I'm with others on either going with Michael or Mikhail, or something of the sorts.
Though I would just leave that as a lore background thing and still put Mike on my character, if you want people to go by it even OOC, and then just explain it IC if it ever comes up. If you're going to be introducing yourself as Mike it seems simpler that way to me.
Personally I'm using a stage name that doesn't follow naming convention at all, but I have an IC name following the convention and a background reason to follow it, and I'm obsessed with unified branding; how else can people find me that I knew from other games!
My view of things might be influenced by having a grandfather that used his nickname the entire time to the degree that I literally didn't know what his real first name was before he died.[sup]Though they still used his nickname rather than real name in the funeral.
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Though I would just leave that as a lore background thing and still put Mike on my character, if you want people to go by it even OOC, and then just explain it IC if it ever comes up. If you're going to be introducing yourself as Mike it seems simpler that way to me.
Personally I'm using a stage name that doesn't follow naming convention at all, but I have an IC name following the convention and a background reason to follow it, and I'm obsessed with unified branding; how else can people find me that I knew from other games!
My view of things might be influenced by having a grandfather that used his nickname the entire time to the degree that I literally didn't know what his real first name was before he died.[sup]Though they still used his nickname rather than real name in the funeral.
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