I don't think I'd do straight-up historical if I was going to write it, b/c you couldn't do that without the comic voodoo on the age thing, and I guess you could go with the descendant route, but I kind of like it as symbolism too. Maybe a symbolism she chooses for herself after leaving the Red Room, as a symbol of what has been taken from her, but also a call back to the 'core' of who and what she is? Hmm, I dunno. Rambling here.