MAISIE & MISTY QUIGLEY 🐁🦜
— a sister is both your mirror and your opposite
maisie quigley is part of the journalism club and yearbook staff, one of their most passionate members. she's eighteen, a full year older than misty. she grew up close to misty — their bond was intense, weird, and totally sincere. they performed skits, plays, and spooky “shows” at family gatherings — everything from haunted house tours to over-the-top reenactments of ghost stories. while misty idolized her, maisie was often quietly worried about misty's intensity and her hunger for approval.
she joined the journalism club mostly as a way to stay busy and snoop on people (“everyone wants to be remembered — they just don't know how ugly it looks.”) she ended up on the fateful plane trip because she was assigned to help document the soccer team’s championship journey. her and misty call each other “maze” and “missy” affectionately, they are close as sisters can be, maybe a bit codependent.
maisie is eccentric but in a different flavor from misty — she's outwardly charming and socially a little better at hiding her “offness,” but once you talk to her for more than a few minutes, it’s clear she’s just as weird. she has a strange sense of humor — loves macabre jokes, weird trivia, and “fun facts” that aren't actually fun. she's overly theatrical; she’s that girl who treats regular conversations like performance art. she is a little bit vain; she likes attention and thinks of herself as a misunderstood genius.
she gets most of her clothing from the thrift store, like misty, her aesthetic is vaguely 80s mixed with 90s schoolgirl looks: lots of thrifted cardigans, clunky shoes, odd jewelry (e.g., mood rings, lockets with nothing inside), lacy socks, mismatched nail polish. misty definitely copied some of her vibe — the chunky shoes, the colorful socks, the earnest but awkward way of presenting herself. maisie carries around a disposable camera everywhere for yearbook and journalism club, she even says she’s documenting “the end of an era” in a totally dramatic way.
being apart of yearbook / journalism club, she is the unofficial “historian” of the school. she is definitely over-involved in weird extracurriculars (debate team, tried to start a “macabre literature” club that nobody joins, besides misty.) she knew about the soccer team mostly through yearbook coverage — wasn't supposed to go to nationals but she tags along to “capture the moment.” post crash, she takes a lot of photos early on — documenting the crash site, their food rations, early cabin life.
her relationship with misty is deeply codependent, even if they fight sometimes. misty worships her a little — everything about misty's attempts to connect with people later partly comes from trying to recreate the weird little world she and maisie had together. they definitely did musical performances at family gatherings (like showtunes, or weirder stuff like reciting edgar allan poe together.)
while misty loves birds, maisie adores rodents! she also dyes her hair brown, which makes her curls pretty bleach damaged so they're more frizzy and unkempt than her sisters, especially since she teases them and brushes them out dry. while misty serves as a medic and later a cook in the wilderness, maisie is something of a scribe, a keeper, a historian. she keeps detailed records: writes down major events, food supplies, weather patterns, and (later) the group's evolving myths, rituals, and “legends.” she maintains a survival calendar: noting how long they've been stranded, seasonal changes, and tracking who is alive/missing. finally she acts as the memory-keeper for the group: the one who remembers when someone made a sacrifice, when someone broke a rule, when a tragedy happened.
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