Cheery and obsessed with telling tales, almost to the point of religious devotion, is most people's first immediate impression of Mika. She does not stop. She probably will not stop -- as the self-proclaimed guardian of lost and forgotten stories, and disciple of the Child of Stories, Larula, fae travels from realm to realm, kingdom to kingdom, a bard of-sorts spreading her stories like a song: tales of the lost. Of the left-to-be-forgotten. Stories of dreams and nightmares that didn't come true and did exist once, now faded away, and she speaks of them once more.

Has a strange fairy-like, joyful energy to faer. Tends to skip right past small talk and go straight into storytelling, even in normal conversation, though if someone or something wants to tell her a story in turn, she turns on a dime to shut up and listen with rapt attention, her endlessly long notebook at the ready. 

Faer nightmare used to be more sad and grief-stricken, and herself more lost in every imagined future that never gets to be, but being friends with a certain stygian who sought to preserve and remember the stories of the lost has helped a lot to ground her, and has even given her hope. A bit too much hope. (Larula themself would never ask her, or anyone else, to commit so fully as to be their disciple, but Mika likes what fae does and fae's having fun, so they would never stop her, either.)

Kingdom: Crystal Convergence

A glittering forest where the trees are multilayered geodes, the leaves are thick crystals that always stay perfectly in their places, and all around and sometimes embedded in the trees are standing obelisks, surface polished so smooth that a future that may never come to be is visible in it. They can even be walked into, if only to experience something that won't happen for a little while.

While the other various glimmering lakes in the kingdom lead into a false future, Mika's true residence lies in the depths of the largest one -- a crystal cave of reflected futures, and a hollow for a (somewhat) organized maze of crystal shelves and non-crystal books. There's even a path through this unintentional maze that leads to a station of the Halfway Express, but why would you go straight there? Stay a while and read some of the books first :3

Trivia

• Rated No. 1 most likely to get extremely lost in the Labyrinth, under the pretense of recording the stories of the whispers. Has wound up in W?nd?rl?nd at least a few times, somehow. The place seems to like her (but it also seems to like everyone, so...??)
• Despite having a couple of her favorite stories memorized, her memory isn't that good -- 50% of the time she'll confuse one story with another, or fill in the gaps of one with another she knows on the fly, or accidentally flip forward a few pages in her book and end up switching stories at least once.
• Used to be more outwardly religiously devoted and fanatical about Larula, until they told faer to knock it off at some point following a weird rift in their friendship. They're still pretty close these days, though.