Mike Parker

"I don't know what happens next, but we will face it. Together."

- Mike to his team

Matt Garetty better known as Mike Parker or The Guardian is the deuteragonist-turned-main protagonist of the movie Chronicle and titular main protagonist of Life is Strange: The Guardian. He is (not) based loosely on the characters on the same name.

Mike is a person who is depressed, traumatized, and shattered as a result of the deaths of his mother in an accident and his father in a tornado, but he is also a person who still has hope and he wants to share it with everyone. Mike was born and destined to be The Guardian, an entity who guards defenseless Angels from harm, according to a prophecy. Mike made the decision to defend the world by taking on the role of the Guardian.

He was portrayed by a sim by Sims 4.

Early life
Matt was born to Chris and Anna Garetty. In his childhood, Anna apparently left her husband and son so she could protect Matt from terrible danger, which the latter was saddened by his mother leaving.

Anna passed away in a mysterious car accident, with Matt having heartbroken and depressed, but he grew out of it. Despite the tragic loss, Matt and Chris became close, until his dad died in a tornado to save a child. Matt, so saddened by the loss of another loved one, grew up in a foster home until he was 18.

As years went on, Matt became Andrew's more popular cousin. They were close as kids, but they separated in the high school, due to Matt joining the popular crowd, while Andrew remained a socially withdrawn outcast, which caused Matt to cut ties with Andrew to avoid the social stigmas that had already begun to follow his quiet, withdrawn cousin, disliking Andrew because of him being unsocial, not fitting in with the popular crowd, and not attending parties. By high school, Matt drove Andrew around, as his cousin couldn't afford his own car, and was friendly and accommodating towards him, but their relationship was strained and Matt continued to avoid Andrew in public.

Chronicle
Matt invites Andrew to a party to help him meet people, but abandons him in order to spent more time with Casey Letter, of whom he shows a love interest. Later on, Matt befriends popular student Steve Montgomery and, after the party, they find a hole on the ground that emits strange noise. Steve invites a socially inept Andrew, who was being attacked for filming a girl dancing and found crying, to film everything. They found Matt standing outside the hole, which radiates some bizarre, loud vibrations, shocking the three boys and sending Matt, Steve, and a reluctant Andrew to go down the hole to investigate. As Matt, Steve, and Andrew go down the hole they discover a large, blue, glowing crystal object that amuses Matt and Steve, but freaks Andrew out. It surprisingly turns red and begins to generate a radioactive force that pins down Matt to the wall, gives Steve nose bleeds and cuts Andrew's camera off.

Having safely emerged, Matt, Steve, and Andrew come to realize that they have telekinetic powers, and experiment playfully with them by throwing softballs back and forth, building lego structures to dramatic music themes, and skipping rocks. They realize that their powers are like muscle tissue, wherein if they exercise it regularly and gently push it, they're capable of becoming stronger. This is proven when the boys go from barely being able to hold up a softball to managing to move an entire car. All of their experiments are relatively harmless and playful, until one rainy evening, after being out with Steve and Matt all day playing tricks on people in toy stores and teaching each other how to build barriers against physical attacks (they do this by attempting to stab one another in the hand with a fork in a diner), a truck begins tailgating them on the way back. Annoyed, Andrew uses his powers on the truck and ends up knocking it off the road, and sending it sailing into a body of water below.

Shocked and horrified, Matt and Steve race down below to save the driver as Andrew apologizes, saying it was an accident. Andrew attempts to telekinetically pull the truck out of the water but Matt stops him, telling him to "stop doing things." Andrew and Matt wait in distress as Steve jumps in the water and rescues the driver, who they are all relieved to see is alive. Matt starts to call the cops, but Andrew tries to stop him, protesting that the man is fine and that they should just leave. However, Matt doesn't pay attention to his cousin and the three had to stay behind while they waited for the cops. Steve and Matt later confront Andrew about jab the man into the hospital. Matt assumes position as group leader by setting ground rules for the trio in order to avoid another incident like the one on the road--the major one being that they could not use their powers on living things.

The problem eventually resolved, the boys become close again, teaching one another how to use their telekinesis to lift themselves off the ground and fly (eventually becoming so good that they are capable of just hanging around and tossing a football back and forth thousands of feet in the air). They talk about flying around the world together after graduation, with Andrew wanting to go Tibet for its peaceful scenery. Matt eventually agrees.

Steve persuades Andrew to participate in a talent contest with him for school, where he uses his telekinetic powers and passes them off as very impressive magic tricks, causing Andrew in becoming, for at least several hours, one of the most popular kids in school. Matt expresses his confidence that Andrew's social status will be different from now on and that they will be like brothers, even jokingly telling him that he loves him. However, at a post-contest party, after a bad sexual incident with a girl named Monica, Andrew is once again shamed and publicly humiliated, causing in Matt once again avoiding Andrew in public.

One moment, Matt's nose begin to bleed, and he felt Andrew's pain, but is too busy spending time with Casey to pay attention to his cousin's agony, while Steve was accidentally killed by a lightning telekinetically moved by Andrew. At Steve's funeral, an outraged Matt confronts Andrew about his death, and is shocked and disgusted to realize that he's still filming everything. When Matt tries to force an explanation out of Andrew, Andrew escapes the situation by flying away.

Matt then finds out about Andrew using telekinesis to rip several teeth right out a bully's mouth, causing him to confront him about this, nearly punching him in the face, but Andrew proves that he is the stronger of the two by deflecting the strike. He tells Matt he won't break his stupid rules and to stay out of his life, and Matt leaves.

While attending Casey's relatives party, Matt's nose begin to bleed and he senses Andrew's agony. He decides this time not to ignore it and discovers on the news that Andrew is in trouble. Matt drives Casey's car to head to the hospital, where he discovers that Andrew is trying to kill his father, Richard Detmer, by dropping him from the air. However, Matt interferes and saves Detmer's life. Andrew confronts Matt about his interference, only for Matt to tell Andrew that this is not a game and pleading him to stop hurting people. Andrew eventually refuses and accuses Matt of "treating him like shit" and that was never there for him. Matt tries to reason with Andrew by admitting that he wasn't always there for him, but that they could put an end to this together, fly away and be a family. When Matt tells Andrew that this is not who he is, he proceeds to outright declare himself an "apex predator", and hits Matt with a bus. The two cousins begin their violent showdown in the middle of downtown Seattle, with Matt still trying to stop Andrew from hurting people.

However, badly injured from both the convenience store fire and the physical confrontation between himself and Matt, and weakened with grief over his mother, Andrew hits the ground twice. Both times Matt attempts to protect him from the police officers threatening to shoot and kill him. When he lands beneath a statue, the police ignores Matt's pleas and Andrew's cry to "leave him alone" and opens fire on Andrew. Enraged, Andrew freezes the bullets mid-air and drops them to the ground before sending the entire force and all their cars sprawling back with another burst of telekinetic energy in retaliation. He then releases a scream of agony, and proceeds to mindlessly destroy everything around him, breaking all the windows of the buildings surrounding him. Realizing that Andrew can't be stopped or reasoned with, Matt pleads desperately with him for the last time, crying, "Don't make me do it!". Realizing that Andrew can't be stopped or reasoned with, Matt eventually, painfully relents, and impales his cousin with the spear of a statue. Andrew dies, and Matt flies away before the police can reach him.

Abilities

 * Advanced Telekinesis: Advanced telekinetics are able to perform feats that are far greater than those who possess only the basic form of telekinesis, such as moving multiple objects all at once, causing rooms to violently shake and the ability can also extend to allow users to be able to produce energy of pure telekinetic force to various degrees. This can also be utilized through more powerful applications of basic telekinesis. In some instances, telekinetics might grow to to be able to generate a blast of telekinetic energy, capable of hurling objects or beings back with extreme force. Those with advanced telekinesis might also be able to produce a field of telekinetic energy that can immobilize beings. This application seems to be based solely on concentration and force, with it being possible for users to not be able to hold their targets for very long. It is also possible to develop the ability to generate beams of telekinetic energy from the hands, capable of at least knocking beings and objects backwards.
 * Flight: Flight is the ability to move through the force of gravity in any atmosphere, propelling oneself through air and space. The user can fly or otherwise move through the air using various methods. Some possibilities include using one or more forms of energy, wings or similar structures, harnessing anti-gravitons, or even mimicking or becoming an animal that can fly.
 * Telekinetic Blasts: The user can release a blast of telekinetic force over a specific target area, causing great damage and/or delivering great shock waves of pure telekinetic power.
 * Multitasking: It can levitate and fluidly manipulate dozens of objects
 * Force Field: The user can create a field formed from energy, elements, the environment, or by manipulating smaller items to form a greater whole. Typically centered on or around the user like an aura, these fields often take on a spherical or flat shape and manifest in the form of a barrier or surface such as a shield, wall, dome, or bubble. They can either possess a solid, fluid or elastic structure and surface. Some of these barriers even possess texture similar to that of glass or crystal, creating the appearance of a nearly unbreakable window-like barrier or a transparent shimmer, while others manifest of an amorphous, sometimes invisible or completely imperceptible force or energy that can be made to resemble matter. Force-Fields are capable of blocking or impeding approaching objects and nullifying attacks, including physical and energy based attacks or even repelling or reflecting them, as well being used as a means of containment to imprison others. Some users are also able to throw shields away from themselves or to catch things with them, while other's may possess sufficient enough control over their force-fields to mold them into a variety of shapes, objects, structures and other more advanced forms. It is even possible to use these barriers as armor by creating thinner force-fields around one's own body or that of others, preventing objects or forces from damaging or even touching them if desired. Other users are able to shrink their force field and use it as a projectile, in addition to other offensive measures rather than only defensive, such as creating a force-field inside an object or person and expanding the force-field so that the object or person explodes. At its most versatile, a user may be able to move, manipulate and otherwise interact with matter or energy using their fields, depending on their level of control over the ability and the exact properties of their fields. Despite their notable strength and durability, force-fields aren't always impenetrable and can be removed by energy drain or extreme force.
 * Energy Projection: The user can emit/project energy in a variety of shapes and forms, such as waves, blasts, auras, etc.
 * Supernatural Strength: Users are glaringly, obviously, and unnaturally stronger than their race because their capabilities are pushed beyond the natural level and superior to most supernatural beings in their verse; making them immensely stronger than normal members of their species (in that 'verse) can be achieved by any method of training. Depending on the users, they are capable of lifting from massive vehicles to large airplanes and able to lift massive boulders and locomotives with ease. Their high-level immense strength enables them to overpower users with peak human strength and enhanced strength. Users are capable of tearing through the strongest metals with their bare hands like paper. Offensively, depending on the users' strength, they can send opponents flying several miles away, create cracks in the lithosphere, or release a force of energy equivalent to nuclear weapons upon an entire city.
 * Instinct: The user possesses instincts that allows them to become a master of evasion and survival. Users with this ability can discern numerous factors of a situation, including how much of a threat a foe poses, what move they will make, where they are going, and if these things relate to bringing harm to the user, as well as how to hide without giving away one’s presence, and how to preserve energy when running.

Quotes
"ᛏᚺᛖ ᚷᚢᚨᚱᛞᛁᚨᚾ ᛁᛋ ᛗᚨᛏᛏ ᚷᚨᚱᛖᛏᛏᚤ (The Guardian is Matt Garetty)"

- When Mike finds out who he really is

"WHO AM I?! AM I REALLY THE GUARDIAN?!"

- Mike to Invictus.

"Matt: When I was seven, I had a terrible nightmare which traumatized me. Then my mother came over and told me a story about a hero named The Guardian. His goal was to protect innocent people among his people against evil beasts. And that one day he will come into the world to save other people on the planet earth. It made me feel good. One day, I was angry and hit into a table on the patio. I got 3 stitches. Right here. We both hate bees. We both lost loved ones. We had nightmares because of that. We have the same scar on the fist. And we both knew The Guardian's story. Right? America: Yeah. Matt: You’re my sister? America: No. [Give him a comic with her on the cover] Matt: You're America Chavez? America: Yeah. Matt: You are me? America: I'm you."

"You are not only a hero or a superhero, You're a good man. And it's worth more than just a superhero"

- America to Mike (10 years old).

"I don't know what happens next, but we will face it. Together."

- Mike to his team

"Thank you for not giving up on me."

- Mike Parker

Trivia

 * He's a sim from Sims 4.