunt. The two of them put their heads together and started whispering between themselves. Then her aunt disappeared down the hallway as Elsie continued to cry, hugging a cushion against her chest.  

A couple of minutes later Addie came back and told her to follow her. She brought her to Kevin's room where the eleven year old was currently making a bed out of blankets on the floor. For a moment she thought she was supposed to sleep on the floor and she was about to burst into tears once more. There seemed to be a sense that such a thing would happen because Kevin looked a little alarmed.

"You can have the bed," he told her. "I'm sleeping on the floor."

She hadn't let go of the cushion and climbed into bed.

"Elsie, honey, come brush your teeth and get into your pajamas," Aunt Addie said her tone soothing.

"No!" she cried, climbing under the covers. "I don't want to!"

Aunt Addie stood there and apparently decided that she was not going to have this fight over one night. "Okay, we'll brush  your teeth in the morning. Goodnight Elsie. Goodnight, Kevin. Thanks again."

"You're welcome," Kevin said. "Night mom."

There was silence and Elsie started crying again, hugging the cushion to her. "I want Chloe," she sniffed, wishing desperately that she could be at home with her sister.

"But, she's sick," Kevin replied in that matter of fact tone. "You're here so you don't get sick."

"If Chloe's sick I want to be sick!" she said defiantly. "I will be sick to stay together."

This seemed to thoroughly puzzle Kevin. "But... I don't think Chloe would want you to be sick too. It's not fun being sick."

"It's not fun being apart!" she answered. "I want Chloe right now. I don't want to be here. I don't want to sleep alone here." She started crying again.

There was another silence and then she heard Kevin getting up but she didn't check what he was doing. A minute later he came back in and sat on the bed next to her, pulling the blanket down and revealing that he held Mr. Fluff Fluff in his arms. "I'm sorry that you can't have Chloe here with you. Maybe it'll help to have Mr. Fluff Fluff though."

She blinked through her tears and reached out to take the cat in her arms. He was fluffy and soft, not minding that he was being held by a crying girl. In fact, he just accepted his fate. "He's not Chloe," she said despite that.

"No, he's a cat," Kevin said with a shrug. "But it's the best I can do."

She kept sniffling and hugged the cat, nodding before she settled back into bed with a few tears still trailing down her cheeks. Who knew if she'd be able to sleep at all tonight but she had to admit that having Mr. Fluff Fluff did make it seem better.