*narrator voice* It, in fact, was all about her insecurities
Ok first up I have no idea what the plot is for this don't think too much abt the references in the dialogue it's just set dressing
For a long time I'd wanted to do an inverse version of the train scene
And also I looooove when characters become what they hate (esp on a path to avoid it hello eodipus), also love it when family dynamics fuck a character up, since nothing gets underneath skin like family
So imagine something like mira being threatened/ pressured/ idk sucked back into the vortex of her parents influence one way or another there's a couple of versions that I can't be bothered writing out (it also makes me seem insane). Anyway so the more she's around them/ they're in her head the more she becomes like them, despite her desperately trying to escape. Ie father= relentless Machiavellian ends justify the means no matter how brutal type a guy. And her mother being able to read people really well and knowing exactly what to say to cut them deep. A generational hater.
(I don't rope her brother in with the negative influence so much since I like to think that he's suffered as much as mira but it's affected him differently, so even tho their relationship is definitely strained/ non existent at this point there is still a shared understanding of each other, and its not as antagonistic. also they were once each other's only person so there's that in the mix)
Anyway so maybe rumi never apologised specifically abt the whole "not everything is abt ur insecurities" to mira. And she's fine w it I'm guessing rumi made sweeping apologies etc.
But mira strikes me as a person who forgives but doesn't forget.
And maybe in this backstory miras parents can put up a decent facade. Seeming like ok people who maybe want to reconnect and reconcile. And rumi, having done so with celine, maybe hopes that Mira can do so too. Maybe saying that mira should try, maybe leaving mira alone w her family (despite mira clearly wanting/ needing her and zoey to stay). And zoey follows rumis lead (conflict avoidance and all that). So mira feels pretty betrayed. Since as soon as r and z leave the facade falls. And it feels like everyone thinks she's overreacting. (Problem child)
And so normally she'd talk it out ie high emotional iq etc etc. But her family is an Achilles heel if you will. Like she is usually well adjusted except when she's around her parents. Where she gets super defensive (paranoid??) And a bit crazy in general.
And so tension stress blah blah blah and rumi hits a nerve abt the whole chip on her shoulder, smth to prove etc. But instead of acknowledging it, the shields are up the sword is drawn (refer back to the scene in the tonic Guys office) and she throws back rumis own words. And in doing so becomes the spitting image of her mother, as it is exactly what her mother would have said (Physically already she strongly takes after her mother but the tone, the sneer etc sends it into an uncanny resemblance)
And is there anything worse than becoming your parents (not always but u know what I mean)
also in contrast to rumi, who maybe says things impulsively that she doesn't really mean, mira actually means it (in that moment/mindset anyway) like she thinks before she talks, which in this case is probably worse than rumis clumsy outburst. Instead of trying to walk it back she clenches her jaw and stares rumi down
With zoey forever being a child of divorce lol
Again this isn't anything really just wanted to get the callback bit out and overcommitted to fleshing out the setup ew.
Like the other one spite is the sole motivator in the end here lol.
Id just want to stress that if this seems out of character for mira it's the intention, since she's acting like her parents not herself.
Im sure they work it out in the end tho
No therapy for my characters they're fighting it out
Also below is the type of shit her mother constantly says unprompted out of left field.
Like she'd be a funny character to watch in a black comedy but a truly horrible mother rip
