@Samuel_H_Young Alright, first I’ll address the animals and druids. I’ll go through my reasoning. From my perspective, the MC is a rustic, probably lower-middle class fellow/lass. His/Her father is a hunter, so it just makes a lot of sense that hunting would be something he/she’d be okay with. The option of being a vegetarian also makes no sense given this upbringing.
Druids hang out in communes and have a lot of alternative life-style choices going on that are naturally at odds with the MC’s more human/industrial worldview. The MC works at the forge at a relatively young age and takes on the responsibility of providing for another person–this work ethic combined with that austere upbringing lends itself to being against druids. In my mind, at least!
Bella Swan was a bit extreme as an example, but you definitely seem to have a good approach for providing a custom personality. With Fatehaven though, I have a snark probably in every paragraph and a ton of introspection that nearly breaks the 4th wall at times. This lends itself to a sort of base skeptical smart-ass personality for the MC. And I think folks really enjoy that sort of character, and I know I enjoy writing for that sort of character! My main point is that if I had to write for an MC with no certain base (if it were a variable), the words would not come out near so fast and the story would not be near so good.
As for a character being both logical AND emotional, everybody has facets of both in order to function of course! If your MC is emotional he/she is not witless; if the MC is logical he/she is not without feelings. The stats just represent what sort of aspect is displayed at particular moments. It’s flavor! I’d really just stress that Fatehaven isn’t about the stats, it’s about the story. And I’d hate for something as silly as a stat system to take away from the experience!