From what Sel's told me there's no real genetic disposition towards being magica-potential or not. It's just kind of a karmic fate thing.

She looks okay, though one bit of overlap I worry about with one of my own characters - Nadica Novak - is the tinkering bit. I mean, I don't mind there being another tinkerer-type but that's kind of Nadica's entire shtick. If it takes her time to develop, that does set the idea apart, since Nadica is all about on-the-spot building, but.