>>30642401Miko's stress keep piling up, and she can't find a way to deal with it. It's starting to seriously affect her work. Until one morning where all that built up tension cause her to trip and fall. By chance, someone manages to catch her just in time. In that instant, she feels the pressure releasing, as if a valve suddenly opened. She thanks the stranger and quickly run away.
At the end of the day, her manager messages her telling her that she're glad she finally found a way to deal with her stress. Confused, Miko asks what she meant by this, and her manager, a bit surprised, replies that Miko looked way more calm and focused during her stream, back to her old self. Now confused, the idol explains that she didn't do anything special. Not wanting to let this opportunity go to waste, the manager pushes Miko to tell her about her day, determined to find something, anything. They both get into a call to make this quicker, and after an hour, are left a bit puzzled. Nothing different seems to have happened. Until Miko mention tripping in the street, which immediatly catches the manager's attention. You see, Miko suffers from a condition, and dealing with that takes a good part of the day. It involves messing with the schedules of pretty much everyone at Cover Corp, but also lots of planning around commuting. The job description is simple: "Keep a distance of at least 2 meters between Miko and any male." After a lot of therapy, hospital trips and research, this is the only way they found that keeps the idol in a positive mood. Any exception to that rule will instantly send her into a rage that usually last a few days. During that time, she can't stream, can't practice, can't even talk with her manager. She spends her days stress eating, lying in her bed, and posting in anonymous mysoginist communities online.
This is why the manager starts slowly trying to get more details about the tripping. Miko immediatly answers that she gets hugs from her collegues all the time, and that they have catch her from time to time, since she is a bit of a klutz. Knowing smomething is off, the manager sets up a trap by asking Miko how cute was her savoir, maybe she just fell in love with a tall blonde. As expected, she starts stuttering a bit, and seems confused that you think her savoir is a girl. Cutting her, the manager asks Miko if that person was a male. Suddenly, Miko leaves the call.
After all these times you finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel. This was going to be a long and hard road, but there is no way that you're going to miss this opportunity. Even if it goes against Miko's wishes at first, your job is to fix her. After all, idols are about growth, even if it's scary and painful, right?
I know I switched from she to you for the manager, I can't be bothered rewriting that. The main idea here is Miko overcoming her need of control and misandry through surrendering herself, body and mind, to males. This can include sex or not, my initial idea was to make the "psychological" version of lesbian getting straightened, through the more positive angle of self-acceptance. Something like Miko's insecurities manifesting as a need for control on everything. This clashes with her view that men are "in control" in general, which isn't an intellectual view but something that is part of who she is, and she can't change it. The two mix with denial and fear to create her misandry.
"This sounds like something an incel would write" The main character is female, and the story is about her. Men are used as obstacles and opportunities for growth, which will in the end benefit her. You can say that men "win" in the end because she admits she needs them, but the whole point here is to go beyond that idea of who wins and who loses, a zero sum game, to what can you both win by cooperating, a positive sum game. You can even expand the analysis through game theory with the Prisoner's dilemma and tit for tat strategies, where taking a risk by cooperating can have a huge payoff. Miko is the one acting like an incel here, and the story shows that she's wrong.
