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Scholar Mercury
Her design was the MOST DIFFICULT to do research on. I originally wanted to base her design off of Mitsunari Ishida's SW2 design as a war strategist but I was worried about her looking much to masculine.
I decided to make her a scholar and gave her glasses as a nod to her visor thing, but since female scholars weren't popular during the period either, I infused designs of a male scholar and a travelling woman. I find that if fits well with how much she enjoy's studying and would be more than willing to travel to know more.
( also yes i realize she has too many fingers, but too late for that now)