Musa is one of the main characters from Fate: The Winx Saga. She is portrayed by Elisha Applebaum.
She is a mind fairy[1][2] attending Alfea who often wears headphones to block other people's emotions.[1]
Biography
Early Life
A year before the start of the series, Musa's mom died, and she picked up everything her mother was feeling in those final moments. The experience of losing someone that she cared about (and having to endure their pain as a result) traumatized Musa so much that it is implied she resorted to using noise canceling headphones pretty much when she could to block other people out so she could only feel her emotions.
Throughout the Series
Season 1
To the Waters and the Wild
Aisha tells Musa that someone has been lying to Bloom about where she comes from.
Later at the Winx Suite, Terra and Musa make up after previously getting off on the wrong foot when they first met. She explains that she is an empath fairy, which means it’s nothing personal when she puts on her headphones. Her type of fairy abilities make it so that she can feel everyone’s emotions, sometimes even stronger than what the person that is feeling them is unintentionally projecting onto her.
No Strangers Here
Musa blames Stella for putting Bloom in danger.
While in line to get their lunch, Musa tells Aisha that her powers are always on, which makes crowded places a nightmare. She then points out how Doris is in physical pain, that Dane is scared and stressed; like a bunny when hawks circle. Whereas, Professor Harvey is feeling worried and tentative. However, Musa does admit that might just be heartburn, and that for an empath fairy, she’s learned that it’s hard to tell a lot of them apart. However, when she notices a cute guy, she is not entirely sure what happened.
Later, Musa once again sees the cute guy from earlier, but when she tries to chase after him, she loses sight of him.
Aisha asks Musa about her hunt for the guy in the green jacket, but the empath fairy admits that the whole thing is weird. She explains how she can feel him around the corner, but that when she turns around, he is never there. As she’s saying this, she feels his presence again, and Aisha realizes Musa’s mystery guy is an Earth fairy once she witnesses him phasing through one of the college’s walls. Musa asks Aisha if the guy is cute, and instead of answering, Aisha asks the Earth fairy what his name is. He tells her that it’s Sam, and before she leaves the two of them alone, she tells Sam that Musa has been stalking him.
Later, Musa feels something, and it hurts her. Musa and Terra look out to the road on the edges of the forest and realize to their horror that the Burned One has killed the soldiers.
Musa and Sam eventually go out on walk as they get to know each other. He asks her if she hears an angelic choir when around him. But she shoots that down. Undeterred, he asks if it’s a cheesy son, or something like a slow-mo shampoo ad. Musa doesn’t answer and instead tells him she just met him, so she has no reason to tell him. He then asks Musa if he sounds like Enya, but Musa says she doesn’t even know who that is. Finally, she confesses that he sounds to her like the absence of chaos.
Heavy Mortal Hopes
Musa tells Sam that they need to sneak around because he is Terra’s brother. Which puts her in a tough spot. When they kiss, Sam quickly disappears, and Terra shows up. Terra asks about Dane and wonders if it could be a “thing”. Musa tells Terra that when they are together, he seems comfortable so it could mean something. Meanwhile, Riven tells Dane that Terra wants him, but then changes the conversation and asks about his shirt size.
At the party, Stella asks Riven where Sky is, and he hints that he’s with Bloom. She gets a text from Bloom about a Burned One being near the stone circle and how it’s an emergency. Musa gets the same message.
Some Wrecked Angel
Musa senses Dowling’s anxiety.
Later, Terra, Aisha and Musa approach Dowling and reveal they know about Callum and that they are looking for the killer. They tell the headmistress that Bloom and Beatrix are missing; Silva enters the room and alerts the headmistress that an SUVfrom the Solarian security detail has driven off.
Meanwhile, Terra is upset because her father lied to her earlier about the recent events; this guilt-trips Musa, who reveals that she is in a relationship with Sam, Terra’s brother. Terra laughs and hugs her. She then claims her father lost his hair early and that so will her brother. Suddenly, the group of friends realise that Stella is leaving. Luna is taking her home.
Wither into the Truth
Musa is reading Bloom and Sky’s emotions and is subsequently updating Dowling.
Back at the Winx suite, Stella has sneaked back into Alfea and in reality has lived secretly in the dorm for a few days undetected. Musa however manages to catch her. Stella then talks about her horrible experiences with her mother and how she likely has the Solarian army looking for her. She continues and states that her mother only cares about power and strength, and punishes her if she is not up to her standards. Stella admits that she lost control with Ricki and that it was an accident. But it was better for her mother if people believed she blinded her best friend on purpose than to be seen as weak.
Aisha and Terra approach Musa about Bloom. Stella tells the girls that Bloom deserves to know who she is and believes they should help her.
In a turn of events, Terra and Musa give Bloom the device to help free Beatrix. They feel Bloom deserves answers. Aisha doesn’t join them because she disagrees with helping Bloom in this matter.
A Fanatic Heart
With the rumblings of war incoming, Alfea tries to do its utmost best to maintain discipline, but it almost feels pointless in the grand scheme of things. Stella, Musa, and Terra are in a lot of trouble and Professor Harvey expresses his disappointment. Terra tells her father that he’s lied again and that it doesn’t make sense to punish them. Harvey locks them in their dorms and Stella is furious at Aisha for being a snitch.
The threat of danger increases with Sam ending up hurt by one of the Burned Ones in the school, as he warns Musa and the others that the creatures have breached the barrier and are inside the school.
With the Burned Ones now at the school and banging on the doors, Terra recruits Musa for help, who is trying to run away from the situation. Musa is struggling because she doesn’t want to feel someone dying that she loves just like her mother one year prior. She explains to Terra that she felt everything her mother felt right until her last breath. That’s why she can’t be with Sam right now because it’s just too much too soon for her. Terra hugs her as Musa sobs. Harvey asks Terra to help keep Sam stay strong until the Burned One is killed. In the end, Musa grabs Sam’s hand and vows to hold off the pain and give him the same comfort he has given her for as long as she can.
When Bloom and her friends return, Rosalind welcomes them back, explaining to the girls that there have been some changes in their absence.
Personality
Musa is an introverted girl. She tends to isolate herself and prefers to keep people at a safe distance so that she is not constantly overwhelmed by the emotions of those around her due to her empathic powers. Musa tends to be sarcastic and struggles with expressing her own emotions.
Appearance
She is an olive-skinned girl who appears vaguely punk-rock.[3] Her hair is usually up in buns or pigtails.
Powers and Abilities
Basic Fairy Abilities
- Channeling: Like every fairy, Musa possesses the ability to channel her own emotions as a source of power to fuel her magic. She also has the ability to channel the Stone Circle.
- Eye-Color Shifting: As a Mind Fairy, when Musa’s powers are in use, her eyes shift to purple.
Mind Fairy Abilities
Musa is primarily a Mind Fairy, which means that she specializes in Mind Magic. She appears to be a gifted and experienced Mind Fairy, with Rosalind Hale, the most powerful living Mind Fairy, once stating that Musa is the most talented of their kind at Alfea College.[4]
- Mind Walking: Musa possesses the ability to enter a person's mind.
- Empathic Manipulation/Access: By entering people's minds, Musa has the ability to access their emotions, moods, temperaments and physical sensations. This ability grants her capabilities over people's feelings.
- Empathy: Musa's primary ability is to feel and interpret people's emotions when she enters their minds. However, as she doesn't have control over this ability, she's forced to feel people's emotions all of the time. Whether this is something that can eventually be controlled, is unknown.
- Pathokinesis: Musa possesses the ability to manipulate emotions. Musa was capable of altering Aisha's mood, by calming her anxiety. She was also capable of calming Sam's anger. However, as she couldn't completely remove it, by constantly altering his emotional state, Sam's anger was bottled up inside him making him go out of control whenever it surfaced.
- Pain Manipulation: Musa is capable of calming down people's pain and causing them relief. She has previously used this power on Sam.
- Psychic Communication: She's capable of creating a two-way connection between herself and the person's mind she's in, as demonstrated when she entered Dane's mind and he could feel Musa overpowering Rosalind.
- Mental Protection: Musa is capable of protecting someone's mind from another psychic, by pushing the other person out of their mind. She was capable of holding back Rosalind from manipulating Dane's mind.
- Empathic Manipulation/Access: By entering people's minds, Musa has the ability to access their emotions, moods, temperaments and physical sensations. This ability grants her capabilities over people's feelings.
Other Fairy Abilities
- Raw Magic/Energy Manifestation: Musa is capable of channeling pure magic from her element and manifest it as waves of energy.
Other Abilities
- Dancing: Musa stated that she used to be a dancer.
- Skilled Combatant: While training to be a Specialist, she has developed her skills on physical combat.
- Weapon Handling: While training to be a Specialist, she has learned how to fight with weapons.
Relationships
Sam
Musa started sensing Sam's presence when he was around and liked his energy, as it felt to her like "an absence of chaos". After several conversations, they became a couple in secret. They started dating publicly after Musa got Terra's approval. But when Musa learned to siphon other people's emotions, she started abusing it on him, leading to him bottling up his anger. After he failed to murder Rosalind, Sam decided to leave Alfea and break up with her.
Terra
Terra and Musa's friendship takes off on a rocky start due to Terra's abundance of insecurities and how much it resonates with Musa due to her power. Despite this, the pair's relationship is able to grow throughout the series whilst tending to multiple Burned One victims as well as sharing common motives and goals.
Bloom
Bloom and Musa share little to no interactions, however at the end of the series it is made apparent that the two are great friends.
Stella
Stella and Musa's friendship takes off in "Wither Into The Truth" when Musa detects an invisible Stella living in their dorm after she fled her mother's control. She is now vulnerable and Musa is the first she opens up about her struggles to. Growth between the two is further demonstrated that same episode when they choose to ally with Bloom and free Rosalind.
Aisha
Musa is close with Aisha from the start, due to common interests in sports and sharing a fear for Bloom's safety. The pair often eat together at the cafeteria and joke about romance. They introduced each other' to their respective boyfriend, Aisha forcing Musa to talk to Sam, and Musa giving Aisha's number to Grey. Their friendship diverts due to different views on what to do with Bloom. However, by the finale all is restored and resolved.
Riven
As they both hang out with Terra, Riven is a casual acquaintance for Musa. However, when Musa loses her powers and wants to become a specialist, she gets closer with Riven, as they both went through a lot of pain. Starting from "Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?", premises of a romantic relationship are hinted at, but it will not be developed more by the end of the show.
Dane
As they both went through a rough breakup in Season 2, Dane and Musa sympathized with each other. He is the one who encouraged her to get out of her head and sparked the idea to become a Specialist, offering his help to train her.
Appearances
Season One
- To the Waters and the Wild
- No Strangers Here
- Heavy Mortal Hopes
- Some Wrecked Angel
- Wither Into The Truth
- A Fanatic Heart
Season Two
- Low-Flying Panic Attack
- Taken By The Wind
- Your Newfound Popularity
- An Hour Before the Devil Fell
- Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?
- Poor Unfortunate Souls
- All the Wild Witches
Graphic Novels
- Fate: The Winx Saga Vol. 1: Dark Destiny
Changes from Winx Club
Musa is an adaptation of Musa 
from Winx Club .
- Winx Club Musa is coded as East Asian and ethnically as Chinese, whereas Fate Musa is white.
- Fate Musa is a mind fairy, as opposed to Winx Club Musa who is the Fairy of Music.
- Still, obvious links between music and mind magic exist: Winx Club Musa has used music to control people's moods, released mental sound waves to communicate with others, or made people dance to music against their will; all of which are similar to mind control. Additionally, Fate Musa is often shown listening to music, as she explains it helps her tuning out of other people's emotions.
- Fate Musa had her mother die a year prior to Season 1, as opposed to Winx Club where she died in her childhood.
- Fate Musa's aloof and sarcastic personality contrasts with that of Winx Club Musa, which is more upbeat and laidback.
- Winx Club Musa is in a relationship with Riven, whereas in Fate she's involved with a new recurring character, Sam.
- Following her breakup and the loss of her powers in Season 2, premises of a closer relationship with Riven are hinted at, starting from the fifth episode.
Trivia
- Musa used to be a dancer.
- Netflix created a Spotify playlist for the character.
- Musa's name is based on the Greek mythological goddesses of The Arts and Sciences, the Nine Muses. As her powers in the original version are related to music, which is one of the arts, she was named after their title.
- However, her powers, as they were only related to music and dancing and not any other of the arts, she is mostly associated with Euterpe (Ευτέρπη), the Muse of Music, Song and Lyric Poetry, Terpsichore (Τερψιχόρη), the Muse of Dance and later Lyric Poetry.
- The term Muse, deriving from Ancient Greek, has etymological relevance to Ancient Greek words like, "learning", "thinking", "memory" etc.. the word generally relates to mental power. Hence, Musa's abilities of the Netflix adaptation, are related to the mind.
- Even though her powers are not related to music, there are fan theories which suggest that she might develop Air Magic, which could allow her to manipulate sound and sound waves, like her original cartoon counterpart.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 «Мальчики могут быть феями — это 21 век»: Как Fate: The Winx Saga находит реальность в фэнтези. Хранитель. 10 декабря 2020 года.
- ↑ Quenhé vc na fila das Winx? Responda com um emoji:
Bloom 🔥
= Fogo Aisha 💦 =
Água Terra
🌿 = Terra Stella ✨ = Luz
Musa 🧠 = Mente Beatrix 💨 = Ar
Minha nova série com essas fadas perfeitas chega dia 22 de janeiro. Netflix Бразилия. Щебетать. 10 декабря 2020 года. - ↑ Путь фей
- ↑ An Hour Before the Devil Fell