Heh. I'm trying not to have Neal actually be passive, throughout this – a lot more cautious about testing the waters before he takes a step, and less inclined to respond to things with sarcastic remarks and pointed observations, definitely, but still with an eye on his options. (He does contact Mozzie pretty much the moment the option becomes available, and gets Mozzie in on the Adler thing by doing a neat end-run via implication and insinuation around the NDA he's under, and starts his own investigation into this universe's Kate, who's having her own problems. And he gets to be a lot more himself around Mozzie, too.)
Really, what I'm angling for is more of the learned/affected submission you see in some black communities, where kids grow up knowing that you're very polite and agreeable to cops and such because otherwise they will mace you, tase you or arrest you for the crime of walking around being black, while you can drop the act when you're at home/not dealing with them – combined with a sort of "home" environment where it's possible to get things but more difficult to keep them or continue getting them through the same channels, because Myrvold incentivizes a kind of everyone-informs-on-everyone atmosphere and tends to fire guards who might facilitate this sort of thing. (I have it that there's a lot of variation on CCCR housing arrangements – you have big corporations who rent out basic accommodations in more classically prison-like lodgings, and you have people like June who more or less just hire security to meet the program's security requirements and lodge people in a private residence, and you have people like Myrvold who build their own little panopticons and refine their own systems of controls, etc.)
...which may or may not be (a. communicated well, or (b. plausible! I have not dedicated a lot of study to any of these things, and so far this is a lot of rough sketching based on little more than intuition and vague riffing on canon. <_< But, you know, it's in its early stages yet. There's plenty of time for revision.
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Really, what I'm angling for is more of the learned/affected submission you see in some black communities, where kids grow up knowing that you're very polite and agreeable to cops and such because otherwise they will mace you, tase you or arrest you for the crime of walking around being black, while you can drop the act when you're at home/not dealing with them – combined with a sort of "home" environment where it's possible to get things but more difficult to keep them or continue getting them through the same channels, because Myrvold incentivizes a kind of everyone-informs-on-everyone atmosphere and tends to fire guards who might facilitate this sort of thing. (I have it that there's a lot of variation on CCCR housing arrangements – you have big corporations who rent out basic accommodations in more classically prison-like lodgings, and you have people like June who more or less just hire security to meet the program's security requirements and lodge people in a private residence, and you have people like Myrvold who build their own little panopticons and refine their own systems of controls, etc.)
...which may or may not be (a. communicated well, or (b. plausible! I have not dedicated a lot of study to any of these things, and so far this is a lot of rough sketching based on little more than intuition and vague riffing on canon. <_< But, you know, it's in its early stages yet. There's plenty of time for revision.