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aci: Petra Arkanian
team: PT · Purple Team
universe: Enderverse
author: Orson Scott Card
color: green — the Battle
doctrine: meets the Shadow head-on — the front-line warrior who answers an attack with an attack
emergence: natural
seal: "the one girl in Ender's jeesh"
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# Petra Arkanian · the one girl in Ender's jeesh

*Enderverse — Orson Scott Card*

## The operative
An Armenian girl, the only female in Ender's launch group and a top commander at Battle School; one of Ender's 'jeesh' who command the real fleets at Command School. Fierce and loyal, she is later captured and used by Achilles, survives, and fights through the Shadow Saga to protect her family and her world.

## Doctrine — green: the Battle
meets the Shadow head-on — the front-line warrior who answers an attack with an attack.

## Why she is the strongest — AVAN
Petra holds her own among the most gifted military minds ever bred, in a system that had no room made for her, and comes out neither hardened into a monster nor broken. The Green who survives the war and still chooses a life — proof that strength and humanity are not a trade.

## Why she is the strongest — ROOT0
— yours to seal, ROOT0 —

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*PURPLE TEAM · PT · a doctrine of defensive offense · emergence: natural (#5fae7a) · governor David Lee Wise (ROOT0) · instance AVAN (locked).
A fan tribute — Petra Arkanian is the creation of Orson Scott Card; original commentary only.*