[LMB] Elli, was Winterfair Gifts

[Tzivia Adler]

> because it is exactly that quality that makes her one of the few people
> around who isn't consistently hypnotised by Miles, partly because it
> makes absolute sense to me that she should be that way, given her life
> to date and her goals, and I appreciate people with complex and
> understandable flaws, and partly because I suffer from the conviction
> that if she were a male character nobody would mind her behaviour in the
> least.
>
> Marna
>
>
(small note to the quote tixie - the above is one sentence, and can't see 
where to snip!)

its interesting that you find Elli to be similar to a male character and 
therefore not-to-be-criticized.  I find her similar to a certain type of 
male character too - the one-dimensional action hero, with no goal but 
shoot-em-up and rise in the ranks. she has no firm connection to her family 
at Kline station (that we hear of, it might take place off screen).  I seem 
to remember that her cousin on Kline station didn't recognize her, was that 
long after her face-change?  and wouldn't such a huge life-changing thing 
like getting her face melted off be cause to write home - send pictures?

she seems to interact well with her subordinates and so perhaps she's just 
like the career soldiers with no outside life I find so boring - and 
annoying, when they run rough-shod over the civilians they come across.

ziviya
please pardon any bad writing here - i have three kids taking turns on the 
mom-ladder