Twisted Brightney

Twisted Brightney retains a silhouette similar to her Toon counterpart but displays several unsettling changes. Her white blush is smeared across her face, and Ichor coats her left arm, both legs, and her right eye. Her light now emits a red glow matching her crimson eyes, a stark contrast to the original. Her usual cheerful smile has been replaced by a sorrowful frown, with a dark purple shadow sitting between her eyes. When she detects a Toon, her pupils shrink and her mouth drops open, exposing sharp teeth and a vacant, lifeless expression.

Twisted Brightney chases at the same speed as Twisted Poppy, Twisted Cosmo, Twisted Looey, and Twisted Boxten, so she can generally be handled using the same tactics as most Common Twisteds. In fact, the red glow she constantly emits arguably makes her one of the easiest Twisteds to deal with, since it reveals both her position and nearby objects even through walls, giving you time to predict her patrol route and helping distractors locate her quickly. Her mechanic is entirely passive, limited to rerolling the Blackout chance on her floor, so she only becomes a meaningful threat when she appears on the Daily Twisted Board. While higher Floors with more Twisted slots increase her frequency, reaching those Floors generally means you already know how to manage Blackouts. She does have a slight edge with above-average walk speed (12) and attention span (2 seconds), though this mainly causes problems for Toons with 1 or 2 Movement Speed.

Completing 100% Research on Twisted Brightney unlocks:

• Her red glow inadvertently reveals her location, paralleling how the playable Brightney's Ability exposes Twisted positions during Blackouts. She also has low Stealth, and she can trigger Blackouts herself, the direct opposite of her Toon counterpart's role in managing them.
• In Roleplay Mode, Twisted Brightney does not emit the red glow visible in the main game. Twisted Rudie shares this trait.
• If she is present on a floor, the Blackout chance is re-rolled, and a Blackout is selected, the sound of a lamp switch flipping followed by a short circuit will play.
• This makes her the first non-Main Character Twisted with an audio cue signaling her presence before an encounter, tying with Twisted Dandy. Later Twisteds with similar cues include Twisted Glisten, Twisted Blot, Twisted Dyle, Twisted Squirm, and Twisted Cocoa. Twisted Finn may also qualify under specific circumstances involving immediate Machine completion via Vee's Remote or a Valve.
• The sound effects from her successful Blackout re-roll are reused elsewhere in the game, specifically the audio that plays during the "THAT'S A WRAP" screen and the stat summary, as well as a modified version of the Jumper Cable usage sound.
• With Twisted Brightney on the floor, the Blackout chance caps at 51% without the Electrician card and 43.75% with it.
• She is one of the few Twisteds that indirectly assists with Masteries, specifically Blackout-related experience for Astro, Brightney, Eclipse, Soulvester, and Vee. Other Twisteds with similar indirect benefits include Twisted Eclipse for encounter Masteries, and Twisted Connie and Soulvester for Machine completion Masteries.
• Under very specific conditions, it is possible to have a Blackout occur simultaneously with an Ichor Leak, Iced Over, or Spring Fever if the floor event triggers first and then Twisted Brightney's re-roll successfully activates a Blackout.
• She was the last Uncommon Twisted to receive model optimization.
• When the v0.15.1 update launched, Twisted Brightney was supposed to be optimized, but her old animations briefly persisted before being corrected, likely due to a technical error.
• Twisted Brightney and Twisted Shrimpo were the first Twisteds whose models differ from their Toon counterparts only in texture rather than shape, with Twisted Yatta being the second.