Wisp

Concept Art

> PFFFFT- Neither hehe, I'm a firefly
>
> -Wisp in response to Pepper after he asks if she's a moth, a lamp, or somehow both

Wisp is a captive bred young adult Eastern Firefly, and is one of the two main protagonists of The Moth & The Firefly

## Personality:

Assertive, direct, protective, and very curious

## Physical Appearance:

Wisp is a firefly with a large abdomen and lantern, and she has patterning that is typical of an Eastern Firefly, albeit with lighter colors. She has an orange head and a brown body, edged with a light yellow stripe.

Wisp's brown is lighter then most eastern fireflies, with them typically being a dark brown or almost black, but she does have some sparse dark brown speckles on her body. Wisp has a splash of purple on the dorsal side of her upper thorax, some purple speckles on her face, and the orange plate on her head has a purple spot on it instead of the more typical black spot, and like all fireflies, she emits a yellow-green glow. Her eyes are black.

In addition to her posterior lantern, her antennae are tipped with two smaller lanterns which are also bioluminescent.

## Abilities

### Natural Abilities

* **Flight:** Being a firefly, she can fly
* **Insect Climb:** Wisp can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings
* **Night Vision:** She can see in the dark
* **Antennae:** Wisp uses her antennae to follow pheromones. She can also use them for long distance communication mostly with conspecifics.
* **Bioluminescence:** Fireflies produce a chemical reaction inside their bodies that allows them to light up.
* **Reflexive Bleeding:** Wisp can produce a poisonous liquid from her body. She can control the solubility and viscosity of this liquid but there is a limit to how long she can produce the poisonous liquid until she is all out. it can cause certain predators to become entangled in the sticky substance or cause revulsion in others upon predation.

### **Unique Abilities**

* **Magical Abdomen:** Wisp harbors some form of supernatural abilities within her photic organ, with said organ, she is able to create images of light, such as inscriptions, in the open air (like a J-shaped flash reminiscent of the big dipper made of tiny particles of light). She is also able to produce immense heat from this organ (a trait unheard-of in fireflies), as she is able to carve burning inscriptions in tree bark, and light lotus flowers to have them illuminate.

### Skillset

* **Dancing:** Wisp loves to dance
* **Strength:** Wisp is pretty strong for her size, as she is able to lift and carry Pepper with relative ease, despite Pepper being larger and probably heavier than her.

## Trivia

* Wisp's theme is Fireflies - Cullen Vance
* Wisp's name comes from "wisp", a bundle of sticks or paper sometimes used as a torch, and is also a reference to the Will-o'-the-wisp folktale.
* Wisp's colors were heavily based off of this clipart of a firefly I stumbled across. While most eastern fireflies are dark brown, or even black, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that an eastern firefly might be born a lighter shade of brown, though I will admit the little bits of purple might be pushing it, but hey. another reason for this decision is that I wanted Wisp and Pepper to have distinct color schemes from one another, and Pepper is black already so I didn't wanna make Wisp black or near black too, so I settled on the rust-brown color you see now. Also as far as I know, no real fireflies have lanterns tipping their antennae, so that plus the purple is just artistic liberty
* Originally, Wisp was going to be the male of the pair, and she was going to be named Ember, but as you can see this has since been changed. Two reasons for the name change was 1, the release of Elemental, and 2, I think in the end, Wisp just fits the character more in my opinion, and has more creative origins.

## Gallery

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