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Good questions all! Through experience I've seen that any characters who have experience in harsh survival and combat tend to automatically take leadership roles. It's not necessarily bad, but the story plays out in a much more interesting way when there's no one character that the others look up to (unless a character simply has the personality for leadership, of course). I'm looking for a group of bankers, florists, bakers, dog groomers and farmers, identified by their personalities and not by their skills.

Essentially I would stress nonviolence and unpreparedness in the CS application, and then take them on a case by case basis. If the character has such experience as you're describing, I would probably ask you to clarify some flaw or limit to that experience that puts them closer to the same level as everyone else.
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I definitely think this is the best way to go, no offense, but I don't think soldiers, warriors, ect have much of a place in a story that has "a certain amount of whimsy and humor."