Morgana Macawber

**Morgana Macawber** is a character *Darkwing Duck* TV show and comic books. She is a beautiful Transylvanian sorceress/witch duck, and the love interest of Darkwing Duck. She is a powerful — if still in need for some improvement — sorceress of the reputable Macawber Family from Transylvania. When she settled in St. Canard, she tried her hand at the criminal life to acquire the money to pay off her student loans, but she reformed after a few encounters with Darkwing Duck. The two bonded romantically at first sight and this relationship eventually swayed Morgana to do better, going so far as expanding her social circle to include non-monsters and becoming a member of the Justice Ducks. Like any witch, she has familiars, which in her case are a spider named Archie and two bats named Eek and Squeak. Next to her research in the field of magic and presence in the villain-hero scene, Morgana has a foot in the food industry. For a time she ran Macawber Mushrooms Unlimited, a mushroom farm, and later launched her own restaurant that she dubbed The Shadow Chateau.

## Background

Morgana's entire brood is introduced in "Monsters R Us", as well as people she refers to as Uncle, Granny and Auntie in "Fungus Amongus". Her father, Moloculo, is very protective of his daughter and dislikes that she is dating a "normal". She also has an aunt called "Aunt Nasty" and a cousin named Globby who both appear again with Moloculo in the episode "Hot Spells". Many of the Macawber Family have studied at the Eldritch Academy of Enchantment. Morgana lives at Macawber Manor.

Uncle, Auntie, and Granny from "Fungus Amongus" are transformed into mushrooms at the end of their episode, never to be seen again. Morgana describes this as "another unfortunate side effect" of the pizza mushroom process, though it is unclear if she means that her relatives were turned *into* mushrooms, or if they were magically animated mushrooms all along, like the pizza mushrooms.

One of the worst moments in Morgana's life was when she was stood up at the prom, which made her so vengeful that her father still compares any round of anger from her to that day.

## Appearance

Morgana is designed as a horror movie femme fatale. Her on-screen look includes elements of the Bride of Frankenstein (hair), Morticia Addams (hidden feet), and various other movie creations. Likewise, her persona screams of horror movie goddesses, switching rapidly from the sultry purr of a succubus to the roaring unstable scream of Shakespeare's three witches. She is accompanied by two bats Eek and Squeak, and a spider named Archie. And, of course, she bewitches Darkwing just like a succubus or Bride of Dracula would. Onscreen, she is usually referred to as a witch or sorceress.

Morgana is a tall, white-feathered duck with a small beak, green eyes, and long black hair done up in a high pompadour. She always dresses in a form-fitting red dress with dark red skirt section. The iconic point of her dress is a tattered drape that goes from her midsection to her left pink. She wears a golden necklace as single piece of jewelry. Morgana's dress reaches down to her feet and then there's some fabric left, resulting in her feet never being visible. Being a monster with no visible differences to normals and moving around by floating slightly above the ground.

## Personality

Originally an evil sorceress, Morgana changed her ways and became a romantic interest for Darkwing, as well as joining up with the Justice Ducks. Morgana is shown to possess a very short temper at times, especially when Darkwing has a hard time trusting her, which is shown in the season one episode "My Valentine Ghoul". She is loving towards Darkwing.

More than a lovely woman, Morgana is a loving woman; one who has the misfortune that all that she loves hates each other. Born and raised as a monster, Morgana has an appreciation for the creepy, the crawly, the morbid, the dark, and the slimy. She is proud of her Transylvanian heritage and loves her family still living there dearly. Her family, however, is staunchly anti-normal, or at least were when Morgana still lived with them. How much of their distaste she held on her own when she left for St. Canard is unclear, but the fact is that her early social circle was monster- and demon-exclusive, that her business and monetary schemes primarily affected normals, and that she was utterly remorseless about it. Darkwing Duck was the first normal to find themselves of interest to Morgana on account of his night-favoring eccentricities that bridged the gap to her world. That her interest was returned with a naive wish of him to protect her — while all but her familiars were betraying her — and to see her embrace the kind person underneath the villainess sweetened the deal past the tipping point. With Darkwing as her anchor, Morgana stopped her felonious pursuits and began to mingle with normals, the first of them being Darkwing's team of Launchpad and Gosalyn. Launchpad had been skeptic about her in her villain days, but became trusting once she said she stopped, while Gosalyn only met her post-reformation and immediately took a liking to the magic-wielding creepy lady. Morgana herself was insecure during this period and worried about Darkwing's opinion of her and her ability to find a place for herself in his world. She snapped out of this when she met Gizmoduck, Stegmutt, and Neptunia and became a founding member of the Justice Ducks.

Morgana has taken a liking to the role of hero and occasionally accompanies Darkwing. This Darkwing does not like partially because of his selfish sense of heroism and partially because of Morgana's unreliable aim, which he isn't subtle to point out. Time spent together also has caused conflict due to Darkwing being surprisingly less of a monster-like normal than a lot of others in St. Canard. Food, in particular, is a sensitive topic due to Darkwing absolutely hating monster food and not only being crude about it but also convinced everyone else hates it too. His attempts to "fix" Morgana's tastes behind her back for her to fit in may have even cost her her restaurant. Morgana's reactions range from angered enough to try to zap him and hurt enough to not know what to do, although they always make up afterward. Another point of contention is the matter of Morgana's background. Having much more experience with normals than her family, Morgana no longer fits with their worldview and considers them childish in their unwillingness to reach out. Along with Darkwing's insults to her insensitivity to her heritage, Morgana refrained from introducing her family and Darkwing's to each other until her hand was forced. As expected, Morgana had to tell both Darkwing and Moloculo off numerous times and even had to make a stand for the people of the village near Macawber Castle. It was the first day she ever backtalked her father, but the result was peace and some understanding between the two families that Morgana slowly got to improve over time.

Even back in her villain days, Morgana was more of a business woman who resorted to underhanded tactics to give her business an advantage and pay off her student loans quicker than a true evil. Presumably her experiments with mushrooms accidentally created the members of the board of Macawber Mushrooms Unlimited, whom she then gave housing, a job, and familial titles. Their eventual deaths was self-defense. With Macawber Mushrooms Unlimited destroyed and Morgana simply happy she came out safely, it took a while before she tried again with The Shadow Chateau, this time aiming for a fully honest business. She was very proud of the ambiance and the menu she had put together.

In Sora’s Adventures series, Morgana heard about Sora and his friends

## Powers and Abilities

Morgana is very powerful with her spells, but sometimes she makes mistakes. Because Morgana doesn’t have darkness in her heart she doesn’t control the Heartless, Nobodies, and Unversed. She has the emergency medicine that heals Sora’s wounds during the battle.

## Role in Sora’s Adventures

She appeared in Sora’s Adventures in Saint Canard as she knows about the Mark of Mastery, the Princesses of Heart, the Book of Prophecies, Keyblade, Keyblade Inheritance Ceremony, Heart, Keyholes, Master Eraqus, Master Xehanort, Vanitas, Ventus, Terra, Aqua, and Maleficent. She first met Sora, Riku, Kairi, Naminé, Roxas, Axel or Lea and Xion in people because she heard of them. Morgana is curious about Naminé’s Memory Orb she fine that orb is interesting. Morgana has a great dislike of the Heartless, Nobodies, Unversed and Dream Eaters Nightmare version. Morgana has mentioned that she met Queen Minnie at Disney Castle, Master Yen Sid, Merlin, the Fairy Godmother and the Three Good Fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather in the past. She first Maleficent in person when she was getting sleep sand from Nodoff the ruler of Dream World, she heard about her and declined her offer to control the Heartless to commit a crime. and when she trapped by Nodoff and Maleficent, Morgana is protected by Spirits from them, the Nightmares and Anti Black Coat and Darkwing and his Keybladers rescued her and defeated Nodoff, but when Maleficent gone away Morgana vows the next time Maleficent came back she will fight her one day. She met Gosalyn for the first time and they get along well. She offers Sora and his friends help in battling and stopping Maleficent because she went to the Library of Forbidden Spells at Eldritch Academy of Enchantment to find the Black Book and she knows how dangerous that book is and it cost a user of it soul like the Forbidden Books.

## Jiminy's Journal App Entry

*Darkwing Duck (1991)*

Morgana Macawber

Place of Birth: Saint Canard

Currently Residing: Saint Canard

Powers and Abilities: Magic

Laterality: Right-handed

Favorite Color: Crimson

Favorite Holiday: Halloween

Bio and Journal Story: Morgana Macawber is a business woman and was a criminal sorceress, but after falling for Darkwing Duck who is also the creature of the night, she reformed and become his girlfriend. Morgana has a great dislike of Maleficent, Heartless, Nobodies and Unversed.

## Trivia

* Morgana is the first Darkwing Duck character to appear in Sora's Adventures who not have darkness in her heart despite being a villainess before reformed to being with her love life, as she is seen in the very first episode from the Disney Afternoon show Darkwing Duck.
* Although not a "creator's pet" of LeAnn Holsclaw *per se*, Morgana has traits of one, such as having the most screentime out of all characters from her world and a lot of Sora's Adventures in Saint Canard is dedicated to her adventures. However, unlike a certain creator's pet, she is not shoehorned into episodes where she isn't necessary.
* Morgana's design is a homage to the women of classic horror. Her hair is inspired by the haircut of the Bride of Frankenstein as she appears in the 1935 movie (which itself is based on the Nefertiti Bust). Her perpetually hidden feet, are based on the look of Morticia Addams from *The Addams Family*. Her post-reformation temperament and role as mediator between her father and Darkwing mimics Lily Munster from *The Munsters*.
* In superhero terms, Morgana combines Doctor Fate, Doctor Strange and Clea.
* Morgana was created for the first set of episodes as a magic-using villain. Her relationship with Darkwing came about as the script for "Fungus Amongus" developed.
* Despite both being part of the protagonist team, there is not a single piece of 1990s fiction to feature both Morgana Macawber and Honker Muddlefoot, with "Malice's Restaurant" being a particularly wasted opportunity. The first fiction to allow them any sort of interaction is 2011's "F.O.W.L. Disposition".