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I picked Yes because I like Monty as a character and wish we had seen a bit more with him; we get some hints, but I'm not sure that we know a whole lot about him as a person in canon, yet.

Definitely a designated woobie, but with enough quirks to make him interesting to me:

All we get from Esther is that he's supposed to gain "those Dead Boys' complete trust," so he seems to have a lot of leeway within that assignment

Therefore choosing to put everything into pursuing Edwin romantically is a brave and interesting choice. That Monty makes. (It's fascinating that this strategy almost works.)

His successes are despite the fact that Human!Monty has a paper-thin cover story and is not good at making things up; he compensates by telling the (filtered) truth when he can, possibly to the point where he develops actual romantic feelings for the ghost he's trying to date.

We get glimpses of his increasing dissatisfaction with Esther's schemes, and hints that he has more complex thoughts and feelings about this when in human form, but it also seems like those feelings might be carrying through when he's back to being a crow.

So yes, I like him quite a bit, and would enjoy seeing him in fics that dig more into:

his thoughts and feelings about all of this

what it's like to take on that assignment from Esther and how he develops his strategy

how well he'd fit in with the rest of the gang under different circumstances

That said, I am currently writing a fic where the point-of-view character does not like him at all, at the moment, and therefore highlights all his worst qualities. (So yeah, I get the urge to defend the woobie.)

guys im super curious

im curious because i see monty defenders and im like, defending from who?

I had a draft queued up on why the Cat King kissed Monty, in response to another post, and when I came back to it, I found that OP had turned off reblogs. (Which, totally fair! I was worried it was too late or too redundant to chime in.)

But I had it written up already, so without worrying about this being too long for a reblog:

I think it's because (all of these at once):

The Cat King is impulsive and has an overdeveloped sense of drama. (I cannot overemphasize how much I think this holds true for so many odd choices he makes. It seemed like the thing to do in the moment.)

His sense of justice is very much tit-for-tat, "let's see how you like it". Monty stole a kiss from Edwin, so the Cat King will steal a kiss from Monty. Perhaps Monty will find that stealing kisses is not so great, after all. (This is also applicable to a number of things the Cat King does; there are several instances where an action traces back to some slight that he's responding to in some way that mirrors back the original offense, including the bracelet. He's a bit… catty… like that.)

It's a way to deliberately unsettle Monty even further. Monty freezes when the Cat King starts to call him out, now he just looks unsettled and angry. If Monty's off-balance, the less likely it is that he's thinking up a way in which he can explain or bluff his way out of this confrontation.

It's a way for the Cat King to act on his urge to take a physically aggressive action against Monty, without actually hurting him. He doesn't hit him or bite him, he kisses him. (It seems to follow a prey-response chain, to me; the bird freezes, the cat stalks and pounces. Or in this case, kisses. Poor bird.)

I don't think he thought much at all about how it would look to Edwin in the moment. It's about Edwin in a showy, territorial way, but it's not really about what Edwin thinks. (Which, I think, is part of why Edwin is particularly unimpressed. Well, that and the Cat King's mocking admission about spying on what, for Edwin, was a rather personal moment.)