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Originally Posted by Cheeseball
According to the requirements, anyone can join the armed forces from the age of 17, and qualify for the OCS (Officer Candidate School) at 19.
I beg you to keep in mind that I am talking about a character with an IQ of 14 (in my game, that equates to an IQ above 145, SD15). So we could consider that there are child prodigies who graduate very young, for example at 10 years old (Michael Kearney), or to use a more recent example at 15 years old (Jack Rico).
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I'm going to be perfectly honest.
There's something of a persistent problem in society with not letting women characters in media be anything but attractive twenty somethings and, whilst I don't want to get too heavily into it, 32 is not as old as you probably think it is.
This is a character who is a lot of things a person could plausibly be but through the combination becomes pretty hard to suspend disbelief. Just to give an idea:
- Less than 1% of adult women in America are six feet tall or more.
- It's hard to say how many people are "beautiful" but generally naturally beautiful women are probably not too eager to go into male dominated professions when well, unwanted attention can be really tiring.
- Enough of a prodigy to graduate college when most people just graduated high school(side note: what was her major?)
- Possesses whatever inherent qualities one needs to have to avoid flunking out of special forces training.
- No major flaws or quirks.
Now imagine you're her for a second. You're a prodigy that graduated from college at very young and whose always had everyone telling you how smart, beautiful, etcetera. You are and are gifted to the point that, if you applied yourself, you could go down any career path you want. You could become a doctor, a physicist, a CEO, hell maybe you could one day even become the president. Now ask yourself a question. If nothing else I think answering it will help you flesh out what kind of person she is.
Why would you want to become a SEAL?