| “ | Good kids' daytime is when I go beddy-bye. At night, it's happy hour for man-hunting! | „ |
| ~ Mystia Lorelei |
| “ | There's no human that doesn't fear me on night roads. If I wanted, I could call enough youkai here to eradicate every human in this land. | „ |
| ~ Mystia taunting Marisa and Alice. |
Mystia Lorelei is a supporting antagonist in Touhou Project. She is a night sparrow that uses her songs to lure humans.
First appeared as the second stage boss in Imperishable Night, she later opens lamprey's stand, where she lures humans to buy her food to cure her night blindness. And she later formed a duo with Kyouko Kasodani called Choujuu Gigaku which is a punk rock band.
Personality[]
Mystia is an annoying and dimwit sparrow that seems to drive people really insane with her singing, which is why people seem to find her existence really nonsensical. She seems to enjoy upcoming chaos and confusion. However, despite this, she is a great cook who has a grilled lamprey stand.
Biography[]
Imperishable Night[]
Mystia goes for hunting humans when singing, then encounters the duo of incident solvers, where she initiated danmaku battle against them, which she was later defeated and leaves.
Phantasmagoria of Flower View[]
In her own storyline, Mystia didn't solves the incident, but instead sang her song around Genskoyo, while encounter others character and challenge danmaku battle against them.
In her ending, Mystia crashes a flower viewing party at Hakurei Shrine and performs her songs to both Reimu and Marisa, which amused both of them. Reimu then explain about Cherry Blossom's symbolic role in absorb sin, a concept Mystia vaguely recalls by the Yama, due to her forgetful nature, she struggles to fully grasp its meaning, leaving her focus on singing and enjoying the moment.
Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red[]
Mystia's shifts her business to selling grilled lamprey eels instead of the usual yakitori at her stall. Mystia cunningly exploits her ability by inflicting night-blindness on nearby humans, luring them to buy her lamprey with the promise of curing their sudden blindness.
Aya conducts an interview with Mystia, though Mystia is more focused on singing than discussing about an interviews, and dismissing the accuracy of her claims about lamprey curing night-blindness. She openly admits to substituting other fish like eels and loaches when lamprey is unavailable, further raising questions about her business ethics. Which made Aya calls her action as "swindling" and "deception". Mystia remains unfazed, even using Aya's newspaper as an oil absorber for the grilled lamprey—a defiant act that hints she might be illiterate, or simply uninterested in Aya's critique.
Oriental Sacred Place[]
Reimu and Marisa go to Mystia's stand and wake up drunk the next morning. The Three Mischievous Fairies notice their unusual behavior and suspect that Mystia must have poisoned them. They approach Mystia and ask her directly about it. Mystia doesn’t remember anything but instead serves them food and sake. She then shares a tale about the Sparrow Sake, which was made by her ancestor.
Symposium of Post-mysticism[]
Aya wrote an article about the Guerilla concerts, where both Mystia and Kyouko Kasodani preforming their punk concert. Which Byakuren would later comments that Mystia is being a bad influence to her and seeking to punish Mystia for her action.
Quotes[]
| “ | Mystia: A person, a person, a person! Kidnap some humaaans! ♪ Sakuya: It sure is spring. Full of youkai and weird youkai. Mystia: It's a youkai's job to eat humans! And you're a human, aren't you? |
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| ~ Mystia when encountering Sakuya Izayoi in Phantasmagoria of Flower View. |
| “ | Mystia: Sunflowers spin and spin, sunflowers turn and turn, Sunflowers spin and spin, body blow~♪ Yuuka: And that's where the bird is fried in spices~♪ Mystia: Who are you!? Continuing someone else's song like that! Yuuka: Oh, I'm sorry. You looked so happy singing, so I inadvertantly continued. Mystia: Humans are supposed to be the ones fried in spices... but how did you know that spice came after? |
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| ~ Mystia gets angry when Yuuka continues her song, |
| “ | I don't like sparrows. They're too bony. | „ |
| ~ Yuyuko Saigyouji's comment on Mystia. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Mystia doesn't understand the power of her songs.
- Originally, she was on Heroes Wiki, but due to her heroic action are nonexistence, she's relocated to Neutral characters wiki. However, she is found to have explicit human-eating tendency in her actions and dialogues, so she was later transferred to Villains Wiki.
- Ironically, this is the exact opposite of Eiki Shiki from the same franchise, who was only have her own Villains wiki page initially, but then removed and the page was recreated in Neutral characters wiki, but she is admirable enough which eventually relocated her to Heroes wiki.
External Links[]
- Mystia Lorelei on the Touhou Wiki
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