Quote: Valles wrote:Well, I certainly can't think of a better reason why no one knows anything about her life "out of uniform" beyond a handful of
It's a very interesting idea, and a good basis for a character, but I can't really square it in my head with the fairly responsible and
capable leader that the Legendary seem to've come to know. At the very least, it'd take a good deal more 'selling' before I really bought
into the interpretation based on what we know of her behavior 'in uniform'.
references. And the point being, of course, that it's all mentioned in past tense. Eva had a few years of heroing under her belt before leadership of the
Legendary fell onto her by default. For all we know, those could've involved helping old ladies cross the street or checking into rehab(she does have a
vague time period defined where she wasn't involved with the Legendary and the whole SG up and vanished on her).
It's possibly less a change in her current characterization (she's always been less naive and straight-arrow than people assume of a magical girl) and
more an expansion of the backstory. Goodness knows I've conducted enough cosmic retcons with my characters to know how that goes. :lol:
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
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