I see your argument about grooming, and raise you just how fucking greasy he looks. Dude was definitely RPing a catgirl on the Star League's HPG Comnet in between getting way too close to an underage boy and getting him to stop listening to his legal guardians.
Shes cannon and in the Tamar's Rising sourcebook. She is leading a splinter faction of Falcons that are focusing on trading battlemechs and are disgruntled about the Warriors but beyond that the whole being underestimate because shes a black woman is the most contradictory thing about clan society.
Too bad she was "born" into the Falcons. She would have been a perfect fit for the Sea Foxes.
>Be some random dude minding my business
As if the Associated Press' stated logic to capitalize "black" but not "white" isn't batty enough, I never even considered the further lunacy of its application on an expansive fictional universe such as Battletech. So across thousands of worlds and disparate factions, everyone of a sufficient melanin level has a shared history and culture, but that definitely does not apply to those without melanin.
To add more irony to the situation, there's barely anyone who can trace their ancestry to Americans in the setting. In a meta sense because the writers were American and wanted more exotic cultures to play with, and in-universe because most colonies founded by Americans were close to Terra and those got absolutely plastered during the Terran Alliance civil war, the Amaris Civil War, and then the First and Second Succession Wars.
If you're going to shove race politics where they don't belong at least try and follow the lore somewhat, its retarded having trueborn Clanners be racist to each other. Have some redneck in the Draconis March call her a Kuritan nigger instead.
Minobu Testuhara. So much of a samurai he offed himself after failing in his orders to eliminate the Wolf's Dragoons on Misery. His old man, Minoru Tetsuhara, was so much of a samurai he basically just shrugged and said Grieg was within his rights as Warlord to give the orders that ended in his son's death, and was regarded by Takashi Kurita as the truest adherent to bushido in the entire Combine, even above himself.
Shame, since vendetta is a time-honored Japanese tradition. The infamous 47 Ronin had been forbidden to seek revenge for their master on account of their master being put to death for the very serious crime of assaulting a court official, and were widely considered bitches for not offing the man responsible despite that. Public support for them sneaking into the man's house and killing him forced the shogun to allow seppuku instead of execution for their crimes, and a man who had beaten the shit out of their leader for being a useless, dishonorable drunk (which he had adopted as a disguise while planning the whole thing) wound up atoning by taking his own life at the man's grave.
Hey, paperwork is important.
She could still be a fucking Merchant without the faggy race shit. Just have her trading clan shit or better yet try to fucking do Jade Falcons but as Diamond Sharks.
Hey, I'm not knocking it. Just saying "Severed head of the man we killed" is one hell of an odd thing to put on formal paperwork, even for funerary reasons. Especially because of the balls on these people to formally present the head to the abbots.
