#moc weepe

[midstpodcast]

What’s the body count of all the major characters? Both versions, sex and murder.

🔮: I feel like that might be spoilers. How about I give you three numbers: one for sex, one for murder, and one just to confuse you, but I don’t say which is which, and they’re in a random order each time. (Disclaimer: This is a joke [unless it’s not?!?] and I’m posting it before the other narrators can stop me)

Lark: 98 | 12 | 6

Weepe: 2,918 | 352 | 27

Phineas: 0 | 16 | 3

[alicedyers]

Baron | MIDST 3x09

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Who's in charge here, anyway?

[stickandthorn]

The other day I was thinking “damn I wish there was more Midst fanart” then I realized I could be part of the change I wanted to see in the world. So anyways here’s Weepe.

[aeli-tan-art]

decided to make a cover for my little fancomic! if you haven't already, go listen to @midstpodcast !

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[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Something that's really interesting to me is that the most recent Midst episode (s3e5, Acculturation) is the first time we've gotten any internality from Moc Weepe since s2e13. Despite him being one of the three main characters. And even then, it's sparse because he's not the POV character, the brunch ladies are. What Imelda did to him in the Arca seems to have had the effect of making him less transparent to the audience

[dracolichen]

The Most Valorous Tripotentiary, aka King Triangle

[buttonsgoblin]

Moc Weepe redemption arc may in fact not be coming

[dog-beast]

[lynmars79]

About Imelda Goldfinch

Looking back over episodes, transcripts, and the wiki as a friend experiences Midst for the first time, I keep coming back to Imelda.

She "mistook" Weepe for the Mayor of Stationary Hill when they bumped into one another (literally) in S1 E5 "Missions". She spends the rest of S1 pester-courting Weepe into the Trust, starts him at Zero, and then grants him enough Valor to become Upper Trust for the Cabaret betrayal. She makes sure he gets off Midst in the Consector's flagship.

In S2 she continues her Weepe project, showing him around the city, introducing him to people, accompanying him to Upper Trust meetings. And then the Arca, S2 E13 "Inside." Where she uses her zealousness to torment Weepe until he (outwardly) acquiesces to her.

She knew about his condition, and his medical treatment. In detail. Cameras aren't that advanced in this cosmos, and Weepe keeps that knowledge quite secret; Saskia knew after four years as Weepe's business partner, and being noted as perceptive. When and how did Imelda find out, enough to gauge a normal day's risk (if not enough to know what happens when Weepe gets excited/stressed)?

In S3 she is front and center at the naming of Weepe as Tripotentiary. She automatically becomes his Archauditor, a minimal show made of having to create the position and choice to fill it over brunch. She attends high end meetings like the dinner with Kozma, where Imelda makes interesting notes on her menu (per the appendices) about what Weepe does and doesn't like, among her other notes and reactions.

Then we get to S3 E9 "Baron."

And I have to wonder: Did Imelda "mistake" Weepe in S1 when they met? Was she there not just because of the Breach investigation and/or Moon sale, but for him? Does she know, or at least suspect, who Weepe was before his first Fold-induced transformation and the salvation from the Mothers?

Imelda is a character that fascinates me, and is a bit frightening when thinking about her. She gives some of the same vibes as HP's Dolores Umbridge, but with the caveat that Imelda seems to be a True Believer in the Trust--while also being extremely driven and ambitious. We saw in her Notary prep school yearbook that she had Caenum as a girl (with the note "most likely to Break Even"). When we meet her, middle-aged, she's wearing a wide sash of Valor and regularly rubs shoulders with the Upper Trust.

It took Fuze Peabody his entire working life to Break Even by retirement (and given Lark's past, they start working rather young in the Trust; no child labor laws in the Highest Light I suppose, for those in debt). Most Trustees never reach Zero; it's why so many Breach.

And so much of Imelda's recent Valorous momentum has been due to her maneuvering of Weepe. Of the things she has done with, for, and to him.

Did she gun for Jonas Spahr being removed as Prime Consector? Was it convenient, or targeted? Disdain for the Company or just a way to maneuver Weepe into power? And why? Did she see the incompetence at the top and think it could be better? One of her menu notes is re-starting Valor checks for Upper Trust and other important meetings. Did the Fleit scandal make her think change was needed? Does she think Weepe can get her what she wants when the rest of the Upper Trust cannot?

What does she know? Why is she doing all this? Personal power? Grandiose zealotry? Revenge? A little of everything? Is Imelda the real mastermind and arch villain?

I dunno, and that last may be a bit silly (??) but something is going on with this woman, and she stands somewhere near the heart of this tangled web.

"He's totally fucked" the Narrators say of Weepe when he bumps into Imelda that first time. That's certainly been true in many ways--and I don't think it impossible that it will continue to be, with Weepe maybe not expecting the damage this scarily cheerful little lady with Pollyanna curls can still do to him before the end.

For the good of the Trust.

[midstpodcast]

Look no further for the perfect Valor-tine to send to your cosmos-crossed lover, shifty business associate, or dastardly sworn enemy this week! 🧡

[alicedyers]

Moc Weepe in Season 2 of MIDST

[captainofthetidesbreath]

so, that "temporary" restructuring of the Trust government, huh...

[stickandthorn]

in honor of Midst season 3 premiering today here’s my first attempt at Midst memes

[aeli-tan-art]

new fave dynamic: coworker who knows where the bodies are buried

guys ply listen to Midst! need season 3 to happen asap 😭

[illusion-of-death]

Which is it, folks?

(The “normal guy” response is meant to suggest there’s just a totally regular dude named Moc Weepe strolling about who has NO idea this weird glass frog sleazeball of a conman stole his entire identity)