In literature, the term "fatalist" is employed to capture a range of attitudes toward destiny and the immutable workings of cause and effect. In some narratives, characters are portrayed as resigned to the inevitable, as seen when one is described as carrying "the conviction of a fatalist" in accepting life’s fair distribution of fortunes [1]. In contrast, other works demonstrate a repudiation of that resignation, with characters asserting “I’m no fatalist” to signal their commitment to personal agency and resistance against predetermined outcomes [2, 3]. The label surfaces in philosophical inquiries about fate and destiny—questioning if an acceptance of preordained suffering is akin to embracing inescapable causality [4]—or as a byword for a defeatist perspective that concedes inability to effect change [5]. Even the complex interplay between despair and hope, as seen in a character contemplating his own hardened resolve and belief in Providence, suggests that identification with fatalism can sometimes be an evolving reaction to prolonged hardship [6].