Musette

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Musette is a ghoul that has entwined her self with a cassette player.<ref name=":0" />

Personality

She gets anxious around other people and is socially awkward,<ref name=l&m/> but she can deal one on one with people very well.

Relationships

Remembers the kids she talks to.

Appearance

She appears as a teenage girl in goth makeup and a leather jacket.<ref>As he passed, a figure appeared behind him.  A teenager with a leather jacket and goth makeup.  She held a cassette player to her chest.  She looked nervous. - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.5</ref>

Abilities

She befriends children at hospitals, especially those with few contacts that are close to dying and gives them one last gift before they pass, for example a trip to the beach or the movies, after they pass she eats their corpse.<ref name=":0">“I used to hang out there, at hospitals with lots of kids.  But it’s easier to, eh, be, if I’ve got something to latch onto.”

“The cassette player,” Raymond said.  “You latched onto it.”

“Belonged to a girl I got along with.  She gave it to me.  Perdita.”

“Once you latched onto it, you would appear here and there, often to get collected and stuck in the lost and found.  But if there was a young boy or girl who fit the right profile…”

“Most are a bit younger than I look.  They don’t usually have family, or they don’t like their family, if they do.  Their friends have stopped visiting.  I try to be like a cool big sister, when they have nobody else.  Most often I’m a friend.  If they’re lonely, I’m company.  If they’re bored, I’m entertainment.  Sometimes I’ll check in a few times, then they get better, so I move on.  Once I’m sure, I give them this.”

She held up the player.

“You’re sure because…?”

“Because it costs if I give myself over and latch on, then I don’t get to eat.”

“And the rest of the process?”

“The closer they get, the more I hang out.  Until I’m there whenever nurses and staff aren’t.  If they have a place they want to be or a thing they want to do, I sometimes pay a bit of myself to keep… you said we were like spinning tops.”

“Yes.  Of note, I said that before you clearly manifested.  You heard.”

“Yes.  I keep them spinning for the last day or last few hours.  One day to sneak out of the hospital, go shopping, go to a movie, or maybe go to the beach.  Usually one thing.  The last one, I took her back to school, after hours, so she could sit at her desk again.  Then they go, I like to listen to music with them at the end.  Then I eat, I leave nothing behind unless they ask.” - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.5</ref> It takes power for her to give the cassette that she's been entwined with to a given child but when she does she can keep her friend going for longer.

Owns a cassette player that was given to her by a girl she once knew.<ref name=":0" />

Presumably as a Ghoul she can sense the approach of death.

History

Before

While her backstory is unknown she may have become like this after a close kin or kith became sick and died.

Summer Squabbles

Was being looked after by Ray who used her in a lesson, she caught sight of certain student who died soon after.<ref name=l&m>“You’re safe, Musette,” Raymond said.  “We discussed you coming to my class, remember?”

Musette nodded.  She looked across the room.  She froze, staring at one part of the room, and Lucy twisted around, looking at a stricken Laila.

“Uhhh,” Laila drew out the sound.

“Musette, would you care to explain?  The-”

The bike circled around, and it cut its path across the diagram the ghoul was in, disturbing the chalk.  Raymond sighed.

The girl in the circle darted out, heading for the darkness by the shelves, off to the side.

Raymond crossed the stage, heading for that spot, stopped, then went for another section of shelves.  “The circle is for your own health and protection, Musette.  Trust me.”

He bent down, then slid the cassette player across the floor.  It stopped in the middle of the diagram.

He walked over, fixed the chalk with a chalk pen in his pocket, then straightened.  He gave the bike another push in passing.

- Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.5</ref>

When Shellie Alitzer attacked the Kennet Trio Musette watched unmanifested, she did manifest when John sent the trio to safety though was not seen immediately after.<ref>The cassette player with the ghoul attached was still sitting on a shelf.  Musette was unsummoned, the circle wrapped up.  Too specific to turn against Shellie, so she couldn’t hope to bait Shellie inside and then flip it on.
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They fell amid broken floorboards, where rain was torrential enough to pool in the dips and bends of the shattered floor.  Benches littered the area around them.

Musette stood in the background, so pale she seemed to glow in the dark. - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.6</ref>

Unseen it turns out John had borrowed her, later asking her to clean up for him after a job.<ref>He reached into his bag and he got a cassette player.

The music began playing.  A light, sad rock ballad.  Lucy sat, and John remained where he was, watching her, until her head started bobbing.

“You need me?” Musette asked.  The ghoul, called by the cassette player.

“Cleanup.  If you’re up for it.  I know it’s not your usual meal.” - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.x</ref>

Unknown what happened to her.

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