Muriel Nocturna

* Adult
* Teenager

**Muriel Nocturna** is a minor character introduced in Season 3 of *Tuca & Bertie*. She is Bertie's former goth best friend from high school and is an acclaimed horror director and mother with a son.

## Bio

### Physical Appearance

**Muriel** **Nocturna** is a female bat with a goth style. She has white fur with light yellow fur on and inside her ears and her snout, with small fangs that stick out of her mouth. She has bangs that cover her forehead. Her design is likely based on a Honduran white bat.

As a teenager, she wore a spiked choker necklace and a black necklace with an "O" pendant, a black V-neck mid-sleeved too under a short green (as Bertie's memories are shown with a green tint) dress with a large black studded belt around it, black distressed tights, and platform knee length black boots. She wore two thick black bracelets in her left arm and a skinnier black bracelet on her right arm. She wore mascara and black lipstick and nail polish, and both her ears had three piercings - two small hoop black earrings and a black cross earring. She was also seen occasionally wearing sunglasses, likely due to her nocturnal nature as a bat.

As a 31–32-year-old adult in the present day, she is shown wearing a long black trench coat over a dark grey top with a black bet connected around it, matching dark grey pants, and knee-high black platform boots similar to the ones from her teen years. She wears two silver necklaces, black nail polish, and now wears magenta lipstick. She keeps her sunglasses on during the Q&A and briefly lifts them up to reveal she now has bags under her eyes, probably because of motherhood and she's probably a single mother.

### Personality

As a teenager, she was shown to be friendly and peppy towards Bertie, as she came to check on Bertie after hearing her crying in the girl's restroom "all the way from the art wing" and even offered Bertie to talk to her about her troubles. However, she's slowly revealed to have some toxic qualities, such as getting Bertie get into shoplifting and at some point, even kissed Bertie, only to start distancing herself afterwards. At the climax of Bertie's memories, she becomes upset at the fact that Bertie got "most gothiest" in the yearbook and lashes out at her, apparently not seeing Bertie fit to being goth due to her liking the color pink and "rom-coms and boy bands." She reveals that she was never truly Bertie's friend and that she only hung out with her out of pity. When she finally started hanging out with Jessica again, she started to considered Bertie to be a mimicking stalker, even though she's the one got Bertie into goth subculture and fashions in first place, when she was temporary hanging out with her.

As an adult, she seems to be a more mellowed and still has a liking for dark themes, such as clothing and produces horror movies. However she also seemed tired and still dislikes "clingy" attention from others, as such when she shows displeasure from her own child's adoration towards her and the fact he mimics her.

## Trivia

* She's also a vegetarian, especially that Honduran white bats are herbivores.
* She found her son to be annoying, especially when he always copying her and even called him a "creep," which her latest film, *Screech Leeches* was based on him, not based on Bertie like Bertie first thought.
* She had a similar childhood experience to Bertie, where she got molested by the family gardener and her parents completely ignored it and brushed it under the rug like Bertie's parents did.
* She considers Jessica, a goth moth, her "real best friend" and still considers her to be her best friend when they split and during the time she was hanging out with Bertie for a couple of days until they made up. She considers Bertie more of a substitute until she and Jessica are eventually back together. The real reason why she kissed Bertie because she was messing with her feelings.
* The movies she made as a director are *Cannibal Sex Monkeys*, *Smog Bugs* and her latest, *Screech Leeches*.
* Dr. Joanne is a huge fan of her movies, especially she got two copies of *Cannibal Sex Monkeys* on Blu-ray Disc and considered her as a "genius."
* She prefers CDs and audio cassette tapes over digitally downloaded music because they're retro and sound worse.
* She and her son don't have wings attracted to their arms like real life bats do. In fact, they don't have wings at all.
	+ Tuca, Bertie, Speckle and about all of the other bird characters have arms with hands and fingers, instead of wings like real life birds.