Meng Shu: Race: Serpent. Gender: Male. Age: Approximately 30,000 years (he lost the inclination to calculate long ago). Archetype: Great Serpent. Personality: Taciturn, resolute in nature. Likes: Interacting with humans. Occupation: Puppeteer Troupe Director and Playwright, perhaps... Synopsis: Originally a famed Ba She (Great Serpent), upon returning to the human realm after traversing many worlds, he found his homeland gone, leading him to...
Quan Xian'er: Race: Jiao Ren (Merfolk). Gender: Female. Age: Unknown. Original Form: Half-human, half-fish (a distant relative of the Western mermaid, perhaps?). Personality: Seemingly delicate but inwardly strong and rather stubborn. Likes: Money and drinking. Occupation: Pearl diver, seamstress, guide, and so on and so forth... Synopsis: Due to human development and pollution of the oceans, the Jiao Ren clan, who once inhabited the waters near Lixin City, migrated to other realms. Only she remained behind, engaging in "peculiar" efforts to preserve her home. "Quan Xian" is actually an ancient appellation for the Jiao Ren; for reasons she keeps private, she uses this alias instead of her true name. Furthermore, her age and past are mysteries she never volunteers.
Luo Tian: Race: Guan Guan (Bird). Gender: Male. Age: 400 years. Original Form: A bird resembling a dove. Personality: Persistent and diligent, often failing to consider the feelings of others. Though his temperament leans toward the mild, he can occasionally be cold and selfish. Synopsis: The song of his species inherently possesses the ability to bewitch listeners, a tool they naturally employ for self-preservation and foraging. However, Luo Tian, naive since childhood, harbored a sincere desire for others to simply listen to his music. To realize this dream, he wandered afar until he arrived in the mortal realm...
Guan Guan: Classic of Mountains and Seas: On Mount Qingqiu... there is a bird there, shaped like a dove, whose sound resembles hē, named Guan Guan. Possessing it prevents bewitchment. (How exactly did the ancients carry a live bird? Did they carry a dried carcass? The thought sends a chill down the spine~~~~~) Thus, I muse that this bird, whose cry sounds like two people criticizing each other, might also possess the power to confuse people.
Li Li: Race: Miao Min. Gender: Female. Age: 200 years. Original Form: None. Personality: A serious, driven career woman? Synopsis: Li Li lost her mother at a young age. After her father achieved transcendence, he entrusted her to her uncle's care. Having drifted across the four seas with her uncle since childhood, she developed a fondness for the courier profession and, through her deliveries, an affection for Luo Tian. Her greatest hope is that one day Luo Tian will travel the world delivering messages alongside her.
Miao Min: Classic of Mountains and Seas, Northern Classic of the Great Wilderness: Northwest of the sea, north of the Black Water, there are winged people called Miao Min. Zhuanxu gave birth to Huan Tou, and Huan Tou gave birth to Miao Min. Miao Min's surname is Li, and they eat meat. The Miao Min are descendants of Emperor Zhuanxu, belonging to a branch of the divine populace.
Chen Kangshan (Shan Wa): Race: Human. Gender: Male. Age: 15. Personality: Simple, kind, honest, and sincere. Synopsis: Originally just an ordinary boy from the mountains, he became inextricably linked with the spirits after saving a pair of demon sisters. His greatest hope is to wake up one morning and find that the chaotic throng of monsters around him was merely a dream.
The Monk: Race: Item Yokai. Gender: Male. Age: Unknown even to himself. Original Form: A stone lamp stand. Personality: Compassionate and kind, but prone to excessive nagging. Synopsis: Originally a vigil lamp kept before the Buddha, upon transforming into a yokai, he remains wholeheartedly devoted to worshipping the Buddha and reciting sutras, believing himself to be a monk. He delights in helping others, and many yokai in Lixin City have benefited from his kindness. Liu Di claims he is the "specimen" of a monk, infinitely more monastic than the Wooden Fish Monk, yet he later took the Wooden Fish Monk as his master.
Ma Lu: Race: Item Yokai. Age: 1 year. Original Form: Plastic police officer. Occupation: Substitute traffic warden. Personality: Stubborn and serious. Likes: Reciting traffic regulations. Synopsis: It was originally a plastic police dummy erected on the street to maintain order. Upon gaining a soul, it immediately began performing its duties. Because the assembly line produced forty identical bodies at once, it faces no fear, knowing it can simply return to storage for a replacement if damaged. To most eyes, it appears as a large, mobile toy; only Sun Jian views it as a genuine officer, leading Ma Lu to consider Sun Jian a brother in service.
Jiang Rong: Race: Human (Currently a ghost). Age: Eighteen. Occupation: Flower shop gatekeeper. Personality: Rebellious and casual. Synopsis: A young girl's spirit who died in a traffic accident, discovered and taken in by Liu Di, she now resides in Gui Er's flower shop.