Wu-wu
the Mournful Girl
A girl in a Big-Head Doll headpiece, half smiling and half weeping, who stops travelers with a band of puppets she calls friends.
Who She Is
A girl wearing a Big-Head Doll headpiece. One half of the face upon it smiles brightly; the other weeps.
She spent her days watching for her father and her nights crying into her pillow. Her tears soaked and stained one side of the headpiece, until it settled into that look of joy and sorrow.
Combat
She calls the puppets her friends, and they are as lonely and helpless as she is. With them she stops passersby and searches for traces of her kin.
Anyone who means to harm her must first get past her friends. The puppets swarm forward while she stays behind them, her face still weeping.
Aftermath
Her father wanted her far from the blades of the Wulin and hoped she would live out her days in peace. Before he died he left a letter warning her against the temptations of evil spirits, but it never reached her hands.
With her father gone she had nowhere to call home. She trusted the masked members of the Thread-Binding Sect, believing they could lead her back to him; instead they Transcended her and set the headpiece on her, never to be removed.
She is still looking for her father, and all she has found are puppets as lonely as herself.
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