Matoya (Dimensions)

Matoya is a dancer who beguiles the Warriors of Darkness with her dancing in Final Fantasy Dimensions. Pursued heavily by her many admirers, she takes notice of Nacht and his party, leaving them a mysterious poem about the Desert Moon.

Prologue
Matoya initially appears at the game's prologue, featured in the string of brief cutscenes following the defeat of Sol's party at the hands of the Watchbeast. She is shown in the Garden Pub, interrupting her dance and storming out when she senses something.

A Dance with Death
Matoya dances the night away at the Gardenia Pub, enchanting her audience with her sublime dances while noticing a mysterious masked man watching her performance. Following the aftermath of her show, Matoya drinks in solace at the bar and is approached by the masked man with a curious request.

Matoya first meets the Warriors of Darkness when they first enter the Gardenia Pub and watch one of her performances. After concluding her performance, she is confronted by the party and directly asked about the Desert Moon resistance. She denies any affiliation with such a group and instead leaves the party with mysterious parting words, of which she intended to be a test of their resolve to find the resistance. After much trials and tribulations endured by the party, she meets them once more following their completion of several minute tasks and after speaking with Azhar, Desert Moon's right-hand man. She brings the party into her dressing room to reveal herself as the Desert Moon leader and to inform them of the Empire's curious machinations within an Imperial Camp located to the north of Gardenia. She tasks them with the mission of infiltrating the Imperial Camp and disrupting whatever it is they intend to do, and as such, the party sets off.

She later rejoins the party upon their decimation of the forces within the Imperial Camp, later citing how easy it was to overcome. Much to her chagrin, she realizes their folly of invading a half-populated camp, stating that Gardenia is in danger. Matoya and the Warriors of Darkness hurry back to the Gardenian Slums, passing by destruction as they go along until they arrive at the slums, seeing it populated by the Empire's soldiers. She advises the party to take a secret passage within her dressing room to assess the status of the Desert Moon hideout. Upon arriving at the hideout, they are confronted by Imperial soldiers. The pub owner comes forward and reveals that it was he who had betrayed the resistance to the Empire and he engages the party in battle. After routing the betrayer, Matoya finds a heavily-wounded Azhar who reveals to the party that she is his mother, which she denies as she mentions the beauty of his real mother. Azhar passes away in the hands of Matoya while she swears revenge against the Empire, with the Warriors of Darkness hoping to aid her in following through on that objective.

Matoya accompanies the party to the Underground Fort, wherein they encounter one of the four generals, Asmodai. Asmodai recounts his relationship with Matoya from one hundred years ago, much to her disgust as she questions her taste from back then. He fights Matoya and the Warriors of Darkness, nearly defeating them with his new ability until Matoya reveals her Crystal Eye, which completely renders his ability useless and allows the party to eliminate him once and for all. Following Asmodai's death, Matoya thanks the party for their assistance and reveals to them that her crystal eye was actually a crystal which had kept her from aging for the last hundred years. She "lends" her crystal to the party, hoping it might help them in upcoming battles against the Avalon Empire. After bathing within the crystal's light and absorbing its power, Alba questioningly remarks on how Matoya has not turned into an old hag yet, much to the annoyance of Matoya who states that it only stopped her from aging and did not save up her years of aging.

In Battle
As a Dancer, Matoya is a better support character than damage dealer. She can heal party's HP and remove status ailments, drain HP and MP from the target, and can reduce enemy party's SPD while dancing. Matoya has the unique Crystal Eye which when used in battle induces Sense Weakness.