#Imogen Loxlee

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Love how Imogen Loxlee seemed almost ENDEARED that Hieronymus married her to better position himself as a Breach organizer. She loves this man that she thinks married her for her vast sums of Valor, but no, he married her as part of some complicated political machinations, and this is, in her eyes, a MUCH better reason

[alicedyers]

Machinations | MIDST 3x13

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Who's in charge here, anyway?

[midstpodcast]

Is Hieronymus, in fact, fucking that old woman?

How committed is he to the cause? What does the Trust's divorce situation look like?

🔮: Hey, Imogen Loxlee is a CATCH

[elfietheespeon]

"Making Moves" (1/2)

[adaineabernantsfrog]

ALSO something i was vaguely aware of but wasn’t thinking too much about till now is how *young* Saskia is compared to practically every other adult aside from, like, Jonas.

It’s obvious when she sits next to Hieronymous and Imogen but she’s YOUNG.

[lawless-walrus]

She’s serving Ngl

[essektheylyss]

I love that the Midst cast is so busy dealing with the various collapsing states of their society that genuinely no one gives off any vibes in terms of sexuality. Two people have canonically gotten laid in recent history and frankly, despite having outright fucked a man, I'm still not sure which way Lark swings. I'm not even entirely sure she swings anyway or if she's fully uninterested and just wanted to get off. Harry could be bi, or he could be gay and really committed to the bit cause. Everyone else is too busy, having an existential crisis, plagued by commitment issues, committing crimes as we speak, or a combination thereof. (Weepe counts for all three.)

Sherman is the only person on the show I can say is decidedly bisexual.

[utilitycaster]

this episode of Midst has everything: a fine man in a fit of despair. leftist infighting. TRUE MOON BOMBER REVEAL. Agatha Ledge and her murder camera mentioned. a beautiful woman incandescent with righteous anger. wretched lightbulb meetings for which people are running late. like 10 stunned silences. Imogen Loxlee THEE woman of all time. the uncomfortable recognition that should the revolution occur, the resistance ceases to exist. bocular horse noises.

[captainofthetidesbreath]

so, lemme just lay out this situation

[midstpodcast]

Sparkling new character art! ⚪⚪⚪

The Valor-encrusted Imogen Loxlee, the Upper Trust’s Most Valorous Person.

Learn more about this illuminating individual and the origins of her fortune at 🧡 https://midst.co/characters/

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Honestly, Imogen Loxlee is so valid because if some random asshole came into my town and was able to usurp my position and then rearrange my cult, I would also want to blow the whole thing up.

[elfietheespeon]

My old Trust character design line-up. Both the designs for Jedediah Pom and Backpack are outdated, but I'd like to imagine that this design is what Jedediah looked like back when he first became a broadcaster.

From left to right: Imogen Loxlee, Hieronymus Loxlee, Jedediah Pom, Backpack, The Miravette Twins, Milton Fleit Sr., Milton Fleit Jr., Mr. Meshkala, Ms. Ledge, Demarin Ginsberg

[lynmars79]

Reflecting on the meme responses and jokes to episode 12 of season 3 Midst--and don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the reactions too, after sitting on this for two weeks--and there's specific ways in universe, and by the narrators, in which Weepe's Fold disability is treated compared to others afflicted by their Fold scars.

He's hardly the only weird or monstrous looking person in the cosmos, particularly those who live within the Fold itself, and now many of the citizens of Midst who survived the moonfall. There's people with extra eyes, limbs, even heads. Fiona's left leg is now a man named Jacob. Giselle's personality is replaced by frogs. Fuze's upside down mouth, hidden behind his facial hair. Ettie's constant laughing. Saskia's doubling can even be horrifying in a few ways, though she's currently coping and using it as an advantage, most times.

And then there's Moc Weepe, who was the most noticeably Fold-affected person on Midst pre-tearror. Because of what happened in the Arca, his situation became a lot worse--a situation he tells Imelda was an inevitability someday.

(Was it really? Or is that his assumption, given how events in his life tend to happen? That if it wasn't Imelda pushing him like that, someone else would have sooner or later?)

Weepe's appearance is described as ghastly and horrific, and it is! He's a translucent jelly of a person, innards on display, the Fold visibly slinking through his system. He has to constantly have a pump going, not unlike people who need their constant oxygen, or drainage bags, or other outward signs of their disability.

Weepe's falling into a(n often dicey) trope of his outward appearance reflecting the monstrousness within, though his descriptions in that way are different from others afflicted by the Fold. Many of them are noted by the narrators as simply existing, a little odd but nothing grotesque, even when the descriptions given would be extremely off-putting. They're spoken of as normal, if noticeable, ramifications of exposure to the Fold. The images and descriptions of the Sequester citizens that Phineas, Lark, and Tzila encountered in season 2 could also be considered monstrous by some.

But it's Weepe specifically who murders people with his own tainted blood, even selling it to others (like Lark, unknowingly). Having his security use it to kill Kozma's entourage. I doubt he's sending any samples to the Mothers now. There are indications, too, that Weepe is exaggerating how weak/ill he is to take others off guard (like Kozma). It's Weepe who weaponizes his Fold affliction, with all sorts of justifications pertaining to his own survival and success.

(Perhaps Saskia to a degree also, using her doubling to literally be in two places at once, passing information between herself, but for very different reasons.)

I say in another post that I gotta respect Imelda's monster-fucking game (I've been on the internet for 30 years, y'all). Especially since I consider her as a monster of another kind, the True Believer with ambition and seeking power, somehow seeing Weepe as a key to her own success, willing to do anything to achieve that. So far it's working, and there have been some concerning appendices about her actions as Archauditor already.

It's not so much about Weepe's horrific Fold-altered state (though that is part of it, but unlike with other Fold-afflicted characters). It's not the middle-aged aspect of the participants (that may be part of it for some younger listeners, though Lark and Sherman hooking up is also considered normal to sweet, and Imogen Loxlee is forever a catch).

It is two horrible people, who have done horrible things to each other as well as to other people, giving in to a long-standing tension (Weepe describing Imelda in detail down to her "little sexy suits" during his Arca ranting, and her fawning on Midst and into the Highest Light didn't seem entirely business-driven) for their own dubious reasons that likely have nothing to do with actual romantic emotions, and are more likely as much about their parallel schemes as about the sexual attraction over their matching ruthlessness

Of the relationships, complicated as they all are in this series, it's the potentially most toxic we are shown as sex occurs, in an exchange to cut the various tensions and issues with this particular hookup; it's actually one of my favorite narrator interactions, the awkwardness and uncertainty playing up the funny to describe the scene without describing it.

I just also look to all the discussions about aging, weight, and disabled, and other folks who fall outside our society's norms for desirability, and wish the narrative descriptions did lean a little more on Weepe's actual monstrosity, and not the grotesqueness of his Fold-afflicted appearance. Cuz when they do turn on the Actual Monster Weepe mode, he's terrifying regardless.

Besides, the pump sound effects and ability to "see" Weepe's physical reactions definitely added to the creative descriptions of that scene in a way that wouldn't be possible otherwise!

Anyway. Mostly feel like there's some unintentional line toe-ing happening in some of these descriptors and reasons for them, which is going to happen in pretty much any and every media, especially a semi-improvised one, as our diabolical businessman--inspired by various traditional villain characters--slips further into villainy himself and his oft-described appearance reflects it.

[captainphotogirl]

I never thought I'd say that Imogen and Harry Loxlee have a good relationship comparitively, but Imelda and Weepe set the bar so low that it's actually possible they're doing better

[hoarding-stories]

To fully expand on my earlier post noting the narrators playing with using Hieronymous and Loxlee to refer to the character during the episode:

Loxlee is used when he is looking at things from a Trust perspective, using the mask he's crafted for his infiltration. Also, when he's being tactical and informative as one of the head organizers of the Breach.

Hieronymous comes in when it's personal, when the emotions get to him and he feels it. Interesting to note, when Imogen comes on the scene after the initial Loxlee reaction with Saskia he goes back to Hieronymous for the rest of the episode.

[Other interesting instances under the cut]

After 2 or 3 Loxlees, Hieronymous breaks through when Sherman and Tzila are mentioned

His full name is used twice, once in the initial narration introduction and again after the narrators disclose everything he doesn't say about what led to the moon blowing up. Which lends to a very humanizing effect, he made this decision which is personally devastating but he also took into account the bigger picture ramifications.