tsavorite & fateulexite
if your muse believes in destiny/fate
There are only a few fated things in nature. Yoli believes in death. All things are fated to die. All ecosystems will eventually collapse. All societies will crumble in the end. Everything gives way to something else in due time.
The evidence of this is replete all over her world. The crumbling remains of once-mighty societies can be found just about everywhere in the Old World. Even the grand and massive Tower—which was surely a triumph of civilization at some point—is nothing but an empty shell, a nest for dragons now.
Even dragons: the husks of enormous, ancient beasts that surely commanded absolute control over their domain lay long dead in various locales. Their titanic skeletons resting like great cages all that’s left of their legacy, covered in moss and lichen.
She’s always acutely cognizant that the grave awaits her, too. This is nothing to lament, however! All it means is that one must make the most of their precious existence while they have it.
That said, Yoli strictly doesn’t believe in any of the more fanciful ideas about fate. Humans live short lifespans. You can’t sit around daydreaming and waiting for “destiny” to sweep you off your feet and deliver you to greatness. One can only achieve your ideals by struggling for them yourself.
how empathetic/sympathetic/compassionate my muse is
More empathetic than maybe one would assume out of a person that kills for a living! Maybe it’s because Yoli is well acquainted with struggling to survive. She gets it that when times are desperate, living things go into survival mode and prioritize their own well-being.
She doesn’t tend to be upset by death or suffering per se, but she often falls subdued after slaying a monster. They and she were the same thing, once. It’s only right to give it some peace even as you carve up its body.
As for people, she can be a little tough love on them, but she does fundamentally care for others. Most people aren’t that strong. That’s why the world needs hunters: to look out for the ones who can’t do so themselves.
She only really loses sympathy when a person violates someone else’s comfort, safety or the rule of reasonable law for their own gain, as in the case of murderers, robbers, poachers etc. (Even then it depends on context: for instance she’s learned that Melynx generally only steal stuff to put on their village shrines, so she doesn’t begrudge them too much for it.)
Yoli isn’t too sympathetic toward people who hold important positions or titles in society, but whose attitude or skills clearly aren’t suited to their place (she doesn’t tend to be too fond of nobles for this reason). Nepotism is rot. She doesn’t feel bad at all when someone who got to where they are by cheating finds themselves struggling.
