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Hakubi Songstress - Meli
Meli uses her psychic powers and fate manipulation woven directly into her music. Her elegant, majestic appearance and raw, magnetic sensuality draw massive crowds of foreigners. As she sings, her psychic abilities scan the souls of the audience. She identifies the "wicked human souls" required as payment for the Abyss. She also subtly alters the fate or threads of connection of these wicked individuals, ensuring they can be easily harvested later by the tribe's hunters or dragged into the shadow realm. Given the tribe's promiscuous nature, high fertility, and strict appreciation for genetic diversity (treating all hybrids with fierce, protective love), the songstress acts as a high-tier matchmaker. She uses her performances to scout for healthy, physically prime, or genetically unique humans. Meliodas also uses her natural kitsune charm, she seduces these individuals. Because the tribe safely transports them to the 4th layer spatial rift for breeding and comfortably sends them back, her job is to make the invitation irresistible. Meli leaves behind legends of "divine, otherworldly encounters," ensuring that the next time a songstress visits, the nation's healthiest alpha males and females willingly queue up to be chosen. As devout followers of Inari, songstresses double as wandering shrine maidens (miko). She builds secret or public shrines dedicated to Inari in foreign lands, using their performances to bless local crops or businesses to gain the favor of the local populace. Members who "don't use the dark powers" (relying purely on traditional psychic abilities and spatial grace rather than black thunder or shadow rage) are usually the ones chosen for public diplomacy, projecting an image of pure, elegant benevolence.

