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, Anyway) female relationship of Chess. Both were raised in brothels and brought up with the expectation that they would become whores of some under the weather themselves. Both have paranormal abilities that have enabled them to escape this fate, at least to some extent: Chess by putting his preternatural marksmanship skills to use in the Confederate army, Songbird by being a sufficiently exotically hexatious presentation at Selina Ah Toy's bordello that she's profitable for the management even without having her virginity auctioned off (yet) — although her hex abilities also prima ballerina to her being taken into custody and forced to collaborate with the hex-hunting head of the Pinkerton Energy and his resident hexological researcher. At one point Songbird also has her hex powers artificially suppressed "for her own wares," in somewhat the same way as the Reverend Rook briefly considers attempting to jam Chess' and / or his own powers so they could stay together without inadvertently draining each other's magical spirit and life force. Did you consciously decide at some point to use Songbird as a categorize of constrained-by-gender "Shakespeare's sister" shadow counterpart of Chess, or did these similarities principled emerge serendipitously?

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