Moth Scarberry

**Moth Scarberry** is a frequently reoccurring character. Although not having a set group of companions, moth is commonly accompanied by Ray, having also recently travelled with Riot Maidstone, Olivier Song, Percy Reed, and Diggory Graves. As of current Moth has been taken by the Botulus Corporation's drones.

## Biographical Information

### Relatives

Bill Scarberry - Dad
Gale Scarberry - Uncle/ Enemy
Darla - Aunt

### Relationships

Ray - Friend/Father figure
Riot Maidstone - Friend
Percy Reed - Friend
Diggory Graves - Friend
Olivier Song - Friend
Fox - Ex Friend
Dinah - Ex Friend
Frances Duckworth - Friend

## Personality

Moth has shown mothself to be a trusting in individual and an optimist. Moth cares about moth's farther Bill Scarberry and those who moth meets on an extreme level, and has based moth's identity primarily around moth's love of Lepidoptera.

## Description

Moths age is unknown, although moth is said to be a late teenager and is old enough to have multiple tattoos. Moth is a thin person who mainly wears small red glasses paired with a tattered, black cape of sorts. Moth has many tattoos, most notably, a detailed tattoo of a death's head moth peeking from under Moths collarbone, as well as smaller tattoos blanketing moth's arms, named images include that of owlet, sphinx, and tiger moths.

While in The Prime Dream, moth chooses to give mothself a pair of "fluffy and beautifully spotted" moth wings on moths back.

## History

Moth was raised is Las Vegas by moths Father, Bill Scarberry, as well as Fox, Dinah, and notably surnamed Frances Duckworth. When Bill became sick from consuming black water, moth signed him up for the "recommend a friend" BotCo program, which would allow Bill to be seen to by medical staff, as of current date it is unknown if Bill is still alive. However, having done this Moth painted a target on moths home survival settlement and the people who live there, to become subjected to frequent BotCo drone attacks. This caused Moth to be shunned by the majority of moths peers, and hated to the extent of murderous intent by some, such as Francis.

### Season 1

Episode 32 - Automobiles: Moth meets Ray, a possessed automobile, while moth is on the run from BotCo drones ("Clusters"). After introductions, Ray asks Moth if moth has anyone that moth could go to. Moth explains that moth has an uncle in Chicago that Ray could take moth to, and Ray agrees.

### Season 2

Episode 50 - Radios: Moth and Ray arrive at moth's uncles house, only to find him gone. Moth digs through one of his journals to find that he was in Toledo, having left to escape the Cluster and re-kindle his relationship with his ex-wife Darla. Moth informs Ray of this, and they leave, barely escaping a Cluster.

Episode 54 - Roads: Moth finds moths uncle, and splits with Ray shorty after arriving at Glass City Farms (GCF). Gale and Darla welcome Moth with open arms. When asked about Bill, Moth revealed that he had gotten sick and called the Clusters on himself. Gale says this sounds pout of character for Bill, stating that he was a conspiracy theorist. Moth lies saying that moth had also found it unexpected.

Episode 58 - Enemies: After taking up a job working on GCF, Moth discovers a fish tank that contains a mutated fish amongst the produce. Moth alerts Gale of this, and Gale makes quick work killing it with his sledge hammer. Moth quickly makes the connection that all the water GCF is using to grown produce has been corrupted, and announces that it all has to be cleaned. Gale orders that Moth follow him to his office, and then yells at him for trying to cause a panic, and indirectly calls moth immature, commenting on how much Bill had sheltered moth. It takes moth a small while to realise that Gabe and Darla are well aware of their corrupted water. Moth decides that moth needs to leave the farm.

Moth waits until night before sneaking out, taking with moth a blanket, some food and a clock. Moth makes it to the highway before moth is ambushed by a plot twist Hollowed Gale ( "*his eyes like green lamps in the dark*"), who proceeds to beat moth with his sledgehammer while calling moth ungrateful, accusing moth of killing Bill, and saying that moth will not be a problem for much longer. This is broken up when Ray returns and hits Gale. Moth is too beat up to get into Ray, and the segment closes with a BotCo drone landing nearby.

Episode 60 - Flies: Moth is saved by the arrival of Riot Maidstone, Olivier Song, Percy Reed, and Diggory Graves, (fandom dubbed “Dead, Goth and beyond”, “The RV gang” or "Road trip gang"). Olivier fights the BotCo drone while the others help Moth into the RV.

Episode 62 - Provisions: Moth has a nightmare in the form of a twisted memory. Moth's sitting in a greenhouse eating strawberries while Bill speaks with an Gale outside. Their conversation takes a turn when moth looks down at an earth worm to see that it was infested with little maggots, and Bill and Gale start loudly advertising BotCo. Moth wakes up in the RV, and leaves to find it parked outside of a diner. Moth walks in to find The RV gang eating an assortment of breakfast foods. Moth sits down with them and Riot introduces the group and explains to moth their plan. Moth introduces mothself.

Episode 63 - Signals: Olivier and Moth are sitting in the back of the RV drawing and talking, with Olivier catching Moth up on the events of Season 1, namely The Instrumentalist. Moth comments on how strange it was that Olivier still went to school and states that in Vegas they had a little commune where people taught moth things, moth mentions liking bugs (especially entomology). Moth also mentions having has sleeping issues.

Episode 65 - Miles: The RV gang drives through Huntsville, Alabama. Percy comments that this was the town he grew up in (therefore, the town he died in) to which Moth pipes up “*I was not exactly murdered in mine, but I know what it is like to have an unpleasant hometown,*”. The two begin a conversation, but are cut off by the RV running out of petrol. Ray tells Riot where she can re-fuel, and Moth comments on how strange some of the stories the RV gang have are, delivering the line:

“*Let me see if I have this right."... “You killed a musician. Your close friend is a witch who flies on a broomstick. You used to know a dog who was a ghost. You got your sword from a gardener. And you’re going to fight a Dreaming Box because you sometimes dream about your mother.*”

Riot makes some small corrections, but confirms the statement. She tells Moth and Olivier that they're on dinner duty.

Episode 68 - Sands: The RV gang find themselves crossing through Vegas. Moth comments on how growing up there wasn't as fun as it would seem in the movies. The gang decide to try and get Moth some sleep medication to help with moth's now frequent nightmares. while looking, they get jumped by Fox and Dinah, who successful knock Moth unconscious and kidnap moth. Moth has another dream while asleep, think time a shared memory between moth and Fox of Fox teaching Moth about Moths. This also becomes twisted by BotCo advertising after a while. Moth wakes up to fond that moth is tied up. Fox and Dinah intend to kill Moth, but provide some exposition, explaining that Bill is most likely dead, seeing as BotCo are known for using creatures and humans affected by the Black water for immoral scientific experimentation. The RV gang show up to rescue Moth, which they do. Moth asks Fox and Dinah about sleeping meds, saying that moth had been been tagged by a Cluster. Dinah goes to get them while Fox breaks into a fit of laughter, telling moth to "*Say hi to Bill for* [him]*!*", implying that he expects Moth to die.

Episode 70 - Lines: Moth says goodbye to The RV gang and leaves with Ray after they reach the outskirt of Dreaming Box Andromeda and Ray declares it too dangerous.

Episode 78 - Runaways: Moth has become an insomniac due to the nightmares. Ray has been trying to convince moth to sleep, with little success. They hear over the radio the success of Riot's heist to break her mother out of Box Andromeda, during this announcement Moth nods off. Ray chooses to let moth sleep.

Episode 82 - Failures: Moth has a dream in the form of a memory from when moth was 12 and Gale was scolding moth for being "useless". Bill comes to the rescue and drags Gale outside, though Moth can still hear the argument, during which Gale misgenders moth. Moments after the argument has finished, Bill open the door to the room that moth is in and asks if moth is okay. They set about discussing what just happened. The conversation goes smoothly with Bill explaining but not excusing his bothers actions, but it suddenly takes a turn for the worse when BotCo beings more dramatically influencing it, and makes Moth's memory of moths dad call moth "*The vicious little thief who turned your own father in to the flies*". BotCo, though moth's dad, tall moth that moth is fighting a losing battle and that they will get moth eventually. That if moth wants to put the suffering to an end all moth has to say is 'I accept'. And, subconsciously, Moth does, immedicably waking up afterwards. Moth attempts to warn Ray of what moth had just done, but before moth can finish moth's sentence, they are attacked by BotCo drones, who cause Ray to crash and 'kidnap' moth.

Episode 87 - Boxes: Moth wakes up in The Prime Dream for the first time after being put in Dreaming Box Venus. Moth is greeted by a silver cube "the size of a human skull" with a single red eye situated in the canter of one of its faces. This box refers to itself as "Boxy" and is seemingly the same AI that Marco Torres referred to in Episode 81 - Fears. Moth immediately asks where Ray was, and Boxy tells moth that moth will be able to see Moth's friends and loved once [moth] finished 'onboarding'. Moth suddenly finds mothself in moth's childhood back yard, although there was no house or Vegas beyond the chain-link fence. Moth asks to leave, but Boxy tells moth that moth should finish Moth's onboarding before moth explored the rest of the Prime Dream, and Moth tells Boxy that moth wanted to leave the prime dream, reaching out to touch the ground only to find that moth couldn't feel it, that moths body could be any other part of the dream if moth looked away. Boxy tells moth they it couldn't see a "Ray" in moth's friends and loved one's list, but that moth could submit a "Recommend a Friend request" for Ray, and moth urgently tells it no. A projection of Lady Ethel Mallory appears in the sky, which also greets moth. Moth starts to ask to leave again but stops when moth realises that she was a pre-recoded message. Moth realises that while in the Prime dream moth could look like whatever moth wanted, and immediately gave mothself a large pair of moth wings. Moth asks Boxy if Moth could see moth's dad, and Boxy complies, Bill suddenly appearing in the garden with smoking hair and blazing eyes, but still resembling Moth's dad. Bill greets Moth and welcomes moth "home".

Episode 93 - Mirrors: Moth is sitting in the old commune in a false Vegas within the prime dream with Bill and Frances Duckworth. Moth thinks to mothself about how unexpected the nostalgia moth was feeling in that moment was, looking over the commune, taken from a moment in time when it had been in its prime, before they'd been forced to bored up its doors and windows. As far as moth knew, Fox and Dinah were still in the real Vegas, only as miles away from where moth was on a map, by worlds of distance between them when it came to escaping Box Venus. Frances tells moth that she ought to slap moth (referencing moth having called the flies), and moth apologises, saying that moth knew an apology wasn't enough, but moth didn't know what else to say, that moth hadn't meant to ruin everything. Moth asks what'd happened to Frances, and she recounts to moth the events of Episode 60 - Flies. Moth once again reiterates that moth hadn't meant for the flies to go after everyone else, which Bill pipes up that no, moth had only wanted them to go after him. Moth defends mothself, saying that he'd always told moth that they had medicine at Botco, and Bill had needed help. Frances says that Bill had been fine, but moth stands strong that he hadn't. Moth asks if Botco had been able to help Bill, and Bill tells moth that he was better than he was, sometimes; He was able to see how much he'd changed now.

Moth takes this failure, and comments how everything moth had done had been for nothing, Bill tries to be an optimist, telling moth that at least now they had time together, but moth don't accept this, saying that moth wanted him to be okay, moth didn't want him to die. Moth asks if moth can hear one of Bill's conspiracy theories, and Bill obliges. Moth tells Bill that he'd used to have theories on dreaming boxes and asks if any of them had turned out to be true, but Bill said he was yet to see. Frances points out that it'd taken a while for the flies to get moth and asks where moth had gone. Moth tells them that moth had made a friend (refrencing Ray), and they ask if this friend had wound up in Box Venus as well, which moth mournfully tells them no. Moth apologises yet again, and Bill tells moth that it was okay, all of America was in dreaming boxes, so he was sure they'd manage. Frances tells him to 'speak for himself', and revels that she was going to be joining the Stonemaids.

## Known Abilities

* Moth can cook
* Moth can sew

## Appearances

* Episode 54 - Roads
* Episode 58 - Enemies
* Episode 60 - Flies
* Episode 62 - Provisions
* Episode 63 - Signals
* Episode 65 - Miles
* Episode 68 - Sands
* Episode 70 - Lines
* Episode 78 - Runaways
* Episode 82 - Failures
* Episode 87 - Boxes
* Episode 93 - Mirrors

## Trivia

* Moth sewed the pattern on moth's cloak mothself
* Moth chose moth's moth/mothself pronouns when moth was 12

## References

1. ↑ Episode 60 - Flies "...a person in a black coat..."
2. ↑ Episode 63 - Signals "A tattoo of a death’s head... ink blanketed moth’s arms."