Female Character Meme
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author_by_nightDay One: Favorite lead female character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: A female character you relate to
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show
Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time
Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Three: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!
Day One: Favorite Female Lead Character
Just one?! Impossible. But I'll limiting it to three.
1. Zoe from Firefly.
So here's the deal with a lot of strong female characters - yes, they're strong, but often they still need to be saved by a guy, or forgive a guy, or, if this is a Victorian feminist novel, get syphillis from a guy and drown themselves. Zoe is just.. Zoe. She's got a dark side to her - the woman was one of the few survivors of a horrible battle, she can kill you with one bullet, and she follows Mal no matter what. Zoe also deeply loves her husband, lets down her hair, and wants a child. These two things are not mutually exclusive. And she has some of the best lines on the show, though a lot of that is also Gina Torres's delivery.
2. Leslie from Parks and Recreation.
Sure, she was a bit doofy when the show first started, some of which was because the show was working from The Office and they (allegedly unintentnionally) gave her a bit of a Michael Scott persona (and she still has a tiny bit of Michael in her, because that's just where the show has its roots), but she grew into a character who loves her friends as much as her husband, who made a point to a sexist park ranger by using every cliche excuse for women's mistakes, and
3. Ayla from Earth's Children. There, I said it. Is Ayla the Mother Goddess of Canon Sues? Hell yeah. But even so, she's kickass. She's forbidden to hunt, but she hunts anyway, she tricks an entire Clan into letting her keep her "deformed" son, she was partially based on a Venus figurine, and she follows the route of Eve and Pandora in certain ways, which is sad but fascinating at the same time.
(And if you've seen the Clan of the Cave Bear movie? I don't mean Darryl Hanna's Ayla. I really don't mean Darryl Hanna's Ayla.)
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Date: 2014-10-03 08:24 pm (UTC)I'm not familiar with #2 and #3, but I love Zoe! She is completely made of awesome. I agree with your assessment of her, too. She's complex and multi-faceted character. :)
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Date: 2014-10-03 09:04 pm (UTC)ETA: Stupid LJ, lemme use my Zoe icon!
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Date: 2014-10-03 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-04 02:38 am (UTC)