Caleb Michaels

Caleb Michaels
A possible profile of Caleb by vlasdygoth
Details
Full Name	Caleb William Michaels
Alias	Meathead (by Adam) Human mood ring
Date of Birth	May 16, 1999
Family	David Michaels (father) Helen Michaels (mother) Alice Michaels (sister)
Occupation	High school student
Affiliation	Football team
First Mentioned	Episode 2
Portrayed By
Voice Actor	Briggon Snow
First Heard	Episode 2

Caleb's patient file from the desk of Dr. Bright.

Caleb William Michaels is an atypical with an empathic ability which manifested in his early teens. He has trouble controlling his own emotions, due, at least partially, to his abilities. Throughout The Bright Sessions he is in high school, plays football, and was sent to Dr. Joan Bright after getting into a serious fight with another student. As of The College Tapes he is a psychology major at Boston University. Caleb's sexuality is not defined but he is currently dating Adam Hayes.

Biography

Episode 2

Caleb comes in for his ninth session with Dr. Bright. He hasn't been making much progress in previous sessions. Dr. Bright greets him kindly, asking about how football is going for him. He replies indifferently and almost curtly. The topic shifts to school and leads to a discussion on Macbeth, eventually changing tone because Caleb reveals that he feels as if he's "made something worse" for someone. From here, he begins to talk about an "emo" boy in his class named Adam whose sadness is quite overpowering for his empathy. Caleb stopped some of his teammates from being cruel to Adam but seemed to have said the wrong thing in doing so, causing Adam to be more upset and angry. Dr. Bright decides that an acceptable way of trying to help Adam would be by first becoming his friend. Reluctantly, he agrees and seems to be more focused during his meditation exercises because of it.

Abilities

(Warning: This section contains spoilers for The College Tapes.)

Caleb starts off the series with class A-7 empathy. He has the ability to feel the emotions of others and, the better he knows someone, the more precisely he can sense their feelings.

However, as of The College Tapes he also has the ability to project emotions onto those around him. He is still in the process of learning how to control what he refers to as his "Pokemon evolution" and has on a few occasions accidentally used his ability to influence people.

Relationships 

Adam Hayes

Adam is Caleb's boyfriend. The two met at school and were in the same English class. Caleb felt Adam's emotions more strongly than the emotions of his other classmates. At first he was annoyed by how much Adam's feelings stood out, especially given that his emotions were usually negative (due to the fact that he struggles with depression). But after Caleb defended Adam to a group of bullies, he began to pursue a friendship with Adam (with encouragement from Dr. Bright). Their friendship eventually led to both of them developing romantic feelings that they believed to be unrequited until episode 15 of The Bright Sessions, in which Caleb confesses his feelings to Adam over the phone in the middle of a therapy session. The two decide to take a break in Season 2 episode 13, where Caleb finds out what Adams parents do too Atypicals and becomes paranoid. They do not talk for the rest of the school year or summer but are shown to be back together by episode 7 of season 3. Caleb asks Adam to meet up at the park and Adam records it because, "I wasn’t sure how this was gonna go and if it went badly maybe we would never talk again and…well, I like listening to your voice, okay?"-Adam. They are together for the rest of the main storyline and I assume they are still together in the AM Archives(it is never stated otherwise. As of now I (the person editing this) has not finished the College Tapes, but I do know that in the beginning they have broken up because of college. I am not sure if they get back together after that, if and when i finish it I'll try to edit this again.

Caleb Michaels
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Chloe Turner

Chloe and Caleb met in episode 215- stakeout #2 season 2. She meets both Caleb and Adam after she sees Damien terrorizing them. Caleb and chloe hang out together after that. They both go and volunteer at an art therapy place. They both also take an interest in Frank, and they both want to help him. Chloe also immediately call's Caleb after she see's suspicious things in Adam's parents brains when she mentions Frank. They are both Class-A Atypicals.

Samantha Barnes

Sam and Caleb know each other through Chloe. While they don't interact much, Caleb does get her a birthday present and (briefly) goes to her birthday party. They are friends.

Dr. Joan Bright

Caleb is her patient. He often comes to her for advice ranging from school to relationships. Joan is shown to be especially fond of Caleb because he reminds her of Mark, her brother. Caleb also studies Psychology, because he'd like to become a therapist like Joan. "it’s made me think about what I want to do after high school. And I think it could be good to use this weird thing I have for a career. Like, study psychology or social work in college and then use the empathy to be, like, really, really fucking good at it. "-Caleb.

Trivia

• I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson was a huge influence on Caleb's character.
• Caleb is Christian.
• Caleb's Myers-Briggs personality type is INFP.
• Caleb is the tallest person in the main cast.