Part of the reason she's cool is that she'd punk off your entire party at every turn for the first two disks, afterwards I found the sub-plot of her and steiner hooking up to be hilarious and very humorous. During the air battle with the dragons, one of the knights says something about her involvement with steiner and almost gets thrown out of the airship for his verbal slip. Comic relief plus badass mystique = a likeable character in my opinion.