#give lae'zel a glaive and stand back

[ardently-queer]

maybe an unpopular opinion but like. lae'zel's allowed to be tiny and a fighter she's not necessarily Badly Designed just cos she's tiny. githyanki are All little and wiry she doesn't have to be a break from that. do you know how many tiny fighters i know. do you know how often they kick my ass. and a long weapon is the perfect way to compensate for this especially if she's got strength beyond what her physical appearance would lead you to believe (which she does, she's the other party member who starts with it at 17), and she starts with a longsword so, she's doing that, it gives her more reach, don't githyanki sorta use longswords as their predominant Thing? yeah.

karlach's ONE kind of strong. it's perfectly ok for lae'zel to be an OTHER kind of strong. personally I usually run her with a polearm for flavour because polearms are GREAT for small fighters - I have a friend at practice who uses a glaive for this reason and again, ALWAYS kicks my ass - i'm bigger both in height and weight and glaive is actually relatively weak against sword and board but she's more experienced and using a weapon that amplifies her strengths.

anyway. i don't, think it's necessarily playing into stereotypes about women to let her be small. she's really not particularly conventionally How Women Do in any other way ( just look at the amount of nexus mods that 'fix' her appearance -_-) and if anything it's kinda like. women don't have to be of a match with men in height and weight to kick their asses. it's good when there are characters who ARE because those people ALSO EXIST but that's not the ONLY kind of woman who can hand a man his ass in a fight. let there be variance. this has been your late-o-clock meds-running-out ramble from your local queer nerd jock.