I have to admit to a little retconning, because I originally meant for her to have attended military schools straight up to West Point and come out of that pipeline. But when it came time to showing a graduation, I thought the mortarboard caps would read faster as a graduation than a military style thing. I also planned for her to come from a rich, political family that pulled strings to get her into a combat leadership role and now I've abandoned that whole subplot too. Somehow since I started this, the question of women taking leadership roles in combat fields has either gotten more normalized or displaced by other military controversies so it doesn't seem like such a important theme anymore. So now the theme is just trying to earn respect in a male dominated field I guess. This whole thing has gotten away from me! I guess that's good, because its writing itself now...
BUMBLEBEE on 21st Aug 2021, 7:30 AM
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