oh i know what i can do to self-soothe. i can think abt a cursedwip severance au 🥰
dee is SO so so helly. the moment she woke up inside lumon, her one and only concern would be “get me the FUCK out of this place.” and she would (and does, in the book, canonically) try increasingly desperate measures of self-mutilation and suicide to send a message and/or die.
AND, dee’s family is rich & powerful - the difference here is that where helena (probably, seemingly) submitted to her own severance, dee would Never. so her family would probably have her severed against her will to make her more complacent and do experiments on her.
(also - fun gender stuff to consider - dee’s outie may very well still be A Man, publically. if her family didn’t just kill her outie off to the public and keep her full-time inside lumon, which. they could do that. but she would Not have any incentive to keep treating herself as a man as an innie.)
adrianna would absolutely without a doubt become a severed worker if the salary & benefits could provide a comfortable and safe life for stevie & avery. (and, yk, it helps soothe the grief of losing her parents. mark stuff.)
i don’t think stevie would work at lumon so maybe he’s adrianna’s outie husband who functions kind of like mark’s sister - an anchor, and a confidante when things start going wrong.
and rather than the ms casey/gemma situation, adrianna would encounter her dead mom. and then her innie & outie would have to work together to figure out what the Fuck is happening There.