#Ip Dip Dip ~ Misty Centric Post

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//I know OP said Tags but I dont think the tags can contain the amount Im gonna ramble about Misty.

I feel like I should start by saying I was not exposed to Misty's bossfight by fighting her myself. I found snippets of her boss fight by watching Starkler76's kudos manger moments video. And I fell love in love with her as a character. And I think because of watching the fight and not playing it, I ended up with a much different interpretation of Misty than the fandom, that, I will admit, may be painted in some bias light because I can seem myself in Misty.

Misty has always given me the vibes of someone broken from the harsh treatment she has reserved from others and especially at COGS Inc. She always came off as tried to me, like she actively wanted to quit COGS Inc but felt she couldn't. They come off as anxious, socially awkward and I would kind argue and say borderline distrustful too. Like she wants to open up, they want to have friends, they want to connect and play games and just hang out, but after being hurt so much Misty is scared to get hurt again so she is also distrustful of those who do listen to her and actively try to reach out to her too. Like, her mercy ending, I read that as something completely different. It legit took me poking around here on tumblr to realize the majority read that as something else. I always read it as Misty at her wits end and lashing, like "Oh now you suddenly want to stop? Now you want to listen to me? How do I know you aren't going to us this against me? How will I know you aren't going to backstab me? How do I know I can trust you when my trust has already been throw in my face multiple times?"

And I feel like in the right environments or if she was given the proper chance to just escape from Cogs Inc, she would thrive so much. Lots of her dialogue I could find on the wiki.gg read as her being very welcoming and playful when given the chance. Yes some of them still read as emotional and I would kind of argue as panicky in nature? But some of them have this little sprinkle of snark or playfulness to it that I adore (the girlie straight up cracks jokes in some of their dialogue it feels like?).

But that is just how I always viewed Misty, and taking off the rose tinted bias glasses. Canon misty is written kind of well? I will admit feels a bit over the place and that may be because of clash's writing? Toontown was never known for their story so suddenly having Cogs WITH a story, emotion, proper character, it may be a challenge to write that in properly. But there are some parts of her writing that are good. Her victim complex/mentality is really interesting, given her this almost tunnel vision view on how things work. I think the very obvious loneliness Misty faces too in game sort of amps that up too. Sweetheart saw the first chance at befriending a toon and RAN with it, completely forgetting she is a cog and also the cogs are destroy the toons' homes. And again with the tunnel vision when she is shocked when the toons and Bessie defend themselves by dropping things on her or attacking. Like, miss ma'am, YOU ARE ACTIVELLY STEALING THEIR LAND??? But again, its clear Misty wants to be friends and like wants to hang out with the toons.

And, maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think a thing that makes Misty character suffer the most is: She isn't allow to grow as a character? Yes, yes Toontown isn't really, known? For story? The gist has always been "Cog bad, toon good. Kill Cog. Victory Dance", but Clash introduces more of a story with the kudos managers and more! And I think Misty being a kudos manager sort of hurts her in the end because she is stuck in remote location as a boss fight and never given the chance to leave that select area and develop as a character. They are never given the chance to grow, to learn, and to improve. Misty, in my, probably, bias opinion, has the makings of an interesting character if she was given the chance to BE more. She would be a perfect character to go rouge and help out the toons. But again, that's just my opinion lol.

As for her and William/Derrick Man and the whole stalking thing. Yeah no. I wanna say its been proven that William/Derrick Man is not a reliable source in that department? Since the claims he made were clearly proven false and in turn the company/Cogs Inc threw them out so...//shrugs

But to cut a long story short: I had a very different impression of Misty, where she is more so an awkward, low confidence but means well girl failure thanks to not doing her boss fight and instead watching it and while that said, I still do like canon Misty, just really wish she was given the chance to like grow and improve as a character!

Misty Monsoon is such a controversial character and it’s kinda wild to me.

So, what are your thoughts on Misty’s character? Do you like her? Hate her? Lmk in the tags cuz im kinda curious to see different thoughts and views on them