Yoru

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**Yoru** is a character in *Monark*.

## Background

> What's so wrong with having an Ego? What's so bad about chaos? Isn't that what life's all about?
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Yoru is a mysterious entity who appears in the protagonist's dreams. For unknown reasons she takes on the appearance of Dean Sora Jingu, but with red eyes instead of blue. At the beginning of the game she forces the Protagonist to go through a test to demonstrate his ego.

Yoru taking on the appearance of Sora leads to confusion when the Protagonist first meets the dean, who if she is called Yoru, has no idea of who the Protagonist is talking about. This also means Sora initially has no idea about Yoru's existence.

The Protagonist is the only person that Yoru actually takes time to speak with, other characters explaining that Yoru only ever talked to them and not with them like the Protagonist.

She visits the Protagonist twice more in Act 1, both times looking like Sora Jingu again. In one of those meetings, if the Protagonist says he has no guilt about destroying the enemy Pactbearer's Ideals and that they deserved it, she mockingly tells him she's shocked by his callousness and wonders if his parents are as cruel before smiling and says she wants to meet them.

This encounter takes on a different meaning when it Act 2 Yoru is revealed to essentially be the Protagonist's mother, having created him using her Essokinesis and Chiyo's dead brother as a template. She more or less says she greatly approves of the Protagonist's ruthlessness.

Yoru created the Protagonist to suit her own purposes, first as an artificial Monark (of Vanity) and than as a puppet to fulfill her plans. The Protagonist is one of many, possibly hundreds, of attempts but is the only one in which she succeeded with having him develop an Ego where all the others have not. Despite this, she is more than willing to throw the Protagonist away when he is no longer useful to her.

She is a split personality with Sora Jingu, or in reality Tristia the Monark of Woe, which explains why she took on Sora's appearance at first. Yoru is an aberrant Monark created as a result of the Chaos within Shin Mikado, specifically because of the actions of the Monark of Woe and the Pactbearer of Greed. She is born from Tristia, embodying the aspects "Sora" is trying to abandon while she poses as Yugo's wife. This means Yoru is also a Monark of Woe alongside Trisita.

Yoru seems to have a streak of of sadistic pleasure and enjoys inflicting emotional pain on others. This is shown multiple times in Act 2, especially when she reveals in Shinya's route that she tortured Chiyo before killing her. Also when she gleefully taunts Nozomi in her route with the knowledge that the Protagonist with cease to exist after her death.

Initially Kakeru believes Yoru is Sora's Monark, and Yoru's creation of the Protagonist throws a wrench in Kakeru's plan as in all the time's Kakeru rewound time the Protagonist was never present before.

Yoru also directly contributes to the conflict in almost every route in Act 2 as a result of her killing (or at least attempt to) Yugo. Every time the Protagonist defeats Yoru, he disappears alongside her as she created him. The only exception to this is in the True Ending route.