Dalgyan Gwisin

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Dalgyan Gwisin
Biographical information
Status	Deceased
Gender	Female
Family	Unnamed child
Residence	Spiritrealm
Physical description
Species	Gwisin
Hair	Black
Eye	None (Black voids)
Behind the scenes
Appearances	My Night at the Gifted Carnival

The Dalgyan Gwisin is the ghost of a woman who lost her only child and kills other children to let other parents feel her pain.

History

In life, Dalgyan Gwisin desperately wanted children. She finally had a child, only for the child to die. In a fit of rage, she killed any child she came across so that other parents could experience her pain.

When she died, she was sentenced to serve time in the various hells before even getting a chance at rebirth. However she was known to escape these sentences. When in the Hell of Infinite Ice, she managed to escape and steal that gavel of that judge. She returns to the realm of the living to collect six children.

The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories About Mythic Heroes

My Night at the Gifted Carnival

She sneaks into the Gifted Carnival when it stops in Los Angeles, abducting children at the carnival and almost succeeding in bringing them to the Hell of Infinite Ice. However she is found out and, with quick thinking from Riley Oh, she is returned to the Hell of Infinite Ice to finish her sentence and the children are freed.

Appearance

Dalgyan Gwisin resembles a woman with long black hair wearing a white hanbok. She has a featureless face with only black voids where her eyes should be. Her skin is chalk white.

Personality

Dalgyan Gwisin is driven the anger of losing her only child and and the desire for children.

Trivia

• Her name translates as “Egg Ghost”.
• She is similar to La Llorona from Mexican folklore.