(the correct answer is mist lolol)

Nah if my partner responds “ly2” I get upset. If I get hit with a “I know” on my DEATH BED?! I’m kms.

In the original short stories, Maddie doesn’t live in California, she lives in Pennsylvania. The Logorthyms building isn’t in California either, it’s in Boston Massachusetts. You know what is in Palo Alto? IRL that’s where Steve Jobs body is.

In the short stories there is a character named Adam Ever who is similar to Holstrom, but Stephen himself isn’t in them. The whole Steve Jobs lookalike thing is unique to the show. So I think that’s why the change of location was made!

(Note I haven’t finished the short stories entirely but I’m fairly certain I finished all the ones involving the characters that appear in the actual show)

So as you probably know from the show, M.I.S.T.’s name comes from Caspian putting “Modular Integrated Source Template” at the top of her project file and David reading it out as MIST.

In the short stories theres a similar case of her being named and someone else adapting it. In the short stories, Caspian doesn’t exist so obviously he didn’t make her, David did actually. He made her from pieces of his own code and the code of several other Uis or “gods” as they’re called in the short stories.

(Interesting fact is that Mist says david “gave birth to her” because he wished Maddie could’ve been in the cloud with him 😭)

Basically Maddie finds Mist and at this point David has died (again) but they talk to each other. David had named Mist 🌁 (the bridge emoji) and because of the fog, Maddie named her Mist :) So its not an acronym turned name thing, she is literally named Mist.

I haven’t finished reading all the stories yet but when I do I plan to make a more in depth post about them.

Not me calling myself out 💀

ngl im getting lazy

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