Yeah, that's the very spot I couldn't overcome and finally gave up on. I simply couldn't find anything to hint at Jane properly, and whatever I tried would have mingled her with Mercy. I guess I'll keep working on this one until it's more direct. Thanks for the input!
Mercy's network is half-based on the image of a counterweight to all those cliques of (male) fellow-students who'd stand up for one another for the rest of their lives, and then merged into legends of female spy networks such as the kunoichi.
The idea for this whole thing arose with that rather racist and misogynist report about the "insane" lady: "Mme. Fournaye, who is of Creole origin, is of an extremely excitable nature, and has suffered in the past from attacks of jealousy which have amounted to frenzy". I thought it much more interesting if Madame Fournaye used those ugly stereotypes for cover, acting on Mercy Moriarty's command.
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Date: 2012-09-30 08:40 am (UTC)Mercy's network is half-based on the image of a counterweight to all those cliques of (male) fellow-students who'd stand up for one another for the rest of their lives, and then merged into legends of female spy networks such as the kunoichi.
The idea for this whole thing arose with that rather racist and misogynist report about the "insane" lady: "Mme. Fournaye, who is of Creole origin, is of an extremely excitable nature, and has suffered in the past from attacks of jealousy which have amounted to frenzy". I thought it much more interesting if Madame Fournaye used those ugly stereotypes for cover, acting on Mercy Moriarty's command.