MISTY QUIGLEY.

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       first things first; my default verse for misty is her adult timeline post rescue, however i am more than happy to write misty in verses pre rescue as well! secondly, i do not acknowledge the deus ex machina that is walter tattersall. that is to say, i acknowledge his character, and i am all for him being smart and shit, but if anyone's going to be the genius that gets the police off their backs, it's misty, walter does not get to just swoop in and steal all that spotlight for himself when he's barely even just entered the show, and misty has throughout the entire show so far been shown to be more than capable of being devious and intelligent like that on her own.       

biography.

as an outcast, misty sometimes received prank phone calls from classmates, who teased her for her seemingly odd behavior. her life, along with that of the others, took a turn when the plane carrying them crashed in the wilderness. she has training in first aid, though the other players on the team do not respect her knowledge until it proves useful following the crash. when she discovered ben scott, the team's assistant coach, pinioned by the plane's wreckage, she calls over the other team members to help move the large piece of the airplane off of him, revealing that his leg is badly mangled and barely hanging on. he passes out from shock, and misty chops off his leg at the knee. later, she cauterizes the wound causing him to faint. she goes around applying first aid to her teammates, explaining that she has all of this knowledge because she twice took the red cross babysitting course. while crouching out of sight in the woods to pee, she overhears two of her teammates saying that they'd seriously be in trouble without her. misty is thrilled by this, savoring the feeling of being needed and appreciated. she notices a blinking red light beneath some of the wreckage, which turns out to be the crashed plane's flight recorder. she smashes it repeatedly against some rocks until there is a small gap between the metal pieces, reaches her hand in, and pulls out the wiring.

she revels in her role as ben's savior and caretaker, insisting that he eat when he doesn't want to. when he struggles with the pain or limitations from his injury, she is right there to help and soothe him, she even props him up while he tries to "go" in the woods, telling him he is late for his "movement" and, despite him repeatedly telling her to stop talking, she goes on about what might help and starts singing to him. when he starts to become more capable and independent, misty does things like tripping him so he falls and she can come to his aid.

later, annoyed by ben's continual resistance to her advances, misty secretly poisons his tea. when, as a means to relieve stress, the girls host a séance at the suggestion of jackie taylor, misty asks the spirits if the object of her affections likes her as well. she gets a positive response, but during the séance, ben projectile vomits due to the poison. he confronts her about it and she admits doing so and that she has feelings for him. she asks if he feels the same way and he tells her that he does, but that they need to keep it secret due to his being a teacher and her being a minor. she agrees to this, delighted at the idea of having a "secret boyfriend." later on, however, ben admits to natalie that he is gay when she asks him about it, revealing that he lied to misty about feeling the same way.

when taissa decides she wants to leave to search for help, a few of the other survivors decide to come with her, and misty volunteers after seeing how the rest of the group responds to the girls who are leaving. she approaches ben, hoping for him to ask her to stay, but he instead tells her that it is brave of her to go. during the night, they are attacked by wolves leaving one of the girls, van, severely injured. believing she is dead, the girls put her body over the fire. they are shocked when she begins to move and quickly pull her off and put out the flames on her clothing. they try to get her back to the others at the cabin, but eventually leave her and taissa behind to get help. after reaching the cabin, they all come and help van back inside, to help her with her wounds.

weeks later, the girls are discouraged and feeling defeated. mari informs them she had made a mixture that included rotten berries intending for it to become alcoholic and they all decide they should have a party in place of the homecoming they did not get to attend, celebrating their impending doom- a "doomcoming". they dress up in the clothes they'd brought for a banquet and misty asks ben to go to the dance with her. he is reluctant, which hurts misty's feelings. she says she was stupid to think he would want to, and that she knew she wasn't pretty, and he agrees to go with her, reminding her of their boundaries. misty decides to drug him again with shrooms, but leaves them wrapped in a cloth on the table for a moment and mari, unaware they are of the psychedelic variety, mixes them in with the stew she is making. misty watches as they all consume the drugged meal, eating her own as well, without saying anything to anyone.

misty later seeks out ben, only to hear him talking with natalie and saying that love is the reason they're all in the woods and that she should go find travis. while natalie heads off to find travis, misty takes the opportunity to close in. she tells ben that he should follow his own advice, that love is the reason they're all there. pushed past endurance, ben shouts at misty that he doesn't love her, he loves paul. when she asks who paul is, he tells her that he's his boyfriend and that he's gay. misty is clearly shocked and hurt by the revelation. meanwhile, the other girls, tripping on the shrooms, realizes that jackie has gone back to the cabin with travis to sleep with him. the rest of the girls reach the cabin just as jackie and travis are coming back downstairs, and start trying to sexually assault travis. managing to get to the door, travis makes a run for it, with the girls now seeing him as a deer, chasing after him, ties him up, and is about to slit his throat when natalie intervenes.

the next day, many of the girls who were poisoned by the shrooms wake up, dazed and confused by the events of the night before. coach scott comments that he has boiled some water, given that the others are probably as hungover as he is. when the girls start arguing over the night before, he comments that he's sure that they all said and did some stuff the night before that they probably regret on the account of the shrooms. this leads the others to realize exactly what was responsible for their behavior the night before and, more importantly, who did it. however, when confronted, misty says that it was an accident and the shrooms were only meant for coach scott. she blames mari for putting the mushrooms in the soup and coach scott further for "tricking her into falling in love with him."

later, after lottie matthews kills a bear, misty tries to help with the food preparations, only to be rebuffed as the girls are no longer willing to let her go anywhere near food. following this, as they prepare to eat the bear meat, lottie leads the group in prayer at van's suggestion. when jackie doesn't join in, misty is quick to point it out. this results in a massive argument between jackie and her best friend shauna, culminating with jackie going outside the cabin and ultimately freezing to death that night. in the wake of this, lottie begins a cult and offers up the bear's, at a frozen altar in the woods. as she chants a dark prayer, misty and vanessa stand behind her.

approximately two months following this, misty and the others are doing their best to survive the harsh winter that has settled up on the wilderness. misty still occasionally tries to help with food preparation, but is firmly rebuffed by mari, who tells her that she knows the rules. to this, she replies that it's not like she's going to try to poison anyone... again. mari tells her that she drew the four and has to go get the water, to which misty whines that she's been doing it every day and it's freezing.

later, misty encounters crystal singing the song "the glory of love." crystal has been annoying everyone with her continuous singing and humming, and misty shouts at her to shut up. crystal apologizes, saying that she had to go and the singing helps. she tells misty that she knows it's annoying to those without a theater background like her and that she wakes up telling herself to stop doing it because she knows its driving everyone bananas, but does it without even realizing it. she tells misty that she should try it, that it helps. misty tells her that she can't sing, but crystal tells her that everyone can sing with a good vocal coach. misty is dubious of the idea at first, but looks pleased when crystal suggests that they could harmonize.

misty and crystal soon start singing together on a regular basis, annoying the others. when a baby shower is announced for shauna, crystal laments the others rejecting misty's broth idea. the group has just recently cannibalized jackie's dead body and crystal claims to misty that it's not the first time she's eaten someone. she then clarifies that she absorbed her identical twin in the womb. when misty wonders what to give shauna as a baby shower gift, crystal suggests a performance, which ends up being a monologue about a dead daughter from the film steel magnolias. though disturbed, the others seem to be won over by misty's passionate performance and crystal leads an enthusiastic round of applause.

crystal and misty begin sharing secrets with each other. one of these is the three famous people they would invite to a slumber party, with one of misty's being jack kevorkian, the suicide doctor. crystal calls what he does brave, reminiscing over a family beagle that had to be put down and feeling that people shouldn't have to suffer in the same way. when misty is annoyed to again empty the shit bucket, crystal agrees to come with her.

standing before the ledge with the bucket, misty and crystal play a game of "rapid-fire secrets." after they empty the bucket over the ledge, misty gets some sticks to scrape the rest and crystal tells her that she has a secret that she has to pinky-swear not to to the others. misty does and she reveals that crystal is not her real name, but rather "kristen." she explains that people called her crystal on the first day of practice and she didn't correct them because she enjoyed having a nickname for the first time, "crystal the pistol."

misty is deeply touched by this revelation. she tells crystal that before the plane crash she didn't think people liked her much, but then they started listening to her. crystal calls her lucky to have found somebody to share her deepest secrets with. misty then tells her that she has another secret, saying that she must swear on her mother's life never to tell anyone else. crystal agrees and misty reveals to her having found and destroyed the flight's emergency transmitter the night after the crash. crystal's expression immediately turns horrified. she asks misty if she's the reason that they never got rescued. misty grins, saying that she totally got her, but crystal doesn't believe the lie, telling her that she's not that good an actress. misty pleads with her not to tell anyone, saying that she'll do anything that she wants. crystal asks if she'll poison her if she tells and misty threatens to kill her out of desperation, crystal backs up and accidentally falls off the edge of the cliff to her death.

misty stares in shock at her friend's dead body, splayed out below. she races down and applies chest compressions trying to revive her while chanting the song "stayin' alive," to keep on beat with her compressions. but crystal is past the point of saving, blood bubbling from her mouth. misty tells crystal that she's sorry, crying, as a snowstorm whips up, covering crystal's body. she returns to the cabin in the intensifying storm, claiming that she and crystal got separated in the storm. as it turns out, shauna and taissa are also missing, so misty joins the group in calling out to them, adding in crystal's name as well to keep up the front.

shauna and taissa miraculously make it back to the cabin through the storm, but shauna is clearly in labor with the baby that she conceived with jeff back before the plane crash. the others immediately look to misty to assist with the birthing, given her knowledge of medicine and the fact that she was the only one to really pay attention to a video about childbirth that coach scott played at school. misty, however, remains beside herself at crystal's death and runs off to the window after seeing shauna's blood on her hands, saying that she can't do this. leaving akilah to oversee things. lottie, however, comes over to her. misty tells her that she had been planning to do this with crystal, that they were going to do a song. lottie, however, tells her that crystal might not be with them, but she can still save shauna and "their baby." misty then returns and guides the group through the rest of the birthing process. though the baby is stillborn, shauna survives, and the others praise misty for her levelheadedness, especially at the end.

following this, however, misty overhears some of the others discussing the fact that the snow has stopped, yet she isn't outside trying to find crystal. she therefore gathers the group and says that they need to be out looking for crystal. the others agree and they form a circle, chanting a mantra started by lottie - "we hear the wilderness and it hears us." misty then overhears melissa and gen having another conversation in which they say that they hope that they find crystal alive, but that it might not be the worst thing if they don't, insinuating that they could eat her body and that it would be disrespectful to the wilderness to waste it.

as they go out to search for crystal, misty breaks down in a performance of tears, saying that she's worried that they might find crystal only for her to look just like jackie, a song frozen in her heart. akilah tells her that she should probably just go back and she agrees, but once they are out of earshot, she comments to herself that she isn't going to let them eat crystal. she goes to the spot where crystal's body fell, but is unable to find it. she does, however, spot coach scott on the ledge above. it quickly becomes clear that coach scott is attempting to commit suicide. he even asks misty to push him off the ledge, but she refuses. she tries a series of tactics to keep him from jumping, even going so far as to say that she'll tell the whole world that he's gay, but he just tells her that he doesn't care and to do it. finally, she breaks down, saying that she tried so hard to keep the baby alive and that she can't have another death on her hands. this works and he finally backs away from the cliff.

back at the cabin, misty hums the song "lightning crashes." the song sets off shauna, who is still beside herself about the loss of her baby, as it references a mother giving birth. she hits misty in the face, shouting that she killed her baby. the others pull her away, natalie pointing out the fact that misty did all she could to try to help. lottie then offers herself up as an outlet for shauna's rage and is badly beaten and kicked by her.

misty and mari both tend to lottie, who is in a bad way following shauna's beating. when lottie pees blood, misty says that she could have a kidney infection and mari complains about the smell of the blood making her eyes water. growing irritated, misty shouts at her to shut up, saying that she has to be a whiny brat despite all that lottie has done for them. she tells her to take the bowl downstairs and empty it if she's so grossed out. as mari leaves, misty asks lottie if she can hear her, but lottie seems lost in her own mind and visions.

following this, misty discovers ben with a sharp knife. she worries that he might again be trying to commit suicide. he, however, tells her that this isn't the case, explaining that he's modifying his crutches to make them more snow-worthy. she agrees that this is a good idea, that fresh air would be good for him. later, she is with lottie in the attic when she hears her moaning and groaning. lottie tells her that if she dies, she doesn't want them to waste her body. misty replies that she shouldn't even be thinking about this right now. lottie, though, insists that she promise, so she does.

misty goes to the others, revealing what lottie had asked of her. van comments that she can't imagine being there without lottie. they point out, however, that they may have to imagine this, that lottie is going to die if they starve, that they all will. taissa says that they have to find a way to survive and that it can't be lottie. they are all next seen setting up an altar with a candle and drawing from a deck of cards, until natalie picks the one card, marking her as the one they're going to eat. natalie makes a run for it, and tries to hide and survive, and travis' younger brother, javi, who has been missing, reveals himself to natalie and tries to help her escape, but they're found and forced to run out onto an icy lake. javi then falls through the ice, and though natalie initially tries to help him up, she's convinced to let him go, and that javi has been chosen instead. allowing him to drown, they quickly grab him and pull him up before he can vanish into the deep waters, carries him back and turns his body into food for them to eat. 

misty returns to lottie in the attic, who asks her what this was about. misty tells her that they're going to eat javi. she tells lottie that she told the others what she had said about wanting them to eat her body if they died, but that they need her, and so they made up the ritual and the wilderness chose. lottie says that she didn't want this, asking misty how she could let them do this. misty, however, turns the question on her, saying that she started all of this and that she'd better not start making people feel bad about it now. she then returns downstairs and lies to the others that lottie had said she was pleased with the wilderness's choice.

after javi's body is prepared by shauna, misty goes to lottie, insisting that she eat. reluctantly, lottie does so. she later goes down to the others, having recovered enough strength to finally walk. she tells them that she never wanted to be in charge, that the wilderness only chose her because she was the only one who knew how to listen. she continues that they all have learned to listen now, so it doesn't need her anymore, and in fact, has already chosen a new leader; that it chose who fed them. she declares this to be natalie, and the group all pays their respects to natalie in their own ways, misty giving a theatrical curtsy. that evening, however, the cabin burns down and misty escapes with the others. realizing that coach scott is gone, they believe that he was the one setting the fire.

sometime later during the winter season, misty is revealed to be part of a group of eight remaining survivors who have deeply ritualized the cannibalism they have resorted to in the woods. they are seen stringing up the nude body of a girl who had fallen into a trap, impaled on spikes, and slitting her throat to drain her of blood. they later dismember, cook, and eat the girl’s body around a campfire before moving on. all of them are dressed up thickly in animal furs, but only misty is shown removing hers, a smile on her face.

at some point, the girls who has still survived, were rescued and returned back to society in their own ways.

25 years after the plane crash, misty now serves as a nurse for the elderly, and spends her spare time as a "citizen detective". though the past has a way of not being forgotten so easily...

abilities.

connections.

universes.