Misty Quigley and Jeff Sadecki friendship… walk with me.
Lost an interest after starting like 40 different art WIPS of it. My execution will be held at dawn.
I don’t know guys I think there is a lot of potential in one-sided Mistynat on Nat’s side. Like super duper unlikely, but if we just open our eyes a bit more…
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Little analysis on Misty and the relationships she has with the yellowjackets and herself, because why not.
Honestly, I think one big reason people don’t understand her character is because they don’t understand fatal loneliness. She has truly been living in her own world for so long that she kind of created her own echo chamber. It isn't just she doesn't have friends, she has absolutely no other input. It is incredibly easy to moralize everything you do when you have no connection to anything that keeps you in check. Because you know who you are on the inside, you know that you don't do things maliciously. This is probably how Misty sees herself. Her mind is in a constant spiral, looping around itself to justify everything she does, because how could she be evil? She knows her intentions aren't. I think this also a big reason, other than the fact that she is young, why she doesn't see and never truly will see a problem with her and Ben "being together". She was turned out by social norms and othered at a very young age and now any rhetoric that society throws at her, even moral values, she can throw away in her mind because she doesn't feel the need to live by a "social standard" in any sort of way. Even if that social standard is something objectively right, she'll be grouping it in with a society that rejected her. Why would she live by that? She's figured out her own set of rules for what's wrong and right and a lot of them just don't hold her accountable.
Another thing is that she has truly only lived as a bystander. It's why the woods seem like a perfect solution to her, why she'd want to stay in them longer. She's lonely, she's found a place that is just as blocked off from the world as her mind has been for years. Here is the place where no words yelled against her hold any real weight. Because she is needed here. There is absolutely no one with the knowledge she can provide, at the end of the day their insults are only for show, because they can't make it without her.
This is why we see her start and end relatively in the same place. She is in no way a static character, but the rest of them have a much more obvious descent than she does. Their disconnect from society does the exact same thing that hers has done her whole life; it justifies them. They will never see themselves as evil, because their brains are now doing the exact same thing, moralizing their actions. Telling them that what they did, what they continue to do, is okay because they have reasons. It's why they're so quick to reject Ben, because he is proof that they never had to abandon morals to survive. And it's why they are so quick to establish a hate against Misty once they get back, because she is someone they can easily pin as "crazier" than them. They see her as the obvious outcast, and now their first step back into society is reestablishing that. It's almost how they "gain back their sensibility". Furthering themselves from what Misty is, even though they all went through the same things, is how they manage to go a little less insane.
Truly what every Yellowjackets monologue has kind of dissolved into is the repeating phrase "I am not a bad person because..."
I hope no one takes this as me pinning Misty as an evil mastermind, it's meant to do the exact opposite. I want people to understand just how much loneliness can affect a person and the way they see things.
Anyway, I'd be super stoked to hear what others think of Misty and what's going on in that noggin of hers :)
Lowkey high key, we aren’t mutuals or anything but do you think I could possibly make a little animatic/comic of the Melissa idea you posted… the one where she draws the Queen card and stuff. (It’s such a good idea Jesus)
I would be literally so honored, so absolutely! Your art is super cool! Also, following you rn, so we can fix that mutual thing 🙂↕️
“I get that you guys are angry… but we’re still a team.” I’m sorry, who’s angry?
actually kills me that when Nat was looking to talk to someone about how she was feeling about Ben and if maybe mercy killing him would be for the best that she went to Misty before anyone else
she wanted Misty to understand how she was feeling because Misty had been the only one on the same journey with her about Ben before this. Because they’re both the ones who cared the most for him out there, even if the circumstances were so different. she just wanted someone to understand her and her feelings and she chose Misty. and that means something. Nat from previous seasons wouldn’t have gone to her for something like this but she did because their relationship changed enough through all the stuff with Ben and death that Misty was now someone she thought she could be open and vulnerable with when she’s feeling conflicted.
of course, she’s met with Misty and her desire to Fix Things because they’re both approaching this from different perspectives. but you know
(also obviously Nat is there to accuse Misty of sending that postcard but she’s still who she went to first in the adult timeline over it so maybe this is the start of Nat turning to Misty even if she doesn’t want to)
I know it’s likely Melissa is the last survivor but honestly I think it would be so much better if she got chosen in the card game. Her turning to Shauna to protest in some sort of way and she is just standing there, ready to put the necklace around Melissa’s neck. She doesn’t have one second of hesitation choosing her own life over Melissa’s because she never truly cared for her. Melissa was simply filling the role of Jackie, a girl Shauna has already consumed. Why should their relationship end any differently?
