So I'm working on a Bubblegum Crisis reboot screenplay...

[classicdrogn]

Play it to some redux of an iconic BGC song (probably not Mad Machine, though) and we'll be good.

Soldier Girl? I think that's the name of the piece I'm thinking of; it's the almost only recognizable English lyric anyway ("We want you soldier girl, soldier girl...") followed by something I remember my headcanon translation-to-fit-the-melody as being "guarding your heart with armor."

I'll take a look at your WIP, hopefully sooner than RSN but not quite now. Yet. Whatever.

what would be the words she uses to sway Linna that wouldn't piss her off?

I take it you decided against "Lena" then?

Linna was the one most concerned about the cash in the original, yet still having some signs of the ... innocence? Idealism? ... played up more in 2040 as the newbie. Being offered a fat payday to sweeten the deal of putting her martial training to use in ways being a McDojo instructor never could and taking revenge for spilled blood and tears might get her to stop and think, but - even if not stated aloud, or not until later - making an effort at keeping anyone else from having their world shaken the way hers was could be the thing that makes her decide to agree.

Wait, now I can't remember, was she a martial arts instructor in canon, or just aerobics and dance? My own story, long neglected as it's been, trips me up that way sometimes.

I don't know, I just see her as a straightforward person, I guess - money is important because it buys security, and everyone wants that. If she can get paid for trying to make sure everyone has a little more of it against things that money can't fix or replace, even better, right? Not everything has to be complicated. It would also tie in to how she seems to have strong friendships but poor luck in love, if she's a little blunt about things and gets offended by the social lubricant sort of "white lies" in a closer relationship.