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Sugilita:

Ahh, thank you for your thoughtful engagement. Let's continue. :)

Anyway, I guess it's possible they had an exotic kind of crush. Human(oid) relationships aren't always simple black & white, after all.

Speaking personally, I cannot say how likely it is, because I've never had a crush that wasn't, well...a crush, and I've never had a crush on someone whose gender I am not attracted to. I may be qualified to comment in areas of personal experience, but I'm not qualified to comment with confidence on a relationship model I've never personally experienced.

If this were Mythbusters, I couldn't say "Busted" or "Confirmed," and I'm not even sure if I could claim "Plausible" without a better understanding of the relationship model you speak of. I can just say "Possible" or "Inconclusive." :)

And yes&mdash;bisexual or pansexual seem likely to me. I don't know which of the two would be more likely of Mikey, because the "not pansexual" bisexuals and true pansexuals I know tend to characterize their gender attraction in different ways: attraction to men and women vs. attraction to people. Bisexuals are attracted to men and are also attracted to women, but pansexuals don't care as much about a person's gender. I've heard a pansexual describe it like this: "Does it matter?  You have the same number of body parts." It might certainly be more interesting if Mikey was pansexual.

I miss Mikey in Season 1 and 2, when he had relatively more character depth and wasn't a total walking punchline. He's been simplified so much this season, and I don't like it.