Top 5 favorite female characters
Thank you, cephalobroda! Let's do one from each of my major TV fandoms:
1. Gwen Cooper (Torchwood): I love her for being loud and flawed and everything that she's not supposed to be. I love her for being a successful hero and a good mum and having it all because she deserves it all.
2. Martha Jones (Doctor Who): I love her for being intelligent and kind and more than a little bit of a nerd. I love her for knowing what she wants and going after it, while being a loving and supportive daughter, sister, and friend.
3. Agent Skye (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.): I love her for being a woman who gets the sort of heroic story arc that's normally reserved for white men, and rocking it. She's an orphan on a quest to learn more about her parents, and along the way she's going to find out that she has powers (in addition to the skill set she started with) and she'll have to learn how to use them for good. I love her for existing when we desperately need characters like her. (And you fucking know that if she were a white man instead of a Chinese woman, she'd be the unquestioned star of the show and the fandom would love her.)
4. Joan Watson (Elementary): I love her for being compassionate without sacrificing her boundaries; for devoting her life to helping others, but still doing what's best for herself when she need to.
5. Lumen Pierce (Dexter): I love her for being a survivor and being selfish as a survivor. I love her for doing what she needed to do to recover from her trauma, regardless of what anyone said. I love her for walking away from Dexter and all off the danger that came with him, as soon as she felt like her relationship with him was no longer what was best for her.
















