Yep. She looked like she could have been a fun character to play with the original design.

I also thought them including limited use of a flintlock pistol would have been pretty cool, too. But someone on staff was very much against Aloy carrying around guns and they said that they shouldn't include anything reminiscent of Resistance, so they axed her being able to have pistols (even though near the end of the game she can still carry around a heavy machine gun for a limited amount of time).