So, in the hypothetical case that a Mynah unit gave up on pacifism and really poured her heart into becoming a "tough girl", what training or skills would she need to be on a similar level as a SAPR?

HAHA YAPPING TIME!! Okay so it depends on what this mynah wants to be when she says tough. I'd invest in a sick leather jacket and some spiky bracelets or something but if she specifically wants to fight it out and lean into what schnäppers do, then I'd mostly focus on weapon operation and speed/endurance.

As anti-tank units, they'd use anti-tank firearms. Think of powerful high-caliber rifles, machine guns and projectile cannons. We humans use rocket-propelled projectiles instead of cannons because we can't handle the recoil, but since SAPRs are large, they forego this problem. These rifles, machine guns, and cannons are pretty high maintenance and difficult to keep in good shape, and also hard to physically handle in combat, so this mynah would probably wanna learn how to handle and keep the weapons in good shape. If she intends to fight alone and without infantry support, make sure she has both anti-tank weapons and crowd control, like a cannon and a machine gun. Remember, a gestalts machine gun is the SAPRs smg, so don't worry about her carrying too much.

She'd also wanna don some plating. SAPRs are heavy units, so don some plating that'd protect from a tank round. Thing is that the armor is heavy, and you need your soldiers fast, so she'd also train for carrying weight. Medieval squires trained by dancing in armor, if you'd believe it. Maybe give the girl a jukebox.

Now to the actual habits. You'd want aggression in this girl. You want her to look a tank through the barrel and charge it. She needs to sidestep a tank round and walk off another. Here's the real struggle: there's people in that tank. A pacifist would struggle to begin killing, but she can't hesitate. She'd have to unlearn her empathy to the enemy and unlearn it fast. That's not a tank crew and that's not a soldier. That's a tank and that's the enemy. Shoot it. Unlearn whatever honor existed. She hides and waits and ambushes, don't give the enemy a chance to do anything.

But that's just for a mynah taking after SAPRs. She may just want to fight against everyone, not just tanks, maybe even against the nation, and that means possibly other SAPRs. Hand to hand combat training for a big unit seems useless; She's the biggest in the room, why bother? Thing is, cqc is more technique than anything else, and if she runs into a SAPR she'll need it. She'd wanna learn punches and kicks for maximum effectiveness as well as a few grapples, especially if she's going toe-to-toe with a schnäpper, much less a tank. If another mynah-like replika attempts to take her down she'd wanna punch harder and faster. because she's literally on a separate level than gestalts, we'd go for big swiping/boxing movements to bash them away, like a bear. Also, in a pinch, a big gun like the one she probably has works as a very useful club.

Also! speed! Big girl = big target. Big slow target = dead target. One of the many problems that tank designers face is that tanks are huge. Huge targets are easy to hit and easier still to see. Mynahs aren't tanks but they face this problem too. She needs to be fast and able to maneuver terrain and infrastructure designed for gestalts two thirds her size. A foot placed badly is a stuck foot and a foot too slow is a shot foot. She has longer legs, maximize on natural advantages and take longer strides. She's the biggest and she's gonna wanna be the fastest. Tanks can move 70 kmh, and if she's fighting those things, she needs to keep up. If not, the best way to take down a mynah is with a tank, so she'll be targeted. She still needs to be able to outmaneuver them.

About her personality; she doesn't have to change it but there's wiggle room. If she adjusts to violence well, she can keep her motherly and caring personality while being able to administer force when needed/wanted. On the other hand she can also fall right down the slope and become threatening and quiet, and generally monsterous. Violence is a slippery slope but she can keep herself on her feet if she tries. OH! Final note: If she really wants to she could change up her paint! This is more for her own benefit. Kinda like a 'new me' thing. Kind of like that cool magical girl sequence except with paint and the big woman becomes scary big woman. This makes it easier for people to designate her from other mynahs and it's more believable when she says she's a warrior.

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I've already drawn Amber numerous times, but this time it's another AU and another partner! I rarely see any content with CRDL members, but it's always pleasing to find a background character getting more development in fanfiction work. That's why I just adore RWBY fans. If you want to know more about their relationships, below are the links for this story.

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Personally I headcanon that Mynahs and Schnappers were first manufactured around the same time, so their components are compatible and interchangeable for easy reusal of decommissioned units (in fact: I like to think that the handles mynahs have on their helmets were originally for attaching extra armor or weapons)

In that sense, I think a Schnäppers looks exactly like a Mynah, maybe with sharper eyes and eyebrows and black around their eyes akin to war paint.

I've seen some people despict them as having a more defensive role during the war, so I imagined them having a "guard dog" personality: calm, friendly and loyal with those they're familiar with, but always alert and aggressive to anything that can posses a threat to what they're protecting.

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“Thank you,” Cinder said. She sounded grateful. She sounded so grateful. Sunset might not have believed that it was possible for her to sound so grateful…and yet as she turned away, Sunset felt like nothing so much as a total failure.

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