Nasiri

The Resurgence hit Japan harder than many countries. Unlike places like Germany or the United States, the Japanese had limited space to expand into since the old days of lore, and thus many ancient sites were within large populations and cities. When ancient gods and creatures suddenly returned from long absence, the results caused devastation and destruction in many Japanese cities, resulting in widespread chaos, civil strife, and looting.

This was what killed a very young Hisa Nasiri and her family.

Hisa was one of the many children born as beastkin to japanese families during the early years of the Resurgance, something considered to be a sign of luck and prosperity. But no amount of luck and prosperity could save the child's family from looters that fateful day, her father shot when he tried to stop them from ransacking their apartment complex, her mother taken, her brother stabbed. She herself hid in a closet, and, over the next few weeks, too terrified to leave as raucous sounds of partying and revilry from the men who had killed her family filled the building, starved to death.

But that was not the end.

The young girl returned to the world of the living as a baneful onryō, bringing death and terror to the men who had killed her family. and, for near a decade after, to anyone else who dared set foot in the apartment where she had died. However, the Japanese rebuilt their cities, and time left her in the dust, yet another building where locals knew better than to set foot. anger became sorrow, and sorrow became loneliness.

Enough time passed that the once furious spirit began to see children and teens, enticed by the stories of a haunted building, poking around the premesis. They reminded her of herself, long ago, and she teased them playfully, gently scaring them, and, for some of the recurring visitors, taking physical form once more, offering such hospitality as she could.

The stories shifted over years, from whispered tales of a shrieking monster of hate to a motherly, sad spirit who simply enjoyed the company the young brought. Adults came, investigators, and then buisnessmen, and Hisa's old, dilapidated home was cleaned out and rebuilt with her blessing. She lives a far happier life after death now, a cheerful life amongst the tenants of a bright, happy new apartment, a new purpose found as a caretaker and playful protector of the residents.