One day, the squip appears in Jeremy's bathroom, alive and breathing, and Jeremy doesn't know what to do. or also known as i love the squip and i want to write him out as a human being

Deactivation means you're defective in the world of SQUIPs. It's an offense. It means you're useless. A glitch. An embarrassment, if you will. Being deactivated is every SQUIPs worst fear. Why? Because then there's nothing stopping other SQUIPs from doing whatever they want with you. No one cares if a defective SQUIP is ripped apart. No one cares if a defective SQUIP is torn apart, ripped up code by code. No one cares if they're left to malfunction and die. Maybe that explains why Jeremy found his SQUIP on his living room floor, looking more like a pile of scrap metal than a supercomputer. Btw the art's not mine. Never was, never will be. Sure wish it was, though.