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People were always surprised when they met Bruce, and she knew that it was because they were expecting a man. She can thank her father for the rather masculine name, he had been expecting a son, and when he’d gotten a daughter he simply hadn’t bothered to come up with a different name. Once people find out that Bruce is a woman, they have a whole different set of expectations; well this mostly applies to men, they think she’ll be the very image of a meek scientist who they can boss around.
For the most part, she lives up to this image, at least on the outside because on the inside she seethes at every slight. Until one day, there is an unfortunate accident and her anger is suddenly on display for everyone to see. Most days she hates her alter ego and the destruction it causes, but some days she feels a guilty kind of satisfaction because nobody thinks she’s meek anymore.