moogle pt2

Moogles sprout a "pom pom" - a red ball of fur on a thin, wiry antenna - emerging from their heads, which they are very sensitive about being touched. From their suggested mole-bat ancestry, a Moogle's wings are most often of a dark, Gothic, or bat-like design, as to juxtapose their otherwise harmless appearance and bubbly nature. Moogles generally resemble small mammals - ranging from rodents, to felines or marsupials - but sometimes appear as little more than limbless balls of fluff. Many games have included color variations for their fur and pom-pom. In early games, Moogles didn't wear any form of clothing, but in games set in Ivalice (where they have been incorporated into the cast as one of the world's primary races) they do, possibly to better fit in with their Hume co-inhabitants. The favorite food of Moogles is the Kupo Nut. Dissidia Final Fantasy mentions that Moogles can fly, but not by using their wings: they suck up air to inflate themselves and float, and only use their wings to steer themselves about.

Moogles are intelligent and industrious, though in some games they are wary of human contact. Because of their size, the lot of playable Moogle characters specialize in gadgetry, tinkering, and engineering. Even in games where Moogles do not mind humans, they are known to maintain their own separate societies. Moogles are capable of communicating across long distances, a feat often attributed to the Moogle mail service, Mognet. In earlier games Moogles spoke only with their trademark cry "kupo", and variations of such. In later games Moogles have been able to speak English, but often punctuate their sentences with "kupo", as a sort of verbal tic. In some Japanese version games, they use the pronoun "mogu" in place of the word "I", such as if a young girl would use"atashi" and a young boy with "boku".