Linterna & Muerte (Future Night Funkin')

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## Linterna & Muerte

### Height

Unknown, but same as Skid and Pump during their first introduction of the series (Both)

### Weight

Unknown, but same as Skid and Pump during their first introduction of the series (Both)

## Relationships

### Relatives

**Muerte*** Lila (adoptive grandmother)
* Skid & Pump (adoptive father (Skid), adoptive uncle (Pump))
* Unnamed Adoptive Grandfather
* Unnamed Adoptive Great-Grandmother (both deceased)

**Linterna**

* Skid & Pump (adoptive uncle (Skid), adoptive father (Skid))
* Susie (older adoptive auntie)
* Unnamed Adoptive Grandfather (deceased)
* Unnamed Adoptive Grandparents
* Unnamed Younger Adoptive Uncle

### Friends

* Boyfriend (friend (Linterna), slightly dislikes (Muerte))
* Each Other
* Eyes of the Universe (friend (Linterna), unnerved by (Muerte))
* Girlfriend (friend (Linterna), slightly dislikes (Muerte))
* Kevin
* Pico

### On & Off

* Hatzgang (on & off (Linterna), feared by (Muerte))

### Enemies

* Monster (friend(?), manipulator (Linterna), fears (Muerte))

## Goals

### Ongoing

Enjoy and spread the word of Spooky Month

## Other

### Created by

TimeoutArtist (Future Night Funkin' interpretation)

### Owned by

TimeoutArtist (Future Night Funkin' interpretation)

### Appears in

Future Night Funkin'
Future Night Funkin': Above the Future
Future Night Funkin': Alternate Future
Future Night Funkin': Below the Future
Future Night Funkin': Beyond the Future

### Debut

Gamejolt

> IT'S SPOOKY MONTH!
>
> Linterna's catchphrase, also her favorite catchphrase and quoting her uncle & dad's famous catchphrase from the original series.

> Ugh...
>
> Muerte whenever he's unimpressed.

**Linterna & Muerte** are jack-o-lantern demon (Linterna) and reaper (Muerte) characters and supporting characters of Future Night Funkin' and its spin-off title, Future Night Funkin': Above the Future. They're often portrayed as a main, major, supporting, minor, cameo or mentioned character in other FutureNF spin-offs, Future Night Funkin': Alternate Future, Future Night Funkin': Below the Future & Future Night Funkin': Beyond the Future.

They are a duo of children who are highly interested in Halloween (Muerte is disinterested but will celebrate anyway), or "Spooky Month," as they call it. They’re adoptive sons and daughters to Skid (Muerte as Skid’s adoptive son and Pump’s adoptive nephew) and Pump (Linterna as Pump’s adoptive daughter and Skid’s adoptive niece).

Currently, they're not voiced by anyone as of now in Future Night Funkin'.

## Physical Appearance

### Linterna

Linterna is a jack-o-lantern demon with a straw-body, wearing a black suit with a white shirt underneath and white gloves. She also has a little cape behind his back.

### Muerte

Muerte is a reaper in a skeletal body, wearing a black hood and red scarf. His hood is slightly damaged.

## Personality

### Linterna

Described as childish and gullible, Linterna is a fun-loving character who loves to spread the joy of Spooky Month to others, regardless of what month it is. Her love for Halloween was so much that she wears her costume year-round and constantly spreads the word about it.

Unlike her adoptive father and adoptive uncle, she is fully fearless, not truly knowing when she’s in danger as her fun-loving attitudes would risk her being kidnapped a couple of times and led her encountering many shady people around town without a thought to her safety. She doesn’t seem to display any awareness at all.

### Muerte

Unlike Linterna and his adoptive father and adoptive uncle, Muerte is an ill-tempered reaper, who’s always uninterested with things that surrounds him, especially celebrating Spooky Month and harvesting souls and delivering them to the Death Councils, taking his jobs apathetically. However, while he’s disinterested and apathetic towards his jobs, he’s willing to do his jobs that he’s not interested in because “help is all what people need”.

Muerte is sympathetic as he loves Linterna as his best friend and his adoptive father and adoptive uncle and will never let anything happen to them, especially dying from situations that they could die from. This would mean he hates being a reaper because he has to harvest his loved ones’ souls and deliver them to the Councils if they die for real. His sympathy and love for them make him worry about what will happen to them and always try to drag them out of situations that are considered dangerous and often lashing out at them because of his worries. He’s said to be the most intelligent out of the 4.

## History

### Pre-Future Night Funkin'

The duo’s past about their childhood is unknown but the two were said to have met each other and became best friends and somehow moved into Earth for unknown reasons. They were left at the front of the haunted mansion by an unknown figure and with a note saying, “Please take care of Linterna and Muerte”. Two figures, who turned out to be Skid and Pump, found the two kids and brought them home, adopting the two to be part of the family.

The two were taught about the meaning of Spooky Month; Linterna took the lesson easily and joined her father (Pump) and uncle (Skid) to celebrate Spooky Month cheerfully while Muerte was disinterested. However, despite his disinterest, he would join his adoptive family to celebrate Spooky Month.

### Future Night Funkin': New Spooky Month

At the xxth or xxrd time for their xxth or xxrd Spooky Month celebration, Skid and Pump opens their horror attraction. When the duo heard newcomers for the horror attraction were entering the mansion, the duo started to prepare the horrors and the newcomers were eventually Boyfriend, Girlfriend and Pico. The trio enters the mansion and are met by the horrifying events and afterwards, the 4 meet them face-to-face and have a friendly-sing-off. After their sing-off, the 4 introduced the trio to Mr. Lemon and was led to the candyland but was all a trap to eat the trio; luckily, Monster was stopped by Eyes and the trio managed to run away.

## Powers and Abilities

### Linterna

Linterna’s powers are fire-based, so she can manipulate fire with no troubles.

* **Fire Manipulation:** As a jack-o-lantern demon, she has the ability to manipulate fire and the main source of her power comes from the flame, inside her head. It is critically vulnerable to Holy Water (while her fire manipulation is vulnerable to normal water) and if it’s exposed to the Holy Water, Linterna dies but the way to bring her back is to use the Eternal Flame by putting her head on the flame.

* **Detachable Head:** Jack-o-lantern demons are known for having a detachable head and Linterna has the possibility to detach her head at any time she wants, however, if her head is too far away from her body, her body loses control and cannot tell where her head is. Linterna must tell her body which way it needs to go to find her head and put it back on.

* **Transformation:** If Linterna lights fire on her body, she becomes the Headless Horseman and it’s only temporary.

* **Immortality:** As a demon, Linterna is completely immortal and ageless but is said to have a child’s mind, making her less intelligent than Muerte.

### Muerte

Muerte is a reaper and capable of death-based powers, which makes him dangerous.

* **Weapon Summoning:** Muerte has the ability to summon his scythe, either it’s far away or close.

* **Intangibility:** Muerte has the ability to phase through walls and uses this ability to enter locked rooms easily. He uses this ability because he hates doors.

* **Shapeshifting:** Muerte has the ability to shapeshift, having the capability to turn into a human or an animal in a humanoid shape. However, he doesn’t use this ability and likes the look he is as usual, that being an skeletal body.

* **Intelligence:** Out of all of the Spookeez, Muerte is the most intelligent character while he looks like a child.

* **Scythemanship:** As reapers’ signature weapons are scythes, Muerte possesses scythemanship, able to accurately and precisely slice through the enemies without being hindered by the scythe's heavy weight, cleaving through them effortlessly.

* **Immortality:** As a reaper, Muerte is completely immortal and ageless.

## Trivia

### General

* Linterna and Muerte are exclusive characters to Future Night Funkin’, making them the first original characters introduced to the said mod.
	+ Linterna and Muerte’s FutureNF counterparts are perfectly different and separate from their Crystal Kingdom counterparts.
		- This makes sense since their histories, personalities, favorites, etc. are different from each other.
* Their renderings are based on Pumpkin and Death’s V-Pose.
* Linterna and Muerte weren’t planned characters when Skid and Pump’s designs for Future Night Funkin’ was released alongside Monster’s design and alternate costumes for BF, GF and Pico back in Christmas, 2021. Later around possibly 2022, the two characters were spawned inside Timeout’s imagination and would always think about the duo, being playful with Nakidori and Primoxénito, thus making the imagination real.

### Linterna & Muerte

#### Linterna

* Linterna’s species are similar to scarecrow demons, who also have straws as part of their bodies, however, she’s not part of the scarecrow demons.
* Compared to her Crystal Kingdom counterpart, she’s adopted by Skid and Pump after a mysterious figure left her at the front of their mansion alongside Muerte. Pump would become her father and Skid be her uncle. Her relationship with Muerte started out as friends rather than enemies as the two already formed a friendship before getting adopted. She's more of a jack-o-lantern demon than a myth demon.
* Linterna has illusion powers, hence why their horror attraction is popular.
* Linterna always detaches her head in order to put her clothes on.
	+ At every clothing she touches becomes fireproof and the effect will wear off when she lets go of the object.
		- Linterna’s costume is from Pump’s costume during his youth. The costume was inherited by him.
* Linterna’s horse is named Clydesdale, however, in Crystal Kingdom, her horse is named Iselin.

#### Muerte

* Muerte’s red scarf is gifted from Lila.
* Muerte can reveal his lower jaw whenever he gets angry or flabbergasted.
* Compared to his Crystal Kingdom counterpart, he’s adopted by Skid and Pump after a mysterious figure left him at the front of their mansion alongside Muerte. Skid would become his father and Pump be his uncle. His relationship with Linterna started out as friends rather than enemies as the two already formed a friendship before getting adopted. He doesn't even have any horns underneath his cloak. Strangely enough, Muerte and Nakidori aren’t related as cousins in Future Night Funkin’. They have a best friend-mentor relationship.
* Muerte is afraid that his death touch ability would automatically activate when he touches any living things, so he tends not to touch anything that moves.

#### Both

* In Week 2, Linterna and Muerte are exactly 8 years old while Muerte is mature and more intelligent.
	+ Currently, they're 11 years old.

## Gallery

### Images

A teaser image for Muerte's Future Night Funkin' designA teaser image for Linterna's Future Night Funkin' design
### Videos

Friday Night Speedpaint- Designing Spooky Month