Thea used the name "Mia" in Corta Maltease.
"Mia Dearden" was the girl Speedy in the comics who happened to have AIDS.
Lazerus Pitt vs. AIDS?
I'm wondering if Thea had already contracted the disease before the Pitt "fixed her" and it's later, while looking through the mail that had piled up while she had been busy, that Speedy finds some paperwork explaining how she had failed an std panel spectacularly, and should be dead, or very, very sick.
Which would elevate her to "Chose One" status.
Drug companies would hunt her down to stick the girl in a lab, and cut her brain open and figure out what the #### happened, or suppress the cure to make sure that their billion dollar industry continues.
"Mia Dearden" was the girl Speedy in the comics who happened to have AIDS.
Lazerus Pitt vs. AIDS?
I'm wondering if Thea had already contracted the disease before the Pitt "fixed her" and it's later, while looking through the mail that had piled up while she had been busy, that Speedy finds some paperwork explaining how she had failed an std panel spectacularly, and should be dead, or very, very sick.
Which would elevate her to "Chose One" status.
Drug companies would hunt her down to stick the girl in a lab, and cut her brain open and figure out what the #### happened, or suppress the cure to make sure that their billion dollar industry continues.