Mike Meekins

Personality
Mike Meekins is a bit of a spazz but eager to please. He carries around a megaphone and uses it much too often, which usually results in people trying to purposefully dismiss him. But his heart's in the right place.

Misc Facts
He's prone to getting parts of his clothing trapped in car doors.

The character designer (Kazuya Nuri) created the image for Meekins having been told "he's pretty annoying, but also lovable."

Director Takumi describes Meekins as "existing in another world from ours." In the Japanese Meekins has an unnecessarily polite speech pattern. It was a problem for coding because he took up so many characters on screen when speaking.

The name "Harabai" is often mistaken for "Haibara" and the character

himself messes it up at least once in the game (though Takumi didn't specify if that was a script typo or not).

Name Origin
English Meekins probably just comes from the adjective "meek." Mike may have come from the fact that he's always using his megaphone, which is like a microphone

Japanese "Susumu" is a fairly common male Japanese name meaning, "to press forward." His name was chosen with Goodman's at the same time because they fit together well.

French "Ballaud" is a pun for balourd meaning "clumsy". May also come from the sentence "C'est ballot !" used when someone does something particularly foolish.

Background
Nothing in particular