Board Thread:Misc./@comment-14745711-20170517034952/@comment-14745711-20170519081928

Levi's reasons are actually a lot more complicated than that, and I'm hoping to go into them in the actual graphic novel where I want to make Petra a more prominant character. Suffice it to say it's not respect for Petra as such, though that does develop over to the point where he brings her into his Special Operations Squad like he does in the original.

And yeah, at this point in history they did physicals on recruits that would have made cross dressing impractical. Moreover, the number of occasions in history where women actually did that are very small, and were usually temporary (I mean, that had have been revealed at some point or we wouldn't know about it now would we?). Far more common was women fighting as women with no pretenses, most especially in certain cultures such as pre-Tokugawa Japan where the stigma against fighting was very weak. Uh, that's probably rather off topic sorry, I'm a military history nerd, so.

But thanks for your kind words and advice, they've been invaluable, as I've already thought of several plot aspects I'd like to cover enterily due to them. So, thank you very much; I hope I'll be able to fully flesh out this project.