She lives in the wild, on an island somewhere near Kanto, and she's pretty different from most other Darkrai you would meet. Based on her assumption that other pokemon dislike her hanging around due to causing them nightmares, she's (unsuccessfully) tried to inhibit her ability to do so. She wears lunar feathers in her hair, but upon touching her they immediately became tainted and are stained black with dark thoughts/dreams. This renders them useless, but she has no idea that is the case. She refuses to put pokemon to sleep using Dark Void, and instead makes them fall into a slumber by other means - one method is that she uses hypnosis instead, but even just her presence causes them nightmares, so this is in vain. Her most beloved possession is a black flute. She plays it for enjoyment, but also usually puts pokemon into a slumber by playing Pokemon Lullabies on it.
She is extremely sheltered and naive, and has never even seen another Darkrai before. Being totally unaware of what exactly her own species is, she obtained the name "Whisp" when she narrowly escaped being seen by two pokemon trainers. One of them mentioned that they saw a dark shape on the ground, and the other commented that it was probably just a wisp of smoke - she concluded that this is what she must be, then - a "Whisp". (XD) She lives a lonely, solitary lifestyle, often wondering if there are any other pokemon like her out there.