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Am I ever going to pass up an opportunity to babble extensively about AWESOME LADIES? The answer is: no, I most certainly am not!
Therefore, stolen from in_the_blue and a few other people by now: name a canon you know I know, and I'll tell you (in no particular order) my three favorite females and why. And then I'll name a canon for you, because I'm just ( Read more... )
Therefore, stolen from in_the_blue and a few other people by now: name a canon you know I know, and I'll tell you (in no particular order) my three favorite females and why. And then I'll name a canon for you, because I'm just ( Read more... )
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Hildrida Navisdaughter: I never stopped loving Hildy - cranky, pompous, stuck-up brat though she is, but I have a fondness for cranky, pompous, stuck-up brats. And I love her determination, and how even though in many things she's selfish she always puts her brother first, and that she somehow miraculously grew a kind of moral code even with the upbringing she had. And I spend a lot of book 4 fanwanking her behavior to make sense, because yes, she's acting awful to Mitt at that point, but . . . kids are allowed to go through phases of being awful, and I do believe she has reasons for it.
Maewen Singer: OH MAEWEN. How can anyone not love Maewen? Partly because she's a reader stand-in, totally - an Ordinary Girl dropped down into the middle of this crazy story - and partly because she knows how history goes, and she just has to hang in there until it comes out properly, and because she yells at Mitt and Moril to get their heads on straight and she's got such good sense at heart ( ... )
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Maewen-- OH MAEWEN♥ Maewen is sort of my favourite! She's so sensible, and she tries so hard to put everyone at ease when they're all busy hating and mistrusting each other! And I love her for inciting the miners (were they miners?) to strike, and for almost saying "I'm in love with--" when Al asks her for a truth, and for her "nervous, freckly look ( ... )
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And YES the boat scene is one of my favorites <333333 Hildy. (My personal fanwanking for Hildy is that she knows Mitt has a crush on her, and she kiiiiiiind of sort of has a crush on him too and HATES IT, and, because she's a ridiculous teenager, she decides to make it go away by being AWFUL to him so he will stop being soppy and things can go back to normal. Clearly that will help everything sort itself out! BEST PLAN.)
And also yes to everything else too. *_* How is everyone in Dalemark so awesome? LADIES ESPECIALLY.
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Serra Teresa: How do have absolutely zero official status and still manage to completely manipulate the fate of an entire empire? BY BEING AS BADASS AS SERRA TERESA, THAT IS HOW. (Which means that no one else can, except possibly Serra Diora.) What I love most about her, though, is after all that badassery, in the end she's completely capable of throwing it all away and picking up a different life when it becomes necessary. Because that is possibly the most hardcore of all.
Finch: Yes, I love Jewel . . . but I possibly am starting to love Finch even more, for trying so hard to BE Jewel, and for "What Would Jewel Do? . . . aside from be a jerk, but OTHER than that." And for trying really hard to stand up for herself against some terrifying and powerful people! I am so looking forward to seeing more of her.
Serra Maria: Another minor character who I love unreasonably! I am so fascinated by her, and how on earth she has managed to ( ... )
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And you give me a very hard choice! I shall choose a few who I feel deserve more love (not that Nina, Yukiji, or Uran do not deserve love! but I think they get it fairly often).
From Monster, we have Lotte! Because more Lotte is needed. I love her smarts, her mad research skills, and the fact that she does really cool things simply because she likes people and wants to help them out, whether they realize they need the help or not! She can be sneaky, sly, and mischievous, but all in the name of good things like making sure a massive fortune goes to the rightful heir! And the way she falls for Karl is really sweet and I know they eventually end up together because anything else is unacceptable.
From 20th Century Boys, we have Koizumi Kyoko! ...And because my copy of volume 6 is lent out, I don't know if you've met her yet or not. But I love Kyoko! She is a ditzy teenager who does things like ( ... )
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Hee hee sure, why not! It is not like Otherland does not have lots to choose from. :D
Sam Fredericks: Oh, like this was going to be a surprise. Sam is pretty much my favorite character in the books! Because she really has no backstory angst - she's got all the necessary social skills, a supportive family, and so on - but she feels like she wants something more out of her life, even though she doesn't know what yet; because she thinks making gender a big deal is kind of stupid; because she read Lord of the Rings and didn't tell Orlando, but she knows she's totally the Sam. I love how at first that plotline is totally all about Orlando, but in the fourth book it becomes Sam's story. (I also love the fact that she's biracial, and it's not a big deal or a source of massive angst or whatever. And one of the things I love about Otherland is that it is not a story full of ( ... )
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Cordelia Chase: OH CORDY. How so awesome! I am a total sucker for the bitchy-girl-turned-awesome-heroine trope - that girl who may be a jerk, but you know what, in face of peril, she continues to be a jerk who does what needs doing and also is a jerk to the bad guys, and thus proves her bona fides of hardcoreness. I loved how she did not care enough to tell the nice little lies to each other that everybody else did, and that she might not have actually liked the Scoobies all that much, actually, but that doesn't stop her from fighting evil anyway.
Tara: What I love most about Tara is how, once she comes out of her shell a little, she is so quietly sane. When everyone else in season six is running around digging themselves deeper and deeper into their own little unhappy holes, Tara gets herself out of an unhappy situation and keeps on living her life. She's calm, but she's got massive amounts of backbone. Also I ( ... )
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Toph: TOPH IS AWESOME. EVERYBODY BETTER RECOGNIZE. FULL STOP. She is literally the most badass person on the show, quite probably the most badass person IN THE WORLD, and also the most hilariously cranky twelve-year-old in existence. <3333 This combination is like my kryptonite! Every time she punches Sokka in the shoulder in a manly way because she can't admit she liiiiikes him, my heart grows three sizes. Every time she and Katara bond over Toph's secret secret inner angst, my heart grows FOUR sizes. Every time she reminds them all for the umpty millionth time that SHE CAN'T ACTUALLY SEE THE POSTER YOU'RE UNFURLING, my heart grows FIVE SIZES!
Mai: I love Mai, and I love her extra because for some reason there are large portions of fandom that are bizarrely anti-Mai. How can you hate Mai! I love her hilarious deadpan, and how she is almost as cool as she thinks she is, and her FIVE MILLION KNIVES, and how she doesn't hate Zuko, and how, in the end, the fate of ( ... )
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FMA! SO MANY CHOICES. I think I have to start with:
Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye: She is just AWESOME from the very beginning. She's loyal to Mustang, yet she will TOTALLY undermine him, especially if he's being stupid. It's only chapter seven where she's knocks his feet out from under him, saving him from Scar's hand, and he's, "What was THAT for?!" and she goes, "You're useless on rainy days." and the USELESS hits him like a ton of bricks. Plus so many other awesome things she's done. She potty trained her dog by scaring him with a gun! SO MUCH LOVE.
Izumi Curtis: How could anyone NOT think she's awesome? The first thing she does when she first meets young Ed and All is throw a bed at them! She beats up the baddies, then throws up blood, then continues beating them up! She and her husband are total badasses, then they hug and have hearts around them and are all "I ( ... )
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(It's that or Inda. :D)
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Lt. Riza Hawkeye: GOSH WHAT A SURPRISE do I have to rehash everything we have been saying in email all day week THIS PAST LONG TIME. *cracking up* But for the benefit of anyone else who might be interested: Riza is so awesome! She is a HARDCORE ACTUAL GROWNUP PERSON who TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR HER ACTIONS; it is not that her only choice is to revolutionize the world, she does have other choices, but it's the only way to live with herself. <3333333 Haaaaaaawkeye.
Izumi Curtis: Izumi is so incredibly badass! But besides that, as I have said before also and will say again: dude, where else in fiction have you ever seen a disabled woman with an incredibly strong and happy marriage be the single most hardcore person in the universe? Susannah probably qualifies, but I think that's it.
General Olivier Milla Armstrong: It breaks my heart not to ( ... )
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Utena: ummm. See, I am handicapped because web_of did the same canon up there, and she picked awesome ones, and I am torn between agreeing with her entirely or picking different ones partly out of pure contrariness!
Anthy: She starts out such a cipher -- and she stays one, in some ways, but she's so complicated, and there's a young woman under all that weight of role and allegory. I love her for her spite and her stubbornness and her cruelty and the way she giggles at elephant flip books and adopts snails. I love that she starts out being the damsel, and turns out to be the witch who wouldn't be a princess, and turns out to just be Anthy.
Juri: She is so messed up. So messed up. And she knows that so is everyone else around her and so is the system, but she can't break out of it anyway. She's in love with a dead guy and a ( ... )
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