Mia

**Mia** is a supporting character on the HBO television series *Avenue 5* and is portrayed by actress Jessica St. Clair.

## Personality

Mia has a rather bold personality and is very rarely subtle in anything she does. If she has a thought Mia is likely to say it without much thought towards the consequences. While she isn't an outwardly cruel or vindictive person she often enjoys spiting her husband, Doug, now that they have separated.

## Appearance

She is a fairly tall woman somewhere in her mid thirties with blonde hair and blue eyes, possibly born during Generation Alpha.

## Character Biography

### Avenue 5

Mia is a passenger aboard the Avenue 5 who had intended to work on her marriage to Doug. While the pair did really try to fix things in the beginning, after the gravity shift incident it became glaringly clear that the couple wouldn't be able to rekindle their relationship. They attend counselling sessions with Matt Spencer to no avail and soon admit their marriage is over. After this separation Mia and Doug are still forced to share a cabin until Was It Your Ears? and so often and seemingly happily jab and spite one another just to get a reaction.

Slowly Mia becomes more aware of what is going on aboard the ship and starts to realize they could be in far more danger than just having to put up with an extra journey time of three and a half years. She aligns herself with the main crew, Spike Martin and Karen Kelly more in an attempt to learn more information than to actually help. Although once a part of it she does her best to aid when needed, this is best shown during Eight Arms But No Hands when she helps to search the ship for a missing Matt Spencer. She eventually leaves her search party and stumbles across Doug and Spike in the conformance room. Doug makes a comment about Mads being her Russian and Mia corrects him by informing Doug that Mads is actually Swedish and points out that she has started to find him exhausting. It's then that Rav Mulcair wanders into the room, the two start to argue with turns into pushing and eventually starts a fight between Mads and Doug. Mia had expected it to be hot but is disappointed when it just looks stupid and walks out when Iris tells them they're running out of time. When they eventually stumble across Matt with Ryan Clark and Herman Judd she learns there is a shuttle and rushes off with everyone else in pursuit of Judd. After Judd is talked back onto the ship and a fight ensues over the seats she and Doug rush onto the shuttle and try to go back to Earth. As he's trying to get her home Mia is wildly attracted to Doug in that moment. When the pilot returns and tells them only one can go they lovingly say the other should go and finally manage to repair their relationship. However, Ryan manages to get them off the shuttle a short time later. The seat changing continues until Iris becomes trapped by the auto lock and has to go back to their home planet instead.

## Relationships

### Doug

While she had originally come on the cruise to try and fix her marriage (after Mia cheated by sleeping with a masseur) to Doug and the pair do still show signs of having feelings for one another, the pair seem only capable of fighting about more or less everything. Mia can't forgive him for kissing her best friend's - Rav Mulcair - neck one drunk night and Doug believes Mia to sleep with every man she can find. In the end the pair separate because it's easier. Doug has made comments and was even willing to give up his beloved golf clubs in an attempt to save her in This Is Physically Hurting Me, which Mia was touched by, however, these moments only last for a split second at a time before the two begin to bicker once again.

On the shuttle during Eight Arms But No Hands, Doug tries to save Mia by sending her back to Earth, an act which fails, however, shows how much he still loves and cares for her. This single non-selfish action finally mends their relationship, or at least starts to.

### Mads

Mia first comes across Mads during the Half Way Home party when he's wandering the ship with Nadia and Sarah. While his attempt at flirting with her is somewhat awkward Mia is more focused on Mads' muscular appearance than anything he says and even mistakes him for an Italian; she also gives him the unofficial nickname 'Colin Firm'. When she tries to drag him back to her cabin for sex Doug does everything he can to put a stop to it leaving Mads and Spike Martin stood outside the cabin while Mia and Doug yell at one another. Despite this strange series of events Mads and Mia do continue to see one another and even attend the captain's table together.

When they go in search of Matt in Eight Arms But No Hands Mads starts calling out to Matt and describing how good looking he is to Matt. This irritates Mia and she decides they need to take a break.

### Rav Mulcair

Rav Mulcair is Mia's best friend as well as the one who got her and Doug tickets to the space cruise, though this was in an attempt to help fix Mia's marriage. After the accident which leaves them stuck in space Rav is racked with guilt which only adds to her workload. Their friendship continues to strain after Rav sneaks aboard the ship and left them in a fight which quickly got broken up by Mads' and Doug's immature attempts at defending Mia's honor.

## Trivia

* Mia says she had an uncle who committed suicide.