Mia in DC-verse
Sep. 24th, 2021 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morechillIt was supposed to just be a little pill. One pill (instead of all the anti-anxiety pills every day for as long as it takes) that would solve all her social anxiety by just telling her what to do in social situations instead of leaving her to freak out over it by herself. And it did, for a while? It helped. The SQUIP advised her on how to be prettier and cooler and better, and she let it, even if sometimes its methods sucked a lot and made her feel even worse about herself than she did before.
It's when the SQUIP gets it into its head that helping Mia isn't enough, it needs to get a SQUIP into everyone at her school that shit goes way too far. She tries refusing to do what it wants, but it physically takes over her body and uses it to start stealing the materials needed to make more SQUIPs. What follows is basically a waking nightmare until her best friend Michael gets in touch with some mysterious Oracle person online, who figures out a way to temporarily shut down the SQUIP.
Mostly by drugging her. Which sucks, but you know what? Feeling weird and fuzzy and kind of disconnected from herself but still herself is way better than the SQUIP using her as a human meat puppet. This is literally the first time in months that he hasn't been there, telling her what to say and do and threatening her with electrical shocks and worse if she didn't comply.
Also, it's definitely helping her feel less anxious about hanging out with the Red Hood. Because she's hanging out with the Red Hood, total badass but sometimes morally-questionable vigilante, while Michael coordinates with Oracle to find a better, more permanent solution. And yeah, everyone knows that the Red Hood doesn't hurt kids and she's technically a kid, but she also has a dangerous computer in her head that could maybe take back over at any time.
So, yeah. Mostly since meeting him, she's been kind of sitting quietly and watching him nervously when she's not thoroughly spacing out. It really does not help her social skills right now that the voice in her ear that's been guiding her through pretty much every situation for a quarter of a year is gone.
It's when the SQUIP gets it into its head that helping Mia isn't enough, it needs to get a SQUIP into everyone at her school that shit goes way too far. She tries refusing to do what it wants, but it physically takes over her body and uses it to start stealing the materials needed to make more SQUIPs. What follows is basically a waking nightmare until her best friend Michael gets in touch with some mysterious Oracle person online, who figures out a way to temporarily shut down the SQUIP.
Mostly by drugging her. Which sucks, but you know what? Feeling weird and fuzzy and kind of disconnected from herself but still herself is way better than the SQUIP using her as a human meat puppet. This is literally the first time in months that he hasn't been there, telling her what to say and do and threatening her with electrical shocks and worse if she didn't comply.
Also, it's definitely helping her feel less anxious about hanging out with the Red Hood. Because she's hanging out with the Red Hood, total badass but sometimes morally-questionable vigilante, while Michael coordinates with Oracle to find a better, more permanent solution. And yeah, everyone knows that the Red Hood doesn't hurt kids and she's technically a kid, but she also has a dangerous computer in her head that could maybe take back over at any time.
So, yeah. Mostly since meeting him, she's been kind of sitting quietly and watching him nervously when she's not thoroughly spacing out. It really does not help her social skills right now that the voice in her ear that's been guiding her through pretty much every situation for a quarter of a year is gone.
