Heather Dawson Fitch is based on several real-life people. She is this incredibly pretty woman, with Olympic-caliber volleyball skills, and also a lawyer. So, how does she find happiness living in a canyon halfway between nowhere and nowhere else?
Because Heather has never felt in charge of her own life. Her looks made people automatically assume things about her that she didn't agree with. She was too good at volleyball not to be noticed (especially when her ability was combined with her looks). She was a lawyer because she was smart enough and because she came from a family of lawyers.
Heather, more than anything else, would love to be average. She would love to be able to walk down the street and not be noticed. She'd love to join an organization--any one--and not be almost immediately made an officer. She is constantly at war on this score with people's assumptions and her own natural abilities. For all her desire to be anonymous, she can't help but do whatever she does better than anyone else. She sees her inability to combat this streak in herself as her one great weakness.
It's part of why she fell in love with Bat Garrett. In him, she thought she had found someone who was almost immune to her looks and was only interested in her inner being. What broke her heart was not just his leaving her, but the sudden realization that--all along--his seeming indifference was really because he was in love with someone else.
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