I'm going to wait for Trinais to post before I do again, both because I don't want to do too many individual posts with how wordy I can be, and because the Captian's reaction will weigh heavily in how the Chief responds.

I don't imagine that steampunk has a whold lot of gender issues... Y'know with it being Victorian Era based, and y'know... Queen Victoria... I'd imagine that skin colour matters less when there are vampires, werewolves, and fairies in the world. Though, based on the Chief's character concept, he's probably holding back out of professionalism, not open mindedness.