Characters in Egophiliac's webcomic Moonstuck.
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Team Woona
Woona
Protagonist and "player character" of the story, a filly who was sent to the moon to protect her from Discord and to find the elements of harmony so that she and Celestia could defeat him for good. Along the way, she makes friends and learns valuable lessons about magic, underwater basket weaving, and origami.
- Age-Appropriate Angst: Woona really misses her sister; it doesn't come up often but when it does it's either adorable, when comforted by Echo, or terrifying, when she is tricked into revealing herself and Imogen to Exuvia. Either way, the reader feels really sorry for her.
- Always Someone Better: Blueblood keeps constantly outdoing her early on in the story, though this happens less and less as the plot progresses until he vanishes completely about half-way through.
- Chekhov's Skill: She takes time out in the moon observatory to study a book on underwater basket weaving. When she meets the Lunar Maria, she befriends them by weaving them all baskets. It comes up again at the end of the arc, when she defeats the sea monster by encasing it in a giant basket.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Originally sent to the moon to find the other three elements and be out of Discord's reach (for the most part), yet she seems unaware of it throughout the beginning of the story, and partakes more in goofy sidequests.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Woona has little in the way of practical magic and relies mostly upon her wits, awesome hat, and ability to befriend anything. Ultimately, the entire quest is about Woona learning the magic of friendship to use the Elements of Harmony.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Big eyes, a tiny body, and a tendency to do everything in the cutest manner possible.
- Signature Headgear: The Cartographer's Cap, the valuable treasure map Woona folds into a hat (among other things). She always wears it as a hat if she's not actively using it for something else.
Sunshine and Meadowlark
Two young bat pony brothers who accompany Woona on her adventures. She first encounters them in the caves under the observatory, where they have been separated from their colony. After an initial misunderstanding, Woona and the two bat ponies work together to navigate the labyrinth and locate the bat pony colony.
Sunshine is the brother with the eye-patch and Meadowlark is the one who likes to sing.
- The Bus Came Back: Originally both bat ponies were intended to stay with the colony after Woona returns to the surface; however the characters proved so popular that they were brought back shortly thereafter.
- Equippable Ally: Played with. Woona attempts this early on with a command issued to "Equip the bat ponies." She wears one on her head and one as a scarf, so it's unclear what she intends to do with them, and it goes about as well as you might expect.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: After getting a banana stuck in his eye, Woona patches up Sunshine and gives him an eyepatch. His eye is fine and he doesn't actually need it; he just likes the way it looks (and it provides an easy way to tell the two otherwise identical ponies apart). Even in the bonus epilogue comics, he's still shown wearing it.
Imogen
(Temporarily) Deposed Queen of the Moon Changelings. Too young to perform anything but her ceremonial duties and helping keep the hive fed, she is overthrown by her regent just before meeting Woona. One of the most mature members of the group, Imogen is mostly concerned with the well-being of her hive, though she gives Woona all the help she can.
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Imogen is a tiny little filly about Woona's age. She is wise beyond her years, being almost on par with Serenity and Echo at times, and while her position is largely a figurehead as a child she is still able to overthrow Exuvia and regain her throne.
- Cute Little Fang: The friendly (if nervous) Changeling filly sports one of these.
- Emotion Eater: She feeds off the love of her subjects. However, in turn they feed off her love for them, keeping the whole hive fed.
- Universally Beloved Leader: The Changelings' unconditional love for their queen and her unconditional love for them keeps the whole hive fed and alive; as such, their entire social structure revolves around having a beloved monarch.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: Imogen can shape-shift into literally anything that is approximately the same size as her, including rocks, water, and other ponies. If her abilities have limits, we're not shown them.
Danger McSteele
After saving the Lunar Maria, they give her a pendant to activate when she's in trouble. When she does so in the Changeling Arc, she summons Danger McSteele to aid her.
- Graceful in Their Element: Lunar Maria are fine in water, but on land they're next to useless. Woona finds this out the hard way when she summons Danger inside a jail cell and she falls flopping onto the ground.
- Punny Name: The first*time we see her is the very first time we see a Lunar Maria, when Woona, quote, "stares down the face of danger", and it turns out to be Danger McSteele.
Pebbl
A baby roc that hatches from an egg (uneggspectedly) that Dark Woona plants in place of one of the moon relics. It also causes magical explosions when in distress.
- Equippable Ally: When alarmed, it causes magical explosions. While more startling than damaging, they do serve to call in reinforcements.
- Picky Eater: At the very least, it doesn't care much for asparagus, developing a permanent aversion to it early on. Science Woona claims Moon Rocs normally eat anything (up to and including ponies).
Allies
Queen Serenity
Queen of the Lunar Maria. Kind and understanding, she is initially very hospitable to Woona, though her patience is not infinite.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She is more than happy to help Woona on her quest, at least initially. Once Woona wins her over again she gives her the relic and informs her of the prophecy surrounding them.
- The High Queen: Beautiful, kind, and intelligent, she's well-loved by her subjects, and while it take some warming up to her she's generally (though not always) understanding of Woona's problems.
Echo
Leader of the bat pony colony and mother of Sunshine and Meadowlark. Extremely kind and gentle.
- Good Parents: While her mate is only seen once, Echo is seen to be an incredibly kind and supportive mother, even acting as a sort of surrogate mother to Woona for a brief time.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Echo is even more willing than Queen Serenity to help out and even goes out of her way to make sure Woona is aided, even sending her own beloved sons to help her.
Ziggy and Stardust
Moonitaurs that live in the underground labyrinth.
Stardust is the mother, Ziggy is the minitaur.
- Mama Bear: Stardust. As Woona discovers after encountering the minitaur, moonitaurs are very protective of their young.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: Moonitaurs are giant talking bipedal cows, with horns, cow-heads, and hooves.
Adult Rocs
Giant birds that live on the moon. After Woona accidentally hatches Pebbl, two of them come after her to try to reclaim their child. Afterwards, Woona travels to meet the two head Rocs to ask to use the moon relic.
- Giant Flyer: The Rocs are huge, easily the size of a building.
- Mama Bear: To Pebbl. After the roc hatches both parents chase after the energy explosions caused by the little roc, attacking and destroying anything there in an attempt to find their child.
Celestia
Princess of Equestria and Woona's older sister. She sent Woona away from Equestria to protect her, but ultimately reunites with her at the end after having undergone her own quest off-screen.
- Big Sister Instinct: Celestia sends her sister away in order to protect her from harm, drawing the main attention of the Big Bad to herself. She'll still step in herself if Woona is struggling, sending her a blanket to comfort her at one point and stepping in personally when Woona is in grave danger from Discord.
- Hero of Another Story: Discord implies that Celestia undertook a similar sort of quest in Equestria, though she was fighting against Discord himself rather than a mere puppet.
Enemies
Dark Woona
Also known by fan nickname Nightmare Woon, she is an incarnation of Woona that jumped into space in panel 3. Following the restart, she returns to enact revenge upon Woona and all the inhabitants of the Moon.
It is later revealed that she was a literal puppet of Discord, sent to distract Woona from her quest for the elements. She also attempts to secure the elements for herself.
- Big Bad: She serves as this for most of the story. Virtually every major challenge Team Woona faces is due to her direct intervention.
- The Comically Serious: Dark Woona is seen as being humorous of her own accord only once, and occasionally plays straight man to Team Woona.
- Dragon-in-Chief: Dark Woona was merely a puppet sent out by Discord, but since he doesn't appear until the end, she serves as the Big Bad for most of it.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Dark Woona was just another version of Woona, before she jumped off into space and circled the moon. When she comes back, it's with far more abilities, magic, and cunning than Woona herself has.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: When Dark Woona comes around things tend to get deadly serious. Two major colonies of moon residents were endangered by her actions and the Lunar Maria could have been completely exterminated.
Blueblood
A constant foil to Woona early on, despite never actually appearing on screen, Blueblood seems to have perpetually gotten to everything important on the moon before Woona does.
Exuvia
Queen of the Changelings, later revealed to be regent who took over the hive using one of the Moon Relics. Somewhat wackier in tone than Dark Woona and Discord, she is seen to be humorous of her own accord several times, particularly following her defeat.
- Arc Villain: Exuvia replaces Dark Woona as the main villain for the changeling arc, even playing antagonist to Dark Woona herself, but is not mentioned outside it.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: After Woona depowers her and her hive-wide brainwashing wears off, the Changelings reveal she was a pretty awful queen and most of them hated her.
- Regent for Life: She is regent to Imogen prior to the story, and just before the beginning of the Changeling arc she has managed to overthrow her.
Discord
The Man Behind the Man of Dark Woona, and the reason Woona's been sent to the moon to find the Elements of Harmony. As Discord wrecked havoc in Equestria, he fought with the royal sisters and Celestia sent Woona away to be safe from him.
He blatantly takes over the narration during the final arc and there is a subtle implication he might have been the narrator throughout, though this is not confirmed.
- Knight of Cerebus: While Dark Woona was not exactly a bumbling villain, Discord's direct involvement in the story signals a much darker series of events than had been seen in any villain conflict up to that point.
- The Man Behind the Man: Dark Woona is simply a puppet created by Discord to disrupt Woona's attempts to find the moon relics.
- Straw Nihilist: He insists that love and friendship do not exist, and harmony is just "a sad unnatural lie made by sad little ponies", and that everything is just chaos.
- We Will Meet Again: Gives a speech to this effect to Woona and Celestia right before being turned to stone.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Even more so than his puppet Dark Woona, Discord delights in torturing Woona and is not hesitant to attempt to flat out murder the sisters when given a chance.
- Villainous Breakdown:
- Discord completely loses it (via narration) when Woona just won't give up while fighting Dark Woona.
- He then again loses it when Woona is finally able to use the Relics with The Power of Friendship, going completely berserk.
Others
Science Woona
A alternate version of Woona that is often called upon to explain the illogical elements of life on the moon or simply Hand Wave an element where appropriate. She is always pictured wearing a lab coat and glasses and sitting at her desk in a science lab.
- Opt Out: Frustrated with people asking for her explanation of everything, Science Woona eventually clocks out and goes home, not to be seen for the rest of the comic.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: Unlike Woona, Science Woona wears a pair of glasses to indicate her very sciency smartness.
Average Woona
Star of the April Fools' Day joke Average Woona Adventures, an average spin-off blog about a perfectly average office worker going about her average day.
- All Just a Dream: Average Woona herself is implied to be nothing more than a nightmare Woona has on April Fools Day.
Tim
A background joke character conceived during a livestream after an attempt at drawing a pony went horribly wrong, Tim doesn't undertake any actions that have effect on the narrative of the main Moonstuck comic, but he does appear briefly in Average Woona Adventures as Woona's manager. He makes frequent background cameos throughout both comics.
- All There in the Manual: He's a sphinx, a fact that is only mentioned on Egophiliac's blog and his own personal Ask Blog.
- The Cameo: Perpetually. He never engages directly with Woona (with the one exception being an onscreen appearance in Average Woona Adventures) appearing only in the backgrounds of scenes.
