Dota

A gentle cat and the youngest member of Starsong so far, brought on board for her skill in healing battle injuries and knowledge of the caves and their resources, Dota is a rather quiet and reserved Catalenan who always worries herself with others more than she does herself. Though she often doubts her abilities, she rarely voices this, instead simply doing her best to help those both in and out of the guild, helping to patch up injuries after raids.

In truth, Dota is half-Caligo, abandoned by her Caligo mother and never knowing her Catalenan father, who left her mother before her birth. She became an apothecary out of not only a need to provide a means of scraping by for herself, but also a desperate need to be liked, seeking the validation and love she never had as a kitten from her patients in return for healing their wounds and curing their illnesses. After learning of her Caligo heritage, she struggles internally with constant, terrifying thoughts that not only her parents but all of Catalena hates her, all for being the way she is, beyond her control, and that perhaps all this time, she, like her Caligo ancestors, was only doing this home she's found herself in more harm than good. She fears that she is a burden to those around her, and so, despite being well aware of them, desperately bottles up her emotions so as not to drive others away as she believes she did her family.

Dota believes beyond any shadow of a doubt that reaching the surface will give her the confidence and knowledge she needs to truly become a great healer, so that those around her might give her the love she desperately seeks, and that she might be able to prove to herself once and for all that she's a good person, that she's doing the right thing. She couldn't be more grateful for the opportunity provided by the guild. Now, if only she could believe in herself enough to reach out and grab it herself...