Moonzy

**Moonzy** (Russian: Лунтик, *Luntik*) is the main protagonist of the Russian cartoon "The Adventures of Moonzy and his friends". It is not certainly known what kind of creature Luntik is, but anyway, he fell from the moon to Earth, and introduced himself to the inhabitants of the meadow as a moon bee. He's kind, naive and honest and knows how to forgive and befriend others. His best friends are Skip, Dottie and Weebee.

## Looks

Moonzy is pink, he has four ears and he is pretty tall, compered to other characters. He has fluffy fur. His fur is so fluffy, that you could sleep on his palms! It is shown in the episode "Самые мягкие ладошки" or in English "The softest palms" (this episode is only in russian)

## Character

Moonzy is loved by inhabitans of the meadow for his kind nature, hospitality, tenderness and desire to come to the aid of those who need her. He still doesn't know many simple things and doesn't understand the structure of the environment, but he's very quick at learning, and wants to make this world better and kinder. Luntic absolutely doesn't know how to fight, deceive others, brag, put on frills and be greedy. His simple-mindedness often draws him into awkward situations, but, with the help of friends, he understands the awkwardness and always tries to make amends and not offend and harm anyone.

Moonzy is very polite and tolerant, always considers others' opinions and thinks over everything he heard. He never argues with anyone, doesn't show irritation when caterpillars and Mrs Leech instigate him, and takes responsibility in everything he said. At first, he didn't know how to befriend others, but wanted to make friends. Moonzy is often being manipulated by his best friend Skip, who does many lesser-than-good deeds, and when they realize this, they struggle to fix it together.

In the first series, Moonzy was the only inhabitant of the forest who didn't fear Mr Webber and Toad Klava, who was awed even by adults. He was the one who told everyone that Mr Webber isn't bad, he has a warm heart inside and is fond of art, such as writing poems, drawing and playing different musical instruments.

## Biography

He was born on the Moon, but then he fell down to Earth in his shell. He fell to the Pond. On Earth, Moonzy met a lot of friends. The first of them was Skip. In episode 3, he, Weebee, and Skip made the hut where Moonzy lived in the old episodes.Starting with episode 6, he began to stay with his grandparents during the day, and then began to live with them permanently.

## Relationships

### Skip

Skip is the very first and the best friend of Moonzy, alongside of Dottie and Weebee.

### Dottie

Dottie is Moonzy's friend too, in spite of Dottie is a crybaby.

### Weebee

Weebee and Moonzy usually do not meet each other very often. Alongside of this, they are good friends.

### Woopsie & Poopsie

Sometimes caterpillars may be called Moonzy's friends too. But sometimes they do a lot of different revenges and dirty tricks.

### Grandpa Stringer & Granny Annie

Moonzy, of course, loves his grandpa and granny, he is proud of them and respects them.

### Others

Moonzy is in good relations with all the habitants of the Forest.

## Name origin

His russian name was created based on the word 'lunatik' Which is the come from lunatic ('sleepwalker') without one letter ('lunatik' became 'luntik') which is alike with the english word of that meaning but only having a suffix '-tik' which goes after the word 'moon'. In English, it's 'Moonzy' where '-zy' makes up for the lost suffix. Both of the names are associated with moon.

While Moonzy was still a dragon long before his design's creator (Darina Schmidt) made a choice how he should look like, this character had different names such as 'Khrustik' *(the one who makes something do crispy sounds, plus a suffix)' **and Yeroshka'** (a russian name dervived from the full name written as 'Yerofey' - Ерофей; the name has a suffix again which makes it easier to name a kid who Moonzy is)* or simply, 'a little dragon' ('drakonchik'). But Moonzy's designer suggested a name 'Lunatik' ('slepwalker') though it wasn't approved at first because other members of a creative team thought that associating this character's name with such a disorder would be weird and inapproriate. But as far as the rumour goes, one member of the team once typed Moonzy's original name without one letter and the others liked it so the name was kept.