Gensoukyou:Hina Kagiyama

Background
Hina came into being as a result of a large amount of human superstition of bad luck, curses, and general misfortune piling up over a long period of time where the Youkai Forest would be after Gensoukyou is sealed off from the rest of the world. She only had a basic understanding on what she was and what she could do at the time, but she knew she could absorb misfortune, and seemed to want to use it to help others. Her first thought was to travel to a human settlement to offer her services, claiming to be able to cleanse curses and misfortune from any individual. She attracted many a superstitious person, did her work for free, and at first, was well appriciated in the small village. She noticed that she was unaffected by the misfortune she amassed, so she started thinking of a way she could dispose of it properly. Over the period of time she spent doing this, she learned she could channel the misfortune into magical power for her to use, but she naturally kept quiet about it, so as not to frighten the humans.

At first, it seemed Hina was improving the lives of the villagers, as luck seemed to begin to improve. There was a surprisingly good harvest from the farmers, and from that, the local economy steadily seemed to grow healthier. The villagers came to look at her as a goddess of good fortune, owing the recent improvements to her services. Three months after her initial visit, she was chased away from the village. The townsfolk claimed that the good luck had turned sour, that she was starting to make things worse with her visits, actually spreading misfortune instead of removing it. The most prominent example she was given was that the village chief, who had been happily married for years at that time, suddenly had a series of incredibly unhealthy arguements with his wife, which led to threats to each other of seperating. Additionally, small tremors were beginning to occur periodically, each of them becoming slightly more potent with each visit Hina made to the village. Hina was obviously confused, thinking that since she had been absorbing and thus removing the misfortune from these peoples' lives, these sorts of things shouldn't be happening, right? With these accusations against her, she could not muster an adaquite defense for herself with a growing mob of angry humans in front of her. She gave up and left quietly, promising to never return to the village. When she returned to the forest, she pondered the reasoning behind this for many hours, and eventually figured that the misfortune must be difficult to properly contain within her own body. Unsure what to do with herself now, she donned a disguise and returned to the village for any possible hint of where she could go next.

Turns out she didn't really need to go anywhere; she heard about Nagashi-bina dolls and how they're used by humans to take away their troubles and misfortunes by sending them down a river. An idea immediately sprung forth in Hina's mind; she would return to the forest and set herself up along the river, collecting the dolls and absorbing said misfortunes and such from them. Additionally, she would promise herself to minimalize interaction with humans as much as possible, to prevent any chance of the misfortune spreading to them. She'd also learned that the humans had now begun calling her the goddess of misfortune, so with a heavy sigh, she decided it would be best to just wear the new title and scare away any humans that would approach this area of the forest.

Hina put this idea into practice, seeming to become content with this much less direct, yet still helpful service. She would continuing amassing dolls and taking their misfortune, growing ever so slightly more powerful with each doll. Eventually, she decided to put them to use, imbuing them with a small dose of misfortune that would allow her to manipulate them remotely. She used the dolls as sentries to keep an eye out for lost humans in the area, so she could more quickly respond to them and chase them away from the area, lest they become burdened with an unhealthy amount of misfortune.

Hina would continue doing this routinely, even through Gensoukyou's creation via the barrier going up. She was worried at first that she would stop recieving the dolls, but within a day, another few floated downstream for her to collect. She was relieved to see that she could continue her services despite being cut off from the rest of the world. The only major time she would be interrupted after this would be the Mountain of Faith incident. She was, perhaps surprisingly, only very rarely attacked by other youkai as she went about her business, possibly because the unlucky superstitions surrounding her may have spread to them as well. Over this long period of time, she had slowly felt a little...different, though she couldn't really place what exactly it was. Truthfully, all the rumors and superstition surrounding her since the mishap in that village way back when had spread enough to the point that many people had begun to believe in this "goddess of misfortune." Subtly, she had transformed from a Youkai to a true Goddess, which Hina soon became aware of sometime after Gensoukyou's creation. Her territory in the Youkai Forest is clearly identifiable by the Nagashi-bina dolls surrounding it on sentry duty, which have since been upgraded with basic danmaku abilities.

This entire time, Hina has been trying to improve her control over the transfer of misfortune to others, with only marginal success. She hopes that she can one day more freely interact with other people without potentially burdening them with centuries of built up misfortune, and she's positive that she'll be able to figure it out eventually.

Personality
Despite her self-imposed job of keeping humans away from the forest and the mountain, Hina is a fairly friendly and sociable person. She tends not to deal with humans, but she'll often be willing to have a nice, pleasant conversation seated by the river, usually after an apology about her misfortune potentially spreading to them. She does what she does because she does not want others to experience such bad misfortune, and doesn't seem to mind the relative isolation and lack of appreciation that comes with the job. Perhaps the one thing she really would complain about is the lack of control she has over the accidental transfer of her stored misfortune, since then she wouldn't need to worry about any guests recieving a lot of misfortune by accident.

Power/Combat
Hina has the ability to absorb misfortune and curses from Nagashi-bina dolls that float down the Youkai Forest's river, as well as from other things or people. However, she doesn't often bother with trying to absorb misfortune from other people because just simply looking at her will passively transfer some of the stored misfortune onto whoever is there. Hina is completely unable to prevent this from happening, oddly enough. Humans and most youkai will usually get the worst of it, depending on how long they've lingered around Hina. It could be as bad as a ruined marriage or the destruction of everything they hold dear, or as trivial as tripping and sustaining a small cut, or losing some trinket with little value, depending on how much is transferred over. Gods and those who are closely connected with them (like Sanae, for example) are unaffected by the passively transferred misfortune, but those with a smaller amount of divinity with them will experience a much lesser effect than what will typically befall humans and youkai.

Curses are handled in a different manner. Since a number of them tend to be specifically geared to a particular person or only apply in certain situations, Hina will often either repurpose the curse as a spellcard to suit her needs, or convert it into misfortune. Trying to use a curse that's just been stored like the misfortune often results in failure in one way or another.

Hina uses the stored misfortune as a power source; the more misfortune she has absorbed, the more powerful she becomes. Essentially, this means the longer the period of time between fights she spends, the more misfortune she'll have to expend on her danmaku and spellcards. Win or loss, her opponent will have a large bout of misfortune when the fight ends, due to them being exposed to a large amount of it for an extended period of time.

Hina also commands a large number of Nagashi-bina dolls with a trace of misfortune still imbued in them. These dolls are more or less sentries placed around her territory to inform her of any potential guests, hostile or otherwise. When they spot anyone trying to enter the places in the forest Hina frequently goes to (namely the river), Hina will be informed and she'll make a judgement whether or not to order the dolls to start attacking. The dolls are about as strong as a typical fairy and are only capable of using basic danmaku. They will also attack without orders from Hina if they're attacked first, without provocation.

Spellcards
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Minor

 * Momiji Inubashiri: The two interact from time to time, seemingly on decent terms. Hina finds it somewhat curious that Momiji isn't terribly affected by her misfortune, but she considers it a good thing, as it gives her someone to talk to that she doesn't have to repeatedly apologize to for spreading misfortune to them.


 * Reimu Hakurei/Marisa Kirisame: Battled during the "Mountain of Faith" incident. She attempted to chase them away from the Youkai Mountain because of her self-imposed duties of chasing away lost humans (who, in this case, weren't actually lost). Since the mountain is dangerous, she thought she would be protecting them by chasing them away from the mountain, but Hina ultimately failed to stop them and they went onward anyway.


 * Other residents of the Youkai Forest: Hina is either outright avoided due to the misfortune she passively spreads or is unknown to others of the forest.

Trivia

 * Hina has a stand where she sells Nagashi-bina dolls that have had their misfortune absorbed by her, as a form of recycling. Despite the fact that she only operates the stand when she has a relatively low amount of misfortune stored inside her, she does not recieve very much business at all.


 * Occasionally, she'll challenge a visitor, welcome or otherwise, to a game of luck for a small trinket of theirs. She's yet to lose a single game.


 * Rumors circulated that because Hina seems relatively unaffected by the misfortune she absorbs, she herself is a lucky person. This is false; her luck is fairly average, but it's offset by her passive transferring of misfortune to anything near her.


 * While she claims that her tendencies to spin while attacking make it easier for her to expend misfortune, she will admit if pressed farther she also does it because she finds it fun.