Moony
“"It looks like the fisherman became the fished, am I right?!"”
― Moony, Extinction Party
Moony is a deuteragonist in the ENA series. She has made various appearances throughout the series, most notably appearing in the first four episodes.
Appearance
Moony traditionally takes on the appearance of a cartoonish moon. Her physical body shape is that of a floating light-gray sphere, with the right-hand side colored white in a similar fashion to a waning crescent. She has a single squinted eye on the left side of her head, as well as jet-black hair that drapes down into a triangular point behind her face while also having a rectangular eyebrow just above where her face is located. She also has a fairly large, cubical hole on the left side of her body; various different objects can be seen protruding out of it that consistently change with each episode in the series.
In the first episode, Auction Day, Moony's head-hole has a gray, rectangular block sticking out of it. In Extinction Party, her face now has a rectangular-shaped hole. In Temptation Stairway, she is seen in three different states throughout the episode. At the beginning, she dons a starch-white arm, assumed to be from one of the mannequin-like people that populate the environment around her, until she is trampled by the passing Mannequins, leaving her with a hole similar to that in Extinction Party. At the end of the episode, she is shown to have a shepherd's crook lodged in her face, which highly resembles that owned by The Shepherd. In Power of Potluck, she initially appears with a rectangular hole again before a white arm emerges from it and grabs a red wireframe polygonal object to fill the hole. The object later pops out of it when she gets annoyed at Ena, after which she once again has a rectangular hole from which the white arm reemerges and grabs the humanoid character who was inside Nacho, bringing the character into the hole and leaving their legs sticking out. The arm resembles her Primal form's left arm.
A major change in appearance makes its debut after she makes a wish to The Great Runas, in which she asks to be skinnier. A few moments after having made the requisition, her body splits in half from the top down, and she reemerges from the shell as a humanoid entity with no clothes, hair, or facial features, excluding one eye on her left side, and a two-toned body colored white on her left side and dim gray on her right side. This form was later confirmed to be called her "Primal" form, as shown by a piece of merchandise.[2] In Power of Potluck, a white arm resembling the Primal form's left arm can be seen grabbing at objects to fill the hole in Moony's regular form, even presumably killing the humanoid character inside Nacho once they are dragged inside. This may indicate the Primal form inhabits the inside of Moony's normal appearance and may be somewhat independent in terms of actions.
Personality
Moony oftentimes comes off as a dramatic, comedic-driven, and overall highly opinionated individual.
She has the tendency to get frequently annoyed or irritable during certain situations, with her disdain usually directed towards Ena. Examples of this behavior can be seen numerous times throughout the series, such as at the beginning of Auction Day, in which she tells Ena to hurry up in her concern to find a spot, or her disappointment when she suspects that Ena may be drunk in Extinction Party. She also seems to be somewhat judgmental when referring to other groups of people, having previously called large gatherings of folks 'ugly' on one occasion and 'idiots' on another.
Moony appears to be a fan of making puns and jokes, albeit most of them nonsensical and illogical in nature. She seems to be fairly confident in her quips as well, as demonstrated by her responses when Ena expressed concern regarding the meaning of some of her jokes. She also appears to be a fan of skateboarding, as she is shown to own a skateboard and perform a trick with it at the beginning of Temptation Stairway and has also appeared with the same skateboard in different pieces of merchandise, both in her normal and Primal forms.
Moony has also displayed an incredibly dismissive attitude towards Ena's drastic mood swings, either becoming visibly irritated when they occur or disregarding them entirely. The reasoning for this is unspecified, although one of the most common speculations amongst fans is that she may have possibly gotten desensitized over prolonged exposure to such behavior. However, it is also worth noting that this may also simply be a result of the nature of the show,[3] and her actions in turn do not actually have any particular significance or ulterior meaning behind them. She also seems to act dismissive towards Ena in general, as she mispronounces Ena's name multiple times throughout the series, most notably in Temptation Stairway, where she is shown to stumble on Ena's name for a brief moment.
She may also be somewhat insecure in regard to her physical appearance; this may be reflected in the wish she made to The Great Runas, as she states that she wanted to be skinnier. This is also possibly shown when she reunites with Ena at the end of Temptation Stairway, quickly retorting against her when she is asked about what her wish was in fear of being made fun of by Ena.
Gallery
The Moony gallery can be found on the Gallery subpage.
Trivia
- Moony can be seen in one of the Easter eggs on Joelgc.com.
- She also appears on a dropdown menu found on the mobile version of the website (or when zoomed in on the desktop version). When she is clicked, she will temporarily become angry before the menu is closed.
- The noise that plays when Moony realizes the nature of Ena's gift is a type of drum called a cuíca.
- The same instrumental sound is also made when Robert flails their arms and when Brick Frog hops.
- Moony has a tendency to pronounce Ena's name differently throughout episodes, usually changing the first 'E' in her name to sound like other sounds. Why she does this is currently unknown.
- Moony's skateboard is designed with the same pattern found on the walls in the Maze from Extinction Party.
- The name "Moony" appears in one of the tracks (MOONY.MyPrayer) in Graham Kartna's 2013 album Rewards. It is possible that this may have inspired Moony's name, as Graham Kartna's music has been used in the ENA series multiple times, though this could also be purely coincidental.
- A Tweet from Joel Guerra states that either Moony or Ena will appear in the future with their new appearance that they gained at the end of Temptation Stairway.[4] With this, it can be inferred that Primal Moony may appear in the future, possibly even in Dream BBQ. However, the Tweet is largely ambiguous and does not confirm if Moony will appear in Dream BBQ or in any future episodes.
Cultural references and inspirations
- Moony's appearance may have possibly been inspired by the moon from the film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune), a short French adventure movie made in 1902.
- Her appearance may have also been inspired by an untitled painting by Polish painter Zdzisław Beksiński that includes a moon with half of a human face on it. It has been stated that some entities in the series take inspiration from the artist.[5]
- The block may also be a reference to the Space Odyssey series, as the block seems similar to the Monolith, a plot object used in the series.
- The various additions to Moony's face that appear when she laughs are likely based on the face Easter eggs in the Game Boy Camera minigames that display faces with various features drawn on them. These features include exaggerated/cartoonish eyes, facial hair, wrinkles, and stitches, all of which appear on Moony's face when she laughs in Auction Day and Extinction Party.