#xina voice miguel that ship sailed 15 years ago. now play pokemon crystal with me

[mindshelter]

in a version of sm2099 where the writer's room cared about their women we would have gotten explicit, on-panel evidence that tyler stone wanted xina dead yesterday for reasons entirely separate from her connections with miguel. don't get me wrong, the miguel thing helps; tyler was probably doing a premature victory lap for successfully isolating miguel from his support system, as abusers love to do, only for some knight in shining armour in the form of a twelve-year-old girl to decide that miguel is now her sweet bun to guard. her pookie. her mantou.

anyway. she's already an ideological deviant in a setting that values homogeneity, is far too smart for her own good, and was one of the people directly responsible for getting kron expelled because she refused to keep her head down. as she gets older, she declines to work with alchemax -- and given her expertise in technology and AI, her refusal (especially as one of their former students), to the company, was likely a huge loss for their dedication towards a more ironclad surveillance state. the world's most massive middle finger. she could have been one of their crown jewels. this was likely on par, or an even bigger loss than if miguel... say, refused to comply on the corporate raiders project (oops), and even tried to quit (double oops).

she's 100% been on a watchlist since she was thirteen, and she knows it, if her development of the paranoia perfect 6.0 protocol says anything about her distrust towards the state. good for her!