...you mean they aren't already? I thought that ZUN was preparing for youkai instumentality?*
ON TOPIC: Mystia sings.
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Do you think she can sing chords on her own?
edited 7th Aug '11 12:19:46 PM by Durazno
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Her ears kind of look like owl "ears." But she has an earring in it so I guess there's pointy youkai ear under there too. Don't know what to say about her wings.
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...Since someone's brought it up, what the hell is a night sparrow anyway?
Other than Mystia.
MERMAID
They're sparrows in the night
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This is what the wiki has to say.
Wikipedia doesn't have much more to say about it.
edited 7th Aug '11 2:17:09 PM by Bocaj
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Mystia seems a lot more evil then that. Then again, travellers being misled is a very common story. It only makes sense for a sink of mythology and folklore to have a character who does this.
Except she also sells fish. At least the fish youkai* seems to have no strong feeling on the matter.
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Iku is an oarfish, not a lamprey or eel. Unlike Mystia and chicken, I don't think Iku cares enough to get mad over people eating other kinds of fish.
Mystia has nice wings too. They match her nice hat. I still never learned what kind of hat that is.
edited 7th Aug '11 3:01:48 PM by Otherarrow
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Her hat reminds me of those spiked helmets cyclers wear, for some reason.
That awkward moment where Kyoro is one of Satan's Generals.
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Its like a skullcap and/or tuque with a pair of wings on top.
That's perhaps why Akyuu doubts Mystia being a night sparrow. She can give night blindness without being caught, she doesn't forebode wolves, and she hunts people rather than just following them around. Its an example of ZUN using the foundation of folklore and then leaping wildly off the beaten trail, giggling into his beer.
edited 7th Aug '11 3:53:44 PM by Bocaj
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Thanks for that. It looks nice on her.
The little wings are cute.
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She's got a truly ridiculous amount of little wings on her clothing. I am imagining them flapping to keep her aloft when she wants to do the flying equivalent of a backstroke.
Hole of Yago debatabely rises to the challenge. I mean, its pretty fluffy but contains the "Yuyuko prey" thing so mileage may vary. Imperishable Night Sparrow.
Also, that Birdsong doujin I posed earlier was pretty fluffly. Just Mystia and Wriggle chilling and shooting the shit.
edited 7th Aug '11 4:22:42 PM by Bocaj
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Dammit it did it again ignore ignore
edited 7th Aug '11 4:34:29 PM by Pulse
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Ichirin's too busy going 'LOOK AT MAH CLOUD' to do any nightstalking. More specifically, she's a part of Byakuren's cult of personality and probably a Buddhist nun.
You know Pulse, blanking it out and telling us to ignore only makes me more curious
ON TOPIC: I like Mystia's little wings. They are cute. I wonder if anyone taught Mystia her cooking skills?
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On the topic of Mystia, she has weird foot-ware things going on in her IN and POFV portraits.
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She has the winged shoes which look like fairly normal girl shoes with wings but she has some sort of sock or leg-warmer or something attached to the top of the shoe. Which don't cover her feet in any way. Her tootsies must get cold.
Anyway, its sort of weird. It looks vaguely 80s-ish. No wonder her PMISS picture seems to have left off the whatever they were.
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She may be self-taught. Just try not to think of her cooking and eating people. Or it may have stemmed from the same mysterious source of knowledge that teaches youkai how to speak and read and make their own clothes. Or something.
edited 7th Aug '11 4:59:27 PM by Bocaj
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...I have no clue why I think that, but Mystia's shoes/footwear are cool. Impractical, true, but cool.
...Also I can totally see Mystia cooking people. While singing a carefree, happy tune!
edited 7th Aug '11 5:10:23 PM by Otherarrow
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I'm not sure since I don't really pay attention to the whole genre/concept but I have a feeling that her entire ensemble is supposed to look like an idol outfit.
Of course. That's just how she rolls.
And now I'm imagining someone complimenting her on her cooking and her responding cheerfully, "I taught myself by cooking humans!"
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While I suppose you could say that ZUN was trying to make a point vis-a-vis young people being led to their doom by idol singers, I never saw her clothing as anything other than the classic ZUN-style "keep adding details until there's no more space for details".
'That's...umm...nice?'
'I KNOW! You know, you'd make a great kebab! I'd serve you up with onions and tomato! OOH, and a SIDE SALAD~.'
edited 7th Aug '11 5:26:24 PM by asterism
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The Sparrow and the Cart
Why did this have to happen?
Mystia Lorelei was very upset. Her lamprey grill cart had gotten stuck in a hole in the road, and it turned out to be pretty deep. This was highly upsetting to Mystia, as this cart had great importance to her; it symbolized all the work she put into building it, maintaining it, and working it. It was lucky that this happened on the way back to the storage cave, or else flaling lampreys and broken sake bottles would be everywhere.
Well, there's nothing left to do but wait for someone to come along. Might help to sing...
Mystia gently hummed a wordless, almost soothing song, but it carried an air of sadness about as well. She sat and sang, and she hoped for some help.
Heh. Even with my voice, who's gonna come around here at this time of night?
Mystia sang and sang still, and before she knew it, she saw a bright light passing overhead, shining in the darkness. The light flitted about above her, and slowly began to descend.
"Who's there?~" Mystia continued to sing in her melodic voice.
"Oh, just the KING OF ALL INSECTS. How dare you show such- Woah, I'm sorry! I didn't meant make you- Ah, anything I could do to help you?"
What is this girl talking about?
"Well, um, my grill cart got stuck in this hole, and I can't just leave it. Could you-"
"Oh, 'sat all? Well, let's try working it together."
They tried. They well and truly tried.
"Uhhh! I feel like someone just tore off my wings!"
"Well, thank you for trying to help, miss King."
"Ah, it's Wriggle Nightbug."
"Fine then, Wriggle. What do we do now?"
"Ah, well, I came because I heard you singing, so... If I fly up and flash some light patterns while you sing, we should be able to get TWICE as many people to help, right?"
"Oh, that's a good idea! Alright then-"
Mystia began singing again, as Wriggle flew up and lit a pattern from her... She lit a pattern, alright? As the flashing lights and beautiful song flew through the air, Mystia could barely contain a giggle from Wriggle's oddball dancing in the sky.
"Um- There it is, Cirno..."
"Oh, cool! What a find, Daiyousei! Hey! Ya wanna get a closer look?"
"Oh, I'm fine with staying he-"
The wind fairy was grabbed by the wrist as her friend rocketed towards the lights and sounds.
Wriggle never saw them coming.
The three of them, after having crashed, temporarily forgot how to fly, and began to fall to earth, Daiyousei screaming shrilly the whole way down.
THUD. THUNK. THONK.
"Ahh! You okay, Wriggle!?"
Mystia ran to the crash site, fearful for her new friend's safety and general well being.
"Wow, buggy! It takes a lot to knock the strongest down to earth! I'm impressed!"
"Ah, Cirno... Don't talk so big, you might make her angry..."
...
"Who are you?"s were very suddenly exchanged.
"I'm Cirno, the strongest warrior in all of Gensoukyo! This is Daiyousei. She's my best friend!"
"Well then, Cirno, Daiyousei. We were trying to get this cart out of this ditch, but it's wedged in pretty bad. We needed help, so we tried to draw attention to ourselves-"
"Hah! Is that all? I'll just tear it out of there! Yeah! It's no problem for the strongest!"
She tried. She well and truly tried.
"... Well met, ditch."
"Hah, it's no good. I guess I gotta tell the village that I'm out of business."
"Is that so?~"
A blob of inky darkness neared the four * young youkai/fairies. It overshot them massively and smacked right into the cart.
" Oh! Hey, that thing just knocked my cart out of the hole!... Where'd it go?"
"It's a girl! She's stuck down the ditch! I can smell her!"
Wriggle... Wriggled her antennae, trying to pinpoint the girl's position.
Mystia couldn't wait for her. She flew down the hole and started looking.
"Hey, I'm coming too!"
"And me! You could use someone as strong as me!"
"Kyaa!"
The four of them found themselves twenty feet below ground level.
"There she is! We get her out now! Everyone, grab an arm or a leg!
"Hnuh!"
"Hurk!"
"Aah!"
The four of them took to the air, landing next to the now freed cart. The four that were still conscious were exhausted, unable to move from the sudden effort.
So tired, in fact, that they all fell asleep on top of each other.
Wriggle and Mystia were the first to wake up.
"So... Do I get any freebies?"
"..."
SMACK!
Wow this took forever to come up with. It may sound like a cop-out, but all five of the members of Cirno's Gang have pretty big personalities* in my head, so it wound up being kinda an ensemble piece.
edited 7th Aug '11 10:53:07 PM by Pulse
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I enjoyed that. I really did. It was cute. I liked the various ways you wrote the various characters distinctively.
Only problem, the ending, while funny, didn't seem like an ending, it seemed like a stopping point, although the main conflict was resolved. Although, I could see Mystia hitting Wriggle, then the screen freezing with the words "Directed by Pulse" appearing all old sitcom style.
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Its more of a Team 9 story than a Mystia story but it puts Mystia at the foundation so I guess its A-okay. Plus, we don't have a Team 9 write-up time.
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Oh, like typical youkai. I was starting to worry that a majority of the Touhou cast were turning into a big homogeneous lump.
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...