Moe Yai

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**Moe Yai** is a player character from Gravity Star, played by Chris-tian Mothman. He is a variant human bard known for his helmet that amplifies his senses. He is the pilot of M.O.A.I..

## Personality

Moe is a musician, and idolizes the members of Weezer, his favorite band.

## History

### Before the Campaign

Moe was a deejay in his younger years, and was diagnosed with synesthesia. The mo'ai helmet he later procured is a modified version of the one he'd wear on stage, built to untangle and focus his senses. The fact that his name is Moe Yai and that his helmet is a mo'ai was entirely coincidental. It is unknown if Moe Yai is his real name, a stage name, or both.

### Gravity Star Campaign

Moe, alongside the others, were summoned by General Stone on one of their off-days, tasking them with preventing the assassination attempt against the mayor of the neighboring town of Beaumont. When the Skullhearts first took aim at the mayor and missed, Moe used this time to create a holographic mayor after Haze's smoke grenade went off in an attempt to distract one of them, which succeeded. During the fight, Moe pulled Gary out of danger after he got in too deep. Moe was personally responsible for killing one of the Skullhearts with his iconic boomerang.

After saving the mayor, Moe witnessed the Harvester crashing down on Earth, and was among the Gravity Star operatives that went to investigate, armoring up into M.O.A.I.. Moe assisted in the battle against the enemy units, helping to clear the path to the Harvester while Moto dug through Gravity Star's records. Moe heeded her warning about the instability of its reactor, and took caution. In the cockpit, Moe allied with his crewmates to make a stealth assault on the crew in the cockpit, minus the pilot, who Moe took the faceplate off of. Moe witnessed the persuasion of the pilot to join Gravity Star's crew.

In an attempt to permanently render the Harvester inoperable, Moe and the others led a stealth assault on the reactor team, with Moe personally shredding an enemy Crusher with his chainsaw-tooth sword lengthways, though doing a sloppy job. After this, Moe used M.O.A.I.'s magnetokinesis to crush the reactor, pull the pipes out of the reactor room, and thanks to 086 pulling a panel out of the floor, propfly the team out of the Harvester's husk.

Back at base, Moe witnessed Moto's explanation of who they were fighting and where they were from, and he witnessed Octus' broadcast. While helping Moto ask out Zola, Moe personally used an illusion of romantic violin music to set the mood for their dinner. It is unknown whether this in particular was what made it work, but the date was successful, so it was helpful nonetheless.

In the cafeteria, Moe had dino nuggies before 086 offered him some of her spicy MUG, to which he reluctantly agreed to underwhelming results. Moe aided in testing Tommy's potential for horniness towards geckoes with a hologram of a sexy gecko that he obtained from an unknown source, to which Tommy kicked the hologram, an intangible object, across the room.

Returning to the Harvester's crash site, Moe picked up one of the guns and now became armed and dangerous. Back at base, Moe gave COSMO a big sniff.

On the way to Metran, Moe was able to pull in a Scorcher with his mech and slice it in half, instantly killing it. Once actually on Metran, Moe and the others forgot who they were looking for, with Moe in particular suggesting the names of Rivers Cuomo and Clib Jubley, then once he was told by Moto that he was Percival Mason, still mistook him for Carnaval Jason. Moe assisted in calming down the people of the Oil Slick bar, and gave chase to the fleeing fugitive. He was among the team members to confront Percival, now known as Albus, trying to calm him down. When the Searcher came down and stole Albus' arm, Moe and Gary picked it up, planning to take it back.

In the jailer ship, Moe was among the teammates to successfully guess the right cell block first try, freeing Albus, but also a pink cyclops and an older purple tiefling. He witnessed the deaths of both of the other freed cellmates before campaigning to free the remaining prisoners to lead an assault on the Searcher. This worked to moderate success, with Moe accidentally being responsible for Looki's death before Gary was able to resurrect him. Moe kept the Searcher at bay while the new allies kept the enemy units at bay. After the battle was won, Moe adopted Looki as his dog.

Moe accepted Albus' offer to travel to Omnibius to find Plated Pete, the original maker of Albus' arm and the one that could repair its drive. He first stopped at the food court, getting disgusted by the Globulo and Tronkus fruits before going adamantly to Space Pizza Hut. Moe assisted in bartering with Plated Pete when the time came, and he was the one responsible for leaving Albus stuck with Larry the Cucumber. Moe listened in on Moto and Zola's recounts of the Martyrian Army's next moves, ready for the next mission on Granaera.

On the way to Granaera, Moe and the others were stopped by the Wayfinders, confusing them for the Martyrian army, but was among the ones to calm them. On Granaera, during the festival for the Titan, Moe sampled some of their roast beast and shared it with 086. When the Titan came and the Paralyzer attacked, Moe joined the others in saving Granaera's goddess. When it came time to redecorate the Titan, Moe put his SoundCloud link on her in permanent marker. Moe went with the others to catch some sparkflies, trying to lure them with a coin that he put a light on, only with 086 rubbing the glowing guts of one she popped on him, much to his disgust. When the dustrat came to feast on the spilled guts, Moe used a hologram of a swarm of sparkflies to lure it away before the team took the sparkflies back to the kobolds for them to rebuild the Titan's lantern.

Moe followed along with the others to answer the distress call from the Penumbrian Gravity Star base, Shadowcast. On Penumbros, Moe helped the old woman bake her pastries, and went with the team through the forest thicket to make their way to Shadowcast. When the demon was awakened, he had to witness Gary have sex with it. Moe and the others were stopped by 014 when they came to the gates, before she lowered her guard when she saw they were Gravity Star agents. She briefed Moe and the others on the current situation on Shadowcast, and sent Moe and the team to collect her scout squads of Sisters. He went with the team, sans 086, to go find the different squads, making a sexy demon illusion to ward off the demons ravaging Squad A, grieving the loss of Squad B, and aiding to mercy-kill Squad C. Thanks to COSMO's tracking device, Moe and the others found the location of the Puppetmaster and went to fight him and his swarm of demons. Moe was particularly responsible for chainsawing one of the demons before Dewey turned it into ash with the power of Pepsi.

When the team returned to offer Moto the puppet rotors for analysis, Moe heeded General Stone's call to action on Varuna, but first went with the team to get his mech upgraded on the Vulcanian Gravity Star base of Hephaestus Hall.

Returning to Earth for a brief break, Moe got some spaghetti from the cafeteria, witnessing Dewey putting Pepsi on his.

On Varuna, Moe watched 086 steal hot dogs for herself and him, and in return stole a bag of Funyuns for her. Moe overheard Zola's plans to disrupt the comms jammers Octus has put in place. Moe and the team participated in the gladiator competition in the Varunian town of Ictalurus, first fighting the Fishman Band, during which he made a holographic, smell-o-vision-compatible illusion of space bacon ("spacon", if you will) to distract them while the team cleaned them up. He did something similar in the next round to the Queen's Guard, this time creating a dancing shrimp to enthrall them, especially with Gary yelling "It's as shrimple as that!" to get their attention.

Moe witnessed the news break of Zola's death, and Moto's subsequent breakdown. Moe watched the semifinal round before theirs, witnessing Octus say that he is better.

Unfortunately, Moe had to witness Gary have sex with the King Crab and seduce Marin after the team's pleas that Octus was a cringe, unbased, bluepilled milk-baby failed.

Moe listened in on Octus' broadcast and watched as 086 called Octus a milk baby to his face.

When the team arrived back on Earth, Moe hollered with 086 at the structure, assuming they were the homeless. Moe then reunited with the survivors before he found out, through his echolocation and the sight of Flec, that the Annihilator had come for them. During the fight with the Annihilator, Moe ascended it using M.O.A.I.'s magnets, before sawing off its shoulder cannon and reaching into the cockpit to puree the pilot. After the Annihilator was defeated, Moe got the idea to put Looki in the cockpit, but since it was destroyed, they would have to take it to Vulcan to have it repaired. This was of no avail, regardless of Gary's sudden Herculean strength, as the Annihilator started ticking. Moe and the others quickly fled as it detonated, cracking the Earth in two.

Once the team's message board was rebooted and functioning once again, Moe went with 086 to Metran to help the Sparkplug Police Department try and track down the Skullhearts. He and Looki used their enhanced senses of smell to track them to Assembly Line Creations before witnessing 086 assault an innocent man. He went with 086 to the Oil Slick Bar and found the Skullhearts hustling the drunks for money, before sending Looki to sieze one of the gang members and putting another to sleep. After Moe and 086 claimed the bounty, Moe petted Looki in celebration.

Moe accompanied the team on their way to Tynkeria to aid the Wayfinders in defeating the Siren, witnessing the return of Lieutenant Zola. Returning to Penumbros to aid the members of Shadowcast to rebuild, Moe used his mech to cut down the trees, and when Dewey found a monkey in the swamp algae, Moe claimed him, naming him Glippo.

Heading to Sequoia to reach Moto's contacts, Moe showed Sister Elina of the Redwood Sisters his dog and his monkey, and she marveled at the beauty of nature, as she often does. Moe later pestered Elina about her religion alongside 086, prompting her to shove holy texts in both of their hands. Moe assisted in the fight with and subsequent redemption of Sister Dierdre, pilot of the Martyrian Swarmer.

On Boreo, now reformatted into Martyros II, Moe helped the team carve a path to Octus' spire, even allowing Looki and Glippo to pilot an Enforcer hijacked by Gary's remote. Moe participated in the battle against Octus, as well as the planet itself after Centurion protocol was engaged. Moe witnessed Octus' brutal execution at the hands of Dewey, Gary and 086, before the Exalted came. Moe aided the team in entering the rift and defeating their nerve center, the Exalted Oculus. After the Exalted's realm started to destabilize, Moe and the others were saved by Flec, who took them to the subatomic realm of the Dorbees for a brief moment, before the team soon found themselves on Omnibius. Moe and the others built a new home there now that Earth had long been destroyed, and Moe and Dewey started living large together in Space Pizza Hut.

## Notable Moments

* Making a hologram of the mayor
* Killing someone with a boomerang
* Taking off Tommy's faceplate
* Sawing someone in half lengthways
* Crushing the Harvester's reactor
* Propflying
* Helping Moto and Zola hit it off
* Somehow having access to a holographic model of a sexy female gecko
* Sniffing COSMO
* Accidentally killing Looki
* Offering to go to Space Pizza Hut
* Tagging the Titan with his SoundCloud link
* Luring the dustrat away
* Somehow having access to a holographic model of a sexy female Penumbrian demon
* Chainsawing one of the Puppetmaster's demons
* Utilizing smell-o-vision
* Ascending and cleaving the Annihilator
* Tracking down the Skullhearts
* Claiming Glippo and effectively stealing him from Dewey
* Chucking multiple trees at Sister Dierdre
* Living large at Space Pizza Hut

## Trivia

* Moe Yai's name is a not-so-subtle reference to the ancient mo'ai heads of Easter Island.
* Moe Yai's helmet is a reference to those worn by real-world band Daft Punk.
* Moe Yai is one of a few characters to have a canon neurodivergence, being a synesthete.
* Moe Yai speaks in an autotuned voice.