Hissy

Hissy is a plush Cacodemon created by chrozoron sometime around 1997-98. Hissy has become somewhat of an icon among certain portions of the Doom community. She even appears in the Skulltag source port (she is both a playable skin, and you can see her in one of the levels), and the WADs Cacodemon Squad (she is again Hissy-hogged by the main badguy) and EarthBound Doom (she is the player's primary helper and one of the strongest in the game).



Hissy was originally slated to go on a "world tour", visiting one Doomer every two weeks, and then would be passed on to the next Doomer on the list. Although early details of who she visited are not known to this author, it is known that Hissy needed to have some teeth re-sown once she reached Ricrob; his mother was aptly suited to this task.

The world tour practice was abruptly stopped when former Doomworld webmaster Linguica kept Hissy in his possession for approximately two years. A vigilant campaign known as "Free Hissy", spearheaded by fraggle, sprang up to fight this grave injustice. Cries of "Free Hissy!" and "Hissy hogger!" were not uncommon; Linguica was even depicted as an enemy in Skulltag, with a voice sample claiming, "To free the Hissy, you must kill me, Linguica." Linguica finally turned Hissy over to Carnevil, the next person on the list, in 2000. Ironically, Carnevil ended up having Hissy longer than Linguica ever did, but no one seemed to care. The Free Hissy website died, and no archived copies are available. On February 5th, 2003, a passing conversation in the Skulltag IRC channel between Carnevil and Bloodshedder set up the next Hissy exchange. Carnevil received a self-addressed box full of packing peanuts in which to ship Hissy to Bloodshedder. Even though he was never on the original list, on February 19, Hissy arrived on Bloodshedder's doorstep.

In late January of 2004, the frenchman Julian Auborg, webmaster of Doomworld, paid a visit to America. After staying in Chicago with Lüt, and meeting Doom personalities such as Mancubus II, arioch and SoM, Julian, along with Lüt, drove down to visit Bloodshedder for two days, January 30 and 31. It was at this time that the next Hissy exchange occurred. Hissy was given to them with the stipulation that Mancubus II would receive her.

Hissy is now in Mancubus II's possession, and will finally be returning back to her original home in Norway at the end of January, 2005.