Raya Moth

Mumm-Ra (ancestor, father's side)

**Raya Moth** is the serious dark magic using daughter of Violet Moth aka "Mime Girl" and a descendent of the infamous Mumm-Ra.

## Background

Born to Violet Moth, known to many simply as “Mime Girl”, Raya grew up without her father’s presence in her life. What little her mother said of him painted a picture of a demon with a mysterious past. Growing up with only a mother who rarely spoke Raya sought to make friends her own age and thanks to her mother’s position in the royal court she was able to have opportunities to make friends with the children of many high status mewmans.

Unfortunately she was always a quiet girl like her mother and she was easily overlooked by other children her age. She gazed upon the royal Princess Nia Butterfly, someone who was so bubbly and bright and clearly had a much easier time making friends than she did and jealousy began to brew. As Raya began preferring to stay inside that jealousy began to blossom into anger and hate. What did Nia have that she didn’t? Why did everyone like Nia and want to play with the princess instead of her?

Raya led a relatively secluded and isolated lifestyle until her tenth birthday when her mother revealed to her something her father had left for her. It was an ancient Spirit Staff known as the Doom Staff and a map as well as a promise to explain her heritage.

Following the map she found a hidden lair deep in the dark woods, sealed with runes that opened only due to the closeness of Raya’s own latent magical abilities.

Within this dark lair Raya found a mystical pool from which she could observe the happenings of Mewni as well as communicate with the Ancient Spirits of Evil directly. Her father’s writings within the lair explained that she came from a lineage descended from a dark sorcerer priest named Mumm-Ra who came from the dimension of Third Earth. It explained the dark power laying within her just waiting to burst forth and how she could harness it.

Raya realized with this power she could certainly best Nia and take her place - then she would be adored. She felt certain that she would get the appreciation she deserved if she could learn to control her abilities and someday beat Nia in combat. Maybe she could even challenge her for her place on the throne.

Raya was diligent in her studies, soon learning to control her “Ever-Lasting” bat form and getting the hang of her powers more and more every day. She still felt she was progressing more slowly than she should. After all she had only learned of her abilities not long ago and surely Nia had practiced magic for longer than her right? There had to be some way to speed up the process of growing stronger.

Luckily for her, or unluckily depending on how you look at it, the chaotic spirit Hilebaz was drawn to her because of her growth in power. Though Raya was wary at first of the strange spirit she began to calm when Hilebaz, a practiced sorceress in her own right, promised to teach Raya how to better control her abilities and to train her. While Hilebaz has her own dark reasoning for helping Raya the girl naively believes Hilebaz is a friend who wants to help her take Nia’s place on the throne.

Under the guidance of Hilebaz Raya has gained better control of her powers, but also gotten into some dark mischief of her own - committing crimes and spreading terror in various places on Mewni. With Hilebaz’s influence Raya has become more than just a jealous girl plotting something silly out of pettiness, she has become something stronger… and much more sinister.

As the time to face Nia approaches Raya seems to fall further and further down a dark path, but is it truly late for her to turn back?

## Appearance

Raya is a petite girl with purple hair in a side-bun and red eyes. She wears a purple beret, with gloves, shoes, and vest all in the same color. She also wears a red belt, cape, and pants as well. Her leggings and sl

   eeves are a whitish color. On occasion when she uses the Doom Staff gains glowing cheek emblems in the shape of a sarcophagus symbol.

When in her empowered “Ever-lasting” form she becomes much taller - larger than the average goliath but shorter than the average giant. Her skin becomes more pale, the whites of her eyes go black, she loses her pupils, and her ears become pointed. She also gains muscle and a tattered pair of bat wings.

## Personality

Raya is a very serious, quiet girl. She’s extremely studious and straightforward. She appears cold and unapproachable and seems very rarely to talk to others outside of her mother and Helibaz. People seem to stay away from her because of the dark aura she gives off as well as just seeming like she’ll bite your head off if you bother her. Truthfully she wants nothing more than to make friends and to be loved, but she doesn’t know how and has instead turned down a darker and more angry path because of her inability to get that which she wants. She has become quick to anger and is a naturally jealous person, always seeming to have a glare on her face.

Deep inside she isn’t really a bad person, but she’s being misled to go down this path of evil. It's in part to her naivety and youthfulness that she’s being so easily misled.

She spends most of her free time studying magic or training with Hilebaz, readying herself to fight.

## Relationships

### Her mother

Raya appreciates her mother, but wishes she had been more warm of a parent toward her. She doesn’t often speak to Raya and doesn’t have much of a motherly aura or gentleness toward her. Raya can’t even remember the last time she got a hug from her.

### Her father

She never met her father and while she’s angry at him for leaving her and her mother behind she’s thankful for the things he stored away to have gifted to her on that birthday. In her mind she imagines him as a perfect parent in comparison to her mother, but deep down she knows that probably isn’t true. She would like to try and find him someday, wherever he might be.

### Nia Butterfly

Raya’s hated rival. Nia is everything Raya isn’t and Raya loathes it. She wants what Nia has and is willing to fight her for it. The love and adoration Nia got growing up should be hers. Raya has held a grudge toward Nia ever since she first saw her easily making friends as a child while she remained ignored.

### Hilebaz

Her only friend and her current mentor. Raya doesn’t even seem aware that she’s being manipulated by Hilebaz. Raya has wanted nothing more than a friend and for the first time it seems she’s got one… perhaps that’s why she’s not picking up on the warning signs that all is not good with Hilebaz’s intentions.

## Powers & Abilities

Raya is an extremely powerful wielder of dark magic thanks to her ancestry. Though it still leaves marks upon her skin when she casts dark spells she has a stronger immunity to such scarring than the average Mewman. She can wield magic freely without any sort of object to channel it through, but prefers to use her staff since it's something she inherited from her dark ancestor.

Her most notable ability is the ability to transform herself into a larger, more vigorous, bat-like state when she calls upon the Ancient Spirits of Evil as her ancestor once did. In this form she is faster, stronger, and her magic gains a boost in power as well.
She never went through Mewberty though this bat-like form serves as an equivalent to it.

## Trivia

* She was created by d00mface.
* Raya Moth was created to be a foil and rival for Nia Butterfly. She is her opposite in just about every way.
* I haven’t decided exactly which Mumm-Ra Raya descends from, so for now it's kind of just a combo of the 80s and 2011 Mumm-Ra until something specific about him comes up.
* Though she hasn’t unlocked all of Mumm-Ra’s abilities, preferring instead to just focus on standard “dark magic”, it’s likely well within the realm of possibility that she could learn those abilities later on. And boy does he have way too many abilities… especially in the 80s series.
* Although she doesn’t have to verbally call upon the spirits to gain her ever-lasting bat-like form as she can just call upon them in her mind she still likes to call them verbally like so:

*“Ancient Spirits of Evil,
Transform this youthful form,
to Raya, the Ever-Lasting!”*