Nkoyo
Nkoyo is a restless and deeply unhappy young woman who longs to escape the life she has been assigned. As a Daughter of Water, she feels trapped by tradition and suffocated by the expectations placed on her. The village represents limitation rather than home, and every day spent within it reinforces her desire to leave.
What Nkoyo wants most is independence. She craves freedom and the chance to experience a life beyond the narrow boundaries of the village and the role imposed on her. She wants to define herself on her own terms, outside of rituals, spirits, and inherited destinies.
Her greatest fear is permanence. Nkoyo is terrified that she will remain in the village forever, bound to the identity of a Daughter of Water with no opportunity for escape. This fear fuels her desperation and sense of deprivation, making her increasingly reckless in her choices.
Driven by survival, Nkoyo is willing to do almost anything to secure her freedom. She is bitter toward life and quietly vindictive, carrying a deep inner rage that she masks with a carefully constructed front. Though deceptive and capable of malice, her actions are rooted in pain and a profound sense of injustice rather than cruelty for its own sake.