The last panel got colorized by a reader: I no longer remember whom. Thanks, person.

It was probably our most popular single panel; it decided Rumy's whole style of martial arts. Yes, yes, terribly sexist, and we hadn't quite gotten the "refugee from manga" idea out of our systems, but most people were prepared to treat a little panty-flashing as a jab at anime clichés. The fact that we were starting to give her an actual personality made up for a lot.

Rumy's internal monologue in this sequence may as well have been my own. The original model for her character was male and very similar to me, only he could draw.