sooo emory heere is a loser girlfailure who hates high school. her mom left months ago, her dad is neglectful of her, she gets made fun of for being queer at school and her only friend doesn’t understand her feelings. she also has a massive crush on christine canigula after seeing her play juliet the year prior; she signs up for the school play to get closer to christine, and ends up caught up in something much larger than herself.

rich pulls her aside after rehearsal and tells her about the squip, apologizing for tormenting her and explaining that she reminds him of himself pre-transition, so he and his squip felt the need to take it out on her :( she’s horrified but also really intrigued; melody picks her up after school and she expresses this later while hanging out. they go to the mall to see if it checks out, this part’s the same.

the squip works & surprise bitch it’s olivia rodrigo. emmy gets lost in the mall and is instructed to buy some new clothes, etc., running into brooke & chloe (who calls her emily lmao). brooke is very obviously infatuated with emmy and offers her a ride home; this is also goes the same way, just more lesbian.

the next day, emmy shows up to school dressed like an actual girl and not a body dysmorphic loser! she runs into rich, they sync, apologizes for not buying a squip through him. he says it’s fine and that he’ll meet her at rehearsal. she learns more abt her peers throughout the day — sync up.

later, she’s at rehearsal and finds out christine is into jake. which. of course she’s into that girl-stealing douchebag. she’s not into em because of Course she isn’t. but rich… he thinks em looks hotter now, he’s interested in her. brooke is also into em, yes, but dating a popular boy like rich could do wonders for her status, christine would finally see her as someone worth dating. em feels kinda sick and weird about it all so she steps out from rehearsal and has the squip shut off, which is when she finally sees melody.

melody confronts her, upset because em ditched her for no reason and now rich is making eyes at her??? & em finds out abt optic nerve blocking… and mel realizes what’s really going on with em. it does make her sad that she might have to ditch mel bc they do have this homoerotic codependent friendship going on, but. she’s been trapped in that friendship and her feelings of weirdness for too long. she’s never had a boyfriend or gone to parties. this is her chance to be a normal teenage girl, and if she really has to date rich…. it’s awful but it could really be a whole lot worse. em decides she wants to try going out with rich to get christine to notice her, so she does. so she stops talking to mel.

em starts hanging out with the popular kids instead and going on dates with rich, who she actually starts to get to know. she learns that when the squip isn’t puppeting him, he’s actually very sweet and funny and very clingy physically. she gets to know brooke and christine and all the others, she starts to finally fit in and feel like a cool girl for once,,, and her relationship with rich is actually really nice, even if he was an ass before. soon a month is passing by, she’s more popular and feels more confident than ever, all her bad habits have been zapped out of her, and she gets invited to jake’s halloween party… and christine will be there hehe!

btw em goes as a bunny 🐇 it’s important to me that u know this. it’s a cute little thing. she was supposed to show up to the party with rich, but he stopped texting everyone two days ago and didn’t show up to school that day so her night’s already off to a terrible start. but under the squip’s guidance, she tries to have a good time and go dance and chat with brooke and some others, and starts to feel better when rich finally shows up and starts talking to her a little bit (even though he’s frantic, she can’t rlly tell under these lights). they chat for a little while and dance together until rich runs off, then ohh noo chloe drags em upstairs (it’s okay guys i hate dywh so that’s not happening here)

it turns out chloe is jealous of em because chloe likes brooke, yet brooke is so obsessed with em. she expresses wanting to hook up to make brooke jealous, but em is uncomfortable with the fact—chloe is a bit touchy and clingy because she’s drunk, eventually chloe starts to feel sick and bored so she flops down onto the bed, and em uses that as her opportunity to go hide out in the bathroom. nothing invasive, just chloe being clingy and dumb and wanting some kisses from brooke but she’s mad she can’t get any, what’s the hype about this stupidly hot emory girl anyway?

so em hides out in the bathroom. where melody confronts her! their fight is pretty much the same, em accuses mel of being jealous because she’s finally having a normal life and isn’t stuck with her gayass friend who sucks, she’s finally not the weird autistic queer girl anymore, she can just be someone and she can be em, not emory, not emmy. which makes all of this stuff a lot more harmful to mel. i think since she’s in love with em but just has to accept that things have changed.

em is obviously pissed bc she accused mel of being gay for her so um she ends up storming out of the bathroom, she ends up meeting chris downstairs.

it turns out that chris and jake broke up. they chat for a while and by this point they’re both kinda tipsy and giggly, when rich is starting to lose it em just doesn’t. really notice that’s he’s actually in distress. neither does christine. it takes a bit of courage but there on the couch, em asks her out. however, christine says no, and em is left alone to sob til she’s told by the squip that she has to leave.

the next day, em finds out rich tried to kill himself. the rest of the show goes the same from here on out but know em’s in a deep state of numbness, which motivates her actions as she feels apathetic towards the idea of squipping the school until christine calling her crazy snaps her out of it 😭

the play goes the same yada yada, we forget about rich for a second until emmy ends up in the same hospital room as him (bc he trans). they agree to still be good friends and rich comes out as bi and it’s okay :’)

emmy and christine end up trying for a few weeks. it doesn’t work out. neither are mad about it and agree to stay good friends, plus christine kinda had a feeling that there was something rlly special between rich and emmy… who end up getting back together within the months following the squip :’) they learn to navigate post-squip life together n all that fun richjer stuff hehe

this is weird but bear w me, here’s my hcs for the au :) i’m gonna bold the new hcs and leave my usual ones

emmy: cis girl / a bit genderqueer but doesn’t know it yet (she/they)

melody: genderqueer but fem leaning (she/they)

rich: trans man (he/him)

christine: genderfluid ^^ (they/she/he)

brooke: enby (she/they)

jenna: genderqueer (she/any pronouns)

chloe: cis girl (she/her)

jake: cis guy (he/him)