High fit

Parental Controls are about choosing who you are instead of defaulting to how you were raised or what your environment trained you to be. Christian Estevez had been shaped by a world where loyalty meant showing up, where you didn't walk alone, where leaving was betrayal. Those rules kept him alive as a kid — but they had become the thing running his decisions as a college student. The conversation with Mikey gave him explicit permission to override the default settings. He didn't have to become the person his environment assumed he would be.