Well, how do we reconcile thetwo of her? How does she get from a scattered, gloating miscreant to an elegant, serene seductress?
I think she's some kind of thief on the Arsene Lupin/Raffles/Rififi model. She eventually gets embroiled in the byzantine interdimensional politics of her world and becomes a secret agent, in something more like the Cate Archer/Modesty Blaise/Emma Peel mode. She's been known to carry a gun, but she's never needed to fire anything but warning shots. She usually conceals a knife on her person -- you don't even want to know where and how, given how she's dressed -- but it usually just hacks through ropes, which seem to end up around her wrists with uncanny frequency.
No ideas about names, but this is a great resource. Something central European? I'd try "Arsenne," because I like the faint cognate with "arsenic," but that'd be too obvious.
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Date: 2005-06-27 05:51 am (UTC)I think she's some kind of thief on the Arsene Lupin/Raffles/Rififi model. She eventually gets embroiled in the byzantine interdimensional politics of her world and becomes a secret agent, in something more like the Cate Archer/Modesty Blaise/Emma Peel mode. She's been known to carry a gun, but she's never needed to fire anything but warning shots. She usually conceals a knife on her person -- you don't even want to know where and how, given how she's dressed -- but it usually just hacks through ropes, which seem to end up around her wrists with uncanny frequency.
No ideas about names, but this is a great resource. Something central European? I'd try "Arsenne," because I like the faint cognate with "arsenic," but that'd be too obvious.