βA closeted trans girl discovers her mother is a super villainβ
17 year-old Morgan knows one thing: she is not a boy. And yet there is nothing she can do about it because in the arcology in which she lives, queer expression is non-permissible. With a chronic nerve condition and a telepathic βglitchβ that requires regular and expensive medical care, Morgan has little hope of ever getting to leave. At least she still has Riley, her best friend and partner-in-literal-crime.
While life as a queer teen under the corporate microscope leaves much to be desired, the Praxis arcology, centered in heart of a flooded Boston, promises all its residents one thing above all. Because outside the arcologyβs protection people have to depend on forces like SWAT teams and self-stylized superheroes, while those inside remain safe from NMIV-72, a nanite virus that turns victims into monstrous creatures called βImago.β
When Brayden, an ex-friend turned enemy reaches out for help spying on his girlfriend, the only thing Morgan wants is to tell him to go hang. It takes Bray offering an absurd amount of money, money that could help replace Rileyβs cochlear implant, to convince Morgan otherwise. Instead of proof, they find footage of Morganβs mother, the brilliant scientist Dr. Rivka Abrams conspiring to doβ¦ something illegal and press-ganging Braydenβs girlfriend into it. And then the first ever Imago attack occurs inside the arcology involving the same device Dr. Abrams was seen using.
Just what have they stumbled into? And who can you trust with the truth when all youβve ever done is lie?
General Content warnings: Ableism, Body Horror, Eating Disorders, Homophobia, Mental Illness, Transphobia
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