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The roleplay I've had with you so far has been some of the most immersive I have experienced on Discovery from a law enforcement faction. I've yet to see someone else put so much depth and effort into making something as simple as a license request. From the extra bureaucracy steps (which, ironically, is also immersive when you think about RL) to a private encryption/decryption key and a custom .pdf file just for that one license, I can only recommend more people to roleplay with the KPR. I was genuinely pleasantly surprised how good the .pdf looked, given that I imagine you do this for every request and every different character or faction requesting it. Kudos for that.
The initial character picture was controversial for the reasons people above me explained. It did not impact the quality of our roleplay encounter however, as I've been here a while to see 16 year old catgirl admirals of the Liberty Navy. When it comes to the gray area of Discovery, such as a controversial picture of a character (child, extreme ideology follower, etc.) I follow a simple rule that goes something like this: If you think people (in this case more than a few) might interpret the picture as a child, and not a 28-33 year old, it's better to choose another picture from the start. This is a fictional universe, and there is an infinity of other pictures out there that will get the message across better. There's no reason to choose something controversial when an alternative can be found within minutes.
I'll give you an example from the past regarding character pictures: we had our fair share of drama with Nazi officers, some blatantly showing swastika marks. The same logic applied back then as it does now - surely there are countless uniformed men out there who would have done the job all the same, without the controversy. Additionally, nowadays we have AI which is only going to get better at generating images. While for some, including myself, that's not as important as we prefer to use real people's pictures as the character, it only adds to the possibilities and makes the process of finding/generating a character picture even more trivial.