Mizore Ito

Basic Info:

Name:                Mizore Ito · 伊藤 霙 · (Also known as Misery-chan / ミザリーちゃん)

Age:                   17 

Height:               5'3 (160.5 cm)

Sex:                    Female

Birthday:            April 29, 1999 (Butsumetsu)

                          *Present day in the story is 2016*

Nationality:        Japanese

Eye Color:          White

Hair Color:         Black

Traits:                 Shy · Gloomy · Timid · Kind · Lonely · Soft-spoken · Polite

Brief Summary:

     Mizore Ito is a young Japanese girl with a kind heart and gloomy complexion. Throughout her life, she has grown up afflicted by a malicious curse; a curse which causes her to become a magnet for hauntings and other strange, supernatural occurrences. Thus, she tends to close herself off from others, though she is very lonely and wishes she could make more friends.
     During her 2nd term in the 1st year of high school, she lived in the U.S. in New Orleans as an exchange student. While there, she was nicknamed "Misery" as people would often mispronounce her name as Miz-err-ree. However, she and her host family's daughter Lydia became good friends. When she returns to Japan in the 3rd term of the 1st school year, she's forced to join the occult club by Momoe Hagino, a beautiful and popular girl who outs herself as an occult fanatic who became obsessed with Mizore's connection to the paranormal. From then on, the club becomes a ghost hunting team, using Mizore's presence to attract hauntings. 

Appearance:

     Mizore is a young Japanese girl of petite/average height with a slender body. She has short, jet-black, glossy hair styled into a bob cut with her bangs cut straight. Her eyes are an eerie and unnatural milky white, likely caused by the curse that was laid upon her. Even though her irises look cloudy, her vision is perfectly fine. Her intense, strained gaze gives her a haunting and even unsettling look. Her lips are also unnaturally dark, giving her the appearance of wearing dark lipstick. Her skin is extremely pale, looking nearly white in appearance. In an attempt to brighten up her face a bit, she wears pinkish-red eyeshadow on the sides of her eyes. She also has a small beauty mark underneath her right eye. Her gloomy disposition aside, she is considered to be very pretty.

     She wears the standard female Haibara Senior High School issued uniform. The winter variant includes a black blazer, a white button-up dress shirt, a dark pleated skirt, a black tie, and black loafers. She also wears black/dark grey tights. The summer variant of her uniform forgoes the black blazer and shortens the sleeves of the white button-up dress shirt. 

     Her casual style of dress is cute, simple and modest, only using neutral tones and dark or pale colors.

Personality:

     Mizore is a very demure, shy and lonely person and is quite easily embarrassed. She is very polite and well-mannered as well as kind-hearted and caring for others. She tends to speak humbly of herself while being highly respectful to others, though she is still quite introverted. She is very empathetic and when she encounters the spirit of someone who has died a sad or lonely death, it is difficult for her to hold herself together after feeling their pain. She'll often try to help put spirits to rest. Despite being haunted by spirits and supernatural creatures throughout her life, she is still very easily frightened. She often believes that because of her misfortune, she's responsible for all the bad things that happen around her and to the people around her. Because of this, she isolates herself from others, even though she truly wants to make friends and create happy memories for herself with others. This isn't helped by the fact that most people tend to avoid her anyway due to her slightly creepy and gloomy appearance. Rumors about her placing curses on people she doesn't like, as opposed to her being the one who was actually cursed, are common, much to Mizore's dismay.

     However, when she temporarily moves to New Orleans as an exchange student, she becomes friends with her host family's very friendly and excitable daughter Lydia Galois. Much to Mizore's surprise, Lydia is quite interested in the supernatural, and especially of Japanese culture, and she becomes a true friend of hers. Mizore becomes more open and optimistic as a result of their friendship. When Mizore moves back to Japan, Momoe Hagino, one of the school's most popular female students, outs herself as an occult fanatic and confronts Mizore. She admits to have been watching Mizore for a long time and that she's come to the realization that Mizore must be some sort of magnet for supernatural activity. She has Mizore join the Occult Club with her so they can use her to attract hauntings, much to Mizore's chagrin. However, once she joins the club, she grows to become friends with Momoe along with the other club members. Lydia even transfers to Mizore's school as an exchange student and joins the club as well. Finally having a group of friends that don't fear her or avoid her brings her much joy and happiness.

Random Facts:

• The day she was born, April 29, 1999 (04/29/1999), which was a day in Rokuyo (Japanese 6-day calendar with different days listed with varying levels of luckiness and unluckiness) known as Butsumetsu. Butsumetsu is the unluckiest day on the calendar as it was the day Buddha died. Butusumetsu days are unlucky throughout the entire day. Many people avoid planning any important dates on days listed as Butsumetsu out of caution. It's also believed that if one gets sick on a Butsumetsu day, the illness will last for a long time.

• Her given name "Mizore" ( 霙 ) means "icy rain" or "sleet". Her surname "Ito" ( 伊藤 ) is a common Japanese surname. The kanji ( 伊 ) has mostly lost it's meaning, however, the kanji ( 藤 ) means wisteria.

• Her name is a bit of a pun. Her mother's name is Miu ( 美雨 ) which means "beautiful rain" and her father's name is Yukiteru ( 雪輝 ) which means "shining snow". Rain and snow combined create sleet (Mizore) ( 霙 ).

• She was born in her father's hometown of Kuromiya ( 黒宮町 ), a town located outside of Tokyo near a mountain. She currently lives in the Nerima ward ( 練馬区 ) in Tokyo.

• Her blood type is O.

• She likes flowers. Her favorite is the red spider lily.

• She enjoys sweet and savory foods. She adores breakfast food, like French toast, as well. Her favorites are matcha ice cream mochi, Hanami dango, crepes, candy, macarons, takoyaki, okonomiyaki, and hamburgers. One of her absolute favorite dishes is the homemade cherry pie from Shelly's Diner in New Orleans, a sentiment shared with Lydia Galois. When she moves back to Japan, she misses both the pie and the Diner dearly.
  

• She dislikes sour and spicy foods, such as pickled plums and spicy miso soup, as well as pungent foods like natto. 
  

• Her favorite beverage is tea, particularly green tea, matcha and royal milk tea.
  

• Her favorite color is green, but she also likes red and pink. 

• She enjoys relaxing, laid-back and happy-sounding music, with her favorite genres being jazz, Shibuya-kei, bossa-nova, and city pop.

• She lives with both her parents while in Japan and lives with the Galois family while in the United States. She is an only child.

• She has a very loving relationship with her parents, and both her mother, Miu, and her father, Yukiteru, do their best to make Mizore feel safe and happy, despite her curse. Although they are very protective of her, they also want her to become strong enough to protect herself and those around her, so they trust her enough to grant her a generous amount of independence, as long as she promises to be safe.

• Most animals avoid and dislike her, the exceptions being corvids (crows and ravens), cats, foxes, spiders, and giant centipedes, who follow and are often seen observing her.

• Due to her pallid complexion, she gets easily sunburned and so often carries an umbrella with her on particularly hot days.
  

• She used to have long hair, only cutting it into a bob cut once it became too long, but began keeping it short for good when she was 13 after encountering a ghost that tried to pull her down an old well by her hair.

• She writes about her supernatural encounters in various journals and makes sure to record as much detail as she can about the creatures she faces. She takes notes about the creatures' appearance, behavior, location she encountered them, weaknesses, and whether or not urban legends or mythological stories about them were accurate to the real thing.

• She's a very good student and is very dedicated to studying and trying to do her best in school.

• She doesn't think she looks good wearing bright colors, as she thinks her gloomy features clash with happy colors, but really wishes that she could. Turns out, she actually does look nice wearing brighter colors, and finally acknowledges this after Momoe and the other girls take her to go try on different clothes for fun and get her to wear brightly colored dresses. Although she continues to wear darker and more neutral-toned clothes, she's no longer afraid to wear some brighter clothes every now and then afterwards.

• Her hobbies include drawing, reading novels and manga (especially slice-of-life and healing manga) and listening to music. She also enjoys playing video games and enjoys visual novels and fighting games most. She's actually very skilled at playing fighting games, which comes as a bit of a surprise to others.
  

• She loves the smell of incense. It helps to ward off and deter certain spirits from approaching her and as such, incense makes her feel safe and also helps her calm down when she's distressed.

• She carries around several ofuda (Shinto paper talismans used to protect people and homes from evil spirits) with her wherever she goes to help ward off certain supernatural entities. She has also taught herself how to perform several purification rituals including exorcism. Over time, she continues to hone her skills and becomes a a very skilled exorcist, using her abilities to quell evil spirits and soothe peace-seeking souls.

• She sometimes works as a volunteer miko (Shinto shrine maiden). She has worked at multiple different Shinto shrines in Tokyo. She enjoys spending time at shrines because they are difficult places for malevolent spirits to haunt, thus serving as a pleasant place of respite for her.

• Because of her interest in art and her hobby of drawing, she enjoys visiting open art galleries. She especially loves artwork that depicts a serene and healing atmosphere.

• Before being forced to join the Occult club by Momoe, she was a member of the Literature Club. During her time at the Literature Club, she would read silently to herself as the other members hung out together and discussed their books and opinions with one another, ignoring Mizore and leaving her be. While it was lonely for her, she enjoyed the peaceful environment.

• She gets nervous when in large crowds of people or noisy environments and much prefers peaceful, quiet places.

• Her two favorite places to be at are The Green Bird Café (Café Midori Tori) ( 喫茶緑鳥 ), a quiet, vintage style café (kissaten) ( 喫茶店 ) located in Shibuya, Tokyo, and Shelly's Diner, a classic 50s style diner located in New Orleans, Lousiana, U.S. Mizore would often go to the Green Bird Café in her free time to relax and once she joins the Occult Club, the group decides to make it their general hangout spot. Shelly's Diner was Mizore's friend Lydia's favorite place to eat thanks to its cozy, vintage atmosphere and the two of them often hung out there during Mizore's stay in the U.S.
  

• Although she doesn’t enjoy drinking coffee, Mizore adores the smell of coffee and the cozy atmosphere found inside most coffee shops.

• She wants to open up her very own vintage style café in Tokyo one day. She’d like it to be a warm and comfortable place for people to relax in and lose themselves in the dark, cozy atmosphere of her shop. She’d also want to try her best to replicate the recipe of the cherry pie from Shelly’s Diner in New Orleans.
  

• She currently attends Haibara Senior High School ( 東京都立灰原高等学校 ) in Nakano ( 中野区 ), Tokyo, Japan and is a member of the school's Occult Club. Club members include herself, Momoe Hagino, Shion Asami,  Rika Kuwano, Teruki Yamaoka, Kayoko Muroi, Fumito Shigaki, Juri Hazama and Lydia Galois. 

• While staying in Louisiana in the U.S. as an exchange student, Mizore attends Harlington High School in New Orleans. It is the school Mizore's host family's daughter, Lydia Galois, attends. While attending the school, Mizore takes a bit of time getting used to not having to wear uniforms.
  
  

• Her voice could be described as soft, timid, delicate and a little shaky.
  

• Headcannon voice actress: Amanda Lee:  (Junko Konno from Zombieland Saga - Midori from Ep. 3 of the Ito Junji Collection)
  

Theme Song for Mizore by Codefreq:

Here is a theme song created especially for Mizore by the amazing Codefreq! I absolutely adore it and it suits Mizore so incredibly well! I am so happy with how it turned out and it's so exciting for her to receive music composed just for her! 🖤

Please go check out Codefreq and more of his work! He's super cool and awesome and his music skills are top notch!

https://codefreq.newgrounds.com/

Music Playlists:

Spooky Music:

A collection of spooky songs and ambient tracks that represent Mizore and the creepy encounters that she and her friends happen upon. It's more representative of the atmosphere of her story rather than music she would personally listen too hehe.

The Supernatural Misadventures of Misery-chan (Spooky Music)

Sweet Music:

A collection of sweeter and less spooky tracks that represent Mizore and her friends.

The Supernatural Misadventures of Misery-chan (Sweet Music)