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Happiness is the price of profound thought.
―Michael

Michael Alexander Holden, portrayed by Darragh Hand, is one of the main characters of Solitaire.

Appearance

Michael is described as an ordinary-looking boy, whose most noticeable feature is a pair of thick-framed glasses. He has brown hair that is usually gelled into a side-part, but when it isn't it's described to fly around in wavy tufts. He also has "heterochromia iridum", with one eye being blue and the other being green. During his cameo in Radio Silence, the narrator remarked that he seemed nerdy and awkward for an athlete, due to his height and the fact that he was wearing "massive glasses and jeans that were slightly too short for him."

Personality

Unlike Tori Spring, Michael is very optimistic and wacky. He used to be quite infamous at Truham because of this. However, Michael can also get very angry at himself and the world.

Michael hates school and likes dogs.

Trivia

  • He can barely see out of his blue eye due to an accident causing discoloration known as heterochromia iridum.
  • Tori Spring describes him as 'not ugly but not hot' and 'miscellaneous'.
  • Michael eventually gets a corgi.
  • He is a speed skater and eventually attends the Winter Olympics.
  • While skating, Michael wears lenses.
  • His MBTI type is ENFP/The Campaigner.
  • According to Alice Osman, the last name "Holden" was inspired by the main character of the Catcher in the Rye, "Holden Caufield", one of her favourite books and inspiring the entire novel itself.

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