I'm not really sure she sees it as simply beating people up, but she does seem to come more alive when she's wearing the costume. Well, uniform. She considers it a uniform. That phrasing always felt a little too much for me, you know?

[Though to be fair, she also considered her Hawkfire uniform to be just that - a uniform. More militaristic, a little more deadly in application than her showier Flamebird looks. It was no wonder she'd reverted back to her previous identity. Hawkfire had been a great experiment, but it had never worked with her personality.]

I guess you could call her an army bat.

[There's a wry smile tugging at the corner of her lips there. Yes, it's an awful joke. Yes, she's enjoying the hell out of it.]