A good example would be the very first s*x scene, in which Sascha actually makes a move on the male lead first, quite aggressively and confidently. I thought to myself "Oh wow are we going to have a female lead who is an active or perhaps even dominant participant rather than a passive recipient?". No, of course not. As soon as the male lead reciprocates, he immediately pushes past a boundary and she starts repeatedly telling him "no" and "stop. I don't want to do this anymore." while trying to push him away "with all her strength". But of course he doesn't listen and this is basically how all of the smut goes. This is, of course, typical for the genre but once again Sascha is supposed to be the strongest warrior who saved the world from a dragon and she gets so easily overpowered and then doesn't think anything of it? Is she really this passive? It doesn't just feel out of character, it feels like during the s*x scenes she gets replaced with Smut Heroine #256 altogether.

Other than that, there are smaller instances as well where for the sake of a comedic moment the narrative chooses to ignore that Sascha is supposed to be basically the strongest person in the world. In one scene she's shown leaping into treetops to slay demonic birds and then later she can't snatch a piece of paper from the male leads hands because he's taller than her and ~she just can't jump that high~. She playfully chases the male lead around a small dining table for a few laps and gets out of breath. She gets her period and is bedridden all day as if stomach cramps would be something a hardened warrior would be unable to overcome. Every once in a while the author will have Sascha curbstomp someone to remind us that she's strong but it's usually such lowstakes situations that she just smacks them once and they're unconscious.

This ended up too long. I have no reason to be so pressed about this but when I see a description that promises me a strong grizzled female warrior, I guess I foolishly expected that that's what I would actually get.