I’ve been working on a fanfic exploring a deeper take on Miss Fortune, and I ran into something that doesn’t fully add up.
She’s confident. Flirtatious. Always in control.
But at the same time, she’s extremely guarded… paranoid even. She trusts no one.
So here’s the idea:
What if her “experience” isn’t what it looks like?
What if it’s not natural — but learned?
After the fire. After losing everything.
Instead of growing into that persona, what if someone in Bilgewater *taught* her how to survive — not through strength, but through manipulation? How to weaponize charm. How to control attention. How to make people underestimate her.
Not intimacy. Not trust. Just strategy.
Almost like a second mentor figure — not like her mother (who taught her weapons), but someone who taught her how to navigate people.
And maybe that mentor wasn’t a good person.
Maybe that’s why she doesn’t trust men… or women.
Because she learned early that everyone eventually uses you — so you either play the game first… or lose.
I wrote a short scene based on this interpretation (fanfic), and I’m curious: Does this direction feel like it fits her character? Or does it push her too far away from how you see her in canon?