break up with ur gf, i'm bored ♡

2. rich assaults jeremy, belittles him, and from what we can infer he's been doing this for a whole year! and he gets jeremy in the situation with the squip in the first place. yes, rich has a squip but what do you think the squip is a metaphor for? social pressure. chloe's experiencing extreme social pressure to be desirable and when brooke threatens that, she herself thinks that she has to take action. jake also threatens to kill jeremy as well, scaring jeremy to the point where he feels he needs to hide in the bathroom because he genuinely fears for his safety, but no one gets on his case either.

3. chloe is not an antagonist where the hell did you get that from??? she's a supporting character. the squip is the only antagonist in the show. if you're going to argue that there is a secondary antagonist, the only case you really can argue is rich.

4. jake is also written to be rooted against. he's written as the primary competitor to jeremy, for christs sake, but no one hates him as much as they do chloe.

sketches 0_0

And before anyone tries to say I'm defending her actions in Do You Wanna Hang:

1. No I'm fucking not

2. Like all the characters in the show, she's much more nuanced than the 2017 one-dimensional fanonization a lot of older fans still have lingering on their tongues

Since it's the elephant in the room, let's discuss DYWH a little more in depth. (By all means if the subject matter is triggering to you, skim or skip as much as you need to.)

Are Chloe's actions completely out of line? Yes, I'm not denying that. Chloe does in fact kiss Jeremy unprompted, even after he expresses that he "has to go."

But might I remind you that the squip is Literally Preventing Jeremy From Moving And Forcing Him To Stay Just A Few Lines Before This.

Should Chloe have kissed Jeremy when he expressed that he wants to leave? No, and we don't know how stubborn she would've been even if she was sober. (Not that the alcohol is an excuse, obviously.)

On the topic of alcohol:

Despite what many animatics would have you believe, the squip is the one that makes Jeremy drink, THEN makes him kiss Chloe. Chloe didn't do that. All she did was hand him the bottle.

The squip made him drink it. The squip is keeping him here. The squip holds all the cards.

"But Chloe continues to harass him!" I hear you say. Well, let's look at the next few lines, shall we?

Hear me out on this: Before Jake shows up, Chloe's ready to give up. Katlyn's delivery (in two river, I cant speak for off-bway and on) is dejected and tired. Jeremy's giving really mixed signals, she never even liked him in the first place (see "you're less cute when you're talking" from before the Japanese section), she only ever wanted to make Jake (and probably Brooke) jealous, plus she's REALLY drunk and probably starting to feel sick from it. She's "had enough."

Jake finally shows up though, and NOW "the fun begins." Cue the fake sex noises and emphasizing that they're on Jake's parents' bed.

Plus, isn't it weird that only AFTER Jake can see her that she goes on top of Jeremy? She's not touching him while she's being loud and obnoxious, not as it's written in the script. (Granted it doesn't say when Jeremy's shirt came off, but only now does she try to make things LOOK incriminating now that Jake's here.)

She never wanted to sleep with Jeremy. She just wanted Jake to think she did.

Should she have ever put Jeremy in that situation in the first place? FUCKING DURR NO SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE. But can we please just fucking remember who the real villain of the show is? Ya know, the one force that actually made it so that Jeremy COUDLNT LEAVE.

The SECOND the squip is down for the count (after it spouts of "WARNING WARNING" and isn't heard from again until after Christine leaves), Jeremy guns it! And Chloe doesn't stop him! Jake is pissed off, mission accomplished! She doesn't need Jeremy anymore!

Chloe's an insecure teenage girl that's afraid of being insignificant so she makes stupid fucking choices. DYWH in particular is a REALLY stupid choice.

I'm not asking you to forgive her. I'm not asking you to listen to DYWH on repeat. I'm not even asking you to like Chloe. Maybe just don't declare her the worst character in the show and make others others feel like shit for playing with her character and making her more than Hot Girl #1.

Chloe is among the least developed characters, even after script changes, so maybe you can't pick out a lot of redeeming qualities. Maybe there are none in canon. That's never stopped fandom from making things up and projecting onto their blorbos.

She's catty, she's mean, she's pretty much written to be unlikable. But she's a terrible actress, she snaps a hanger in half at the mere mention of Madeline's name, she gives Jeremy the Absolute Most Backhanded Advice during VIMH and it's Hilarious in both versions of the script. ("She probably thinks that acne is hot," she a little confused but she got the spirit. "Don't dump her on Halloween," YOU CAUSED THAT DRAMA YOURSELF. Call it gaslighting but it's Literally played as a joke, much the same as her mini rant in the second verse of Smartphone Hour. And while we're talking about it,, the truth literally comes out during The Play when Brooke and Chloe find out that neither of them slept with Jeremy. How much that gets elaborated on off-screen is up for fanfic/headcanon to decide.)

As much as people can see all sides of the squipcident (ie how Jeremy and Michael both went through hell in their own ways) it seems like EVERYONE demonizes Chloe for one (1) scene that had way more squip interferance than it seems like ANYONE will admit.

I can compartmentalize: Chloe fucked up AND she has really funny moments. Chloe fucked up AND she has a lot of societal pressures as a conventionally attractive teenage girl. Chloe fucked up AND it barely holds a candle to the part the squip played in Jeremy's life ON HALLOWEEN ALONE.

She kissed him once unprompted, got on top of him for 3 seconds, and certainly made him uncomfortable. But the fucking squip assaulted him more than Chloe EVER did by MAKING him drink, MAKING him kiss her when he didn't want it the first time, PREVENTING him from moving, and KNOWING that Chloe was going to try and make a move on him IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE and ACTIVELY KEEPING HIM THERE when it surely would've known that there was SOME PROBABLE OUTCOME where he wouldn't be ok with it, if there was EVER an outcome where he would be ok with it.

AUs I don't mind! If it fundamentally changes the role the squip plays in the story, have at it! Go nuts!

If it's the squip coming back after the events of the show asking for forgiveness (which i have my own issues with because it's A Computer that doesn't Need that kind of emotional relief),, why would Michael or Jeremy ever forgive it?

It electrocuted Jeremy constantly, nitpicked everything about him, degraded him, took control of his body and speech multiple times, literally erased Michael from sight and earshot (unprompted at first, then again after trying to convince him that things will be better off without him, while under the surface it's cutting him off from the one person with resources to shut the squips down), allowed DYWH to happen and exacerbated it ten times over, psychologically manipulated him throughout Upgrade and Pitiful Children, made him fight Michael during The Play and (depending on your interpretation) made him say things he didn't mean in a last ditch attempt to get rid of him (I personally think the squip twisted Jeremy's jealousy over Michael's overall disinterest in popularity to sound more accusatory than he ever imagined it as), and tried to turn the entire school/world into a hivemind by using Christine - the "prize" it promised from Upgrade on - against him.

And for Michael, having ALL of that happen to his best friend, PLUS dealing with the isolation of being seemingly ignored for weeks on end, running in circles trying to find info on squips, frantic floundering for some way to save Jeremy when finding out just how bad they are, getting brushed off when he tries to help (technically Jeremy's doing bc the squip was off by then, but we have to wonder how much the squip has influenced his line of thinking as it digs deeper into his brain and finds new things to use in its favor), panic attack in the bathroom at a party, and the utter hopelessness that came after that with the supposed reality that they're not friends anymore.

And what, the squip was just,,, following its programming??

Chloe is drunk during DYWH.

That's not the mind blowing part. The mind blowing part is that technically speaking, Chloe can't consent either. She's not being forced into this situation by a megalomaniacal supercomputer mind you, but that same megalomaniacal supercomputer KNEW she was drunk and STILL tried forcing Jeremy to sleep with her.

Maybe not a point to make Chloe look better per se, but continues to prove that the squip doesn't Really have anyone's best interest in mind.