"Phantom Myst" Alissa Bright

Alissa Bright is a rather unassuming high school girl. Once a far more innocent-minded ally to those around her, she frequently sought to serve her community as charitably as she could. She tried to be as open, honest, and understanding with those around her as possible and would rather spend her time helping others than working to improve her own living conditions.

Her family isn't particularly well-off, nor would they be generally be considered poor. She often feels guilty when comparing her own living conditions to those of her less fortunate peers which drove her charitable nature.

However, it didn't take long for this charitable nature to become preyed upon by those who sought to manipulate her. For a while, she was blind to these tendencies, shrugging her doubts off as her own selfishness trying to get in the way. But things started to change when she found herself compromising on too many of her personal values. Though she once sought love, she soon fell into the lustful trap of man after man, and even some women, garnering her an unpleasant reputation among her classmates. 

Not wanting to be known just for her sexual favors, and especially noticing the advances were getting in the way of her focus in other areas of the community, she started to turn down sexual favors at which point she was only met with hostility ultimately culminating in her rape.

This traumatic experience has led to a dramatic shift in her view on the world. Though she remains friendly and optimistic on the surface around her peers, she's noticeably more withdrawn and has adopted a far more cynical viewpoint toward the world. 

After months of steadily growing social isolation, she eventually came to develop a desire to protect others from similar fates to her. This desire led her to form a pact with a mysterious spirit of the night, granting her new alias as a superheroine: "The Moonlit Masquerade -- Phantom Myst"

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When Alissa had made up her mind that she wanted to stand up to protect the defenseless, she had no idea how to go about doing so until she was visited by a mysterious kitsune spirit who shared in her plight. The spirit sought to keep the innocent safe by protecting them from the evils of the world. The spirit had the fighting prowess but lacked the intellect to properly wield it. Alissa, as a human, much better understood humanity and could more easily get inside the minds of evildoers in order to figure out how to counter them. Together, the two formed a pact and Alissa's body became the host for the Kitsune spirit, giving rise to the city's new hero: The Midnight Masquerade -- Phantom Myst!

While the spirit of the kitsune is active within her, Alissa's pink hair and blue eyes turn a soft midnight purple. She becomes far more skillful in hand-to-hand combat and is even capable of transforming parts of her body into water vapor in order to protect against incoming blows. Her normally rather dismal personality also becomes much more cheeky and confident, though Alissa soon came to understand these traits were not lent from the spirit but rather the freedom of her alias as Phantom Myst has helped her to understand who she truly was all along and consequently assisted her in rebuilding her social life in spite of her trauma with a new outlook. It was a breath of fresh air being able to fight crime and watch predator turn into prey under the thick fog of her mist. She loves to taunt and toy with the criminals she tries to stop, knowing that as long as they don't understand her powers, they can do nothing to hurt her.

However, Phantom Myst is anything but invincible. Her spirit can only remain active while her body is bathed in direct moonlight, meaning her powers are entirely useless during the day and mostly useless indoors. In addition, in arid environments, or when she is dehydrated, her mist spreads thin much quicker and she becomes unable to convert her body into water vapor to avoid incoming attacks or move as freely. Because of this, she mostly resorts to fighting in the city streets at night. If she ever has to deal with indoor crimes, she often uses a variety of scare tactics to herd her targets into locations where her powers can be useful. Overcast nights are difficult for her to fight in as partially obscured moonlight weakens her kitsune spirit as well.

Alissa is well aware that she is unable to defend herself during the day, so while fighting crime, she takes advantage of her change in hair color to disguise her identity by wearing a kitsune mask she'd purchased at a con to hide her face. This offers the secondary benefit of instilling the fear of God in her ill-informed enemies when they see her ominous inhuman silhouette within her signature cloud of mist.

In addition to fighting crime while her powers are active, the thrill of fighting has also encouraged her to practice self defense in her own time in case push comes to shove and she has to fight without her powers.