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Start eliminating these characteristics for the sake of an academic point of view and you change the anatomy of that person. A simple fact.
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Yes, it's true and basic ("simple") that light defines form. I don't know that anyone is espousing an "academic point of view" otherwise at the expense of the realistic quality of the picture.
But let's understand here that we're not looking at the subject in the "true" light of the setting, but rather in a strong, directional studio light quite removed from that setting. It's then the translation of that reference to an invented outdoors location -- and a dark, moody one as well -- that is making elements of the studio lighting seem too prominent, whether in shape, value, or as Jim has just suggested, hue or temperature. We're working with pieces from two or three different puzzles (studio figure, invented armor, imagined landscape) and we're just trying to adjust and assemble them into a new, artistically rational picture. (The way around this is to just have Joan pose in this setting, and paint fast.)
No one has said anything about eliminating characteristics.