Mathis "Matty" Quigley (Jr.)

Matty with his blue hat, Chitz, and an umbrella in Ch. 3

**Matty Quigley** is an eight year old Aldish boy currently traveling with the the Red Berry Boys. Matty is son to Mathis, and is completely blind. A pymaric named Chitz sits on his shoulder and acts as a primitive seeing aid, revealing the rough, plain shapes of the world immediately around him. This leaves Matty at once colour-blind, texture-blind, and bereft of depth perception, but enables him to "see" in pitch darkness.

Matty is perfectly fluent in both Continental and Tainish, preferring to speak the latter when conversing with his father. He's at ease with their large construct, a mechanically altered mountain ogre called Uaid, referring to the creature as his best friend. More than anything else at present, Matty seems keen to leave the west behind and venture forward to coastal Sharteshane and the eastern sea. His father's criminal activities leave him ill at ease.

## Relationships

* **Vienne Quigley** - Mother

* **Jivi Flask - Friend**

* **Mathis Quigley (Sr.)** -

* **Uaid** - His mother's unfinished masterpiece, considered his "brother"

* **Sette Frummagem** - .

* **Duane Adelier** - .

* **Emil Sava-Toma** -

* **Sara Litrya** -

* **Maur** - The Black Tongue who turned Chitz into a seeing aid. Mathis tried to leave Matty with Maur after confirming that Maur would look after him and protect him when Mathis had to flee Juste. Matty chased after his father instead.

With Jivi in Chapter 10.With Jivi, Sette, Siya, Sara and Ruffles.
## Appearances

### Unsounded: Book 1

* Chapter 3 (first)
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 13
* Chapter 15
* Chapter 16

### Prose

* *Vienne of Seferpine*
* *Orphans*
* "From the Journals of Duane Adelier"

## Recent Events (Spoilers)

### Chapter 3: A Miserable Drizzle

#### *"In Which Skies & Temperaments Are Begloomed"*

Jivi sees a plat kid standing in the rain while the carts are parked and tries to get him to ask for help, murmuring that the people he's with cut up a girl and he couldn't stop them. Matty turns away guiltily since his father told him not to speak with them and he wants his father to go to Sharteshane rather than get further involved with the Red Berry Boys' smuggling.

Matty walks to Uaid and scolds him for using a tree as an umbrella, telling him to put it down before papa sees. He then sits in Uaid's torso compartment talking dreamily about going to Sharteshane like his papa promised rather than taking more jobs from bad men like the Red Berry Boys. While he's talking he overhears Starfish talk his father into taking the job despite his promise to Matty.

### Chapter 10: The Deadly Nevergreen, Pt. 2

#### *"Here There Be Monsters"*

Matty and Jivi run back to the Ripa's house and tell Mathis, who'd only just realized how late it had gotten without them returning, that they were arrested and that a crazy Sharteshainin girl broke them out. They say she's offered a team up in return for Swarm, which she stole from the constabulary's lock-up. Matty asks his father why he didn't come for them, and rather than tell him he had lost track of time and was just about to leave looking for him in a panic as is true Mathis acts like his earlier threat that he wouldn't come looking for them if something happened was true. When Matty is concerned that Mathis might have killed everyone if he had come Mathis responds that the night is still young while checking his boy over for injuries.

When Mathis says he'll be going out to see Sette about getting Swarm back, and implies he may want a bit of revenge on the Red Berry Boys and those responsible for Matty's frantic state upon his return, Matty and Jivi both eagerly say they want to go with him and see him in action. Iori grabs them by the ear to drag them to supper and bed instead.

### Chapter 16: Passionate Intensity

#### *"Wherein Things Fall Apart"*

> ...All grownups are bad or dead. I'm ready to go away.
>
> -**Matty**, Chapter 16, page 24