Character Development: Mikkel

[KMK]

I think Mikkel might actually be the smartest one there, or rather he has the best combination of smarts.  Tuuri has some book smarts (though not a lot of real world experience), Sigrun and Lalli have "street smarts" when it comes to actual combat.  I would say that Emil is the dumbest, but most likely that's probably due to be a wealthy Swede who then decided to join the army out of boredom.  He's probably as smart as anyone else if he actually applied himself and wasn't so damned arrogant.

But Mikkel seems to have the best combination out of all of them.  He's got more real world knowledge than Tuuri, better social skills than Lalli (but most people have that), a better sense of everyone's limitations than Sigrun, and just generally more than Emil.  Including physical size there.

If we as around in 2015 then he would probably be a teacher in a secondary school, and the most respected one there too.

Ha-ha, he would have been my eighth grade teacher who taught history and Latin and was an ex-pro wrestler and could do cartoon voices. His favorite greeting in the morning was: "Good Morning all you Communist, Fascist Pigs! Whoops! Sorry there I've been watching to many of my Hitler movies" He had a collection of original German WWII propaganda reel to real films.

[KMK]

So I did a Mikkel Madson today. Yesterday I was given a Cinderella list to do at work and of course it didn't get completed (no magic birds you know). Get called on the carpet today for it and they are grilling me why. I told them that with the number of customers we had to wait on there was no way to lay out, bake, package and label all those cookies and close the deli on time clean enough for a health inspection. They could ask the night manager because she helped us get it done when we realized that it wasn't going to happen with just the two of us. It still took us to nearly eleven (we were supposed to be out of there at 10pm). The deli manager said she just didn't see the night manager letting us stay so late and there was no reason to have left all the clean dishes all over the table (it is what the NM told us to do so we could get out before 11). So I was being called a lazy liar.

 I blew up took my apron off told them to scr** it, I had worked my effing ass off and skipped my lunch trying to get it all done and had only taken a 15 minute break (so did my co-worker too) during the 9 hours that I had worked. They could effing keep the job because they were asking to much for anyone to do. (Especially since they are only paying $7.60/hr.) I yelled at the top of my lungs (6 years of vocal training) pounded my fist on the desk for emphasis and stormed to the door where I once more reiterated that they were just asking too damn much and slapped the wood door with the flat of my hand like a drum. And down the stairs I went. Updating the resume tonight.

[AquaAurion]

I like your style. The lineart is very clean and the colours are nice and crisp. I'm a bit surprised though, I thought Mikkel's eyes were gray-ish.

AquaAurion: parroting Fimby a bit but I really like the style, so clean, simple and effective! Everyone's so easily recognizable that I just went over them like "LalliEmilSigrunMikkelTuuriReynirNICE" in one glance.

Thank you both!
I was thinking that Mikkel has grayish-blue eyes, but couldn't remember seeing his eye color at any point in the story =\

[Fimbulvarg]

I was thinking that Mikkel has grayish-blue eyes, but couldn't remember seeing his eye color at any point in the story =\

The only picture I could think of that has good light conditions and open eyes is the book 1 cover, where there are a few pixels of colour.



That pictures shows his eyes to be approximately olive-green, but I have some doubts about that being his actual eye colour. After all, his eye colour generally appears to be very dark.

[AquaAurion]

The only picture I could think of that has good light conditions and open eyes is the book 1 cover, where there are a few pixels of colour.



That pictures shows his eyes to be approximately olive-green, but I have some doubts about that being his actual eye colour. After all, his eye colour generally appears to be very dark.

Well, Minna usually draws everyone's eyes as dark gray/black and only adds in color in certain panels. It's usually only done during closeups or special moments and I can't remember any of those happening to Mikkel.

It does look like she added the green on purpose though.

[Laufey]

Olive colour eyes that regardless look really dark can totally happen though, mine are like that. My pupils are so large that my eyes are usually just seen as brown, people have occasionally been a bit surprised to find out the real colour.

[P__]

oh gosh these pictures laufey

re: Mikkel's eye-collor, IIRC you can also see them when they're exploring the library, especially during the KTHUMM scene (I didn't keep the cut pics, sadly). They seemed a bit more blue in that panel but I'll have to redo the research because I like the olive green better and I need to make sure

edit: nope, nothing around the library pages. must come from somewhere else

[starfallz]

There are a few images where there is a tiny dot of blue or grey for Mikkel's eyes. I think when Sigrun and Mikkel are talking while Tuuri is driving and a few other ones. I've been concerned with finding it out too. The darn guy keeps his eyes shut so often.

[Fimbulvarg]

Well, Minna usually draws everyone's eyes as dark gray/black and only adds in color in certain panels. It's usually only done during closeups or special moments and I can't remember any of those happening to Mikkel.

Mikkel has surprisingly few moments with visible irises, while Lalli and Sigrun get them all the time. Mikkel gets black eyes even in panels where the other characters right next to him have coloured irises

Olive colour eyes that regardless look really dark can totally happen though, mine are like that. My pupils are so large that my eyes are usually just seen as brown, people have occasionally been a bit surprised to find out the real colour.

I think that might actually be the case for Mikkel's eye colour too.

edit: nope, nothing around the library pages. must come from somewhere else

I tracked down two, page 221 and page 305. Keep in mind that the ambient lighting is very variable:

[Auleliel]

Regarding Mikkel's eye color:
I have grey eyes with flecks of blue, green, and brown in them, and they look slightly different depending on the light and the surroundings. People usually can't tell what color my eyes are unless I let them take a really long and close look at them. (I even had an argument with my German teacher in high school because he wouldn't believe me about my eye color at first, when I said in my self-introduction "Ich habe graue Augen".)
I remember seeing a few different colors for Mikkel (the few times his eyes were open enough to see any color at all), mostly greenish or greyish, and it's possible that his eyes are also mainly one color with flecks of another color.

[starfallz]

There is a thread about Mikkel's eye color, actually: https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=396.0

(Fimbu, I think you meant 201....)

[P__]

There is a thread about Mikkel's eye color, actually: https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=396.0

(Fimbu, I think you meant 201....)

let's summon a skald or mod to move these posts then, and restore this thread to its original purpose

[RandomTexanReader]

They're probably a hazel blue

While Sigrun's eyes are periwinkle (and can look any color from gray to violet depending on the light)

And Emil's are definitely turquoise.

The Hotakainens strike me as pretty blue-gray, with the variation being more in shade than hue.

[P__]

exactly. Except I can't imagine why or how such eye-shade would have arrived on top of Sigrun's eyes.
Sigrun's eyes might be a stronger shade than depicted, as they don't normally appear gray; and Mikkel's have probably more brown/yellow than that. I have these kind of eyes and AFAIK they'd much rather look blue/green than olive

[Viisikielinenkantele]

It would be cool if Mikkel's eyes were multicoloured so that we never can deduce it from the comic...

(real-life-example:



It normally depends on my clothes and the light what colour they look, in my passport my eye-colour is grey-green 
(Please ignore the bloodshot look, I had too less sleep that night...))