Myst

Myst is a Phantom that inhabits the lighthouse in The Valley. He is a simple resident that enjoys playing pranks on residents and visitors, spying on people by passing underneath or walking beside them while invisible, and farming. He is a farmer at heart, needing to eat more than most, but an excellent archer.

## Appearance

Myst is a skinny young man, appearing to be in his late teens to early twenties. He is no more than 5'7" (170.18 cm) tall, and an unknowable weight, due to his more "ghostly" characteristics, though it should be noted that he has a mildly malnourished look to him. His skin is pale and cold, and has dark bags under his eyes. He almost always has a grin on his face. His hair is a light, grey-ish blue, and his eyes are a similarly grey blue.

Myst has a black sweater and dark pants, clothing he doesn't seem to have the ability to take off, a feat he's tried quite a few times before coming to the Valley. His clothes seem a bit worse for wear, the edges of his sleeves, a feat he attributes to working in the fields. The sleeves of his sweater seem to eclipse most of his hands, though they never seem to get in the way of the things he wants to do.

He has skins with a Hooters outfit, and a more winter-appropriate outfit. However, these are just for fun.

## Personality

Myst is playful, trickster-like, and sarcastic, though never meaning any real harm. He prefers playing tricks and scaring critters and people for fun more than anything else, however he knows when to be more serious when the moment calls for it. He has a habit of being rather airheaded, considering people he meets friends if they haven't outright told him they didn't like him.

He tends to be more trusting and naïve than he should, however he keeps quite a bit of himself close to the vest. Myst doesn't like telling others his origin and the fact that he's dead if he can help it, considering his not knowing about his own past life and death a bit personal and mildly terrifying.

He can be shy, especially when coming across groups. This is largely due to past rejection by other origins he's come across during his exploration, these groups finding him more akin to a mob than an actual person.

Myst gets more serious when he's alone, accustomed to being alone through his years of solo adventuring.

## History

### Past Life

Not much is known about Myst's past life, nor much about his death. He knows he belonged to a farming village with parents and a little sister.

### Pre-Valley

Myst was wondering the world after seemingly "waking" from a deep sleep. The first thing he saw above ground was mist, so he decided to call himself that. He'd been wondering the world, finding mobs and creatures, places vaguely familiar to him. It was during this time he'd found out what he was and his powers and weaknesses.

### The Valley

Coming to The Valley was a result of following a resident (Leif) to the then small establishment. After exploring a bit more, he found the Lighthouse comfortable, and set it up as his home, adding crops to the bottom 3 floors of the house. It wasn't long afterwards that he met Gale, Puffball, and other residents and passersby. It took until the end of "season 1" for him to *officially* meet Leif.

## Relationships

### Gale

On all accounts, Myst considers Gale to be a close friend. He was the first official friend he made in the Valley, and they have kept close contact since, Gale's bakery being right next to the Lighthouse making it easier to spot each other. Myst gives him offerings of food, one of the small cultural things he can remember, as well as setting up a bed on the very top of the Lighthouse for him to spend the night should he choose to. He has yet to reveal the fact he isn't living to Gale, thinking it would be a bad idea to do so.

### Puffball

Myst seems to be more of a pain in Puffball's side, though Myst thinks of them as friends considering the fact they didn't outright tell him he's bothering them. Their first meeting was when he found out he could walk around with a carved pumpkin on his head and phase through the ground, making him seem like a freezing cold, but living, pumpkin. Puffball took great offense to it when he revealed himself to not be a living plant like them, and the conversation ended soon after he revealed himself to burst into flames if he turned visible.

### Leif

Myst isn't sure how to consider Leif quite yet. He's aware of his closeness to Gale, so he seems like a good man to him. He often sees the large bird flying around the Valley, and somehow knows he left a housewarming gift when he moved into the Lighthouse, however he isn't able to read the note left with the gift. His only real interactions with Leif have been at rather unfortunate times in the Valley's history.

### Drue

Drue and Myst met each other when Myst stumbled across Drue's mooblooms (with the pumpkin on his head). He, again, explained he wasn't a pumpkin, revealing himself to be a ghost instead. The interaction was short-lived after trying one of Drue's blueberries, which had special properties allowing him to glow. It scared Myst, so he excused himself and left.

### Lyman

Myst met Lyman upon the moth crashing into a tree near where he and Drue were talking. They haven't interacted past meeting with Drue.

### The Entity

Myst's relationship with The Entity is complicated. His human past has led him to believe in multiple Higher Powers, and he believes in The Entity, however he isn't sure what part they play in why he is the way he is, or why they're doing the things they do.

## Trivia

* Myst cannot read the common language. He can only read and write Standard Galactic Alphabet (AKA Enchantment table language).
* He cannot spell to save his life, his own name being a misspelling of the word "mist."
* Occasionally, he will fall into a "sleepwalking" fit, where he will become more akin to a residual haunting than his normal self.
	+ During this, he will become more transparent and unable to converse until he "wakes up." He will pantomime harvesting wheat and other crops, even if he isn't anywhere near such crops.
* He has had pets in the past, however they have all died or somehow ran away.
	+ This is attributed to his origin's specific kind of bad luck.
	+ He currently has a horse and a llama, the horse being named Nvda, and the llama named Penelope.
* Myst is a cisgender gay man.
	+ In his past life, he was in love with a villager boy his age. It is unclear if they were in a relationship or not, though it is unlikely.
* Myst hates soul lanterns.
	+ Soul lanterns like taunting him, telling him things he doesn't want to remember and guilting him into believing he could've prevented his village's deaths.
* He smells faintly of wheat and wet iron.

For the Halloween event!Shot in the dome and you're to blame