Yoka

**Yoka** is a character on the Fell SMP, written and portrayed by Yokaiza. She is a devious and mischievous young human turned phantom who enjoys building. Yoka is a young human-turned-phantom who formerly resided in a mansion near Oleander Town and established a mob-protection faction known as the Nightwatch. She accidentally instigated a war between her faction and the Depths Pirates and ultimately was locked away in the Factory by Salt. As a phantom, she is able to visit the Dreamscape and see the dreams and memories of others, as well as communicate with them in their sleep. Currently, she is being kept in an inescapable partnership with Salt and is investigating the Corrosion behind his back, seeking an avenue of freedom and safety.

## Appearance

Yoka has a lanky build but short stature, standing at only 5’0”. In her humanoid form, she has dark hair, red-furred phantom ears, green and orange eyes, and a long tail with a large tuft of lighter-colored fluff at the end. Out from her palms she has the cartilage of wings, stripped of their membrane, and pale claws replacing fingernails. Her physicality is similar to that of a faun, with dark fur covering her waist down to her feet which are feline in nature with claws and soft pads.

She wears a loose long sleeve red shawl over a dark shirt that is tucked into a yellow and orange belt tied around her waist and dark trousers. Her shawl and trousers are trimmed with gold embroidery, and she wears a yellow and orange scarf around her neck that matches her belt. She doesn’t wear shoes and loves wearing gold jewelry, sporting a golden tail band, various rings on her wings, and earrings on her ears.

## Personality

Yoka is a mischievous young phantom who never can sit still. She loves building and repairing broken structures, mostly as a means to keep her hands busy and her mind preoccupied and distanced from the trauma of becoming a phantom. She is slightly shy and usually polite, but loves to take initiative when she can and make friends. Yoka was once a pacifist, but after violence towards her and her former faction, took on an “eye for an eye” mentality. Her primary goal is to keep herself and everyone she cares about safe, no matter how it may affect anyone else.

## History (Detailed)

Yoka, a red phantom hybrid, establishes a group known as the Nightwatch in an abandoned ravine which acts as a refuge for non-human mobs and a place of support. She recruits Mid(enderdragon hybrid), Cinny(enderman hybrid), Qhost(enderdragon ghost), and Aralyn (phantom hybrid) to this group. Yoka borrows a book from a researcher on Phantom mobs. The book suggests they live in another dimension of their own.
She meets Salt, the first mate of The Depths pirates and mob hunter/collector. He trades a beacon with her in exchange for a future favor and invites her to the pirate island. Salt catches a glimpse of the phantom wings she keeps hidden under her sleeves and asks her about it, but is quickly dismissed.

Yoka visits the pirate island and is given a tour of half of it. Salt confronts her near the end of the tour, asking if she’d ever lie to him. She says she wouldn’t. He guides her into a house on the pirate island and leads her into a trap that restrains her from escaping. Salt questions her again and Yoka admits she is part phantom and gives him the book she borrowed. Salt indicates that not telling him what she was at first counted as lying and splashes potions on her, resulting in her losing a life. He then steals her phantom membrane as a gift for his captain. Yoka awakes in the Dreamscape, another dimension that is seen in the dreams and nightmares of everyone. Phantoms have free access to it, but due to her not being fully phantom, she can only visit upon reaching deep levels of unconsciousness or death. She soon respawns at her mansion in the Overworld.

After receiving a note with information of Aralyn having been captured, Yoka ventures to the pirate island to save her friends and runs into Caesyum who is guarding the prison. She slows down Caesyum with water, a natural enderman repellent, and breaks Aralyn and another hybrid free. Yoka and Aralyn venture further into Skai’s vault to steal from the pirates but are caught by Skai and Caesyum. Skai forces Yoka to return most of the loot by taking Aralyn captive, but kills her anyway despite the loot being returned. In retaliation, Yoka impulsively attacks and kills Skai before escaping.

Many weeks later, Skai and Caesyum visit Oleander Town to search for any of the missing captives. They run into Yoka, who leads them to the Nightwatch ravine and traps them in the network of tunnels. After a long while, the two escape. Mid and Yoka meet Krinny, the dog sanctuary owner in Oleander Town, and Noel, a new resident. The four visit Cinny’s house, having not heard from the enderman hybrid in a while, and find the basement of her home to be a disaster with strange cryptic signs covering the walls. Yoka and Mid decide to investigate.

Yoka returns to her mansion and discovers the ceiling is leaking. She ventures to the third floor and finds a maze that wasn’t there before as well as strange signs and books that introduce the space as a nexus where the Dreamscape and Overworld collide. The fourth floor is unrecognizable as her mansion, instead taking on the form and materials of the Dreamscape. She leaves in a panic after learning phantoms can see the dreams/memories of others and reading a nightmare of Salt’s that reveals he lost his little sister to skeletons at a young age.

Yoka encounters Salt in the nether and follows him back to a mysterious Factory he built. She confronts him on the purpose behind the factory, to which he admits experimenting on mobs to find a cure for his rotting dismembered hand that is slowly killing him. He chases Yoka down but she narrowly escapes. Yoka then hires Aki the bounty hunter to track down Salt.

Later, finds letters and body parts scattered throughout her house, including in the Dreamscape entryway, all with cryptic messages from Roach. She finally finds a phantom membrane hung in her hall. She consults the Dreamscape, which signs that Roach is familiar to it. She moves on to use the Dreamscape to deal with Salt.

Salt explores Yoka's mansion and encounters the Dreamscape entryway. He falls into a pocket of the dimension and hears Yoka, who says there's no escape and he won't be leaving. He fearfully tries to convince her to let him out, but to no avail, before being attacked by Yoka in her phantom form and passing out.

Chai, a witch mob and Yoka's wife, returns home to the mansion. She apologizes for being gone for so long and sets up a witchy room in the mansion. The two explore Salt's now abandoned factory, and find a few imprisoned mobs including a phantom that is unable to return to the Dreamscape.

Salt, having survived Yoka's attack and the long weeks in the Dreamscape, encounters Roach building a house in the Dreamscape. He barters with Roach, who threatens to kill him several times, to let him out. Roach finally agrees to a trade, despite having preferred to leave Salt in the Dreamscape to turn into a phantom. Roach leads Salt out of the Dreamscape through several hidden tunnels. Salt swears to get revenge on Yoka for trapping him there.

Yoka holds a masquerade ball at the mansion that is open to all of Oleander Town. The party has a large turnout but is soon interrupted by Socks arriving late with news that the fishing house has been blown up. The party returns to Oleander Town to inspect the damage. Noel, upset that it happened in his old home Le’Dudborg and here now, takes charge and assembles a city council to manage, oversee, and enforce new laws to prevent it from happening again and rebuild. The leadership consists of Noel, Aki, Krinny, and Socks.

After the Oleander leadership assembly, Yoka returns home to the mansion, the masquerade having turned sour with news of the terrorism. Yoka finds the doors that lead to the third floor Dreamscape are unlocked and open and enters to see. She finds a mysterious tunnel in the Dreamscape and Salt nowhere to be found. She travels down the dark tunnel and is blinded by Salt with a potion. He knocks her out and captures her.
Yoka wakes up and finds herself in a never-ending hallway with medical lab rooms connected as the hall stretches on, each with scalpels, shears, phantom membranes, and blood. She realizes it’s a dream and fully awakes in a tiny box cell where Salt has trapped her. He tells her she’s been unconscious for a week.

Having been in a vegetative state for much of her time in the box cell, Yoka finds herself in a Dreamscape temple with a person who appears to be an older version of Canna. The person brings up how phantoms often accidentally end up there uninvited. Yoka questions them and figures out that the person is Canna’s first life, but not her current life. The questions annoy firstlife!Canna, who angrily ejects Yoka from the dream temple.

Yoka finds herself moved to another box prison, this time with a cat left by Salt. She faces a few various visions from her past that illustrate she was a human who had entered the Dreamscape and been partially transformed into a phantom, but escaped before she could fully lose her memories. She returned home, only to be trapped in her father old research facility, where her wings were clipped as the researchers tried to undo what happened to her. She tells Salt and he confirms that humans can turn into Phantoms from Dreamscape exposure. He makes a deal with her, saying he’ll free her from the box prison if she agrees to let him try to undo the process again and make her human. She doesn't agree at first, but later agrees to Salt’s offer, determining he would do what he wanted anyways, but at least this gives her a small taste of freedom. Salt relocates the two of them to another place, a castle that once belonged to his family.

She escapes briefly from Salt and talks to Skai in their dreams, who informs her that the pirates have disbanded and Salt had betrayed them. Yoka and Skai agree that Salt needs to die. Yoka hides in a tomb near Roach and Canna’s house and eventually visits her godfather’s research facility to look for him. She finds the place empty and reads through the professor’s journals which confirm that she was a human killed by phantoms, whisked away to the Dreamscape, and turned into a phantom from there. When she returned, her father’s research team tried to undo the turning but failed. Her godfather rescued her by killing her father and raising Yoka. She goes to return to the tomb, but is knocked out and recaptured by Salt before she can escape.

Yoka and Salt venture into Oleander Town and Windhaven to investigate the Corrosion. They find massive endstone-coated holes in the Overworld surface that drop straight down into the void. Yoka later runs into Night who says she, as well as Grim, have been looking for her. Yoka asks Night to not let Grim try to rescue her from Salt, fearing for Grim’s safety. Night fails, and Grim and Chai resolve to find and rescue Yoka, making their way to The Underworld, Salt’s castle. They find Yoka, who is unsettled by their visit and demands they leave, fearing for their safety if Salt were to find out. She refuses to go back with them, stating how Salt would only track her down and re-capture her, and take them along with her. Grim and Chai go back home disappointed, but make plans to take Salt on by exploiting the Corrosion and using the void and End to get him turned into an End mob.

Meanwhile, while on an errand for Salt, Yoka takes a detour when she gets a message inviting her to Roach's home. Roach shows her that the Corrosion has eaten away at their trading hall, but the Dreamscape was coming up from the void. Roach releases a trapdoor to have them both slowly fall into the void below, resulting in Yoka losing a canon life. Like before, she is transported to the Dreamscape, but is kept there by Roach and the Dreamscape itself. Having only been partially transformed into a phantom before, she is fully turned before respawning.

Upon waking up in Salt's castle, Yoka is confronted by Salt who realizes she had lost a canon life. She criticizes him on his choices up to this point and is sent away by Salt, but still ordered to return. Yoka resolves to escape and ensure Salt cannot continue hurting her or others. She finds Chai in Oleander Town and the two devise a plan to utilize the Corrosion. Over the next few weeks, Chai and Yoka build an underground facility above the void to further the Corrosion and set a trap for Salt. Yoka returns to the mansion with Chai for the first time in months.

Socks, Aki, Pan, Mid, and a couple others find the underground facility and a mysterious button at the center is pressed. The entirety of Oleander Town is teleported to the End, where the group desperately tries to reverse the teleportation.
Meanwhile, Yoka stands at the edge of the crater of the missing Oleander Town, admiring her handiwork and the void below. She is approached by Salt who mentions she’s doomed the people that were teleported to the End with Oleander Town. Yoka reassures him, and herself, that they can survive and reverse the teleportation. She justifies it, saying Salt drove her to it and the trap was meant for him.

She admits to him that she is a full phantom now and can fly, and his hope to turn her human again will be in vain. She asks if he will continue tracking her down and trapping her, to which he says he will, even if she becomes harder to find. Determined not to spend her whole life running away, Yoka pushes Salt off the edge of the crater into the void below, killing him and taking his only canon life. She celebrates to herself, trusting that the others will return and everyone will be free from Salt; not realizing she became just like him. She returns to the mansion and visits the Dreamscape in the attic, saying she intends to leave that part of the world forever alongside Chai, now that she is free.