Mike Walters

Mike Walters is the name by which the narrator and main character of WOE.BEGONE refers to himself. He has claimed this is an alias.

Mike has played WOE.BEGONE, is employed at O.V.E.R., and is currently affiliated with Base. He has shown a willingness to go to extreme lengths in the name of his ambitions. For Mike's first challenge, he was rewarded with the resurrection of Matt. He in turn was resurrected by Anne after he died while attempting the second challenge.

Mike is contemporaneously in his 30s. His eyes are hazel, and he is above average height and stocky. He has scars on his back due to being attacked by a bear.

In the present day, he is in a romantic relationship with Edgar, whom he met while trying to sneak into Tier 2.

Mike has referred to himself as "The Bear" due to an incident in which he was mistaken for a bear by Marissa Ng. Edgar has since adopted this nickname for him as a term of endearment.

Mike's hobbies include movies, TV, and games. This includes watching TV shows that he hates, such as Dexter. He has expressed a favorable opinion of Drive (2011). Mike has described himself as someone who likes "making a number go up on a scoreboard" and has gotten all of the achievements in Cookie Clicker. He has a very strong opinion of biscuits and gravy, having said that he loves them "more than I love my own family," and he especially likes the ones made at Latif's 24 hour diner.

Mike has misophonia and finds editing the mouth sounds out of his podcast to be mentally taxing.

In addition to English, Mike is also conversant in Russian.

Iterations
Mike has an unknown number of iterations. He generally refers to the youngest iterations as Mikey, while the oldest iteration is Michael.

The first of Mike's separate iterations died in an explosion during a mission.

Subsequently, Mike and Edgar created separate iterations of themselves to cover their jobs at O.V.E.R. This Mike and Edgar would later repeatedly duplicate themselves in an attempt to escape Base. These repeated duplications ended with an iteration of Edgar who took on the moniker Mustardseed and an iteration of Mikey who Mike and Michael were forced to kill. The other 31 iterations were consolidated into an iteration now called MW.

An older iteration of Mike from five years in the future worked as part of a corrections team with Michael, though he has since returned to his time period in order to spend time with Edgar in the three years Edgar has remaining.

An undetermined number of Mike iterations have been created by the Flinchites. Michael views these extra Mikes with suspicion and has killed them out of what he views as self-protection.

Michael
Michael is the the oldest of Mike's iterations, being physically 40 years old and describing approximately 110 years of memories. He is vocally distinguishable from other Mikes by his affected cowboy accent. He has a protective attitude toward most other Mikes and refers to his protective behaviors as "sheepdoggin'." Visually he is inclined to dress like a cowboy, wearing a black cowboy hat, a deerskin jacket, and cowboy boots. He has a cauliflower ear from a shootout in Glacier. He also has a scar on his chin, which he obscures with a beard, from correcting a shootout in Boulder, Colorado.

Michael as well as MW live in an apartment in Riga, Latvia owned by Boris, constituting Satellite Base. Michael shares Mike's interest in movies and has expressed a favorable opinion of Jeremiah Johnson (1972). He has allegedly gotten Boris to listen to his podcast, Movies with Michael.

Although he kept the secret for some time, Michael eventually revealed that his corresponding iteration of Edgar is dead. He has since gotten involved with August Baxter. The other Mikes are conflicted but somewhat supportive of this relationship.

The Flinchites have also created an undetermined number of iterations of Michael. Of these, one was released by an iteration of Ty Betteridge and sent to Texas.

Ten years in the future, two distinct iterations of Michael exist. The first was found where Base had once been. This iteration stole the Calculator from Mike and Mikey, and transported himself apparently into the past. The second works at O.V.E.R. in Tier 3. Their connections to previously known iterations of Michael are unclear, though notably, both retain the accent and cowboy persona.