Gensoukyou:Mystia Lorelei

Background
Mystia was born to two Night Sparrows (via parthenogenesis) in Youkai Forest. Her parents were fairly traditional Youkai, they intilled in her the importance of scaring and eating humans. She and her parents went on frequent trips outside of the forest in order to catch and eat humans, using their power over Night Blindness to make their prey all but powerless against them.

Eventually, she came of age and decided to leave the nest, as birds often do. She continued using the hunting techniques her parents taught her, but she quickly noticed something odd. She could hear a strange voice in her head, singing songs. She thought that they were pretty, so she often sang them aloud. However, it seemed that her voice lured humans to her, drove them insane on occasion. She bagan using this to her advantage, charming a human before closing in to eat them, usually in conjuction with Night Blindness. She decided this power was worth using, and so, used it.

One day, Mystia heard a rumor about Lamprey being able to cure the Night Sparrow's curse. She decided to investigate this, obtaining lamprey and grilling it. After testing it out on a human (whom she afflicted with night blindness), she found the rumor to be false. However, Mystia got an idea. What if she could just make people think that the lamprey worked? She is capable of removing her curse as well. She began afflicting random travellers, appearing before them with the supposed cure for Night Blindness, which she sold to them, slowly removing the Night Blindness as they ate. Her little con turned out to be pretty successful. She bought a food cart and began her life as a vendor. However, she still did eat humans, so she was often feared by human customers. Upon seeing that she was going to help them (as they were hopelessly lost due to not being able to see), they relaxed a little, at least while she was acting as a vendor.

She began to become quite the cook, her lamprey was becoming farily popular among Humans and Youkai alike, a fact that made her very happy. She saved most of her money away, only using it to buy her stock and basic necessities. She is actually pretty well off financially.

Personality
Mystia is clever and self-confident, being fairly successful despite being so young. But, sometimes, this self-confidence is more of a weakness than anything, as she lacks a good deal of experience compared to many other youkai in Gensoukyou. It is for this reason that she is often thought of as arrogant, but it's really just that she doesn't know any better.

She enjoys playing around with humans, inflicting them with night blindness and watching them stumble around in the dark is very amusing to her; perhaps more so if she decides that she feels like singing, which could very well drive the human insane. However, when running her food stall, she takes on an entirely different view of humans. Granted, she perhaps doesn't treat them as well as she might any of her friends, since she does scam the humans out of all of their money, but she won't tolerate any youkai harassing her customers while they are at her cart. It wouldn't do to lose business, after all.

She often takes a liking to certain people, befriending them quite easily with her charismatic attitude (and the food certainly doesn't hurt). She spends a lot of time around these people, perhaps on instinct on Mystia's part; she will not hesitate to defend her allies.

Power/Combat
-Driving people insane/charming people with her voice. She enjoys singing a great deal, often using her voice to lure humans to her, for both business and for eating. However, even though she knows the songs, they are not her own. There is a faint whispering voice that only she can hear, the voice recites the words, she copies what it says. Eiki once told her that her singing "may be connected to an unprecedented grave sin". She doesn't know what that means, so she just ignored the Yama.

-Afflicting Night Blindness. She particularly enjoys this power, abusing it quite often in order to make money. It causes the target to lose the ability to see through the natural darkness of the night time. With the first affliction, it causes her opponent to lose the ability to see more than 15 feet ahead of them due to the darkness, even if the area is lit by moonlight. If the area is already very dark, the distance the target can see is reduced to about 7 feet ahead. With the second affliction, in the moonlight, target's visibility is reduced to about 5 feet ahead. In an already dark area, the target would be lucky to see more than a few inches in front of them. It will usually stay until she either removes the affliction, or she is defeated before the effect sets in permanently.

-Dominance over winged insects and birds. She doesn't know exactly why she can do this, but she has noticed that these creatures will obey her will. She uses them as a medium to throw danmaku at her opponent usually. However, she is capable of creating a danmaku version of a bird, often seen in her spell cards.

Spellcards
Vocal Sign "Howl of the Horned Owl"

Deadly Toxin "Poisonous Moth's Dance in the Dark"

Hawk Sign "Ill-Starred Dive"

Night-Blindness "Song of the Night Sparrow"

Night Sparrow "Midnight Chorus Master"

Major
Rumia- As a fellow Night time Youkai, Mystia feels a sort of kinship with Rumia, sometimes they go human hunting together.

Kyouko Kasodani- Kyouko and Mystia are the only two members of the music group called "Choujuu Gigaku". They will perform a concert every so often for random Youkai.

Minor
Wriggle Nightbug- Mystia sees her as another winged insect to control, she tries her best to boss Wriggle around, if only because it amuses her. However, Wriggle is much less amused about it.

Suika Ibuki, Yukari Yakumo, Yuyuko Saigyouji- 'Regulars' at Mystia's Food Cart. They eat a lot, so she tends to give them discounts; as much as a scammer as she is, she considers herself to be above robbery. They share pleasant conversation and they bring out Mystia's more professional side.

Trivia
-Some people think it would be easier to just kill the humans and take their money if thats what she wants. But, Mystia thinks that would be a waste of perfectly good meat.

-She wont let other Youkai harass humans at her cart, its bad for business.

-Mystia, in fact, cannot read. She doesn't like to admit it and is too embarrassed to ask anyone to teach her.