User blog comment:Alexander C. Miles/Numerous Controversies/@comment-3046679-20140618190706/@comment-27202257-20140620144951

When I say she's "just around", I mean the fact that she isn't playable. She's not a main character, and she does only appear very briefly in a well-written short, but a short nonetheless. If Ubisoft tried to point to her to show off all that female representation the series is just bursting with, I'd be unimpressed.

Also, why not play her as a 60-year-old? We played Ezio in his 50s, and that was fine.