#on the plus side my copy of kwaidan is arriving tomorrow

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From the Kayla X “Legendary Spirits” blind box figure collection:

Her name is Fatality.

This one is so obvious it basically goes without saying, but she's a nine-tailed fox! Similar to, though distinct from, the Japanese kitsune, the nine-tailed fox is a mythical Chinese beast with the power to shapeshift into the form of a human. The older the fox grows, the more powerful it becomes and the more beautiful its human form. It's usually depicted transforming into a beautiful woman, with the goal of eating humans.

Sometimes the nine-tailed fox is a positive, auspicious sign, while other times it's a bad omen. The Youyang Zazu, a book of East Asian legends and natural phenomena written during the Tang Dynasty, describes the nine-tailed fox as serving in the heavenly Palace of the Sun and Moon.

The Shanhaijing, an early collection of mythical creatures in China, commented on by the mystic and scholar Guo Pu, says this:

That English translation is quoted from a 2006 book about the fox-worshipping religion which still survives in parts of China to this day, "The cult of the fox: Power, gender, and popular religion in late imperial and modern China" by Xiaofei Kang. Another book I'd really love to read.

As much as it pains me, I'm really only summarizing and quoting Wikipedia for this, so I'll leave it there. Doing these little investigations into the identity of all these blind box figures have really made me miss the access to massive academic databases that being a university student gave me. C'est la vie, now I must survive on what's publicly available like everyone else.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/kang13338