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Jinkai nymph
Drawn by Odmir Fortes
Jinkai nymphs are the last remnant of the Jinkai race that was exterminated long ago, though they were always separate from the race itself. Jinkais are magical, all-female, extremely feminine, and mysteriously fleeting. Because of their femininity and humanoid appearance, they're often misidentified as female Yabans by some races. One interstellar guidebook from long ago ran with this misinformation while another extremely misogynistic-traditionalist race adopts this viewpoint as the truth, that only male Yabans have tails and fight while female Yabans are tailless and extremely submissive nymphs. Most Jinkais are adept at healing/alteration magicke and have limited abilities at qi control.
Yarboggeshian and Titanist philosophy about Nymphs
The Ido Yarboggesh
Drawn by Ishida1694
Whenever Jinkai nymphs try involving themselves in vroda kvltvr, they have a tendency to go too far, confusing blank violent aggression with the ways of the kagora. This inspires some misogynistic statements by bollois, including the Ido Yarboggesh, who claimed that nymphs are fundamentally incapable of understanding kagora culture and warrior chivalry.
Amota Kundorog
Amota Kundorog, the Titanist thinker of Atomsk, went even further, going so far as to blame the nymphs' femininity for why they seem to fail to understand the warrior mindset.
In words that veer dangerously close to MRA types, Kundorog hypothesized that nymphic women are too beholden to their passive feminine essence to truly understand the ways of the warrior, that the hands of a nymphs are much too weak to bear a sword, that the motherly nurturing instinct extinguishes in nymphs any drive for war and industry. She says, "A nymph is by nature a domestic and delicate creature, irrevocably tied to the fertile spirit of the soil. No matter what she pretends, she seeks to succumb. There is in her no compass directing her towards the martial path."
And another:
"A Jinkai nymph's mind cares only for the allure of romance. The call of war speaks in an alien language to her ears."
Kundorog's Titanist philosophy directly calls out Jinkai nymphs as lacking "vital dynamism." Titanism requires virility and brutality– traits "impossible to comprehend to a nymphic mind and unfeasible to cultivate among nymphic hands. "
The Blut-und-Boden sensibilities peak with: "The nymph lives purest in submission to nature and to the feral fertility of the soil. She seeks not to tame it but to adopt harmonious coexistence with her wild world. We Titanists could not be more different. Our goal is nothing less than absolute hegemony over life and death and good and evil."
And so on:
"The Kollidorian nymph is a creature beholden to the simple instinct of the stomach… She is a servant of the heart and tender maternity. She breathes life, but only the masculine spirit, as personified and perfected by nagois, can project life beyond the material."
"I see in femalehood two expressions. One is the triumph over herself, expressed by bollois. She is a proud mystic of danger, one whose will rises victorious over the meaningless forces of death to achieve heroism. The other is an expression of domestic maternalism, pregnant with the future and incapable of becoming. She can rest satisfied in her natural allure and the materialism of her existence."
And Kundorog summed up her thoughts with; "Nymphs are. Bollois must become."
That is, nymphs are beautiful and merely exist as they are. A nymph that sits in the forest, picking flowers and communing with nature through her feminine spiritual essence, is as much as she ever needs to be. Indeed, she can't be more than this without struggling against her nature. But because nymphs dislike struggle and lack the constitution for it, Kundorog says it's best for them to be passive and receptive. While Yabans do not care for beauty, they are still mesmerized by nymphs, and other races marvel at them as welll. Kundorog claims they possess intrinsic worth. Their physical beauty and fertility is what gives them worth.
Kundorog would say, if a Jinkai nymph accomplished nothing else in life except bearing a child, she still fulfilled her purpose in life and can die satisfied, having achieved all she can do.
Bollois, she says, are intrinsically worthless. A bolloi may not simply be and possess worth. Idleness, aesthetics, cowardice, vanity, weakness, expressions of passivity— heralded as traits of nymphs— are against the expectations of bollois. But she lacks the perfect masculinity of nagois. Though some may find them beautiful as well, bollois have no intrinsic worth. Not even their wombs, due to the existence of yenois. A bolloi who does nothing but bear children may provide some worth, but she will rot away unfulfilled and unsatisfied. Thus, she must come into herself through her own willpower and ability. The only worthy path she can take is that of overcoming and becoming, of a will to power.
Hedo Gutzor
A male Titanist philosopher, Hedo Gutzor, also had suspect things to say about nymphs:
"The nymph is a creature bearing resemblance to the bolloi, but lacking her capacity for excellence and bellicosity. No nymph is capable of attaining the will of the Overjin— their disposition is too weak and sensitive to address the cold and ruthless challenges required to achieve a will to power."
As has been discussed by others, this refers to nymphs’ emotional sensitivity and receptivity. Nymphs are deeply emotional, deeply passionate, deeply empathic, and frail in constitution. Gutzor, like Kundorog, believed that nymphs cannot achieve the will to power without going directly against their own nature, but the more she struggles against her own nature, quote “the fiercer her nature wars upon her and demands she set herself back in her place.” Similar to the neo-Confucian ideals of yin and yang, Gutzor and Kundorog believed that nymphs triumphing over their fatal constitutional restrictions would only plunge their spaces into disorder and darkness, conditions she is not equipped to handle and thwarts her. Yabans require nymphs to be gentle and passive, as this is where their nymphic strength derives, so rejecting their inherent designed nature threatens to ruin other spaces. Nymphic femininity being rejected and trying to mimic bolloi and nagoi masculinity only brings ruin.
Gutzor said: “Though they share the same sex, nymphs are the opposite of bollois: subservient, weak, and envious. These traits personify weakness. The virtues for nymphs are vastly different, including chastity and compliance. A bolloi who indulges in these traits does not act as a bolloi should. She must be strong, dynamic, bellicose, and brutal, and she is inflicted with the scars of battle and honor. A nymph, on the other hand, must succumb. Though she may pretend to wear the armor of battle, nymphs live for subservience to the strong.”
Furthermore, "Nymphs lack vital forces. Martial paths are foreign to her, resulting in her scoffing at the self-evident emergence of honor baptized through danger. She is unsuited to the brutal necessities of the battlefield, both of war and in industry. "
And another: “She may stumble upon the martial path, but she cannot comprehend its meaning. The glories, honor, and principles cannot be understood by she who lacks a becoming martial soul.”
And yet another:
“The character of the nymph beholds that of peace and submission. She may hold a sword, but she cannot wield it. She may do battle, but she will never fathom war. She is superior only in her feral domesticity.”
And on:
"There is a fatal lack of constitution in nymphs. Matters of honor escape her understanding. The glories of battle are doubted in her domesticated mind, left instead to cowardly questions of diplomacy."
And on:
“Nymphs are blessed for their weakness. It is their condition and sphere of action, and they are not lesser for this. But the raw challenges presented to achieve a will to power render them unable to match their fellow females, the bollois, nor should they make the attempt. Nymphs are best left seeking to submit to their nature instead of throwing disorder into our realm by fatally attempting to rise above it.”
And on:
"The constitutional weakness of the nymph serves its own purpose. She has her own domestic and fertile spaces in which she may act. But she is incapable of anything more."
And on:
“The nymph is, by definition, incapable of being a warrior. There is a feral rigidity to her spirit, a lack of dynamism and excess of femininity that prevents her from molding her will towards the path to power. She is an entity wound by her nature and set loose by her untamed soul. Matters of principle, honor, duty, courage, willpower, these are not fathomed and thus do not concern her or her spheres. She is best left unconcerned with the matters of warriors, the strong, and the virile so that she may foster her nurturing spirit in the feminine spaces to which she best belongs..”
And on:
"War is a sublime action, separating the cowards and pathetic from the masters of danger and kings of the will. Nymphs may pretend to bear understanding of war to impress us and feign friendship with our blood fraternity, but she is but a child dressing as their father, role-playing and speaking refrains she knows appeals to our ears. But there is no capacity in her to wage offensive war. She is fundamentally incapable of understanding the glories, honor, and thrill of the fight. There is a wall surmountable only to those of iron will and strength. Those tender and delicate nymphs are much too frail to cross the top. Every jin will cross the wall in arms together. Every nymph will attempt it alone, refuting the honor of fellowship, for fellowship is too foreign a concept to she who needs only her own fertility. Eight thousand years of experience has proven their incapacity."
This is a common perception among misogynists, that the feminine do not understand the concept of honorable friendship and fellowship. Yabans have this perception towards yenois and nymphs. This is why the senja kagora and vroda kagora are seen as great institutions of camaraderie and warrior fellowship between battle-brothers and war-sisters, but vova kagora and nymphic friendship is seen as silly, trivial, and fleeting.
We humans have similar perceptions. For men, we have brotherhoods who possess chivalrous male friendship, honor, principles, and an almost knightly fellowship of men. Sisterhoods, on the other hand, are far rarer and seen as lacking the masculine codes of honor and fraternity of brotherhoods, and thus are far frailer and more susceptible to falling apart into in-fighting and betrayal.
Because nymphs are not seen as being capable of forging blood fellowships, their capacity for war is doubted. Vrodas, on the other hand, are seen in much the same way brotherhoods are on Earth. These are bollois who abide by a code of honor and fellowship and will engage in any brutal action for each other or against traitors. As Gutzor said, “Nymphs scoff at such fellowship, viewing it as toxic and unyielding. Of course she would! Matters of honor are not in her space of action.”
Sayenja
Another nagoi, Sayenja, was incredibly sexist to nymphs and yenois. While he heralded bollois as spiritual übermenschen and physically second only to nagois, he lamented nymphs as inferior and disgusting, raging at their lack of capacity for war, passive natures, and physical weakness.
"The very consciousness of their own nature must evoke feelings of shame"
Another classic Sayenja quote:
"Nagois have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and slightly greater strength than bollois, who have smaller and narrow breasts, and broad hips, yet nagoi and bolloi prove equally voracious and bellicose. In one, perfection and strength; in the other, excellence and violence. Yenois lack the fire of both, possess brought and narrow shoulders per each head, and weak strength. To the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children for the betterment of the male and female sees. To nymphs, there is only disgust wrought over their damned pacifism and gentleness."
He despised that nymphs hated war and spoke of peace and cared more for sex than violence and sport.
And so on:
"Kollidor is a space of war. Nymphs have no place on the battlefield."
"Nymphs need only sit still and look pretty. If you need a she-person to fight, always ask for a bolloi. There aren't many females in this cosmos I'd recommend, but they're always reliable. Nymphs are the standard; Bollois, the exception that proves the rule."
"Offworlders love the nymphs for sexual thrills. They’re best served fostering their pretty faces and legs. The Myrs may say otherwise but we all know that's all they're really good for."
"The nymphs' whole reason of being is to make us stop fighting. Their very nature is opposed to everything we're about."
