Moth

Moth is a changeling who cannot handle iron, and one of the initial four people (Haven's Four) to find the spawn village on Haven.

### Physiology

As a changeling, Moth is averse to iron, refuses to handle it knowingly, and becomes distressed when forced to be around it.

The body it uses was not originally its own, but was taken over by Moth when it "crawled inside." It's stated that its wings are from its original body rather than the host body, and that these are now the only visible part of its original body. It was once able to fly, but its wings aren't big enough to lift it now.

### Personality

Moth is a competent individual who is comfortable surviving alone, though it would prefer to stay around other people. Its skill and instincts have preserved its low death count, and it is in turn concerned and amused by others dying. Despite its casual bullying of its friends, it is on good terms with much of the server and has made no enemies besides K.

It cares deeply about the other server members and is quite proud of its title of Community Organizer, often bringing up this title or the improvements it's made to the server in conversation. It has put significant effort into making server infrastructure, such as Haven's Highway, more accessible. It also maintains resources that are free to use for anyone on the server, such as a tree farm and a number of villagers. However, it has implied that it may be doing this selfishly, or at least that it would act similarly if it were being selfish.

It feels great guilt over its stolen body, and while it has said that it remembers everything the previous owner of the body did, it prefers not to talk about that due to the confusion and distress trying to do so causes it.

### History

#### Pre-Haven

Moth started its life as a parasitic mob; it had very little understanding of its environment and no language until it took over someone else's body. Feeling guilt with its newfound ethical sense, it chose to flee the area rather than take over the life its new body used to have. It spent an unknown amount of time traveling alone before waking up on Haven.

#### Welcome To Haven

Moth woke up near the spawn village alone, and spent some time establishing a base there, not particularly bothered by its apparent isolation. It was found there by STARS, August, and Oz, with whom it quickly became friends, forming the unofficial Haven's Four.

Some time later, it found three named cats in a cave: Dove, Moira, and Cygnet. Cygnet was lost to the void, but Moth successfully tamed Dove and Moira. After this, STARS showed the rest of Haven's Four to a second mysterious village they had found, later colloquially named Stonks. Here, the four found a wither rose and a note signed K claiming that the village had been destroyed with the help of a "smug purple bastard." When traveling with Jackdaw shortly after this, it saw another village that had been abandoned or died due to poisoned crops.

Not long after this, it found another note from K in its house. This note insulted Oz, STARS, and August, and promised some manner of treasure to Moth alone. When Moth went to the coordinates in the note, it found a set of five trials it was meant to pass to prove its worth. It progressed through four of these trials as intended before cheesing the last trial with the help of a single boat, taking the prize at the end, and going home. As this prize included splash potions of weakness, not otherwise available on the server at this time, it also cured a pair of zombie villagers and started re-establishing the spawn village.

K retaliated by leaving an iron golem in Moth's house; panicking, it called Oz to get rid of it, which they did, dying twice in the process. After Oz left, Moth ran into Deepest Sleep, who it felt an immediate kinship with. It showed Sleep K's dungeon, on the grounds that someone should know about this but it didn't want to tell Oz. On viewing the remains of the dungeon, Sleep told Moth that the whole thing was built in the corpse of some giant entity. He said a few words over it before also telling Moth that he'd also heard from K.

Near the village, Moth met the cursebreaker Gawain. Curious at first and then increasingly panicked, it tried to get a straight answer about what curses are in order to figure out whether it itself was one and whether that meant Gawain was a threat to it. Gawain eventually fled rather than answer any more questions. Moth also met the mercenary Bird, who offered their services. Moth asked them to take care of any more iron golems; when Bird asked if there might be a way to cut the golems off at the source, Moth told them about K, effectively putting out a hit on him.

Oz called a meeting of Haven's Four in an attempt to get things back to a somewhat dubious normal, but tensions were high. After the group split back up, Oz walked Moth home; Moth confessed that it's literally a parasite, and Oz reassured it that they were still friends. Once Oz left, August revealed that they'd been spying on this whole conversation and tried to harass Moth into caring less about the person whose body it's wearing. When this didn't work, they left, and Moth walked alone in silence to Oz's observatory and hid in the basement.

August eventually came around to apologize, and helped Moth acquire a couple of dogs before trying to convince, pressure, coerce, or otherwise get Moth to jump into the void. Moth followed them down to their usual jumping spot, then wavered for a while. August threatened to tell Gawain about Moth's species, at which point Moth declared that it didn't trust August, thought they would tell Gawain whether it jumped or not, and left to try to control the narrative.

It told Gawain that August had been threatening it, but was unable to get them on its side before August arrived and told Gawain that Moth was a curse they had to break. Under pressure, Moth revealed a little more about its species and self before Gawain asked it to leave so they could talk to August in private. Moth took this time to confront Amber for spying on the conversation, and also to reassure ends that it wasn't a threat and/or bribe ends into not telling anyone else. After supplying Amber with emeralds, it spoke with Gawain again briefly, and, reassured that Gawain wasn't going to destroy it, went back home to process what just happened.

The next time Moth saw Sleep, it told him about what August had done. Sleep, not very happy about this, told Moth that it didn't deserve that and gave it the title of official Community Organizer. He also told Moth that he knew STARS, and what lay behind the wall STARS had been killing people to protect, namely a village with some sort of butterfly religion. Moth agreed not to go over the wall, in order to respect the wishes of the isolationist villagers. STARS, however, continued to insist that it had never meet Sleep, causing Moth to grow suspicious.

K escalated matters by trapping all of Moth's animals in an iron cage, like a cartoon villain. Moth called in Sleep, who helped dismantle the cage and return the animals to Moth's house but vanished when Oz showed up with a gift for Moth. Moth lied to Oz about the whole K situation, telling them it was just a prank and nothing to worry about. Later, Moth met Angel, who claimed that everyone on Haven just wanted to go home, causing Moth to become upset.

On crossing paths with August again, Moth asked them to take it back to the void jumping spot. August did so, and after August threatens Moth with iron at its own request, it finally jumped into the void. In the void, it heard things the previous owner of its body had said, and sounds it claimed were itself before it took over its current body. Acutely distressed, Moth asked August to take it home; once there, it discovered a note from Sleep telling it that he knew it had been lying to Oz. Prompted by this, it wrote a letter to Oz admitting that it had lied and explaining the whole K situation.[*citation needed*]

Prompted by a philosophical conversation with Jackdaw, Moth sought out Gawain in order to perform a cursebreaker ritual to determine whether the host of its body was still alive. The ritual allowed the host, Anathema, to briefly regain control of the body. He argued with Gawain and also August, who was in attendance, even attempting to kill the latter at their own prompting. On returning home, Moth spotted a stranger by its house and gave chase for a short time before losing them.

When it ran across Oz again, it told them about void jumping and the seance; in response, Oz restated their preference for Moth and disregard for the host. Moth gave them all the books K wrote it, and then the two joined STARS, Angel, and Renn. The subject of K came back up, and Moth and Angel decided to stage a dramatic friendship breakup in an attempt to bring Angel to K's attention as a potential ally. Later, Moth ran into Sleep and told him what it had told Oz, getting back a similar response to the one Oz gave it. Sleep also told it that he was the one who made the weapon used to destroy Stonks, which was formerly a village known as Downwells. Moth affirmed that this information didn't make it hate him, then asked what his reaction would be if it gave its body back to the host. Sleep told it that if it did that, he would kill the host, no matter what Moth wanted.

Some time later, Moth met Sylph, who was instantly able to tell that its body housed two souls. After it got him to promise not to tell anyone about this, they talked about souls and Sylph's ability to perceive them. He told it that the iron golem walled up in its villager hall was being harmed; it told him to free the golem if he truly believed that, and he did so. After this, Sylph showed Moth the enderchest he'd found, which for Moth contained Anathema's items.

Angel came to the village to publicly denounce Moth, which Moth accepted without even pretending to fight. It then spent some time with Navn, and came away from the conversation happy that Navn seemed to be finding its way toward being a good person but frustrated at its own inability to do the same. In an attempt to find a place to be alone, it ran into August trying to do the same; the two talked about Moth's dilemma, and August eventually convinced it to try timesharing the body.

Moth met Lux and the two got along decently at first, but when the conversation turned back around to Lux's stated desire to rule Haven, Moth questioned him about his rulership history, views, goals, and methods, and was disappointed by his naivete and circular logic. It asked repeatedly who Lux's oft-mentioned advisor was, but did not get an answer. Afterward, it speculated about this, discarding the idea that the advisor was someone naive enough to buy what Lux was selling, meaning they had to be someone taking advantage of him.

The next time Moth saw Sleep, it learned that he was the advisor; their conversation about this quickly grew into a full-blown argument in which Moth repeatedly objected to Sleep's goals and methods regarding the kingdom. No longer feeling it owed Sleep anything, it sought out Gawain again, this time to help it figure out how to timeshare the body. To its surprise and dismay, Gawain refused. Jackdaw and Sylph were likewise unable to help when it tried to ask them.

Despairing, Moth returned home to find a note, claiming to be from Sleep, to the effect of him having left it something in one of the other houses as an apology. It went out there only for this to turn out to have been a trap to force it into curse of binding iron armor. In its last few moments of control, it begged Anathema to prove it wrong about never letting it back out.

### A Kingdom Of Monsters

Moth is currently trapped in its own head, isolated from the outside world.

### Pets

Dove, a brown cat.

Moira, a white cat.

A blue parrot.

A spotted horse.

Assorted other cats and dogs.

### Trivia

Thinks that smokers contain iron.

1. ↑ One For The Lost on Youtube
2. ↑ Two For The Seeker on Youtube
3. ↑ Feels Like I'm A Lone Survivor on Youtube
4. ↑ Where Minds Grow Yet Bleaker on Youtube
5. ↑ Trust For A Monster on Youtube
6. ↑ Doubt For A Curse on Youtube
7. ↑ A Weapon Or Answer on Youtube
8. ↑ For Wanting Or Worse on Youtube
9. ↑ Fear For A Secret on Youtube
10. ↑ Friendship For Guilt on Youtube
11. ↑ And For Those Who Try on Youtube
12. ↑ To Ease The World's Tilt on Youtube
13. ↑ A Hope For The Future on Youtube
14. ↑ A Cry For The Past on Youtube
15. ↑ Roles Still Being Cast on Youtube
16. ↑ No Respite For Any on Youtube
17. ↑ With Something To Ask on Youtube
18. ↑ No Choice Without Harm Done on Youtube
19. ↑ For This Thankless Task on Youtube
20. ↑ No Blessing But Doubt on Youtube
21. ↑ No Matter The Cost on Youtube
22. ↑ Where None Are Forsaken on Youtube
23. ↑ Nor Truly Are Lost on Youtube
24. ↑ Within The Shadows Of The Mind on Youtube