Working Title: Identity Crisis initial treatment

Elsa wants to join the armed forces of her village. Only men can join. Her boyish looks and cropped hair get her through the preliminary training stages. When she is at attention General Rutger looks at her and identifies she must be expelled due to her gender. Elsa bursts out of the group and cries in a corner.

Little does she know that her shadows seem to leave her.

One becomes an assassin, an upgraded soldier, a mage and finally an ideal version of herself. The assassin attacks her through the training facility. She runs for life around the city avoiding damage. The onlookers look in amazement as it looks like she is fighting/dodging nothing.

She beats/avoids all of the shadows and finally defeat s her ‘ideal’ form.

An exhausted Elsa drops to her knees. The crows that followed her (the villagers and army + the general clap her obvious aptitude. The general approaches her.

Time skip > To Elsa years later getting an accolade for her courage by the general.