"Hum hum-hummm..."

—Hummingway

The Hummingway (ハミングウェイ族, Haminguweiizoku^?) are a rabbit-like race featured in Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-, and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years who live in the Hummingway Home on the Red Moon. Most of them can only speak by humming, however, there are a select few that can speak in the player's language.

AppearanceEdit

In the original release of Final Fantasy IV, Hummingway are a short, vaguely lapine race with pointed ears and white or light brown fur. They are usually depicted as sporting a pair of spectacles and wearing turbans inlaid with a round jewel.

Since the Nintendo DS remake, the Hummingway were re-designed by art director Akira Oguro to appear more rabbit-like; with longer ears, buck teeth, and larger eyes. Beginning with the mobile phone release of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, they were designed yet again to include a hood, a trait originally exclusive to Namingway.

StoryEdit

Final Fantasy IVEdit

The party encounters the Hummingway after traveling to the Red Moon. Though they do not advance the story, they do provide the only item shop on the lunar surface, as well as give an explanation for Namingway's appearance on Earth. When Cecil and his friends defeat Zeromus at the end of the game, Fusoya pilots the Red Moon out of Earth's orbit, taking the Hummingway away as well.

Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-Edit

If the player peaks to the Hummingway found in the Tower of Babil on B10. He'll send the party to the Developer's Office.

Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsEdit

The Hummingway appear during the The Lunarians' Tale, once again in Hummingway Home. Here, they sell items for Golbez and Fusoya, and provide hints on how to get to both the Lair of the Father and the Lunar Ruins.

TriviaEdit

• The names Hummingway and Namingway may also be an allusion to the surname Hemmingway which is shared by famed American author and journalist Ernest Miller Hemmingway.
• The Hummingway are likely based on the folklore of the Moon rabbit.
• Series composer Nobuo Uematsu appears as a Hummingway in the Developer's Office in the PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, and Japanese SNES versions of Final Fantasy IV. In the Nintendo DS remake, QA staff member Tomokazu Nakamori appears as "Debuggingway".

GalleryEdit

Yellow/purple Hummingway from the SNES version.

White/red Hummingway from the SNES version.

Hummingways from the PSP version.