Roisin - You Asked. I'll try to answer best I can, though I admit to a little confusion on my part as to the precise thrust of your question…the bomb being masculine…excessive "order" being (?) Rita's energy being feminine…? Not sure how this applies, but.
With regard to the Drake's binding - this is explained quite clearly in the manuscript. The drakes "DREAMED" creation - and that dream summoned its PRECISE match: the seven whose energy answered EXACTLY in that moment of time/space.
There was no specific choice - the dream called its mirror and made it manifest.
To know WHAT the dragon's dream WAS - it was a now,then, and forever thing, not tied in time. Yet a point in time that held all probability, all possibility, all mystery (nonformed). You'd have to "see" what the seven were THEN - which you haven't (yet) - you see what they are NOW (as far as you can perceive, given the limits of your perception coupled with the words given and what they mean to you)
You can't yet see what they will Become.
What the seven were then, some of that is in the works already - what form it may take to arrive in your hands is yet to be determined…some of the information will be covered in this story. Some that is not so directly pertinent will be in parallel works I plan to write; or am writing.
I did not "set out" to align any one "thing" or "purpose" - deliberately. The manuscript unfolded this way for a reason. I don't apologize now for keeping what the Fellowship WERE somewhat veiled. This is story material you will have to wait to see (I know what it IS) at just the right moment.
One thing to set straight: any woman can be just as destructive as any man. Distortions, imbalances, misperceptions, lack of understanding, and MISTAKES are but definitely not gender specific … in my opinion and my experience - given that one shapes the other, that IS what is seen from this vantage.
Yours may be quite different. Knowing why tends to explain, but not necessarily reconcile, the differences.