Beneath her cuteness is a strength like refined iron, given an edge that most wouldn't guess she'd have, a force that is to be reckoned with, a ferocity almost unmatched. Like a hedgehog, she appears cute and kind of timid in her bashfulness. And yet full of secret strength if she's threatened, or if her loved ones, her family is threatened. Full of grit, as if half-pulled out of her. Her eyes go steely with a fiery aggression. She appears most resilient when no one expects it.
Yona is more than meets the eyes, a hidden strength discovered after her whole old life was thrown away from her, not by her will but by her cousin's. And she learned to stand on her own two feet once again. Yona isn't quite what even she expected some time ago.
She never knew how she'd react when pushed, how she'd rise up from her lowest lows.
Instead, she made the discovery, she never wanted to make and grew out of it.
Steely resolve met the fiery spikes of anger, and she learned to fight to protect those she loved. And somehow never lost herself in the midst of it.