Yoki

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## Yoki

* Face
* Overworld

### Relatives

* Sister (?)
* Charles (adopted sibling)

### Occupation

* Post Office Employee
* The Crown

## Physical description

### Gender

Female

**Yoki** (/joʊkɪ/) is the main character of *Dweller's Empty Path*. She is introduced as a girl being tormented by nightmares, which are from Zera, that prevent her from getting a good night's rest.

## Appearance

Yoki is a Natural-Type-looking girl, she has antennae on her head that are often mistaken to be bunny ears, and a tail. Her hair is really long and ginger, covering most of her face in most official art. Her antennae can actually spread revealing an array of colors as seen in Temmie's art.

## Personality

Despite her being able to take down a BEAST-Type all by herself, she isn't all about strength and violence. Yoki would rather not use her power if it isn't necessary and because she doesn't fully understand how it works. She refuses to take part in missions that involve hurting Origin and Natural-Types because of an agreement regarding her work for the Crown and also because she'd prefer to avoid hurting humans anyway. She is standoffish in demeanor, and tends to end a lot of her dialogue with "(...)".

## Relationships

### Claire

Claire is Yoki's best friend and housemate. Given Claire's practice of Witchcraft is forbidden, she usually asks Yoki to fetch various ingredients and books in her stead from Castle Town. It is unknown how long they have lived together or known of each other, however they seem to care a lot about each other, as Claire is shown to often worry about Yoki and Yoki appears to be concerned whenever people mention Claire's taboo status as a witch. According to the relationship chart, Claire has feelings for Yoki, however this doesn't interfere with their friendship.

### Zera

Zera enjoys messing with Yoki by causing her to have frequent nightmares, and likely other ways too. Yoki states that she dislikes Zera because of this to multiple other forest residents as well as to him directly. Despite Yoki's annoyance, she seems to be rather neutral about him, as she tries to avoid interacting with him altogether. On the other hand, it is unclear how exactly Zera sees her as, since he talks about her in an oddly cryptic manner, such as stating that his schemes are "preparing" her for what's to come and are done so out of care. It is to be noted that the only one bedroom in Zera's house is kept specifically for Yoki.

### Prince

The Prince is responsible for sending Yoki on missions to eliminate aggressive BEAST-Types around the kingdom. He and Yoki are on good terms, even if he attempts to act aloof and uncaring. Although it seems they rarely interact due to the prince being frequently occupied with work. Yoki refers to the prince as a softie as he was responsible for the agreement that was made to release her from prison despite the stigma around BEAST-Types and BEAST-Type-like people, and always lets her off the hook even if she fails to eliminate a target.

### Caina

Caina is Yoki's good friend and occasional sparring partner. She and Yoki met during Caina's time working as a mercenary for the Crown, in which Caina trained Yoki. Initially, Caina didn't trust Yoki, but eventually grew to care for her over their time spent training together. Caina has shown deep concern for Yoki regarding her work with the Crown, which she currently doesn't trust because of the "things" she's seen in the past.

### Este

Yoki works as Este's employee by delivering mail to residents across the kingdom. Este is very quiet towards Yoki, but treats her very nicely as he is shown to pay her twice as much for working on her day off as well as offering to fly her from the Village to the mountains and back again. Yoki acknowledges Este's kindness and quietness and considers him a good person.

### Aimottle

Aimottle and Yoki have few interactions in-game, however, they are stated to be good friends and appear to be very comfortable around each other.

### Woof

Ever since Woof arrived at the forest a few years prior, she has been pestering and attacking Yoki in a futile attempt to eat her. Yoki finds her rather annoying as a result.

### Dragon

Despite simply existing to die by Yoki's hand, Dragon harbors no hatred towards her.

### Charles

Having discovered Yoki alone in the middle of a glade, Charles helped her search her sister, tried to give her to a family in the Village, and ended up living with her for years, until he left for mysterious reasons. Yoki still awaits him and keeps the house tidy for him when he possibly returns.

### Sister

When Charles found her, Yoki was looking for her sister, from who she seemed to have been separated. However, the next day, she did not remember this and acted as if she never had a sister.

### Others

Most humans in the Village trust her, but in Castle Town, many still believe she's a BEAST-Type because of her appearance.

## Abilities

* **Combat Prowess:** Yoki's work with the Crown demands a high level of combat skill, as she often deals with BEAST-Types, which are known for their bizarre and strong powers. It is also shown in Caina and Yoki's little "fight" that Yoki has excellent reflexes as she is able to defend herself easily against an experienced mercenary.
* **Unknown Magic:** It is commonly known across the kingdom that Yoki has incredible magical abilities of unknown origin, which she prefers to not use given the fact she does not have full control of them. Her magic is able to subdue very powerful BEAST-Types, which makes it very useful to the Crown; her magical abilities are one of the major reasons why the Crown had decided to spare her despite her own BEAST-Type-like appearance. When using this magic, her antennae open, revealing eye-like designs.

## Trivia

* Yoki appeared in *Momodora I* game for which Temmie drew title screen artwork. Back then she was called Yokii and she had wings.
* Yoki's concept originated long ago, in 2006 or earlier.
* A doll which resembles Yoki can be seen in Seam's shop in Deltarune, a game made by Toby Fox (who also wrote music for Dweller's Empty Path). Between the first and the second chapters of the game, the doll's appearance changes from Yoki's old design to the one used in Dweller's Empty Path.
* Yoki is confirmed to be aromantic, based on the relationship chart located in the game files.
	+ On the arrow pointing from her to Claire, it states "not interested in romance (in general/with anyone)".
		- This also heavily implies that Yoki is asexual.

## References

1. ↑ *Sketch Request Stream* - YouTube
2. ↑ *thank you for such a warm reception to my newest little RPGMaker game!It motivates me to keep working hard!! I hope you'll like what's to come in the future!!*
Here's a little Afterword comic I made to accompany the game *- @tuyoki on Twitter*
July 11, 2020.