>>104200358The war was stupid and in total disarray. She wanted nothing to do with it, and only involved herself after she realized that no one was actually running the show, creating a power vacuum she could exploit for her own ends.
Everyone else thought Dracula was in charge, and he technically was, but he wasn't fucking acting like it and had stopped involving himself in the planning, direction, or execution.
Carmilla is an opportunist that gained her freedom by recognizing that her oppressor was weaker and more vulnerable than he realized, a lesson she has taken to apply to those above her ever since.
Its not about gender equality. Thinking that it was just shows that your brain is so clogged with memes that you literally can't imagine a female character doing anything of reasons other than social justice. Dracula could have been a woman and as long as Carmilla thought she had a chance she would still have planned the coup.
