MERRITT, gerard misha

[GERARD MISHA MERRITT]

TAKE WHAT IS LEFT OF ME

AND MAKE IT A BEAUTIFUL MELODY

GERARD MISHA MERRITT
YOU'D BE MY REMEDY

25 ,.,., civilian ,.,., pizza man ,.,., misha collins
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THE BASICS

1. If anyone calls him Gerard, it's likely that Misha will go sulk in the back of his kitchen. It's Misha, never Gerard.
2. Misha works as a chef (read: pizza-man). He owns and works at a pizzeria across from the flower bay known simply as "Misha's Pizzeria", but he'll also bake cakes of a questionable subject.
3. He's an only child. His mother was a hippie who was born and raised in a commune, and his father was an aspiring businessman for a computer company.
4. He lives alone over the pizzeria with his cat, Domino.
5. Misha used to be a computer whiz, and was going to Caltech before deciding midway through his second year that food was his calling, not computers. He moved to New York City and started his pizza business.
6. That being said, he'll still sell you homemade cheat codes for video games and track down that guy who hacked your World of Warcraft account. Misha and morals don't exactly go in the same sentence. He has his own set of values that don't match up with other people's, at times.
7. He has a giant soft spot for pop music, old movies, and truly awful puns.
8. Misha has been around pizza and pizza-related things since he was nineteen, and so he's a little bit obsessed. He has posters and t-shirts and pens and mugs and the occasional pair of clip-on earrings proclaiming how awesome pizza is.
9. Misha's known for being fickle (see his drop out of college to start a pizzeria in the middle of New York), and it takes him excruciatingly long amounts of time to actually make decisions.
10. He has an irrational hatred of dogs. It's not a fear, he just really hates them.

SMALLER DETAILS

1. Misha is rather paranoid. His shop was robbed once, and he has taken to hiding rolling pins and baseball bats around the store and his room to "take down attackers".
2. Even though he's apparently ready to defend himself, he is a pacifist, stemming from his mother's ideals. He'll play the odd round of HALO or Call of Duty, but apart from that, violence is a big no-no.
3. Misha tends to be bad at communicating out loud, as he ends up laughing nervously about everything or putting his foot in his mouth. He prefers to text or call unless he knows the other person decently well.
4. His favorite color is blue.
5. Misha genuinely enjoys cooking. Pizza, questionable cakes, muffins, whatever, he'll try and make it.
6. Unfortunately, his background as a Caltech student means that mildly nerdy pranks and experiments happen a lot. He'll sell those experiments half-price (no returns) as long as you call back with results. The TARDIS cake was a particular hit for a while, even though he couldn't get Matt Smith to climb inside it and burst out.
7. Misha can't drive. He never got his license, and he has a legitimate fear of driving. Public transportation or friends is how he gets around.
8. He has mild separation issues with friends and family. He doesn't have a large friend base (an obsession with pizza and the fact that he's lived with himself and a cat for five years took care of that) and so cherishes the friends that he does have above all.
9. Misha is passive-aggressive when he's angry. Instead of coming out with his anger, he does little things to try and make whoever angered him's life that much more miserable (the silent treatment, frowny faces on pizza, moves everything the person owns an inch to the side...)
10. Misha is fluent in Klingon and Latin.

TEN HABITS

Misha taps his feet when he's bored. Occasionally, just to psych out other Whovians, he'll tap his foot in a rhythm with four fast taps.

When listening to music, he tends to only have one earphone in, and swings the other one around to the beat. If he's trying to ignore someone, or is really enjoying the music, he'll have both ears in.

Instead of the general way most people put their hands on keyboards, he has his right hand shifted over so that his index finger is on the "H" key. He claims that he types faster like this.

If Misha is stressed, he either cooks or tries to come up with codes to encrypt messages in. He has a glass panel in his apartment that has lots of equations and these codes on it, a la Numbers.

Misha laughs or giggles when he's uncomfortable.

He wakes up every morning very early so he can bake, and leaves his employees to take the later dinner crowd, leaving work at eight-thirty (earlier on weekends). Of course, a lot of this time is spent having karaoke contests when orders aren't coming in (he gives an award monthly for the best performance).

Ever since his shop was robbed, he keeps his money in a piggybank in a safe that's under his bed, and has various concealed bats all around his building.

Misha goes to a cafe near his pizzeria if he has enough time/fund to dip into. He's known as a regular there, ordering the same two things, a hot chocolate or a cappuccino.

Misha only smokes when he's really tense or upset about something.

Misha often talks to his cat as if it were a person. This includes asking Domino for his opinion on what political party he should vote for, what ingredients they should buy, if he would be a dear and clean up that sink...

NINE FIRSTS

Misha owned his first cat when he was five. Her name was Beatles (after the band, much to his parents' confusion) and she had four kittens, which he named after the band members, but had to give away.

His first computer was actually one of his father's models, that wasn't his as much as he used it semi-illegally when he was a teenager.

His first real girlfriend's name was Rose Featherfield, a British exchange student in his high school. They broke up after five months because as sweet as she was, she didn't want Misha trying to talk to her about computers and comics.

Misha's first kiss was from a girl, Amanda Jones. It was an unrequited thing from her side, and he didn't even know why she was attracted to him.

The first time Misha got knocked out was in college when he accidentally dropped a drink on a guy twice his size. He got the pulp beaten out of him, and if not for his knowing a quarterback twice the size of the man beating him up, he might have actually been beaten to death.

Misha's first paycheck was when he was thirteen and managed to work his way into an arcade game and rigged it to be impossible to lose for a few friends.

This was also Misha's first encounter with the law.

His first realization that cooking was his thing was half-way through the second year of college, where he stood up and walked out of a test, gathered his possessions, and moved to New York City.

His first experience where knowing how to speak Klingon came in handy happened when he bumped into someone in a subway, and got out of a fight by performing a Klingon battle cry. It scared the living daylights out of his would-be attacker.

EIGHT LOSSES

Misha lost his grandfather at age seven. His grandmother is still alive and kicking, and he loves the woman. She sends him letters all the time, and he sends her cookies and his own letters.

Misha fought the law when he was arrested for hacking into a database, and the law won. He had to pay three thousand dollars.

Misha lost his bicycle when he was twelve. He isn't sure what happened, if someone stole it or if he forgot where he put it, but it disappeared.

His cat, Domino, ran away once. Misha was devastated until he returned, a bit skinnier and with fleas.

He lost his keys and got locked out of his apartment once, and had to sleep outside until one of his employees came with a spare key.

When he was twenty, he was in a relationship with a woman named Sarah. She left him when he dropped out of college, and he's always missed her. He has mixed feelings about ever getting back together with her, but he would like her back in his life.

Misha continually loses his writing utensils, and so has a pen on a lanyard (along with a spare key and a pizza charm).

He lost a hot dog he was eating once to a seagull. It was a vaguely traumatizing experience.

SEVEN FAVORITES

His favorite color is navy blue.

His fruit of choice is a peach or a plum, depending on his mood.

Misha really likes pop music. Whether it's old pop or new pop (he also has a soft spot for dubstep), he knows most artists and sings along loudly.

Misha's favorite animal is the ostrich, with the cat coming in a close second. This might switch out to the emu, or even the emo (Misha switches the two up frequently).

His favorite food is- believe it or not- pizza. Despite being around pizza near constantly, Misha could always have a slice of pizza. Or some chicken wings. Or a calzone. Make that a Family Value pack, he eats a lot.

His favorite holiday is Christmas, and he decks out the pizzeria and has Christmas-themed pizzas and sells baked goods all through December.

Although he doesn't wear them (in public, at least), Misha thinks that stilettos are pretty cool, and they're his favorite type of shoe.

SIX DAYS

May 26,1987. Misha is born! The world is instantly wary.

April 26, 1994. His grandfather dies, his grandmother becomes his favorite person in the world for her comforting, etc.

July 3, 2000. Misha got into trouble with the feds because he rigged an arcade game.

August 25, 2005. He gets into Caltech, starts dating Sarah.

January 22, 2007. Misha dropped out of college to go and start his pizzeria, he loses Sarah, he gains a cat and an apartment.

July 24, 2009. Misha goes to Comic Con dressed as Princess Leia, finds a whole bunch of cool people who advertise for him, makes out with a stranger, gets a piercing that he'd rather not talk about.

FIVE INSULTS/THREATS

"You silly Muggle!"

"I hope your pizza burns as black as your soul!"

"I wish that you'd die as many times as Rory does."

"This rolling pin does much more than flatten pizza dough..."

"You blithering idiot!"

FOUR CHILDHOOD TOYS

Misha was taught from a young age to cook. He picked it up when his mother read the recipes out loud and he watched her. The oven was one of his "toys".

A blue teddy bear known simply as "Blue" was Misha's confidant until he was nine.

Misha read a lot of books, some of his favorites being "Gulliver's Travels" and anything by Jules Verne. He did a lot of sci-fi.

He was gifted a set of cards from his grandmother when he was eight, and she taught him how to play many games.

THREE CONFESSIONS

Indeed, it was Misha at that 2009 Comic Con who dressed up as Princess Leia and made out with a Hans Solo cosplayer. For whatever reason, he did get an action figure signed by Stan Lee from said cosplayer.

Misha never told one of his college friends that it was he who hacked into his World of Warcraft account and killed all of his guildmates. It was revenge, cold revenge for an incident of taking the last Klondike bar.

He put anchovies on a pizza where the customer had explicitly told him "hold the anchovies" by yelling it in his face. He was not amused.

TWO DREAMS

Misha would really like to find someone who would put up with his nonsense and settle down with him. He doesn't care if it was a platonic bromance or an actual romantic relationship, he just doesn't like being lonely with only his cat for company.

Misha dreams of starting an a cappella band with his workplace from the many hours of karaoke, known as "Misha and the Breadsticks". No one has agreed to be part of the band yet.

ONE LOVE

Although he would like to say that his one love was pizza, Sarah Brightman was the woman that he loved the most. Unfortunately, she broke up with him when he left for New York City and went on to be a successful architect, while Misha is happy with his pizza. He loved Sarah dearly, but now has mixed feelings about that time of his life.

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