Sounds like Ms Rowe is at least a semi-competant human being, here... so long as she doesn't get a wild hair up her *** and decide "Hey, let's restart the RWR! Great idea!".....
for those who don't know because you weren't there...during the original FGC '62 game, the creator of the Daphne Rowe character split the Lyran Commonwealth and joined part of it to the Periphery with a resurgent Rim Worlds Republic (this was before we had a lot of hard data on the RWR, Kerensky's period in the SLDF, and such. Nobody in the fandom really
knew or understood just how outright nasty the RWR really was going to turn out to be, because it predated the Era Report document by something like seven years.)
Needless to say, I was brought into that game about three months later, as part of an effort to salvage the Lyran faction. This effort ended up with the original Arluna Flu, and bringing up I think the 3rd? incarnation of Elizabeth Ngo, as my unfortunate influence ended up turning the FGC'62 game into a Ngoverse-like soap opera. I dipped heavily into that, for the 4th version of the Ngoverse stories, including inserting whole sections almost-uncut from it.
One of the outcomes, was that Liz and Daphne ended up with a sort-of-relationship that was initially approved by Daphne's original creator-they'd been childhood friends, in drug rehab. Daphne in
that story didn't find out about Elizabeth's illness until everyone (and I mean everyone) else did-Liz 'pitched a fit' in public, on Terra, during another attempt to form the Star League. (this was also the game that wound up with Liz and Jaime Wolf knocking boots after a successful soc. roll and a failed save-the GM offstage challenged me to make it interesting, and I took it waaaay too far, to the sadistic giggles of the few people left in that game by then. Nothing R-rated, I just wrote the initial encounter, and the aftermath of that night, and left it up to people's imaginations how that would play out. Racy by 1940s standards, or even 1950s...but G-rated by modern television)
Point is, the idea that Elizabeth would not be a sunny ray of sunshine was old hat, having her dislike someone who was up to that point either in-character respected or liked by everyone, including her enemies (as Daphne was, thanks in part to implied shennanigans) being disliked by Elizabeth for not only something unfair, but also beyond her control? That part was fun.
The 'Broken Friendship' part was even better. Unlike the FC/62 game, when I went to the 4th version of Liz, I left an opening for reconciliation, and axed the (rather distasteful and somewhat poorly concieved) attempt at reviving a state that pretty much everyone on all sides including their former subjects, was glad to be rid of.
There ARE vestiges here. Daphne IS descended from a RWR official who defected to the LC when he saw the writing on the wall, and her family ARE well-connected nobles with fingers in the Realm's finances to a degree that may be unhealthy.
I kept the best parts, I think. THIS Daphne, like in Ngoverse v.4, has a deep and abiding
Lyran Patriotism. if Katy kills mommy and secedes the Lyrans to form the LA, she'll be a Kathrinist, and proud of it. If she doesn't, she'll be one of those irritant localists who grumble and bitch about 'Davion Influence' but still jump if a Steiner-Davion says 'frog'.
(top secret: she has a picture of Peter in her footlocker. it's got lipstick marks. they're hers. she's had it since...well...she's got a crush, mm-kay? No chance in hell of doing anything about it, and she may eventually grow out of it, but even this late, in her late teens/early 20s with a rank she was saddled with instead of earning? she's got a monster of a crush.)
Breakdowns:
Daphne was the oldest of the trio. some 2 years older than Penelope Doons, who was the middle girl. Liz was the kid of the group, but she was also the dominant personality and the instigator. thus, Daphne was at the Academy when Penny overdosed-and couldn't get free with midterms looming. Liz has, predictably, never forgiven this on the emotional level. Mind that here we are in 3052, and Lizzie is only now turning sixteen. she's going to spend her 'sweet sixteen' vomiting in an airsickness bag and taking the same drugs that killed her best friend.
Ah, the life of Nobility..!
