User blog comment:Neowitch/757 - The most disappointing female character in all of OP/@comment-4899461-20140820144534

Well, before you go ahead and assume Rebecca is supposed to be badass, remember one thing: She never hurt anyone in the Colosseum. Her entire strategy was based on standing near the edge and being really fast at dodging, then knocking them off the edge with a dull sword. To me, that's hardly badass. That's just the strategy of a monarch unwilling to hurt people. And there's no way a strategy like that could work on Diamante, so of course she'd lose to him. All that said, I still think there's a way for her character to grow more: By actually helping to fight Diamante alongside her father. That's still very much a possibility considering this is a cliffhanger plot point. But my bet is we won't see that until after Kyros starts to lose the fight a bit, which I also bet is after the impending (but not close) flashback.