Motsuki

**Motsuki**, and formerly nicknamed **Henchmoth**, is an antagonist (but sometimes an anti-hero) in the television series *PJ Masks*. She is an anthropomorphic moth girl and Luna Girl's little sister.

## Appearance

### **Moth Humanoid**

Motsuki is teal in appearance, wears a lilac and purple suit with a pink crystal on it. She has four arms, wings, pink eyeballs, purple eyes and purple eyelids, as well as a pudgy belly.

### **Henchmoth**

Before being transformed into a alien, Motsuki was largely identical to Luna Girl’s typical moths. However, she has glowing marks all over her body and wings, and on her forehead is a glowing moon mark. When using her sensing power, her eyes are glowing pink.

### **Typical**

And before being promoted as Luna Girl's henchman, Motsuki was originally a regular moth, identical to the other moths with no physical difference to her at all.

## Personality

Motsuki's personality has changed with each transformation:

Originally, when she was a normal moth and later a henchman, she was very loyal to Luna Girl. Unlike other moths, she was smart, cunning, and sneaky, but also very bossy. She can be pretty fast as she is seen being chased by PJ Robot and then trapping him inside the HQ’s vault, and she is more focused than the other moths, who are usually distracted. However, like Luna Girl, she has a soft side.

After being transformed into a moth alien that now serves as Luna Girl's sister, she decided to be on odds against Luna's demands and became rambunctious and irritating towards both her own big sister and the PJ Masks and has even lost her soft side. Rather than serve her, Motsuki now frequently argues with Luna, and is often treated like a baby, but she still loves and cares about her even though Luna doesn't feel the same towards her most of the time. In Season 4, Luna Girl and Motsuki have started getting along more, though there are still a few times where they argue.

Despite this, she is still very cute, smart, and is a quick learner; her soft side even returned in "Big Sister Motsuki," when PJ Robot wanted her to make the babies act nice and behave well, and when she realized that the babies want to grow up like she does, making her decide to change them back to normal with the baby beam and decides to release PJ Robot from her moon bubble afterwards.

In "Heroes of the Sky," when she temporarily turned back to a normal moth, her personality remained the same as when she was a humanoid, as she says that she also wants to be in charge as well, albeit using gibberish.

## Trivia

* She is the first moth to come with Luna Girl to the moon.
* Her gender is first revealed when Luna Girl called her "she."
* She is the first moth to gain powers.
* She is also the first moth to be given a name by Luna Girl.
	+ If the syllable "mo" is eliminated, the remaining syllables left together are "tsuki," which is a Japanese word for "moon."
* She is revealed to be Luna Girl’s most favorite moth.
* She is shown to become the official leader of Luna Girl's moths, as she is seen leading them in "Glowy Moths."
* She seems to be bigger than the other moths.
* She is the second henchman to have a name that starts with M.
	+ The first henchman with a name that starts with the letter M is one of Night Ninja's Ninjalinos, Maxime/Marvin.
* In her moth form, she is seen communicating with Luna Girl more often than the other moths in the the human language, though she only says "Eeep!."
* Before her second transformation, Motsuki’s chin moves whenever she talks or laughs as her mouth was not visible, just like Night Ninja and the Ninjalinos’ chins.
* In "Moon Madness," Motsuki is referred by her alternate name "Papinuit" in the French dub (temporarily) and the French website of the PJ Masks by the PJ Masks.
	+ However, from then on in "Moth on the Moon," the trio would start calling her by her U.S. nickname instead.
* Unlike the other moths who can communicate by mimicking human speech, Motsuki is the only moth who can communicate in a unique way by squeaking.
* In "Moth on the Moon," she is rebirthed into a moth girl after forming a moon crystal to hibernate in a cave on the Moon.
	+ She was made that way because of the PJ Masks arguing throughout the episode, from when Greg tipped over Amaya's telescope, all the way to after they've landed on the moon and rode their PJ Rovers to the cave.
* Since she can now talk, Motsuki will sometimes begin or end her sentences with a loud, moth-like squeak.
	+ Similar to Robot's manner in the French dub of the show, she also speaks using third-person, though at first she spoke properly, and occasionally says "me" instead of her name when referring to herself.
* Motsuki is the third character not to have her English name omitted in the French dub of the PJ Masks, but she is referred as "Papinuit" in the French website of the PJ Masks.
	+ The first two characters were Robot and Cameron.
* Since her initial appearance, some fans of the TV series misbelieved that Motsuki's name was "Mothzuki" or "Mothsuki," this was eventually resolved when her actual name was revealed in title cards of episodes (though some of the fans remained adamant, especially after the episodes aired).
* Motsuki bears close resemblance to the scrapped character, Firefly.
* In the French dub of the show, Motsuki's voice sounded more or less like Luna Girl's voice, complete with a deeper voice than her international portrayal.
	+ In fact, in "Big Sister Motsuki" and "PJ Party Crasher," most of Motsuki's yells are recycled from Luna's dialogue.
* Taking a closer look at Motsuki's face, she has white freckles on her cheeks, which were seen in "Moonwolfy" and "Motsuki's Missing Sister."
* In "Heroes of the Sky," she has a unicorn cuddly.
* She once called Catboy a "bad kitty" in "Moonwolfy."
* She, along with Luna Girl, are the sixth & seventh villains to be at Mystery Mountain.
	+ In fact, they are the only villains to not cause trouble on Mystery Mountain and are friends with An Yu.
* Motsuki's first transformation might be a reference to the transformation of Beauticruel from *Power Rangers Dino Supercharge*.
* As of late-Season 3 and Season 4, Motsuki would replace the moths' primary role as Luna Girl's acolytes altogether.
* She and Luna Girl are the first characters (and first villains) who are granted the ability to breathe underwater.